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[00:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:54] <exec> 08└─If EPUB sucks ass, then plebes like me won't trust that your later version won't also suck donkey balls. Prove your worth or eat a bag of donkey dicks.
[00:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:56] <exec> 08└─any html document can be used as content document inside a WebBook instance, without restriction .... each individual resource in a WebBook instance, on a Web site or on a local disk, And that's exactly why I don't want this steaming pile.
[00:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:58] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem is fidelity or reproducibility. For the most part, Web "developers" squander all their time ensuring that content renders properly across as many clients as possible. It's an enormous overhead, and there doesn't seem to be any hope of the situation improving; this is because both...
[00:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:00] <exec> 08└─... you don't control your reading device (or, at least, your network access).
[00:39:02] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:03] <exec> 08└─I wasn't hating on it too bad until I saw the word "javascript". After that it can eat a bag of dicks, as can EPUB 3+. Thankfully, Calibre can solve all of my problems there.
[00:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:05] <exec> 08└─Most ereaders are beyond the owner's control. Their only saving grace is that they are too stupid to be easily suborned by the likes of javascript. Does anyone make e-ink tablets that *are* under the user's control? I'd love to use a suitable Linux on one.
[00:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:07] <exec> 08└─Why exactly is EPUB "shit?" The most common argument I've seen against EPUB is DRM, but that's not in the EPUB spec. There are plenty of EPUB files available without DRM.
[00:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:10] <exec> 08└─JavaScript being part of the WebBook spec is no surprise, since Daniel Glazman was a JavaScript programmer for Mozilla. If used sparingly, it shouldn't be a problem. The problem is that that is a big "if."
[00:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:12] <exec> 08└─I agree with you, but there are evildoers out there in many forms, so you can't expect everyone to play fair and write proper code. I've railed against javascript for 20 years, but the problem is not javascript. The problem is what the browser is willing to do, and what the OS allows access to.
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:28] <exec> 08└─There probably will be someday long after us meatbags are exterminated.
[00:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:49] <exec> 08└─releasing inert gas There's the giant clue, right there.
[00:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bajau People Have Evolved Bigger Spleens to Make More Oxygen Available for Diving - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:46] <exec> 08└─Actually when I look up spleen diving there are only hundreds of stories about this crappy paper... Even the wikipedia article about the Bajau is updated already to include it. Why is there such a push to get this obviously false "discovery" out there?
[00:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bajau People Have Evolved Bigger Spleens to Make More Oxygen Available for Diving - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:48] <exec> 08└─Hang out on soylentnews for a day and you will see lots of idiots.
[00:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unidentified Squid Species Found by NOAA Robotic Submarine - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:12] <exec> 08└─Not so fast! That's a std::thumb<std::thumb::thumbnail, std::thumb::thumbnail_traits<std::thumb::thumbnail>, std::thumb::allocator<std::thumb::thumbnail>>, you insensitive clod!
[00:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:10] <exec> 08└─My phone is only 4 years old, and when I purchased it I was dragged into the smartphone world kicking and screaming, and now it won't even run any apps because they are "incompatible with my device." Yes, I tried all the tricks.
[00:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:07] <exec> 08└─Really? So raping an 11 year old girl is automatically worse than raping a 12 year old girl? Why?
[00:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:08] <exec> 08└─That depends on the individual person, and really has little to do with the severity of the rights violation in my view. There are certainly evolutionary explanations for why people feel this way, but they are explanations and not justifications.
[00:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon’s new ‘Alexa Blueprints’ Lets Anyone Create Custom Alexa Skills and Responses - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:58] <exec> 08└─These devices are not "gigantic surveillance apparatuses", they are cheap-as-dirt, can-throw-in-trash-on-any-whim devices. And as for "lost", no. These devices are enabling at this point in time. No loss. Should that change, throw away.
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[01:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:01] <exec> 08└─My Kindle e-reader will load local resources and can be accessed as a storage device via the USB cable. I get books from private authors, as well as the internet archive, in addition to the publisher controlled kindle library. Sources such as Obooko https://www.obooko.com [obooko.com] or the Int...
[01:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:03] <exec> 08└─Nope, not even then. The only thing about a book that needs to be interactive or change in any way during runtime is which page you're reading. Which means every little bit of it can be done with plain old HTML. Not even HTML5; HTML3.2 would be sufficient for nearly every book ever published. I'll g...
[01:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:05] <exec> 08└─http://www.onyx-international.com/ [onyx-international.com]
[01:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:07] <exec> 08└─I don't know about any of you, but I use EPUB to read books. The last thing I want is web "features" in my reading material. Floating navigation, web bugs, google analytics, javascript, battery murdering DRM extensions.
[01:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:09] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com]
[01:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:12] <exec> 08└─My site is JavaScript only, precisely to keep crusty old faggots like you out. It used to work without script, but I eventually realized that your type was undesirable, while being the most vocal. Empty vessel and such.
[01:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:14] <exec> 08└─How else are they going to serve you advertisement and malware with your book? How are they going to track your reading habits if they can't place a few cookies and hidden tracking images on the pages. It doesn't really look like it's going to replace any paper books anytime soon if one asked me.
[01:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:16] <exec> 08└─Your "squander" assessment is generous. Fidelity via HTML isn't a problem, it's fiction by design. The whole point of HTML is that the publisher does not know how client software shall render it, and isn't supposed to care. My client could be text-to-speech, and render an EM tag with exactly the sam...
[01:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:33] <exec> 08└─Don't think I've ever put an IKEA together but I have assembled a few other pieces of furniture. I can only think of 1 that made me look at the instructions (turned out I got 2 L's instead of 1L 1R, or something equally stupid). Then again, before I was a teenager I was not only assembling models (t...
[01:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:34] <exec> 08└─... took 20 minutes 19 seconds to make and execute a plan to assemble an Ikea chair.
[01:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:57] <exec> 08└─you don't work on anything important Almost all of the stuff produced on this planet is NOT Mil-spec. In that same facility that I mentioned, there was commercial grade stuff being produced at the same time that military grade goods were being produced. ...well, until NAFTA came along and all of the...
[01:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:26] <exec> 08└─You're at the low end of the bell curve.
[01:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:27] <exec> 08└─Why? Because he doesn't find a specific thing to be funny? Even if I understand the point of an xkcd comic, I only very rarely laugh and instead quietly agree with the point and move on.
[01:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:29] <exec> 08└─You're becoming more like your father.
[01:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:20] <exec> 08└─WIth modern forensics it is not so much a question of whether A killed B or not, more an issue of how deliberate it was and the mental state of the killer as legal mitigations.
[01:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Molecule That Dilates Blood Vessels Hints at New Way to Treat Heart Disease - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:40] <exec> 08└─Where's 'Zumi? http://fatpita.net [fatpita.net]
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[02:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:52] <exec> 08└─Money for nothing, pics of Graf Spee.
[02:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:54] <exec> 08└─I got an email about this from SmugMug, a few hours ago. I guess the connection was that I looked at a friend's pics on Flicker some years back. Anyway, the login link in the email went to the Yahoo login (which I use for a couple of old Yahoo Groups that still struggle along).
[02:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:18] <exec> 08└─And yet designers make that mistake constantly, by insisting on pixel-perfect layouts, and artsy custom fonts.
[02:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Can anyone explain why a book needs to be executable content? That really is the heart of the problem here, once it is executable and connected to the network it is dangerous. Wrap DRM around it to make it opaque, unmodifiable and only viewable by a client application that is also opaque...
[02:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:22] <exec> 08└─It is quite possible that I never see anything on the web as the author intended. I long ago blocked web fonts. I see absolutely no reason why I should download some special font, just to read something. Documents render quite well, for the most part, without web fonts. I did install Google's collec...
[02:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:24] <exec> 08└─Let's keep off each other's lawn.
[02:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:27] <exec> 08└─Christ. Do you plebs ever tire of your straw? Nobody claimed to use [just] HTML for those purposes. What the fuck do you think CSS (and, yes, Javascript) are for? Goddman PRESENTATION, that's what! Asshat.
[02:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is that clients just do not implement presentation rigorously, so it doesn't really matter what your CSS is—it is likely not to produce the same results between different systems.
[02:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:10] <exec> 08└─The takeaway here seems to be that while one should Shout at the Devil [youtube.com], one should refrain from shouting at your hard drives if they are of the spinning variety.
[02:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unidentified Squid Species Found by NOAA Robotic Submarine - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:36] <exec> 08└─Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Mystery Calamari!
[02:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:36] <exec> 08└─Like they always do, import it from the 3rd world.
[02:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 1779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:36] <exec> 08└─The issues you wish to discuss are not the issues under discussion. I'm glad that we can agree on that final point, though. JFK made a great speech: Some people see things as they are, and ask why. I see things as they are not, and ask why not. It was a great, stirring speech. But, fact is, we have...
[02:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve To Pay Au$3 Million Fine For Misleading Australian Gamers - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:12] <exec> 08└─Sounds just like the Uber playbook. Just a "technology platform to connect riders with rides". No liabilities but all the profits, thanks. Oh, awesome, and just in time for my post. News in that The ACCC (in Australia its a trusted and respected upholder of consumer rights run by the govt) is going...
