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[00:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:02] <exec> 08└─1. Every time a kid is at school taking a test, they aren't being taught. It apparently took teachers raising a hue-and-cry for any of these wise politicians in the state education department to notice that they had allocated over half of classroom time to taking tests, and that was likely going to...
[00:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:03] <exec> 08└─They just like a big nice quantifiable number. The question is how do they really measure what they want?
[00:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:05] <exec> 08└─The principle reason for doubt is that he does not seem to be aware of the difference between "principle" and "Principal". Could have a Masters in Educational Administration.
[00:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:08] <exec> 08└─Technically getting educated should never have been easier -- there are libraries all over and you have an entire world of knowledge available at your keyboard via the internet. Yet people don't seem to get more educated. Last I looked the dropout rate for online courses is horrible,
[00:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:10] <exec> 08└─It is very complicated task to measure the performance of an engineer and so far all the measures to do so have made building bridges and other large structures worse. Let engineer associations test themselves without adding a bunch of stupid overhead that adds negative value (like durability, safet...
[00:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:12] <exec> 08└─I could learn more useful things on my own.
[00:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:14] <exec> 08└─Let the principles, vice principles, and superintendents do their jobs without adding a bunch of stupid overhead that adds negative value.
[00:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:17] <exec> 08└─What I see in all of this nonsense is "Kids aren't learning much but we can't say how little because we suck so bad we can't even measure how much we suck so we are going to declare it wrong to even ask questions in the area of how much and what we are sucking. Shut up and give us more money or you...
[00:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:19] <exec> 08└─Let engineer associations test themselves without adding a bunch of stupid overhead that adds negative value (like durability, safety, etc.). Same with doctors and other professionals. Don't speak about what you don't know. Good luck with that.
[00:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:21] <exec> 08└─I, for one, cannot even begin to measure the depths of jmorris' suck when it comes to education. But that is something that is shared by Dark Matter, Blackholes, and according to Einstein, human ignorance in general. When you gaze into the jmorris, the abyss stares back, but it is just kind of empty...
[00:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:24] <exec> 08└─For your argument to work you need to validate your measurement methods. And then run experiments to see if your measurements validate your hypothesis. This has never even been attempted in US public education, and I doubt it's been attempted anywhere. So don't claim these "measurements" make things...
[00:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:26] <exec> 08└─Data-driven assessment is probably good for an introductory calculus course with 12 different sections, 5 different people teaching, and 400 students.
[00:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:28] <exec> 08└─Are we preparing current students better than in the past or are we simply siphoning money out of them? Yesteryear, a degree was a sure bet to a better life, nowadays, it doesn't mean as much. Are the education methods lacking or is the surplus of graduates to blame for useless degrees?
[00:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:31] <exec> 08└─My brother was the teacher, not me. I assume he can spell well, though he isn't an English teacher... not that I believe for one moment that the English teachers at that school could do a decent job at English. The place was considered the 2nd worst high school in DC. It's horrifyingly real. I suppo...
[00:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Cars of the late 1970s and the 1980s had AIR systems (Air Injector Reactor) AKA smog pumps and hoses going everywhere. Carburetors were still common. Remember that the computer industry were still shipping Z80-based stuff and only beginning to get into 8080-based systems. So, even the "electro...
[00:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:24] <exec> 08└─Plus the protectionist items they have put in place on our stuff. But we can ignore that because we have tons of data.
[00:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:26] <exec> 08└─but why would I do that... I love the massages I am getting
[00:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Dotcom: Obama Admitted “Mistakes Were Made” in Megaupload Case - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:19] <exec> 08└─I read the article about Steve Jackson Games. He wasn't raided over a hacking game. He was raided over some proprietary BellSouth 911 document.
[00:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Dotcom: Obama Admitted “Mistakes Were Made” in Megaupload Case - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:20] <exec> 08└─To be fair, he wasn't actually a citizen, but a permanent resident. Not that that makes your point invalid. The police still acted illegally.
[00:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Circuit Cellar and LinuxGizmos.com Join Forces - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:30] <exec> 08└─This used to be great when Ciarcia was running things, lots of hardcore electronics projects, but it's been going downhill for some time now, it's about a third ads, a third puff pieces, and then a few vaguely project-oriented articles with not enough info to reproduce them, totally different to e.g...
[00:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:44] <exec> 08└─You could just have the nurses all lick them clean, film it 2 girls 1 cup style, and sell the clips to weirdos online.
[00:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify Files for IPO After Losing $1.5 Billion in 2017 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:48] <exec> 08└─their servers use systemd, maybe this is a thing to factor in...
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[00:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:30] <exec> 08└─Naming a company like that--if any of this be true--"Trustico" would be as bad as having a group that attacks peoples' rights under the GPL and sues those who notice, and naming it something stupid like "Open Source Security Inc. [soylentnews.org]"
[00:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:32] <exec> 08└─Apparently someone figured out they were running their web server as root as well earlier today. I think that company is basically done. If you have your cert through them ask for a refund and go elsewhere...
[00:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:34] <exec> 08└─they were running their web server as root
[00:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:36] <exec> 08└─Is this why Slashdot login is currently messed up?
[00:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:39] <exec> 08└─Fuck beta.
[00:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:41] <exec> 08└─It's just like "Truthiness" [wikipedia.org]
[00:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:43] <exec> 08└─Revocation of keys is better than any of the alternatives. The company will lose about half its customers due to irritation of bad security, inconvenience of dealing with revoked keys, etc. Seems like the universe is in balance to me.
[00:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:46] <exec> 08└─If you have your cert through them ask for a refund and go elsewhere...
[00:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:48] <exec> 08└─When you get a server certificate signed by a CA, only the server should ever have access to the private key. You send the public key in the cert for signing by the CA. At no point does the private key of the local HTTPS server leave the server itself (or secure enclave / hardware security module /...
[00:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:59] <exec> 08└─I had not thought about Elfquest for a long time, don't think I read any of it since the mid 80's. I checked out the latest issue, doesn't seem like anything really changed. It's almost like a soap-opera but with slutty fantasy elves in the woods -- as it has always been. *SPOILER* (click to show) *...
[01:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:00] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, it is easily alleviated by a quick look at the site Elf Quest [elfquest.com]. Some people create awesome.
[01:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah Star Trek survived, but not with the same characters, in the same continuity, with the same canon and not without being rebooted. Never heard of "Warp Life" so no comment. This is the end of ElfQuest in the same way the end of ST:TOS was "the end" of Star Trek. It isn't. Not by a long shot.
[01:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:39] <exec> 08└─Who do you think writes building codes and safety regulations? Who do you think runs the Medical schools?
[01:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:40] <exec> 08└─Return on investment is a thing too. You can get degrees of the same name from a state school and an ivy league school. The state degree will get paid off sooner because the debt is less. The Ivy league degree better come up with a good patent in their spare time to collect royalties on. It costs wa...
[01:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:42] <exec> 08└─While professionals do have input, building codes and health standards are definitively *not* set or enforced by associations or their membership. Same for many other professional fields. That would kinda be like having the fox guard the hen-house. Or teachers thinking their profession shouldn't hav...
[01:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:45] <exec> 08└─"Teach for America" are not actual teachers, they are scab college students, kind of the Uber of education, cooked up in the dim recesses of the brains of Republicans like Ol' Betsy. Not saying anything bad about your brother, other than he may have had no idea of what he was talking about. Yup, it...
[01:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:48] <exec> 08└─For your argument to work you need to validate your measurement methods. And then run experiments to see if your measurements validate your hypothesis.
[01:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:50] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Dead wrong. In the case of safety, literally dead wrong. The engineers write the codes, the lawyers try to find ways around them, the administrators try to ignore them. Doctors run medicals schools! The only one who can teach someone to be a doctor, is another doctor. Legislators do no have t...
[01:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:53] <exec> 08└─You are one of them, eh? I have seen your type before! An unruly student, a midget mighty buzzard, kind of kid we used to be allowed to paddle. Well, no educational excellence for you!!
[01:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:55] <exec> 08└─He got a degree in computer science. He graduated in a recession and got the crazy idea to join the army, so he did that for a while. He got out, took the classes to become a teacher, and wound up going to DC. Once you complete your stint in Teach for America, you are a teacher with mobility. Unlike...
[01:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:50] <exec> 08└─s/8080-based/8086-based -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:51] <exec> 08└─A true procrastinator wouldn't have alerted us until the end of March.
[01:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:54] <exec> 08└─Roger Miller. [google.com] Now, there's an American original that couldn't be replaced by some import. Trivia: He was married to Mary Arnold, [google.com] the chick in Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:56] <exec> 08└─I was too young to understand whether it was workers, unions, management. But I was old enough to understand to not buy American cars, and I've had good luck by not doing so.
[01:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:59] <exec> 08└─Not sure why this is modded insightful. Protectionist policies can be quite beneficial to economies that are developing. Developed economies are all about "free trade" as it gives their manufacturing and economic muscle more bang. This was actually one of the issues that chapped colonists' asses bef...
[01:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:02] <exec> 08└─Right now[,] the PCB technology in Taiwan and China exceeds the same in the USA Hell, by now, even Bulgaria [google.com] might be outstripping the volume done by domestic USAian PCB fab houses. Will he continue bringing factories home [...] Too little is made domestically ISTM that Trump is closing...
[01:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kim Dotcom: Obama Admitted “Mistakes Were Made” in Megaupload Case - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:56] <exec> 08└─Yea.. that kiwi probably forgot NZD was 1 third the value to USD. That's kiwis for ya
[01:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kim Dotcom: Obama Admitted “Mistakes Were Made” in Megaupload Case - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the digging.
[01:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:27] <exec> 08└─Got a bank account? Driver's License? Email address? You have already surrendered. So relax. Quixotic sanctimony avails no one anything.
[01:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:23] <exec> 08└─Caution: I am not associated with any hospital, so I can't tell you what current procedures are. But some bacteria are evolving to become immune to the alcohol hand sanitizers, so expect an increase in the use of plastic gloves.
[01:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:25] <exec> 08└─Oh shit. I shouldn't have googled 2 girls 1 cup. Still cleaning up my keyboard.
[01:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:27] <exec> 08└─Why the hell is this even relevant to this site?
[01:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota's New Magnet Won't Depend on Some Key Rare-Earth Minerals - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should have gone with 'medium rare' or 'well done'.
[01:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s A Much Safer IV Liquid Than Saline, Suggests New Study - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:20] <exec> 08└─It's also how fast they can get something into someone. Took a friend to emergency yesterday, due to blood lose (varicose veins in his throat let go). It was somewhat busy, and this is Canada with the long waits, so close to 30 minutes before they were putting saline solution in him, whereas they in...
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[01:59:42] <exec> 08└─they were running their web server as root
[01:59:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 10 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:44] <exec> 08└─Fuck beta.
[01:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:52] <exec> 08└─Someone please help me out and explain this properly.
[01:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:54] <exec> 08└─Patriot Act.
[01:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:57] <exec> 08└─Seems to be an attempt an centralization, 95% of the stuff I run has zero requirement for encryption.
[01:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:59] <exec> 08└─Right, but then Google plans to start blackballing web sites behind Danger Will Robinson language in a month or two. As others are sure to point out it makes it hard for anyone to mess with the data being sent to insert ads or what ever. Not that the web content needs to be secret.
[02:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:01] <exec> 08└─My bookmark to it still has ?nobeta=1 at the end.
[02:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:04] <exec> 08└─This won't do any good on Chrome and certain other browsers. They don't check OCSP or CRLs; but instead use a thing called the CRLsets. This can (and does) result in people going to insecure websites. For example, https://revoked.grc.com [grc.com] and the revoked certs from the Let's Encrypt test s...
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[02:00:06] <exec> 08└─Not that the web content needs to be secret.
[02:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:08] <exec> 08└─As is the norm, a poll will be conducted, and the current state of affairs on that particular greenscreen will be pinned on Cowboy Neal.
[02:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:10] <exec> 08└─Google plans to start blackballing web sites behind Danger Will Robinson language in a month or two.
[02:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:13] <exec> 08└─Let's Encrypt works well and the price is right!
[02:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:26] <exec> 08└─Angry about Everything
[02:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:12] <exec> 08└─Perhaps my comment was not properly worded because I meant exactly what you wrote: there are jobs that now require a college degree that used to be done by less educated people and yes, we should not be pushing people to college when they might not have the wherewithal (i.e. crippling student loans)...
[02:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:13] <exec> 08└─If you read more carefully, you would see that he spelled "principal" correctly, and it is only misspelled in the quote that he copied. You can chastise him for failing to add [sic], I guess.
[02:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Understanding Freshwater Toxic Algal Blooms - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:22] <exec> 08└─Somewhere I read about someone fighting an algae bloom with hydrogen peroxide. I researched it and tried it in my aquarium and it works. In the case of a 55-gallon tank, I am now adding about a cup of tap water, per day - to offset evaporation - with about 5 ml of 3%, OTC-grade hydrogen peroxide add...
[02:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, I have worse. Much, much worse.
