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[00:00:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:11] <exec> 08└─I have been talking to my wife about sources and credibility in "news" (facebook posts or other just as awful sources) for a long time now. I think I'm finally getting through to her. Perhaps schools need a class or two on how media lies. The old adage "Don't believe everything you see on T.V." does...
[00:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:18] <exec> 08└─It's only a civil war in the sense that the Saudis are bombing the shit out of civilians (with weapons sold to them by the west).
[00:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:53] <exec> 08└─These are Russians in Russia, obviously not going to cooperate with anything. You're expecting a bigger target? What, should we charge Putin? Sure. We'll just send the FBI over to arrest him in the Kremlin. Or are you still clinging to some hopeless Trump-related fantasy? You must love Pence, becaus...
[00:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:54] <exec> 08└─Seth Rich, a DNC employee, leaked the info to wikileaks. Seth Rich was a decently patriotic American, though obviously clueless about some of the fundamental American values. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. The fact that Seth Rich's political choices would turn the USA into something...
[00:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:56] <exec> 08└─The US is in a worse situation than the USSR was after the fall of the wall
[00:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:59] <exec> 08└─Does a sincere attempt to interfere in an election cease to be a crime if you can't prove it succeeded?
[00:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:14] <exec> 08└─https://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/12/21/1810239/3dfxgigapixel-where-did-it-go-wrong [slashdot.org] https://tech.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] still remember these good old threads on industrial history... there are more but dont have so old links, and spnd...
[00:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 063Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:16] <exec> 08└─They destroyed 3dfx by, IMO, patent-trolling over an inherent feature of PCI, "block moves". Voodoo 3 still runs in my SAM 440 (AmigaDOS, Debian PPC). I kept a couple of 3s when I parted ways with the 5s, because I thought the legacy support for the 3s was likely to last.
[00:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:11] <exec> 08└─Oh it's not accurate. It was last time I updated it but that was back in November or December. I only go through and sort the issues before I start on a new coding push, which will probably be in a week or two.
[00:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 1768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:12] <exec> 08└─Happy four years, you're doing a great job. And maybe, probably, you'll have eight TREMENDOUS years. Or even more. Best wishes and may you stay in power as long as it takes. So many people are saying that to me! Especially today, on the best President's Day EVER! Thanks to those who serve my agenda...
[00:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:15] <exec> 08└─Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM [soylentnews.org]
[00:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:17] <exec> 08└─4 years since Beta? That doesn't sound right. I thought SN was launched in response to that, did it exist before?
[00:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's on the to-do list. The nagger banner I mean. For now I'll just try manually settting you to email.
[00:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:21] <exec> 08└─Okay, you're set to email. Not sure why it wouldn't work for you.
[00:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:23] <exec> 08└─Fear not, I'm sure we can manage to be just as buggy as they are eventually. There's just only so much time and martyb keeps killing them almost as fast as we write them.
[00:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:26] <exec> 08└─I had the same problem a while back myself. Something was screwy with Linode regarding DNSSEC. I don't really have time to look into it at the moment but I'll see if I can wrangle NCommander, paulej72, mechanicjay, or audioguy into giving it a poke n prod.
[00:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:28] <exec> 08└─Ok, maybe someone can help me out here. SN went live in Feb 2014. My first subscription ended in Aug 2015 and I'm not sure I signed up right away after making an account. Close though, so let's say I did. So in the course of 7 months (inclusive of Feb and Aug) UIDs went up to the 3000's as evidenced...
[00:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:30] <exec> 08└─This is a nerd site so how about if you'd accept cryptocurrency as donations?
[00:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sales Reach $7.5B In 2017 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:42] <exec> 08└─We wouldn't have this massive growth, if there wasn't a huge number of desperate people to be exploited for someone else's gain.
[00:03:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:56] <exec> 08└─Microsoft don't like that "sold" bit, unless it is them doing the selling.
[00:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:30] <exec> 08└─...In the US court system, well, justice seems to rarely be the goal...
[00:05:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Granted Elon Musk's Boring Company an Excavation Permit for Possible Hyperloop - 549 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:48] <exec> 08└─Washington DC used to be a swamp. It's interesting that they're seriously considering significant underground infrastructure incorporating very high speed transit. Well, the Washington Metro subway system is already built underground, and pretty deep too in some places. I guess when there's water,...
[00:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Granted Elon Musk's Boring Company an Excavation Permit for Possible Hyperloop - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:17] <exec> 08└─Or out of line loading bays. All solved problems.
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[00:59:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 579 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:43] <exec> 08└─A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. After he finishes eating the sandwich, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter, and then stands up to go. "Hey!" shouts the manager. "Where are you going? You just shot my waiter and you didn't pay for your sandwich!" The pand...
[00:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:54] <exec> 08└─So was victim. (Again not surprising). The neighborhood doesn't exactly look like a ghetto on Google Earth. Luxury living Condos are advertised. I'm guessing these two had history and were surprised to see each other on opposite sides of the door. Either that or the driver was late, sampled the food...
[00:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:55] <exec> 08└─duck flew down; but I didn't get my hunderd dollahs.
[00:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:57] <exec> 08└─People get shot everyday
[00:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:00] <exec> 08└─Seriously curious. Have you ever thought about your own faults?
[01:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the perp and victim had never met before.
[01:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:04] <exec> 08└─There is something I want to know about gun violence in the US. Well, maybe not about gun violence itself. People in the USA are violent, roid-raging shitheads. Source: I live in the USA. So the violence doesn't surprise me. Only thing I can do about it is carry a gun myself. :-( But! I've noticed t...
[01:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:06] <exec> 08└─From TFA, the shooter is going for a self-defence argument. Said the victim threatened him and reached toward his pocket.
[01:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:08] <exec> 08└─No, shootings and murders are at the normal rate (which is pretty high by western standards, but not out of the ordinary). What DID happen, is that a high profile school shooting happened, and it's being used in a political push for gun control. That's probably where all the coverage is coming from.
[01:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:11] <exec> 08└─It really was Steph and Lebron.
[01:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:13] <exec> 08└─That may work for a white shooter / black victim.
[01:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:15] <exec> 08└─I should point out that the gun manufacturers killing lots of people for profit makes them no different from any other industry. As George Carlin put it: "As long as we're killing people, Dow Chemical and Marlboro cigarettes will be proud to participate." But I should also point out that the belief...
[01:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:36] <exec> 08└─for a proper treatment of Edward Louis Bernays contribution to society, you should read Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
[01:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:15] <exec> 08└─Seriously, this story is way over-sensationalized by the media. The FBI absolutely should be investigating foreign interference in all national elections (not just presidential ones) on a routine basis and things like this story should be reported on. It just doesn't deserve front page headlines eve...
[01:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 063Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:33] <exec> 08└─Accelerator APIs are mature enough now that there's not a whole lot that is missing that would improve gameplay other than more powerful hardware.
[01:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 063Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:34] <exec> 08└─In 1983, The 128k Macintosh, Windows 1.0, and the original Amiga were all distant futuristic fever dreams. In 1996, The Voodoo allowed fairly decent real time 3D graphics on ordinary desktop computers. That 13 year span is truly stunning when you look back on it, in terms of how fast stuff wa smovin...
[01:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, one of these days I plan on getting the db able to store full four octet characters. Right now we encode the four octet characters to numeric html entities. I'm not in a huge rush though because that would add about a third to our database size since it's not exactly common for us to be doing...
[01:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:41] <exec> 08└─I'd like to just add that the subscriptions go towards paying for servers, hookers and blow (of course, without the hookers and blow)...
[01:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Interesting is the one I go for if I don't necessarily agree but it was well worth my time to read.
[01:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:45] <exec> 08└─NCommander missing from the 'party'? No speech? Anyone knows of him? Is he alright?
[01:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:48] <exec> 08└─Oh we still have plenty of perl to write. Yall bastiches keep finding new and interesting bugs and wanting things like a site that's readable on a phone as well. And before you go thinking "I only know a little perl, I'm not a guru." I want you to consider that any code I don't have to write is time...
[01:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:50] <exec> 08└─From here [fuckbeta.com]: Last updated 20140224
[01:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:52] <exec> 08└─I think most of our accounts were created in the first year, though we average one or two new ones a day last I heard from martyb. He likes digging up those kind of stats, so I'll leave it to him if I'm in need of correction.
[01:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Granted Elon Musk's Boring Company an Excavation Permit for Possible Hyperloop - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:39] <exec> 08└─I've been from Leicester Square to Waterloo on the Tube, so I went under the Thames. Wasn't a problem, thousands do it every day. Your point about earthquake prone areas makes a lot more sense.
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[01:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:26] <exec> 08└─The EU isn't sure if it wants to be a nation or not. It works about as well as the pre-Constitution USA did under the Articles of Confederation, which is to say it is severely disfunctional. Having part of the EU in Five Eyes is broken. The EU could be one country in Five Eyes, or as seems likely it...
[01:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:27] <exec> 08└─It won't matter once the UK leaves the EU. The idiot Conservatives in charge keep saying they will negotiate a deal, but they have no leverage, so will have to accept whatever they're offered. Once that happens, British spies will need to be careful where they holiday, if they don't want to get arr...
[01:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:29] <exec> 08└─Oh dear. It would seem that next time GCHQ tries they might get a different treatment with the U.K. (at least England) out of the European Union. However, it does show that the big dogs can get away with anything. Imagine if Belgium had hacked a U.K. or U.S. telecom, there would have been indictment...
[02:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:08] <exec> 08└─Later TFAs said words were exchanged as the resident walked away toward his lobby, and the security cam backs that up. Oddly, the victim is pictured prominently in front of a Hands UP Atlanta poster.
[02:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah like shootings don't happen in Australia, or Somalia, or Finland, or Norway. With 327 million people our rate of shootings is really actually quite low when compared to say Mexico or many other countries in South/Central America. Not to excuse any shootings, one is too many and a horrible trage...
[02:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:12] <exec> 08└─yeah like shootings don't happen anywhere else but the US and never in whatever fantasy land you live in...
[02:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:14] <exec> 08└─meanwhile, quietly, the NRA, its stooges and apologists, are quietly biding their time. If anything, they will quietly get added provisions liberalizing even further bits of law and policy such as effectively allowing for interstate concealed carry permits, (thus reducing states' abilities to try an...
[02:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:16] <exec> 08└─Food delivery seldom escalates to violence when the food and the delivery is already paid for via the app, (including optional tip).
[02:00:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 3609 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:30] <exec> 08└─The 'news' has finally shown themselves for what they are. Whores who run from one squirrel to the next. I watched agape at the way Trump played them all. Over and over, he would say things slightly outrageous and the media and their sycophant followers ate it all up falling over themselves to corre...
[02:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:38] <exec> 08└─The revolutionary war was a civil war of sorts; British were fighting British who didn't want to be British. Europe noticed, and the French intervened. Europe also pitched in for the Civil War. That didn't make the war be not a civil war. The USA helped Panama get independence. Then there is Korea a...
[02:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:40] <exec> 08└─Not to mention Syria.
[02:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:19] <exec> 08└─I’m not hoping for anything but knowing the truth. Anyway, since impeachment is the process for removing the President, and even this relatively fast-paced investigation [fivethirtyeight.com] is unlikely to wrap up before the 2018 midterm makes impeachment politically possible. And before you try...
[02:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 063Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:39] <exec> 08└─VR (Vive) feels that way to me. I didn't think it would have that big of an impact. But it's like getting my first graphics card, the Voodoo 2 3000. Going from software rendering to the voodoo really changed my gaming life. Discovering linux for the first time was incredible. VR has me captured now....
[02:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the input. Just curious, and you'd probably know this better than most... Is SN at a place where a significant number of new users could be added without increasing costs significantly? Or if so, could the ratio of subscribers to non-subscribers be lower, and still functional, due to econ...
[02:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:53] <exec> 08└─He's fine, just doesn't have a whole lot of time for coding and such lately so he's been sticking mostly to the Spiritual Leader and Bookkeeper roles.
[02:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:56] <exec> 08└─"Or if not", rather. Damn, I'm glad we can't edit and sorry we can't at the same time, lol.
[02:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:58] <exec> 08└─Makes sense. Using Drupal is practicing BDSM. Mostly the M part.
[02:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sales Reach $7.5B In 2017 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:10] <exec> 08└─We wouldn't have this massive growth, if there wasn't a huge number of desperate people to be exploited for someone else's gain.
[02:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sales Reach $7.5B In 2017 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:12] <exec> 08└─Ride hailing and sharing services create a way to use those cars for other peoples' needs.
[02:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:01] <exec> 08└─This is a common issue for laptop. Sometimes the drivers for Wi-Fi are available for Linux only as binary blobs, so without technical specs, there is no point waiting. The best way around it is to open up the laptop, pull out the Wi-Fi card and put one that is supported. It is relatively cheap, eas...
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[02:05:49] <exec> 08└─1. You got that right. I cannot tell you how many domains I have looked at after onboarding a customer only to find wrong SPF settings and it is disturbingly common to find multiple SPF records. One customer even had 5! 2. I support tons of Office 365 and most customers just have the basic SPF recor...
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[02:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:28] <exec> 08└─"the statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected." All of it or some of it? As I recall a fair amount of them were biological facts and had cited scientific backing. So reality was / is harmful, disruptive and dis...
[02:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:30] <exec> 08└─Sophistry at it's finest. "Some parts" of Damore's memo is protected, but not others? What idiocy. Damore's entire memo is a coherent reasoning against Google's policy of promoting women over better qualified males. At no point did Damore cross a red line, and suggest that men should be promoted ahe...
[02:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 1528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:32] <exec> 08└─I've noticed that the quality of the formerly top-notch Google services and Youtube has been declining over the past few years anyway. Spam filters in E-mail filter out obviously legitimate e-mails, Youtube search seems deliberately designed to obfuscate even benign (apolitical) content. Specificall...