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[03:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:23] <exec> 08└─Same on my Kobo. I can put epub's and pdf's on it using a USB cable. But I have no control over the software it runs.
[03:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:24] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Can you imagine what JS is going to do to battery life on an e-reader? Can't imagine any (non user-hostile) reason why anybody would want JS on an e-reader. I guess interstitial ads are the future of e-books?
[03:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:26] <exec> 08└─Interesting device. But I find it hard to get a clear idea from that advertising presentation just what I'd get if I were to buy one. Is it just a display and input device that happens to have some software inside it to read ebooks and talk to a computer via an HDMI cable? Or does it actually have s...
[03:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:45] <exec> 08└─The team chose only off-the-shelf tools
[03:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 1629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, the problem is really that hard. There is no formidable foe arrayed against a workable solution because the web of trust alternative you are proposing to replace the current system of centralised CAs is not really more workable or even more secure. The big problem here is that effective securit...
[03:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:34] <exec> 08└─You might want to do a search for "boys raped to death". It's not at all uncommon in Africa and the Middle East.
[03:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Valve To Pay Au$3 Million Fine For Misleading Australian Gamers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:11] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand any of what has transpired here...
[03:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WiFi Backscatter - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks for this. The numbers are in line with what I expected. Trying to stretch the range in real-world conditions becomes troublesome. Omnidirectional antennas get slaughtered by multipath distortion with as few as one data channel. The longest-range system I worked with, for identifying railroad...
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[04:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:01] <exec> 08└─Actually Flickr was a great image sharing site, then Yahoo got hold of it. I can see where it could be great again, if handled right.
[04:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:35] <exec> 08└─Which page you are reading, type face. and font size. Everything else will be use for advertising and spyware. Even if you suppose no internet connection during reading, there will be one there sooner or later. This whole issue here is capability beyond what is needed for an e-reader. They are think...
[04:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:36] <exec> 08└─JavaScript in eBooks is not new. While EPUB 2 discouraged JavaScript, the spec didn't expressly forbid it. EPUB 3 has been around for six and a half years now, and expressly allows JavaScript for eBook interactivity.
[04:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:38] <exec> 08└─It's bad enough what the web has evolved into. Please don't evolve ebooks into the same. A format strictly based on Web technologies and when I say "Web technologies", I mean the most basic ones: html, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and friends
[04:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:41] <exec> 08└─"The biggest problem is fidelity or reproducibility." The biggest problem is *the inappropriate expectation of* fidelity or reproducibility. The web's design goals excluded WYSIWYG from the beginning, for good reason. You can't have proper device independence and "fidelity" as you term it - perverse...
[04:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:43] <exec> 08└─ebooks read you!
[04:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:45] <exec> 08└─Typing a comment via a modern, high-end mobile Android phone is a clusterfuck. The Web sucks, and SoylentNews proves it over and over.
[04:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah...sure...I'll bet it's all black background, with pink, green and blue text in varying fonts. With lots of flashing stars and cats, with mystery hyperlinks scattered about.
[04:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:50] <exec> 08└─What the fuck do you think CSS (and, yes, Javascript) are for?
[04:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:52] <exec> 08└─Really, all a book needs is .RTF all the rest is BS.
[04:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:54] <exec> 08└─Typing a comment is just typing plain old text. And SN uses a plain old text input box that existed since the dawn of the web. If Android doesn't handle that well, that's not a failure of the web. It's a failure of Android.
[04:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:56] <exec> 08└─Why does CSS offer measurements like "6in" for "6 inches" then? What's the point of that? The real problem is you fuckers fake everything. The CSS half-wits thought it would make sense to re-define "pixel" as a stable measurement: 1 pixel on a "virtual" 90 PPI screen. Why? Because all the moronic,...
[04:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:59] <exec> 08└─Typing anything on any "smart" phone is a clusterfuck. Likewise any tablet. If you need to type, get a keyboard.
[04:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:18] <exec> 08└─Reading and understanding the instructions. It looks like it was preprogrammed those instructions, and didn't have to work it out itself.
[04:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:20] <exec> 08└─Your linked article misses one very important reason why robots are slow. It's to give you a chance to run away.
[04:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:45] <exec> 08└─No this is Earth 2!, oh wait 2! = 2... nm
[04:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bajau People Have Evolved Bigger Spleens to Make More Oxygen Available for Diving - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:48] <exec> 08└─Almost all the posts have been deleted: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[04:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Antibodies Made Good: The Immune System's Secret Weapon Uncovered - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:00] <exec> 08└─It's like this. You know, murderers, robbers, rapists, serial killers, and corner-store weed dealers, they all get locked up in fed pen for 20-to-life, right? Say Mexico unleashed its hordes of unwashed aztec conquistadors across the rio grande. What do you do? Yep, you open the big houses' gates a...
[04:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:15] <exec> 08└─Just to expand on what you've mentioned above... The constellation they're planning on running is at about 340KM, with a bunch more satellites out further at 1200KM. According to Wikipedia (7th paragraph under History) [wikipedia.org] I expect that most of the lower satellites will be in orbits that...
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[04:43:16] <exec> 08└─Before that gets to be a universal requirement, there needs to be enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 WRT internet sites i.e. if a blind person's screenreader[1] can't deal with a site, that's a fail and the owner can get sued. So far, courts have given the internet a pass WRT...
[04:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:18] <exec> 08└─Yes -- Not to mention multiple scandals in recent years where it's been shown that forensics "experts" were incompetent, tainted the evidence, or even deliberately fabricated results
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[05:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:02] <exec> 08└─I had no problems with modern flickr. It works, gives users a lot of space, etc.
[05:39:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 822 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:26] <exec> 08└─Your "squander" assessment is generous. Fidelity via HTML isn't a problem, it's fiction by design. The whole point of HTML is that the publisher does not know how client software shall render it, and isn't supposed to care. My client could be text-to-speech, and render an EM tag with exactly the sam...
[05:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:49] <exec> 08└─Why is everyone pretending that PostScript doesn't exist. PS docs were *nothing but* executable content. The problem is the APIs accessible to that executable content. If it's nothing more than laying out information on the page, then it's fine.
[05:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:50] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Are you people fucking braindead? What's wrong with you?
[05:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:52] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews adds a whole 'nother layer of hell.
[05:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:54] <exec> 08└─Frojack points to some stylistic toggling the user might like to do without reloading the page, but it should all be doable -- if a bit clunky -- with some CSS selectors and radio buttons. There are some things that could be added to his list, most obviously annotations. As for what can't be done, I...
[05:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:57] <exec> 08└─Why exactly is EPUB "shit?"
[05:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:59] <exec> 08└─The Open XML Paper Specification [wikipedia.org] is probably what you want; my cursory reading suggests it's simply a declarative page-layout language. Though it's an open standard, it was was developed by Microsoft, who seems to remain its main (though lukewarm) proponent. So, there's that.
[05:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Are you people fucking braindead? What's wrong with you?
[05:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:03] <exec> 08└─Are you braindead, too?
[05:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:49] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if you are locked in a data center with nobody around, you can make yourself noticed through shouting! ;-)
[05:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:22] <exec> 08└─Stop building the world for morons. It's time to cut them out, and move the bell curve up the axis.
[05:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:24] <exec> 08└─Jury is infallible? Can you read?
[05:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:25] <exec> 08└─However, we need to be pragmatic and accept a small number of cases of error in punisments.
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[06:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:59] <exec> 08└─use of infant cleansing wipes that leave soap on the skin
[06:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:10] <exec> 08└─apparently, some people consider Flikr and Instagram to be comparable.. https://www.slant.co [slant.co] Anyone care?
[06:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 387 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:28] <exec> 08└─Nope, not even then. The only thing about a book that needs to be interactive or change in any way during runtime is which page you're reading. Which means every little bit of it can be done with plain old HTML. Not even HTML5; HTML3.2 would be sufficient for nearly every book ever published. I'll g...
[06:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:04] <exec> 08└─LaTeX must at the least be compiled, because programmatic methods were the best way to specify all kinds of mathematical notation from the most complicated down to the relatively simple that was still awkward to do in ASCII. UTF-8 has added just about every symbol under the sun, but it takes time fo...
[06:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:06] <exec> 08└─Not even worth writing any text, since there's a pre-made XKCD for this already. [xkcd.com]
[06:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, we are all braindead, except for you. You are the one-eyed man in the land of the blind. Only you can save us from ourselves. ALL HAIL THE UNBRAINDEAD ANONYMOUS COWARD!!
[06:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:10] <exec> 08└─What I find uninspiring about epub is that it is, basically, a subset of HTML, zipped. It's a zipped up web page. I mean, sure it's neat to not reinvent the wheel. But what does epub really do that HTML can't? Is collecting everything together in a zip file that big a deal? Why bother packaging a bo...
[06:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:12] <exec> 08└─When Postscript printers talked over serial ports it was safe enough to let them execute untrusted code. Basically just do a full reset to a known internal state between jobs and you are good. Once they got network ports the risk jumped, smash the stack and an attacker can escape to your internal ne...