[02:04:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] 02 - 06Toyota's New Magnet Won't Depend on Some Key Rare-Earth Minerals - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:45] <exec> 08└─For whatever reason (aka money), laws in the US for forbid mining rare-earth metals when they are mixed in with Thorium. In China they allow separating and storing the Thorium at the rare-earth mine. The US does not. Thorium mixed in with rare-earth minerals is also quite common. The shortage of rar...
[02:04:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Toyota's New Magnet Won't Depend on Some Key Rare-Earth Minerals - 804 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:50] <exec> 08└─Rare earth elements are not rare, some are just as common as copper. However, there are major environment and health concerns associated with their mining. China has undercut the price to make it unfeasible to mine elsewhere in the world, especially in areas where more costs are associated with stri...
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[02:09:32] <exec> 08└─As an American, I assure you that 30 minutes is not a long wait. Unless you come in unconscious or obviously in the process of dying it takes that long to get to the registration desk in order to sign in. High fever and agonizing pain will sometimes cut a 6 hour wait down to 3. But yeah, even type O...
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[02:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:34] <exec> 08└─What prescription cures (as opposed to treats) depression?
[02:59:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:57] <exec> 08└─This won't do any good on Chrome and certain other browsers. They don't check OCSP or CRLs; but instead use a thing called the CRLsets. This can (and does) result in people going to insecure websites. For example, https://revoked.grc.com [grc.com] and the revoked certs from the Let's Encrypt test s...
[03:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:03] <exec> 08└─my own web sites are "untrusted."
[03:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:05] <exec> 08└─The other day when I happened to try and bring up Slashdot it was rejecting HTTPS connections to some older browsers. It may have also been trying to force HTTPS, I can't remember. Speculated it might be part of the TLS apocalypse: http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com
[03:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:07] <exec> 08└─"Forcing" websites to be encrypted helps the users. If the majority of web sites require HTTPS, then anyone parsing my traffic (either passively or actively) can't tell what I'm looking at. Let's say a website only has a HTTP route, and I click on it, but it turns out to have content that "I'm not s...
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[03:00:10] <exec> 08└─Clownworld alright! That is truly imbecilic.
[03:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:24] <exec> 08└─because effort
[03:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:26] <exec> 08└─It's almost like a soap-opera but with slutty fantasy elves in the woods -- as it has always been.
[03:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:12] <exec> 08└─> In my country we also have the problem of private education providers bringing students in from overseas (mostly Asia) supposedly to do a "business management" course, but in reality they come here to work, as their student visa lets them work 20 hours per week. Where I'm at they were mostly from...
[03:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:14] <exec> 08└─> Isn't it drastically easier to get an *education* nowadays, though? Are those asterisks or quote marks?
[03:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:15] <exec> 08└─You mean mid April.
[03:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:17] <exec> 08└─Tell all the other countries who have already been doing it for decades to stop. Then maybe we can have a fair comparison.
[03:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:19] <exec> 08└─They would never ever support policies that directly benefited them while also being so focused to hit specific places that they don’t support overall.
[03:02:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Kim Dotcom: Obama Admitted “Mistakes Were Made” in Megaupload Case - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:58] <exec> 08└─Look, it was Obama. When the dust is settled the Obama administrations will go down as some of the most corrupt presidencies in history, weaponizing entire branches of government on a scale that embarrasses even his supporters.
[03:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kim Dotcom: Obama Admitted “Mistakes Were Made” in Megaupload Case - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:16] <exec> 08└─> Spider Oak doesn't count because that is a zero knowledge service. I don't see government going after those outfits. Maybe. Unless I am wrong, it seems to at least depend on TLS over HTTP. That is completely broken.
[03:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s A Much Safer IV Liquid Than Saline, Suggests New Study - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:40] <exec> 08└─As someone who was near death due to dehydration and was then quickly hydrated, do you remember where you heard that?
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There’s A Much Safer IV Liquid Than Saline, Suggests New Study - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:42] <exec> 08└─This is the opposite problem: water poisoning, resulting in too little (hypo-) sodium (natr-) in the blood (-aemia).
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[03:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:36] <exec> 08└─> Average download speeds for residential punters in peak hours (8pm to 10pm) are 34.6Mbit/s, and average maximum speeds are 39.1Mbit/s, according to the regulator. For 90% of UK customers. You may cry now. We need to rectify the US deficit. I suggest shipping A Pai to them with all haste. One-way t...
[03:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:37] <exec> 08└─I think unfortunately the problem is deeper than just the one guy. The two party system keeps us arguing on worthless issues and then fucks the people on stuff like this. The guy was an obama appointment who was maintained by trump, gotta send all of them away.
[03:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:39] <exec> 08└─Obama respected the rule that he needed two R guys in there, with three D guys. I thoroughly disagree with the "all the same" view. You must not have been paying attention to the (powerless) statements from the two D members every time Pai pushes the Telcos' agenda.
[03:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:49] <exec> 08└─Do you really think there is a such thing as a "normal" brain/psych state? "Sane" people remains "sane" because they know life is a god damn war. Even single-cell protozoa "knows" that.
[03:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:52] <exec> 08└─You could have self treated with /r9k/ applied liberally, but all it does is turn sadness to rage.
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[04:00:10] <exec> 08└─Patriot Act.
[04:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:27] <exec> 08└─took the cost of industry training away from the industries that benefit from it, and lumped it onto the students.
[04:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:29] <exec> 08└─So, what you are saying is, that the NEC doesn't employ any electricians? There are no electricians in the staff? Interesting . . . so, basically, a bunch of lawyers, politicians, and consumer advocates, and maybe a couple community organizers, decide how electrical work should be done? That explain...
[04:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:31] <exec> 08└─Funny thing about schools. Way back in prehistoric times, like the 1960's, people knew which school systems were better than others. Students who graduated from New Castle High School were generally superior to students who graduated from Mohawk, or Shenango high schools. Meanwhile, Union Township's...
[04:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, Arisuchus - you know how to measure one hell of a lot of suck! There isn't to much suck in the universe for you to measure!
[04:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:35] <exec> 08└─Your math doesn't really add up. A degree from an Ivy League school almost guarantees a six digit salary upon graduation. A degree from a state school carries no such guarantee. Not because the state school degree is worth less, but because the networking at an Ivy League is superior. If you sat in...
[04:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:38] <exec> 08└─So, I looked it up to be sure. I got it right. (leaving the quote as originally misspelled) It turns out that I wouldn't make a mistake because I pronounce the words as written. They are not quite homophones in my accent, though they are very close. The "a" has an indistinct vowel sound, and the "e"...
[04:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:41] <exec> 08└─Next decade.
[04:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:43] <exec> 08└─I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
[04:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:09] <exec> 08└─Many probes and surgical instruments get reprocessed. Even some “single use” products are reprocessed (perfectly within FDA regulations). It is great for lowering the cost of health care, but far from perfect as I’ve personally, but rarely, found contaminants on reprocessed items. What does su...
[04:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:10] <exec> 08└─Go back to Cowardistan! See you there.
[04:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:13] <exec> 08└─Be sure to rinse with Brawndo. It's got electrolytes. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Files for IPO After Losing $1.5 Billion in 2017 - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:17] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between entrepreneurial capitalism and stakeholder capitalism, one that I don't think gets anywhere near enough exposure. If you actually think the stock market democratizes wealth, rather than acting as probably *the* single most powerful funnel to the ultra-wealthy, you're ei...
[04:07:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Strong Right-Wing Views May Be Driven by a Fear of Disease - 450 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:08] <exec> 08└─There are many paths to enlightenment. Some folk find their way through via religion. Some via atheism / humanism. Some by meditation, some by politics, some through suffering and hardship, and others by yet other routes. They all go to the same place and I suspect GP has found a good road through t...
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[04:59:30] <exec> 08└─Unlike the Muslim fundies, Putin is either an atheist or a horrible enough Christian that he values this world above all else, and specifically, his position of power in it. He knows as well as anyone that the instant he launches this is when he signs the death warrant of human civilization. This is...
[04:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:41] <exec> 08└─Some frequent SoylentNews posters are shocked at the idea that companies might not be allowed to lie to their customers and that a government agency should actually enforce such rules. "Let the free market sort it out!"
[04:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:52] <exec> 08└─A gun to the head. Since when has big pharma actually created a cure for something they could instead treat and charge for indefinably? If big pharma were to just today start developing a method to deal with a broken leg, it would consist only of useless wallet-draining pain killers, and just enough...
[04:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:54] <exec> 08└─"one 60 kg girlfriend, to be used as needed for symptoms". This site has gotten so bad I can't tell for sure if this is supposed to be one of those lengthy AC spam posts that always ends with bloody rape. :P Bleach. My brain has a craving for bleach.
[05:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:26] <exec> 08└─I am getting NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED on this page with Chrome.
[05:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:28] <exec> 08└─Interesting, I've tried it on the latest Chrome on both my machines and that link works just fine, as does https://revoked-isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org [letsencrypt.org] and most of the revoked pages on https://www.digicert.com [digicert.com] but https://revoked.badssl....
[05:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:45] <exec> 08└─Since you're such an expert trekker, you're supposed to remember that Gene died during the production of TNG. Warp Life is MichaelDavidCrawford's homepage which contains fictional essays about the mental illnesses which he pretends to have.
[05:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:47] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares, Mr. Unabomber.
[05:01:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:19] <exec> 08└─I, for one, cannot even begin to measure the depths of jmorris' suck when it comes to education. But that is something that is shared by Dark Matter, Blackholes, and according to Einstein, human ignorance in general. When you gaze into the jmorris, the abyss stares back, but it is just kind of empty...
[05:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:42] <exec> 08└─2. Metrics can be and always are gamed.
[05:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:44] <exec> 08└─My only point was, off the scale is off the scale. We have no way to know how much off the scale it is, or it would be on the scale! Try to keep up, Runaway! It is only honest organic anti-intellectualism like yours that saves American from the truly perverse Dark Enlightenment, dank meme alt-right...
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[05:03:18] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter if what he did SHOULD be illegal, it matters if it WAS illegal. I note that there has been no prosecution. If "the authorities" thought it SHOULD be illegal, the correct action is to pass a law, not tear the business apart and then just sit on it. At this point, they should be sell...
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[05:03:27] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the difference between Mega and the rest is that Mega specifically encouraged copyright infringement. "Oh noes, don't upload copyrighted films here, or we might pay you based on how many downloads you get". Technically, they said "no", but in practice they said "please do, more is better". Of...
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[05:59:34] <exec> 08└─Dick-waving it may be, but it is one hell of a dick. The US has a long history of raping countries which don't have nukes, and this is in my opinion the main reason North Korea wants to have nukes. You cannot really blame North Korea for not wanting to be raped, after all. In any case, the US won't...
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[05:59:35] <exec> 08└─> hovering over what looked like a map of the state of Florida. Would that be over Mar-a-Lago?? Putin has been playing Trump for a fool for awhile now, maybe this is the next step.
[05:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:37] <exec> 08└─To get folks in the US worked up over gasp! Nucular weapons! This gives the Trump administration something it can point to, both as a distraction (look over there! scarY!) and as a foil to make it look like Trump isn't really Putin's bitch. It serves as a great distraction and helps Trump to continu...
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[05:59:40] <exec> 08└─A missile that can attack from the "wrong" direction: sure, easy enough A missile that can bypass any missile defense system: no way, though the US mostly hasn't bothered to install one so this is moot A small nuclear-powered engine: sure, but... A small nuclear-powered engine that can fly a maneuve...
[05:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:42] <exec> 08└─Underwater nuclear drone: easy to make, but rather unlikely and almost pointless. When your drone costs as much as a proper submarine, causes a nuclear spill when it crashes, and is as dumb as a Russian computer program... this is not a practical weapon.
[06:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 3218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:05] <exec> 08└─I'm one of those long-term depression cases from earlier in life--think "suicidal 8 year old" here--and it was comorbid with PTSD, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, you name it. I'm also one of those people who can't take SSRIs. Being raised Catholic and discovering you're a lesbian at 14 (and not a...
[06:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:06] <exec> 08└─> I am "that girl" your mother warned you about... Yup, my mother warned me about supplement junkies(grin)... But this wasn't a direct warning -- she is one and I'm afraid has gone a bit overboard (but rarely far enough to hurt herself). Glad to hear that you have worked out a useful regimen for you...
[06:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:41] <exec> 08└─Lots of SSL certificate vendors will generate a private key for you.
[06:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:28] <exec> 08└─What do you expect.. Indian doctor. Its in their DNA. Guptas stripped South Africa's assets (R100 billion or more); Indians are at the top of Google, Microsoft, etc - USAians will soon discover themselves slaves (and without money) in their own land.
[06:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota's New Magnet Won't Depend on Some Key Rare-Earth Minerals - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:49] <exec> 08└─At the rate things are going in China, that may not be true much longer. Xi Jinping seems to think he's the reincarnation of the Qin Shi Huang Di, and if you know anything at all about Chinese history you should be shaking in your shoes.
