#comments | Logs for 2018-03-09

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[00:00:00] <exec> 08└─> On November 28th, 2012, all Tweets in Space messages were transmitted via both analog and digital signals > towards our target planet, using a high amplitude, high frequency radio telescope. I was gonna rant about the stupidity of both twitter and a one-time transmission, going over the mind-boggl...
[00:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:03] <exec> 08└─Agent Smith was right. Humans are malware.
[00:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:05] <exec> 08└─Here's a question for astrophysicists: Would there be any significant advantage to locating a telescope (or array of them) in interstellar space, outside the heliosphere? Is being inside the heliosphere limiting what we can see, the way that being inside our planet's atmosphere does?
[00:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:07] <exec> 08└─They are going to look for space junk around exoplanets. Massive reality check on the pseudoscience being spouted here. There is a very interesting video on Youtube about Python being used in astronomy. https://youtu.be [youtu.be] It is worth the time to watch the whole thing, but around...
[00:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:09] <exec> 08└─That's a standard feature on many artist-written descriptions of their own work. In some (many?) cases, even they don't believe the artsy pseudo-philosophical bullshit they are typing up.
[00:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:12] <exec> 08└─Even if feasible I would assume that the timeframe a developing civilization would create large amounts of potentially dangerous debris would be a very short one. Either they would use their resources more effectively or they would come up with a way to remove the potential impactors from orbit. Thu...
[00:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:14] <exec> 08└─It's probably not even worth thinking about. The closest idea to that being considered right now is probably FOCAL: https://en.wikipedia.org(spacecraft) [wikipedia.org] https://www.airspacemag.com [airspacemag.com] https...
[00:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:13] <exec> 08└─Nope. Kim Dotcom stoty is still not over yet. Some people really do not feel like admitting their mistakes. Besides, US got his assets, what's not to like? https://torrentfreak.com [torrentfreak.com]
[00:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:15] <exec> 08└─"Software doesn't kill people, people with guns kill people. Software only abets copyright infringement, or goes all Blue Screen of Death on your life-support system. Letting die is not the same a killing."
[00:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:17] <exec> 08└─Actually, the law read, "Only two dildos from the Great State of Arizona can be in the US Senate at any one time." Kind of a Flakey law, but there it is. Hope no one goes raising Cain over this.
[00:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:19] <exec> 08└─2 per 3 can kind of work if double dildos count as one.
[00:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:22] <exec> 08└─Actually, the law read, "Only two dildos from the Great State of Arizona can be in the US Senate at any one time." Kind of a Flakey law, but there it is. Hope no one goes raising McCain over this.
[00:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adult Neurogenesis in Doubt - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:37] <exec> 08└─I was taught in school (many years ago) that adult brain does not get new neurons. They implied that one should train existing ones and not to destroy them (using alcohol or drugs). Some years later the evidence came up that brain actually grows while learning even in old age. They presumed it was b...
[00:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adult Neurogenesis in Doubt - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:39] <exec> 08└─Its not falsified (for the most part), just produced to really low standards. Eg, "the spot gets bigger on the mri when I do this, which could be due to reasons a:z. Reason a is my favorite so Ill assume thats true. Then to seem sciency Ill also rule out reasons b and c, but only hand wave reason d:...
[00:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:29] <exec> 08└─I've got as beer gut you insensitive clod... Hot grits etc.
[00:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:31] <exec> 08└─You may be onto something here. I'm 32 and for the last 5 or 6 years have been feeling the way boys in their teens are said to feel. How long does this last?
[00:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Set Age of Consent to 15 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:50] <exec> 08└─perhaps getting retired people involved with the kids to an extent, organizing activities to mix them with other parts of society, etc
[00:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Set Age of Consent to 15 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:51] <exec> 08└─No, I modded you down because you called me a bunch of names and insulted me.
[00:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Paid Geek Squad Staff To Be Informants, Documents Show - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:56] <exec> 08└─You know, I also would like to get paid for finding cp. See, here it is: $ which cp /bin/cp
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[01:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:03] <exec> 08└─How to distinguish between monkeys throwing bones into orbit?
[01:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Recruit Civilian Astronauts, Partner With Russia on Upcoming Missions - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:11] <exec> 08└─Rather than yellow, it looks like a blast from the past with technology. Consider that we have a new Czar, sorry, democratically-elected president of Russia and the new Chinese Emperor, sorry, president for life and one gets the distinct impression of totalitarian states come to dominate the world....
[01:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Recruit Civilian Astronauts, Partner With Russia on Upcoming Missions - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:13] <exec> 08└─Don't forget you also have Kaiserin Merkel.. into her fourth term already...
[01:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Researchers Develop Non-Line-of-Sight LIDAR Imaging Procedure - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:32] <exec> 08└─As an IANAD (doctor) I wonder if it will work that way. In my rudimentary way of thinking, I can place my hand on a piece of metal that's 100 F for as long as I want and never suffer any sort of burn, but if I do the same with one that's at 500 F, I will almost instantly get a severe burn. So it see...
[01:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:12] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone thought of creating a multi-dildo to get around such laws. A single device with multiple different business ends. Kind of like the charger cables which split into half a dozen different connectors.
[01:02:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:26] <exec> 08└─The ACA has been maliciously interfered with from day 1. It would have been far more effective without red states actively undermining it. With the current administration it is also able to undermine it further.
[01:04:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:21] <exec> 08└─sexual predators outed in the past decade or so have been the exact same pricks who've been telling us ...
[01:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:23] <exec> 08└─Steve Wynn, Don Shooter, Blake Farenthold, Trent Franks, Patrick Meehan, Jeff Hoover, Dan Johnson. Note: These are all either elected Republicans or people who work for the Republican party. Not just people who happened to donate to Clinton once or work for the "Fake News."
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[01:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:34] <exec> 08└─If it must phone home, it is not yours.
[01:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:36] <exec> 08└─Some engineer is quickly putting the final touches on a time machine to warp back to the best possible time to sneak as a passenger into a certain roadster on a trip to far far away... What? Go back two days to renew a certificate on time, or at least far enough to buy stocks or cryptocurrency last...
[01:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:38] <exec> 08└─Sure, your computer monitor doesn't have eye tracking, accelerometers, etc. but there should be no need to connect to the Internet to use the device. And we don't need to see game exclusivity for Oculus, Vive, etc. Certainly there are privacy concerns, since a top application will be VR 360 DEGREE P...
[01:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:40] <exec> 08└─This is why being an early-adopter is retartet. Shit, you still have motherfuckers standing in 2 mile-long lines and camping out in front of stores to pay a grand for a piece of iTrash that's more redundant and proprietary than ever before. Early adoption should come with a free dev kit and free or...
[01:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine Remains Elusive - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying all vaccines are bullshit, but the flu vaccines most certainly are. You might have got one for free, but somebody paid the manufacturer to procure it. Take a look around you, man. You see those same people bragging about getting their vaccines getting sick more than the people who did...
[02:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 1464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:17] <exec> 08└─FOCAL looks like it would require a telescope well outside the heliosphere, as it needs to be about 600AU, and the heliosphere seems to be about 120AU according to my quick Wikipedia research, so that's sorta doing what I suggested, but of course for a very different reason. One big problem with it,...
[02:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Recruit Civilian Astronauts, Partner With Russia on Upcoming Missions - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:27] <exec> 08└─The liberals scoff at this. I think the more religious conservatives might take it seriously: Repeal the 22nd, which has only been in place for less time than Trump has been alive, and allow presidents to last as long as the people intended. I mean it took 150 years to get ratified in the first plac...
[02:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:11] <exec> 08└─So. Yeah. "Go fuck yourself, you childish moron."
[02:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Security for Durable Goods - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:10] <exec> 08└─Because some people accept crap, the market share of crap increases until crap is all we have to choose from.
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[02:59:40] <exec> 08└─> a top application will be VR 360 DEGREE PORN. Reminds me I need to buy more hospital shares, and find a good fund based on chiropractors' revenues.
[02:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:41] <exec> 08└─This is why being an early-adopter is retarted
[02:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:44] <exec> 08└─> a top application will be VR 360 DEGREE PORN. ...and find a good fund based on chiropractors' revenues.
[02:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:46] <exec> 08└─Sure, your computer monitor doesn't have eye tracking, accelerometers, etc. but there should be no need to connect to the Internet to use the device.
[02:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:48] <exec> 08└─from the.support FAQ: Open OculusPatchMarch2018.exe. If Windows asks you if you’re sure you want to open this file, click Yes.If Windows Defender prompts "Windows protected your PC", click More info and then click Run anyway.If your antivirus software restricts the file from opening, temporarily d...
[02:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:51] <exec> 08└─Reasons not to be a VR early adopter: 1. High cost. 2. Not enough content available. 3. Tethered high-end headsets instead of wireless. 4. 100-110 degree field of view, instead of ~200. 5. You could just use your smartphone to do it with a $5 piece of cardboard, and upgrade later. 6. Lower resolutio...
[02:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:53] <exec> 08└─thinking about it now would be a good time to release a crypto mining malware named OculusPatchMarch2018.exe but I am not motivated enough by monetary gain blame the cheap abundant Canadian pseudo legal weed...
[02:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:55] <exec> 08└─Holy shit, only 100-110 with a 200 degree cap? Man, am I doubly glad I never even considered going that route. How the fuck can you have full and fast spherical rotation in gaming with such poor specs with VR headsets? Not saying that VR should be even close to that standard, but much more could be...
[02:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:58] <exec> 08└─Well, you are required to connect your high-end computer to the internet to operate the hardware... Didn't you know that the Rift only needs the equivalent of a Radeon 5850 to run? I'd be a shame if anything prevented the ETH miner from installing properly.
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[03:00:00] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of that time I illegally stole a barebones keylogger written in C++ and with source code easily Googled. With it was probably 20-30 lines which included writing all keystrokes to a text file. Place in startup folder, rename it "svchost.exe," and you're good to go. By the way, the program...
[03:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine Remains Elusive - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:09] <exec> 08└─I think I might have contracted a short bout of Autism after a vaccination one time. I'm ok now, but Jesus I screamed like a banshee when that needle went in, then I passed out. Woke up a few seconds later and I was fully Autistic I tell you. Lasted a couple of hours that Autism did. I was a lucky o...
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[03:00:11] <exec> 08└─Ahh, Lenny aka Jimbob, you're still alive. I almost forgot about your story. And I can't pander to this crowd unless I have some real-life inspiration. Unfortunately what you did was so heinous that I'm going to have to sit back and think whether or not these folks should hear it. Nobody was harmed,...
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[03:00:41] <exec> 08└─Wonder if there's a way to utilize an array plus degree of backscatter to look for space junk. Backscatter would make sense to detect reflected radiation from a sensor or irregulary-shaped target (asteroid belt or space junk) in motion with respect to each other, but from the perspective of a single...
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[03:00:43] <exec> 08└─The space-elevator concept is to space enthusiasts as Yakub or Xenu are to religious people. Let that comparison sink in for a moment.
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[03:00:45] <exec> 08└─Little-known fun-fact - The Romulan Warbirds of the 24th century were designed by Space Jews. Their space-saving overall design makes them economical (space in a vacuum is free of cost), and their foresection [siriusreplicas.com] makes them instantly identifiable.
[03:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:47] <exec> 08└─It would be cool to stick a huge ground telescope on a moon of Planet Nine (700+ AU away). Assuming they both exist.