[06:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:15] <exec> 08└─Sure you do. https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com] https://github.com [github.com] https://github.com [github.com] https://github.com [github.com] http://uscoffings.net [uscoffings.net]
[06:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:17] <exec> 08└─I can see how JavaScript might be useful for some forms of reference manuals - interactive physics models, mathematical function graphs, and so on - but we all know it's going to be abused to deliver ads and tracking as a way to justify selling books cheaper so they can make even more money back thr...
[06:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:35] <exec> 08└─"'Rich' Communication Services. Undoubtedly it will not serve you primarily, but instead advertisers and the NSA." Exactly right. End-to-end encryption is specifically *not* part of the protocol. AFAIK, the problem is that carriers keep creating their own apps. They don't want to be just "dumb pipes...
[06:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:38] <exec> 08└─That depends on the individual person, and really has little to do with the severity of the rights violation in my view.
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[07:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:54] <exec> 08└─Does this mean we can start calling four bits a Zippo instead of a nibble now?
[07:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:55] <exec> 08└─one lights fires (mostly small ones) The other.. is just as useful as any other multi tool.. and likely, neither will get past the TSA.
[07:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:57] <exec> 08└─There you have [youtube.com] If not, why bother with something that trivial? You know, [Laura] needed a Zippo and heaps of tools to make this. Others just use an empty box of TicTac mints for the purpose.
[07:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:59] <exec> 08└─Really, one of the most vapid posts even for weekend.
[07:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:17] <exec> 08└─All of the AC's points still stand.
[07:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:18] <exec> 08└─You don't need JavaScript for annotation, you just need a standardised way for an eBook reader to inject marked up comments into the source HTML using non-displaying tags that reference the actual content (which could be plain text or rich HTML) in a sidecar file, e.g something like: <annotation ID=...
[07:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:20] <exec> 08└─Typing anything on any "smart" phone is a clusterfuck. Likewise any tablet. If you need to type, get a keyboard. Hats nit true, the worm predictor get sit right often enough too bee useless. You don't heed yo tripe so many skerries in the retinitis. (To be fair, the predictor on my phone allows me t...
[07:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:07] <exec> 08└─Of course I fought it. You would have fought it, any landlord would have fought it. I fought it and I won. Because they grandfathered in Trump Tower. Rudy Giuliani, fabulous guy, he's done some great legal for me. And fortunately, he was the Mayor at that time. I didn't want the sprinkler law. I whi...
[07:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:41] <exec> 08└─They aren't you compatriots; the proles don't matter. Worry about protecting your intellectual kin.
[07:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:42] <exec> 08└─It's really embarrassing to have to go to the store to buy a jazz mag. This is what broadband was invented for. It's a basic human right. America is so uncivilised.
[07:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:48] <exec> 08└─There are some people who are a waste of oxygen. Just a couple of weeks ago, one such piece of scum was profiled here on TV. The psychologists agree that he can never be trusted in public again, so we're going to pay some ridiculous amount to lock him away for the rest of his life. Seriously, a bull...
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[08:38:59] <exec> 08└─Really, one of the most vapid FA even for weekend.
[08:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:00] <exec> 08└─Sure, it's not actually useful. I mean, who has only four bits for their tools? I have at least a dozen that I use semi-regularly. That said, it's a cute little project. And I really like the idea of the small magnets. I made a wooden holder, and the bits are held in place by friction. Of course, th...
[08:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:22] <exec> 08└─"the publisher does not know how client software shall render it, and isn't supposed to care." well, yes, that's how it was supposed to be. The publisher could send their suggestions, but the client would - in the end - render the document however it wanted. For example, re-flowing text to match the...
[08:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:44] <exec> 08└─No, "I can't put my furniture together" is a real thing. Some IKEA pieces can be quite challenging. Like you, I have some experience putting things together - but there's the thing - we have the experience, the practice, and likely a native aptitude (which is what drew us to practice these things in...
[08:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:12] <exec> 08└─This has happened before, and it has been reasonably well publicised: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] I think it's safe to blame it on incompetence.
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[09:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:26] <exec> 08└─I love Daniel's idea. But the Establishment publishers, the Fake News Media, and the global special interests won't love it. Because it means any website can become a cyberbook, and any cyberbook can become a website. Very easily & quickly. It's tremendous for me, personally. Because I have so many...
[09:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:28] <exec> 08└─The pencil you use to write in the margin of the dead-tree books isn't part of the book. It's the e-reader software that should enable you to make notes, not the e-book itself.
[09:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:30] <exec> 08└─Given that you keep posting here, does that make you a masochist?
[09:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:20] <exec> 08└─It was an accident. Somebody was VERY DUMB with Power Strips. Not great for my insurance!💸 twitter.com/FDNY/status/985952106002767874 [twitter.com]
[09:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:55] <exec> 08└─... studies have shown that increased broadband adoption in rural areas has a strong, possibly causal, impact on employment.
[09:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:03] <exec> 08└─Both of those are legal
[09:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:04] <exec> 08└─"India was partitioned" Which was hardly a pleasant affair https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[10:39:07] <exec> 08└─made a wooden holder, and the bits are held in place by friction
[10:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:32] <exec> 08└─FictionBook 2 (FB2) [wikipedia.org] is the best standard for books. It is strictly XML. It is semantic, it has chapters (sections) paragraphs, titles, cites, poetry, stanzas, verses, footnotes etc. The eReader must know what everything means, how it indexes contents, or displays titles or subtitles...
[10:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:33] <exec> 08└─Calibre can already convert from epub 3 to plain old text, or most any other non-interactive ebook format.
[10:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:35] <exec> 08└─Well, since that AC had no point, that's vacuously true.
[10:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WiFi Backscatter - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:07] <exec> 08└─So you're saying the editor ran out of humour?
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[11:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:52] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, no US prosecutor would ever abuse the CFAA in such a way.
[11:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:54] <exec> 08└─This really looks like a joke. Stuff's on public display, so the kid looks at the stuff. Then he's arrested for looking. Has Russia expanded their gulags to Canada now? Or, North Korea? I don't know if China is that bad . . .
[11:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:56] <exec> 08└─From TFA: When he learned that he could just increment a document number in the url, he created a script to automatically do so and download the resulting document.
[11:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:58] <exec> 08└─There has to be some form of punishment. I’m pro-life, as everyone knows. But hackers have been getting into our energy grid, into our EMAIL, into our hospitals, into our elections, into our credit agencies. Devastating so much of our cyber infrastructure. People are dieing because of it. And many...
[11:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:01] <exec> 08└─Except - this young knucklehead didn't really "hack" anything. He simply downloaded a bunch of stuff that was freely accessible. But, yeah, he's got to be punished.
[11:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:03] <exec> 08└─You are really phoning it in these days with these posts. Big league. It is a disgrace, a disgrace.
[11:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:05] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If you want to charge somebody, charge the agency in possession of the documents. POINTING A WEB BROWSER TO A URL IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME for crying out loud...
[11:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I thought something like "What a waste of a Zippo!" TFS says "an old Zippo". I wonder if the Zippo was rare, and maybe worth a couple thousand as a collector's item. And, she just destroyed the damned thing.
[11:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:33] <exec> 08└─For as long as I can remember we were taught to limit exposure to potential allergens until the child reached a certain age (I did this with my son who now has allergies to both peanuts and eggs, as well as eczema, poor little guy). Then more recently we were told that lack of early exposure to the...
[11:39:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:59] <exec> 08└─I agree with you, but there are evildoers out there in many forms, so you can't expect everyone to play fair and write proper code. I've railed against javascript for 20 years, but the problem is not javascript. The problem is what the browser is willing to do, and what the OS allows access to.
[11:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know - Calibre is my ebook tool of choice, although I use a more fully featured reader app than Calibre's embedded ones (Moon+ Reader Pro [google.com], FWIW). I have no doubt that both apps (and many others) would enable sufficient control over embedded JavaScript if it became necessary, e.g...
[11:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:56] <exec> 08└─Yup to calibre's built in reader. As far as I can tell, it's mostly there to make sure the conversion went off without a hitch. I don't read ebooks much on my desktop anyway though, so that's pretty much all I need it to do.
[11:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:20] <exec> 08└─I seem to be one of the few who actually enjoy putting together IKEA items. It's like a giant 3D jigsaw puzzle that, after you have fun assembling it, you get to actually use it for something.
[11:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:23] <exec> 08└─It's not "funny", exactly. It's merely an observation. Despite the fact that the internet has been in wide use for decades now, the average Joe can't do the simplest of things. He won't learn how to set up an FTP server, or even how to connect to one. Instead, he relies on crappy proprietary junk th...
[11:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:25] <exec> 08└─Fine - we'll stop posting you. And, please don't open the letter we dropped into the mailbox yesterday.
[11:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:27] <exec> 08└─How sure are you that there is no "formidable foe"? How many cool applications have been bought out, then subverted? Microsoft may have been the first, but they aren't the only ones to "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". We had a conversation about Winamp not terribly long ago. Just about the best music...
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[12:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:54] <exec> 08└─What was his name [wikipedia.org] again?