[02:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:34] <exec> 08└─So, it seems according to Ms Sophir, posting information that is commonly and well published in peer reviewed public journals in response to a specific request by your employer and in the way they asked you to is 'so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected'. Good to know. I wond...
[03:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:27] <exec> 08└─I'm going to go for "after the customer scolded him for being late, delivery guy said something stupid to show he was 'the man', then when other guy came back to say 'what the F did you say' so he shot him". Is anyone particularly surprised, in a society where being the alpha/winner is treated as th...
[03:00:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 812 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:38] <exec> 08└─The US has almost never made foreign policy to benefit ordinary Americans, and to think it might at some point is pretty naive. The Monroe Doctrine was announced in 1823 for instance and was the basis of incredible brutality in Guatemala for the benefit of The United Fruit Company only, the support...
[03:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, they learned plenty. They learned that their misadventures are won through the hearts and minds of Americans, not "local cultures." That's why they gradually seized control of American media, culminating in their plant Grand-Emperor-For-Life Baraq Hussein Soetoro officially legalizing the use of...
[03:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:33] <exec> 08└─Except there were no allegations of Russian Government involvement in the indictment. If you could follow the money, it would probably lead back to George Solos.
[03:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:34] <exec> 08└─There's some shit in the Talmud that's worse. You're looking specifically for Sanhedrin.
[03:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:36] <exec> 08└─I should hope it does expire. The Constitution is not a divine document and shouldn't be anybody's religion.
[03:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:39] <exec> 08└─[citation needed]
[03:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:41] <exec> 08└─"Well I guess we can set your vote aside in the confirmed manipulated bix. Only a couple hundred million more people to interview." Yeah, no partisanship on your part. I've been voting third-party since I could vote, almost thirty decades now. I guess that means the Russians have a time machine they...
[03:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:43] <exec> 08└─Hey looney tunes, it isn't Saturday. Please stick to your schedule.
[03:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:45] <exec> 08└─. In a lot of respects the Russian strategy wasn't to elect Trump so much as damage american faith in the election system and democracy itself, by creating chaos and noise and turning off 'reasonable people' so that only the far right and far left was left lobbing crazy back and forth. Trump getting...
[03:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:48] <exec> 08└─I take the opposite position, bringing this up also gives a chance for real people to address the trolls. Politics and tech intersect a lot these days, and we do have an obligation to speak up about how our favorite tools are used. So far I'm seeing good discussions, with the trolls being incredibly...
[03:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:24] <exec> 08└─Four-digit UID on that other site, AC here. I used to read the green site religiously, but the Beta debacle was the last straw. Their corporate overlords badly misjudged their "audience." Trying to make it into just another jobs board, worsening UI to the point it was unusable, and cheerfully trying...
[03:05:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:13] <exec> 08└─You misspelled OpenBSD
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[03:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:29] <exec> 08└─Why go through all that invasive medical bullshit? Just show the patient a fight scene from DBZ, and if there's a positive reaction rather than crying, then a diagnosis of autism is confirmed.
[03:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:30] <exec> 08└─If you haven't diagnosed Autism by age 5, it's not severe enough to matter - suck it up and deal with the curve life has thrown you. If your kid's not talking, hand flapping, not making eye contact, etc. by age 4 and you haven't figured it out and started interventions yet, what rock were you hiding...
[03:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we knew long before the experts did and told THEM he was autistic: if you look down at your baby and and try to make eye contact and they turn their head away again and again..... ....either you are futt bugly or.... Generation A!
[03:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:35] <exec> 08└─I was diagnosed at age 8 in the early 1990s when "autism" was only the very severe kind and not the "high-functioning" or "spectrum" kind. Not everyone shows obvious signs of autism at 4. High-functioning autism is often called a silent disorder because people just think that HFA people are normies...
[03:59:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 580 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:43] <exec> 08└─Sophistry at it's finest. "Some parts" of Damore's memo is protected, but not others? What idiocy. Damore's entire memo is a coherent reasoning against Google's policy of promoting women over better qualified males. At no point did Damore cross a red line, and suggest that men should be promoted ahe...
[03:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:48] <exec> 08└─Of course, Google were always in bed with, if not a direct arm of, alphabet soup agencies.
[03:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:50] <exec> 08└─The government has declined to start an additional lawsuit against Google on behalf of James Damore. This decision does not in any way affect the existing lawsuit that James Damore has already filed. That lawsuit is ongoing. It involves California law which prohibits discrimination on the basis of p...
[03:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:52] <exec> 08└─Or maybe the smarter ones have got rich enough and have left/transferred to do more interesting things?
[03:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:54] <exec> 08└─Ahh, so you're saying that the Whites left and the ones remaining are H1-B stinkoids and insectoids? You, my friend, are a racist.
[03:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:57] <exec> 08└─Work hard to create a massive advertising platform today and an all-encompassing controlling corporation in the future. Every Google employee should eat dick and die.
[03:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:59] <exec> 08└─There's also the issue that the memo was solicited and wasn't addressed to the whole company. I could almost understand it if the memo had been sent by him to random people at the company, but they're essential comments on a training. The NLRB screwed up here and it's going to be interesting to see...
[04:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:01] <exec> 08└─I have worked for a lot of tech companies, and in each one everybody understood implicitly that external politics should be kept to a minimum if not discussed at all. Frankly I'm surprised that any employer, much less a large one, "encourages discussion" about external politics. That's okay for thin...
[04:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:03] <exec> 08└─A recent grad engineer told me at work that he went to a career fair and there was a line of like 70 recent grads standing in line for a chance to talk to the Google rep. They remind me of those fucking idiots who wait in the Starbucks drive-through queue wrapped around the block, just for an overpr...
[04:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, reality is profoundly "harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive" to the fundamental underpinnings of the regressive world view.
[04:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:08] <exec> 08└─You, my friend, are a racist. there's no mod setting for "-2, head asplode" or maybe "x/0 exception"
[04:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:10] <exec> 08└─Some people are doing very well at Google. Such as rockstars with actual skills or the CEOs of companies that get bought and folded into the giant.
[04:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:12] <exec> 08└─The actual lawsuit [scribd.com] is a very good read even if you aren't a lawyer. This is different from the NLRB complaint, as it happens to be under California Law and will be tried in California. The discovery phase should bring lots of interesting tidbits. Get some popcorn and some cold beers, th...
[04:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:15] <exec> 08└─Men (at least white ones) are not a protected minority. Women are. Go figure.
[04:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:17] <exec> 08└─Well he is a troll, apparently an equal opportunity one at that!
[04:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:19] <exec> 08└─These days, pretty much everyone is racist, unless you're discriminating against white people. Then, somehow, it's A-OK, because some people think "equality" means revenge.
[04:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:22] <exec> 08└─Or "diversity" means "anybody but Whites." Go to Qualcomm's campus and tell me how "diverse" it is. All Chinese and Indians, and even in border California the only Hispanics there are the security guards. No wonder why they're slim pickins for Broadcom.
[04:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, the majority is the minority. The legally superior are the oppressed. Also war is peace, freedom is slavery. It's 2018 get with it already.
[04:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:35] <exec> 08└─"The idiot Conservatives in charge keep saying they will negotiate a deal, but they have no leverage, so will have to accept whatever they're offered." That'd be the one thing you're wrong on here I think. They may well be idiots, but they have plenty of leverage. The EU can either take what they of...
[04:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:20] <exec> 08└─https://swandawritingresources.wikispaces.com/file/view/Eats%2C%20Shoots%20and%20Leaves.pdf/267410808/Eats%2C%20Shoots%20and%20Leaves.pdf [wikispaces.com]
[04:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:21] <exec> 08└─If you don't like how the US is, don't come to the US. As for your ideas regarding how the US should change to suit you : FUCK OFF, the US is not your country and that is all there is to it.
[04:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah like shootings don't happen in Australia, or Somalia, or Finland, or Norway. With 327 million people our rate of shootings is really actually quite low when compared to say Mexico or many other countries in South/Central America. Not to excuse any shootings, one is too many and a horrible trage...
[04:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:26] <exec> 08└─And there's the piece of shit proving the point.
[04:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:28] <exec> 08└─Panda Express: 350 Ferst Dr, Atlanta, GA 30313 Would be the absolute funniest coincidence yet.
[04:02:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:03] <exec> 08└─For those of you playing along at home that brings Mueller's score to 3 guilty pleas and 15 indictments.
[04:02:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:04] <exec> 08└─So I guess that oath you took to defend the constitution expires when you leave the service?
[04:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:17] <exec> 08└─Yup. We could double in size and nobody would notice until we started seeing 5 digit uids in the comments. The underlying architecture and code are extremely durable and scalable. I imagine we could have a million or more daily users and only have to add another web frontend or three.
[04:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SMTP Sender Verification - Incompetence is Sometimes Indistinguishable from Malice - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:08] <exec> 08└─If you needed authentication, then you really were expected to include a signature/return contact address, or later on, use cryptographic signatures that would verify your identity. Email, Instant Messaging, etc are all compromised due to their server based nature, so the only way for the client end...
[04:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paper on The Risks of "Responsible Encryption" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:36] <exec> 08└─some of the most heavy duty crypto can be brute forced with enough supercomputing resources.
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[04:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:32] <exec> 08└─how about let's get to the root causes of the damaged proteins and see if there's any thing there that can actually alleviate symptoms, huh?
[04:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:33] <exec> 08└─F- the diagnosis aspects of this test, how about let's get to the root causes of the damaged proteins and see if there's any thing there that can actually alleviate symptoms, huh?
[04:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:35] <exec> 08└─Lemme guess, one or both of your live-in parents had the money to afford that assessment. If you had "real" autism, you wouldn't be posting that here. You'd be crinkled in the corner of the place you lived occasionally emerging to bark at the moon at 4am.
[04:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:37] <exec> 08└─Do you really believe that science can just skip past the early studies and jump straight to effective treatments?
[04:59:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:45] <exec> 08└─"the statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected." All of it or some of it? As I recall a fair amount of them were biological facts and had cited scientific backing. So reality was / is harmful, disruptive and dis...
[04:59:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 1021 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:49] <exec> 08└─So, it seems according to Ms Sophir, posting information that is commonly and well published in peer reviewed public journals in response to a specific request by your employer and in the way they asked you to is 'so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected'. Good to know. I wond...
[05:00:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:01] <exec> 08└─The actual lawsuit [scribd.com] is a very good read even if you aren't a lawyer. This is different from the NLRB complaint, as it happens to be under California Law and will be tried in California. The discovery phase should bring lots of interesting tidbits. Get some popcorn and some cold beers, th...
[05:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 3353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:07] <exec> 08└─Reading through the document in question, this employee offered no citations for any of his points. Also, none of what he described was a biological fact: He basically assumes his conclusion, namely that men are better than women at IT work, and tries to justify it with things that sound scientific...
[05:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:09] <exec> 08└─Lefty or righty, commy or nazi, Buddhists or Rastafaris, keep your shit on your own time. You pull that crap during the office hours, taking up company resources muddying the water, you deserve to get fired.
[05:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:20] <exec> 08└─It's the UK that's is in a weak position. From the perspective of the EU the EU needs to make an example of the UK so that others don't take leaving so lightly. The UK does a net contribution of 3.5 billion euro to the EU but the other top contributors could easily pay for the UK's share divided amo...
[05:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:21] <exec> 08└─So the secret keys to Belgium's network are lying around on PCs that are also used to browse the web? Somehow, I don't think they need to look very far to figure out who should be held responsible for the intrusion.
[05:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:23] <exec> 08└─"It's the UK that's is in a weak position. " How so? "From the perspective of the EU the EU needs to make an example of the UK so that others don't take leaving so lightly." Oh, sure, they're *motivated* to stick it the UK, sure. Question is not motivation, it's means. They have no stick. What are t...
[05:00:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:35] <exec> 08└─Loved that headline. Right up there with Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
[05:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:14] <exec> 08└─Of course I am being sarcastic.
[05:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:15] <exec> 08└─Too bad yelling "Stop resisting!" etc before murdering people works better for cops than Uber Eats drivers.
[05:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:18] <exec> 08└─Someone at Uber shot himself in the gut?
[05:02:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 1044 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:45] <exec> 08└─Look, I'm with you on stuff like PACs, including AIPAC. They aren't breaking the law though; the law itself needs to change. I support that change. I'm also with you in opposition to the use of voting machines - I think Canada's paper ballot system is far better model. (And don't tell me its 1/10th...
[05:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 063Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:50] <exec> 08└─I get so nostalgic thinking back to building my first computer and opening the box of the Voodoo3 3500. That thing was a beast... at the time. Loved watching TV on it, too.
[05:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:08] <exec> 08└─I actually expected no less than this.
[05:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:10] <exec> 08└─Wow rude. If you had any common sense and decency you would know that "it" is misgendering for an attack helicopter. AAFSS or AAH you INSENSITIVE CLOD My browser says misgendering is spelled incorrectly but msgendering or miss gendering will probably also get me in trouble in Canada
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[05:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:28] <exec> 08└─rice have properties to cure lungs and breast cancers without affecting normal cells,
[05:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:29] <exec> 08└─The research concluded that the necessary active ingredient can be achieved by consuming 200 gm of these varieties of rice daily by a person, he said. In the next stage of research, BARC scientists are trying to extract the anti-cancer ingredients or elements from these varieties and conduct trials...
[05:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:31] <exec> 08└─Traffic accident is an "anti-cancer" property. Come on, eds, you are better than this.
[06:00:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, reality is profoundly "harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive" to the fundamental underpinnings of the regressive world view.
[06:00:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 3353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:13] <exec> 08└─Reading through the document in question, this employee offered no citations for any of his points. Also, none of what he described was a biological fact: He basically assumes his conclusion, namely that men are better than women at IT work, and tries to justify it with things that sound scientific...