[06:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 100 Cities Now Mostly Powered by Renewable Energy - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:30] <exec> 08└─Auckland? Really? North Island as a whole draws the majority of its power from hydro schemes, but over 10% of the power comes from one honking great coal powered plant in Huntly (unless they quietly converted that plant to a Chi|\|a made thorium nuke). Wind farms are springing up on a lot of horizon...
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[06:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:45] <exec> 08└─Putin is either an atheist or a horrible enough Christian
[06:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:47] <exec> 08└─If the voting public wasn't a bunch of gullible morons, there wouln't be a temptation to due stupid things to sway elections.
[06:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:49] <exec> 08└─And so we're back to Cold War nuclear posture. I can only hope that everyone else out there with nukes is as rational about their use as he is. /me peeks at the White House and is not reassured. There are Christian fundies out there too who would think of burning the world in a nuclear holocaust as...
[06:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:51] <exec> 08└─Communication underwater is pretty damn awful. You won't be driving that sub around with VR goggles. It has to be autonomous. Autonomous stuff is lacking in brain power. Sitting on the bottom of the ocean is kind of crap. The sub can be located, then targeted when the enemy feels the moment is right...
[06:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:54] <exec> 08└─Putin talked about new weapons for his domestic image 18 days before Russian election [nextbigfuture.com] That says what we expect: it's posturing for the upcoming elections. Not that it's really needed. Putin will win. Russia claims 100 times smaller nuclear reactor than submarine reactors but with...
[06:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:56] <exec> 08└─He's had plenty of people killed and has put Russia under one party rule again. But he is getting old. 65 now, 71 after a 2018-2024 term. Maybe he really cares about Making Russia Great Again™. Or maybe he will decide to go out with a bang, which could be easier to do with a fresh set of modern nu...
[06:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:58] <exec> 08└─Or more famously: "Après nous le déluge." Somehow I doubt that Putin is such a misanthrope as to want to end the world when he dies.
[06:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:00] <exec> 08└─A small nuclear-powered engine that can fly a maneuverable cruise missile: damn unlikely (fission can't be small, and RTG is weak)
[07:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:03] <exec> 08└─Good Lord! To every action corresponds and equal and opposite reaction. True in physics and in every other aspect of life, let me illustrate. When Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama decided to spend $348 billion dollars [forbes.com] ‘modernizing’ the U.S. nuclear arsenal, including a new ball...
[07:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:14] <exec> 08└─"Average" is very strongly misleading. My BT professional "superfast" fibre broadband was delivering 56kB yesterday evening. It may be 10x faster than a 56kb dial-up line, but when dial-up was common, people did not expect us to download 2GB files.
[07:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not into blood at all. I couldn't actually go through with a rape; the reality would be horrible I'm sure. I had this: 1.5 years serious depression, 0.5 years hope, 3.0 years serious depression, 1.0 year of relief again, 2.0 years serious depression, 0.5 years hope, 0.5 years serious depression,...
[07:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:31] <exec> 08└─They found a cure for hepatitis c. You only have to give them your house in order to be treated.
[07:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:07] <exec> 08└─Does no one read George Orwell [wikipedia.org] any more?
[07:01:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:47] <exec> 08└─1. Every time a kid is at school taking a test, they aren't being taught. It apparently took teachers raising a hue-and-cry for any of these wise politicians in the state education department to notice that they had allocated over half of classroom time to taking tests, and that was likely going to...
[07:01:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:59] <exec> 08└─Data-driven assessment is probably good for an introductory calculus course with 12 different sections, 5 different people teaching, and 400 students.
[07:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:22] <exec> 08└─There's an elephant in the room, that no one seems to have mentioned. Whether it's additional testing, or accreditation, or whatever - these kinds of efforts require lots of administration time. And lots of administrators. Recently, I went back through the annual reports of my school. Ten years ago,...
[07:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:24] <exec> 08└─If you need training, it's up to you to take courses - that is to pay for training - at some accredited institution.
[07:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:30] <exec> 08└─eeeeewwwwwwwww.
[07:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:31] <exec> 08└─Pappy was a pistol. I'm a son of a gun. [google.com] Roger wrote a real pretty waltz. [google.com] It's been covered by a bunch of folks. ..then there are the classics "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd" and "En-ga-land Swings" (Like a Pendulum Do). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:08:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06Strong Right-Wing Views May Be Driven by a Fear of Disease - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:03] <exec> 08└─Agree that the article seems glad to conflate 'right-wing' with 'authoritarian'. Rather clumsy. The left in the US is clearly, demonstrably farther along the authoritarian axis at this point in time.
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[07:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WD Announces Client NVMe SSDs with In-House Controllers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:33] <exec> 08└─Give me XPoint or give me death.
[07:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry about this, but according to your logic, Trump is more likely to ‘go out with a bang’. For all his vices and reprehensible behavior Putin has shown himself to be pragmatic, logical and cold as the Russian winter. Trump on the other hand… And I said sorry because I don't like Putin or any...
[07:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:57] <exec> 08└─I don't know if I'd assume Trump is the type who would want to "go out with a bang." He's a billionaire with a LOT to lose personally. If anything keeps his finger of the switch, it'd be that personal greed of his. However, that being said, Trump is also an idiot as shown every time he opens his mou...
[07:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:59] <exec> 08└─I have the strong notion that money spent for defense is about as wisely spent as money spent on healthcare. All we seem to buy are very expensive hand-shakes
[08:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:02] <exec> 08└─> piss off the world with a nuclear reactor problem That's something Putin doesn't care about. He'll just add an insult to injury.
[08:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:04] <exec> 08└─damn unlikely (fission can't be small, and RTG is weak)
[08:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:16] <exec> 08└─Spectrum is advertising their service as "starting" at 60mbps, and offering up to 100 mbps, while in reality even with the 'new' equipment they shipped us, 'free' of charge I have never managed greater than 23 mbps. I have no other option here and Spectrum doesn't give a shit. I wish Ajit Pai would...
[08:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:08] <exec> 08└─That is a Security Fail 101
[08:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:28] <exec> 08└─What made you think I was an expert Trekker? I just know there have been a bunch of ST series that didn't have Shatner, a movie reboot that apparently pretty much broke everything, and from what I've heard the latest series breaks/ignores almost everything the movie didn't. And the Gene died somewhe...
[08:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:27] <exec> 08└─Degree in "Computer Science"? Yeah, right, the guy is a total scab, knows nothing, not even how to code, and he thinks he is competent to teach? This is why the whole "Teach for America" was a total Republican scam from the git go. Only really stupid Republican Fucks think that someone with military...
[08:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:29] <exec> 08└─He did not fulfill the rubric! Fail! Kill the trangressor! Exterminate! #Exterminate! Sound like my Catholic School teachers, regarding spelling mistakes. Principally.
[08:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:31] <exec> 08└─I got it right. (leaving the quote as originally misspelled)
[08:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:33] <exec> 08└─Shut up, Runaway, as a lowly technican, you are required to follow code. You have no idea how it is arrived at. And that is as it should be, since you have no education, and are not too bright, and you obviously do not know when to object to your superiors, or you would not have served in the USA Na...
[08:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:35] <exec> 08└─True. The typical person who goes to college and university is almost entirely concerned with how much money they can make (society's usual definition of "success") after they get their piece of paper; they don't care about education at all. Their presence in a supposedly educational environment is...
[08:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:38] <exec> 08└─Based on his journal, I am thinking arcz is right about the 14 year old Solylentil range. The are easy to pick out, by the stupid things they say.
[08:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:45] <exec> 08└─Fewer women have been allowed to work in them since the 1960s when it was found that birth defects at... I want to say Fairchild Semi. were having an above average number of birth defects, specifically in women working in the chip fabbing wings, where it was claimed the chemicals in use were safe, b...
[08:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Files for IPO After Losing $1.5 Billion in 2017 - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:22] <exec> 08└─Spotify’s Chief Product Officer had the highest reported income. This year, Gustav Söderström reported 67 million kr ($7.9 million). Co-founder and former Chairman of the Board Martin Lorenzton received 44.1 million kr ($5.2 million). Spotify’s Chief Premium Business Officer Alex Noström repo...
[08:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Files for IPO After Losing $1.5 Billion in 2017 - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:24] <exec> 08└─> If anything, this will offset the risk of the initial investors; they probably want an IPO. I know that, but about them I care even less. > Say, though, what have you ever done for society? Are you some kind of hardcore capitalism defender? Fucking anonymous cowards.
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[09:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:06] <exec> 08└─If anything keeps his finger of the switch, it'd be that personal greed of his.
[09:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:07] <exec> 08└─- Defense. That's why I regard North Korea and Iran to be well within their rights to possess nuclear weapons. If the US wants North Korea to get rid of its nukes then the United States' first step is to remove all of its own Bombs from South Korea and the surrounding ocean.
[09:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:21] <exec> 08└─BT users deserve no better than total shit though. Pick one of the smaller boutique ISPs and you too can have 95% of theoretical maximum bitrate, 100% of the day and night. *Checks uptime* Ha! Over 9 consecutive months. You wish your connection would stay up for 9 consecutive hours BT luser.
[09:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is that even if you do cancel your contract because of low speeds, it's not like you can get better speeds somewhere else. Most of the low speed problems are due to crappy copper telephone lines which affects all ISPs equally. The only non-ADSL option in most areas is Virgin, so if they...
[09:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:25] <exec> 08└─Obama respected the rule that he needed two R guys in there, with three D guys.
[09:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:42] <exec> 08└─It is unclear whether mental illnesses are the same or different when they are experienced by people in different cultures. Is Pakistani Schizophrenia the same as American Schizophrenia?
[09:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:43] <exec> 08└─Such shrunken brains show up in CAT scans and autopsies as having significant space between the surface of the brain and the inside of the skull.
[09:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:45] <exec> 08└─Dr. K. used to assign me such homework as reading Lonnie Barbach's "For Yourself" which teaches women to experience orgasms. Eventually I started finding fear driving-out knowledgable books on my own.
[09:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:48] <exec> 08└─Shock treatment erases some or even all of your memories. B. doesn't remember ever having met me. She doesn't remember that we were friends. But she's gotten used to pretending she understands it when some complete stranger shows up in her live. That shock treatment helped at first, but her depressi...
[09:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:50] <exec> 08└─Brain inflammation may explain why learning went from trivial to hard as I reached senior year.
[09:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:52] <exec> 08└─At our first session she asked why I sought her help. "I am completely unable to get a date." "I bet you'd like to get laid!" she replied. When I terminated therapy thirteen years later it was because I was moving to Newfoundland to get married. Best sixty grand I ever spent.
[09:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:55] <exec> 08└─RLY. The problem is that when I am depressed, the absolute last thing I want to do is go out and ride fifty miles on my bike. I often go touring on my bike - but only when I'm not depressed.
[09:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:57] <exec> 08└─Ive been experiencing that for three years now. As depression approaches one gradually loses interest in all the things that make life pleasurable. If there is absolutely nothing you want to do for fun it's no surprise that you get depressed. I used to be heavily into studying piano. I have a really...
[09:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:34] <exec> 08└─You forgot a few steps there. 1: Download random software from untrustworthy website[1] 2: Install random software. 3: Buy and install antivirus software. 4: Lose fight against malware. 5: Reinstall. 6: Admit that downloading random software from untrustworthy websites is exactly what we've been war...
[09:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:35] <exec> 08└─As others are sure to point out it makes it hard for anyone to mess with the data being sent to insert ads or what ever.
[09:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:38] <exec> 08└─I'm all for a web of trust type model - even amongst CAs, where the browser can display a star rating on "how trusted" the site/cert actually is.
[09:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:40] <exec> 08└─That their protocol is so deliberately complicated to make it futile to try writing a simple shell script
[09:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:42] <exec> 08└─Let's say a website only has a HTTP route, and I click on it, but it turns out to have content that "I'm not supposed to viewing" then there's nothing I can do afterwards to encrypt that session.
[09:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:05] <exec> 08└─But "it doesn't mean as much" nowadays to have a degree, and "useless degrees"?
[09:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:07] <exec> 08└─Perhaps my comment was not properly worded because I meant exactly what you wrote: there are jobs that now require a college degree that used to be done by less educated people and yes, we should not be pushing people to college when they might not have the wherewithal (i.e. crippling student loans)...
[09:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:09] <exec> 08└─And you could not tell that this was left hanging out there as bait for the non-educated, but lexical anal-retentive? When in doubt, an your are looking at a SN post, the default action should be "do not respond". I say this as someone fully cognizant that I am in fact responding to your post, in co...
[09:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:11] <exec> 08└─Yo! Hey! Soylentils! So you see this post by melikamp? Do you? Read this post. We have here someone who knows of where he speaks, and he does so in a manner that is even accessible to carrion birds, if you know what I mean. If only more SoylentNews post were of this quality, you know, kinda more lik...
[09:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kim Dotcom: Obama Admitted “Mistakes Were Made” in Megaupload Case - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:17] <exec> 08└─If you can't extradite someone, you take them to court in their country of residence. Except of course in the case where the reason you can't extradite them is that no law was broken in their country of residence, in which case the police raiding the premises is a gross violation of everything from...