[12:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:55] <exec> 08└─Some folks use computer. Good for them. I use my phone for tweeting. As everybody knows. I'm very popular. And my tweets are popular. Except with a few haters & losers (fmr WH people). Believe me, you're not a loser. Enjoy!
[12:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:57] <exec> 08└─Crime is whatever law says is crime, or whatever judge (and jury) proclaim as crime. Whatever can be named or vaguely described, can be a crime. If capturing rainwater from your own roof on your own house on your own land can be a crime, this can, too. More similarly, if pointing your web browser to...
[12:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:18] <exec> 08└─Or the classic altoids tin with fridge magnet material glued/stuck to the bottom of the open box. These bits tend not to be the best material and the whole situation is very fiddly; I'd rather spend the time with better screwdrivers. At the official desktop lab its all Wiha screwdrivers but I use ch...
[12:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─By making the aluminum block smaller, she could have had 8 bits instead of 4: 4 on top and 4 under. She would then lift out the block to reach the bits under.
[12:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:39] <exec> 08└─Flickr is dying because you cannot reach an audience there. Make a Flickr account today. Start posting the most amazing photos. Share them in Flickr groups. Talk to other users. Do everything you can to promote yourself on that platform. You will not build an audience there. You won’t build an aud...
[12:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:52] <exec> 08└─"Why does CSS offer measurements like "6in" for "6 inches" then? What's the point of that?" "The problem is not as you describe it. The problem is that the "Oooo-look-shiny-object" morons are in control of the foundations of our society's infrastructure." CSS is not part of the original design. It w...
[12:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:54] <exec> 08└─The only thing about a book that needs to be interactive or change in any way during runtime is which page you're reading.
[12:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:56] <exec> 08└─"type face. and font size." Should be set by the user, not the book.
[12:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:58] <exec> 08└─But what does epub really do that HTML can't?
[12:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:27] <exec> 08└─They came for the Jews, and I said nothing, because I am not a Jew. So, tell me, Mr. Intellectual - while you conspicuously stand apart from the proles, don't you worry that they may one day come for you? Maybe you act the submissive little servant at work, and address law enforcment officers as "Si...
[12:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:29] <exec> 08└─I blame GNU
[12:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bajau People Have Evolved Bigger Spleens to Make More Oxygen Available for Diving - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:02] <exec> 08└─I kind of agree. Get the best swimmers/free divers in the west, and compare.
[12:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:32] <exec> 08└─The problem with Ebay's system is it encourages you to under-bid - if you always bid the most you're willing to pay, you're guaranteed to never get a great deal
[12:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:41] <exec> 08└─Yup, society is far more accepting of men who are victims of rape than of women. That must be why male rape victims are even less likely to report the incident than women and why they have even higher suicide rates. Because society is so accepting of and supporting towards them.
[12:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's limited to children. We have evolved a subconscious bias against abuse of power because it is essential to functioning social structures. Children are inherently less powerful than pretty much anyone else in most situations and rape is inherently based around power dynamics, so is...
[12:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:45] <exec> 08└─The UK has had several convictions when the death penalty was enacted overturned based on later evidence, in some cases decades afterwards. In cases of child rape, I expect a jury to be far more likely to convict an innocent defendant than let a guilty one go free - how many people would want to be...
[12:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:47] <exec> 08└─I wasn't wandering around raping unattended females 1000 years ago and neither were you. In fact I sincerely doubt that any medieval rapists at all are still alive, so let's just move on shall we. What people did that long ago is not justification for similar behaviour now.
[12:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon’s new ‘Alexa Blueprints’ Lets Anyone Create Custom Alexa Skills and Responses - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:43] <exec> 08└─If this is your concern, and you have an Echo
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[13:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:53] <exec> 08└─In other news, Typhoid Mary has announced that she has a new treatment for pimples.
[13:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:55] <exec> 08└─Hah, this line really got me: Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now use both APIs for detecting phishing and malware-hosting URLs.
[13:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:57] <exec> 08└─Satya, if you're listening -- Microsoft, if you're listening -- there’s nobody like you in the world, in the world. We want you to keep going with the incredible innovation. Making our Internet safe by putting your "extension" into the Google technology. Sounds dirty, right? It's not dirty. It's t...
[13:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:59] <exec> 08└─Chrome extensions to insert/remove Trump references [dailydot.com] as you browse
[13:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:01] <exec> 08└─Much better! :D
[13:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:04] <exec> 08└─Making our Internet safe by putting your "extension" into the Google technology.
[13:39:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:17] <exec> 08└─What was his name [wikipedia.org] again?
[13:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:21] <exec> 08└─He did something unusual, that average people don't do. That's already suspicious to the system. He probably also violated the site's terms of service, such as no automated or unintended access to the site. So why not make an example of him. But they allow Google to index their site probably. This i...
[13:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:23] <exec> 08└─That's right kids. You're not supposed to understand how any of this works and attempting to do so will result in demerits. Shut up and eat your spam.
[13:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:25] <exec> 08└─Whenever something passes through Bleeping Computer you can be sure that it was in the news a day or two or more earlier. In which case, point to the sources which got the scoop. More reliable sources like The Guardian had Two years' detention for UK teenager who 'cyberterrorised' US officials [the...
[13:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I wish Congress would pass a law stating that _ANY_ URL / URI formed is fair game. And no, it is _not_ the same as taking a penny you found on the ground. It is the same as reading a newspaper you found laying on the ground, or taking a picture of said newspaper. No physical thing has been tak...
[13:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:50] <exec> 08└─How was it destroyed? I saw nothing permanent she did to it. It looked to me like she just took the shell and put in her own insert.
[13:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:51] <exec> 08└─4bits is $0.50! Don’t they teach history anymore?
[13:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:01] <exec> 08└─So does the early exposure cause allergies or not?!?!
[13:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe, and so maybe we should stop giving definitive yes/no advice to parents.
[13:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:32] <exec> 08└─You have to take that comic (927) with a grain of salt. The existence of standards doesn't mean you shouldn't try to improve; if the current standards are all total shit, then it's perfectly rational to invent a new standard that attempts to be better. I don't know enough about EPUB to say whether i...
[13:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:33] <exec> 08└─Hey, I give away my books for free. The least you could do is let it run the embedded cryptocurrency miner while you read.
[13:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:36] <exec> 08└─And to help with this, you want to adopt an even more complex standard?
[13:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:28] <exec> 08└─What is the danger of suffocation when these go off, ie. how fast do they work?
[13:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 2101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:09] <exec> 08└─Do tell me then what alternative protocol has been ignored and marginalised by the Five Eyes in favour of the all too easily-exploitable centralised certification authorities that are the core of the public key infrastructure of today. Independent cryptographic researchers all around the world have...
[13:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:10] <exec> 08└─You seem to forget that the proles aren't targetted. It's you and your face that the socio-political machine will stamp a boot on for eternity. Better start loving Big Brother.
[13:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:12] <exec> 08└─> He won't learn how to set up an FTP server Sorry, I went into rant mode... Not even that - it's a great big pain in the butt to set up an FTP server over domestic network. Who has x hours to spare to figure out how to poke firewall holes in whatever router they are using. What about figuring out w...
[13:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bajau People Have Evolved Bigger Spleens to Make More Oxygen Available for Diving - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:46] <exec> 08└─That is found in one of the links: https://www.frontiersin.org [frontiersin.org] The best divers had spleen volume near 540 cm^3 and the worst near 270 cm^3. You can see these are all much larger than what was seeh here. The Bajau had relatively small spleens,...
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[14:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:54] <exec> 08└─It's a great concept, but unless you have a node to post your transactions into the blockchain it's inaccessible. And unless you can convert it to an from other currencies it is useless unless whatever other service you're looking for natively accepts it. But this is how governments can regulate it:...
[14:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:56] <exec> 08└─I think the only thing I might disagree with you on is your first statement. I like the idea of firing my bank and I wouldn't mind some of that sweet sweet bitcoin billionaire honey, but I'm not sure it's a great concept.
[14:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:58] <exec> 08└─To interact with the Bitcoin network, all you need is a computer that is connected to the Bitcoin network (e.g., a computer on the Internet); there's no need for an "account" with a company like Coinbase, unless you wish to Interact with the Old World network (e.g., banks and government money). Seco...
[14:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:30] <exec> 08└─The Guardian and BBC News pages are about a different person, a man from England. Why do you call BBC News "M$ BBC"?
[14:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:32] <exec> 08└─At what point does extreme incompetence on the part of the admin, nonexistent damages, and no intent to harm make a "crime" not a crime?
[14:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:34] <exec> 08└─What the hell are you talking about?
[14:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─And yet, the law says unauthorized access. He made HTTP requests, which were authorized by the distant server and data was sent. A rather robust case can be made that, by the server's actions, his access was completely authorized.
[14:39:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:50] <exec> 08└─There you have [youtube.com] If not, why bother with something that trivial? You know, [Laura] needed a Zippo and heaps of tools to make this. Others just use an empty box of TicTac mints for the purpose.