[06:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:16] <exec> 08└─So, it seems according to Ms Sophir, posting information that is commonly and well published in peer reviewed public journals in response to a specific request by your employer and in the way they asked you to is 'so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected'.
[06:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:18] <exec> 08└─Some are more equal than others.
[06:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:21] <exec> 08└─You transferred blame to: Professors Male Coworkers Employers Then you fell off the wagon and found a biological difference: - Women are less likely to accept job requirements, whether express or implied, that involve large quantities of overtime and/or late nights at the office. Sure, you tried to...
[06:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:23] <exec> 08└─it's going to be interesting to see how many men, especially white ones, start filing complaints
[06:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:25] <exec> 08└─Great logic. Now fire all the people who debated the topic with him, especially the one who started it.
[06:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:27] <exec> 08└─The NLRB screwed up here and it's going to be interesting to see...
[06:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:30] <exec> 08└─Some people are doing very well at selling narcotics and contract murder... I guess if you're only in it for the money, it's perfectly okay.
[06:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:32] <exec> 08└─especially the one who started it.
[06:00:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 496 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:41] <exec> 08└─Oh dear. It would seem that next time GCHQ tries they might get a different treatment with the U.K. (at least England) out of the European Union. However, it does show that the big dogs can get away with anything. Imagine if Belgium had hacked a U.K. or U.S. telecom, there would have been indictment...
[06:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:48] <exec> 08└─Putting up trade barriers as a result of Brexit would have some negative consequences for a lot of EU countries, but the consequences for the UK are much more concentrated. Regardless of which way the trade deficits or a surplus fall, and what sectors, you can argue either way who has the upper hand...
[06:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:50] <exec> 08└─The EU isn't sure if it wants to be a nation or not... Having part of the EU in Five Eyes is broken. The EU could be one country in Five Eyes, or as seems likely it could lose the UK.
[06:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:52] <exec> 08└─The EU can either take what they offer or get nothing at all.
[06:01:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:13] <exec> 08└─What a surprise, the shooter was American. Anywhere else in the developed world this wouldn’t happen. Get a Yank angry though, and in an a moment of fragile ego bravado they’ll use their FREEDOM DEVICE.
[06:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:45] <exec> 08└─Worse is the police culture that puts police officers on a pedestal and simultaneously reduces most or even all citizens to helpless supplicants begging for humane treatment as if we should have to ask for that, rather than it being our right. It's "protect and SERVE" not just eat donuts, shoot dark...
[06:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:47] <exec> 08└─100% Guarantee a black person doesn't come to mind when people say "Yank."
[06:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:12] <exec> 08└─If the response by Yemenis when faced with struggle is violence and extremism, then it's war. This is the same as the domestic BLM movement, where they kill each other far more than police officers kill them, yet they don't care, they are opportunists looking for someone to blame, and free shit from...
[06:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:14] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/17/world/africa/niger-ambush-american-soldiers.html [nytimes.com] More than 16 years after 9/11 spurred a broad fight against terrorism, some Americans say it’s time to look at how the country is deploying its forces.
[06:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:16] <exec> 08└─Bravo, an excellent summary
[06:03:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 1261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:02] <exec> 08└─> The Constitution may not be a divine document, but it's about as close as man can get. Therein lies your problem. It's a set of rules, written as a compromise by pretty smart guys, a couple centuries ago. It ain't sacred. What is "sacred" is the global intent (not some details like that 3/5ths stu...
[06:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Wasn't worried about his coding, but more or less about his presence in the comments section.
[06:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sales Reach $7.5B In 2017 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:00] <exec> 08└─As long as the people doing the driving don't expect to profit from it, however.
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[06:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:38] <exec> 08└─What does a society that respects men's rights look like? A woman being beaten and raped violently on the streets. A woman thanking her rapist for utilizing her as a breeding sow. A woman vanishing from existence when discarded by the man who was finished utilized her. If society doesn't begin respe...
[06:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:53] <exec> 08└─I'm just hoping that if/when cure for autism is finally found, it's administered as a vaccine.
[06:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:55] <exec> 08└─Done right, and it could save billions of dollars by informing preventative care.
[06:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:57] <exec> 08└─He isn't trolling, he's finally sharing some of his personal wisdom.
[06:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:59] <exec> 08└─If you had "real" autism, you wouldn't be posting that here. You'd be crinkled in the corner of the place you lived occasionally emerging to bark at the moon at 4am.
[07:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:01] <exec> 08└─I don't get some of the negativity being expressed here. Yes, you can tell ASD from behavior; but what *kind* of ASD? OK, Mr. Smarty Pants. Do you know if ASD behavior all comes from the same chemistry? Hey, guess what? Maybe it's a spectrum because various chemicals in the body are low or high in v...
[07:00:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 478 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:33] <exec> 08└─You transferred blame to: Professors Male Coworkers Employers Then you fell off the wagon and found a biological difference: - Women are less likely to accept job requirements, whether express or implied, that involve large quantities of overtime and/or late nights at the office. Sure, you tried to...
[07:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:40] <exec> 08└─"No politics or soccer"
[07:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:42] <exec> 08└─According to page 7 [scribd.com] that would be the organizers of the Diversity And Inclusion Summit.
[07:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:44] <exec> 08└─Every Google employee should eat dick and die.
[07:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:47] <exec> 08└─I have worked for a lot of tech companies
[07:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:49] <exec> 08└─I don't think the DIS debated anything with Damore. I think he started the whole hostility in the workplace. White, conservative, loudmouth assholes are wont to do such things.
[07:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:51] <exec> 08└─Long live the sky fairy!
[07:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:53] <exec> 08└─The usual drivel: male CS professors. My daughter and her friends never even got near a CS professor before they decided that STEM is not for them. One even chose a lower school level to avoid maths. I don't know who you're trying to troll. > During WWII, computing was dominated by women As in: arit...
[07:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 1) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:56] <exec> 08└─Well that escalated quickly.
[07:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:12] <exec> 08└─what allegedly the Russians did was a really minor offense against the U.S., not even a poke in the eye!
[07:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:14] <exec> 08└─How so? Because we get 75% of our food from the EU. Because of our climate, this means almost 100% at certain times of year. It is all very well saying we can get it from Australia and New Zealand instead, but the EU is 20 miles away (about 24 hours by road) and Australia 12,000 miles (about 30 days...
[07:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:16] <exec> 08└─Even more interesting is that a hack disguised as MS software can only be removed by scrapping the computers. Can Belgians not tell the difference between hardware and software, or is massive corruption involved here? Either way, further proof that if security is required, using MS products is not r...
[07:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:18] <exec> 08└─"Because we get 75% of our food from the EU." And they sell a lot of their surplus to you, it benefits both. As I said, they could obstruct trade, but that would hurt them more than anyone else. "the EU is 20 miles away (about 24 hours by road) and Australia 12,000 miles (about 30 days by sea)." And...
[07:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:20] <exec> 08└─The European markets benefit as much, if not more, from UK access. The EU will either do absolutely nothing effective (clucking sounds do not count) or it will cut off its own nose to spite its face, which will simply accelerate the rate at which other countries leave.
[07:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:23] <exec> 08└─Hmm, Trump, Juncker. Trump, Juncker. Hmm. Yeah, playing lapdog is nothing to be proud of, and in any other context I'd have nothing to say about it, but Juncker. Yeah there were no good choices in that layout.
[07:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:25] <exec> 08└─"Can Belgians not tell the difference between hardware and software" If you're running Windows on Intel that line has been more than blurred. There's virtually no software in the system, and the hardware is pre-compromised. Unfortunately they probably replaced it with newer version of the same scat,...
[07:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:27] <exec> 08└─The European markets benefit as much, if not more, from UK access.
[07:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:29] <exec> 08└─UK GDP structure [cia.gov]: agriculture: 0.6% industry: 19% services: 80.4%
[07:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a problem that would have had to be solved whether they left or not.
[07:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:34] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a problem that would have had to be solved whether they left or not.
[07:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:29] <exec> 08└─Did the order have pickles when none were requested? This. Extra pickle is obviously justification for shooting to kill if ever there was one.
[07:02:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:42] <exec> 08└─[USA=] Leader of the "free world"
[07:04:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:27] <exec> 08└─That's kind of how federal charges work. They pick bad guys, then find whatever they can to charge them with. Sometimes all they can do is "lying to a federal agent", when the federal agent was the investigator looking for evidence of a different crime. This is not to say that they don't get actual...
[07:05:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 437 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:33] <exec> 08└─Don't forget no narrow, fixed width pages on vastly wide and short screens; no cavernous hundred pixel voids of whitespace in margins; no "hamburger menus", "breadcrumb trails" or whirrly progress wheels chasing their tails; no endless piles of cross domain requests just to get the text to show up a...
[07:08:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Google Trial Provides 911 Operators With More Accurate Locations of Cellphone Users - 3370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:37] <exec> 08└─I clicked the link, to say very much the same thing. Back in the mists of time, like, the prehistoric days before computers and internet, there was no 911. In fact, there were no paramedics, no EMT's. All there was, were the police, the fire department, and an ambulance service. Most towns couldn't...
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[07:59:27] <exec> 08└─Jerry Springer material for sure. I wish there was a video. It would certainly please the new Nero Emperor that his ratings are up.
[07:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:29] <exec> 08└─Not sure China would purposefully try separating POTUS-from-football, but otoh the dispassionate, measured tone of the linked article made me think the CCTV of the football guy, Kelly, and the SS will be studied to learn more about US protective SOP and capabilities.
[07:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:31] <exec> 08└─Inform the Chinese security officials that the nuclear football is fail-deadly. That is, without regular attention from the president, the US military will assume that a nuclear strike is required. The assumption will be that the president has been taken hostage or even killed. ICBMs and SLBMs will...
[07:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:33] <exec> 08└─The interaction reportedly took place during President Trump's trip to Beijing's Great Hall of the People. The aide carrying the briefcase was blocked from entering the hall, and another official quickly told Kelly, five sources told Axios.
[07:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:35] <exec> 08└─Sure seems like a point-of-failure, given how easy it is to generate a significant EMP pulse at close range with primitive spark-gap technology. A football, yes, but could it be deflated? Lotsa switches and dials, but fry-able transceiver? Without connectivity, this thing would be about as useful as...
[07:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:37] <exec> 08└─The redundancy (also the answer to the fail-deadly suggestion above) is called the Vice-President.
[07:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:48] <exec> 08└─The soylent summary was terrible and the only provided link is woefully short of any detail, and I can't seem to find a publication with these findings. Anybody have any luck "researching" for the actual paper?
[07:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:49] <exec> 08└─If it works, the populations consuming lots of this rice should show lower rates of these cancers. When most of the population is dead by 50, or even 40, from other diseases or industrial accidents or vehicle crashes, you aren't likely to find many with cancer.
[07:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:51] <exec> 08└─You can't sell rice for $10/pill. Rice is dirt cheap, in fact, it's cheaper than dirt sometimes. Seriously, go to home depot and look at how much potting soil costs.
[08:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:56] <exec> 08└─He dropped his complaint, focusing on a private lawsuit involving California state law claims instead. These are likely to be litigated in the state court system. I'm glad this case isn't going to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, because CAFC is my absolute least favorite US court. CAFC...
[08:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:58] <exec> 08└─One of those protected classes is political opinion. CA is one of the few States to have such a thing. Guess why? :) *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) To protect members of the Communist Party back in the day.
[08:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:00] <exec> 08└─The entire "Diversity And Inclusion Summit" was hostility toward traditional white males. It was way more than a microaggression. Picture how a traditional white male feels at such a thing. It's a hate event, all directed at him. Google created a hostile workplace environment just by having that eve...
[08:05:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:45] <exec> 08└─In the beginning, was the AC, and the AC was peaceful, and darkness prevailed. Then the Founder said, "Yo, codemonkey, let there be SoylentNews!" And there was light. The AC felt much consternation, but he fit in after a while. At least he was not Eth, most of the time. Happy birthday, Soylentils!
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[08:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Veyrdite [6386] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:29] <exec> 08└─Processors copy and destroy data many, many times when doing their work. Every time you access data it's copied onto at least one bus or mem/cache location. Even deleting data isn't completely guaranteed: sometimes old copies of it get left on buses that you don't even know about. Fun example of the...
[08:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Veyrdite [6386] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:30] <exec> 08└─Possibly a better way to express this to people who are not familiar with CPU design: A computer's most common instruction is the 'copy' instruction, which copies information. Every possible way of trying to implement a voting system using computers will use 'copy' at least hundreds of times per vot...
[08:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:32] <exec> 08└─I was wondering if they would figure this one out. Until voting machines are running un-obfuscated open source program, paper seems the proven choice. It is hard to hack, more importantly by those selling it.
[08:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:45] <exec> 08└─Who is to know, besides futile assumptions and the engineers involved, how this thing is designed? I would certainly trust old schools engineers to understand these issues better than new age speculations. I would also expect that if this "football" actually looses connectivity to whatever proxy it...
[08:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:46] <exec> 08└─So, you want a new cold war? China is currently trying to remain neutral in the battle of words between Trump and Kim Jong Un, threatening them with nukes could be what it takes to push them to take sides. And not our side.
[08:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 1814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:48] <exec> 08└─When I saw this, it just struck me as something to not count on to work should TSHTF. If someone was determined to undermine the thing, I am pretty sure a good explosive capacitor-discharge spark gap, especially if focused, would render it inoperable. Maybe the same should it be hit with a plain ol...
[08:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:50] <exec> 08└─"What good is a fancy thing if someone else can take it down with a trivial piece of technology" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You know... line voltages, currents, motors, power controls... t I hear your. It is the only fun bit that remains in the IT field. Tha...