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[09:05:18] <exec> 08└─They tried that with the Russian AllOfMP3. Representatives from the US pro copyright lobby helped the Russians write a new copyright law that would finally make AllOfMP3 illegal. Then AllOfMP3 tricked all of them and started following the new law.
[09:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:48] <exec> 08└─They have been putting up what appear to be high res IP Cameras everywhere, not just the Red Light Cameras, and attested to by the fact that many intersections with them are not receiving the related Red Light Camera signs that had previously been mandatory anywhere they placed them. Combined with t...
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[09:59:38] <exec> 08└─"7um", "5um", "3um", etc. are the biggest lie in the tech industry today (apart from the 'S' in 'HTTPS', snigger). Your "3um" will probably have gates that are 40um in size. Think "2um" is 5 times as good as "10um"? Think again - it's not even twice as dense (in each dimension).
[10:00:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 472 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:07] <exec> 08└─Sorry about this, but according to your logic, Trump is more likely to ‘go out with a bang’. For all his vices and reprehensible behavior Putin has shown himself to be pragmatic, logical and cold as the Russian winter. Trump on the other hand… And I said sorry because I don't like Putin or any...
[10:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:15] <exec> 08└─I mentioned "ensure the order is carried out". We can speculate about which country has more safeguards preventing a nuclear strike order from an unhinged leader.
[10:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:17] <exec> 08└─> hovering over what looked like a map of the state of Florida. Figures that an ex-KGB agent would go straight for a (country's) dick. Fighting dirty -- a very pragmatic approach.
[10:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:19] <exec> 08└─Heck all ICBMs, including Russian ones, are effectively hypersonic. A nuclear warhead on any ICBM will descend to its target at Mach 20 or so.
[10:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:21] <exec> 08└─As someone who lives <200km from the Russian border, I have to agree with you. He's a lot more practical than most other leaders of major countries nowadays, or even in recent history. But he does come from a very sabre-rattly culture, and everyone else is willy-waving at the moment, so it's unsurpr...
[10:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:24] <exec> 08└─If the voting public wasn't a bunch of gullible morons, there wouldn't be a temptation to do stupid things to sway elections.
[10:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, but... Getting a new customer is far harder (costly) than keeping an existing customer. That's why we had/have cigarette girls [wikipedia.org] - when the market is saturated, the only way to get a new customer is to take them away from your competition. Needless to say, it's far easier to keep...
[10:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:42] <exec> 08└─Here in shitty backwards eastern europe, I get 50Mb/s from my 50Mb/s, except when I don't, and then I sometimes get 60-70Mb/s. (Had 100Mb/s for half a day once.)
[10:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:44] <exec> 08└─Except that Ofcom has been failing to stop ISPs' misleading advertising for, what, 15 years now? Also, from the summary: there is no legal imperative for these companies to comply with the code.
[10:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:50] <exec> 08└─The annoying thing with web security errors is that you're forbidden from seeing the content, even if you think the security system is a farce. Sometimes you can add exceptions, but not always. And to be honest, after all the various Comodo, Symantec, etc., fuckups over the years, everyone should co...
[10:02:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:35] <exec> 08└─Technically getting educated should never have been easier -- there are libraries all over and you have an entire world of knowledge available at your keyboard via the internet. Yet people don't seem to get more educated. Last I looked the dropout rate for online courses is horrible,
[10:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:55] <exec> 08└─geeez, that's harsh man. What did the Jupiterians ever do to you?
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[10:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:33] <exec> 08└─Gee.... I wonder where I've seen that design before... something about a light-colored armored man comes to mind.
[11:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:21] <exec> 08└─That's "nukulur", dude. (You don't want anybody mispronouncing it.) I'm wondering if we'll see a "Seven Days in May" [wikipedia.org] scenario played out. ...but for the completely opposite reason (brinkmanship). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[11:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:22] <exec> 08└─Look up Prof. Ted Postol. He has noted again and again how USA's anti-missile technology is vastly oversold. The times that the tests have "worked", it's been because they have cheated (e.g. homing beacons on the targets). Patriot anti-missile missile batteries in the spat with Iraq: Zero warheads d...
[11:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:43] <exec> 08└─BT Openreach, who are responsible for the phone lines, don't give a single fuck about the shitty speeds and never will. Doesn't matter how much ISPs and customers complain, there is no alternative. Maybe you can get Virgin, but other ISPs can't use their cable network so if ADSL is your only option...
[11:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:08] <exec> 08└─Forget pills and doctors, shame and guilt. Those will not help you. Instead change your surroundings entirely, like move to another city and do something different. It will allow you to become another person.
[11:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't he already mention The Horizontal Bop? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[11:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:20] <exec> 08└─How in hell did people know all of that?
[11:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:21] <exec> 08└─That is exactly what I was thinking as well, but I like encourage our younglings, so perhaps he could , some day, actually be a lawyer, ignorant of law, but with a credential.
[11:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:24] <exec> 08└─bradley12, elephant in Switzerland, expat because he could not make it in America. But what he says here is spot on. Fire the Admin, kill the Assessors, especially that one in charge of trying to shut down the San Francisco community college, just because of her husband being denied a job. Oh, hell...
[11:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:02] <exec> 08└─What did the Jupiterians ever do to you?
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[11:59:43] <exec> 08└─nm, not um. Anyway, the message remains the same: shrinking continues. People in the industry know exactly what this means and does not mean, while any uneducated "Joe Random Smith" couldn't care less about the difference between feature sizes and gate sizes.
[11:59:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:58] <exec> 08└─Dick-waving it may be, but it is one hell of a dick. The US has a long history of raping countries which don't have nukes, and this is in my opinion the main reason North Korea wants to have nukes. You cannot really blame North Korea for not wanting to be raped, after all. In any case, the US won't...
[12:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:27] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if we'll see a "Seven Days in May" [wikipedia.org] scenario played out. ...but for the completely opposite reason (brinkmanship).
[12:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:28] <exec> 08└─That's "nukulur", dude. [youtu.be] (You don't want anybody mispronouncing it.)
[12:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:50] <exec> 08└─The latency was also amazing, didn't quantify it tho but it was like pounding the localhost. Content arrived as soon as you lifted your finger from a click. And it was included in the cheap rent of my student room with an ocean view, no less. I live in a Scandinavian socialist utopia where universit...
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[12:01:17] <exec> 08└─I recently heard a presentation by Suzanne Humphries MD.[1] She said there's lots of stuff that gets better with more Vitamin C. She also said don't get the stuff with calcium. [google.com] I wish I'd known that when I was 25 so that I didn't get my first kidney stone at 26, which I suspect was from...
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[12:02:01] <exec> 08└─SexyGirl said the ad for a soothing aromatherapeutic massage
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[13:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:55] <exec> 08└─After, what, 15 years? It's not the extra month I'm unhappy about.
[13:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:24] <exec> 08└─I was depressed in high school, actually from 7th grade until a couple years into college.
[13:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:26] <exec> 08└─Forget pills and doctors, shame and guilt. Those will not help you.
[13:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:11] <exec> 08└─Since when is https://certbot.eff.org [eff.org] an 'untrustworthy site'? (I mean, it's signed by Let's Encrypt, so technically it's self-signed.) Don't know why you're rambling about AV.
[13:03:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 494 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:50] <exec> 08└─> Trump's decision may cost the fast-growing industry about 23,000 jobs in 2018 Give them a hat and a shovel, or some nurse outfits. There's plenty of Good Ol' American Coal that needs to be mined, and lots of lung-diseased people who need assistance standing up. Getting their own black lung or back...
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[13:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:33] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Slashdot has been "in offline mode" for days, and from time to time unavailable. Someone mentioned SourceForge yesterday as well. GitHub seems like an unusual target for a DDOS. Trying to imagine a motivation for the usual run of scum who do thi...
[13:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:34] <exec> 08└─GitHub seems like an unusual target for a DDOS.
[13:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:36] <exec> 08└─Seems their Great Firewall actually isn't that Great if they have to resort to DRDoS to make a site unavailable to their citizens.
[13:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:38] <exec> 08└─How is it possible the site went down? I was told if they just stop hiring asians, whites, and males, that rainbows will spurt from the sky and unicorns will fly around? Its hard to imagine racism and sexism could have a cost in terms of operational quality and performance and results. To quote a se...
[13:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:41] <exec> 08└─Funnily enough, almost all of what might have been "recon scanning" for the port 11211 DDoS I've seen over the last few weeks (yep, it ticked up a few weeks before memcached was a trending topic in IT security circles) has been from IP addresses that APNIC has assigned to China, and typically from r...
[13:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:43] <exec> 08└─I still do not understand why the edges have such a hard time implementing reverse path filtering. That would make spoofing IP a lot harder to abuse. There is generally no good reason for a packet to leave your interface that has a reverse path other than your own local network(s). Most L2/3 switche...
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[14:00:04] <exec> 08└─shrinking continues
[14:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WD Announces Client NVMe SSDs with In-House Controllers - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:12] <exec> 08└─NVMe is interesting but I just can't see the usefulness in removing the ability to locate your storage somewhere other than directly sticking out of the main board. It really just doesn't make sense to me unless you're trying to build as compact a device as physically possible, which is not always t...
[14:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:51] <exec> 08└─Do I understand why NK and Iran want nukes? I think so. Should they have them? Absolutely not. I am not holding the U.S. up to be a paragon of virtue and beacon of freedom to the world. The government has done some very lousy things over the years, and will continue to do so when it feels necessary....
[14:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:52] <exec> 08└─As my late mother used to say, it takes two to fight.
[14:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:54] <exec> 08└─Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scienti...
[14:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:57] <exec> 08└─I don't think anyone cares what you think. You write as if you are some authority on nuclear power and weapons development but have done nothing to convince me that this is the case.
[14:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah there's very probably something in it. When I first took a flax seed supplement, I felt almost euphoric. I think if you have a dietary deficiency then when you address that it can improve your mood. Of course, deficiencies aren't the only causes of depression -- there are unquestionably externa...
[14:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:50] <exec> 08└─Anhedonia's a really tough one. You can even get to the point where you're doing something pleasurable and feeling the body's pleasure and happiness chemicals on a physiological level but it just feels ultimately unfulfilling and empty on a higher level. It's very, very odd.
[14:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:37] <exec> 08└─There are multiple implementations of the ACME protocol. You don't 'download the software from a random web site', you pick one of the clients and install it via your system's package manager. I prefer acme-client, because it is compartmentalised in such a way that the bit that talks to the network...
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[14:02:38] <exec> 08└─The sane ones do that in the web browser (there's been a JavaScript API for generating keys since the Netscape days) and never upload the private key. If their version involved their ever having access to the private keys, then that's a massive fail for them.
[14:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:10] <exec> 08└─He was not racist. Note the "was". Teaching at that school changed him permanently. He grew up mostly apart from blacks, and hadn't realized just how different they are. Nobody could help those students. They were put in a geometry class, but they couldn't do basic arithmetic. (so all those previous...
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[14:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:31] <exec> 08└─Is there an app for that? Facial perspective correction.
[14:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:32] <exec> 08└─One short-term fix might be a fist, to firstly push the nose slightly further away from the camera, and secondly squash the nose a bit, or a lot. Stupids gonna stupe. It puts money into the economy, so who am I to stop them?
[14:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:34] <exec> 08└─Do these people not know how to use a simple mirror, or even have one in their bathroom? If you want to see what you look like, you look in a flat mirror. Doesn't everyone understand this, and that cameras take distorted photos at close range? Anyone that clueless shouldn't have enough spare cash to...
[14:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:37] <exec> 08└─This doesn't appear to be that odd, just look at most "selfies"; they are taking at very close range, people tend to tilt their head on way or another, they are not using proper lighting. Things will get their proportions distorted. I guess the upside of this research is that people will now have th...
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:49] <exec> 08└─The people who run Slashdot don't have a clue what they are doing. They still can't figure out that unicode bug that only affects them. Show me another website right now with that same problem. According to an admin they are fixing a problem on the "backend" and it will take a few days.
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:51] <exec> 08└─Some how I missed this one from takyon and wrote about it too: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I checked and the URL is also there in takyon's post so it would be a good idea to delete mine from the queue. Sorry. I do check the queue but just plain missed t...
[14:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:53] <exec> 08└─I still do not understand why the edges have such a hard time implementing reverse path filtering.
[14:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:55] <exec> 08└─There's been some crazy news about internet censorship out of China over the last week or so
[14:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:58] <exec> 08└─You do not do RPF in the backbone because you have multiple routes for transit to consider. The (outer-) edge is entirely different and is not involved in generic routing transit traffic. Your tiny little server or home PC is not part of the transit-network and there is generally no need for it to s...
[14:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:00] <exec> 08└─Routing around damage is about deciding who to send a packet to. Reverse path filtering is about deciding whether a packet you've recieved is sporged. They're unrelated concepts apart from the aspect that they happen on the internet.
[15:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:02] <exec> 08└─So I shouldn't put my git commits in a while loop then...
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:05] <exec> 08└─Your tiny little server or home PC is not part of the transit-network and there is generally no need for it to send with a different source-address than its own.