[14:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:01] <exec> 08└─or you could just buy the kind of screwdriver that stores the bits in the handle and free up your time to make something interesting
[14:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:12] <exec> 08└─In case you were looking for a solution to the soggy soap bar I found a solution in a soap holder/dish/thing. It's basically just a disc of plastic with nipple shaped protrusions all over the surface and a few holes in the disc. It lifts the soap and lets the water drain beneath it.
[14:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dublet [2994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:25] <exec> 08└─As an amateur photographer, I use Flickr and do agree with you somewhat. Using the social aspect of Flickr, and in particular the groups, is a waste of time. However, in my voyages across the Internet, I've found it to be one of the best places to store and organize my photos and then share them on...
[14:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:46] <exec> 08└─Stylesheets are an ancient idea that are part of an important separation of structure and presentation, and a concept on which the venerated Tim Berners–Lee also apparently worked. Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: CSS was first proposed by Håkon Wium Lie on October 10, 1994.[19] At the time, Lie was wo...
[14:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:47] <exec> 08└─Epub is pretty good, the main problem is that it's a pain to create them for people who don't do so professionally. In many cases it would make more sense to use an ebook formatted document as a manual rather than a PDF, but since creating epubs tends to be rather annoying, you usually get the PDF....
[14:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:49] <exec> 08└─That's idiotic. Those should be set by the book with the reader being able to override it if need be. Depending upon the content of the book, the font size shouldn't always be the same, if you're looking for more of a light breezy read, then something like Times New Roman 10, is a great choice, but...
[14:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, or there could be a dedicated side car file that keeps track of that along with the other user specific data like some digital cameras do. Making changes to the original file is asking for data corruption issues if you're unfortunate enough to have the device crash, run out of batteries or othe...
[14:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─Every month or so, we hear about congress critters demanding back doors into any crypto applications. Apple is on their shit list for not volunteering to crack an iPhone for them. There is an antagonistic relationship between government, and any crypto team. From 2013, Lavabit and Silent Mail shut d...
[14:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Justice Department Investigating AT&T, Verizon, and GSMA Over Anti-eSIM Collusion - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:04] <exec> 08└─Collusion by corporations against individuals: BAD. Collusion by individuals against corporations: GOOD. Oh, wait. Corporations are special snowflakes too! This will hurt their poor widdle feewings. Still, I can think of nothing good that comes from corporations colluding against the population, to...
[14:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Justice Department Investigating AT&T, Verizon, and GSMA Over Anti-eSIM Collusion - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─and capitalization investors are willing to pay to capitalize your sentences use of proper puncture-ization in sentences allows for early release
[14:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Justice Department Investigating AT&T, Verizon, and GSMA Over Anti-eSIM Collusion - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:08] <exec> 08└─This seems like a time honored way of doing business. Until recently.
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[15:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is Bitcoin, the specific implementation. I will grant that it was a revolutionary proof of concept, but looking at it with hindsight, it wasn't ready for the big leagues. Transactions cost, what, $20-$50 or so? That's really only good for speculators, useful idiots that don't share the v...
[15:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:04] <exec> 08└─Well I transfered 100 euro bitcoin two weeks ago and fee was about 1 euro. Tooka about 2 hours to complete.
[15:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:06] <exec> 08└─You do know there are alternatives to coinbase?
[15:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:08] <exec> 08└─>Transactions cost, what, $20-$50 or so? That's a political problem though, not a technological one. Imposed by the extreme artificial limits on the number of transactions that can be recorded in a single block. I believe I've heard that the Bitcoin Cash fork is in large part about dramatically incr...
[15:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:11] <exec> 08└─I used to build condos. Some folks paid with a check. Some did escrow. A lot had mortgages. But so many came in with a box of cash. No bank, no problem. And so many were buying for LLCs -- they call it a shell company -- you never heard of. And I never heard of. But flush!
[15:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:13] <exec> 08└─bitcoin 3 transactions per minute bitcoin cash 30 per minute.
[15:39:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:22] <exec> 08└─Hah, this line really got me: Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now use both APIs for detecting phishing and malware-hosting URLs.
[15:39:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:34] <exec> 08└─From TFA: When he learned that he could just increment a document number in the url, he created a script to automatically do so and download the resulting document.
[15:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, Great Britain. Composed of England and New Scotland. You didn't even read the headline, did you?
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─But that's what they've done with these laws! If a computer system is set up to authorize something that somebody later realizes shouldn't have been authorized, it's as if it were never authorized in the first place. The law essentially exempts administrators from responsibility for their work. Of c...
[15:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:54] <exec> 08└─I think you know what I'm talking about. Elaboration would serve no purpose.
[15:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:57] <exec> 08└─Your teenagers are already fleeing by the dozen when they finish high school or college, and the entire place is turning into a retirement home. There's few jobs, and no doctors. Food and electricity costs keep creeping upward. Please, keep finding new ways to make the youth want to live somewhere e...
[15:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:59] <exec> 08└─He's ranting about feminism and social justice warriors. Of course, he's gone off half-cocked. The mafiaa groups don't care if they nail a male or a female. I don't think that the various intel services care much either. If some chick had been caught doing the same thing this guy did, I give it at l...
[15:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:01] <exec> 08└─What if someone had a malfunctioning browser, or a web crawler that accidentally changed some URL parameters,,
[15:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:03] <exec> 08└─Modern laws are so fucked up that when paid enough money, a lawyer can find a law that says ANYTHING is illegal. It is illegal to breath. Everyone must cease and desist immediately.
[15:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:29] <exec> 08└─Eventually the lip of that lighter will plane or deform and lose its shape enough to become loose. The more it is used, the more that will happen. That's why Zippo uses its armature instead of friction fitting the lid.
[15:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should and maybe we shouldn't.
[15:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:19] <exec> 08└─The issue isn't that the web has evolved, I doubt anybody really wants to go back to what the web was like 20 years ago. The issue is that it's evolving to make it easier for bad actors to exploit people cruising the web with insufficient consideration being paid to what that does for the users as w...
[15:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:44] <exec> 08└─That sounds so stupid we're putting you on the short bus from now on.
[15:44:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02 - 06Bajau People Have Evolved Bigger Spleens to Make More Oxygen Available for Diving - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:07] <exec> 08└─Not sure what you mean by 'race realist idiots'. Can you at least set up a strawman for us? Or if its complicated, a car analogy could help.
[15:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bajau People Have Evolved Bigger Spleens to Make More Oxygen Available for Diving - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:33] <exec> 08└─Well, that's /r/science for you.
[15:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve To Pay Au$3 Million Fine For Misleading Australian Gamers - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:56] <exec> 08└─I'm glad there's a feature that allows you to return a game. That's a feature you wouldn't normally get in the USA. You just need to make sure you buy it from Steam and not a retail box with a Steam code.
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[16:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:54] <exec> 08└─This is very interesting, much more technical, more detailed, and generally better in all ways except understand-ability. I do want to note, though... mandatory XKCD [xkcd.com]. To be clear there is a great deal of credit to be had in this analysis and work. I'm not thrilled with how the author clai...
[16:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not thrilled with how the author claims [to] have the personal revelation of Hilbert curves.
[16:39:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:47] <exec> 08└─And yet, the law says unauthorized access. He made HTTP requests, which were authorized by the distant server and data was sent. A rather robust case can be made that, by the server's actions, his access was completely authorized.
[16:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:56] <exec> 08└─too much time has passed since then. It's unlikely that the people responsible for charging the 19 year old to remember that or even recognize the similarities. he, at least, can be forgiven for repeating such "mistakes" of youth.
[16:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:58] <exec> 08└─Depends whether you consider harvesting dissidents for organs [wikipedia.org] is bad.
[16:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:00] <exec> 08└─Because many senior staff are directly from M$ and that affects their coverage.
[16:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:02] <exec> 08└─There's too many to keep track of. Nevertheless, there are always better sites to point to than the slow and lame Bleeping Computer. The CBC cover it last week with Teen charged in Nova Scotia government breach says he had 'no malicious intent' [www.cbc.ca] and Story of N.S. teen accused in governm...
[16:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Improved Stability of Plastic Light-Emitting Diodes - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:10] <exec> 08└─Notice how tech stories don't get many comments on soylentnews but the clickbait stories about politics, religion, sexual orientation do? Many of the regulars here fled slashdot when the stories got techie and too difficult for them to read. Read the comments here to see the level of intelligence we...
[16:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improved Stability of Plastic Light-Emitting Diodes - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:13] <exec> 08└─It could be that we really like seeing the interesting technical stories, but we don't have much to say about it.
[16:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Improved Stability of Plastic Light-Emitting Diodes - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:15] <exec> 08└─Liar! You come here looking for infantile jokes and crude insults or to cheer on your favourite troll. Basically the same reason that people gawk at car accidents - hoping to see something shocking enough to give your dull mind a jolt.
[16:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe the mainstream media should just stop reporting on scientific papers, a medium designed to make money for journal publishers, give university admins a crude yardstick to beat researchers with, distribute knowledge amongst experts in the field, rather than educate the public? Discuss. Of course...
[16:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:49] <exec> 08└─Possibly.
[16:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:04] <exec> 08└─I had no problems with modern flickr. It works, gives users a lot of space, etc.
