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[00:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria With Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:25] <exec> 08└─Stop with the wars on and fights against nature. Learn about and understand the workings of nature so you can take advantage...
[00:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria With Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:27] <exec> 08└─What's up with that? [theconversation.com]
[00:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria With Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:29] <exec> 08└─I came here to post pretty much the exact same thing. Except with Silver [scientificamerican.com] and from around ten years ago.
[00:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria With Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:31] <exec> 08└─The little girl screamed in pain and begged the man for mercy. In response, the man stopped violating her and started searching his person for something. He checked his pockets, his wallet, and then his jacket, and then shook his head as though to indicate that he could not find whatever he was look...
[00:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─Sell the information to the insurance company so they don't have to pay for a liver transplant.
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─How exactly does one patent an "AI" doing something anyway? It used to be that a patent had to more or less demonstrate how something worked. "AI" does not have any real way to prove what it does, nor solid specifications - someone just shits in to an I/O port until it "learns" what they think it sh...
[00:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─Internal testing at Uber detected too many false positives? Right ...
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─You'll probably have a hard time finding a liberal around here who thinks this is a totally fine invasion of privacy. Try again with your strawman, maybe it is time to realize why government regulation is an incredibly GOOD thing. Such as making a law against this sort of invasive tracking / analyzi...
[00:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─The little girl screamed in pain and begged the man for mercy. In response, the man stopped violating her and started searching his person for something. He checked his pockets, his wallet, and his jacket, and then shook his head as though to indicate that he could not find whatever he was looking f...
[00:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:28] <exec> 08└─If you buy the same app on the two platforms, you can normally transfer your data between them. Both apps sync to your cloud-based account from the app developer. The same thing could have happened on the consoles.
[00:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:03] <exec> 08└─The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level. They say Antarctica is a cold dessert. And it's like a dessert. You go to a very nice restaurant, you order a sundae, right? But it's very small, so you ask for extra i...
[00:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:04] <exec> 08└─Then we BUILD A WALL, it's called a seawall. Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, we wanted to build a seawall. To protect my property from the sea. People don't know, in Ireland the sea is rising very quickly. Bad news for folks like me that own coastal real estate. But they have the...
[00:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:07] <exec> 08└─When the President of the US also says it you no longer get to claim it's a fringe view.
[00:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:18] <exec> 08└─Elon could set his boring machines to honeycomb under the metro Chicago area. Then, with the help of demolition charges, plunge the whole thing into the bowels of the earth, next to Satan, where it belongs.
[00:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:20] <exec> 08└─Back of the envelope here but, $25/trip at 2000 trips/day (O'hare is a big airport right? Complete guess here, I have no data on it's size or passenger count) compared to 1 billion dollar cost gives a payback of... 1,000,000,000 dollars / (25 dollars/trip * 2000 trips/day * 365 days) = 54.79 years T...
[00:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:04] <exec> 08└─grade-separated elevated trains.
[00:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:05] <exec> 08└─Lets just drop this whole crazy idea and finally focus on actually making Americans better drivers instead.
[00:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:55] <exec> 08└─My only knowledge of DeVos is the following quote:
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[01:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:23] <exec> 08└─Straight out bullshitter. Doesn't even waste a sentence before he invokes 'will something think of the children'.
[01:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:24] <exec> 08└─All forms of security and freedom 'blatantly protect criminals'. Due process protects criminals. Warrant requirements protect criminals. Freedom of speech protects criminals. We should outlaw all forms of security, privacy, and freedom in order to catch those nasty criminals. The problem is, all of...
[01:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─In this particular case, it's quite uncontested that they started it, and don't plan on stopping. It might be a good thing if we found weapons with less collateral damage, for sure.
[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─Bacteria in contact with titanium oxide under UV? Bah! You don't even need shark skin gizmos for that. TiO2 sunscreen damages roofing steel protected with UV resistant paint [steel.com.au] Sunscreen smart Working on a metal roof means working outside – so you need to take care to prevent personal...
[01:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:39] <exec> 08└─"They" didn't "start" anything... Why can't you see that? There is an aspect of nature that wishes to reproduce in human bodies. It does not care whether it harms the human body or not. Why not train it to eat cancer cells?
[01:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:41] <exec> 08└─or digest fiber or produce essential amino acids
[01:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─While I agree we need serious improvements when it comes to privacy, I have very little confidence in governments which themselves conduct unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace, as the US government does.
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─In other words, their AI is nothing more than a tracking system that pings the users location. if they are at a bar for an hour, maybe they're just buzzed or tipsy. Two hours? Most likely drunk but not stammering. Over two hours, get the mop...
[01:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Dawn's Orbit Around Ceres: First Images - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled.
[01:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:39] <exec> 08└─From what I've heard about it, this is worse than just a lack of cross-play: as soon as a Fortnite account (managed by Epic, the game's creators, not Sony) has been used to play on a PS4, it is no longer possible to use that account on any other console. Sony gets the blame though because it's very...
[01:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:17] <exec> 08└─As always, numbers related to climate change are being oversimplified and considered in isolation. The above mentioned NASA study said that ice was decreasing in West Antarctica, and increasing more than as much in East Antarctica. So what does this mean? You can't tell from just that. One thing you...
[01:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:16] <exec> 08└─Why was the parent modded up? It's clearly false. It only takes time for the hardware and software to develop. We're not there yet, but to say it's impossible to get there is complete bullshit. There are an infinite amount of numbers. For languages with dynamically expandable number ranges, the foll...
[01:36:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Popeidol [35] 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:47] <exec> 08└─Why should the rest of us have to subsidize your rural living
[01:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:19] <exec> 08└─If your business needs an upgrade, then pay for that upgrade. What could your point possibly be? Need to pay for that upgrade? Well, you've got 2 choices: Prove your request is warranted by getting people to pay you voluntarily more money for your product. Whine and dine the local guns politicians,...
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[02:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:26] <exec> 08└─I'm sure he'll be fine when the next country he travels to asks for his phone at the border, and uses one of the USB hacks to dump all his personal info into a maybe-secure database.
[02:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:27] <exec> 08└─The problem is too many law enforcement agencies are playing fast and loose with the 4th amendment. If those who play by the rules don't want to be locked out, they need to be willing to condemn the bad apples in no uncertain terms. This is their tacit approval coming back to bite their asses.
[02:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:29] <exec> 08└─Does this guy lock his doors? Cos even with a warrant a locked door could slow down or stop law enforcers. Make him UNLOCK his doors! Think of his children! He locks his car? Terrorist!
[02:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:32] <exec> 08└─If they don't like doing police work maybe they shouldn't be cops. Being a cop doesn't mean sitting in an air conditioned room, pushing buttons. It means getting out into the real world, and doing detective work. An "investigation" doesn't mean that the suspect supplies you with all of the evidence...
[02:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:34] <exec> 08└─Too fucking bad you pig piece of shit. Go read the fucking Constitution and try again.
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:14] <exec> 08└─from the article: judge [...] based on how they type, walk and hold their phone
[02:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:15] <exec> 08└─Permissions. Why do people grant apps so many permissions? Why does a taxi-hailing application need access to all of the hardware on your device? Why does it need access to ANYTHING? An app that calls a taxi should proved one thing, and one thing only. A taxi. It doesn't need anything else. Yet, peo...
[02:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:38] <exec> 08└─Even if California voters agree to this.. it will requite a majority... Then the governor, which in CA means a Democrat Governor in all likelihood) would need to approve it. And seeing how this is a big tax shift, it will not be easy for the govenor to approve. If this happens, it needs to be approv...
[02:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:16] <exec> 08└─You are posting from inside it!!!!
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[03:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:18] <exec> 08└─I'm getting so tired of all these crippling bugs in Intel's chips. Most of these patches have a performance hit. Depressing. IO speed has gone in the toilet for me since I enabled KPTI on vulnerable systems.
[03:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:20] <exec> 08└─Your exploit program would have to know exactly when your victim was going to be using the fpu, (which for a great deal of work loads is rather uncommon), and time your attack to strike just after any such use. I suppose if you already had detail knowledge of the target work load, and freedom to sch...