[03:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:49] <exec> 08└─What about polarization - either linear or radial? But yeah, even that only pushes it up to possible modulations... though I honestly don't know if anyone is seriously looking at polarization at all. Heck, for all I know the interstellar medium might destroy polarization, which could actually be an...
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[03:00:52] <exec> 08└─Only on Earth, and only the beanstalk variety. Earth-based "beanstalk" space elevators are so far at the extreme edge of feasability that they look increasingly unlikely to ever be possible - Carbon nanotubes, which we have good reason to suspect are approaching the physical limits of tensile streng...
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[03:02:01] <exec> 08└─> As a result, it is hard to get "the masses" to care, until it is someone they know or something in which they, as an individual, get caught up. DRM also gets phased in gradually a little step at a tiime to prevent pushback, as we see in the Vulkan 1.1 spec, the UEFI spec , and the HTML5 spec. "no...
[03:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DARPA Creates Biostasis Program - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:00] <exec> 08└─but idiocracy coming!
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[03:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:34] <exec> 08└─Nerve agents including Sarin and VX are manufactured by the British Government in Porton Down, just 8 miles from where Sergei Skripal was attacked. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk [craigmurray.org.uk] Skripal is no Litvinenko https://www.craigmurray.org.uk
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[03:59:36] <exec> 08└─The toxicity of nerve agents is such that a person involved in delivery of the agent incurs extreme risk merely by being in proximity to the agent. Because of this, I am curious about how the agent was delivered, and whether it was airborne, or whether actual skin contact was used as in the case of...
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[03:59:38] <exec> 08└─That is true, Litvinenko was murdered through radioactive isotopes. The signature of using nerve agents invokes North Korea but the murder of foreign spies with respect to Russia was taking advantage of all this. Now, if you compare these British murders with any taking place in North America, we ha...
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[03:59:59] <exec> 08└─The word you are looking for is monitor. Not TV.
[04:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:01] <exec> 08└─Eye tracking headsets can lower detail in the places you aren't looking at, decreasing the necessary specs. https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] 200 degree FOV is able to cover most of the FOV humans can see if the...
[04:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:03] <exec> 08└─Certainly there are privacy concerns, since a top application will be VR 360 DEGREE PORN.
[04:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:05] <exec> 08└─You kids are still ficking around with "VR"? It's been over hyped since the 1990s and you still somehow think it is new. Yea, DOOM was a huge breakthrough for consumer equipment, but really, do tell me what you think you are going to DO with it besides play games? Ok, so all you want to do is play g...
[04:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:50] <exec> 08└─This is BS. Tay was a creation of Microsoft, and as such was an official speaker for MS, and showed us exactly what that company stands for. If you buy from Microsoft, you're supporting a company that really believes that Hitler did nothing wrong. They said it themselves. Do you want your money goin...
[04:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Researchers Develop Non-Line-of-Sight LIDAR Imaging Procedure - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:20] <exec> 08└─Humans also can't see backwards, yet cars now come with back-facing cameras to be viewed by humans. The same goes for IR, radar, etc.
[04:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:02] <exec> 08└─Think about it. Armed crooks hold up a video store and kill the teller, take all the cash and a dozen DVD's. Now taking DVD's without paying is copyright infringement, especially when the cops catch the crooks watching the videos with friends. Now we have the serious crime of copyright infringement....
[04:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insulator Or Superconductor? Physicists Find Graphene Is Both - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:05] <exec> 08└─If the temperature is 100, I don't want to be in that room!
[04:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:19] <exec> 08└─I have often found that knowledge is kept outside the walls of educational institutions.
[04:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:20] <exec> 08└─It most likely was. Specifically limbs, likely along with at least one other dangly appendage.
[04:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:22] <exec> 08└─Stop objectifying 15-year old males! It wasn't that long ago when a boy became a man at age thirteen.
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[04:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:44] <exec> 08└─You are one paranoid son of a bitch. Get some help.
[04:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:45] <exec> 08└─Suck me off, bitch. The United States of America will never fall!
[04:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:48] <exec> 08└─they are small molecules, so any form of exposure will work. However, they do degrade quite fast. Without wanting to speculate, it is not hard imagining coating a surface commonly touched by either party. Vanishingly small quantities are needed, and the very fact they managed to get treatment sugges...
[04:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:50] <exec> 08└─Nerve agents including Sarin and VX are manufactured by the British Government in Porton Down, just 8 miles from where Sergei Skripal was attacked.
[04:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:52] <exec> 08└─The sanctity of the US was never under discussion. You're obviously seriously mentally disturbed. I intend to refer your comments to the US authorities, who may find your behavior interesting enough to warrant further investigation.
[05:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:17] <exec> 08└─We have an internal app that is not on the app store, and once a year all devices need to have the app reinstalled to pick up the updated Apple developer signature.
[05:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:19] <exec> 08└─What about the practice of using kill dates, without any graceful degradation? Go from working perfectly one second to dead, snuffed it, turned toes up to the daisies, like Monty Python's dead parrot, in the next second. Shouldn't that get some of the blame? Haven't we seen enough troubles from need...
[05:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:21] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen ANYONE propose a solution to the problem. You call yourself nerds? I proposed this solution Wednesday evening: 1) Set up internal NTP server with wrong time. Point server infrastructure at NTP server. Servers now think certificate is good. 2) Compile client-side software that a) synch...
[05:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:07] <exec> 08└─Exactly!
[05:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adult Neurogenesis in Doubt - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:37] <exec> 08└─This is what capitalist funding of science and science journalism looks like. Capitalists are like children and want shinies. Scientists who make shinies are successful. Journalists who report on shinies are successful. Soon, you've created a culture in both professions to inject as much hype as pos...
[05:03:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:28] <exec> 08└─It's about 3x the per capita spending of the UK's National Health Service, while covering only 1/4 of the population, while the NHS covers 100% of the population. So government in the USA spends about 12x more per covered person than the UK does and get poorer results. Yay, the free market at work!
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[05:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:37] <exec> 08└─What is this thing "xanthan gum" I see on ingredient lists so often?
[05:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:52] <exec> 08└─Tell them to suck me off. The United States of America will never falll!
[05:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:54] <exec> 08└─I feel strangely dirty for modding up a foe, but for once the commentary is worthy.
[06:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:23] <exec> 08└─MY monitor has a TV tuner built in as well, or is it my TV also functions as a monitor. "You got peanut butter in my chocolate...", said Officer Reeses
[06:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:24] <exec> 08└─Evidence based practice largely eliminates chiropractors within the field of allied health professions.
[06:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:26] <exec> 08└─While true, that's not relevant in today's world context. Proof: chiropractors exist in non-trivial amount and they do earn a living on the (literally) back of those who call for their services.
[06:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:11] <exec> 08└─Giving/funding healthcare to the poor and needy is most certainly cheaper than waiting for them to show up in an emergency room with no healthcare and being treated on the public dole. A national healthcare system in the US would save billions, but after the BigPharma and Insurance companies get don...
[06:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400,000 Servers Using Exim May be at Risk of Serious Code-Execution Attacks - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:55] <exec> 08└─Why is vi and emacs on that list? vi is barely configurable [1], and works out of the box anyway. Emacs is an Emacs Lisp interpreter. Complaining about configuring Emacs is like complaining about configuring Perl. As far as languages go, Perl might actually be below Emacs Lisp since Emacs Lisp is re...
[06:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Security for Durable Goods - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:19] <exec> 08└─He was just carrying on an old tradition that goes back to at least Hammurabi [lexology.com] if not earlier. [229] If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death. [230] If...
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[06:59:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:56] <exec> 08└─Nerve agents including Sarin and VX are manufactured by the British Government in Porton Down, just 8 miles from where Sergei Skripal was attacked.
[07:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:00] <exec> 08└─Seems like something you could build into a jacket. Just have a pressurized capsule, and a nozzle hidden in the back, trigger it with your hand in your pocket as you walk by them on the bench. Proceed to your hotel room for decontamination. You must be stealthy, remember that park bench likely had a...
[07:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:03] <exec> 08└─Russia is using exotic weapons (polonium, nerve agent, etc.) because this sends a message. Everybody knows that Putin can kill defectors with impunity. He doesn't have to succeed every time. The goal here is to make all defectors afraid of being killed. It isn't important to kill a specific person....
[07:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:05] <exec> 08└─You think that Libertarians work at the CDC? Surely the CDC is the opposite of what Libertarians stand for.
[07:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:07] <exec> 08└─In fact a police officer who merely helped Skripal is also very ill in hospital.
[07:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:38] <exec> 08└─But wouldn't the actor know he was acting? And cloud your experience with the fallout of that? Also his head could still only look in one direction, and his eyes focus at one focal depth... so no freedom to look around. Enjoy randomly staring at the ceiling during the "don't look down while i wizz"...
[07:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:39] <exec> 08└─Fuck headsets that require proprietary software and online activation to use. I want a goddamn VR headset that I can use anywhere, any time, and ideally has a fallback mode for use as a regular 1080p monitor if the device it is plugged into doesn't actually have VR support (meaning support for warpi...
[07:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:42] <exec> 08└─Much as I hate them, this isn't a "phone home"/always connected style flaw. The certificate expiration just means that the driver won't load past a certain date/time since the signing certificate used by the driver has expired. This happens when the time rolls forward, connected or not. This was ref...
[07:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Researchers Develop Non-Line-of-Sight LIDAR Imaging Procedure - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:58] <exec> 08└─Has anyone heard anything about how well all these radar and LIDAR systems operate with each other. Will a street full of them cause interference with each other? These systems work outside of human visual range, but other animals have different ranges. What is all our 'light' pollution doing to eve...
[07:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wave Computing and Others Adopt 64-Bit MIPS Cores - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:12] <exec> 08└─The CPU insists that those unused bits remain zero (rather than just ignoring them like a 68000), so people wouldn't be tempted to put random garbage in there that would only cause problems in the future.
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[07:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:50] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia has an entry [wikipedia.org]. Essentialy a polysaccharide, something that resembles starch. Used as an additive to industrially produced salad sauces as a thickening/emulsifier agent.
[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:12] <exec> 08└─If the attempt were serious
[08:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:13] <exec> 08└─The goal here is to make all defectors afraid of being killed. It isn't important to kill a specific person.
[08:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 1651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:16] <exec> 08└─Some news sources are reporting that over 20 people have been treated for ill effects relating to the incident. *If* that's true (lots of rumours still) and those ill effects are a result of the nerve agent used then a contaminated surface contact seem like the most likely delivery method as that wo...
[08:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe. Maybe not. The 3 ring circus going on serves their ends just fine.
[08:00:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:26] <exec> 08└─If it must phone home, it is not yours.
[08:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:39] <exec> 08└─any technologically advanced aliens out there—build enough satellites, they'll eventually become dense enough to leave a faint shadow around the planet
[08:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Researchers Develop Non-Line-of-Sight LIDAR Imaging Procedure - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:11] <exec> 08└─Sample a 2D array of points and then calculate the attributes of the 3D scene, instead of the other way around. If they can get this working in realtime, would the same hardware be suitable for realtime raytracing?
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[09:00:13] <exec> 08└─Russia has a few people buy a piddly amount of advertising, amounting to 0.005% of the amount spent in the election, using it to generate a bit of strife such as that New York protest with Michael Moore... and what does it matter? This does not embarrass Putin at home in Russia. If you are ex-KGB an...