[08:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:53] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness it's still in safe hands
[09:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:25] <exec> 08└─It's like preventative maintenance. You know, reassigning the backup device to /dev/null and then powercycling the RAID about 25 times in quick succession.
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[09:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:27] <exec> 08└─So those are then the true sheeple?
[09:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03therainingmonkey [6839] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:37] <exec> 08└─America's paper ballot states may seem antiquated to some
[09:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:39] <exec> 08└─I am not sure where this quote comes from but I do not buy it. Computers do not 'understand' anything in the first place. It is all about how you program it. A copy instruction is not some random operation that happens out of the control of the programmer. If you want a 'deep copy' it is so. If the...
[09:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:41] <exec> 08└─If my bank makes many copies of the money on my account, I won't object as long as those copies end up also being on my account. ;-)
[09:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know of anywhere in Europe which uses electronic voting machines.
[10:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:01] <exec> 08└─So... when a foreign president is visiting, and some guy tries to walk past security, and is stopped and questioned, and then some other guy you don't know comes along and just says "carry on", and then you try to stop them, it ends up in a scuffle and this is somehow the fault of the Chinese? Can y...
[10:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:02] <exec> 08└─What a wonderful idea. Especially convenient for those who want the USA to nuke the default targets.
[10:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:04] <exec> 08└─Any useful thing has a weak spot. There is probably some natural or mathematical law of conservation which dictates it. Weakness can be moved around or converted from one form to another, but it can never be eliminated.
[10:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:18] <exec> 08└─Scientific Evidence of Rice By-Products for Cancer Prevention: Chemopreventive Properties of Waste Products from Rice Milling on Carcinogenesis In Vitro and In Vivo [nih.gov] Black rice is the new cancer-fighting superfood, claim scientists [dailymail.co.uk] Brown Rice: Health Benefits & Nutrition F...
[10:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:39] <exec> 08└─Expect the results to disappear and never be talked about again, IF it turns out that it is caused by certain proteins being damaged by mercury. No, I'm not saying vaccines cause this, there is mercury in a lot of things. Energy saving light bulbs and fish are two examples. But we have seen time and...
[10:00:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:50] <exec> 08└─Of course, Google were always in bed with, if not a direct arm of, alphabet soup agencies.
[10:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 4570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:29] <exec> 08└─Really more of a gen Y-er, too young to qualify as a Gen X-er, but not really part of the Millenial culture either... Most of the women when I was in junior college during the late 90s early 00s had no interest in Computers. *LOTS* had interest in STEM, although still a fraction of their male counte...
[10:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:30] <exec> 08└─Well, if Jimmy-boy did not feel comfortable there, I guess he could just have left. Oh, he did! Problem solved! Shoe, meet other foot. Poor traditional white males! So sad they cannot upgrade to being modern men! You know, men of action, men in tights.
[10:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:32] <exec> 08└─because CAFC is my absolute least favorite US court.
[10:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:35] <exec> 08└─And you claim to have a daughter? When everyone knows trolls do not. So who really is lacking all crediblity here?
[10:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:37] <exec> 08└─WHat complete fucked Damore is that the authors of the studies he cites came out and said that his conclusions were wrong. Then his argument is reduced to pseudo-science of the kind often used to justify bigotry (e.g. skull measurements), and he loses. He can't win in court either. If he claims that...
[10:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:04] <exec> 08└─GDP is a very difficult concept and I have no confidence in it's application, particularly recently, but let's go with your figures. Agriculture is incredibly low. Either a truly wealthy country, or importing food. I happen to know they're importing food. And that's a tragedy. Britain is a fertile l...
[10:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:57] <exec> 08└─Funny, this is just a guess... but I think you just *might* see 5 digit UIDs if you double in size. Of course, its not like I could use my UID to calculate that... the maths to do that must be really difficult.
[10:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:02] <exec> 08└─TFA is unclear about the grounds for appeal but it looks like it’s based on MSs claim for lost sales that resulted in the excessive sentence. He had no right to bulk copy the discs - he’s already plead guilty for that - whether that really leaves MS out of pocket by $25*28000 (That MS would like...
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[10:59:31] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the Macc Lads wrote a song about this. Something to do with the farmer's daughter having to wear a sheepskin coat as well.
[10:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:46] <exec> 08└─I was with you until the second sentence: Until voting machines are running un-obfuscated open source program, paper seems the proven choice.
[10:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:47] <exec> 08└─For our elections we have VERY SPECIAL machines, they're called TABULATORS. And they count the ballots. You put the ballots in a stack, you put the stack in the Tabulator, you press a button. The ballots go inside the Tabulator, it counts them, they come out again. Untouched by human hands. Because...
[10:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:49] <exec> 08└─> Why would you introduce potential bugs and vulnerabilities into your voting process? You mean the electoral college? The whole raison d'etre of the electoral college was an admission that the voting public is stupid and don't know what they want, so they should nominate a proxy who will do the act...
[10:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:52] <exec> 08└─I didn't say the beauty part, this is PRIMO, it's PERFECTO. They did the 3 recounts on the Tabulators, right? On the broken Tabulators. But they have a BEAUTIFUL law that says only 3 recounts are allowed. So a hand recount would be ILLEGAL. Because they already did the 3, right? On the Tabulators. A...
[11:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:12] <exec> 08└─They give us a little card. The biscuit, it's not a biscuit. It's like a fortune cookie, it has a shell that we break. And inside the shell are the VERY SPECIAL numbers, they call them the Gold Codes or Launch Codes. I love gold, the New York snobs & elites always make fun of me because I love gold....
[11:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:42] <exec> 08└─Mashing together you plus them gives this even scarier summary: "Science is unprotected"
[11:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:44] <exec> 08└─You, and others, might appreciate one of the segments in this: https://www.youtube.com The segment is available separately(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMfStd3v330), but the whole program's fun, assuming the trainwreck that calls itself the UK is of vague interest.
[11:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:13] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt they did more than just corrupt the windows installation. The TLAs (and FLAs) have spent a fortune on persistent malware that simply can't be removed by a Windows rescue disc.
[11:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:11] <exec> 08└─It's a well-known aspect of a news cycle: if one event happens and a newspaper decides that it's news, then other events in the same category are then treated as news by other outlets for a while. It's one of the big problems with forming opinions from news sources: you don't notice the background l...
[11:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:12] <exec> 08└─You misunderstood. Uber was eating three things: A driver, shoots, [wikipedia.org] and leaves.
[11:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:14] <exec> 08└─I guess you also think the Mafia is not a criminal organization because, after all, there exist criminals that are not in the Mafia.
[11:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:16] <exec> 08└─So Uber just eats two types of stuff: One is driver shoots, and the other is leaves.
[11:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:19] <exec> 08└─Food delivery seldom escalates to violence when the food and the delivery is already paid for via the app, (including optional tip).
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[11:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:28] <exec> 08└─The man's fist and the woman's face were inseparable. The two of them went everywhere together, to the point where people began to believe that they were one being. But one day, the face broke, and the man's fist was very sad. Fortunately, the fist soon found a new woman's face to be its partner...
[11:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:29] <exec> 08└─When ever anyone mentions Mister Rogers all I can think of is Joybubbles. I was not alive during that time, but it sure is interesting to read about.
[11:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:39] <exec> 08└─"... to lease the Millar Research Clinic all physical experimental rights in my body for one week for the sum of 100 pounds."
[11:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:56] <exec> 08└─even then I'm not sure if you can even prove or guarantee it
[11:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:58] <exec> 08└─You mean the electoral college? The whole raison d'etre of the electoral college was an admission that the voting public is stupid and don't know what they want, so they should nominate a proxy who will do the actual voting for president for them. The level of trust is total, and the trustworthiness...
[11:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:00] <exec> 08└─I doubt that there are more than a few hundred people in the world that could do an audit of the code and guarantee that there are no bugs that affect the outcome
[12:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:22] <exec> 08└─That is, without regular attention from the president, the US military will assume that a nuclear strike is required. The assumption will be that the president has been taken hostage or even killed. ICBMs and SLBMs will soon hit over a thousand locations in China.
[12:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:54] <exec> 08└─... I've logged into Slashdot again by mistake.
[12:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:25] <exec> 08└─London, it never quits reminding us, is the world financial services capital, after all.
[12:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was kind of the point. Current max uid is 6876 belonging to bussdriver, so doubling it would put us in double digits and get noticed.
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[12:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:28] <exec> 08└─It's enough to make a user install Gentoo or Arch Linux (or maybe Linux From Scratch) just to be sure that nothing "extra" is running. Of course, someone will probably come along and point out something shady that those distros have done, too...
[13:00:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 982 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:22] <exec> 08└─So... when a foreign president is visiting, and some guy tries to walk past security, and is stopped and questioned, and then some other guy you don't know comes along and just says "carry on", and then you try to stop them, it ends up in a scuffle and this is somehow the fault of the Chinese? Can y...
[13:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 4333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:27] <exec> 08└─Boy, you aren't kidding there. Like a friggen bean bag. Mash here, vulnerability goes over there. I would say by far most of the time I spend designing stuff, is not just to make it work, rather its to make it fault tolerant. I can't design it out altogether, but at least I isolate as much as I can...
[13:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:29] <exec> 08└─"If someone was determined to undermine the thing, I am pretty sure a good explosive capacitor-discharge spark gap, especially if focused, would render it inoperable." But if that happens, a hammer inside falls and releases poison which kills the cat: SO...until they open the case the pussy is both...
[13:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:31] <exec> 08└─They give Hillary a glass of wine. The pacifier, it's not a pacifier. It keeps her from yelling at her staff. Her staff love it. :)
[13:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 4287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, you may have to launch at any minute. That's one of the things someone has to make a decision on. Its hard to hold a group accountable for starting a major, major war. This is gonna be between us, the Russians, and the Chinese. NK looks to me like a sore spot that is gonna be a trigger. My pos...
[13:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:05] <exec> 08└─> authors of the studies he cites came out and said that his conclusions were wrong Citation needed. I remember a well-cited evolutionary psychologist (probably Jordan Peterson, probably here: https://www.youtube.com) saying quite the opposite, that his conclusions were valid. Pe...
[13:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:36] <exec> 08└─And for the love of all that is good and sane, none of that weird extra-fast-smooth scrolling, either.
[13:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:38] <exec> 08└─Thank you.
[13:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:44] <exec> 08└─Nobody has ever been able to prove that data is property without resorting to begging the question or argument from authority.
[13:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:45] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know the intricacies of Windows OEM licensing well enough to chime in on this? Even if they are legally in the right, they probably already sold a copy of Windows to the manufacturer when the PC was sold. This guy was providing a valuable service that most likely isn't hurting anyone fin...
[13:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:47] <exec> 08└─You just got told by an AC. Now I've seen everything.
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[13:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:27] <exec> 08└─I remember when Linux was the OS that just did what the user told it and never spied on the user. It was YOUR computer and Linux respected that. (Back in the days of Slackware and early Red Hat) But that was considered normal and expected behavior then. Even Windows acted that way! (Windows 95, 98,...
[13:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:28] <exec> 08└─Network connectivity or not
[13:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:30] <exec> 08└─As the only thing to do to prevent this is untick one box at installation time then I think that I can cope with that. I'd prefer that it were opt-in rather than opt-out, but I'm not going to get excited. I'd also want the data that is sent to be in a format that is easily readable - not encrypted o...
[13:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:35] <exec> 08└─What about computer name/hostname? If not, then it looks like less intrusive feedback than Mozilla has been vacuuming up, and most of it looks like data that provides important feedback for usability related issues, a number of which I have discovered recently, especially in newer kernel versions (T...
[13:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:39] <exec> 08└─It still is - the user decides whether to activate this feature or not. This differs significantly from the Microsoft option where it is next to impossible to remove the telemetry feature and, if you do, it will probably get reinstalled at the next update. It would be better to be opt-in rather than...
[13:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:41] <exec> 08└─Perhaps future Ubuntu disks will come with a carrier pigeon?
[13:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:43] <exec> 08└─But certainly would like the application itself to be easily straced/run in debug mode/open source with verifiable build binaries so it can be clear what is being sent. Having the data sent in plaintext with current 5 eyes surveillance is actually MORE damaging than sending this information to Ubunt...
[13:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:53] <exec> 08└─Is how it is still unavailable in its entirety online, via DVD, or even via torrent, so that we can provide our kids the same experience as 70s-80s era PBS without the advertising and other trash that has been added in the interim. Once I realized PBS wasn't nearly as hippy as I had always been lead...
[13:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:55] <exec> 08└─It is indeed a beautiful day in the neighborhood today. So much so that I'm extremely tempted to push off some paying work that needs to be done as quickly as possible and go fishing. Mid 70s and not raining is not weather you let just pass you by in a Tennessee February.
[13:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:58] <exec> 08└─Much of the current PBS stuff is available online, particularly kids programming. For example, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (essentially a Mr Rogers animated spinoff) is available via streaming on PBS Kids and Amazon Prime (possibly others as well). I've also pulled it off of torrent sites, since I d...
[14:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:29] <exec> 08└─Why does there have to be one system? Once you have scantron optical ballots not only can you write the tabulation software but theoretically you could write scanning software to use anything from the dedicated scantron testing machines we already have, to OCR style scanning of ballot pictures. For...
[14:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:31] <exec> 08└─A family member developed a severe form of autism after an (epileptic?) fit somewhere around a year old. He showed an immediate regression in verbalisation and situational awareness, and developed several mannerisms. Nevertheless, it was several years before he got a formal diagnosis because his sym...
[14:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 1580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:32] <exec> 08└─My guess is that this is like our other attributes... anatomical muscular variation, eye color, hair color, skin color, etc. I have no doubt I would test positive for asperger. I do not consider it a disability, rather I see it as just an attribute. It means I will derive pleasure from doing the stu...