[03:33:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 919 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:28] <exec> 08└─All forms of security and freedom 'blatantly protect criminals'. Due process protects criminals. Warrant requirements protect criminals. Freedom of speech protects criminals. We should outlaw all forms of security, privacy, and freedom in order to catch those nasty criminals. The problem is, all of...
[03:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:36] <exec> 08└─If Apple were actually giving the customer full control of the device, and that was resulting in total privacy, then it would be OK. But of course they do no such thing, they retain 100% possession of every product sold and are simply telling law enforcement to stick their warrant where the Sun does...
[03:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:38] <exec> 08└─And I don't want the government to snoop on my phone. I've been avoiding firmware upgrades because I've had reason to believe those upgrades are quite buggy But when apple ships a build that defeats USB hacking I'll install it right away
[03:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:40] <exec> 08└─You vote for this shit every election. Please, save your breath on the blame passing.
[03:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:55] <exec> 08└─Learn about and understand the workings of nature so you can take advantage...
[03:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:23] <exec> 08└─Try catching a cab late at night in New Orleans while holding a hurricane glass.
[03:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:25] <exec> 08└─But critics said it could also be used to identify vulnerable passengers.
[03:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:36] <exec> 08└─we are in a good position in that this whole thing can be blamed on a single individual. At least what I have gathered from reading the internet.
[03:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:51] <exec> 08└─Of course winning a contract boosts legitimacy. The known asshole with a date with Alice last week is more likely to have a date with Alice's friend this week than nice-guy Dateless Dan has a hope of scoring a single date this year. Or, in IT terms: "nobody got fired for buying IBM". If somebody els...
[03:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:52] <exec> 08└─> ... plunge the whole thing into the bowels of the earth... You have to stop watching Batman, this just sounds like another villain attacking poor helpless Gotham City.
[03:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:55] <exec> 08└─According to this, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com [googleusercontent.com] O'Hare has about 40 million passengers/y...
[03:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe its different in the US? From where I come from and where I am today, a lot of contract winners sub-contract out to the do-ers with the actual experience anyway. Even then, budget blow outs and sub-par quality delivery are par for the course.
[03:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:46] <exec> 08└─"Up to 50mb/s" covers a range of speeds down to and including zero.
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[04:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:29] <exec> 08└─You forget that the "fpu" registers are now used for a lot more than floating point math. This is going to end with either the banning of all speculative execution or banning preemptive multitasking and limiting multi-tasking to what can be accomplished with multi-core / thread processors combined w...
[04:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:30] <exec> 08└─Most of the current issues would not BE issues if the original kernel/application memory address boundaries had been followed, instead of the performance optimization of placing kernel memory in a subset of application memory. However the added bounce buffers to pass data back and forth between kern...
[04:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:32] <exec> 08└─Only problem is that after a decade of pervasive multi-core processors deployed all the way down to phones, much software still fails to take advantage of more than one thread of execution.
[04:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:35] <exec> 08└─Lets get right to the blunt truth. If multi-threaded applications were easy and popular CPU makers wouldn't depend on the "boost" speed so much since that is the speed a single core can run at if the others are idled, i.e. for single threaded use. Most of those "embarrassingly parallel" tasks you ci...
[04:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:06] <exec> 08└─Well, stop working on the metal roof in daylight, or stop wearing fancy suncream..
[04:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:37] <exec> 08└─Why do people grant apps so many permissions?
[04:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:54] <exec> 08└─As angry as AC is, this post is on the money. The NBN has been a joke, at some level, from the very beginning. The ALP's (former, more progressive government) approach to CVC pricing done on the back of a napkin was fucking cringeworthy, then the LNP (current, more conservative gov) decision to chan...
[04:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:55] <exec> 08└─Obviously it did not see you
[04:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:57] <exec> 08└─How, exactly, does one "dispose" of a sandworm? Throw in a dropbear?
[04:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:52] <exec> 08└─If the effect would not exist, would there exist any choice of parameters that showed it?
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[05:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─For a while AMD kicked Intel's ass, forcing Intel to get it's act together. Somehow AMD lost that battle. Now AMD has superior chips for less money. Not to mention Intel has all these hardware issues, where AMD only suffers from half of them. With luck we'll be seeing some low power ARM chips that c...
[05:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:22] <exec> 08└─AMD market cap: 15.30 billion Intel market cap: 257.83 billion 'Nuf said. Invalid form key: 38lYYKiYsW
[05:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:24] <exec> 08└─It's a highly proprietary, fragmented sector that's only as useful as the binary blobs required to run anything. ARM is tripe.
[05:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:26] <exec> 08└─With luck we'll be seeing some low power ARM chips that can drive 90% of the laptops sold for 50% of the price. With the Evil Empire post Gates porting Windows to ARM, and Linux already supporting it, things might get interesting again.
[05:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:28] <exec> 08└─Krzanich "was very matter-of-fact in saying that Intel would lose server share to AMD in the second half of the year,"
[05:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:41] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. Watch the talk. The working assumption that they started with, which allowed someone to write an exploit in less than one workday, is that the hardware is not bothering with permission checks until the decision about which tree to collapse is made.
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:15] <exec> 08└─Blocking UVB more than UVA is worse than doing nothing at all... what is the optimal ratio for a sunscreen? No one knows.
[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:17] <exec> 08└─So why is the "attack" mentioned in the headline? What about the "hurting", "fighting", "ongoing battle", "battling", "fight", and "fight off". Keep it up... the alternative to a war approach is so easy to implement instead. Which matters more? Winning or to not be proven wrong?
[05:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CryptoCurrency Miner Plays Hide-and-seek with Popular Games and Tools - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:24] <exec> 08└─To be extra sure, run the Windows Task Manager in Wine.
[05:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:08] <exec> 08└─Where are the miners? That's where those places are.
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[06:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:18] <exec> 08└─Congratulations on almost getting the archaic definition of "decimate" right. But one in 9 is not one in 10. Also, modern usage (and the English language is defined by usage) of decimate requires a much larger fraction. http://vocabulary-vocabulary.com [vocabulary-vocabulary....
[06:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:19] <exec> 08└─Congratulations on almost getting the archaic definition of "decimate" right. But one in 9 is not one in 10.
[06:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:21] <exec> 08└─And neither of those is 1 in 11. So they're literally, uh, undecimating the workforce?
[06:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:24] <exec> 08└─Under-decimating. See? Maths. This is why we cannot have the white supremacy.
[06:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:48] <exec> 08└─CPU makers wouldn't depend on the "boost" speed so much since that is the speed a single core can run at if the others are idled, i.e. for single threaded use.
[06:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:55] <exec> 08└─What it's really going to be about is fleecing people under the influence by charging them more, plain and simple.
[06:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:31] <exec> 08└─Semi-automatics are justified for fast-moving varmints. I guess you could use very fast repeater actions such as pump or lever, but you might as well use semi-automatics. Or, you know, just go banning things because it feels good, but let's not pretend that culling feral hogs with a single shot rifl...
[06:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:33] <exec> 08└─You're a shitty hunter. Your ancestors would like to smack you over the head, and leave you to die of starvation. Do you bother to wonder how hunters and farmers deal with big wild game in the majority of countries where semi-auto long guns, and even pump-action shotguns are forbidden, and all you g...
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[07:33:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:21] <exec> 08└─Congratulations on almost getting the archaic definition of "decimate" right. But one in 9 is not one in 10.
[07:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 2265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:25] <exec> 08└─Amazing how I'm the only guy who looks at the articles. Nobody even read the headline, the headline says exactly that. It says "undecimates." Fancy way to say they fired a bunch of folks. It's not great. And it's no surprise. They're trying to do business in High Tax, High Crime California. So diffi...
[07:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:27] <exec> 08└─His smile looked nothing so much as that of an angel's. The man, Nortonson, was profoundly kind and was respected all throughout his community. But, sometimes, this excessively kind man would get just a teensy bit too rough; when that happened, things began to break. Today was such a day. Broken obj...