[15:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:07] <exec> 08└─Reverse path filtering is about deciding whether a packet you've recieved is sporged.
[15:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─please get trump to stop the IT outsourcing and I'll ride your rainbow.
[15:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─The worst part is all the Slashdolts need do is look at GitHub to see how The Bigly Fucktard and his nigger buddies at ShitstainNews did to fix the Unicode problem.
[15:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"3nm" Test Chip Taped Out by Imec and Cadence - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:33] <exec> 08└─The industry think that people are interested in the numbers, because they've been created purely for marketting purposes, not anything else.
[15:01:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 1032 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:03] <exec> 08└─Good Lord! To every action corresponds and equal and opposite reaction. True in physics and in every other aspect of life, let me illustrate. When Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama decided to spend $348 billion dollars [forbes.com] ‘modernizing’ the U.S. nuclear arsenal, including a new ball...
[15:01:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 882 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:22] <exec> 08└─Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scienti...
[15:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:24] <exec> 08└─I regard North Korea Citizens to be well within their rights of having rights. Well for Iran, they have some rights but it far from a desirable situation.
[15:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:27] <exec> 08└─Ike was a wise man indeed. Folks, this is what a Republican used to be.
[15:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:29] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with Stuxnet? The goal there was to sabotage the Iranian efforts at creating nuclear weapons, and it seemed like it worked just as planned, with little or no collateral damage. Involvement with Central American governments (like the whole thing with bananas in the first part of the 20th...
[15:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:52] <exec> 08└─In Australia they were recently forced to publicly admit that users were routinely getting 5 to 11Mbps. Our DSL2 is better than the NBN fiber network in many places.
[15:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:25] <exec> 08└─So this is different from the normal changes in the brain then? In some kind of significant way? Or are we all depressed and if we would happen not to be our brains would never change?
[15:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:13] <exec> 08└─"Forcing" websites to be encrypted helps the users.
[15:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:14] <exec> 08└─1: Download random software from untrustworthy website[1] [...mindless rant based on experience of doing it wrong...] 6: Admit that downloading random software from untrustworthy websites is exactly what we've been warning Windows users about since Windows 95.
[15:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks for sharing your insight! This should be +6 Informative, even if wanting it to be so violates the canons of your discipline. So, you have letter grades that assess performance both in the class and on individual subunits. How does administration (and the layer above that - those who control f...
[15:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:48] <exec> 08└─Wrong.
[15:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:50] <exec> 08└─Lowlifes like yourself shouldn't be entitled to an opinion.
[15:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:52] <exec> 08└─Please post again when you have something intelligible to post.
[15:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:35] <exec> 08└─Yes. There is a risk. Aside from the question of what concentration bleach and was it enough to kill endospores, if the catheters were not certified for sterilization and did begin to deterioriate as the study suggests, you could have micropockets form in the material which would provide a safe harb...
[15:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:37] <exec> 08└─Yes. There is a risk.
[15:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:39] <exec> 08└─No, their mother's womb.
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[15:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:39] <exec> 08└─Stupids gonna stupe.
[15:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:41] <exec> 08└─Doesn't everyone understand this, and that cameras take distorted photos at close range?
[15:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:43] <exec> 08└─Damn right! I always take my selfies in front of the mirror and the camera obscuring my face is always perfectly proportioned.
[15:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:45] <exec> 08└─If their face2face interaction is mediated by a phone the camera the majority of time, why wouldn't the request "Make my nose look better through the camera" be a legit request?
[15:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:48] <exec> 08└─to see that you're not grossly distorted.
[15:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:50] <exec> 08└─There's an obvious ethnic joke that people who post selfies on social media might be of a certain self aggrandizing ethnic group well known for big noses. If you're seeing 30% bigger noses online, it might be as simple as selfie poster-type people actually do have 30% bigger noses... Aside from the...
[15:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:52] <exec> 08└─Cameras don't.
[15:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:55] <exec> 08└─I was going to make much the same comment, but you beat me to it. :) A better option for a multiple-lens camera phone solution though would be to put something equivalent to 85mm or so on there as that can help to produce a more flattering portrait (most portraiture is shot in the 85-135mm range, wh...
[15:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:57] <exec> 08└─I googled around, because I don't do portraits and this was interesting to me, and apparently this topic is "old news" for the pros using pro gear and pro software. http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com [lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com] is a very small scale example of analyzing the embedded foc...
[15:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:59] <exec> 08└─35mm not really what you usually want for this; the actual FOV and scene distortion of the human eye is more closely approximated by a lens about halfway between 35mm and 50mm (43 mm). [petapixel.com]
[16:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:01] <exec> 08└─...and also, 35mm on a 7D is 35mm against a non-35mm sensor, so 43mm isn't exactly correct there, either. 43mm is the right-ish number for a FF sensor.
[16:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:26] <exec> 08└─Outsourcing makes American corporate profits great!
[16:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 1710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:27] <exec> 08└─I can't help but notice here we are talking about Chinese military activity and this is basically the American propaganda response when the Chinese encircled the Chosin Reservoir in the (First, so far) Korean War. Its weird to mentally search and replace parts of your comment to read like a newsreel...
[16:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:29] <exec> 08└─The people who run Slashdot
[16:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:32] <exec> 08└─Or just the basic BCP38 [bcp38.info] for that matter - filtering spoofed packets entering your network from the edge. If you're a big webhost or end-user connectivity supplier, then if you're not already doing this then please either get it sorted or admit you don't know what the hell you are doing...
[16:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:34] <exec> 08└─As the g-g-great-grandpost specified, why don't the edges work properly, and the answer as always is its cheap and lazy. If your cablemodem doesn't sniff DHCP traffic and try to dynamically insert firewall rules to only forward legit src addrs, then it can not have bugs related to that code nor can...
[16:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:36] <exec> 08└─I worked in that cutthroat line of business a long time ago and if you do the right thing, that'll cost time and money, and you'll get replaced in the market by people who save time and money by not bothering.
[16:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:39] <exec> 08└─If your cablemodem doesn't sniff DHCP traffic
[16:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:41] <exec> 08└─The memcached servers accepted packets with a forged source-address and replied to that address. They only amplified the problem (and were badly configured to allow access in the first place). The originator (original and actual source) packets to the memcached servers should have been filtered at t...
[16:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:43] <exec> 08└─Would you be prepared to receive the response and forward it on to the next hop? If you're an edge router, that's a very easy question to answer, and if the answer's "no", you don't let it out. If you're backbone, it's also very easy to answer, the answer's very unlikely to be "no".
[16:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:46] <exec> 08└─The cable-modem is normally not involved in RPF because of dynamic IPs. Therefore, the first convenient place to enable RPF is the router (often L2/3 switch) at the ISP side (the one the cable-modem connects to). There you simply filter the local network segment as valid source. As a network provide...
[16:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:48] <exec> 08└─The originator (original and actual source) packets to the memcached servers should have been filtered at the *source-network* because they are *easily*detectable* forged packets.
[16:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:50] <exec> 08└─Not sure how much truth there is to the tale, but ISTR the current owners dumped all the previous editors bar one (the oft-maligned Timothy) who was only kept on to train up the current batch at which point they would then let go as well. Yeah, that's a really good way of motivating someone to do a...
[16:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:52] <exec> 08└─The situation is so problematic not because of the state-sponsored attacks. Those state-sponsored attacks use *other* badly configured networks to cover their tracks! So, lets get rid of those other badly configured networks first. Then we can _see_ where the original attack came from and point a fi...
[16:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"3nm" Test Chip Taped Out by Imec and Cadence - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:15] <exec> 08└─Sure the day is coming... Can't have 0-atoms wide wires. But it has not come yet. Warning/Disclosure: I worked at Imec for more than 15 years as a researcher (not a marketeer, mind you), so I'll claim some knowledge of the topic.
[16:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:08] <exec> 08└─Test the tracker by flying it hung under an F-15. Test the rocket carrying a chunk of concrete. Test the software in a simulation running on a PC. Test the maneuvering by flying a rocket toward a homing beacon. Eventually... test it all together. It's been an engineering technique for ages. It proba...
[16:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:10] <exec> 08└─The world, mostly Russia, produces about 100 g per year. At that rate, getting 10 kg would take a century. One would want more than a single weapon. One would also want to test the weapon, preferably without spilling all over one's own country.
[16:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:12] <exec> 08└─Nothing was wrong with Stuxnet if you find nothing wrong with consequentialism. My problem is that the ends never end, and thus everything becomes an endless string of means. We lost our ability to take a moral high ground about the evils of cyberwarfare, and proven we're just as capable and willing...
[16:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:14] <exec> 08└─"death warrant of human civilization"? Not hardly. The Northern Hemisphere would have a rather rough go of it, but the southern half would feel only modest effects, both in terms of "nuclear winter" climactics and fallout distribution. While still too awful to contemplate, even an all-out atomic Don...
[16:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:17] <exec> 08└─...and as a foil to make it look like Trump isn't really Putin's bitch. The crickets coming out of the Whitehouse over this issue sound pretty bitch-like to me. Where's "little rocket man" now?
[16:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:13] <exec> 08└─so... did she get you laid? I have to admit, I could probably dispense this advice to other needy men for less money than $60k. Although if she had a full service operation, there are some costs I couldn't charge due to being unable to provide that service without engaging in a 3rd party relationshi...
[16:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:02] <exec> 08└─HTTPS is fine, but the certificate layer it rests on is problematic. I prefer the Perspectives approach. https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] They have "Notaries" instead of CAs, the difference is, that each notary will try to get the cert for all websites. If t...
[16:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:04] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't know... I haven't used slashdot in years. No reason at all to go there.
[16:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:41] <exec> 08└─Harvard's CS50 class has about 700 students. It's only the school's 2nd biggest class. I took a class at UMass Lowell, Physics I for Engineering and Science, with about 150 students. I learned. Maybe the problem isn't an excess of students per teacher. Maybe the problem is that some of these student...
[16:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:43] <exec> 08└─The brainiacs haven't devised a working scale, so how the hell can any of this be "off the scale"? Oh - you're kinda hoping that maybe they'll come up with a scale, and some kind of meaningful measurements to put on the scale? Don't hold your breath. As old as you are, maybe you can cite a few insta...
[16:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:45] <exec> 08└─Typically College Students have a bit more drive and are more in control of themselves than the average High School student. At least in the US, you're required by the government to complete High School. There's no such requirement for College, so those that hate being in School don't tend to contin...
[16:06:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 787 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:11] <exec> 08└─It could have. This is one of the few things I agree with Trump on. There is ONE reason why they are laying off jobs: Executives can never make less, they must make more, and in the worst case scenario, have a impressive Golden Parachute. This about the greed of executives, since bringing the manufa...
[16:06:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 696 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:43] <exec> 08└─Not sure why this is modded insightful. Protectionist policies can be quite beneficial to economies that are developing. Developed economies are all about "free trade" as it gives their manufacturing and economic muscle more bang. This was actually one of the issues that chapped colonists' asses bef...
[16:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:54] <exec> 08└─Plan? America is already stupid.
[16:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:33] <exec> 08└─And let me say it again: A risk exists, until it is proven not to be. That's the way medicine is done.
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─And for dessert: The guy was reusing equipment certified for single-use only. That is more than enough reason for censure, whatever the environment is. You might not like the costs. But you'd like getting CDIFF, entirely preventable if the rules were followed, even less.
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[16:59:55] <exec> 08└─So Canon pancake 40mm lens should do it.
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─I am extremely offended by your insinuation that we Orcs are somehow unattractive as a race. We are an attractive, intelligent, peaceful, and technological race of beings who has been demonized as literal monsters by the evil, imperialistic forces of Gandalf and the Elves.
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─Cameras don't. Wide angle lenses (which is generally what are in a phone) do; but a lens just under 50mm equivalent can give you the same visual field that your eye will. Sorry I was imprecise, but that's the point: cellphone cameras are always wide-angle. People don't shoot selfies with real camera...
[17:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:01] <exec> 08└─a bit of fisheye compensation is good for the nose. It should be called sawfishnose compensation maybe.
[17:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:38] <exec> 08└─s/t
[17:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:39] <exec> 08└─GitHub seems like an unusual target for a DDOS. Trying to imagine a motivation for the usual run of scum who do this sort of thing. Coming up blank.
[17:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Moon Could Have Formed From a Synestia Rather Than a Collision - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:47] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to visualize this. The article that isn't behind a paywall is a bit sketchy on the details. Reading about Haumea gives this progression for the deformation of a planet under increasing amounts of rotation: sphere. oblate spheroid. triaxial ellipsoid. dumbbell. And split into 2 bodies? syn...
[17:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Moon Could Have Formed From a Synestia Rather Than a Collision - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:49] <exec> 08└─http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/could-a-giant-impact-have-vaporized-earth-to-create-the-moon/ [skyandtelescope.com] pix
[17:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:58] <exec> 08└─I love it.
[17:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:00] <exec> 08└─LEO required speed is 7 to 8 km/s. The plane's speed will be at most 0.3 km/s, probably less with a rocket loaded. So we're talking about less than 5% improvement (including altitude, which iirc is pretty negligible in that context), which is why many don't think a plane launch is worth the effort....