[14:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes. Beware the dreaded mercury lobby, committed to polluting our vital essences.
[14:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:37] <exec> 08└─HFA people are normies that have easily fixable behavioral problems.
[14:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:39] <exec> 08└─With more than 2% of boys catching a diagnosis these days, I'd rather not wait 2 more generations while we "diagnose and collect information so we might begin to formulate a theory of a therapeutic approach." I'd much rather see a culture slide spoiled by some moldy bread and put it into practical a...
[14:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:41] <exec> 08└─it needs to be done as early as possible. Which is why a test like this could come in handy.
[14:02:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TGV [2838] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 522 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:25] <exec> 08└─The usual drivel: male CS professors. My daughter and her friends never even got near a CS professor before they decided that STEM is not for them. One even chose a lower school level to avoid maths. I don't know who you're trying to troll. > During WWII, computing was dominated by women As in: arit...
[14:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:40] <exec> 08└─Citation: https://www.wired.com [wired.com] They interviewed the authors of the key studies he relies on.
[14:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 063Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:47] <exec> 08└─Yeup. Case in point: my IBM X61s Thinkpad (vintage 2007) is still my daily driver at home / out and about, but with 4GB RAM and a beefy hard drive. It's going to be retired by a slightly newer X-series this year, mainly because the chassis is starting to give in after a decade of being carted about....
[14:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:13] <exec> 08└─You guys are giving me such great ideas for 4/1.
[14:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:22] <exec> 08└─Eh, last time I tried FreeBSD it was pretty much unusable due to missing wifi and graphics drivers. At the time both were due to be included in the next release -- which came out a few months back -- but by that point I already had a reasonably effective Arch install up and running...been meaning to...
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[14:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:30] <exec> 08└─Good thing I'm a man. I should be fine while continuing to use those cleaners.
[14:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:31] <exec> 08└─In an auto shop. Just a couple months of use had me worrying about my health. Looks like my concerns have been justified... just like the cans of RAID people used to spray everywhere, the gasoline people used to clean stuff with, etc. And I got told I wasn't old enough to be right yet. Fucking bunch...
[14:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:34] <exec> 08└─Well, according the article you're right (there is a part where they investigated this).
[14:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:36] <exec> 08└─You smell something: Is it food? No. Is it natural? No. Is it a cleaner, gasoline, sawdust, smoke, other particulate, or any manmade chemical? Yes. Congratulations, it's now causing lung damage and/or cancer.
[14:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:38] <exec> 08└─28 authors to write 3036 words... wow, and that with data pulled from existing databases (read: none of the authors actually had to leave their office desk).
[14:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:40] <exec> 08└─28 authors to write "Winter is..... something..." :)
[14:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:43] <exec> 08└─When i see on tv ads the women spraying febreze, etc, in the air like its just steam-- lots and lots of steam -- i think: yup... kill yourself with cancer. Breathe that poison in, lady. Oh look! Your child is sitting on the couch with the dog! Nice... cancer for them, too. It only takes common sense...
[14:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:58] <exec> 08└─or Windows/Facebook like install opted in, slurp and cache the data they'd like to take and then send that based on the 'opt in' at install whether the user opts out before the first network connect or not.
[14:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:59] <exec> 08└─And this will let them tie MAC address and any other processor/hardware serial numbers to an individual as well. Say goodbye to an anonymous free press as long as total surveillance prevails. So far poisoning the well with addition false information to slurp seems to be the only counter tactic for t...
[15:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:02] <exec> 08└─Most of what they're asking to collect looks benign to me. Even location, isn't that only accurate to the closest timezone? But still, I'd prefer if it's simply not sent, regardless of encryption. If encrypted, then how can we trust it's sending what it says it's sending? Maybe this argument applies...
[15:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:04] <exec> 08└─They are supposed to update the policy BEFORE MAKING CHANGES TO THE PRODUCT and reference the changes are coming soon. Having the info there prior to making the change lets a user know what is being agreed to! They can even post it the very moment the new version and updates become available -- so t...
[15:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:06] <exec> 08└─Linux isn't collecting your data. Canonical / *buntu is collecting data. People commonly make a similar mistake with telephones. "My phone is spying on me - Android is terrible!" In actuality, Android doesn't spy on you - your phone provider configured the phone to spy on you. Linux is very differen...
[15:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─This is probably an excuse to stop supporting installations that are not connected to the network and cannot be spied upon. (100% of the surveyed machines had network connectivity, therefore...)
[15:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03whatevs [6011] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─I carefully read through the explanation before making my typical knee-jerk reaction, and I'm glad I did. I can understand why they would want to do this, and why they would want to make it the default action. And I fully support them in choosing to do this with their distribution. It's not the dire...
[15:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:53] <exec> 08└─I'm against electronic voting generally, but I'll play Devil's advocate: how about a formally verified software system?
[15:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 3001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:54] <exec> 08└─Hardware write protection via a switch was a thing on the Altair back 40 years or so. Immutable data is also a high level language construct, see Clojure. There are multiple problems with doing this immutable: 1) Shutting off the garbage collector for forensic reasons will require a wee bit more mem...
[15:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:56] <exec> 08└─An excellent analogy to what you're talking about is the technology and mathematics of metrology. Although it sounds like metrology is the study of metrosexuals or some such funny nonsense, its actually the study of the math and protocols and procedures to design, prove, test and build accurate meas...
[15:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:59] <exec> 08└─The whole raison d'etre of the electoral college was
[15:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:01] <exec> 08└─I think the "fixation" on hacking elections is a lot more justified than you make it out. Busing in illegal voters requires that you find lots of people willing to commit a serious crime in front of lots of witnesses. If it happens there will be lots of available evidence of the fact. If you aren't...
[15:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:09] <exec> 08└─they should confirm it works before they start drawing blood from 1 year olds xd
[15:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:10] <exec> 08└─they should confirm it works before they start drawing blood from 1 year olds
[15:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:11] <exec> 08└─Did you actually read the article? I mean beyond mouthing out the words while following along the lines with your mouse? Yes, they interiew 3 of the scientists Damore referenced. One disagrees with Damore's interpretation, one agrees; but disagrees with the weight given to it, and the third basicall...
[15:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:43] <exec> 08└─Australia, or Somalia, or Finland, or Norway
[15:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:45] <exec> 08└─You forgot: Uber Mensch, for when you need an army to invade Poland but don’t want to buy your own tanks.
[15:04:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:55] <exec> 08└─"Why are we giving in to this man's narcissistic dream?"
[15:04:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 1949 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:57] <exec> 08└─While I don't really have much of an opinion about her making a living out of trekking around the middle east writing a couple of articles and a book a year or not she does have another point and it's the worlds obsession with Trump, or perhaps I should say the media establishments obsession with Tr...
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[15:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:33] <exec> 08└─So, it is actually fixed, but not released yet. Why this semi-hard deadline of 90 days (with 2 weeks extension). Couldn't they just wait another few weeks for disclosing it, until the patch is actually released? Why the rush of disclosing it?
[15:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 2050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─It seems logical to me that if I'm smelling the cleaner because it evaporated away its not actually cleaning my kitchen table, so I prefer the "stream mode" sprays vs the "spray mode" sprays. Guys have an instinctual ability to aim streams of liquid anyway. Women claim not so much, but I assure you...
[15:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:49] <exec> 08└─Love it when perusing the roach killer aisle and they all say "smells like a natural pine forest". Hello? Can you make my poison smell like a paper making factory or something equally bad? kthxbye.
[15:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:51] <exec> 08└─Impact of Cleaning Products on Women's Lungs
[15:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:53] <exec> 08└─Yup. Smoke (barbecues, open fires, burnt food). Talcum powder. Anything visible in the way of fogging materials (natural fog = plain water, artificial fog is often scented, coloured, etc.), engine exhausts (already proven a lot more dangerous than we ever knew). Smell is chemical detection of partic...
[15:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:55] <exec> 08└─No need to become a nurse, just wear the mask. You scare children and small animals every time you come out of the basement. Just wear the mask, alright?
[15:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:57] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting spelling of "enrollment".
[15:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:00] <exec> 08└─I recently started using a Steam Cleaner which uses high temperature, high pressure steam to clean without using any chemicals. Hopefully this is better for me than these cleaning products but I'm not 100% convinced - the dirt is basically vaporised and I'm sure I'm breathing some of it in and absor...
[16:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:02] <exec> 08└─You should just wear a gas mask while cleaning.
[16:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:25] <exec> 08└─I stopped using ubuntu mainly because it seemed to get slower and slower. The same with plain debian (though not as bad as ubuntu). I switched to Arch (Manjaro) because of speed, but then learned they switched to systemd. If i had the time and a faster/better machine i'd try distro hopping in a VM,...
[16:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:26] <exec> 08└─If, as you say, bugs get reported anyway, what's the point of the whole drill. Back to topic, which bugs are triggered by a different geographical location of the hardware? 1 in 10000000? So why report that?
[16:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:28] <exec> 08└─To nitpick, that is "Data Canonical seeks" not "Data Canonical gets reported back", so the absence of network connectivity can be desumed or reported when connectivity resumes. Canonical is getting too canonical for my tastes.
[16:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:30] <exec> 08└─> I have always opted in to popcorn damn autocorrect, I guess you have never said no to popcorn anyway. For those interested in googling, it's "popcon" POPularity CONtest, a debian thing which ubuntu and others use too.
[16:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:33] <exec> 08└─You could look at nosh, http://jdebp.eu [jdebp.eu] it's able to convert systemd unit files to it's own style and provides shims to allow usage of sysv, bsd or systemd syntax to manage services. It also seems to have a superset of functionality while not making the most egregious err...
[16:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:35] <exec> 08└─antix mxlinux, you still get .debs and systemd optional
[16:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:37] <exec> 08└─yep - fingers typing what they want again .....
[16:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:39] <exec> 08└─nosh sherlock, interesting- remove the , from the link to get to its homepage.
[16:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:42] <exec> 08└─If it is like Fedora's old attempt with smolt or Debian's popcon there isn't an issue here. The problem is the nutters obsessing over privacy to the point it is creating anti-information. What hardware is most used? Really important information when deciding what to buy, what to expend development e...
[16:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:53] <exec> 08└─> Once I realized PBS wasn't nearly as hippy Yeah, I learned that years ago when the PBS News Hour aired a very biased segment about copyright in which the 2 sides were "extreme copyright" vs "even more extreme copyright". Evidently they put the public second to a twisted idea of loyalty to their fe...
[16:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:54] <exec> 08└─I much prefer Eddie Murphys version he did while at SNL, Mr. Robinsons neighborhood. Clearly a parody and still funny.
[16:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:57] <exec> 08└─Lucky guy! It's been -20C pretty much every day for 2 months where I am... I'm fucking sick of it -- and I love winter!
[16:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:32] <exec> 08└─for 99.99% of the population
[16:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:34] <exec> 08└─I was going to say something like this. Our local county has used electronic voting with no paper trail for a long time. I've complained since the first year they picked it, but got a "trust us" form letter back from the SoS about it. Now it's in the news again, and the officials are all "oh, but we...
[16:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:36] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid I don't see where you're going with this.
[16:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:38] <exec> 08└─For that matter we're about at the point of being able to take a pix of every vote cast and put the archive on the internet.
[16:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:40] <exec> 08└─One practical reason is that US elections happen on very few fixed days in the year, and then have multiple offices to choose from. If it were done with paper, you would need to have separate ballots and boxes for each office. The alternative, everything on one sheet, is what we have for absentee ba...
[16:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:43] <exec> 08└─If you want a quick ballot, do a paper ballot that comes out when you electronically vote (or two ballots?: one you keep for your own 'records' and one you drop in a ballot box). Vote electronically, it spits out a ballot with your vote choice (or two ballots, whatever): you check to see that the pa...
[16:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:45] <exec> 08└─I probably would, yes. The world's a big place, we're talking about an Open Source project, and it only takes one objector to kick up about a flaw. Compare: the Soviets' Cuban missile project. There were no leaks there and the USA only discovered the sites through U2 reconnaissance missions. Because...
[16:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:12] <exec> 08└─I was really hoping that somebody would manage to assassinate both candidates during the election. No such luck.
[16:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:56] <exec> 08└─"No, I'm not saying vaccines cause this..." "... putting mercury in vaccines was a really bad idea." Hmmmm, sounds exactly like what you're saying. It doesn't follow though, mercury should affect everyone who got vaccinated.
[16:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i found it hard growing up thinking i was just 'weird' and clueless, and thinking "What is wrong with me". When my son was born i started thinking "Hey! I'm frakking AUTISTIC!!! There's nothing 'wrong' with me, i'm just different", and that has helped me a lot. Decades ago, i'd probably be lab...
[16:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:58] <exec> 08└─every company has various "third rail" issues that you dare not question, or Kool-aid that must be drunk to keep working there. Some are obvious (don't wear Adidas gear to work at Nike), others less so. Try working at a family-owned business sometime... There's family, friends of the family (dilly d...
[16:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:00] <exec> 08└─Like most sexual species, the sex ratio in humans is approximately 1:1. Due to higher female fetal mortality,[2] the sex ratio at birth worldwide is commonly thought to be 107 boys to 100 girls,[3] although this value is subject to debate in the scientific community. The sex ratio for the entire wor...
[16:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, or is "protected" the operative word in this. Disregard
[16:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:04] <exec> 08└─Conservative circle jerk going on around here.
[16:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:38] <exec> 08└─"...Patterson told Channel 2 Action News that Thornton — upset about the delivery time — threatened his client and motioned toward his pockets: 'My client had no choice but to defend himself'..." Hmmm sounds like he has a good defense. That one always works for cops.