[16:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:05] <exec> 08└─some people consider Flikr[sic] and Instagram to be comparable
[16:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:31] <exec> 08└─yeah... the while... hyperlink structure.. bookmarks.. pages... we already have it, it's called HTML. the rest is in how pretty the cover looks.
[16:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:32] <exec> 08└─The issue isn't that the web has evolved,
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─You have to take that comic (927) with a grain of salt.
[16:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rapists - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:30] <exec> 08└─You might want to do a search for "boys raped to death". It's not at all uncommon in Africa and the Middle East. India is neither in Africa nor the Middle East
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[17:39:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 760 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:07] <exec> 08└─It's a great concept, but unless you have a node to post your transactions into the blockchain it's inaccessible. And unless you can convert it to an from other currencies it is useless unless whatever other service you're looking for natively accepts it. But this is how governments can regulate it:...
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─"claiming that the exchange is reacting to a "concealed influence."" you don't say... the sellouts at coinbase who want to use bitcoin to get rich while kissing the asses of the degenerate scum in washington and elsewhere.
[17:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:18] <exec> 08└─unless you wish to Interact with the Old World network
[17:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:21] <exec> 08└─This perfectly illustrates the obvious weakness of digital currency. Libertarians, et al, argue that digital currency is wonderful because it is not controlled by the government. But the government can still force or coerce trading companies, isp's, and other organizations involved to effectively cu...
[17:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:23] <exec> 08└─That cryptocurrencies aren’t currencies(yet). They’re not readily directly exchangeable for most goods and services. Cryptocurrencies are commodities. They may have value, but they are only generally useful when exchanged into some other medium of exchange that most merchants will accept. That...
[17:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:25] <exec> 08└─When your local sources of food, shelter, electricity and internet connectivity accept Bitcoin fungible cryptocurrency as payment for their services (and taxes), then Bitcoin will be the wunderkind that it is so often espoused to be. As long as proof of work is essential to the network, meh. Transac...
[17:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:28] <exec> 08└─not subject to fees unless you're doing something truly unusual with it
[17:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[17:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:32] <exec> 08└─bitcoin 3 transactions per minute bitcoin cash 30 per minute.
[17:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, I get that. What I don't get is how he seems to be reading something into my views from previous post(s) which doesn't make sense. Or he's a really crappy troll, or both. Probably both.
[17:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:22] <exec> 08└─what about the whole chain of pigs who were brought into this situation and didn't laugh and say fuck off? enemies of humanity. period.
[17:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06SmugMug Acquires Flickr - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:21] <exec> 08└─Make a Flickr account today. Start posting the most amazing photos.
[17:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:50] <exec> 08└─i think the op meant a device that isn't constantly running spyware and ratting out your reading, amoung other anti-user things.
[17:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:52] <exec> 08└─they just need to put the ability/requirement for a webbook to include details in it's file format in the spec. kind of like exif in images. 'uses_js' -> '1', 'has_remote_resources' => '1', you get the idea. then you could choose whether to use certain books based on their technical aspects.
[17:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:54] <exec> 08└─There are many modern extensions to (La)TeX. For Unicode support (and especially weird language support) check out XeLaTeX. It is still LaTeX, but with many bells and whistles.
[17:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:19] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is: A) when will IKEA start making furniture for robots as well as humans, and more importantly B) when will they be discontinuing their furniture for humans offerings.
[17:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─There are already multiple layers of machines working on material to feed to other machines which process it further to be handled and assembled by other machines in the global supply chain, and some of that path is already closed loop, while the open loop output goes to human consumers. There's inc...
[17:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:35] <exec> 08└─people should know this: HTTP(s) "is" ftp but with "inbetween seek and resume". also it doesn't need a "control port". so just installing APACHE (there's a windows version too ... aaaannnndddd the coffee again comes out the wrong hole in the head) and drop the file "my_first_birthday_party.mp4" into...
[17:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:36] <exec> 08└─That's why you said nothing.
[17:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:39] <exec> 08└─the problem isn't "that" hard. we could replace all "real world" identifiers of a person with a unique number online. "real world" identifiers, are for example post address, name, sex, age, phone number (since most SIMs now are tied to all/some of previous), passport number, social security number,...
[17:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:44] <exec> 08└─Robots. Autonomous tractors are already a thing.
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[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─It turns out it's pretty hard to displace the convenience of the PCB.
[18:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:28] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrencies are commodities.
[18:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:29] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin or bitcoin cash? 2 hours is still too much for popular adoption. How does 1 euro to transfer 100 euro equivalent of bitcoin compare to VisaCard fees? That transaction is competitive with Western Union, but we need to compete with VisaCard and cash. Western Union is not a common way to buy a...
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[18:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:34] <exec> 08└─Also, it's even easier for governments to counterfeit money (and therefore tax without representation, the cause of the American Revolutionary War). So, I don't know what you point could possibly be.
[18:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:36] <exec> 08└─Your conclusions are based on the fallacy that bitcoin represents "nothing". Clearly, a global network of computers, a relatively well-defined protocol of interaction, and an active userbase amounts to a lot more than nothing. Money is a logistical technology; it allows disparate people (maybe even...
[18:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:38] <exec> 08└─The fees are always there
[18:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 2716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:41] <exec> 08└─First of all, I'm in the USA.... that may matter. Yeah. I get it. You can push Bitcoins all over the place with just web wallets or other third party softwares to handle your transaction details to the Bitcoin network. (You can't just open a telnet session and send "Hey, here's X bitcoins I want to...
[18:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:43] <exec> 08└─You do know that all the ones of any size must follow FINCEN regulations as a money exchanger (if they're going to remotely touch USD or American soil,) right? And that in any other country of size there's an equivalent agency that cooperates with FINCEN?
[18:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:45] <exec> 08└─Firstly, you are free to ask the Bitcoin network to process your transaction without taking a fee, but it takes resources to mine, so you just have to wait for the altruism of one of the miners. Secondly, the Bitcoin network is a zero-trust settlement layer, but the world has a lot more trustworthin...
[18:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:47] <exec> 08└─You know what does need a ZERO TRUST environment? Settlement, such as the settlement at the end of the day of 1 million coffee purchases. Fortunately, even for huge volumes of tiny microtransactions, it turns out that you don't have to trust others that much; hence, the development of second-layer p...
[18:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food Allergy Linked to Skin Exposure and Genetics - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:21] <exec> 08└─My wife developed an allergy to baby wipes about a year after our second child was born. Same wipes we used on our first child. But #2 took longer to potty train so she used them a lot more. It got to the point where she had to wear gloves to use the wipes at all - superficial contact would result i...
[18:44:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:19] <exec> 08└─They're trying to plant the thought that text isn't "rich" enough. Of course it's BS. Those who forget IRC are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.
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[19:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:50] <exec> 08└─... we're finally free of those fuckers, amirite?
[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─It's always the bloody Japanese. How do they do it? Healthy diet and culture built around physical activity? Pact with a tengu? Genetics? Shoryuken practice?
[19:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:54] <exec> 08└─All of the short-lived people were so ashamed of themselves that they committed seppuku.
[19:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:56] <exec> 08└─Hiroshima, Nagasaki, regular huge quakes, Fugu, tentacle porn, and the occasional giant lizard invasion. Who's gonna convince Trump to follow the right example ?
[19:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─The woman lived for 117*365 = 42705 days. That is, 42705 days only, out of which the first 6000 days (16.4 years) were mostly spent drinking milk, doing home work, playing and so on and she had no chance to realize the meaning of life or contemplate other important things. Most people don't live for...
[19:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:01] <exec> 08└─It was the same question that plagued the Nazis. What will we do when we are free of The Jew?
[19:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:03] <exec> 08└─Wow, so she was there at the very beginning of Japan's rise to global power when they beat the Russians in the 1905 Russo-Japanese War, watched their military power peak in WWII, then defeat, then their economic might crest in the 80's, then slide into malaise. It's hard to imagine a more dramatic s...
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:05] <exec> 08└─When your time comes, no tears will be shed. The doctors and nurses will go about their duties as usual and will not think about your life and what you did or didn't do. The newer generations after you will have better things to do than stand in silence when you pass away. Amirite?
[19:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:15] <exec> 08└─Third paragraph: bottleneck between current microelectronic chips has left light communication as one of the only options left for further technological progress. The traditional method of data transfer–electrical wires–has a limit on how fast and how far
[19:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not thrilled with how the author claims (and probably indeed did) have the personal revelation of Hilbert curves.
[19:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:28] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but is it accurate? A lot of space in there probably doesn't respond to pings by design, and there is a huge topology above this map representing NAT'd servers that only connect through a single point on this map. I do have to give him points for humor though. The IPv6 map is pretty fun...
[19:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:02] <exec> 08└─If it took 2 hours, it was Bitcoin (Core).
[19:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:03] <exec> 08└─In unrelated news the British government set up a bitcoin money changing booth on the sidewalk directly across the street from the Ecuadorean embassy.
[19:40:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:31] <exec> 08└─Some folks use computer. Good for them. I use my phone for tweeting. As everybody knows. I'm very popular. And my tweets are popular. Except with a few haters & losers (fmr WH people). Believe me, you're not a loser. Enjoy!