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[09:00:48] <exec> 08└─Certainly there are privacy concerns, since a top application will be VR 360 DEGREE PORN.
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[09:05:20] <exec> 08└─Usage. Using a line-editor is a dumb idea in the modern world. There's no use-case where it's sensible compared to a more modern editor. Emacs is similarly unhelpful, difficult to use, and quicker to replace than it is to try to learn. Save yourself an AWFUL lot of effort. "apt-get install nano/pico...
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[10:00:14] <exec> 08└─Where "merely helped" is apparently "gave CPR to". Significant exposure is not really surprising if that is the case.
[10:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sustainable Security for Durable Goods - 2233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:47] <exec> 08└─Which was why I was experiencing so much nausea in the new car showroom. Don't get me wrong.. the vans I looked at looked beautiful. It was those tiny tires that looked like one pothole away from failure, plastic "bumpers" that looked poised to make mountainous repair costs out of molehill sized bum...
[10:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sustainable Security for Durable Goods - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:49] <exec> 08└─I sure had a feeling it was the whack-a-mole, because it seemed every time I got a system upgrade, there would be some other program I would now have to install the latest version of before I regained functionality, that is, if it would. I blew the proverbial fuse when Microsoft put out that FTDI c...
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[10:07:51] <exec> 08└─Yup, I sure got a nice warm feeling over rescuing something, and being able to fix it back up to what I really wanted in the first place. I feel I actually own this thing.. not just renting the right to drive it. After my bouts of nausea in the showrooms, I knew really well that what I really wante...
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[11:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:16] <exec> 08└─Skripal is no Litvinenko
[11:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:17] <exec> 08└─Nah, that's the American M.O. Simple and effective. The Russians are death tech geeks.
[11:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:20] <exec> 08└─A corollary: If Skripal's daughter had not fallen ill, there would be far more uncertainty and doubt about what happened to him. He may even have been left on the park bench long enough to die. As such, it could be thought unfortunate for the perpetrators that more than one person was infected (or w...
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[11:00:45] <exec> 08└─What about the practice of using kill dates, without any graceful degradation? Go from working perfectly one second to dead, snuffed it, turned toes up to the daisies, like Monty Python's dead parrot, in the next second. Shouldn't that get some of the blame? Haven't we seen enough troubles from need...
[11:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine Remains Elusive - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:04] <exec> 08└─Thing that was hard still considered difficult, unsolved problem still not solved.
[11:01:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:30] <exec> 08└─Even if feasible I would assume that the timeframe a developing civilization would create large amounts of potentially dangerous debris would be a very short one. Either they would use their resources more effectively or they would come up with a way to remove the potential impactors from orbit. Thu...
[11:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:44] <exec> 08└─We find footprints and even eggshells pretty regularly... Surely a technological civilization would leave artifacts more durable than that. Metal might corrode, but ceramic and glass should last over geological timescales, not to mention stone tools or fossilized bone tools, or the "footprints" of m...
[11:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:45] <exec> 08└─We are really only perfectly adapted to live in the African savanna. But we live in lots of other places too - so much so that most of humanity isn't actually properly adapted to live there any more. While any civilization with sufficient technology will no doubt have certain factions who prefer to...
[11:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:00] <exec> 08└─This is why there is no justice. The rich guy is always right and you're always wrong. Add to that anybody can sue anytime for any reason and we're all dead men walking.
[11:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wave Computing and Others Adopt 64-Bit MIPS Cores - 1794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:35] <exec> 08└─We picked MIPS 8 years ago. If RISC-V had been in the state now that it was then, we'd have picked RISC-V. You have two choices with MIPS now: new MIPS (r6) or old MIPS (r2 or earlier). These are different ISAs that are not compatible. ImagTec wibbled a lot about binary translation for old MIPS code...
[11:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wave Computing and Others Adopt 64-Bit MIPS Cores - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:36] <exec> 08└─A lot of userspace code assumes a 52-bit virtual address space or smaller. This lets it implement NaN boxing (common for implementing languages like JavaScript or Lua), where pointers are stored as invalid floating point NaNs (bits 52-62 all one) and numbers are represented as either valid numbers o...
[11:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wave Computing and Others Adopt 64-Bit MIPS Cores - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:38] <exec> 08└─The CPU does that (except on AArch64 if you set the top-byte-ignore flag), but that doesn't stop people from storing data in the top bits and then clearing them before using the value as a pointer.
[11:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sustainable Security for Durable Goods - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:05] <exec> 08└─My first boss at Chevron - first job out of University - really instigated the value of craftsmanship and good workmanship into me and the other newhires. I clearly remember my boss showing me the refinery when I first arrived. He told me this refinery was here before I was even born. It was. He t...
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[11:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:29] <exec> 08└─Will this extend to having the right to fix Windows? Yes!: Open that source code!
[11:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:49] <exec> 08└─it gave out hundreds of coffee cups made of recycled gum to first-year students.
[12:00:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 730 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:07] <exec> 08└─Russia is using exotic weapons (polonium, nerve agent, etc.) because this sends a message. Everybody knows that Putin can kill defectors with impunity. He doesn't have to succeed every time. The goal here is to make all defectors afraid of being killed. It isn't important to kill a specific person....
[12:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:54] <exec> 08└─Words to live, and die, by.
[12:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:56] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Is there a workaround for the end user? Can you add an exception, set the system date back or self-sign the driver somehow?
[12:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:47] <exec> 08└─The point is, they were so intelligent that they eventually came to the conclusion that littering the planet is a bad idea, so they collected all the artefacts in middle America, where they then destroyed them with a meteorite they directed towards earth for that purpose. Unfortunately they were sti...
[12:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wave Computing and Others Adopt 64-Bit MIPS Cores - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:39] <exec> 08└─I like ARM well enough, it's not a bad architecture, but I also dislike monopolies (or duopolies), and I'm glad to see MIPS making a comeback. Whoever's complaining about compiler support, they're wrong. MIPS has excellent support in gcc and Linux runs on it just fine. My modem runs a MIPS core with...
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[12:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:41] <exec> 08└─Fixing Windows keeps people employed. [wikipedia.org]
[12:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:42] <exec> 08└─... to buy from a company that makes easily reparable equipment. "THERE SHOULD BE A LAW!!!!1111"
[12:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:44] <exec> 08└─Vermont Fair Repair Act https://legislature.vermont.gov [vermont.gov]
[12:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 5166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:47] <exec> 08└─There is another side to "Right to Repair", the flip side is "Right to Know How Stuff Works" If we keep on the path we are presently on, with all sorts of law being passed to keep us ignorant of how our technology works, so a "rightsholder" can use this ignorance to his advantage by programming our...
[12:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Granted Patent For Self-Balancing Robot - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:55] <exec> 08└─> Or just makes it easier for Mark Zuckerberg to watch you do household chores. Or just makes it easier for Mark Zuckerberg to watch you do household chores in the nude. FTFY
[12:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Granted Patent For Self-Balancing Robot - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:57] <exec> 08└─( whatever ) on THE INTERNET. now its... ( whatever ) on A SEGWAY. How about Pizza Delivery on a SEGWAY?
[12:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Granted Patent For Self-Balancing Robot - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:00] <exec> 08└─no way. google > self balancing robot hundreds using arduino. Also TED has one that balances and dances on a ball [3-axis drive] called a "ball-bot", named Rezero. Date July 2011 https://www.ted.com [ted.com]
[13:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:15] <exec> 08└─> so probably best to just ban the gum altogether. Any chance you are having a "king for the day" fantasy?
[13:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:16] <exec> 08└─Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore for this very reason.
[13:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:19] <exec> 08└─Not really. Everyone should form their own opinions about desired policy. Thinking about this stuff is important if you are to be a functional member of a healthy democracy. Not that democracy is especially healthy right now.
[13:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:21] <exec> 08└─To be clear, I don't mean democracy as a philosophy is unhealthy. I mean many attempts at it in the world today are unhealthy.
[13:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:51] <exec> 08└─One can make a statistical determination of the probability that the instances were random. For example, consider the set of all people involved in "X". What is the likelihood that person A would die by chance? What is the likelihood that person A + person B would die, based on e.g. lifestyle factor...
[13:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:52] <exec> 08└─The UK government is taking the line "prove who is guilty then respond" - a responsible line I think. Maybe just a quiet way of flapping/procrastinating/burying, but I can't imagine US government responding in the same way. What was the diplomatic outcome following Litvinenko?
[13:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:30] <exec> 08└─Reality imitates art, once again.
[13:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:31] <exec> 08└─"If it must phone home, it is not yours." "If the gold is in someone else's vault, it is not yours." "If your cryptocurrency key is under someone else's controls, it is not yours."
[13:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:33] <exec> 08└─Suddenly, more camera jobs go to nude women.
[13:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:25] <exec> 08└─Life on this planet has been around for a very long time compared to human recorded history. What makes us say that we are the first to get to space in this solar system? The pseudo-science 'search' assumes that ET's rise to space overlaps us in time. The odds require ET to be around a very long tim...
[13:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adult Neurogenesis in Doubt - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:59] <exec> 08└─Possibly, the rise of the junk science really did coincide with the US government becoming its primary source of funding after WWII though. It seems more like a monoculture problem to me. Before that it was more individual institutions (eg universities) competing with each other and hence double che...
[13:04:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:57] <exec> 08└─And that's how entitlements become a bribe for the status quo. You knuckle under to the corruption just because there are a "few things" that you approve of.
[13:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:35] <exec> 08└─Whether or not I get a flu shot, or vaccinate my child, my premium remains the same. That's not risk management. Now, extrapolate.
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[13:59:34] <exec> 08└─Or is it donated by the taxpayer?
[13:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:36] <exec> 08└─Kind of lame, but I can't wait for the news item (in a few weeks): "TSA intercepts blind terrorist with electronic eggs." Better would be some combination that punned on easter eggs (the software kind)...
[13:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:38] <exec> 08└─Oh come on. Five bucks of componentry, and likely an hour's worth of donated time per egg. A clutch of two hundred eggs comes to a grand. Got to be one of the cheapest ways I've yet seen to maintain and build team morale.
[13:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:49] <exec> 08└─26 years ago Linus Torvalds fixed Windows.
[13:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:51] <exec> 08└─And 19 years ago, I found it and never looked back: but it would be nice to see them have to offer the code, lol.
[14:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:20] <exec> 08└─President Duterte is doing terrific things in the Philippines. He gave me a beautiful shirt, they call it a barong, exactly like his. Except mine is bigger. He says we're made from the same cloth. What an honor! We wore our matching barongs to the ASEAN Summit and turned a lot of heads!!
[14:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:52] <exec> 08└─I agree with the getting the facts straight part - the UK is generally pretty methodical and thorough in situations like this - but don't think the hawks or media will let them get away with just burying it, even if that were the intent. Members of the British public were harmed, including a police...
[14:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 1819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:54] <exec> 08└─Whataboutism? So you're suggesting people should evaluate a narrative in isolation ignoring context? Basically "shut up and swallow the blue pill". Yes, Putin and his hangers on should be suspect, but I also suspect any of the US three letter agencies - gotta love that sweet Russia Russia narrative....
[14:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:35] <exec> 08└─What the heck does FOV have to do with rotation latency?
[14:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:37] <exec> 08└─See also Strange Days [wikipedia.org].