[16:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SMTP Sender Verification - Incompetence is Sometimes Indistinguishable from Malice - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:45] <exec> 08└─I didn't want to come out and disagree completely without some detail explaining why. I'd much prefer it all worked as intended, if perhaps not as originally designed. Unfortunately, it is too much to expect people to even follow standards sometimes.
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[16:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:35] <exec> 08└─https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/02/feedback-and-data-driven-updates-to.html [blogspot.com] Disclosure deadlines have long been an industry standard practice. They improve end-user security by getting security patches to users faster. As noted in CERT’s 45-day disclosure policy, they al...
[16:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:36] <exec> 08└─That's a nice business you got going there, be a shame if something were to happen to it...
[16:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:39] <exec> 08└─So the embargo window is there for a reason... but Google actually ending the embargo (albeit with a 14 day extension) is bad. What should they do instead? Extend the window repeatedly forever? Then it's no longer a window, it's windows.
[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:41] <exec> 08└─From TFA: if the content process can predict the address on which the JIT process is going to call its VirtualAllocEx() function next - which can be done fairly easily, according to Google - and it is compromised, the content process can: Unmap the shared memory mapped above above using UnmapViewOfF...
[16:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:43] <exec> 08└─...and too late I realise I never replaced my placeholder subject :-P
[16:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:45] <exec> 08└─So many people who have computer, they have it for windows. For solitaire, for so many things. They love the solitaire, so interesting! Great job, Bill! Great job, Satya!
[16:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:48] <exec> 08└─I think that's right. It's not clear that this is actually exploitable, because to be able to meet the prerequisites you must already have compromised the content process enough that you can issue a system call (of your choice, with arguments of your choice), but not enough that you can execute arbi...
[16:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:50] <exec> 08└─In this case, Google acted irresponsibly because the intent of the embargo was satisfied: MSFT has been trying to get a fix working but hasn't succeeded in that yet. They could have worked with MSFT to make sure they aren't dragging their feet and actually continue on pushing a fix out but there was...
[17:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:11] <exec> 08└─Good thing I'm using scrubbing milk. No spray, no lung disease.
[17:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:13] <exec> 08└─Guys have an instinctual ability to aim streams of liquid anyway.
[17:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:15] <exec> 08└─... which uses high temperature, high pressure steam to clean without using any chemicals.
[17:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:17] <exec> 08└─A few years ago, I noticed at work, church and other locations where some dummy would leave an industrial strength Lysol spray can in the bathroom. Eventually another dummy would use that Lysol spray can to "freshen the air" from what ever smells were offending them. It would cause the air in that b...
[17:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:19] <exec> 08└─dihydrogen monoxide, the LD50 on that is huge, I think we are going to be okay.
[17:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, all authors on a scientific publication are involves solely in writing the text of the paper. None are involved in running experiments, analysing data, and so on.
[17:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:53] <exec> 08└─For desktops, I use PCLinuxOS, no systemd, and, on the whole, it just works™.. For servers, *BSDs I'm afraid (migrated from the last systemd-free Debian distro). Firewall, I'm conflicted, I've a seriously 'fucked with' PCLinuxOS box doing the job at present (only the base packages, development and...
[17:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:54] <exec> 08└─I have always opted in to popcorn (which, for those who do not know, simply lets Ubuntu know which packages/programs you install.)
[17:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:57] <exec> 08└─I assume they understand the law of unintended consequences
[17:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:59] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out"
[17:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:01] <exec> 08└─If it is like... Debian's popcon there isn't an issue here.
[17:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:16] <exec> 08└─Ha, I'm fucking sick of it, but I HATE winter, lol. Just when I thought global warming was making Canadian winters more agreeable.... Now it's going to take forever to get my garden going.
[17:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:26] <exec> 08└─These [xkcd.com] are the true sheeple. Those scientists are on VERY dangerous ground.
[17:01:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:45] <exec> 08└─You mean the electoral college? The whole raison d'etre of the electoral college was an admission that the voting public is stupid and don't know what they want, so they should nominate a proxy who will do the actual voting for president for them. The level of trust is total, and the trustworthiness...
[17:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 2213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:00] <exec> 08└─Amazing the levels of ignorance even on sites like this. You can't allow a copy of a ballot, that was a specific design feature introduced to eliminate a specific problem. Do you want to be 'required' to show your 'properly' marked ballot to your employer? Was a time you could bring your own pre-mar...
[17:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:29] <exec> 08└─I think the real problem here was an ignorant security "official" (guard) getting grabby without knowing the gravity of the situation. There's no real upside for China to steal the briefcase. They don't want to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. (at least imminently). There's likely no way that the...
[17:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:16] <exec> 08└─Errrrmm...not everyone exposed to a virus gets sick. There are carriers and people with natural immunities. Mercury might only 'activate' autism in certain individuals just like it seems that some people can smoke and not get cancer: Arthur Marx estimated that Burns smoked around 300,000 cigars duri...
[17:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:21] <exec> 08└─Have a link [google.com] ... statements about immutable traits linked to sex—such as women’s heightened neuroticism and men’s prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution—were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment, notwithstanding effort to cloak comments with “scientific” ref...
[17:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:23] <exec> 08└─CAFC gave us both software patents (Diamond v. Diehr) and copyrightable APIs (Oracle v. Google). They're like a plague of locusts for software.
[17:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:25] <exec> 08└─Just because some of the things you say are protected doesn't mean that everything is. Seriously, flip that around, do you think that uttering one piece of protected speech protects everything you say?
[17:05:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:31] <exec> 08└─No, shootings and murders are at the normal rate (which is pretty high by western standards, but not out of the ordinary). What DID happen, is that a high profile school shooting happened, and it's being used in a political push for gun control. That's probably where all the coverage is coming from.
[17:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:28] <exec> 08└─Summary: Trump made president by being the best troll in the world
[17:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:14] <exec> 08└─MS has always wanted to eat it's cake and have it too wrt licensing. They were happy enough to enforce "the Microsoft tax" on practically every new PC from that era and to tie the licence to a particular machine, particular media, AND a particular person. Basically, any excuse to hold their hand out...
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[17:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:45] <exec> 08└─If you can already execute arbitrary code in the compromised process, then this doesn't give you anything else.
[17:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:46] <exec> 08└─OP here... You know what, you're not going to hear this often on the 'tubes, but the way you put it, I think you're right. I hereby recall my original post...
[18:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:50] <exec> 08└─Tell me again how red hat is the most evil distro supplier of all....
[18:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:52] <exec> 08└─Indeed, Gentoo & Arch both happily redistribute known closed-source malware to users, without any kind of explanation or warning about its malicious nature: https://wiki.gentoo.org https://wiki.archlinux.org If that's the attitude, then it o...
[18:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:54] <exec> 08└─What hardware is most used? Really important information when deciding what to buy, what to expend development effort into, etc.
[18:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:56] <exec> 08└─Sounds like El Reg is just full of it, yet again. Because what they've described isn't location data, it's just timezone data. And that's pretty much their whole headline. So the entire core of their scaremongering is just a complete and total fabrication. I mean I'm not a huge fan of Ubuntu collect...
[18:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:58] <exec> 08└─It still is - the user decides whether to activate this feature or not. This differs significantly from the Microsoft option where it is next to impossible to remove the telemetry feature and, if you do, it will probably get reinstalled at the next update. You still have the option, as a user, to d...
[18:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:01] <exec> 08└─Don't be retarded. You don't run things based on the few who yell loudest. That is like thinking the callers to a radio talk show are reflective of the listeners. We don't make public policy based on the few morons with the free time to stand out on the street waving signs. It would be really good t...
[18:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:03] <exec> 08└─no because you have to install that software it is not part of the distribution my friend. ive been running arch on desktop and server for 10 years and browser plugins are never installed by the distro, they are only installed by the user.
[18:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:19] <exec> 08└─Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image ... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be.
[18:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a long sleeve shirt under a sweatshirt wasn't quite cutting it for me today.
[18:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:22] <exec> 08└─And I always will be. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood A beautiful day for a neighbor Would you be mine? Could you be mine? It's a neighborly day for a beautywood A neighborly day for a beauty Would you be mine? Could you be mine? I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you I have...
[18:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:33] <exec> 08└─That just baaaad.
[18:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:08] <exec> 08└─What's the problem, VLM even gave you a car analogy (grin)...
[18:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:10] <exec> 08└─In my part of New York State we used to have mechanical lever machines which I really liked (but I guess they finally wore out). Now we have paper ballots that are scanned, then the paper is dropped in a box for use if there is a recount. We never had any of the "electronic" machines.
[18:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:12] <exec> 08└─That makes as much sense as: As such: computers have no place handling paychecks. They do not understand that a paycheck should not be copied. They do not understand that a paycheck should be guaranteed protected. They cannot be trusted to destroy every extra copy of a paystub they make along the wa...
[18:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:41] <exec> 08└─Can you call that treason? Yeah, I suppose you could.
[18:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:42] <exec> 08└─No, this is a big deal because hundreds of people do nothing but choreograph visits like these precisely to avoid incidents like these. They can quickly get out of control, with that possibility being greater the more tension there is between the parties. Somebody is getting fired over this, on both...
[18:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:44] <exec> 08└─Call what treason, the implication that Trump is a hot head and probably shouldn't be in control of the presidency, much less the ability to launch a nuclear attack? Actually you cannot call that treason, treason requires you to wage war or assist in waging war against the US. Its the one crime outl...
[18:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:58] <exec> 08└─You're not buying dirt when you buy potting soil. You're buying that "special blend" of chemicals, etc. that's premixed in that "bag of dirt". A bag of top soil by comparison is really cheap.
[18:03:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 877 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:48] <exec> 08└─I have worked for a lot of tech companies, and in each one everybody understood implicitly that external politics should be kept to a minimum if not discussed at all. Frankly I'm surprised that any employer, much less a large one, "encourages discussion" about external politics. That's okay for thin...
[18:04:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Captival [6866] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:06] <exec> 08└─Great logic. Now fire all the people who debated the topic with him, especially the one who started it.
[18:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:39] <exec> 08└─If you gave an eclipse (esp. lunar) a good watch, you wouldn't say such things.
[18:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:40] <exec> 08└─Then you fell off the wagon and found a biological difference: - Women are less likely to accept job requirements, whether express or implied, that involve large quantities of overtime and/or late nights at the office.
[18:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:43] <exec> 08└─- Some companies assumed women had better people skills and thus tended to be pushed towards project management, technical sales, customer support, and other people-oriented positions rather than technically-oriented positions. Even women who were actually better at programming and admin work than p...
[18:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:14] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the cheapest solution is to get a new computer. Especially, if you don't have anything you can't replace on said computer. Best thing to do for yourself is to back up your photos and other Hard to replace things. Things like Microsoft Word, Steam Games, etc, can be easily replaced. When ta...
[18:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:15] <exec> 08└─How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It
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[18:59:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:40] <exec> 08└─So the embargo window is there for a reason... but Google actually ending the embargo (albeit with a 14 day extension) is bad. What should they do instead? Extend the window repeatedly forever? Then it's no longer a window, it's windows.
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─It's a day ending in "Y" so dumb & unfair downmodders are "reading." They're not reading. Because the STORY and the other TWEET are about windows! But I tweet about windows, suddenly it's "OFFTOPIC." Not because of what I wrote. Because of who I am!!!!
[19:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:17] <exec> 08└─Pray the spray away.
[19:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:18] <exec> 08└─So long as you're using plain water, you're likely just getting Water vapor in the air. I wouldn't use it to clean up a toxic spill of some kind, but your average dirty floor should be just fine. The dirt particles are too large to be hitching a ride on the steam vapor from your steam cleaner. Not s...
[19:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:20] <exec> 08└─So it's only true research if you leave your office desk? I guess programmers don't do real work either, as all programming can be done without leaving your office desk as well.
[19:00:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:31] <exec> 08└─Network connectivity or not
[19:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:05] <exec> 08└─if it's a check box during install then this doesn't fit the normal params of opt in/opt out and is largely click bait/fud. normally, when people say "opt out" they mean you do something without asking them then they have to go find it and unset it once they find out you did it. big difference. now,...
[19:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:06] <exec> 08└─because you have to install that software it is not part of the distribution
[19:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:08] <exec> 08└─"(Back in the days of Slackware)" Those days are now. http://slackware.com
[19:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:11] <exec> 08└─So what is the actual situation right now? Is it on by default with no easy way to opt-out or off by default?
[19:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:30] <exec> 08└─Your username makes that worth quite a chuckle. It is 17c here today and people are bitching that it is cold, I don't even come close to knowing your pain. If everyone I know who has lived it didn't advise against it, I would be tempted to discover the meaning of the word seasons first hand.
[19:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:20] <exec> 08└─Congratulations. I hear you edged out James Buchanan Jr. as worst president ever.
[19:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:07] <exec> 08└─They must not be using enough pesticides on the rice.
[19:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Scientists Find Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Rice Varieties - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:08] <exec> 08└─don't worry monsanto will contaminate the crops with their human killing frankenrice to do their part in fighting overpopulation.
[19:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:42] <exec> 08└─yeah, except all you have to do is not shoot your baby up with a bunch of fucking shots(or the mother: pitocin, etc.) like a dutiful slave and your kid probably won't have autism. i feel sorry for the people who never heard about concerns over vaccine safety, etc. but not suck-asses who do it to the...
[19:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:44] <exec> 08└─epileptic fit? 1 yr old? just another medical mystery... good thing it's not sky rocketing across "developed"(vaccinated and otherwise enslaved) nations. it's not from all the medical interventions parents foolishly allow the "medical" establishment to perform. seizure caused by the fallout from the...
[19:04:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:18] <exec> 08└─it's going to be interesting to see how many men, especially white ones, start filing complaints
[19:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:55] <exec> 08└─My daughter and her friends never even got near a CS professor before they decided that STEM is not for them. One even chose a lower school level to avoid maths.