[07:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:38] <exec> 08└─Why can't AMD produce a processor that will run games better than Intel? I'd like to try AMD in my new build, but I've been burned before. You know what they say, fool me once and I'm a fool but fool me twice and what kind of fool am I? Or something like that. Either way, I don't want to have to wai...
[07:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:39] <exec> 08└─Why can't AMD produce a processor that will run games better than Intel?
[07:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:42] <exec> 08└─No idea about grand parent, but in my archive Dwarf Fortress comes to mind
[07:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:44] <exec> 08└─Invalid form key: 38lYYKiYsW
[07:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:46] <exec> 08└─Company of Heroes and Civilization make the CPU bleed its worth.
[07:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:36] <exec> 08└─zinc [cancercouncilshop.org.au]!
[07:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:19] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't think that the current climate change is a problem. I also don't think that a CO2 level of 600 ppm is a problem. The biosphere was quite happy back when it was 6000 ppm. By the rules of your religion, since I am not an 'Alarmist', I must be a 'Denialist'. And I am asking, "How much of...
[07:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 2458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:23] <exec> 08└─I disagree - people have to learn to be more tolerant of other road users and know how to overtake safely. People driving within their comfortable limits is is the safest for them. Vehicles carrying animals might also find it safer to drive at slower speeds and leave a greater stopping distance in f...
[07:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:24] <exec> 08└─Most of the times I criticize the ones that stay stopped at green lights. The ones that refuse to pull onto a road unless they can directly get in the lane they want. The ones that drive through town OBVIOUSLY lost, turning their blinker on, slowing down turning it off and scooting to the next inter...
[07:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:27] <exec> 08└─"cause" should be "because" - :) You could always become an editor!
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[08:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:30] <exec> 08└─Firing people is not the same as executing them.
[08:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:31] <exec> 08└─9 % is not 1 in 11 either.
[08:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:33] <exec> 08└─"undecimates." Fancy way to say they fired a bunch of folks.
[08:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:03] <exec> 08└─There is multi-threaded software, and there is single-threaded software that runs fine as is. Then there is all of the single-threaded code that performs badly. In theory, I bet most of it could be made faster with more cores. Unfortunately that would require coders with motivation and ability. If t...
[08:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:05] <exec> 08└─BIOS and DOS (including DPMI) system calls were done using interrupts. I'm not sure if DPMI hosts put their own code/data in the program's address space. Maybe your VMs would be safe from illicit memory reads as long as you only run DOS software...
[08:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:38] <exec> 08└─Since I started with Bitcoin and other cryptos I've gained about EUR 600k profit (that's on my bank account, not in crypto). Please tell me again how I'm being conned?
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[09:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Creates a Medical Research Institute - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:19] <exec> 08└─The institute's focus is on diseases that disproportionately affect the poor: ... and enteric diseases. The latter are diseases — caused by viruses, bacteria, or parasites — that attack the digestive system. They can cause life-threatening, even fatal bouts of diarrhea, disrupt nutrient absorpti...
[09:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Microsoft Documents Describe Plans for Surface Tablets, Xbox, "Andromeda", and HoloLens - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:26] <exec> 08└─... is a new version of HoloLens, codenamed Sydney.
[09:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:43] <exec> 08└─Psst. 9% is closer to one in 11.
[09:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:44] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Pedants' Club. Firing people is not the same as executing them.
[09:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:46] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Pedants' Club The Club of Pedants
[09:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:48] <exec> 08└─As opposed to all the numbers above, you are irrationally pedantic.
[09:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:51] <exec> 08└─Depends on the angle of attack upon launch.
[09:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─Well maybe Intel can think about ways of using all those billions of transistors to actually make their CPUs faster without so many security issues rather than just give us more and more cores. Maybe half the reason why Intel is faster than AMD is they cut more of these corners?
[09:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability Confirmed - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:25] <exec> 08└─it is now becoming clear that any processor feature that even resembles speculative execution can be exploited to leak info.
[09:34:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:37] <exec> 08└─If they don't like doing police work maybe they shouldn't be cops. Being a cop doesn't mean sitting in an air conditioned room, pushing buttons. It means getting out into the real world, and doing detective work. An "investigation" doesn't mean that the suspect supplies you with all of the evidence...
[09:34:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:41] <exec> 08└─And I don't want the government to snoop on my phone. I've been avoiding firmware upgrades because I've had reason to believe those upgrades are quite buggy But when apple ships a build that defeats USB hacking I'll install it right away
[09:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:44] <exec> 08└─Soon law enforcement will begin carrying whatever tools they need to dump the data in the field. That will cover most iPhones since many will likely still be within the 1-hour window of locked-but-not-really mode. For the ones that are fully locked there will be some other workaround to deal with th...
[09:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:46] <exec> 08└─If Apple wants to remain an American Corporation, continue to receive the benefits of operating here, selling products here, etc. then they are going to have to obey our laws.
[09:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but he thinks warrants give the government the power to enslave people and then force them to sabotage their own security schemes, rather than merely allowing the government to try to break the security themselves.
[09:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:51] <exec> 08└─Finds porn AND pictures of him eating pig products so just throw him in a cell for 10 years with no visits outside except for a weekly beating and genital electrical zapping
[09:36:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:01] <exec> 08└─🎻 🎻 (wrapped in <sub> tag)
[09:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:54] <exec> 08└─Well it is one hell of a fringe, even if it is yellow.
[09:40:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:35] <exec> 08└─You can't being to make sense...
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[10:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Creates a Medical Research Institute - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:27] <exec> 08└─Gates gives the poor something for free... and it's a faecal transplant!
[10:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Microsoft Documents Describe Plans for Surface Tablets, Xbox, "Andromeda", and HoloLens - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:36] <exec> 08└─"Andromeda, Microsoft's mythical pocketable, two-screen, hand-held device that's supposed to carve out a whole new market for itself" I think the DS series has already carved that market.
[10:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Microsoft Documents Describe Plans for Surface Tablets, Xbox, "Andromeda", and HoloLens - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:38] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, it's the projectors sucking ass rather than it being a computational problem.
[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─except it's jobs being killed rather than people.
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:00] <exec> 08└─Launch? But... I thought Tesla is gonna fire its workforce using the Boring Company's flamethrowers?! Do they plan to use SpaceX reusable boosters instead?
[10:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:02] <exec> 08└─Firing people is not the same as executing them.
[10:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:05] <exec> 08└─fire them out of a canon..
[10:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:07] <exec> 08└─Firing people is not the same as executing them.
[10:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:23] <exec> 08└─ARM is tripe.
[10:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:25] <exec> 08└─I'd much prefer to hold stock in a company with lower capitalisation which delivers better quality stuff than a huge behemoth, thank you.
[10:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:05] <exec> 08└─Yes... I vote for shit every election... I get my choice... donkey shit or elephant shit. Last election I voted for anything that was not one of the two primary flavors of shit listed on the poll... but I seriously doubt my disgust is going to make much of a hit. I am just so fed up with my represen...
[10:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe he is e.e. cummings.
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[11:33:17] <exec> 08└─This is one of the main reasons why executable installers were dropped for package managers by everyone who cares about having a stable system. Clearly Microsoft still doesn't. (Don't say they didn't know better. Even Microsoft must have heard of the idea behind MSI at least once).
[11:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:18] <exec> 08└─Three Micro$oft articles is a row? They have gotten to SoylentNews! O Tempura! O Mongolia!
[11:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:20] <exec> 08└─Reading the article, it looks like this is a script hidden inside a debian package and auto-run by the package manager. If that's the case, Microsoft is not the only ones at fault. Whoever though that a package manager running random scripts was a good idea is also at fault.
[11:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:23] <exec> 08└─O if Microsoft only knew what they were doing!
[11:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:25] <exec> 08└─"Fear, uncertainty, doubt, incompetence, and buggy code." You were saying?
[11:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:27] <exec> 08└─FUDIBC!