[14:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:39] <exec> 08└─VR headset + drone-mounted camera = first-person flight
[14:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:41] <exec> 08└─Anti-viruses are so good today they will detect blank executables (ie no CRT loader stub) and an entry point that calls ExitProcess right away as malware. Actual malware? They will still not detect any of that.
[14:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:35] <exec> 08└─We like to pretend we are. When we survive the first global extinction event to hit us without throwing us back to the stoneage we might deserve that label.
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[14:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:37] <exec> 08└─They should be blocking the letters F U C K Y and O from the internet and ask $20 to unblock those letters. It is much more easy and efficient to block letters than porn. While they are at it, they should block any number representing a color that may resemble skin too. That can be done just as easi...
[14:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:38] <exec> 08└─Not long ago, the governments of the United States also outlawed beer. People, the government is not your friend; the government is not you. The government is a violently imposed monopoly to which are drawn psychopathic power-trippers who get themselves off by controlling other people's lives.
[14:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:40] <exec> 08└─This proposal is obscene! Who do I contact to get all mentions of it removed from the Series Of Tubes? (AKA who decides what is "porn"?)
[14:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:43] <exec> 08└─What is Ciccone and Gallo doing on the internet? He hasn't updated his twitter-feed since September'16 and she hasn't updated hers since March 2017. Are they to busy watching all the porn before they take it away? I don't see any kind of solution on their part on how this great Rhode Island pornbloc...
[14:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:45] <exec> 08└─I'll bet an automatic shotgun fired at the computer in question will stop the porn.
[14:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:47] <exec> 08└─AKA who decides what is "porn"?
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:50] <exec> 08└─(AKA who decides what is "porn"?)
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─It works in China. President Xi is about to start his 6th year in office. He's doing great, he's President for Life. He has the Golden Shield, it blocks the letter "N" when it's by itself. Not in words. It blocks pornography. And when you go to China you can't bring porn magazines or videos. Unless...
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─While they are at it, they should block any number representing a color that may resemble skin too.
[14:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:57] <exec> 08└─(AKA who decides what is "porn"?)
[14:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:59] <exec> 08└─How about we make it so that in order to obtain access to the internet we pay a company a fee. With that fee we gain access to their service and we can go to whatever website we want. I propose we call these companies Internet Service Providers, ISP for short, and we make information readily availab...
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:10] <exec> 08└─It's easy to belittle them for complaining about it, too.
[15:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:12] <exec> 08└─Nah, more like a 50 cents to a buck for the parts (the battery is probably the most expensive), and after the first few, someone experienced with a soldering iron can probably do 10-20 an hour. If you really want to do a lot of them (giving 50 kids a handful to take home translates into quite a lot)...
[15:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:14] <exec> 08└─It's easy to donate other peoples resources. It's easy to belittle them for complaining about it, too.
[15:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:17] <exec> 08└─As demand for competent AI to filter out internet porn from Rhode Island has depleted the pool of qualified bomb handling robots, a new generation of visually impaired people are being trained to fill the gap. Sergeant Jarrett Seal commented to the Associated Press, "those blind kids won't be discou...
[15:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:19] <exec> 08└─So, they do explode, those eggs, eh?
[15:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:21] <exec> 08└─If the kids would make those devices (*), and someone sees them, the bomb squad would immediately have a professional job and much trouble would ensue. (*) extra hilarity points: for the squad to enjoy a playful easter...
[15:00:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 5166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:33] <exec> 08└─There is another side to "Right to Repair", the flip side is "Right to Know How Stuff Works" If we keep on the path we are presently on, with all sorts of law being passed to keep us ignorant of how our technology works, so a "rightsholder" can use this ignorance to his advantage by programming our...
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[15:00:37] <exec> 08└─You didn't mention copyright, which is routinely abused to lock away knowledge and keep people in the dark. Buying groceries is stealing from the fast food industry. Reading an instruction manual is stealing from service workers! Owning your own car is stealing from rental car agencies! Parking your...
[15:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:39] <exec> 08└─The code? What, you want to see the dirty laundry of Redmond? Okay, but viewing it needs to be "R" rated - think of the children!
[15:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there should be a law. In fact, when a "rights holder" wants a new law, he generally runs to the state capital, or maybe the national capital, fornicates with a few lawmakers, gets them drunk, high, and gives them reelection money - and he gets his law. Disney, Hollywierd, the record labels, J...
[15:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Granted Patent For Self-Balancing Robot - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:53] <exec> 08└─It looks like you're trying to build Clippy! Would you like help with that?
[15:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metal-Free Catalyst Extends The Range Of Ester Synthesis - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:00] <exec> 08└─How are we supposed to comment on this story? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? Thanks for submitting a science story, BTW. Still, a story like this will get like 4 comments total.
[15:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:15] <exec> 08└─it gave out hundreds of coffee cups made of recycled gum to first-year students.
[15:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:50] <exec> 08└─So you're suggesting people should evaluate a narrative in isolation ignoring context?
[15:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:51] <exec> 08└─A long time ago, yes... often a prerequisite for declassification. Kennedy personally rejected the plan. I wonder why the US doesn't have leaders like him anymore?
[15:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:54] <exec> 08└─> The outcome after Litvinenko is in TFS I guess I didn't even read TFS, let alone TFA. Mod me down :) > There's also been talk of some form of political boycott of the World Cup, although that was mostly Boris Johnson so might not actually have any grounds in reality. I note that Russia has been al...
[15:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:38] <exec> 08└─This is why being an early-adopter is retarded
[15:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:39] <exec> 08└─Not only boring, but insultingly boring.
[15:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:42] <exec> 08└─I am not modding it up because I wanted to reply to tell people that this is funny!
[15:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wave Computing and Others Adopt 64-Bit MIPS Cores - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:29] <exec> 08└─Glad to see 70's tech is still alive.
[15:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:46] <exec> 08└─I did cycle everywhere. I was in Saga Prefecture on Kyushu. It was quite rural. There was no subway. There was a light rail spur that connected Nagasaki to Fukuoka, but didn't fan out into the prefecture. Buses were infrequent. There is even less room for bikes in Japan than there is in the United S...
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[15:59:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:40] <exec> 08└─This proposal is obscene! Who do I contact to get all mentions of it removed from the Series Of Tubes? (AKA who decides what is "porn"?)
[15:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:50] <exec> 08└─Are they to busy watching all the porn before they take it away?
[15:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:52] <exec> 08└─Once they've created the list of ALL web pages (and FTP sites, and............) containing porn, do I get a copy of that list for my $20? For research purposes, of course. I need to teach my AI how to recognize which 1s and 0s are naughty. BTW I saw something resembling an almost-bare boobie on Face...
[15:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:54] <exec> 08└─They ARE doing it wrong. Instead . . . Charge $20 to BLOCK pr0n instead of charging to unblock it. People that don't want to see it could pay $20, or they could have that much touted "personal responsibility" and also exercise some parental control. Or pay $20. One thing that should be enshrined int...
[15:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:57] <exec> 08└─It seems at this point that any legislator that proposes censoring anything should be required to pay a fee for even suggesting it. Burning books. Preventing publication of anything. Blocking or interfering with internet connections. In any form. The mere suggestion of it, let alone introduction of...
[15:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:59] <exec> 08└─I am a member of FUCKU [lewisblack.com].
[16:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:01] <exec> 08└─Instead of sitting in bed and looking at porn.
[16:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:04] <exec> 08└─As a Bernie fan, I'm continually amazed at how incredibly stupid many Democrat politicians are, and how happy they are to shoot themselves in the foot, and also to make themselves unpalatable to voters. They do stupid shit like this, and then wonder why they lose elections. Incredible.
[16:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:06] <exec> 08└─They're hoping to be invaded by the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
[16:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:08] <exec> 08└─since like year 2000 or so... (Locate all porn on teh intarwebs.)
[16:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:11] <exec> 08└─Looks like the Bible will be banned in Rhode Island. It contains descriptions of sexual activity. When someone asks "Why are you so mean to Christians, what did they do to you?", I can point to bullshit like this. Zealots will override your rights at every opportunity if you let them. Religious, pol...
[16:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:13] <exec> 08└─This country has *never* been "land of the free", it's just jingoist BS someone made up. Alcoholic drinks were illegal not that long ago as you point out. Around that time, black Americans were third-class citizens and generally couldn't vote, and were routinely murdered with no due process. Shortly...
[16:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:15] <exec> 08└─Stupidity is bipartisan.
[16:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:17] <exec> 08└─This proposal is obscene! Who do I contact to get all mentions of it removed from the Series Of Tubes?
[16:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:20] <exec> 08└─What is the point if people can just dodge around the restriction. Penalties are another consideration. Could they put people on a sex offender registry for accessing porn without a licence?
[16:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:22] <exec> 08└─Democratic voting is all about one group taking stuff from another group. I'll note that not long after women got the vote, beer was outlawed.
[16:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:24] <exec> 08└─What's the point of charging $20? To fund the filtering effort? If anything, it's the others who supposedly "benefit" from this hare-brained ass-backward scheme.
[16:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:27] <exec> 08└─It is one of those a law that everybody breaks in a regular basis so if police wants to screw you, you are always guilty. It is not a law to prevent porn, it is a law to rise money and to have a weapon against everybody
[16:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:29] <exec> 08└─As a Bernie fan, I'm continually amazed at how incredibly stupid many Democrat politicians are, and how happy they are to shoot themselves in the foot, and also to make themselves unpalatable to voters. They do stupid shit like this, and then wonder why they lose elections. Incredible.
[16:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:44] <exec> 08└─It's easy to belittle them for complaining about it, too.
[16:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:46] <exec> 08└─Ah so that's it was the bomb squad.
[16:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:48] <exec> 08└─This seems nice, but how many times is the bomb squad going to be called out for small unidentified beeping packages. To me it looks like perfect job security wrapped up in some poorly thought out PR exercise.
[16:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:50] <exec> 08└─It is kind of ironic that the bomb squad is making "scary beeping electronic things" to hide
[16:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:07] <exec> 08└─I just had to go rant again, eh?
[16:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:09] <exec> 08└─Well, there was the big leak a decade or so ago. That was fun. Took me all of half an hour to find a buffer overrun exploit in an image parser. There was no bounty back in those days, so I never did anything with it.
[16:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Granted Patent For Self-Balancing Robot - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:20] <exec> 08└─Has Facebook infiltrated your life?
[16:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Metal-Free Catalyst Extends The Range Of Ester Synthesis - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:28] <exec> 08└─Love me some chemistry
[16:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:44] <exec> 08└─Several countries have on-the-spot fines for littering, and chewing gum counts as litter. I approve of this. I also approve of having more bobbies on the beat to enforce it. And yes, I am a taxpayer, and yes, I know it costs money. Which is why we should be fining McDonalds for all McDonalds litter...
[16:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:46] <exec> 08└─Don't ask me to drink out of one of those cups, I just can't do it.
[16:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder why the US doesn't have leaders like him anymore?
[16:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:25] <exec> 08└─Just browse the old declassified stuff - they were planning on a false flag goddamned terrorist campaign on **US soil** just so they could attribute it to Castro.
[16:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:27] <exec> 08└─> they went through considerable effort to free him Exactly, so they've now paid for him, and can do with him what they want. If that includes being renta-victim, so be it. Successful false flag operations can be valuable, it's just a trade, that's all. What else would they do with him. I'm not sayi...