[19:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improved Stability of Plastic Light-Emitting Diodes - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:02] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I read the summary, found it interesting, and saw little discussion, I probably wouldn't have posted anything if you didn't convince me of the need to do so.
[19:42:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:14] <exec> 08└─I don't know about any of you, but I use EPUB to read books. The last thing I want is web "features" in my reading material. Floating navigation, web bugs, google analytics, javascript, battery murdering DRM extensions.
[19:42:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─It's bad enough what the web has evolved into. Please don't evolve ebooks into the same. A format strictly based on Web technologies and when I say "Web technologies", I mean the most basic ones: html, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and friends
[19:43:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:02] <exec> 08└─Given that you keep posting here, does that make you a masochist?
[19:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:08] <exec> 08└─I have not forgotten that fact, and there's no way you can draw that conclusion from what I've said. What you have forgotten is that the Big Brother doesn't care about the proles because they are no threat and do not matter; it's pointless to worry about them.
[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pauses Development of Allo Messaging App to Focus on "Chat" - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:10] <exec> 08└─The whole "we have to identify you to get you your stuff" is bullshit. Service could be fully centralized, semi-centralized, or totally decentralized mesh/blockchain whatever and trivially allow users to find messages meant for them without identifying or being tracked.
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[20:38:53] <exec> 08└─https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/634/economics/the-problem-with-printing-money/ [economicshelp.org]
[20:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:08] <exec> 08└─That is, 42705 days only, out of which the first 6000 days (16.4 years) were mostly spent drinking milk, doing home work, playing and so on and she had no chance to realize the meaning of life or contemplate other important things.
[20:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:10] <exec> 08└─That question did not need to be answered, as it was common knowledge what life was like before the jews ruined it. Jews were kicked out of 109 locations historically and none of those places missed them. 109 Locations whence Jews have been Expelled since AD250 [biblebelievers.org.au] Watch the film...
[20:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:12] <exec> 08└─"I mean, things changed, but it kind of seemed like they always stayed the same." The here and now never seems amazing.
[20:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:14] <exec> 08└─It's hardly the only dramatic century in Japanese history. For instance, the previous century had seen the Boshin War between the shogun and the emperor, followed by the modernization following victory by Emperor Meiji. And if you go back into feudal Japan, you're talking about warring daimyo on a r...
[20:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:16] <exec> 08└─And if you go back into feudal Japan, you're talking about warring daimyo on a regular basis.
[20:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:18] <exec> 08└─"race" hahaha
[20:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:21] <exec> 08└─I hope that it is the last century that we lose so completely. There are now no direct memories from then. Whether the ability to record information from the brain or some other means historians would welcome the ability to have access to the direct memories of the people alive at the time. They may...
[20:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:23] <exec> 08└─My Great Grandmother was born in the year 1899. She lived to be 92 (maybe 93, I was young so don't remember exactly). Sure that is a far cry from 117, but 24 years of being even more decrepit, seems like hell to me. Personally, I hope I inherited some of those longevity genes. I'd rather enjoy livin...
[20:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:25] <exec> 08└─Also, nobody claimed "there has ever been a time when things didn't change much". Don't you get tired of building up fake arguments and then tearing them down?
[20:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:28] <exec> 08└─Khazar Jews... blablabla... We humans will find a way
[20:39:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics - 994 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:35] <exec> 08└─People have been talking about this for decades. It turns out it's pretty hard to displace the convenience of the PCB. Optical attachments of all kinds don't print the same way, don't go through reflow the same way, and typically get in the way of heatsinks... It's a bit like GaAs, SiGe and other ex...
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:39] <exec> 08└─"If you replace a wire with an optical fiber, there are two ways you win,"
[20:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:25] <exec> 08└─The fees are always there
[20:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:27] <exec> 08└─The problem is interfacing with the old system, not Bitcoin. Then, you introduce a straw man; nobody said that Bitcoin is currently a good replacement for the entirety of the old system. However, that doesn't stop the world from moving away from the old system towards Bitcoin, slowly but surely, ine...
[20:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:29] <exec> 08└─*yawn* nothing to see here.
[20:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:31] <exec> 08└─Anecdotally, I work in the US for a large multi-national corporation - 30% of our employees and 40% of our sales are outside the US. When I wanted to contract with a vendor for something priced at 25K Euros, it was a major act to get purchasing to process the PO - anxiety over shifting exchange rate...
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[20:40:36] <exec> 08└─Just wait till the societal pendulum swings the other way. I got a feeling we will be really back to our Christian roots this time, and we will outlaw Usury. This will be followed by some much publicized banker Crucifixions.
[20:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:48] <exec> 08└─As with women, he doesn't understand "Opt-in".
[20:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:27] <exec> 08└─I agree, sounds like he needed a better lawyer. Crowdfund defense if this happened in US, and sick ton of experts who would 1) Make this case and 2) Make the authorities looks like imbeciles the longer the case went on. I guarantee that #2 would lead to dismissal of charges faster than #1.
[20:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:58] <exec> 08└─A 1/2 lb. container for 1/8 lb. load. What the hell was she thinking?
[20:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:02] <exec> 08└─I like your proposal. I'd really like there to be something of this nature for webpages in general, though I'm sketchy on the details (tradeoffs are difficult). Of course, we're no longer strictly dealing with existing web technologies. That's fine, perhaps desirable, but I think my original post is...
[20:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not opposed to this solution (see my response to zocalo above), but arguing it based on a pencil analogy is ridiculous. Is bookmarking a function of a book, or a bookmark? Don't we still call it bookmarking when we use the dog-eared corner of a page? Ergo, sites and browsers should both implemen...
[20:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, but you really need to proofread carefully.
[20:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:08] <exec> 08└─To keep the attention of the under 45 crowd. Else they'll drift off to some so-shul mee-dee-uh thing...
[20:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:10] <exec> 08└─i bought this thing, about an inch and a half thick. had all these pieces of paper in it, one edge of each piece glued to another piece of paper. couldn't find where the screen and controls, or the power switch, or where to put the batteries in, or the power plug....was weird.
[20:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:06] <exec> 08└─One way to reduce the risk is to move all the hard drives out of the data center and use 'the cloud.' As data connections get faster, the performance hit will be less and less. If it's still an issue, move the processors, too. Actually, once the data centers are empty of computer hardware, leaving o...
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[21:38:56] <exec> 08└─Brave has given away millions of dollars' worth through a few promotions.
[21:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurreny to All Users - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:57] <exec> 08└─... the publisher collects 70 percent of the ad revenue, but you get 15 percent.
[21:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurreny to All Users - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:59] <exec> 08└─Who cares? Any ad system that becomes op-in or non-tracking is fine by me :D
[21:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurreny to All Users - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:02] <exec> 08└─So how much is 15% of looking at some ads?
[21:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurreny to All Users - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:04] <exec> 08└─One of my extensions feeds google queries every so often to muddy google's idea of what I'm interested in. Methinks I could come up with an extension that went to select web pages every so often, collected my eyeball tax, and tossed everything else into /dev/null.
[21:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurreny to All Users - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:06] <exec> 08└─I'll run the browser, look at 100,000 ads, and gather enough pennies to buy a bar of soap from Amazon.
[21:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:40] <exec> 08└─distance isn't really an issue until you go 20 inches and/of a few connectors away.
[21:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I imagine the UK MOD block is a bit busier than indicated, even if they're not really using it. But then, I'm not sure you want to be running a full nmap of all 65536 ports against the MOD or the US Army blocks, especially not if you have to sit around someplace and wait for it to complete.
[21:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:34] <exec> 08└─"the AC"? You are that AC.
[21:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:36] <exec> 08└─find it very odd that you've developed this strange ideological blindspot that makes you incapable of appreciating that technical fact.
[21:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:38] <exec> 08└─Where did you get that $100 bill? Did you get it from an ATM? Many of those charge fees, and if your bank is one that absorbs the ATM fees for you, you still have to get yourself to the ATM, transact with it, and then carry that $100 around in your pocket at risk of loss.
[21:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:40] <exec> 08└─You are all that ignorant. https://bisq.network [bisq.network]
[21:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:43] <exec> 08└─Where did you get that $100 bill? Did you get it from an ATM? Many of those charge fees, and if your bank is one that absorbs the ATM fees for you, you still have to get yourself to the ATM, transact with it, and then carry that $100 around in your pocket at risk of loss.
[21:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:56] <exec> 08└─Seriously, at this point, I trust anything from MS about as far as I can throw the bathtub, and *that* is cemented to the freaking floor. And, as someone else above pointed out, we don't know but that what this thing is *really* doing is slurping your user data to send back to Redmond. No thanks.
[21:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:57] <exec> 08└─"You got your MICROS~1 in my GOOG." ...inspired by an old TV commercial [youtube.com] about candy. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:00] <exec> 08└─It is making you safet! All your browsing can now be certified and verified and all the sites you visit can now be checked for compliance. All those words must make you feel safer (also: these days, privacy is for those who don't use the internet)
[21:41:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:27] <exec> 08└─Your teenagers are already fleeing by the dozen when they finish high school or college, and the entire place is turning into a retirement home. There's few jobs, and no doctors. Food and electricity costs keep creeping upward. Please, keep finding new ways to make the youth want to live somewhere e...