[11:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Creates a Medical Research Institute - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:37] <exec> 08└─This is just bigger needles and smaller camels.
[11:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:12] <exec> 08└─No, you are confusing it with "declination". Be sure to also specify the right (or left, we're easy) ascension as well, for a proper target fix and ballistic calculation.
[11:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:13] <exec> 08└─"Oh geez, here we go again." Now THAT'S canon.
[11:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:15] <exec> 08└─Any fans of the Adam Sandler movie "Bedtime Stories" should instantly recognize the term: under-demeciated.
[11:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:18] <exec> 08└─After the news of Elon Musk's brutal slashing of the deadwood in his white collar workforce, TSLA continues to climb from 333 before the news through 357 yesterday, and we're expecting it to outperform the broader market by at least another point today. Seriously folks, the stock has outpaced the ma...
[11:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:20] <exec> 08└─Firing people is not the same as executing them.
[11:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:39] <exec> 08└─If the CPU makers are competing to make servers with more processor cores, that should make CPU cores cheaper / more available compared to RAM. Sounds like this is a good time to switch to a multi‐threaded language [golang.org] on the web server.
[11:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:41] <exec> 08└─Apart from the tolls, there may be other ways to profit from this on the side: 1 - Once the tunnel is complete, there's nothing to stop you putting fibreoptics or maybe other types of pipe through there too. Might be a little money to be made selling / renting access to utilities companies. 2 - Dig...
[11:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe not, but their kids do.
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[12:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─FTFY: Microsoft FUDIBC™
[12:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:33] <exec> 08└─Where do you think all the "free" sub money came from ...
[12:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:35] <exec> 08└─FTFY 2.0 (forgot the open bit): Microsoft Open FUDIBC™
[12:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:37] <exec> 08└─As much as I love to bash M$ as the next guy, I cannot really see malice here. Maybe H1-B at worst. It's far too common beginner mistake to overwrite a file by script. Patch & go, nothing new in the dev or ops world. Or, if it is FOSS, (sorry, didn't RTFA) even go patch yourself. Or, you know, just...
[12:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Creates a Medical Research Institute - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─So what kind of horrible disease is it that Bill has gotten now that he needs to cure under the pretense of it being for the poor?
[12:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:28] <exec> 08└─investors treat employees as worthless expenses.
[12:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:29] <exec> 08└─Be sure to also specify the right (or left, we're easy) ascension as well
[12:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:31] <exec> 08└─True, I did confuse the two. A quick refresher however do point out that angle of attack do matter as well, otherwise one might end up with survivors - or one heck of a kneescraper.
[12:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:31] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing. Unless I unlock it my Android phone will not activate USB access, only charge. It will remain connected after it locks, but the moment I disconnect it it disables USB access again until I unlock it. This seems to be the ideal way to do it. Unless the police arrest me w...
[12:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:32] <exec> 08└─Already cracked? [bgr.com]
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[13:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:26] <exec> 08└─In addition, the university announced a new program in which it will invite students to submit a two-minute video introduction of themselves. And the university will allow self-submission of transcripts to minimize the need for students to pay fees.
[13:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:44] <exec> 08└─O Tempura! O Mongolia Moray!
[13:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:46] <exec> 08└─R is a statistical language/software popular in many fields as mentioned in the summary. It IS opensource. I dont know what Microsoft is implementing in ITS opensource version but R is certainly opensource. I remember them buying a company that implemented R commercially (Revolution Analytics?) a wh...
[13:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:48] <exec> 08└─It's a simple programming mistake, not some conspiracy by MS. Years ago nn, an otherwise excellent news reader, had the cute feature that if some shell variable got unset then an rm of $some_path_or_other/* became an rm of ./*. I remember going though some of the scripts it ran and finding quite a f...
[13:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:50] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly... R is FOSS to begin with. I know that MS was implementing extensions to help with some of R's default shortcomings (e.g., automated parallelism, handling of large files etc) especially as they were integrating it in SQL Server 2016. But why would you need a separate version tha...
[13:34:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:23] <exec> 08└─"undecimates." Fancy way to say they fired a bunch of folks.
[13:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:43] <exec> 08└─Funny, but, it's not just TSLA. Some advice if you work for a smaller, but publicly traded company that goes through a massive RIF including yourself: hang on to your company stock until news of the RIF goes public. When I worked at a place with 10 employees, they slashed 9 (just kept the accountant...
[13:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:44] <exec> 08└─Is there some autistic word-of-the-month calendar you guys all have that I'm unaware of? You're like the third person on the internet this week I've seen make this exact same pedantic correction.
[13:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:46] <exec> 08└─Pedant opportunity! More appropriate to use the matching numeric system when talking about Latin: Undecim is Latin for XI. ftfy Now write that out 100 times. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
[13:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:07] <exec> 08└─It's an open secret that Intel wants AMD to remain viable. I've worked at Intel. They view AMD as their hedge against trust-busting. They aren't Microsoft; they don't want to own 100% of the market. They are completely happy owning a highly-profitable 80% with AMD taking up the rest. This is why BK...
[13:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:12] <exec> 08└─People bypass said POS and build their own GD telecommunications. Gov fines the naughty purple who dared fight the gov
[13:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:14] <exec> 08└─People who eat would pay farmers for food, and farmers would use this money to pay for the conduits.
[13:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:16] <exec> 08└─My point is that the finding of unaffordability of an upgrade dramatically reduced the value of two things: the value of this parcel of land to a prospective buyer, and the value of farming experience to the landowners who now have to retrain for an urban job.
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[14:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:28] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for the day that "smart" padlocks exceed the security of traditional ones. Seems to me the rule of thumb is that a traditional lock (especially padlocks) needs at least a modicum of personal lockpicking skill to open, while a smart one just needs you to have downloaded the right pi...
[14:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:29] <exec> 08└─It's not too computationally intensive for a low power embedded processor to verify an ECDSA signature which could not only thwart replay attacks, but even could prevent obtaining the unlock code with total knowledge of what's in the lock. Even without ECC, a little thought put into a challenge-resp...
[14:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─The bolt cutters will always win. I think a flask of LN2 can speed the process, also. As for: hi-tech padlock secured with a fingerprint
[14:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─This is the same lock that you can stick a go-pro mount or similar to the back of and unscrew the back plate of the lock and take it apart. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─Bolt cutters won't always win, but I've yet to see a lock that can stand up to an angle grinder.
[14:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─"smart" and "fingerprint padlock" do not belong together. I prefer not to have my appendages become a target for thieves. What is so horribly wrong with a mechanical key or, if it has to be electric, a key card? Right, fingerprints have more electrolytes. It's what blockchain AI craves. Hmm, the pic...
[14:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:41] <exec> 08└─Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds'
[14:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:43] <exec> 08└─"Smart" only means it's smart enough to betray you, not that it's in any way smart to purchase or use.
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─Art program? Are you kidding me? They're going to get flooded with up-and-coming Marketing weenies.
[14:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:54] <exec> 08└─The upside of the pitch videos is that they can be used in office parties as drinking games.
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:57] <exec> 08└─You could, of course, get lost in the arguments about measuring intelligence and testing, etc., but the whole SAT/ACT/etc. nonsense is basically a money-grabbing scam [youtube.com] run by only a couple of companies. Don't believe me? I've got three words for you: SAT Subject Tests [collegeboard.org]
[14:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm just getting old, but college used to be about furthering your academic abilities. It seems that college is now more about getting a four year course in social justice indoctrination, safe spaces, and me first entitlement training. Companies will not hire these people. I weep for the futur...
[14:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:01] <exec> 08└─Companies will not hire these people.
[14:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─It's nice that we're getting some MS love on the *nix side of the computing world. I don't have near enough excuses to tinker and troubleshoot without their shit breaking.
[14:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─With this version of R you can calculate and see why running Windows is cheaper than Linux for your enterprise. They clearly needed completely different statistical tools to reach that conclusion...