[16:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I didn't complete the whataboutism above. You mentioned a "plan" by the US for false flag terrorist attacks, ignoring that it was far from being something serious. Meanwhile, we have an likely false flag terrorist attack, the kidnapping of a US ambassador, with heavy Soviet involvement in 197...
[16:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:32] <exec> 08└─Exactly, so they've now paid for him, and can do with him what they want.
[16:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:19] <exec> 08└─You can't self sign the driver, but according to the Ars story Some users have reported that changing a computer's date to an earlier one makes the Oculus usable.
[16:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:20] <exec> 08└─> I actually haven't put on a damn VR headset despite talking about it so much, but I expect 100 degree is worse for immersion. In my experience (with both the DK1 and the Vive), you adapt to it very quickly (i.e. don't notice you can't see peripheral). The screen-door effect is more noticeable beca...
[16:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:22] <exec> 08└─I remember these atrocious VR things that were all over malls in the 90's, and then the trend just tanked entirely. But like "3D" and smell-o-vision they dig this out every 20 years and hope it sticks this time around.
[16:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine Remains Elusive - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:33] <exec> 08└─First you develop the universal flu, then you will be able to develop the universal flu vaccine, duh.
[16:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:18] <exec> 08└─You'll get your data! In about four days....
[16:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:20] <exec> 08└─That is about the distance of the heliopause, if we haven't moved the cheese again on the Voyager data [xkcd.com]. (Actually, no, the second heliopause announcement seems to have been a PR agent error [arstechnica.com]). But at lunch the other day we were talking about Voyager which got me to look u...
[16:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:34] <exec> 08└─Really? Well I suppose cash register systems are somewhat more complicated now than in 1990, its believable. Most of the foolishness they put us thru was to prove lack of not just recipient fraud but corporate fraud too. Staple the receipt to the deposited check and write some number from the end us...
[16:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:35] <exec> 08└─Agreed with the caveat that more reliable home delivery IS a better deal for your money, so even then... Thats why I kinda liked my standard SN automobile analogy in that Toyotas are generally not cheaper than GM but the "total lifetime cost of ownership" is likely better overall, aside from intangi...
[16:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:37] <exec> 08└─Thus, if you want health care reform, you need to convince a clear majority of the country that you need it.
[16:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:40] <exec> 08└─Cases 1 and 2 imply property tax funding for medical care. Its a direct relationship. Case 1 virtually all non-ER care my elderly ancestors get comes from the closest provider, and only 1/3 of the US people have jobs, so for 2/3 of the population, closest provider will always be closest to home, whe...
[16:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:42] <exec> 08└─I admit I've noticed the std deviation creep up over the years, in the old days, "two day shipping" meant "two days" but now it seems to mean "sometimes free same day if over $25, sometimes next week, but it averages out to two days". To some extent it doesn't matter, if I need it right now, like we...
[16:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─Well, that's been my experience as well. I'm pretty sure that their argument is "fuck you, get Prime or wait like back in 1995". Personally, I don't care, if I really need something, I go to a store. And in 99.99% of the cases, I don't need it that bad, that soon. My wife signed up for Prime and lov...
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[16:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 1318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:37] <exec> 08└─I watched the launch online with a friend and we remarked that this was a missed opportunity for President Trump. He could have been out on that Florida beach watching with everyone else and pressing the flesh. Doesn't even matter, if the rocket didn't fly (it almost didn't, running to 15 minutes be...
[16:59:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─They ARE doing it wrong. Instead . . . Charge $20 to BLOCK pr0n instead of charging to unblock it. People that don't want to see it could pay $20, or they could have that much touted "personal responsibility" and also exercise some parental control. Or pay $20. One thing that should be enshrined int...
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[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─It seems at this point that any legislator that proposes censoring anything should be required to pay a fee for even suggesting it. Burning books. Preventing publication of anything. Blocking or interfering with internet connections. In any form. The mere suggestion of it, let alone introduction of...
[17:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:14] <exec> 08└─It might have been a man-boob; is that OK?
[17:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:15] <exec> 08└─See how you're not just routinely downmodded these days? Thanks for not spamming ad much / anymore.
[17:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:17] <exec> 08└─Not the other way around.
[17:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:20] <exec> 08└─I mean, I can see both Democrats and Republicans trying to do this. The Democrats, because as liberals they know better than us how we should live our lives and want to forcibly "help" us in that regard, the Republicans because porn is dirty and unBiblical so ban it while they all secretly are addic...
[17:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:22] <exec> 08└─I have said for awhile that Kathleen Falk should start a university. They could call it something catchy, like...I dunno...Falk U.
[17:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:24] <exec> 08└─Grishna, If you maintain an absolutist standard, then there has never been nor will there EVER be a free country in the entire world. This doesn't seem to a useful standard. Better is one that recognizes that freedom is an ideal that we strive towards so that we can make progress towards attaining t...
[17:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:27] <exec> 08└─People can already buy software to do that.
[17:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:29] <exec> 08└─I will also add that you can't apply TODAY'S moral standards to centuries past and expect everyone to have held them. That's asking too much. If you go by that standard, then people who were held as moral EVEN 10 YEARS AGO would now be considered oppressive ogres because, as one example, they didn't...
[17:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:48] <exec> 08└─It's easy to donate other peoples resources. It's easy to belittle them for complaining about it, too. Show me the evidence they are donating other people's resources, your fucking eyed-shit!
[17:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember it. I was too afraid to look. To be fair, as much as I'll bash Microsoft, to some extent their development tools, and to a larger extent the example code and "how to use this function" explanations have been really good for a long time. My irritation with development tools, and the...
[17:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:45] <exec> 08└─I don't mean making plastics out of old gum, but the fact that you can do so means it probably shouldn't go in your mouth in the first place.
[17:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:28] <exec> 08└─Skripal is no Litvinenko No, but he is a possible Steel dossier source. [telegraph.co.uk]
[17:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:19] <exec> 08└─But wouldn't the actor know he was acting? And cloud your experience with the fallout of that? Also his head could still only look in one direction, and his eyes focus at one focal depth... so no freedom to look around. Enjoy randomly staring at the ceiling during the "don't look down while i wizz"...
[17:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you'd really need a more powerful rocket for a decent mission to 600AU. I also wonder what the transmission delay would be, and how much trouble they'd have maintaining radio communication over that distance.
[17:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:18] <exec> 08└─We find footprints and even eggshells pretty regularly... Surely a technological civilization would leave artifacts more durable than that. Metal might corrode, but ceramic and glass should last over geological timescales, not to mention stone tools or fossilized bone tools, or the "footprints" of m...
[17:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodi Media Player Addon Developers Under Pressure from ACE, Dish Network - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:34] <exec> 08└─Yes. We call it a kitty. [youtube.com]
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[17:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:43] <exec> 08└─No we certainly [wikipedia.org] have not seen rocket launches [wikipedia.org] from the United States in such a very long time [wikipedia.org].
[17:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:44] <exec> 08└─He at least had a model of an Atlas V in front of him. So he wasn't just speaking of the Falcon Heavy or SpaceX. Looking at the actual video, it's very staged, but at least he's not using a teleprompter. That's how things are. And I have to agree with him. We've had launches back all the way to the...
[17:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:47] <exec> 08└─The amount of virtue-signalling in the comment section is staggering, it seems they feel they have to stumble over each other to show how much they despise Trump. This goes so far that the actual message - SLS is overly expensive compared to Falcon Heavy, also Falcon Heavy exists while SLS is still...
[17:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:49] <exec> 08└─Ars Technica is one big circlejerk.
[17:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:51] <exec> 08└─A president doesn't have the time to learn everything about every topic that comes up. The solution is to get summaries from staff, and read a lot at every occasion. If you don't know much, don't get in front of the press, or keep it short. This president doesn't like to read, takes time to watch a...
[17:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:53] <exec> 08└─It's one of only two places where I got banned for merely having an opinion (usual climate change skepticism). The other was a personal blog. Ars Tech created and nutured that environment.
[17:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:56] <exec> 08└─If you want *this* POTUS to show up, create a golf course with a McDonalds near by.
[17:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe this will be the start of the shakeup that NASA desperately needs to adapt to a reality of aggressive space activities by a good portion of the world and financial constraints on the US government. NASA isn't really the problem here. Look at all the stuff they have done on much smaller budgets...
[17:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:00] <exec> 08└─There's really nothing that can be done about all of this.
[18:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:46] <exec> 08└─That's excessive. A 3-pass, random bit disk overwrite should suffice.
[18:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:48] <exec> 08└─There's arguably far more freedom, in general, in this country than at any time in the past. In older days, you only had more freedom if you were white, male, rich enough to own land, and belonged to the correct Christian sect.
[18:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:50] <exec> 08└─People can already buy software to do that.
[18:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:52] <exec> 08└─I'll note that not long after women got the vote, beer was outlawed.
[18:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:54] <exec> 08└─So, your premise is wrong. This is usually the problem with arguments about things like "rights". The premises are wrong.
[18:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:57] <exec> 08└─The trajectory of the U.S. is correct, but that doesn't mean the underlying system is correct—you can be right, but for the wrong reasons. You have an increasingly free society built around an organization that can outlaw (and indeed has outlawed) beer for an entire continent. That's not something...
[18:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:59] <exec> 08└─Most of them are about to get a reprieve from the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - they'll be no longer scrutinized if they have under $250B in assets.
[18:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but this would be doing it "In The Cloud!" You pay $20, and you don't have to install anything, and it's blocked for you. (maybe they should charge $20 / month?)
[18:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:04] <exec> 08└─Just for that, here's a way to crash your Java compiler. But you have to use five Inner's for xyzzy instead of four as I have done. public class CrashTheCompiler<A, B, C, D, E> { class Inner extends CrashTheCompiler<Inner, Inner, Inner, Inner, Inner> { Inner.Inner.Inner.Inner xyzzy...
[18:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:06] <exec> 08└─You have an increasingly free society built around an organization that can outlaw (and indeed has outlawed) beer for an entire continent.
[18:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:09] <exec> 08└─With regards to the first amendment, the US still has free speech zones, FCC censorship, draconian copyright laws, obscenity laws, anti-public nudity laws (which run afoul of free expression), NDLs, laws against whistleblowers, and other such things. We're still not fully respecting the first amendm...
[18:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:11] <exec> 08└─> The "Spam" follows the downmodding. 'Cause throwing a tantrum when the society points out you're being rude is a completely normal thing that non-crazy people do.
[18:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:13] <exec> 08└─You have an amazingly incorrect definition of "continent" - once you realize the scope of your error, you might then wonder what else in your reasoning processes you're getting wrong.
[18:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:15] <exec> 08└─Nobody said that the Federal Congress can outlaw beer for an entire continent; rather, somebody said an organization can outlaw beer for an entire continent. The Federal Congress, along with the State governments, etc., constitute an organization. That's why people can simply say "the government",...
[18:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:18] <exec> 08└─I guess you can also make steel but can you make aluminium?
[18:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:20] <exec> 08└─It sounds like your problem is unsolvable. Maybe you could, instead, plan for your final confrontation with the police. Try to make it newsworthy, like the Branch Davidians, so it brings more attention to the issue.
[18:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:22] <exec> 08└─But since it isn't perfect
[18:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:25] <exec> 08└─I recommend giving all of them that reprieve, not just the small banks.