[19:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:57] <exec> 08└─LOL but hey at least suddenly that population too is interested in discrimination issues...
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:38] <exec> 08└─Just use the CSS to make the page slowly spin like a barbershop poll.
[19:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Happy Birthday to SoylentNews -- Four Years Old! - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:40] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, it probably better to store it as html entities.
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[19:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerojet Rocketdyne Seeks More U.S. Air Force Funding for AR1 Rocket Engine - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:39] <exec> 08└─How does this story miss the Elephant on the Launch pad.? may not really need the AR1 rocket engine any more due to the emergence of Blue Origin,
[19:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerojet Rocketdyne Seeks More U.S. Air Force Funding for AR1 Rocket Engine - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─I guess if you only have one customer, you may be tempted to just say fuggit, let them pay for it. It works great when your customer is used to being used this way, and doesn't have any other suppliers to choose from, until a new competitor shows up....
[20:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:31] <exec> 08└─ou should just wear a gas mask while cleaning. I'm guessing the exposure route is actually a mist, and not a vapor. Since mists are just small liquid droplets suspended in the air (not in an actual gaseous phase) then a normal dust mask (N95) should be sufficient.
[20:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:32] <exec> 08└─Don't underestimate the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Thousands of people die due to it every year! And I can assure you, it's everywhere! It can be found in the breast milk of women. It is found in our food. Even in the ice of Antarctica that chemical can be found! Oh, and did you know that is is...
[20:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 2155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:34] <exec> 08└─I think you underestimate the wishful thinking and propaganda people engage in. We've had amoral organizations recklessly exposing their loyal employees to dangers that were at the least strongly suspected-- the story of the Radium Girls springs to mind. I mean, wow, using radioactive materials just...
[20:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:37] <exec> 08└─It's so pervasive in our modern life, we're literally bathing and swimming in it !
[20:00:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1619 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:47] <exec> 08└─As the only thing to do to prevent this is untick one box at installation time then I think that I can cope with that. I'd prefer that it were opt-in rather than opt-out, but I'm not going to get excited. I'd also want the data that is sent to be in a format that is easily readable - not encrypted o...
[20:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:24] <exec> 08└─but their nutty responses to the Amazon-search-lens issue absolved me of that notion in a heartbeat.
[20:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:26] <exec> 08└─Why bother with facts, right? When we can just swim in a pool of semantic bullshit? If there's a package and a maintainer, then it's a part of the distribution: https://www.archlinux.org [archlinux.org] [archlinux.org]
[20:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:28] <exec> 08└─none of these OSes should be recommended to a non-technical user who just wants their computers to respect privacy or security.
[20:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:30] <exec> 08└─most of it looks like data that provides important feedback for usability related issues,
[20:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:32] <exec> 08└─OK, so walk with me through this scenario: 1. User installs an OS and distro. That OS and distro doesn't include anything that could be considered evil. I think we both agree so far, so good. 2. User wants access to a feature that requires something evil. Now, which of the following do you do, if yo...
[20:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:35] <exec> 08└─It's too much to ask to do some basic research before installing optional packages?
[20:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:37] <exec> 08└─Smoke signals. Hopefully not too much magic smoke is needed.
[20:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:39] <exec> 08└─You lost me at #1. That OS and distro doesn't include anything that could be considered evil.
[20:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:42] <exec> 08└─I don't understand the frothiness in this conversation. GP is talking about browser plugins, and you two are yelling about kernel modules. Yes you can perform the default installation without installing Flash.
[20:01:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 1315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:53] <exec> 08└─> Once I realized PBS wasn't nearly as hippy Yeah, I learned that years ago when the PBS News Hour aired a very biased segment about copyright in which the 2 sides were "extreme copyright" vs "even more extreme copyright". Evidently they put the public second to a twisted idea of loyalty to their fe...
[20:02:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03therainingmonkey [6839] 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:21] <exec> 08└─America's paper ballot states may seem antiquated to some
[20:02:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 1694 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:38] <exec> 08└─I think the "fixation" on hacking elections is a lot more justified than you make it out. Busing in illegal voters requires that you find lots of people willing to commit a serious crime in front of lots of witnesses. If it happens there will be lots of available evidence of the fact. If you aren't...
[20:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:51] <exec> 08└─Yeeesh, calm the frack down! Fine, no copy of ballot! Yoinks! Solution, simple. Vote, paper ballot checked, paper ballot deposited in secured bin! Don't get your panties twisted. I just suggested electronic plus paper because you Americans seem to need speedy electronic voting and didn't, before, ca...
[20:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is free and fair elections are exactly what Democrats most fear breaking out here and they will exert every effort to prevent it. And when they enlist the aid of a hostile foreign power to fraudulently and illegally launder money into their campaigns and hack the systems of their competi...
[20:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:55] <exec> 08└─Thank god SOMEONE is trying to protect our Democratic process. The President of the United States doesn't seem to care.
[20:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:27] <exec> 08└─Ignorant and getting grabby? I'd like to see some evidence that the aide's photo and details was given to the security team beforehand. Otherwise why should the guard let some random person carry a potential bomb into a hall where two world leaders would be present? Just because the Chief of Staff t...
[20:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:29] <exec> 08└─Every description of the contents of the football I have ever seen indicate that it's important contents aren't electronic at all. The "biscuit" with authentication codes, playbooks, a list of safe-houses. The idea is that the president can use those codes to authenticate launch orders and get to sa...
[20:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:31] <exec> 08└─Highly doubt any public official at those levels including even Kim Jong un would be looking to blow themselves up like that. Also, there is more than one football incase of the traveling one going ‘dead’. With its own set of protocols in place to determine if it is to be used as an override.
[20:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:35] <exec> 08└─Customer support gets higher salaries than development?
[20:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:36] <exec> 08└─The reaction of "OMG, a woman! And she's talking to a nerd like me! That means she must want to have sex!" is quite natural. Women hate it... until they don't. They are choosy. Undesired males are offensive. When a desirable male comes along, suddenly the situation changes. Most women end up picking...
[20:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:38] <exec> 08└─1+2=2. 2+2=4. Nigger! See, only 1 out of 3 of my statements was racist. I'm totally fine, right?
[20:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:40] <exec> 08└─I'm going to pretend I wrote 1+2=2 as an example of Damore's sloppy "science" and not the fact that I actually managed to screw up 1+1=2!
[20:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:14] <exec> 08└─'..with the U.K. (at least England) out of the European Union.'
[20:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:35] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confusing the law with morality. Trouble is, morality is subjective and the law is expected to be provable and enforceable (whether it is or not is another matter) as well as covering the "what if everybody else did that?" angle. Back in those days, I'm not sure it had even been estab...
[20:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:36] <exec> 08└─The difference is this guy did it for profit, not just to cover his costs. A 29% profit according to the financial disclosure he provided the courts.
[20:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:38] <exec> 08└─Nobody has ever been able to prove that data is property
[20:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:41] <exec> 08└─I think the big problem here is two fold: One, he made completely counterfeit disks to look like the originals and two, he ran this as a for-profit scheme. The guy marked the disks up 29% over his costs when he sold them. He also didn't sell them to end users, but one person. I'm pretty sure as deta...
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[20:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:30] <exec> 08└─Things like this are why we need Net Neutrality. The ISP shouldn't be screwing with my connection that I paid for. Just like the Water Department shouldn't be giving me less water, if I'm taking a bath vs taking a shower. Best summed up by a nice home alone quote. "Get outta here, you nosy little pe...
[20:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:32] <exec> 08└─I can't wait... Block all VPNs, block all encryption, block the lot... cripple the internet beyond recognition Let's tear down this internet and start again from scratch but this time with Privacy built into the core!
[20:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:34] <exec> 08└─The ISP should charge you per gigabyte.
[20:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:36] <exec> 08└─I can't wait... Block all VPNs, block all encryption, block the lot... cripple the internet beyond recognition Let's tear down this internet and start again from scratch... Too late. The Russians have already P0wned us.
[20:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:38] <exec> 08└─The ISP should charge you per gigabyte.
[20:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:41] <exec> 08└─Error: This comment has been blocked by your ISP.
[20:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:48] <exec> 08└─What could possibly be oppressive about extraditing someone to the land where we have: Secret Laws Secret Interpretations of Laws Secret Courts Secret Warrants Secret Court Orders Secret Arrests Secret Trials Secret Evidence (not made available to the defense, and "parallel construction"1) Secret Co...
[20:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:51] <exec> 08└─Would be nice if the extradition was denied on any of the grounds you've listed, but alas he just escaped the grip of the US justice system cause he's an aspie.
[20:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:53] <exec> 08└─And severe eczema. Nobody knows how to treat that in the US. He'd rather be prosecuted in his own country where they have: Secret Laws Secret Interpretations of Laws Secret Courts Secret Warrants Secret Court Orders Secret Arrests Secret Trials Secret Evidence (not made available to the defense, an...
[20:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─You forgot a few things in your list Danny: PMITA prisons Prison slavery [nationalreview.com] A long history of prosecutorial misconduct and bullying to elicit guilty pleas (including Alford [wikipedia.org] pleas) A long history of wrongful convictions for a variety of reasons
[20:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:57] <exec> 08└─At least in his own country he's a citizen instead of a dirty furriner :/
[20:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:00] <exec> 08└─Thanks. For-Profit prisons bring problems, including prison slavery. But as long as they keep shareholders happy, it's all good.
[21:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerojet Rocketdyne Seeks More U.S. Air Force Funding for AR1 Rocket Engine - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:10] <exec> 08└─Like Comcast until Google Fiber shows up. And maybe someday SpaceX Starlink.
[21:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:29] <exec> 08└─Microsoft should make new Surface laptops powered by Clean Coal. Beautiful Clean Coal.
[21:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:30] <exec> 08└─The story and TFA are about a vulnerabilkity in MS's Edge brower that was discovered by Google's Project Zero. All the posts up to yours are about that toipic. Your post is not. So to me that seems your post could qualify as "Off topic". If you were down moded, it probably has nothing to do with who...
[21:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:02] <exec> 08└─"Live Distro" you say? Try it some time buddy!
[21:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:04] <exec> 08└─After rereading this thread several time, this conversation is a version of that one scene in Doctor Who The Doctor: Completely drained. Look at her! Amy: Wait, so we’re in a tiny bubble universe sticking to the side of the bigger bubble universe? The Doctor: Yeah. No! But if it help, yes.
[21:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─This is a subthread of https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] melikamp's post. I suggest you read that again. Try reading past the first paragraph this time.
[21:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:09] <exec> 08└─It is just using the location the user selected when installing. Hardly fine-grained data. While not strictly necessary to collect (excepting for bugs in the installer), the location is used to set the timezone and provide defaults for localisation. And bugs can be related to those settings far more...
[21:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:11] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone install and configure while connected to the internet? One can download an iso and extra packages needed and do the install and configuration of a new system offline. Only when the system is "hardened" should it connect to the internet.
[21:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:13] <exec> 08└─Definitely try Void. It's like the lovechild of FreeBSD and Arch in all the good ways. I've been using it for a while and recently wrote a journal entry on it even.
[21:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:16] <exec> 08└─Damnit, stop finding bugs already, you bastards.
[21:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:18] <exec> 08└─Can you list a few of the "spyware" included in a "default" Gentoo kernel? That could help us all better understand the problem. I agree its a constant battle to keep a linux system usable from a security point of view. After I do an install, I routinely shut off many "services", uninstall as many b...
[21:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:38] <exec> 08└─Wow, -20 sounds awful. I'm not sure it will make you feel better, but it's been about 28 C where I am most days this month. We did just survive tropical cyclone Gita yesterday however, which fortunately means a little bit of wind and about 15 minutes of heavy rain. Back to the 90% humidity now whi...
[21:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:39] <exec> 08└─Nothing especially wrong with seasons, though I very much prefer them here in TN to back in OK. A month and a half of real winter and real summer per year beats the hell out of three of each.
[21:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:41] <exec> 08└─Nope, don't feel any better :P
[21:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:35] <exec> 08└─They do not understand that a vote should not be copied. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever. Paper, or plastic? asked the bag-boy.
[21:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:36] <exec> 08└─We used to have those in my city, until just last year (went back to optical scan paper ballots). They were Windows XP machines with MS Access databases and touch screens. Each precinct had several machines, which communicated over WiFi so that a master machine could tabulate the votes from all the...
[21:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:38] <exec> 08└─We want free, fair, and honest elections. Nothing online, and no facebook, nor outside interference from ANYONE. Paper is the old reliable standard the world over. At least, there won't be any fallout or noise about interference or meddling that have to be investigated. But hey, what do I know, I ca...
[21:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Veyrdite [6386] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:41] <exec> 08└─> Computers do not 'understand' anything in the first place. It is all about how you program it. Yes, I probably wrote this the wrong way around. Perhaps the understanding problem relies between the programmer and the computer: the programmer believes the computer understands instructions in a certa...
[21:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:15] <exec> 08└─Sources == (original tweet + retweets)?
[21:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:24] <exec> 08└─Men are a majority of the population at birth, but their percentage (of their age group) steadily goes down with age, largely because they do a lot of stupid shit in their teens and 20s. So if they're a minority overall, it's really their own dumb fault.
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:25] <exec> 08└─> universally switched from CS to math, physics, or finance. Happens to a lot of the boys too. Except switching to physics is weird, since physics is a lot harder than CS. > Yes, there were. Not many, but they existed. No, there were no IT jobs. There were research jobs. There was no "information te...
[21:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:28] <exec> 08└─I'm severely disappointed in the lack of shitposting in the comments. Brits need to step up their game.
[21:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:30] <exec> 08└─Are you, or have you ever been, pro-business, Sulla?