[14:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:26] <exec> 08└─It's a simple programming mistake, not some conspiracy by MS. Years ago nn, an otherwise excellent news reader, had the cute feature that if some shell variable got unset then an rm of $some_path_or_other/* became an rm of ./*
[14:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─Debian has had preinst and postinst scripts for 20 years, RPM has something similar. It's far better than a tarball deployed with "installMe.sh"
[14:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:31] <exec> 08└─There was no mistake. The path to what gets deleted is hard coded. Incompetence, sure; mistake, no.
[14:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Microsoft Documents Describe Plans for Surface Tablets, Xbox, "Andromeda", and HoloLens - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:50] <exec> 08└─I thought the Courier tablet could have had a future and Microsoft would have had a real play in the tablet field. It was something interesting and definitely more oriented toward education and business than consumer. It's shame that Balmer cancelled it because it "wasn't Windows". It basically sums...
[14:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:28] <exec> 08└─You're like the third person on the internet this week I've seen make this exact same pedantic correction.
[14:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:30] <exec> 08└─Of Judea?
[14:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:32] <exec> 08└─To two significant figures it is, which is the precision explicit and therfore the accuracy implicit in the statement, so you're wrong. Stop pretending to be mathematically smart when clearly you have no grasp of the - for me taught in primary school - concept of significant digits.
[14:36:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:21] <exec> 08└─Does this guy lock his doors? Cos even with a warrant a locked door could slow down or stop law enforcers. Make him UNLOCK his doors! Think of his children! He locks his car? Terrorist!
[14:36:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:28] <exec> 08└─If Apple wants to remain an American Corporation, continue to receive the benefits of operating here, selling products here, etc. then they are going to have to obey our laws.
[14:36:35] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:35] <exec> 08└─You're already +5, so I guess I'll have to leave it at, well said AC.
[14:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:38] <exec> 08└─'course he doesn't. After all, like Dubya said, it's "just a goddamn piece of paper." No, this is a coded dogwhistle: what he means is "they are going to have to obey our *law enforcement.*" There is a subtle but extremely important difference, like the difference between patriotism and partisanship...
[14:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:59] <exec> 08└─Dafuq did you even say?
[14:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:32] <exec> 08└─Trust the government. The solution is government regulation. There is no problem so great it cannot be solved by adding a new government regulation. Even too much government regulation can be solved by adding more government regulation. And taxes.
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:33] <exec> 08└─This is a REAL answer to the problem. The question is, and I think I know the answer, is it even technically possible to have such a "fake data" shim in non-hacked iPhone or Android?
[14:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:35] <exec> 08└─there is no way to use the app if the permission isn't granted
[14:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:09] <exec> 08└─Not quite in this case. It goes a little more like this. My kids play this POS. It's free on consoles. I think it is free everywhere. Epic's whole business model seems to be tied to getting a large community with the free base game, and then profiting on some gullible idiots players with in-game pur...
[14:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:10] <exec> 08└─It's essentially precisely as Sourcery says. Players of F2P games (Free-to-play) are strangely more entitled and personally invested whenever they do drop money on the game, in my experience.
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[15:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:25] <exec> 08└─That it is clearly a fairly accurate description of the outcome of whatever machinations have taken place, even if it's not for the reasons given. So it looks right, but is probably wrong. One example of alternative reasons driving this tendancy, as mentioned elsestory today, dictators like to pull...
[15:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─In the book "The Peter Principle", he describes exactly how you prevent the principle from operating: - If you want to avoid promotion to your own level of incompetence and instead keep doing a job you're happy doing, then find something creative to do that doesn't really cause any problems for your...
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─The problem with hiring for any position is that for any position worth taking time to hire, you really don't know who is going to be the best at it. And there are few skills transferable between the practice of STEM and management. This makes the hiring of technical managers problematic. But then w...
[15:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:42] <exec> 08└─Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds'
[15:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:46] <exec> 08└─"Smart" refers to the ability of the seller to get money out of the customer's pockets.
[15:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:48] <exec> 08└─LN2 helps the club hammer solution more than the angle-grinder solution.
[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link. I'm a bit disappointed that he didn;t spend a bit longer grinding the scanner face plate with some corundum until it made the lock unopenable (by the legit owner), and therefore only openable by bad guys.
[15:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-42634501/ces-2018-ikeyp-smart-safe-proves-easy-to-crack-open [bbc.com] (I love the british)
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1980s, I bought a "magic magnet key" padlock, for about $8 - which, considering I was making $3.35/hr at the time was probably more expensive than this hype-tech lock would be for me today. That padlock still works - they keys are made with a combination of I think 4 magnets in random po...
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─I will say: I find Android Pay to be very convenient, and it even feels a little more secure than credit cards because you need my fingerprint or swipe code to make it work, unlike "smart chip" credit cards which most stores (not WalMart, hmmm....) will accept with no ID check. I suppose we could co...
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─Why does a fingerprint-scanning padlock need bluetooth? I know I don't transmit my fingerprints to my beer glasses with bluetooth, I use good old fashioned physical contact. Perhaps they've increased the "functionality" of this lock (a thing that should be hard to open) by making it have more ways t...
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─I'd just throw a rock through your window. Locks are for honest people.
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─To render it inoperable it would be easier to just open the back and cut the battery out.
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, I didn't realize this was a padlock. Nevermind, carry on!
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:09] <exec> 08└─Can someone make the actual vid available somewhere, my browser doesn't cope with the BBC website well. (And don't say you love the Brits, some of us are complete Cnuts.)
[15:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:11] <exec> 08└─Why does a fingerprint-scanning padlock need bluetooth?
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─Can a ciggy lighter, and burning wire sheathes, melt solder? Or even denature EPROMS?
[15:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:16] <exec> 08└─A fun "harmless" hack for this thing might therefore be to disable the legitimate owner's access (as a thumb, and also as a controlling device) using a spoofed app. Force him (sorry for the sexist pronoun, if you're female and bought this, please let me know and I can degender the sentence) to bolt-...
[15:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─No, it is you just getting old. The whole social justice indoctrination crap is just that, crap. Fox News red meat to push the idea that it really is the poor conservatives who are the oppressed minority. However, for the vast majority of people who go, it really is less and less about furthering th...
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:29] <exec> 08└─We are doing the next generation of tide pod eating idiots a disservice.
[15:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 1930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─[begin rant] Starting with the fact that TFA is inaccessible in the EU because they can't manage your personal data properly, except if you can use google in which case it's immediately available along with offers to subscribe, wonder at what point in the subscription process they say uh-oh we shoul...
[15:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we need more Tide Pod flavors.
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:00] <exec> 08└─URL Below Contains Links To Articles, But this copy/paste does not! Please see: https://www.jwz.org [jwz.org] So MICROS~1 bought Github and everybody's freaking out right now trying to re-host their projects on someone else's service. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STORE YOUR...
[15:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:02] <exec> 08└─The only "mores" they've heard of is "moar dollars".
[15:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Creates a Medical Research Institute - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:13] <exec> 08└─http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critique [techrights.org] The Gates Foundation was described as a shell for tax avoidance by philanthropist and accounting expert, Sheldon Drobny. Techrights has collected evidence that shows the same and will organize it here. Through the founda...
[15:36:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:48] <exec> 08└─Straight out bullshitter. Doesn't even waste a sentence before he invokes 'will something think of the children'.
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─part of the rebel alliance! Your resistance shall be crushed under the heal of the empire.
[15:37:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:36] <exec> 08└─Uber(and Lyft) are the great leap forward in preventing drunk driving since we've had cars. They really shouldn't be allowed to not pick up drunk passengers..what exactly is the alternative?
[15:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:39] <exec> 08└─IIRC it contains a service called battleeye. Sometimes I wonder if large companies deploy free (or f2p) games to the masses in order to infect install so-called anti-cheat tech to scan the hard drives of millions of machines. Somehow I doubt many games are really about the game, but more about gaini...