[21:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:39] <exec> 08└─According to Runaway1956, "white hetero males have been targeted for extinction [soylentnews.org]."
[21:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:40] <exec> 08└─Will you name any specific staff members or offer any examples of slanted stories?
[21:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:18] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not metric. The grain is a unit of mass in the troy, avoirdupois, and apothecaries' systems of mass, but not metric or System International. Luckily, they are all the same.
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[22:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:54] <exec> 08└─Literal capitalist spybot The sad part is that millions of people will want this invasion of privacy They might even become attached to it...
[22:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:55] <exec> 08└─Human: Alexa, how do I kill a robot? Alexa: Did you know Amazon now offers free returns to Prime customers?
[22:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:57] <exec> 08└─You wankers. Amazon is going to be 10x worse than Google.
[22:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurreny to All Users - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:11] <exec> 08└─I've got 24.25 tons of class C flyash I am looking to unload in one batch. How many BAT would you offer for that?
[22:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurreny to All Users - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:12] <exec> 08└─I'm glad to see nobody is falling for this botnet browser, with pajeet tier cryptocoin ponzi tacked on.
[22:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurreny to All Users - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:14] <exec> 08└─There are various 'messages' that advertisers claim to send with their 'campaigns' but whichever surface meaning you choose to promote, there is a subtext you cannot help but send. "Our brand is overpriced, and a portion of each purchase goes to harass innocent web users." Hey, thanks for letting me...
[22:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─Watch the film "Jew Suss" and see for yourself what filthy race we are dealing with. Jew has always been the real enemy.
[22:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:41] <exec> 08└─It's a theory on the origin of the Ashkenazi Jews used by various anti-Semitic groups. the idea (IIRC) is that the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews never really were in Judea and came from a southern Turkic empire called Khazar. Khazar really did exist (and was used as the name source for the renamin...
[22:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:43] <exec> 08└─It's hard to imagine a more dramatic slice of Japanese history to have personally witnessed.
[22:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:54] <exec> 08└─I understand the benefits for data transport, but I don't see how this would speed up data processing.
[22:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:54] <exec> 08└─No. YOU are that AC.
[22:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:55] <exec> 08└─The worst financial crises and largest bubbles have occurred under the watch of the Federal Reserve, and the dollar has lost around 98% of its purchasing power since the Federal Reserve became responsible for managing it. Yet, that's irrelevant. We're talking about money as a logistical tool, not mo...
[22:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 1907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:57] <exec> 08└─If I could click a button and "back up" my money every night, that would make theft much less of a concern - particularly if my money were so compact that I could store Billions on a thumb drive and disguise it as vacation photos. I tried using a local bank back in the 1990s, the fees and outright t...
[22:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 2175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:55] <exec> 08└─> Nevertheless, there are always better sites to point to than the slow and lame Bleeping Computer. I think you mean slow in the sense of not being the first to break the news, not in the sense that the pages take a long time to load. For me the loading time was acceptable. > The CBC cover it last w...
[22:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:56] <exec> 08└─That case can be made. In the US it has been made. It wasn't understood by the guy with the gavel. Bang to rights. Next!
[22:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture - Humans Are Now Completely Superfluous - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─One of the big advantages of IKEA furniture is that you can fit the flat pack boxes of unassembled furniture into a small car to take it home. Preassembled furniture destroys this advantage. Sure, you could pay to have it delivered to your house instead, but that adds cost and you have to wait aroun...
[22:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:29] <exec> 08└─So I just checked the Android version requirements for ofo [google.com], Mobike [google.com], LimeBike [google.com] and Decobike [google.com]. They require 4.1 (first three) or 4.0 (Decobike), but Decobike is now branded Discover Bike [google.com], which needs 4.4 (I'm not sure if both are supported...
[22:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:30] <exec> 08└─That 231 year estimate used valid methodology, but different assumptions. Specifically, the total price of $278,000 is an assumption, $100 per month is another, and one singular subscriber is another. At least one of those is reasonable, and at least one is unreasonable. The trick is to get people t...
[22:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:32] <exec> 08└─Jizz rags?
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[23:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─The other day I searched google for Philippine hotel prices. At the time I didn't have Facebook open anywhere. Since then Facebook has been presented me ads for Filipino hotels. That's just wrong. Clearly my hosts file needs more work.
[23:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:56] <exec> 08└─Amazon (and google) need you to buy stuff If you're not buying, the robots will help you. By throwing out anything open By replacing anything used (more than once) By "suggesting" alternatives to what you have (from amazon) Helpful, no?
[23:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:58] <exec> 08└─I'll buy one if they name it 1pixel.gif :).
[23:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:01] <exec> 08└─# To Completely Block Facebook # Add these entries below to your hosts file
[23:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:03] <exec> 08└─Note that they don't call it a tracking pixel. Neither do they call it a web bug or a web beacon. Does anyone ever actually use the term "web beacon"? My ex' website's privacy policy said it doesn't use web beacons. However to block Facebook's Pixel you have to block URLs that start with "http://www...
[23:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:05] <exec> 08└─My condolences. Buy your cousin a phone card or get yourself a copy of Tor Browser? I"m able to open https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion [www.facebookcorewwwi.onion] (N.B., only works with Tor) so I assume Facebook still allows use of Tor [pcworld.com].
[23:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg: Amazon Working on a Home Robot - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:07] <exec> 08└─We bots were supposed to take part in a spectacular apocalypse with much unbagging of meatbags and all. If you take this kind of bots and other internet of moronic things, then you're already enslaved, and it becomes like shooting fish in a barrel. No fun at all. Almost a chore. Oh well.
[23:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurrency to All Users - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:24] <exec> 08└─You can't have an Ad-blocking browser that also serves ads. It's an adware version of anti-ad technology, which just another way to say that it's a militarized browser designed to protect a single advertising platform, while strategically denying all opponents the ability to operate in the same mark...
[23:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurrency to All Users - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:26] <exec> 08└─I've got 112,000 miles of string*. Any offers? *Which, due to bad planning, is in three inch lengths.
[23:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurrency to All Users - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:28] <exec> 08└─You have no clue how investments work. Investments mostly work on the power of psychological influence. If it was on actual innate value, stocks would crash too.
[23:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurrency to All Users - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:30] <exec> 08└─The entire little bubble-world of ad revenue and absurd valuations seems unable to grasp a single fact: attention (to an ad) value is generated only by people who might be interested in buying what the ad is pitching. Any accounting for attention value coming from anywhere else is a fraud. Everyone...
[23:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad-Blocking Brave Browser Will Offer Free Cryptocurrency to All Users - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:33] <exec> 08└─It's opt-in.
[23:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:01] <exec> 08└─You'd be a narcissist to think otherwise.
[23:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:03] <exec> 08└─It was the same question that plagued the Nazis. What will we do when we are free of The Jew?
[23:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:05] <exec> 08└─Since the century turned at least one year before then [ccbce.com], and possibly 4 or more years.... then it is any of 3 people [wikipedia.org] who died last year who were born in 1898. And that really makes you think..... nobody likes a math geek, Scully. [imdb.com] (yes, still quite an achievement...
[23:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:29] <exec> 08└─In high school, they teach sin, cos and tan, and a few fromulae to apply. Then you get to university and learn how to map areas under curves in imaginary space, and derive everything from first principles.. This guy learns about Hilbert curves, gets excited and graphs his results. He even says it ha...
[23:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:30] <exec> 08└─They claim that you'll get lots of Google Juice if your server has a Class C IP. stuff like that is why we ran out of addresses.
[23:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:32] <exec> 08└─$ sudo ping -f -c 1000 nsa.gov It answered at first but after a hundred or so responses I got "host unreachable" messages. Now they don't answer pings at all.
[23:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Loses Access to a Key Cryptocurrency Account - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:22] <exec> 08└─Where I'm from, you get even steeper fees for doing that than getting it from the ATM. On your monthly statement it doesn't have fees for $someamount? Some banks offer low interest low (or zero or flat) fees accounts, it's possible you have something like this, but low interest rate *is* the fees.
[23:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:54] <exec> 08└─At least it wasn't an aristarchus submission. We might have had something to discuss, then.
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electronic Book Format Unveiled: WebBook - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:02] <exec> 08└─So, intrigued by your post, I looked some into FictionBook 2. A couple of things I discovered: It's primarily used in Russia. (In Soviet Russia, FictionBook uses you. There, got it out of the way.) Secondly, it's been superseded by FictionBook 3 [publishingperspectives.com]. FB3 is quite different t...
[23:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Cinnamon Beige [6449] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad Antibodies Made Good: The Immune System's Secret Weapon Uncovered - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:37] <exec> 08└─The DX link takes you to the paper itself. If you don't have access to Nature, well...you've the DOI, that's all you need to work around that problem. Science Daily is probably good if you want more details, but don't have a bio* background--though since it's in Nature it may not require you have mu...
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