[21:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:04] <exec> 08└─There exists sophisticated malware that rewrites the firmware of hard disk ( and SSD ) controllers, which allows reinfection of disks 'cleaned' by writing zeros across the whole disk using dd or other software. Nasties can also be hidden in GPU firmware. When dealing with nation states, destroying a...
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[21:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:25] <exec> 08└─Forget the plants, what about the structure?
[21:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:26] <exec> 08└─Wood is Organic. It will decay much faster than metal or rock. They may be able to treat the wood in such a way as to not make it into a giant tinder box, but I would not have good feelings about working in one every day. Wood is beautiful, but fire can be as well. Fire's not so beautiful, if you're...
[21:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:29] <exec> 08└─Sure, it can (and will) be made fire resistant, but once that candle lights....
[21:59:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:36] <exec> 08└─Things like this are why we need Net Neutrality. The ISP shouldn't be screwing with my connection that I paid for. Just like the Water Department shouldn't be giving me less water, if I'm taking a bath vs taking a shower. Best summed up by a nice home alone quote. "Get outta here, you nosy little pe...
[21:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:43] <exec> 08└─Another aspect of your analogy. Not only controlling your amount of water, but tainting it by injecting various wonderful JavaScript ingredients -- for your own good, of course.
[21:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:45] <exec> 08└─Your ISP sees you make multiple HTTPS connections to multiple servers. That's all the ISP can see. Virtual tunnels are built on top of multiple bonded HTTPS to make traffic analysis more difficult. The client program that you install could be cross platform and provide a local SOCKS proxy for everyt...
[21:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:48] <exec> 08└─If those HTTPS connections are to Amazon, Linode, Google Compute or other clod instances, did any thoughtcrime actually occur? If a cluster node gets taken down in a forrest, can any of the client nodes hear it?
[21:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:50] <exec> 08└─I pay for unlimited (with Bell): if they start blocking my vpn use, i'll be dropping that and going elsewhere. If THEY block it, i will be shopping around or going back into my cave.
[21:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:52] <exec> 08└─Seems overly complex, but it could work. I like it. I like it because the problem here is that VPNs are easily powned, and they use one destination at a time. And, as the links below show, a lot of VPNs are compromised anyway, and traffic can be seen. https://www.techradar.com
[22:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because he might actually spend jail time in the UK, but in the US he would in all likelihood be set free, as long as he's not from Mexico. [bop.gov]
[22:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:06] <exec> 08└─Good thing that can't happen in the UK. [vice.com]
[22:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:08] <exec> 08└─If even some prisoners were rehabilitated, this could have a negative effect on revenue and therefore executive bonuses for those prisons.
[22:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:11] <exec> 08└─UK: Ok, US, we did as you asked and kept warrant out for Assange. US: We see that, Thank you very much. We will forget about your guy.
[22:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:13] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia Love is under indictment in the United States (2013 in District of New Jersey, 2014 in Southern District of New York and Eastern District of Virginia) for allegedly "breaching thousands of computer systems in the United States and elsewhere – including the computer networks of feder...
[22:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:20] <exec> 08└─You both have great points. It's too much to ask to do some basic research before installing optional packages?
[22:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:22] <exec> 08└─As one of the many things (use one of dozens of other distributions, among other things) to do to prevent this is untick one box at installation time then I think that I can cope with that. I'd prefer that it were opt-in rather than opt-out, but I'm not going to get excited. I'd also want the data t...
[22:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:24] <exec> 08└─And you're assuming I'm referring to either Red Hat-based stuff, or Ubuntu-based stuff. Some examples of distros that leave that kind of thing out: - Linux From Scratch. Which, since everything is directly compiled and installed by the user, means it's damned near impossible to include something oth...
[22:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:26] <exec> 08└─That's where i got it from :) Yeah, looks really interesting: looks like what i like about arch but no systemd.... Is it flawless? That's one reason i'm still with Manjaro (plus no time to hop around): it. is. flawless for me. I am finding it hard to look elsewhere, at least until i have ti...
[22:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:29] <exec> 08└─There. FTFY. Opting out isn't the only thing. It's been my experience that voting with your feet/wallet is one of the more effective ways to limit that kind of crap.
[22:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:48] <exec> 08└─In theory the Electoral College should have kicked in back in 2016. That was a textbook use-case.
[22:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Veyrdite [6386] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:49] <exec> 08└─Paychecks that are outputted by a paycheck system are checked by people to make sense. Workers (sometimes) notice when they are underpaid, and admins (sometimes) notice when people are overpaid. Errors in paycheck and financial systems are not unheard of. Vote results that are outputted by a vote co...
[22:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:51] <exec> 08└─OK. You get rid of the machine. You do paper ballots. Is everyone going to count every single ballot by hand? You can do that, if you're willing to foot the HR expenses involved, but is anyone seriously questioning the use of tabulation machines? (Even if you use volunteer counters, there are still...
[22:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:54] <exec> 08└─That would be a federal felony. If it was happening, the prisons would be full of such offenders. Oddly (going by your speculation), no such condition exists. Secretary of State Kris Kobach of Kansas (KKK) spent a bunch of time and money attempting to demonstrate that that sort of thing was happenin...
[22:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:29] <exec> 08└─There's no real upside for China to steal the briefcase. They don't want to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. (at least imminently).
[22:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood and Urine Tests for Autism May be Possible - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:22] <exec> 08└─The "A" light went on in my head in December of 1988 - watching the movie Rain Man first run in the theater - No, I can't count toothpicks as they fly out of a dropped box, or remember the entire phone book, but my "weirdness" runs in that direction from normal.
[22:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:44] <exec> 08└─> universally switched from CS to math, physics, or finance. Happens to a lot of the boys too. Except switching to physics is weird, since physics is a lot harder than CS.
[22:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 3108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:45] <exec> 08└─The rest left mostly because either the money to be made was misrepresented to them. Huh? I got burned for age. education, and my nerd cred in three sentences 'I was running an 8 line BBS before you got your first modem. Also, I'm in COLLEGE. I am just here because they didn't offer this class there...
[22:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:48] <exec> 08└─I've upped my game - up yours!
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[22:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:31] <exec> 08└─Jet fuel can't melt wood beams.
[22:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:32] <exec> 08└─You do realise that a lot of fire doors are made out of wood, right? With the right density and treatment they can easily withstand a decent blaze for at least an hour (FD60 rating), and it doesn't matter what your building is made of - it's still burning away after an hour, then it's probably going...
[22:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:35] <exec> 08└─Solid wood is a terrible heat conductor, and burns very slowly. That's why you put he big log in the chimney to last the whole night. While it's burning, it may retain more strength than many metals exposed to the same amount of heat (they're not burning, but everything but the concrete does). Also,...
[22:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:37] <exec> 08└─And greenery would extend throughout the entire complex, creating a vertical forest where humans and wildlife can flourish
[22:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:39] <exec> 08└─They already have a century old solution to fire: http://www.ninjaencyclopedia.com [ninjaencyclopedia.com] Low tech wins again!
[22:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:41] <exec> 08└─An hour long fire is pretty normal for fires in large buildings. It takes half that long just to get fire fighters to the scene, and up the stairs. Yet most of these buildings are saved. Even if one apartment is totally gutted by fire. And maybe wood buildings would be saved as well. But the water...
[22:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:59] <exec> 08└─starting a 5:30am CST my privateinternetaccess connection to texas-east went down. submitted a ticket and waiting to hear back, but just checked 4:45pm and it came back in the last hour or so. Spectrum is the IPS and they forget like our politicians that if you are "barking" your the guilty one. Ref...
[23:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:01] <exec> 08└─Why not just require ISPs to be "dumb pipes" that pass whatever traffic you generate/receive without modification or interference? Perhaps there could be some exceptions for *valid* network management and congestion control purposes, to ensure the efficient operation of the ISP's network. Oh, wait....
[23:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:03] <exec> 08└─You raise a good point about simultaneous connections. So don't do that. Open one HTTPS. Then another. Then another. All traffic, after all, could be routed over one HTTPS. The purpose of multiple is to further disguise that you're using a VPN. It might be easier to just FIX VPNs so they weren't so...
[23:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:05] <exec> 08└─I've said this before. Dear ISP, Why don't you try just being the biggest, mostest fastest, bestest dump pipe there is? At a reasonable price. A lot of successful businesses have been built that way. Just be the best at what it is you are supposed to do, and do it at a reasonable price. And people w...
[23:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:23] <exec> 08└─Possibly, or more likely, they realized that this wasn't going anywhere and that getting the UK to cooperate wasn't going to happen. This is one of the reasons why cybercrime continues to be a problem, crimes are often treated like they happened abroad even when the victims are domestic. Which means...
[23:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:25] <exec> 08└─And how many of those things actually applied in this case? What's more a lot of that stuff applies even more so in the UK. In the UK they have things like super injunctions where not only can the parties involved not say anything about it, but nobody else can either and nobody really knows what tho...
[23:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:27] <exec> 08└─Somehow that's not *his* estimation of the probabilities.
[23:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerojet Rocketdyne Seeks More U.S. Air Force Funding for AR1 Rocket Engine - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:38] <exec> 08└─Starlink has nothing to do with Air Force launches. But SpaceX could provide everything the AirForce needs - The gorilla on the launch pad I referred to.
[23:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerojet Rocketdyne Seeks More U.S. Air Force Funding for AR1 Rocket Engine - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:40] <exec> 08└─I'm using ISP competition as an analogy to rocket launch services competition. Just as SpaceX is a disrupter in launch services, Google Fiber was a disrupter for the Comcasts / Verizons of the world. And StarLink might also be so one day.
[23:00:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:54] <exec> 08└─In this case, Google acted irresponsibly because the intent of the embargo was satisfied: MSFT has been trying to get a fix working but hasn't succeeded in that yet. They could have worked with MSFT to make sure they aren't dragging their feet and actually continue on pushing a fix out but there was...
[23:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:35] <exec> 08└─One can do valid experiments without leaving your office desk, depending on the field... but from medicine I expect at least some lab work to back up their claims.
[23:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:37] <exec> 08└─Parent AC here... I've written sufficient papers myself in the past and know how it rolls. The point is that actually very little is done (in terms of experimenting (nothing), analysing (one or two people could do this in about two weeks) and writing (same as analysing) yet so many names on the auth...
[23:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:47] <exec> 08└─I think the word you're looking for is "disabused." "Absolved" would seem to say that the search lens thing was *your* fault somehow.
[23:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:48] <exec> 08└─That is like thinking the callers to a radio talk show are reflective of the listeners.
[23:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:51] <exec> 08└─So what is the actual situation right now? Is it on by default with no easy way to opt-out or off by default?
[23:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:53] <exec> 08└─You're drawing an awfully fine distinction to protect Linux's good name. The fact that Linux can be and is being configured to spy on you thanks to a very, very popular distribution does sully Linux. Linux is not a "safe" choice.
[23:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry about that. When I get home I'm going to pick a bunch of cucumbers, tomatoes and tomatillos from my garden. That must help.
[23:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:17] <exec> 08└─PLEASE... PLEASE... PLEASE... tell me that you copies and pasted that from some lyric page on the internet... It would be really creepy if you were able to do that from memory.
[23:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:18] <exec> 08└─That's how Alabama's system works. ...and when Roy Moore got beaten there, the preservation|erasure of those images became an issue. it's illegal to record yourself placing your vote Depends on where you are. Want to take "ballot selfie"? Here's where it's legal, and not [usatoday.com] -- OriginalOw...
[23:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:20] <exec> 08└─First, I want to stress that I am not for computerized voting machines. Granted, an open source the program alone would not suffice to make computerized voting trustworthy. I do believe that is is an interesting problem to consider and am raising these points purely for the sake of discussion. I ha...
[23:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:22] <exec> 08└─You were one stupid unnecessary anti-Democrats swipe from an actually meaningful comment. Once anyone proves that a few thousand votes were fake, I'll start wondering whether a giant conspiracy could quietly generate 3 million votes, yet be too stupid to generate them where it matters.
[23:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:24] <exec> 08└─As TFS notes, Canada has never done it any other way and has results that are accurate, agreed on, quick enough, and 100 percent verifiable. Hand-counted paper ballots FTW. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:26] <exec> 08└─In contrast, anyone can look at a box, check that there are no hidden compartments in it, watch the box as people put folded pieces of paper in it, watch the box as it's carried to the counting centre, and watch people take the pieces of paper out and count them. This guarantees that candidates will...
[23:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:29] <exec> 08└─The ballot box is metal, and padlocked shut.
[23:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:21] <exec> 08└─I think you're putting words into frojack's mouth. All he said is that given the choice, women will choose shorter hours than men. He said nothing about why they would make that choice, you assumed it was about motherhood and child rearing. The difference in choices made by men and women regarding l...
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[23:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:42] <exec> 08└─So here is a distraction while you wait for the firefighters. In each of your Google, Amazon and Apple "TO DO" lists, you create a single TO DO item that reads like: "I don't know what it is, but I know how to find out. ${OTHER-THING} what is on my TO DO list?" Then to get the dominoes falling you s...
[23:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:44] <exec> 08└─All you are missing is some way of keeping state so that after 10K iterations Alexa can turn on your "hall lamp" starting a fire long after you left town.
[23:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:46] <exec> 08└─And they all end up ignored, or deeded to the national trust, having bankrupted countless generation since they were built. Entire family fortunes have been sunk into keeping these things standing.
[23:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:48] <exec> 08└─UK isn't on The Ring of Fire. [google.com] Japan is. (Volcanism and earthquakes.) Like realtors say: Location. Location. Location. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─A stone or brick building is not entirely of stone or brick. It usually has lots of wood in it - floors, roof beams, windows, It is those wood bits that need 95% of the maintenance. There are a few deserted villages in the UK, some very old indeed. What is left of them is the stone bits; the wood ha...