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[16:33:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1034 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:26] <exec> 08└─That it is clearly a fairly accurate description of the outcome of whatever machinations have taken place, even if it's not for the reasons given. So it looks right, but is probably wrong. One example of alternative reasons driving this tendancy, as mentioned elsestory today, dictators like to pull...
[16:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─I practice the first. But then, if you want to avoid promotion above your OWN level of incompetence, just say "No thanks". You don't need a trick. Just say "Thanks, but I'm happy where I am and I wouldn't want to do that". If you're in charge of the hierarchy, you don't need to blatantly lay down li...
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─As long as you employ people as just developers or engineers, then you can not just give them more money as they prove their worth, but can add "senior", "lead", "principal", etc. to their job descriptions, if that is deemed necessary. That should be enough to keep them happy for nearly a decade, an...
[16:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:34] <exec> 08└─The general idea that "management" is "better" than other jobs is a wrong way to look at it. It is utterly wrong that "promotion" should mean "moving to management". It simply shows that the a hierarchical view is equated with a prestige value associated with distinct jobs, where the value and view...
[16:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:36] <exec> 08└─I'm my own boss. So in my case, yes people do rise to their level of incompetence.
[16:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:38] <exec> 08└─I had (a very nice, VERY expensive) dinner with a retired CEO who had presided over 15 years of unprecedented growth in his company. Good guy, 5 years post retirement when he walked the production floor he still knew line workers by name and they all loved and respected him, middle management even s...
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─I like finding enthusiastic people who are team players: people willing to learn and help out. TRAIN AND CROSS TRAIN THE FUCK OUT OF THEM. That way, you find out who is good at what, who ENJOYS doing what, and if you find out you have a shortage somewhere (someone dies, goes on extended leave, DECID...
[16:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:43] <exec> 08└─Management is valued because of the pyramid principle. Of course floor cleaners are more important than your CEO, that's why you have so many more of them (in a big company.) In Fortune 500 companies, the floor cleaners (and other janitorial staff) collectively earn more than the CEOs. Take Cintas -...
[16:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:45] <exec> 08└─You don't need a trick. Just say "Thanks, but I'm happy where I am and I wouldn't want to do that".
[16:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:48] <exec> 08└─Everybody (well, all except incompetents) is needed for the company to work. We each have our role to play. But it seems you are really complaining about some workers not getting their "fair share" of the rewards: respect, money, etc. Your compensation is based on many things, but the biggies are: h...
[16:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:50] <exec> 08└─Tell us more about this horny guy. Sounds like there are a couple good stories there...
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:20] <exec> 08└─Physical features are not passwords, they are logins.
[16:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─Or two tanks, one of oxygen and the other acetylene commanded by a blowtorch.
[16:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─The whole social justice indoctrination crap is just that, crap. Fox News red meat to push the idea that it really is the poor conservatives who are the oppressed minority.
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:41] <exec> 08└─I can't say I've ever heard of it making any real impact in any field I'm familiar with. I could easily name 10 that I consider more influential, but of course I could be biased by all kinds of things, not limited to fields of interest, media I read, etc..
[16:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─What I don't get is, if you're smart enough to program in R, and R already runs (well?) on Linux, why do you need to complicate things by installing the Linux and R in Microsoft Windows? (I'm not intentionally trolling)
[16:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:12] <exec> 08└─> it looks like this is a script hidden inside a debian package and auto-run by the package manager. Hidden? Bollocks! It's one of the scripts, with well-known and unchanging names, in the package that the package manager looks for and will auto-run in order to install the package. Package managers...
[16:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Microsoft Documents Describe Plans for Surface Tablets, Xbox, "Andromeda", and HoloLens - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:34] <exec> 08└─The last thing I want is for Microsoft to wrap some device around my head. No thanks.
[16:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:35] <exec> 08└─So you are saying intel could release faster, higher core count, cheaper, lower power consumption cpus whenever they want but they don't want to right now?
[16:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:37] <exec> 08└─Like Drussell said, most games are GPU-bound. AMD typically leads when core/thread count is important, and has produced CPUs with better price/performance. https://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com] Value By almost any measure, AMD processors offer mo...
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Burn in hell fascist
[16:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attacking Bacteria with Shark Skin-Inspired Surfaces - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─That sounds mighty uncomfortable.. I prefer my hats to be made out of cotton.
[16:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:38] <exec> 08└─What if it's a big hoax, and we create a better world for nothing? http://execleadercoach.com [execleadercoach.com] ;-)
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[17:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Navy to Bring Back the Warrant Officer-1 Rank for "Cyber Sailors" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:27] <exec> 08└─[...] a quicker path to management positions.
[17:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Bring Back the Warrant Officer-1 Rank for "Cyber Sailors" - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:29] <exec> 08└─If you get in the right management position, you don't even need to be stuck at the desk sharpening pencils. You can be traveling around the country every week, with occasional "telework" conference calls.
[17:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Bring Back the Warrant Officer-1 Rank for "Cyber Sailors" - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:31] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. Despite what any soldier or sailor might want, he enters junior management at some point around E-4 or E-5. People who can't manage at all generally aren't recommended for promotion above E-3. Many technical types stay at those three paygrades forever. Those who can manage more than just...
[17:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 723 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─The general idea that "management" is "better" than other jobs is a wrong way to look at it. It is utterly wrong that "promotion" should mean "moving to management". It simply shows that the a hierarchical view is equated with a prestige value associated with distinct jobs, where the value and view...
[17:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:51] <exec> 08└─You assume Cintas has janitors at all. Lots of places contract it out.
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:53] <exec> 08└─KDE Applications for Windows 32+64bit [and other OS] "Welcome to the Binary Factory for KDE. This CI system is intended to generate binary installers for macOS and Windows, as well as AppImages for Linux for the set of KDE projects which support these." Selection Menu: https://binary-factory.kde.org...
[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:55] <exec> 08└─Nah: he's good and enthusiastic, but he flirts tooo much and let's himself get pussy whipped by the 'hot girls'... he does what THEY want instead of what he should be doing, sometimes. If you give him specific jobs, he's fine unless *pussy whipped whip crack sound*. If he starts getting regular sex,...
[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─> I believe we have made the pyramid too pointy for overall societal harmony, but that's the way it's played these days: I think that this has happened as an artifact of consolidation and globalisation - companies are getting bigger, even the big ones. Over last 20 years US dollar inflation is about...
[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─I learned my management skills during my Navy years. Formal courses, correspondence courses, informal courses, as well as on the job training. There are all kinds of managers out there, some great, some so poor they deserve to be shot. Very few seem to have any real training in management. When you...
[17:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:02] <exec> 08└─You hit the nail on the head. I was going to write a similar thought from a different angle. It is Managers who seem to think that getting promoted to Management is some kind of a "reward" instead of a demotion from what you know and love doing. Managers don't actually contribute value (or if any, t...
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─MBA are primarily experts at being greedy and squeezing a drop of blood from a rock.
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:07] <exec> 08└─I've never really understood why management is perceived as a promotion. Its just a different job requiring different skills. It's exactly like promoting an electrician to a plumber's job.
[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─cross training the enthusiastic works to a point. until the competent guy notices that he's getting burned out doing the job of many people across many departments of incompetent clowns. then he updates his resume, which now totally rocks, and has other would-be-employers calling within a day of pos...
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─I worked in a company that had the ceiling. I hit the ceiling. I got passed over for promotion. I complained. They did nothing. I quit about 3 months after being passed over. Before leaving, I found both the job they passed me over for and more money at a competitor. Ceilings are not a good idea if...
[17:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─Your criticism seems more accurate aimed at socialism in general than the specific argument he was using. It's tradition, and the nature of our existence as mammals, not capitalism that causes us to place management at the top of each career path. In traditional societies; hunter-gatherer, pastorali...
[17:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03waximius [1136] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 2191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:16] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect yet. That's what seems to be what's missing from every "Peter Principle" discussion I read, and people on SN are generally pretty smart (no, I'm not challenging you to disprove me). https://en.wikipedia.org
[17:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─Quick summary, guy thumps the top of the "safe" with his fist and the "locked" door pops open.