[18:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:27] <exec> 08└─If that's all you've got, then I have even more confidence in my position.
[18:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:29] <exec> 08└─> There will be a loooong and hard academic study with experts that will evaluate it for years. That's what she said! *snicker* I mean, the real question is, where do I apply?
[18:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:32] <exec> 08└─As pointed out here [soylentnews.org], democracy is not inherently promotional of freedom. I would suggest that democracy should be replaced with capitalism (that is, voluntary trade; that is, law by contracts negotiated in advance of interaction).
[18:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:34] <exec> 08└─If you maintain an absolutist standard
[18:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:36] <exec> 08└─Well crap. I thought it was good enough to just run: wget https://www.pornhub.com [pornhub.com] -r -l inf -p -O /dev/null
[18:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:38] <exec> 08└─Didn't you hear? Perfect is the enemy of good.
[18:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:41] <exec> 08└─his recommendation must reign supreme
[18:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:43] <exec> 08└─That's the deal.
[18:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:45] <exec> 08└─Nobody said that the Federal Congress can outlaw beer for an entire continent; rather, somebody said an organization can outlaw beer for an entire continent. The Federal Congress, along with the State governments, etc., constitute an organization.
[18:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:48] <exec> 08└─You think that egregious violations of people's basic liberties - slavery, the oppression of women, Japanese internment camps, Jim Crow laws, etc. - is merely 'not perfect'? They are far, far worse than 'not perfect'.
[18:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:50] <exec> 08└─How refreshing to see a law I would feel morally obliged to break. No need for grey areas or doubt about right or wrong, this unquestionably unconstitutional. Too bad I will never get this chance, it struck out without much noise last year, and I am not putting it's odds high from anything I have se...
[18:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:52] <exec> 08└─I'm baffled why you think you have a point. Are you saying that outlawing beer (which did happen) is completely consistent with a system intended to foster a free society, where individual rights are protected, especially the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Genuinely, I don't...
[18:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:54] <exec> 08└─Read Song of Solomon [biblegateway.com]. Read Ezekiel chapter 23 [biblegateway.com]. Be sure to check out verse 20, but everything leading up to it is quite a read. In Genesis 19 [biblegateway.com] we have a lovely story of how Lot's daughters [wikipedia.org] got him drunk and then raped him so they...
[18:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:57] <exec> 08└─There is a VERY good reason to propose a law that blocks pr0n and charges people $20 to unblock it. The pr0n industry will become upset and give legislators "campaign contributions" not to do it.
[18:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:59] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that outlawing beer
[18:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:01] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, you've just now made a senseless remark.
[18:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:22] <exec> 08└─Make some beeping easter eggs on beeping easter for beeping visually impaired children and hide them beeping anywhere where any beep can stumble on them and think it is a beeping bomb or some such beep. What could beeping go wrong? :P At lest the beeping bomb squad will already be on hand.
[18:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:24] <exec> 08└─...your fucking eyed-shit
[18:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:26] <exec> 08└─Especially since you or I could get arrested if caught carrying one of these things anywhere that attracted police attention. They'd call the bomb squad to " disrupt" it. Didn't they do that for throwies?
[18:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:28] <exec> 08└─...50 cents to a buck for the parts...
[18:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:31] <exec> 08└─They'd rather get called for a beeping easter egg than a buzzing dildo.
[18:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:33] <exec> 08└─It's a wonderful hollywood fallacy that the bad guy would take the time to wire a beeper, red 7-segment array, and blinking LED, to his carefully hidden bombs.
[18:02:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:47] <exec> 08└─You didn't mention copyright, which is routinely abused to lock away knowledge and keep people in the dark. Buying groceries is stealing from the fast food industry. Reading an instruction manual is stealing from service workers! Owning your own car is stealing from rental car agencies! Parking your...
[18:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:53] <exec> 08└─Well, there was the big leak a decade or so ago.
[18:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:55] <exec> 08└─History tells me nations full of eaters, but few chefs, will only hold together long enough until the men who produce acquire the wealth of those who just eat.
[18:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:58] <exec> 08└─a fellow disciple of +Fravia that guy was a great pedagogue, mighty reverser,awesome linguist and... RIP +fravia
[18:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:17] <exec> 08└─Studying, treating, and helping prevent the spread of diseases is against liberty? If you think the only or even primary thing the CDC does is manage quarantines you are quite mistaken. Even in that case a proper quarantine is a canonical example of a just restriction of individual liberties, I woul...
[18:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:18] <exec> 08└─...modding up a foe...
[18:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:11] <exec> 08└─you're missing the point. the point is if you act like a slave, you will be treated like a slave. you buy slaveware like a groveling piglet and you will get treated like bacon.
[18:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine Remains Elusive - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:23] <exec> 08└─unless you have a specific health situation you're a special kind of dumb ass to get a flu shot. "please shoot me up with unknown bio trash, viruses and chemicals because i might (i likely won't. i almost never do) get the flu". what stupid sheep.
[18:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─600 AU is 3.46 light-days - so a full week for a roundtrip signal. Signal degradation in free space is interesting. We're already getting signal from Voyager past the heliosphere and NASA said they could still run radio communications for another couple of decades with Voyager, alignment thrust issu...
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 1713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─The concentration of metals in ores is something that takes a long time. The dinosaurs isn't far enough back. Now if the trilobites had a technological civilization, I don't think we'd detect it unless they left traces on the moon, and we have explored enough there to rule that out...but the plausib...
[18:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:33] <exec> 08└─There's some legitimacy to your argument, but you'll need to take it up with the supreme court. They decided that cities and counties could not have a residency requirement for social support services.
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[18:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:55] <exec> 08└─Thankfully you won't be banned here, as free expression is prized. A bonus is that we get to laugh at you. Good times!
[18:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:56] <exec> 08└─Aren't echo chambers wonderful? They provide a place for people like myself to play in. No cacophony is complete without a little discord, is it?
[18:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:58] <exec> 08└─The organization can present all the plans they want, it doesn't matter. They'll be overridden when there's a new election and the makeup of Congress changes or there's a new Administration. There's nothing that can be done about it unless you either stop having elections so often (maybe every 20 ye...
[19:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:01] <exec> 08└─Having brought that rogue North Korean to heel, Trump is going to ride a Musk rocket into the heavens, and bring all the aliens to justice! The Orange One will soon rule the galaxy! And he certainly won't rule from some stupid SLS. Sounds like a relic that was rejected by Canon, around 1950. Praise...
[19:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:03] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there. But, you're thinking like a politician. Trump thinks more like a - uhhhh - a Trump. Subject for future research: Does Trump really think, or is he just acting a role? Or, How does Trump thought resemble human thought, while differing so much from human thought?
[19:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:05] <exec> 08└─I can agree with you on that. I know he had a legitimate point to make. I assume it is that it has been awhile since we've had independent manned US capability - a little over 6 years, or had the class of lift capacity that Falcon Heavy will promise. But he is such a poor communicator that he is bum...
[19:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:08] <exec> 08└─Doesn't have time to learn every new topic? Nonsense. The old bastard under discussion has had a lot of time to learn every topic there is to learn. He was born in 1946? What the hell did he spend all his time on since then? I realize he did the wine, women, and song thing - but did he just waste al...
[19:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:10] <exec> 08└─Did you ever think, oh climate denying khallow, that banning is not censorship so much as an attempt to tell you something? Just wondering.
[19:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:12] <exec> 08└─Ars Technica is one big circlejerk.
[19:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:14] <exec> 08└─How to do Haiku I'm trying to remember I came up with these The sad orange clown Its vomit stream on Twitter Can not tell the truth Little idle hands The Devil's Twitter play thing Tiny little hands Press Secretary Evade Lie Stall and Distract Must not tell the truth Dotard Trump the clown An execut...
[19:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:17] <exec> 08└─Of course, burn the heretic. SCIENCE! demands it!
[19:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:19] <exec> 08└─So why does it take a profit motive for us to attempt to be the dominant power in space?
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─Did you ever think, oh climate denying khallow, that banning is not censorship so much as an attempt to tell you something?
[19:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:24] <exec> 08└─We're just trying to tell the heretic something via the medium of fire. What's wrong with that?
[19:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:26] <exec> 08└─Hey, I've been here a while. I have not been involuntarily committed yet, so far as I can tell.
[19:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:28] <exec> 08└─but did he just waste all the rest of his time?
[19:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:31] <exec> 08└─To add to that, why is such "telling" via the act of overt censorship supposed to be of value to me? Legitimate communication is a two-way street, not one person merely telling another. I'll note that I see a lot of telling without communicating in your posts.
[19:01:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:00] <exec> 08└─Stupidity is bipartisan.
[19:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:50] <exec> 08└─So what? The presence of such things automatically mean the US was not "pretty good" in the past. Even now, the US is far from merely 'not perfect' given the countless ways in which it is violating people's freedoms. I guess you just don't value liberty as much as I do.
[19:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:51] <exec> 08└─There's no reason why they couldn't be re-instituted or even enshrined; the system still allows for such a thing. The trajectory is correct, but not because the system is sound.
[19:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:54] <exec> 08└─You have an increasingly free society built around an organization that can outlaw (and indeed has outlawed) beer for an entire continent.
[19:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:56] <exec> 08└─You have an amazingly incorrect definition of "continent"
[19:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:58] <exec> 08└─How can you value liberty when you have so much trouble seeing it?
[19:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:01] <exec> 08└─Well, at least you're improving. You realize now that you don't understand something. There are several big problems with what was said here. First, the US is not a continent - there's still Mexico and Canada (which as a result became starting places for smuggling routes of alcohol into the US). Sec...
[19:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:03] <exec> 08└─Nor do Canadians.
[19:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:05] <exec> 08└─Didn't you hear? Perfect is the enemy of good.
[19:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:54] <exec> 08└─Fuck your silly toys, the real test will be reverse-engineering automobile firmware. Something that has a mode to play nice for the smog nazis, but will roll coal out on the highways when trying to cut off douchebag Prius drivers and BMW cocksuckers.
[19:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:55] <exec> 08└─oh god, if windows became open source it would be about as secure as swiss cheese. You know the reason so many companies refuse to open source their code? Because it's really, really bad code. Open source means that people have to actually bother making things well.
[19:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:58] <exec> 08└─Are you against the idea of having full control over the things you own? Isn't that a core component of lolbertarian ideology?
[19:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Granted Patent For Self-Balancing Robot - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:09] <exec> 08└─Mr Zuckerberg, tear down this wall ! There is no reason the whole world, starting with your neighbors, should not know every second of your life! What do you mean, no ? No glass walls for everyone? True, true, "That data is valuable and shouldn't be free to our customers".
[19:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metal-Free Catalyst Extends The Range Of Ester Synthesis - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:18] <exec> 08└─but many read off the trfa
[19:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:38] <exec> 08└─I would argue that it should be taxed according to cost just like any other pollution/external cost should be. Banning would just open grey/black markets. It costs 50M$ annually to clean up ? Then there should be a 50M$ + 10% tax added to the annual sales of . But of course just as with banning and...
[19:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:24] <exec> 08└─> If the attempt were serious Almost killing three people with a nerve agent can be, a bit like an ACME gun with a BANG! flag, considered "not serious". TMYK!
[19:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:26] <exec> 08└─Don't. It's in humanity's best interest to give these folks that dopamine hit when they say stuff that's actually true.