[17:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"3nm" Test Chip Taped Out by Imec and Cadence - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:12] <exec> 08└─Well, the transistors per mm2 continues to rise with new processes. It would be nice if numbers like that were provided in every press release about "Xnm", but whatever. Check out the first and second graphs here: https://seekingalpha.com
[17:01:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 628 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:37] <exec> 08└─Putin talked about new weapons for his domestic image 18 days before Russian election [nextbigfuture.com] That says what we expect: it's posturing for the upcoming elections. Not that it's really needed. Putin will win. Russia claims 100 times smaller nuclear reactor than submarine reactors but with...
[17:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:12] <exec> 08└─Stuxnet isn't lousy. It's the way we should have kept solving problems. With technology, spies, fucking ninja soldiers. That's how we used to be and it protected the American brand in the eyes of the world. It's also relatively cheap so there was no way the warfare welfare state was going to let it...
[17:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:13] <exec> 08└─The modernizations you listed are part of an expected development cycle. Most countries with any weapons industries including no-standing-army-Japan went through a similar cycle in the same period of time and will continue to do so. Fuck off you disingenuous prick paid shill fuck. Putin sucked my di...
[17:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:15] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I don't get it. You think it's wrong to actively work to prevent the Iranians from developing nuclear weapons? That isn't full-blown "cyberwarfare", that was a very narrowly-aimed piece of malware that only targeted centrifuges used for that purpose. It's not like the US used hackers to t...
[17:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:18] <exec> 08└─You make it sound like the citizens of NK had a choice in the matter.
[17:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:41] <exec> 08└─Why was the summary edited to change the word consumers to punters? Or was it the other way around? And for those of us outside the UK, what is a punter? So I query google using the string "uk punters slang" and find a stack exchange post leading to this definition: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com...
[17:02:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 597 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:49] <exec> 08└─I was depressed in high school, actually from 7th grade until a couple years into college. I nearly jumped in front of a train. Brain inflammation may explain why learning went from trivial to hard as I reached senior year. I was given pills. They were useless. It would have been easy for a psycholo...
[17:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:16] <exec> 08└─When I was 15, were the 6-year-old girls interested? I'm not Mohammed, but I guess a 6-year-old would at least have given me a future to look forward to. What about when I was 13? Maybe a 4-year-old girl?
[17:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 1836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:18] <exec> 08└─I think there's something to the supplements/diets and finding what works for you is a very good thing. Chronic excessive inflammation is bad juju for life, and if you've got it - getting it reduced is important. The most beneficial thing is getting to a state where you're not actively suffering - o...
[17:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:20] <exec> 08└─It's not cheap, and last I checked insurance doesn't cover it, but chronic vagal nerve stimulation can be an effective treatment for depression. Other than the implantable device (like a pacemaker), there are no significant side effects (unlike shock therapy...) Depression sucks.
[17:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:22] <exec> 08└─$60k for the marriage or $60k for the therapist? Seems like, it took an awfully long time for that therapist to get you laid, if that's all that was wrong. Seriously though, having the wrong girlfriend is 100% worse than not having a girlfriend. I'm one of those crazy people that only ever dated the...
[17:05:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:28] <exec> 08└─There's an elephant in the room, that no one seems to have mentioned. Whether it's additional testing, or accreditation, or whatever - these kinds of efforts require lots of administration time. And lots of administrators. Recently, I went back through the annual reports of my school. Ten years ago,...
[17:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:52] <exec> 08└─If they can't find more qualified teachers (a real possibility)
[17:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:53] <exec> 08└─At least in the US, you're required by the government to complete High School.
[17:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:04] <exec> 08└─As an aside, another ultra-wealthy person who is conspicuously absent from speculation is Trump himself. He can make his own rain. Yet here we have the usual, plug-n-play narrative of some hapless, greedy puppet running around at the behest of his ultra-wealthy masters.
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[17:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:35] <exec> 08└─Oh boy, I can't wait to hear people explain how useless this is while ignoring that it isn't the end goal.
[17:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Samsung Preparing to Build Another Memory Fab Near Pyeongtaek for $27.8 Billion - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:42] <exec> 08└─Awwwwwwwww! Babby's first time being waped! Boohoo!
[17:59:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:56] <exec> 08└─Doesn't everyone understand this, and that cameras take distorted photos at close range?
[18:00:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:07] <exec> 08└─I am extremely offended by your insinuation that we Orcs are somehow unattractive as a race. We are an attractive, intelligent, peaceful, and technological race of beings who has been demonized as literal monsters by the evil, imperialistic forces of Gandalf and the Elves.
[18:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:10] <exec> 08└─meatbag, you are not perfectly symmetric like us bots, so when you look in the mirror you see your mirrored image, which explains why people tended to dislike their face in photos.
[18:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:13] <exec> 08└─Here is why this happens, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Cell phone cameras suck, and not for technical reasons, its just pure physics.
[18:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:52] <exec> 08└─If only there was some sort of distributed revision control system we could use. A centralized service seems somewhat vulnerable to DDoS attacks.
[18:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:53] <exec> 08└─You could imagine a protocol where the first packets you receive from a brand-new return IP range get challenged before being forwarded. If the sender pretending to be at that address doesn't respond to a challenge, you discard. The challenge has to be a small packet, on the edge of the network (a t...
[18:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Moon Could Have Formed From a Synestia Rather Than a Collision - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:03] <exec> 08└─It is an artificially created body put in place to allow life to carry on. It was created a long time ago by a civilization far ahead of us. Even now scientists have to theorize as to how the moon came into existence. They keep doing this to disallow any real knowledge to take hold, such as ETs maki...
[18:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:15] <exec> 08└─In a vacuum, yes, the additional speed and altitude are not significant. But it's not in a vacuum, literally. The atmospheric drag is a problem and this gets you over most of it. It also allows you to launch from exactly the right latitude, the equator is good for some things, other satellites want...
[18:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"3nm" Test Chip Taped Out by Imec and Cadence - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:28] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they're one day going to rename this technology from 3nm to 30 Ångström [wikipedia.org] .. The traditional unit for chemical bond lengths. 30 Å chips, that's 27 Si atoms/transistor, if they're a covalent bond distance of 1.11 Å apart. Right? Oh no wait, 2 radii between 2 atoms, so ma...
[18:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"3nm" Test Chip Taped Out by Imec and Cadence - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:29] <exec> 08└─We can go smaller than 0.1 atoms! http://hplusmagazine.com [hplusmagazine.com] But in seriousness, there are a number of paths to better hardware "performance" (what that actually means can vary if new forms of computing are used): We scale as much as possible, below even...
[18:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:32] <exec> 08└─Others have already linked to the Pluto SLAM above. Which was probably cancelled because even in the LeMay-area officials found it too disturbing - the thing is effectively a doomsday device. Is there any hint on what they are up tho with this new invention? Very likely that it uses some direct-cycl...
[18:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:34] <exec> 08└─"To get folks in the US worked up" No. This speech is targeted at the Russian public. Saber rattling and looking tough is a great way to distract citizens from major economic problems. Russia has them in spades. These systems have been in design for a long time. Most if not all of them have been dis...
[18:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:36] <exec> 08└─The SLAM was cancelled because there really was little mission for it. The ICBMs by the mid 60s could destroy all of the USSR's major cities/industry and even if they got taken out on the ground, the sub launched missiles could as well. Subs could also launch missiles at you from just about any dire...
[18:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:38] <exec> 08└─In any case, the US won't be raping the former USSR any time soon.
[18:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:41] <exec> 08└─The impact of it would have been psychological as it sounds scary. But really a few ICBMs are just as scary and get there much faster.
[18:02:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:50] <exec> 08└─> Average download speeds for residential punters in peak hours (8pm to 10pm) are 34.6Mbit/s, and average maximum speeds are 39.1Mbit/s, according to the regulator. For 90% of UK customers. You may cry now. We need to rectify the US deficit. I suggest shipping A Pai to them with all haste. One-way t...
[18:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:44] <exec> 08└─Being that it's very unlikely for anybody reading this to have the exact same set of issues, could you provide more information/resources on how you constructed this elaborate regimen for yourself? How does one diagnose "adrenal fatigue" or any of the deficiencies you are treating with supplements?...
[18:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:46] <exec> 08└─Lily Marlene was overcome with joy when I kissed her hand at a strip club The ladies of the evening took me by surprise I was given a freebie once. She even invited me into her home, we didn't have to do The Dirty Boogie in an hourly-rate hotel
[18:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:48] <exec> 08└─i never even heard of using shame and guilt to eliminate depression. i can't imagine anyone would. i would expect that someone trying to manipulate a person could make that person depressed instead. if you or others are referring to religious stuff, no one gets high on life when feeling shamed and m...
[18:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:50] <exec> 08└─It no longer difficult to get laid but I don't want that anymore. To the extent I seek release I really do prefer anonymous hookups with men at porn theaters or bathhouses There are two women that I'm interested in. One has a steady boyfriend so I'm not going to wait around for her The other I don't...
[18:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:52] <exec> 08└─Most epilepsy drugs have also been found to help manic depressives I take Trileptal. It's very similar to Tegretol
[18:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting, the plugin page you linked to links to http://www.perspectives-project.org [perspectives-project.org] which seems it would be the official project page but it just forwards to a wordpress site that doesn't exist... caveat emptor
[18:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:25] <exec> 08└─So, no, degrees aren't "useless" and they do mean something.
[18:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:27] <exec> 08└─At least you ended strong!
[18:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm going to celebrate it next month.
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[18:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:39] <exec> 08└─Click on TFA. Now tell me: Do you want to spend six months in a confined space with that creepy smiling face hovering around ?
[18:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:40] <exec> 08└─V'ger will return... http://www.startrek.com [startrek.com]
[18:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─Who would turn down the opportunity?
[18:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:45] <exec> 08└─Yes! Please! I'll go for a new record for time in space, if you want.
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:20] <exec> 08└─"old news"
[19:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─grow up, people! especially for men, you can always claim that extremities are proportionally disproportionate when needed.
[19:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:24] <exec> 08└─Which is why ~100mm is the best lens for portraits. Pros learnt how to make people look better long before photoshop existed.
[19:00:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 782 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:58] <exec> 08└─Not sure how much truth there is to the tale, but ISTR the current owners dumped all the previous editors bar one (the oft-maligned Timothy) who was only kept on to train up the current batch at which point they would then let go as well. Yeah, that's a really good way of motivating someone to do a...
[19:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:06] <exec> 08└─I think I follow your argument. I think you are right. The final leg of the attack is packets arrive at vulnerable memcached, spoofed to appear to come from github. The vulnerable memcached then hits gitshub with a bunch of garbage. If the packet with the spoofed origin came directly from china, the...
[19:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:08] <exec> 08└─The idea is for the ISP that owns the edge routers to do the egress filtering. And if they don't, de-peer them. The closer you get to the core, the harder it is to get right. Right in the core, the list of plausible addresses is nearly the entire address space, so it's not feasible there.
[19:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Moon Could Have Formed From a Synestia Rather Than a Collision - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:19] <exec> 08└─Look, the moon IS real. There is no secret conspiracy or BS models. The truth is simple physics: Xenorgon the Forty-Second wasn't happy with the waves, and decided that the simplest way to spice up the surf was with an added pinch of gravity. Just be glad that you weren't around when he had the rota...
[19:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Moon Could Have Formed From a Synestia Rather Than a Collision - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:22] <exec> 08└─Um, you do realize that most planets in our solar system have moons? Additionally, there are systems with much more even distributions of mass (eg. Pluto & Charon) where the center of mass is actually between then two masses rather than inside one or the other? Yes, we have the largest "moon" (by pe...
[19:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:32] <exec> 08└─So we're talking about less than 5% improvement
[19:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:34] <exec> 08└─Well obviously not so far because no one has done it,
[19:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:36] <exec> 08└─You are talking about Boba Fett? http://starwars.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[19:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:38] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, a typical uncrewed mission launchpad explosion is pretty easy to deal with: Mop up, straighten up the bent parts, add concrete here and there, and repaint. Here, you have serious danger for any crew (don't believe this is a drone, yet) from the time you fuel up on the ground to th...
[19:02:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:44] <exec> 08└─Ike was a wise man indeed. Folks, this is what a Republican used to be.
[19:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:01] <exec> 08└─This speech is targeted at the Russian public. Saber rattling and looking tough is a great way to distract citizens from major economic problems. Russia has them in spades.
[19:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:03] <exec> 08└─Which raises the question of what safeguards are currently in place in Russia to make it hard for Putin to initiate a nuclear war? My understanding is the Soviets used a two button approach compared to America's one button approach. The one button approach is scary, especially when the potential but...
[19:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 2192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:05] <exec> 08└─No, I think you do get it and you just disagree and believe that it is OK to actively develop a piece of malware with a particular political goal in mind and unleash it on another country. The end of pausing Iran's nuclear program with a technical setback was worth the means of utilizing a piece of...
[19:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the idea was that after the bombs were gone, you just kept driving it around the countryside. The question gets to be "what's your purpose" with it. The fallout from ground bursts going after hardened sites is probably already causing a lot of environmental damage for agriculture. The point of...