[17:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:08] <exec> 08└─I'm looking forward to my next interview being a two-minute video, with nobody checking my resume or trying to guess if I have the background skills required. Now, let me see, which one pays more, CEO of Samsung, or of L'Oreal ?
[17:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:10] <exec> 08└─You pay for a test. You get a test. It's not a scam. Of course, there is a duopoly of private companies. These companies have a creepy amount of influence over who goes to college and who doesn't, and where it is that people go to college. In the end though, it may be better than the alternatives we...
[17:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─Chicago economics is famous. Other than that, meh.
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:43] <exec> 08└─#!/bin/bash was the second command I was taught when I learned shell programming. The first was "/usr/bin/vi " . I have little doubt that this screw up was not malicious but it speaks volumes about the level of pure incompetence and down right arrogance of the programmers employed by MS.
[17:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─embrace extend extinguish
[17:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:47] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that MS doing the obviously wrong thing due to a boneheaded rookie mistake is fine, it's Debian's fault for not having an AI package manager that solves the halting problem?
[17:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:49] <exec> 08└─I was kinda happy that the author seemed to have some sense of the meaning of decimation. We've all seen the term applied to losses of 1 to 5%, then grossly misapplied to losses exceeding 50%. Deci - one in ten. Not one in three, not one in a thousand, but one in ten. One in nine is close enough, ma...
[17:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:51] <exec> 08└─i guess its better than over-medicated?
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:15] <exec> 08└─Nope. An ARM is an ARM is an ARM. The CPU is the same (providing it's the same model number). The peripherals built into some of the ARM chips, on the other hand, can be wildly different. No need to be a cookie-cutter clone as in the x86 world. Getting the manufacturers of the ARM chips to see the l...
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:02] <exec> 08└─As much as I love bashing Bush Jr. I am getting a little tired of that quote being thrown around when it is most likely false. The only news outlet that reported Bush Jr. making this statement has a long history of use fake sources and retracting stories shortly after publishing them, and this story...
[17:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:00] <exec> 08└─Some things do require laws.
[17:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:37] <exec> 08└─With the sex life you write about, it seems you're all about removing barriers. Nagging to get the behaviors to improve and try new things works well in many contexts, yours included.
[17:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:20] <exec> 08└─Integrate it! I thought you two said, in 2012 the rate of change was X, and in 2018?? (2012+6) it was tripled to 0.6 mm/year Therefore it was 0.6/3 = 0.2 mm/year in 2012, right? Sea level rise = start value + integral( rate of change * dt ) The reate of change is variable but we can assume it's line...
[17:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:21] <exec> 08└─It is amusing to see the deniers slowly trying to sneak back to reason without saying "we fucked up, it is real." I guess whatever gets humanity on track to a better future. Just annoying to have to coddle the feelz of people who love saying "realz before feelz" and "red pill".
[17:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:24] <exec> 08└─It is a bad thing if you like stability and food. Humanity has pumped a huuuuge amount of CO2 into the atmosphere so the exact numbers aren't that important. 10% or 90% responsible we still shouldn't burn coal/oil/gas if we can help it. Suck it up, admit you've been wrong, move forward with renewabl...
[17:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:43] <exec> 08└─When America was great, the Chicago Tunnel Company built so many tunnels under Chicago. Tunnels like you wouldn't believe. The likes of which you've never seen in your life. Hand crafted -- no machines, guys would cut them with a carving knife. And they're still there. But people don't use them -- e...
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[18:33:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAbkh4TMRqg [youtube.com] Over and out.
[18:33:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 688 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─I had (a very nice, VERY expensive) dinner with a retired CEO who had presided over 15 years of unprecedented growth in his company. Good guy, 5 years post retirement when he walked the production floor he still knew line workers by name and they all loved and respected him, middle management even s...
[18:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:09] <exec> 08└─Another observation in the original book (totally worth reading if you haven't) is that hierarchies will tend to get rid of 2 groups of people: 1. People who are so astoundingly lousy at their jobs that they threaten the hierarchy. 2. People who are so amazingly good at their jobs that they threaten...
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:10] <exec> 08└─The military is so determined to defeat attempts to defeat the Peter Principle that they have an up or out policy..
[18:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:12] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you mean by "valued". They get more money because they have more leverage over who gets paid how much. They get higher ratings, because they define the rating system. Et multitudinous cetera.
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─You can also hint that you might quit. Might backfire if they really didn't think you were promotion material. Or, do what I did, early in my career: Actually quit, start your own business, become a contractor. (Maybe scout some temporary projects for the near future). Then win contracts with the S...
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─The Dunning-Kruger effect is about cognitive bias. In essence, someone who is incompetent cannot see his own incompetence and overestimates his abilities. Although related to the Peter Principle, they are distinctly different observations. Dunning and Kruger look at how the individual sees himself....
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─And there are few skills transferable between the practice of STEM and management. This makes the hiring of technical managers problematic.
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─I practice the first. But then, if you want to avoid promotion above your OWN level of incompetence, just say "No thanks". You don't need a trick. Just say "Thanks, but I'm happy where I am and I wouldn't want to do that".
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─Look at your crew of techies. Find the one that is, in addition to doing their own job, regularly helping the other techies. In fact, they often seem to enjoy that mentoring work more than coding themselves, and are well-regarded by their peers for all that work. That's your real team lead right the...
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─This person should be spending a lot of time developing their leadership and management skills in order to be a success, but, frankly, they may not want to. This is my own personal lesson: if we fail to grow and pursue self-improvement, then we will most certainly be promoted into our own failure. A...
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:29] <exec> 08└─Old people in traditional societies are rare - most died young.
[18:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─Do contracted janitors not cost money, or did you just want to nit-pick about something?
[18:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─In the old days, IBM had a separate technical track with promotions. Not sure if they do it anymore, but a friend was on it for a good 30 years (in manufacturing). He developed all kinds of tools (analysis/software) and also taught his methods around the company as a technical specialist / scientist...
[18:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─So whether the janitors are counted in the 42,000 or they are extra contractors on top, point being, I think it's a safe bet that janitorial services are costing Cintas more than their CEO.
[18:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
[18:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─In most organizations I have worked with it goes something like this: "O.K.: our last manager's wife left him 6 months ago and he had a mental breakdown last week, who wants his job? You'll be reporting to the next-level psycho who acts that way because he's got the next-level psycho above him breat...
[18:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks! Out of mods at the moment, someone with a spare one please drop one above...
[18:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:15] <exec> 08└─I was told that a can of aerosol Cheese-Whiz will open most key type locks when sprayed into a keyhole.
[18:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:17] <exec> 08└─Done!
[18:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─Probably because you are clueless a grade school dropout. UChicago is very prominent in the fields of physics, economics, and the law.
[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Creates a Medical Research Institute - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the big picture view. Don't remember where I saw the reference, but at the other end, the people working with grants from Gates Foundation did not seem to be enjoying the experience. Too many reviews and too much micro management, expectations that innovative science can be done on a tigh...
[18:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:19] <exec> 08└─Amazing how I'm the only guy who looks at the articles. Nobody even read the headline... -1: Inaccurate We all know Donald Trump doesn't read.
[18:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:20] <exec> 08└─Here's another one for you: ostentatious.
[18:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:31] <exec> 08└─Even if he didn't say it, he sure as hell acted it, which is even worse. Of course, so did Barack "drone-jam" Obama. Makes me think every president we've had since and including Nixon, with the possible exception of Carter, was a traitor...
[18:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:07] <exec> 08└─That was what is known as a joke.
[18:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:08] <exec> 08└─E LamEnEss filtEr EncountErEd. Post abortEd!
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─Elon could set his boring machines to honeycomb under the metro Chicago area. Then, with the help of demolition charges, plunge the whole thing into the bowels of the earth, next to Satan, where it belongs. That's kind of how Chicago was built in the first place!
[18:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─If domestic groceries double or triple in price, would people still pay, or are they going to buy Chinese stuff full of heavy metals?