[19:04:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:39] <exec> 08└─This is why being an early-adopter is retarted
[19:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine Remains Elusive - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:31] <exec> 08└─The thing is, when you don't know what the key will look like, you don't know how to properly look for it. It can get a bit discouraging. But if some crucial discovery is made it's likely to become obvious that it's been right in front of you all along. Well, of course that's a wildly oversimplified...
[19:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:22] <exec> 08└─1) We haven't explored the moon enough. I don't know how I left out that "n't". 2) Reading the article I see that they're proposing certain particular orbits, and only a very slight advance over our space capabilities. I find it hard to believe that this would be detectable, but they say they've cal...
[19:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:24] <exec> 08└─Aperture synthesis is great for refining focus, but it doesn't do much for collecting additional photons. That's strictly dependent of reception area (and, of course, sensitivity). If what you need is a clearer image, then aperture synthesis is the best way to go. If the signal's too weak to read, y...
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─Does it count if we're the ones that caused the "global extinction event"? If it does, we're right in the middle of one right now. Of course, we haven't survived it yet.
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[19:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:38] <exec> 08└─Here's another view: It made New York City more productive than it was before; this has caused much needed resources to flow into the previously undesirable business of tearing down cruft and building up new infrastructure. While it's true that poorer, less productive people have been pushed out of...
[19:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:39] <exec> 08└─poorer, less productive people
[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:42] <exec> 08└─Airbnb making NYC great again. Rent control needs to go. Let's see how close we can get to London's real estate market.
[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:44] <exec> 08└─let's face it - Some cities are not car cities. New York City, D.C., and San Francisco as examples have great subway (or BART) infrastructures. If your city has great public transit, then use it. I love the imperfections of public transit, you see weirdos, bums, and have wide latitude to behave like...
[19:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:46] <exec> 08└─> it is also true (as it always has been), that they have been pushed into the last place that rich[er] people improved No, it's not. Not even close. Poorer people (a relative thing if they were in NYC a decade ago) get pushed away, into distant suburbs, into neighborhood that were segregated a long...
[19:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:49] <exec> 08└─You want to see that? Just go to Seattle. People with nice jobs living in tents because the price of their apartment was bid up. Not saying it was AirBNB. Probably just the exceedingly liberal city's absurd addiction to growth in excess of anything you would see in a conservative area.
[19:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:51] <exec> 08└─Depends on how you think of productivity. Yes it makes room for more "higher paying high performance" people to move in or get into the city. What they rarely mention is that the city also need a fair amount of "low performance low pay" people to maintain it and the people living there. Those in tur...
[19:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:53] <exec> 08└─Here's another view: It made New York City more productive than it was before; this has caused much needed resources to flow into the previously undesirable business of tearing down cruft and building up new infrastructure.
[20:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LibrePlanet 2018 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:01] <exec> 08└─Is the FSF the same guys that do FOSDEM? If so, I'm looking forward to the more n-gate content.
[20:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:36] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate flyover states? Doing something in a flyover state makes more sense than doing it in 17 different non-flyover states. Flyover states are affordable. The space industry is well-established in Huntsville, Alabama. That's a fine place to get things done. The same might be said of Stenni...
[20:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:37] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is not that it is being done in Alabama or Louisiana but that keeping these facilities open is a reason to continue to fund a program or to ignore waste in the system.
[20:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:40] <exec> 08└─But he is such a poor communicator that he is bumbling, and almost anything he says can be torn apart easily because he does not speak with precision. I'd rather have Obama fumbling with his teleprompter not working, because that at least implies there is indeed a plan at work instead of deciding th...
[20:01:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:04] <exec> 08└─As a Bernie fan, I'm continually amazed at how incredibly stupid many Democrat politicians are, and how happy they are to shoot themselves in the foot, and also to make themselves unpalatable to voters. They do stupid shit like this, and then wonder why they lose elections. Incredible.
[20:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:07] <exec> 08└─No, it didn't. That took a constitutional amendment.
[20:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:08] <exec> 08└─Florida Republicans Believe Porn Is More Dangerous Than Guns [gq.com]
[20:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:11] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, Canada has had prohibition across the nation, between 1918 to 1920, leaving Mexico as the only North American country that has never had national prohibition.
[20:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:13] <exec> 08└─This is so stupid. Why do they even let Rhode Island be a state, anyway? You can ride your bike across Rhode Island in a couple of hours. In Texas, they have shopping malls that are bigger than Rhode Island. Hell, they've got Bass Pro Shops that are bigger than Rhode Island. We should just split it...
[20:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:15] <exec> 08└─Listen here, "Nuke." My name is Pizzarado, and I am a porn addict. I've been masturbating to porn since I was in my daddy's ballsack. When I came out of the womb, I was still jerkin the turkin, using the embryonic fluid as lube and my umbilical chord as a DIY belt for auto-erotic asphyxiation. For 4...
[20:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:18] <exec> 08└─Your reply is completely nonsensical. I do see liberty, which is why I vehemently object to violations of it, such as mass surveillance. Your standards are simply very low.
[20:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:20] <exec> 08└─That's a fine idea. We ought to have a basic qualifying exam for people that want to run for office. They must prove they have a workable grasp of the constitution. They must pass a brain scan to prove they're not psychopaths. Then we fit people who are successfully elected with electric belts that...
[20:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:22] <exec> 08└─There's still Mexico and Canada: Redherring. A group or collection is not an organization: Worse than No True Scotsman; the argument remains unchanged. No mere law: Straw man. Redherring. No True Scotsman.
[20:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:24] <exec> 08└─Rhode Island's a blue state and all the politicians are on the same page. IIRC, Providence is almost as bad as NYC was. And not a thing will be done about it. Just like the legalized prostitution they took away from the hardworking, opiod-avoiding, tax-paying citizens. No hookers, no porn, are they...
[20:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:27] <exec> 08└─See here. [wikipedia.org]
[20:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:29] <exec> 08└─Like this? http://www.sliceofscifi.com [sliceofscifi.com]
[20:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSouthernDandy [6059] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:56] <exec> 08└─...that we sauter[sic] together
[20:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metal-Free Catalyst Extends The Range Of Ester Synthesis - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:43] <exec> 08└─Here's #4. There will be no further comments after this one.
[20:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:50] <exec> 08└─Concerning "In other words, everyone is bad so it doesn't really matter who does what." Since there are so many bad actors on all sides, it matters more than ever "who does what". One should not be artificially blind to bad actors just because they feign being on "your side".
[20:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:43] <exec> 08└─i disagree; evidence based practice is not only relevant, it's essential in today's world context.
[20:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wave Computing and Others Adopt 64-Bit MIPS Cores - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:44] <exec> 08└─A logical processor uses IA-32e paging if CR0.PG = 1, CR4.PAE = 1, and IA32_EFER.LME = 1. With IA-32e paging, linear address are translated using a hierarchy of in-memory paging structures located using the contents of CR3. IA-32e paging translates 48-bit linear addresses to 52-bit physical addresse...
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[20:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:38] <exec> 08└─Too bad TFA doesn't show the password. Add that one, carved on a stone tablet, to the growing pile of things to throw at the face of anyone who would entrust backdoor keys to any entity.
[20:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:53] <exec> 08└─As much shit I have talked about Mejico, they have a sane strategy: Forbid foreigners from eating up costal property. RealDonaldTrump, are you listening?! Stop foreigners from buying our property!
[20:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─When the productive people start moving where production is possible, they call it "white flight". When the poor start moving where consumption is cheaper, they call it "gentrification". What they neglect to tell you is that the poor follow the productive in a giant circle: The productive build up...
[20:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:57] <exec> 08└─The officer ran towards the source of the screams, which were coming from a wide alleyway. Around a minute ago, the officer had heard an adult male screaming for help, and so he immediately flew into action. Upon arriving at the scene, the policeman spotted a naked man on top of a naked woman, viola...
[20:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:59] <exec> 08└─Why is it that you guys can only think a half a step ahead? If the richer, more productive people drive prices up, then includes the price of all those "low" jobs—those unskilled folk will command a higher income.
[21:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:01] <exec> 08└─Can we stop using the word gentrification and call it what is is: racism?
[21:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:04] <exec> 08└─"They" ? Not even touching the rest of your comment. You assimilate the means of production (driven by logistics) and the actual living areas (driven, for the rich, by quality of life), and that's merely the start of where you're wrong.
[21:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:06] <exec> 08└─If it's more lucrative to leave lofts empty for large periods of time, then what does that say about the renters? It says New York has been housing bums for far too long. A racist outcome does not imply a racist intention. For one, I can guarantee you that Jews are over-represented among the gentrif...
[21:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:08] <exec> 08└─Under capitalism, there is no such thing as classism, because what matters is your purchasing power. That is totally different from Classism, which attributes to a person certain rights based solely on social pedigree (birth, or special designation); in the Europe of old, you could be as poor as a h...
[21:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:11] <exec> 08└─Why are they doing that? Why don't they demand higher salaries? Why don't they move elsewhere?
[21:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:13] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you're getting hung up on the word "production".
[21:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:15] <exec> 08└─Not everyone can just pack up and move. Might not have the resources to do, may not have another job when you get to where you're going. Demand more salary - and get fired. Or, you get the higher salary, then the prices go up because everyone is make more, a vicious cycle.
[21:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:17] <exec> 08└─How is it that you guys never know how the economy actually works? There is no increase at a sustainable rate or transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor. Prices associated with living are driven up faster then any wage increases for the low income people. There really is no trickle down effect...
[21:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:20] <exec> 08└─It's a habit: I also can't shake up gravity. Reality sucks.
[21:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:22] <exec> 08└─It's time to start reducing the population; society doesn't need you to have kids. And, trickle-down does indeed work. It took rich people to fund the computing industry, and now even homeless people have super computers in their pockets. (What a mistake that was! All the rich got in return was a bu...
[21:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:24] <exec> 08└─That should help improve your relationship with gravity.
[21:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibrePlanet 2018 - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:33] <exec> 08└─The various things the article header whines about are NOT used by everyone. I don't use any social network, my cars are all old enough that they have NO diagnostic or other self-reporting capability, I carry a phone occasionally but it is not a smartphone, and I DO NOT BUY anything that comes with...
[21:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06LibrePlanet 2018 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:35] <exec> 08└─"Voting with your wallet" is the reason ALL motherboards are now gaymer mobos with thousands of RGB LEDs at the expense of useful features. Your wallet turned out to be tiny, and you were "outvoted" by millions of sheep.
[21:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibrePlanet 2018 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:38] <exec> 08└─... my cars are all old enough that they have NO diagnostic or other self-reporting capability ... The article acts like no one has a choice. But most everyone DOES have a choice.
[21:00:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 600 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:50] <exec> 08└─A president doesn't have the time to learn everything about every topic that comes up. The solution is to get summaries from staff, and read a lot at every occasion. If you don't know much, don't get in front of the press, or keep it short. This president doesn't like to read, takes time to watch a...
[21:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:15] <exec> 08└─I watched the launch online with a friend and we remarked that this was a missed opportunity for President Trump. He could have been out on that Florida beach watching with everyone else and pressing the flesh.
[21:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:17] <exec> 08└─Trump is very simple: at any given moment, he thinks "what can i say or do that, as far as I know, makes me look good, strokes my ego, and advances my agenda?" None of this is being thought in such explicit terms, mind; it's more that this is what his thoughts on the matter would look like if spelle...