[19:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:10] <exec> 08└─Chechnya was never split off from Russia. As for Tijikistan, I assume you love the Taliban more? For me, I'd rather have Putin than any of those fucking idiots telling me what is moral. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Georgia definitely got baited. And Ukraine is...
[19:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:12] <exec> 08└─SpaceX doesn't make nukes. SpaceX takes money away from Russian space agency. You might as well hear *everyone* whine about SpaceX. Just look at the United Space Alliance that tried suing their way to stay relevant.
[19:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:37] <exec> 08└─Not sure why they changed it to punter, but it does fit. A punter is a john here in the US, which implies the cable companies are prostitutes.
[19:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:21] <exec> 08└─i never even heard of using shame and guilt to eliminate depression. i can't imagine anyone would.
[19:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:14] <exec> 08└─No. It doesn't. It creates a circumstance where users are scared off of web sites that are entirely innocuous, and creates a completely unnecessary maintenance load for the owner of such innocuous web sites. It pushes traffic to the cert authorities (which is likely 99.99% of the drive for "encrypti...
[19:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:57] <exec> 08└─I think it was just a troll post, not sure why someone got angry about your post they replied to. Pretty innocuous.
[19:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:59] <exec> 08└─Heh, here we see the AC's story fall to pieces. Yup, sounds like military dumbass goes in with good intentions but completely unprepared for inner city school conditions. They are horrifying, but here we see the symptoms of cultural warfare brought to light. Blame Nixon, blame all the republicunts w...
[19:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:01] <exec> 08└─Fucking hell runaway, it is a metaphor for how off-base and crazy jmorris is. That dude I can only surmise is severe Aspbergers which makes him good at narrow technical fields and pure garbage in everything else. Perhaps he is just another of those self-taught "geniuses" who automatically knows ever...
[19:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:03] <exec> 08└─Why is "computer science" in scare quotes? I dunno why the other AC is still going, but it sounds like you're the troll here.
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[19:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:36] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem [wikipedia.org]
[19:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:38] <exec> 08└─'"HandGNU?" No, that's the "GNU/Hand System!"'
[19:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:40] <exec> 08└─All they needed to do was ask ExpertSexChange.
[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:42] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect illustration of the fact, which should be widely recognized by now, that computers do not understand, they merely obey instructions, no matter how nonsensical. Except for self driving cars of course. They will miraculously be so smart and perfect that we can trust our lives to them...
[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:44] <exec> 08└─Google's gun is indiscriminately mass shooting down websites, whether or not they are related to the target criteria. Shoot first, ask questions later. The NRA would be proud of Google.
[19:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─This is a truly clbuttic mistake! [thedailywtf.com]
[19:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:49] <exec> 08└─I just searched for "gun safe" "burgundy" and "Gunnison Co" in google shopping and got results just fine. The Telegraph article is from 3-4 days ago, so I don't know about then.
[19:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:51] <exec> 08└─But my website offers barguns on items. And his website is a monument to president Raygun. And her website complains about dawgun furriners. Some websites have not begun to talk about guns and there four should not be targeted. Or they have misbegun. No more shopping for burgundy. And Gundies auto r...
[19:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:54] <exec> 08└─...to congratulate Google on bringing computer language recognition into the 19th Century. Should we club together and buy them a copy of Regular Expressions for Dummies? To be fair, it's not like Google have any experience in search algorithms...
[19:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:56] <exec> 08└─Hold on... its a link to The Telegraph... Previous comment retracted.
[19:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:58] <exec> 08└─They might be trying to index all the world's information, but apparently all that information isn't doing them much good if they haven't learned a single damn thing from the past three decades of attempts to filter the web... Stuff like this always reminds me of Napster. There was a brief period in...
[20:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:00] <exec> 08└─Oh no, someone alert Tim Gunn! That also reminds me, I need to order more quality writing instruments from PenIsland.net.
[20:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:15] <exec> 08└─Did I write "in space" ? Original point: if you spend millions building a human-interface gizmo, could you bother to make it neutral-to-good-looking, not creepy?
[20:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Preparing to Build Another Memory Fab Near Pyeongtaek for $27.8 Billion - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:23] <exec> 08└─Fabulous.
[20:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:56] <exec> 08└─Quick, someone get Ethanol Fueled to take a selfie. Maybe we can get him to throw himself in an oven!
[20:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:57] <exec> 08└─> why is this an article in JAMA? Just read it as "be careful [wink, wink], the people who take selfies may be tempted to give more business to plastic surgeons [oh!], so you should really [cough cough] warn them that their self-perception is distorted" Just expect the next "are you perfect enough?"...
[20:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:59] <exec> 08└─The distortion in question is perspective distortion and is entirely due to relative distance from the lens of various points in the frame. It has nothing at all to do with the lens though the lens can add additional distortion. You get big noses from perspective distortion whenever you shoot a face...
[20:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:02] <exec> 08└─certain self aggrandizing ethnic group well known for big noses
[20:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:04] <exec> 08└─The effect in question is due to "perspective distortion" and has nothing to do with the camera or lens. You get the same effect with any camera/lens when you shoot a portrait at arms distance.
[20:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:06] <exec> 08└─Which is why ~100mm is the best lens for portraits
[20:01:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:16] <exec> 08└─GitHub seems like an unusual target for a DDOS.
[20:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they banned Animal Farm too. [independent.co.uk] I'm surprised we didn't cover it here. (Actually, I'm gonna go submit it.)
[20:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06World's Largest Plane is Designed to Lift Rockets Into the Stratosphere - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:18] <exec> 08└─That's the same thing really. It all converts to delta v. 5% of delta v plus another few % for launching from preferred lattitude plus a few % saving a lot of low altitude drag. Due to the rocket equation a 10% reduction in required delta v is significant. One way to calculate how useful it would be...
[20:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"3nm" Test Chip Taped Out by Imec and Cadence - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:33] <exec> 08└─Yet just a few years ago (2012) we were assured by industry experts that 22nm was reaching a dead end, and any hope of 14 was delusional thinking and of course Moore's Law was dead. In 2014 the impossible 14nm appeared in commercial quantities. iPhones got thinner.l Experts once again gave scientifi...
[20:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"3nm" Test Chip Taped Out by Imec and Cadence - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:35] <exec> 08└─So board level component repair skilz are no good on my resume then?
[20:02:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:59] <exec> 08└─And so we're back to Cold War nuclear posture. I can only hope that everyone else out there with nukes is as rational about their use as he is. /me peeks at the White House and is not reassured. There are Christian fundies out there too who would think of burning the world in a nuclear holocaust as...
[20:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:50] <exec> 08└─Do I understand why NK and Iran want nukes? I think so. Should they have them? Absolutely not. Yeah, I'm perfectly willing to deny them a right they should have in a perfect world to protect this flawed one.
[20:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ofcom tells Broadband Firms: '30 Days to Sort your Speeds' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:17] <exec> 08└─Only assholes respect the rule of law, eh?
[20:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:02] <exec> 08└─If it's so easy why don't you get out there and fix some brains?
[20:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:56] <exec> 08└─Naming a company like that--if any of this be true--"Trustico" would be as bad... At least EquiFax implies the're transmitting your sensitive private data over an unencrypted phone line!
[20:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:58] <exec> 08└─The Perspectives Project is on relative life support, as the people who originally did it at University graduated. The same goes for the somewhat related Convergence. However, if you want a similar idea, you can use the EFF's HTTPS Everywhere and enable the setting that double-checks the certificate...
[20:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:18] <exec> 08└─OMG! A Javascript Library? Holy Shit! Are you OK?? Did you survive?
[20:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:20] <exec> 08└─You think I should trust 3rd party Javascript for something that might be slightly interesting? I think we disagree.
[20:06:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:55] <exec> 08└─Are we preparing current students better than in the past or are we simply siphoning money out of them? Yesteryear, a degree was a sure bet to a better life, nowadays, it doesn't mean as much. Are the education methods lacking or is the surplus of graduates to blame for useless degrees?
[20:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:48] <exec> 08└─The more important question tho is if the students don't learn is that my fault or their fault or possibly the fault of both of us? If I do my work and they instead go out drinking all week and then flunk the course is that my fault?
[20:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:01] <exec> 08└─Ugly? I've always thought that 80-s era cars looked the best. Give me a caprice, a chevelle, an el dorado any day over these new smooth lines everywhere effeminate piles of shit.
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[20:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:46] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect example of the algebraic equation Jews + diversity = censorship + incompetence. Which not only explains the downfall of Google, but the downfall of America as well.
[20:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:48] <exec> 08└─This is the clubuttic example of an overzealous regex.
[20:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:50] <exec> 08└─I enjoy that this example is already listed on the wiki page.
[20:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:52] <exec> 08└─Right. A string search is entirely comparable to self-driving car image recognition algorithms. Your agenda is showing.
[20:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─The real story might be that enough people use Google Shopping to have noticed this mistake.
[20:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:57] <exec> 08└─Alcohol + shitbag = shitbag that spills all over
[20:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:59] <exec> 08└─This reminds me about how china supposedly banned the letter "n" the other day. Earlier they had apparently banned winni the pooh, houses shaped like teacups or pants, and "scared of wife". Aren't people just going to stop using these search engines if they get so crappy?
[21:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:02] <exec> 08└─"... tell me Ms. where you found your Doctor?" "At a website called therapist.com, why do you ask ?"
[21:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:04] <exec> 08└─Ironic, Chumbawamba, a band of self-proclaimed anarchists, exercising ownership over intellectual property.
[21:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:06] <exec> 08└─Except for self driving cars of course. They will miraculously be so smart and perfect that we can trust our lives to them. There will never be a situation where human override will be necessary.
[21:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:09] <exec> 08└─They should have hit me up. I give better regex than that bullshit while drunk and watching porn.
[21:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:11] <exec> 08└─One of the big names in self-driving cars and supposedly most competent coding-centric corporations in the US just algorithmically screwed the pooch in a huge way. That's extremely relevant to any other code they write.
[21:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:13] <exec> 08└─If you live in China, getting caught using the dark web / Tor / privacy-oriented search engine could mean a bad day for you. The temporary 'n' and "Winnie the pooh" ban was more about restricting what people could post on Weibo et al. rather than restricting search. It's about stifling discussion of...
[21:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:15] <exec> 08└─My homey Mr. Slutsky is a brilliant molecular biologist yet could not find a job because all the email systems reject his job applications as spam. I Swear I'm Not Making This Up: Mr.Slutsky had to change careers into high school teaching because that enabled him to submit dead-tree job applications...
[21:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:18] <exec> 08└─Even Rage Against the Machine never raged against the particular machine that sent them their paychecks...
[21:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:20] <exec> 08└─Your parental control filter rejects this website because it's chock full of naked ladies: 24.25.26.27 But this website gets through the filter just fine: 24.25.26.27. ---------------^ Look carefully at the righthand end. Some schoolchild figured this out. Doubtlessly he's working f...
[21:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:22] <exec> 08└─But can you type with your mouth full?
[21:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:25] <exec> 08└─It's not relevant. They have thousands of coders working on very different tasks. Rather than a monolithic entity, Google is like a bunch of loosely connected terrorist cells. And the low energy Google Shopping cell can screw up without harming anyone but themselves. If Google paid that EU fine [wik...
[21:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this doesn't pass the sniff test for me. The article offers zero proof that it actually happened other than a few random tweets claiming it happened. The author apparently didn't bother to try it himself. And, Google says they banned guns back in 2012. I just tried burgundy and gundam and they...
[21:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:42] <exec> 08└─Does it look like Clippy?
[21:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:44] <exec> 08└─"I see you're trying to mend a hole in your spacesuit before all the air runs out..."
[21:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah... Creepy like a perv Would rather just have a voice
[21:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:48] <exec> 08└─Not the most clinching quote but “We are the first company in Europe to carry a free flyer, a kind of flying brain, to the ISS and to develop artificial intelligence for the crew on board the space station.” I doubt they'd want to put a dumb terminal that depends on a data connection in the ISS,...
[21:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:34] <exec> 08└─Its kinda a joke in that there isn't one group, generally speaking everyone south of central Europe and west of India has bigger noses than the rest of the globe. But yeah Italy counts.
[21:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:20] <exec> 08└─Your "oppression" might have more to do with your shitty personality and conspiracy-as-truth beliefs.
[21:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:22] <exec> 08└─Yes thats the longer more professional answer. With a side dish that adding filtering creates a possible failure mode where you move an IP segment from here to there and forget to update the filtering leading to mysterious phone call complaints from end users. IPv6 will fix everything when you can a...
[21:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Moon Could Have Formed From a Synestia Rather Than a Collision - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:34] <exec> 08└─When you watch it eclipse, it is not a shadow moving across the moon. A shadow would not change shape. What you see instead is a point of darkness that spreads out in all directions (a circle) over the sphere of the moon. This is why it flattens out at mid-point, and stays that way until completion....
[21:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"3nm" Test Chip Taped Out by Imec and Cadence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:06] <exec> 08└─There was never any consensus among experts. You're attacking nobody in particular.