[21:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:56] <exec> 08└─Oh look, a snowflake triggered by a different opinion. By definition, recommendations don't reign anything.
[21:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:57] <exec> 08└─The first part of Ken Burns' Prohibition [wikipedia.org], “A Nation of Drunkards,” covers how the temperance and women's suffrage movements were related.
[21:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:00] <exec> 08└─You really are an idiot, aren't you. You claim that there was prohibition across an entire continent, but this claim is simply false because Mexico has never had national prohibition.
[21:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:02] <exec> 08└─This proposed law is not only bad law, it's blatantly unconstitutional. Most pornography is protected by the First Amendment. The government requiring the payment of a fee in order to get access tot it is an illegal prior restraint. When will they, the pols, ever learn? 'Nuf said.
[21:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:04] <exec> 08└─Steel? No, that's wood.
[21:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:06] <exec> 08└─Rhode Island is run by democrats. When they aren't busy encouraging every possible sin, they are indulging in islamophilia. They are about as anti-Christian as possible. I'm guessing the problem is that porn reduces female power to deny sexual satisfaction to males. Then again, it could just be kiss...
[21:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:09] <exec> 08└─And whatever it was you did, THANK YOU.
[21:03:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06Tampa's Bomb Squad is Making Beeping Easter Eggs for Visually Impaired Children - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:28] <exec> 08└─It is kind of ironic that the bomb squad is making "scary beeping electronic things" to hide
[21:03:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 430 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there should be a law. In fact, when a "rights holder" wants a new law, he generally runs to the state capital, or maybe the national capital, fornicates with a few lawmakers, gets them drunk, high, and gives them reelection money - and he gets his law. Disney, Hollywierd, the record labels, J...
[21:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:03] <exec> 08└─How can you repair the product when it's ... a single [slashdot.org] piece [slashdot.org]?
[21:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Shoes, Bins, Cups, and Other Objects With Chewing Gum - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:45] <exec> 08└─It costs 50M$ annually to clean up ? Then there should be a 50M$ + 10% tax added to the annual sales of .
[21:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:34] <exec> 08└─Studying, treating, and helping prevent the spread of diseases is against liberty?
[21:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:53] <exec> 08└─Then maybe the Democrats should have just done single payer when they had a supermajority. Instead, we got this mess which doesn't fix the fundamental problems with our health care system; we didn't even get a public option. The Democrats are overall not a very progressive party.
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[21:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:42] <exec> 08└─It's CIA passwords. FIGHT THEM! They will kill you if they don't succeed!
[21:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:43] <exec> 08└─Come on Ethy, Hanlon's razor isn't going to steer us wrong here.
[21:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:45] <exec> 08└─Too bad TFA doesn't show the password.
[21:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:48] <exec> 08└─connecting to the affected system via Secure Shell (SSH) using the hardcoded password.
[21:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:50] <exec> 08└─LOL... yeah, I was going to say.... "Was it 123456?" :)
[21:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:52] <exec> 08└─A password for ssh access does you nothing without an account on the host machine.
[21:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 1657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:54] <exec> 08└─Press backspace 28 times to pay respects. If you're going to use software, why would you trust it to a closed source? Even then, why would you put your faith into an enterprise to make sure your software runs the way it should? The only reason I can think of is people believe the time to set everyth...
[22:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:25] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[22:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:26] <exec> 08└─It's time to start reducing the population; society doesn't need you to have kids.
[22:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:28] <exec> 08└─Some cities are not car cities...D.C....as examples have great subway...infrastructures.
[22:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:30] <exec> 08└─You're the one who brought up "genocide"; nobody said anything like that. Supply and Demand applies to the human population, too; it's not just something that should be ignored, especially if you insist (at the point of a gun) that one group needs to pull weight for another group. Secondly, the poor...
[22:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:33] <exec> 08└─Even parts of the city proper cannot reasonably be reached by subway (eg. Georgetown).
[22:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:35] <exec> 08└─Unless you have no arms, no legs, or are physiologically unable to move your body consciously, you can pack up and move. What you mean is "some people don't want to accept their circumstances and adapt." So all you're left with is bitching: "Muh jobs, muh boomers (seriously fuck boomers, jobs are fu...
[22:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibrePlanet 2018 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:46] <exec> 08└─so not a sheep but you are whining about a event for people like you?
[22:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:11] <exec> 08└─If Lot were drunk enough not to recognize his own daughters, wouldn't he be too drunk to get it up? I've read that men can't, er, perform when they're good and hammered.
[22:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe he thinks his daughters are hot and would want to date them. Like the president says.
[22:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rhode Island Proposes Blocking All Online Porn and Charging $20 to Unblock It - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:14] <exec> 08└─A lot would be fixed if we simply ended the corruption merry-go-round.
[22:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Free Catalyst Extends The Range Of Ester Synthesis - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:32] <exec> 08└─I'd never have thought of this as a synthesis route. It's such a simple molecule, and its image on Wikipedia doesn't suggest, to my untrained eye, that this would have activity with alcohols, or much of anything else really. This is the kind of story we need more of. Maybe fewer people can appreciat...
[22:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:42] <exec> 08└─You are suggesting that no libertarian would accept a government job, really?
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[22:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06McAfee Acquires VPN Provider TunnelBear - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:32] <exec> 08└─The company claims around 20 million people have used its service across mobile and desktop.
[22:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06McAfee Acquires VPN Provider TunnelBear - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:33] <exec> 08└─Not content to scan everything as you write it to disk, then scan it again every time you read it from disk, now they want to scan everything coming across the wire from a server where every file you fetch is scanned as read in, after being scanned as it was written out. Did I miss anything? Profit...
[22:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:48] <exec> 08└─Or maybe you could take a minute to consider that this nutty marketing buzzword soup is targeted at CIOs of companies with networks of hundreds to tens of thousands of machines, most of which are probably administered very remotely.
[22:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:50] <exec> 08└─...and your system is naive enough to have such an acco. :)
[22:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:52] <exec> 08└─I considered that and I addressed it. And I will repeat my self: "it's better in every way not to use enterprise solutions -- if you're not skimping on quality."
[22:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:54] <exec> 08└─Cisco devices are subject to ITAR, for some reason. Cisco devices have hardcoded backdoors that NSA and China know about because it's okay for China to steal American secrets as long as they're fattening American congressmens' wallets by buying property at a huge markup while fucking the rest of the...
[22:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:57] <exec> 08└─ITAR, is a completely shitty law, how they think they can legislate mathematics as a weapon has never made sense to me, but it absolutely doesn't involve mandatory backdoors. It just involves not shipping "weapons" to forbidden countries. As someone who has actually shipped ITAR controlled products...
[22:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:59] <exec> 08└─A drug epidemic sweeps the IT world! News, weather, and sports at 7.
[23:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:01] <exec> 08└─You forgot that those CIOs probably have no idea how the actual administration happens, but are tasked with making it "more agile" or some other BS idea.
[23:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:04] <exec> 08└─if you're not skimping on quality
[23:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:06] <exec> 08└─Cisco is clearly worried it doesn't have to be root. Now why is that?
[23:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:08] <exec> 08└─It is a rubber-stamp process. But you are not American. I am. We will destroy you.
[23:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:10] <exec> 08└─Riiiight, guess I will have to turn in my passport, guns, and pet bald eagle now.
[23:00:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 1288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:23] <exec> 08└─Depends on how you think of productivity. Yes it makes room for more "higher paying high performance" people to move in or get into the city. What they rarely mention is that the city also need a fair amount of "low performance low pay" people to maintain it and the people living there. Those in tur...
[23:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:47] <exec> 08└─Seattle... likes... growth? That's a very strange interpretation of their policies. They certainly have some poor city-level policies supported by people with a (D) next to their name, but describing those policies as pro-growth is absurd. The zoning is horrendously restrictive. The public transit i...
[23:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:48] <exec> 08└─It made New York City more productive than it was before; People on vacation generally try NOT to be productive. As for the trust of the article I'm a bit on the fence. I think the 2nd order effects like raising rents are a bit hard to blame on short term rentals. However, much like Uber, they think...
[23:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:50] <exec> 08└─Probably one of the worst offenders is Amazon. Lots of high paying jobs. But even more low paying entry level jobs. Scan the list. [payscale.com] Notice that any job with the word "Associate" or "Customer Service" in their title offers subsistence level salaries, insufficient to rent even the cheape...
[23:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:53] <exec> 08└─" it was designed under the assumption that you have to transfer from the subway station to a bus to get to your final destination. "
[23:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:55] <exec> 08└─Zoning Restrictive? Look at the skyline. (I know, its hard when you walk around with your head down all the time because you're out of work and out of options). The Zoning is exactly like the people with D next to their name want it to be. The future soviet era housing blocks are all being built, as...
[23:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:57] <exec> 08└─Yes I know that, doesn't change the reality of it though.
[23:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:00] <exec> 08└─So, there. You've been hoist by your own petard. Before, people went on vacation and left an empty, useless apartment behind, with nobody engaging in local commerce either. Now, not only is that apartment being used productively, but it's bringing in tourists who generate local business and help fil...
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:02] <exec> 08└─Oh boo-hoo, you have to ride with Blacks and Mexicans.
[23:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Airbnb did to New York City - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:04] <exec> 08└─Well, I agree with you. But good luck getting everybody else to agree with you!
[23:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LibrePlanet 2018 - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:16] <exec> 08└─You missed the point, slick. The point is that if you take care in the choices you make, you can and will end up with very different results, and you can do so without needing outside assistance with respect to how cars, phones, or computers are made.
[23:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:56] <exec> 08└─Actually, it could be better for President Trump to distance himself from SpaceX and continue to let VP Pence handle NASA matters. Trump's mere presence at the launch would have politicized it. Compare to the tech/business council clusterfuck. Elon Musk left early, citing climate change. Other busin...
[23:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:58] <exec> 08└─but did he just waste all the rest of his time?
[23:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:00] <exec> 08└─No Haiku so sweet Like galactic victory Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!
[23:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:02] <exec> 08└─He's got his own Golf courses, and restaurants. Huge savings over having the secret service rent an entire course for a whole day so Obama could play 6 holes [obamagolfcounter.com] and retire to shoot baskets.
[23:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:05] <exec> 08└─... And made it clear to the rest of the world that they could put way-more-than-necessary-of-mass nuclear payloads precisely anyplace they wanted to within 240,000 miles - one of the most major objectives of the space program.
[23:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:47] <exec> 08└─This is great, made me laugh, mostly because now I wonder if anyone ever wrote an OS in BASIC...
[23:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:48] <exec> 08└─Hey, no referencing p0rn sites here, we don't want to incur that $20 charge.
[23:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Right to Repair Battle Has Come to California - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:50] <exec> 08└─Some people a while back got the code into buildable form and found the necessary toolchain bits to actually roll new ISO images off it. While definitely not kosher from a BSA/copyright lobby standpoint, it offers lots of REALLY FUN possibilities, like paravirtualized NT4 for non-kvm xen/qemu, GPT s...
[23:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:17] <exec> 08└─Here where news is people, you can... post and mod in the same thread! Amazing technology! Welcome to 2018, my friend.
[23:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Space Junk Around Exoplanets to Find Technologically Advanced Aliens - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:24] <exec> 08└─If the signal's too weak to read, you need a larger or more sensitive detector.
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