[21:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WD Announces Client NVMe SSDs with In-House Controllers - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:15] <exec> 08└─NVMe is more than just a form factor, it's a whole new storage interface that does away with the limitations of AHCA in SATA. A very important feature is parallel command processing to handle multiple threaded requests without locking. I see your point about storage location but with things getting...
[21:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:23] <exec> 08└─that was before the Rpublicans adopted the "Southern Strategy" which led to the current situation
[21:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:25] <exec> 08└─If the Russians have tested it, either it's some sort of closed cycle system or, if it's an open cycle we should have detected the fission fragments given all the monitoring that's going on (especially with the NK situation).
[21:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:27] <exec> 08└─Trust me, you haven't heard/read the worst whining about SpaceX, until you've seen... https://www.nbcnews.com [nbcnews.com] I considered submitting it along with some other SpaceX opposition but said "nah,...
[21:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:29] <exec> 08└─Putin is in the closet. Every journalist he's killed has pictures of him sucking dicks in underground discoteks back in his KGB days. Also he's secretly super into brokeback mountain.
[21:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major US Solar Company Blames Job Cuts On Trump's Solar Import Tariff - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─This looks more like a shakedown for the industry. The impact is short term but real - more like a mob guy breaking your leg to send a message. The industry is growing and needs to start paying bribes like everybody else in the energy sector... Competition wants to do solar harm and delay it but thi...
[21:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:10] <exec> 08└─Stop voting for police levies when asked until they produce a detailed account of what they are spending the money on. How about increasing salaries by decreasing expenditures on this type of frivolous equipment.
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[21:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haier Smartwatch Prototype Includes Tiny Projector - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:30] <exec> 08└─This projector/smartwatch looks more viable than the Cicret, but I'm still not seeing the point. Of course, I don't see the point of smartwatches in general....
[21:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haier Smartwatch Prototype Includes Tiny Projector - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:32] <exec> 08└─Of course, I don't see the point of smartwatches in general....
[22:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:11] <exec> 08└─If I was Mark Molloy, author of this fine piece, I might've actually tried searching for "burgundy" myself before writing that headline.
[22:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:12] <exec> 08└─Before you go and say that Google doesn't have to serve gun customers... how do you feel about Christian bakers and gay wedding cakes?
[22:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:15] <exec> 08└─I think that it is legal in both cases, but perhaps short sighted. For the religious folks not wanting to make a wedding cake for gay folks (or recently the reverse of that) it is totally legal depending on the timing but short sighted as it is shooting yourself in the foot as far as future customer...
[22:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:17] <exec> 08└─I'd be very cautious of any cake with a sexual orientation.
[22:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:19] <exec> 08└─Isn't Google supposed to be the company with the most PhDs? They're definitely not stupid, at least by certain popular metrics. Maybe it's a case of Google's "campus" being a "hard to get in, easy to pass" vs. "weed-out school".
[22:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:21] <exec> 08└─shut up, do not reveal the hidden archania bestowed upon those judged worthy by the elders of the Internet. If you continue I will have to dispatch a silencing team ;)
[22:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:24] <exec> 08└─GUN, Gun's Unix Not. GUN/Linux -> Shoots all hackers on sight. Second amendment trumps all therefor making all counting start at 2 instead of zero. Very fun to use.
[22:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:26] <exec> 08└─My ammosexual future husband and I will avoid buying the gay wedding cake from either a Christian baker or Google. I think that's optimal for everybody.
[22:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:28] <exec> 08└─I think you need to stop focusing on the jews and look elsewhere for the source of that jackboot pressing on the windpipe of your dreams. Hint, hint: it's all in your head.
[22:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:31] <exec> 08└─I hated, and continue to hate that band to this day for that phony bullshit.
[22:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:33] <exec> 08└─As long as they arent starving we'll be fine.
[22:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:35] <exec> 08└─Or, he could have at least tried searching for Swedish South African Burgundy. I hear it is a very fine vintage, for fake news.
[22:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:37] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect illustration of the fact, which should be widely recognized by now, that computers do not understand, they merely obey instructions, no matter how nonsensical.
[22:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:40] <exec> 08└─He does it all the time, usually with his foot in it :D Now that's...talent?
[22:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:42] <exec> 08└─Well, in his case, based on the name, I'm assuming it's all in his bloodstream, while his liver is desperately trying to filter it away.
[22:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:44] <exec> 08└─...with a loaded regular expression. Awk-ward (in before "that's what SHE sed").
[22:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus and IBM Sending Watson-Powered Floating Robot Head to the ISS - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:04] <exec> 08└─If the robot head is limited to the tasks listed in the Airbus article, then they could probably get away with making it a dumb terminal and adding a couple of seconds of latency. I assume that Watson-like assistant technology could work using smaller hardware in the future. Future stations like the...
[22:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:52] <exec> 08└─mmm. I was just reading off whats on my shelf over the desk. With the point that fast glass is going to be huge, heavy, and expensive compared to a cell phone. My whole phone weighs less than that lens and I have a phablet. Although I agree with you thats a wide-ish lens. Is "fast glass" contemporar...
[22:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:53] <exec> 08└─Yet isn't that the same view you get of someone's big nose, which was the problem to begin with? Perhaps two eyes somehow help with parallax vs single lens camera. I guess from 100 yards there would be little relative distortion of snout size but at 100 yards do normal people check out someone's nos...
[22:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:55] <exec> 08└─to recommend a selfie taken from 6 inches.
[22:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:43] <exec> 08└─... I thought the whole site was one small shell script.
[22:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Moon Could Have Formed From a Synestia Rather Than a Collision - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:56] <exec> 08└─I think the order is more like: Synestia with center of mass at-or-near where the Earth will become. A separate mass center forms inside the "hole", but far from gravitational center of the mass. I'm assuming it forms (or will form) a circular orbit inside the toroid but far from the center of mass....
[22:05:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 3218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:28] <exec> 08└─I'm one of those long-term depression cases from earlier in life--think "suicidal 8 year old" here--and it was comorbid with PTSD, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, you name it. I'm also one of those people who can't take SSRIs. Being raised Catholic and discovering you're a lesbian at 14 (and not a...
[22:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Education Assessment Helping or Hindering? - 1651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:45] <exec> 08└─From what I hear, many positions in school administration have been turned into fat sinecures. Administrators pull down $200K+ and there are more administrative positions, with vaguer duties, at a time when education is being squeezed mercilessly. To afford that administrative burden in this climate...
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[22:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:35] <exec> 08└─A short term gain but a long term loss. The immediate problem will be high cost of these metals. There is not enough production capacity to take up the slack. But hey he did something.
[22:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:36] <exec> 08└─The Japs lied about the quality of their steel, anyway.
[22:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:38] <exec> 08└─E.U. Leader Threatens to Retaliate With Tariffs on Bourbon and Bluejeans [nytimes.com]
[22:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:41] <exec> 08└─The only reason to put up a tariff is if you can produce roughly the same product at roughly the same price point domestically. If you can't, all that happens when you put up tariffs is you end up starving domestic industries that relied on those imports. There is a time and place for tariffs. Hitti...
[22:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:43] <exec> 08└─But don't forget the reason there is not sufficient capacity now: it is all moved to China because domestic producers cannot compete with producers who pay employees nothing, have extremely unsafe working conditions, ignore environmental controls (and dump tons of garbage into the atmosphere), and h...
[22:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, tariffs on Canada make no sense at all. As in my post above, the best reason for tariffs is to make up for the increased cost of complying with safety and environmental rules......but Canada has similar ones to us. So putting a tariff on Canada is just blind protectionism. The tariff should onl...
[22:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:47] <exec> 08└─<tinfoil_hat> Maybe one of Trump's buddies, another "man of the people" [theguardian.com], asked him to shake the stock market up a bit. </tinfoil_hat>
[22:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:50] <exec> 08└─Number of jobs in steel and aluminium - under 300k in 1990, at about 130k now. Number of jobs in manufacturing that uses steel and aluminium (and who will pay more on their input) - over 4M today, about the same level in 1990. Source [bloomberg.com] citing U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last time...
[22:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haier Smartwatch Prototype Includes Tiny Projector - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:59] <exec> 08└─And the two luggage with the batteries, will they be included?
[23:00:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:51] <exec> 08└─He does it all the time, usually with his foot in it :D Now that's...talent?
[23:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:54] <exec> 08└─Darlin you don't want to know how much talent my foots got!
[23:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:56] <exec> 08└─You graybeards sure have some obscure sex lingo.
[23:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:59] <exec> 08└─I cd what you pwd there.
[23:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:01] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, look at the worst case example. Definitely don't look for examples in fields such as industrial automation or medical equipment automation because you might find that when people's lives are at stake, software development is actually (mostly) done properly, rather than by cost-cutting on the...
[23:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:03] <exec> 08└─low effort troll + dumb audience = butthurt + lulz
[23:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Preparing to Build Another Memory Fab Near Pyeongtaek for $27.8 Billion - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:32] <exec> 08└─hahaha they do have the best fabulous process, though.
[23:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:03] <exec> 08└─/. is written in Perl ... why do you wonder that they have troubles to fix simple bugs is beyond me. Well soylent news is Perl, too ... but they fixed stuff at a time where perl was still a trenending language :D
[23:05:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 2192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:01] <exec> 08└─No, I think you do get it and you just disagree and believe that it is OK to actively develop a piece of malware with a particular political goal in mind and unleash it on another country. The end of pausing Iran's nuclear program with a technical setback was worth the means of utilizing a piece of...
[23:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Unveils New Nuclear Weapons - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:10] <exec> 08└─The world, mostly Russia, produces about 100 g per year.
[23:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 2837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:23] <exec> 08└─To be completely honest, it's been "search my symptoms" and "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks," with a healthy dose of "don't put supplement even the least bit harmful at doses of up to 500% of the RDA in yourself." Well, that combined with long study of how particular systems and cycles i...
[23:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over Years, Depression Changes the Brain, new Study Shows - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:24] <exec> 08└─Ooh, yeah, ginger is good stuff :) I have some powder in hot water every day. It's great for aches and pains, and it thins the blood slightly.
[23:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:21] <exec> 08└─Have you ever seen the company names of the trusted root certificates in the browser, they all inspire confidence. Here's a few good ones from Firefox: BuypassD-TRUSTCybertrust Japan / JCSIEntrustIdenTrustTrustisTurkTrust Full list here: https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com
[23:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:22] <exec> 08└─https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/107298/why-do-browsers-warn-about-self-signed-certificates-but-not-about-plain-http-wh [stackexchange.com]
[23:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:24] <exec> 08└─I hope you soon realize what most of us have figured out, the real "beta males" and "soy boys" are the ones using those phrases. It is very hard to face our own inner demons and often drives people into depression or irrational anger. However, the process leaves you as a much better person in the en...
[23:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623,000 HTTPS Certs to be Axed in Next 24 Hours after Private Keys Leak - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:26] <exec> 08└─Speaking of drinking the kool-aid... "Many web sites simply don't need to be HTTPS. Forcing them into it is despicable." As others have already pointed out it makes MITM attacks much harder. What is the price of using Lets Encrypt? Nothing. Why is it a good thing? Cause more encrypted traffic makes...
[23:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elfquest Concludes 40-Year Run - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:48] <exec> 08└─Found the troll! How'd you like farming in the sun you big lump?
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[23:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:42] <exec> 08└─Yes. If I trusted this government, then I'd support the tariff. But I don't. I suspect it is designed to expire quickly enough that it would not be sensible to build a new steel factor in the US. It may not be high enough to make that sensible anyway, but that's a tougher call. That said, it's proba...
[23:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:44] <exec> 08└─If you do that, I'll start my own steel plant in Canada and undermine the US manufacturers with my cheap cheap prices. All I need is a hangar where Chinese steel comes in one door, and one guy who stamps "Assembled in Canada" stickers before it reaches the opposite door. I'm looking for Cirque Du So...
[23:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:46] <exec> 08└─Junker is drunk again. [theguardian.com] Literally [twitter.com]
[23:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:48] <exec> 08└─This brings up a good point: letting the President unilaterally declare tariffs is very stupid. Business needs to be able to plan, and if the playing field changes as the wind blows and rules are only valid until the next person completely reverses them, everyone is screwed. That's a recipe for a le...
[23:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─The reason nobody will look beyond the Democrats for an alternative is that there is a design problem in the US electoral system that blatantly favors a two party system. It's call plurality win. If a majority were required to win the problem wouldn't exist, but we might well have lots of elections...
[23:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:53] <exec> 08└─One would think that countries which have costly regulations on industry, would see the benefit of cooperation in this regard. Too bad letting people suffer on the other side of the world lines so many pockets.
[23:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:55] <exec> 08└─There can be a war even if your side isn't doing any fighting. We call this "losing" or "surrender". The trade war started about the time Nixon decided that Red China was the real China, kissing Mao's ass and telling Taiwan they weren't a country. It got much worse when we were dumb enough to grant...
[23:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:58] <exec> 08└─Refusal to fight will not make the fighting stop.
[23:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org