[18:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:19] <exec> 08└─You realize how irrelevant that is, right?
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[19:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:24] <exec> 08└─So Obama did this in 2013, and it's now 2018 and journalists still haven't figured out dead drops, anonymous emails or burner phones?
[19:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:26] <exec> 08└─new search engine for penises in the making!
[19:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:28] <exec> 08└─Well that's the problem. At some point the reporter needs to be able to access the information. The DOJ then (secretly) pulls everything off the reporter's device. The most chilling part being that the reporter isn't even the one charged with a crime! And to make it worse, they're indiscriminately p...
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[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised that Trump would pull this, but it really is a continuation of the degradation of our country's honor and abrogation of our civil rights, and indeed the fundamental framework of our freedom. Trump is just a mafia boss at this point. However, Obama started the war against whistleblo...
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[19:33:32] <exec> 08└─I shot my boiling crocodile semen into him as he moaned MORE
[19:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:34] <exec> 08└─> The most chilling part being that the reporter isn't even the one charged with a crime! That's the point. The reporter is protected by the first amendment. The leakers have to be discouraged from ever thinking about leaking.
[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─And yes, this was wrong when Obama did it too.
[19:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:39] <exec> 08└─Leakers are criminals. Whistle blowers are protected by federal law. (At least in theory). There IS a difference, even if your rage prevents you from seeing it.
[19:34:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1547 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─You hit the nail on the head. I was going to write a similar thought from a different angle. It is Managers who seem to think that getting promoted to Management is some kind of a "reward" instead of a demotion from what you know and love doing. Managers don't actually contribute value (or if any, t...
[19:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─Peter anticipated that too.
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:38] <exec> 08└─how much money do you bring into the company
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:40] <exec> 08└─Sales is an ideal setting to test for the Peter Principle because, unlike other professional settings, it’s easy to identify high performing salespeople and managers — for salespeople, we know their sales records, and for the sales managers, we can measure their managerial ability as the extent...
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─Managers don't actually contribute value (or if any, then not much) to the organization.
[19:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─Lots of places say they have technical track, but don't really in practice. I was at one that gave 25 management track promotions for every tech track promotion. I'm at another now that's slightly better - tech track can reach up to about the same level of compensation as managing maybe 200 people,...
[19:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:47] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you qualified it as Good Managers. Yes, they do exist. I've had them. And I've had the other kind as well. Fortunately the other kind didn't last so long.
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that assessment is usually illogical on it's face. For example, sales is considered a profit center but development and manufacturing are counted as cost centers, as if the sales guys could get anyone to give them a dime if there was no product or service to sell. As for cleaning, if...
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─> It's exactly like promoting an electrician to a plumber's job. Car analogy please!! Although they may not know it, electricians and plumbers both work with the same equations: head height = potential (voltage) flow rate = current (amperage) water hammer = inductive or capacitive...
[19:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:54] <exec> 08└─Everything you said is true of GOOD managers. It's telling that so many have yet to meet a GOOD manager that they have concluded that managers are worthless to an organization.
[19:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:57] <exec> 08└─You can take the view that all management has negative value: the cost of their salary and benefits. However, the best managers will not cost the company too much more than that, while bad ones can do almost infinite damage. In that world view lack of management also does significant damage, so you...
[19:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:59] <exec> 08└─Electricians and plumbers have a lot more in common than most tech/engineers and managers. To go from programmer or design engineer to manager is like transferring from physics or math to psychology. I mean, if you're managing people who do what you used to do, that's got some tiny bit of relevance...
[19:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:36] <exec> 08└─Any time my wife gets "worried about the security of our door locks" I remind her that we've got 4 giant walls of glass, 2 on either side of 2 doors - it doesn't really matter how good our locks are, or aren't.
[19:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:37] <exec> 08└─Personally, I can see a very nice door lock application for bluetooth: put one of these [sdcsecurity.com] on the door and hook up a little bluetooth receiving embedded processor that will let you in if your app knows how to do the secret handshake. Could be used on holiday rentals and all kinds of o...
[19:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:01] <exec> 08└─Kid from my HS did very poorly on the SAT. Parents bought his way into an ivy league school. Lasted less than a semester before returning home to a community college.
[19:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:02] <exec> 08└─So sending in test-scores is optional and can be replaced by a 2 minute long video pitch? I guess that is one way of trying to cater to the younger generation.
[19:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:05] <exec> 08└─Chicago is very grad-student heavy, hence it tends to end up on top research university lists. From several alumni I know, I've always had the impression that undergrads are a bit of an afterthought... and generally speaking have it a bit harder than other top schools. (My impression -- again, from...
[19:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they're in love with this coverage.
[19:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation != Microsoft.
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─makes the phb's happy if it says m$ on the splash screen??
[19:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:45] <exec> 08└─It also says a lot about Debian's package maintainers... Who lets something like that slip past?
[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Microsoft Documents Describe Plans for Surface Tablets, Xbox, "Andromeda", and HoloLens - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─It would be cool if the first person to have their AR/VR headset spontaneously combust from a battery failure was tripping balls at the time.
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─It's one of those words I used as a kid to indicate "wicked damage", or that I 100% destroyed some other kid at something. It was in history class that they clued me in to the deci- part of it, and then the math :) History teacher heard me say it in class, and then gave a bad ass explanation of it....
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:18] <exec> 08└─screw arm. i want risc-v!
[19:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:20] <exec> 08└─everyone except you knows what the op meant and what the error refers to. you won't see it on your proprietary chrome browser with the rodger-me addon enabled, though.
[19:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:22] <exec> 08└─i've been wanting to try Swoole [swoole.co.uk] out.
[19:39:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03terrab0t [4674] 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:02] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing. Unless I unlock it my Android phone will not activate USB access, only charge. It will remain connected after it locks, but the moment I disconnect it it disables USB access again until I unlock it. This seems to be the ideal way to do it. Unless the police arrest me w...
[19:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:08] <exec> 08└─Because there is no way to use the app if the permission isn't granted. (But you already knew that.)
[19:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:10] <exec> 08└─A fake data shim would be nice, and should be possible on Android, although I've never actually seen one...but it's not really necessary as you can just deny those permission to those apps. If your brand of Android doesn't include that feature, get a different one. It's been available in Cyanogenmod...
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[20:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:32] <exec> 08└─A search engine for the people attached to them is probably a better business model. Odds are, the searcher is looking for a person.
[20:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:33] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. How convenient is it to label someone a leaker right? Sounds like the difference depends on which political party you support..... Our government has been doing terrible shit, and the whistleblowers are patriots. Your distinction is fucking meaningless and pointless because the leakers are w...
[20:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:36] <exec> 08└─There IS a difference, even if your rage prevents you from seeing it.
[20:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─Not even close. Giving information to the press (for-profit corporation) is just leaking. Giving information to someone who can do something about the alleged misbehavior is whistle-blowing. That you don't know the difference is telling.
[20:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:40] <exec> 08└─Oh, look, more frojack derp. Giving information to the press (for-profit corporation) is just leaking. Giving information to someone who can do something about the alleged misbehavior is whistle-blowing.
[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:43] <exec> 08└─and of course all the "progressives" (probably including you) decided this was perfectly ok I literally just said it wasn't. the only people worried that Obama did this was Fox News, That is a blatant lie. Every journalistic organization in the US protested that move. Associated Press/CNN [cnn.com]...
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:45] <exec> 08└─It is time for Congress to reassert itself int power like it did in the first century of these United States when the President was very weak and Congressional power was premiere.
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Bring Back the Warrant Officer-1 Rank for "Cyber Sailors" - 3749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─Heres how the US Army works, or worked a quarter century ago. E1 thru E4 are time in service / time in grade pretty much don't F up and you get promoted. There are slot issues such that a "Full" unit, especially during the Clinton era implosion of the military, might not have a E4 slot for a promota...
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Bring Back the Warrant Officer-1 Rank for "Cyber Sailors" - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─Another note I forgot is its a common meme across the entire Army that the "E-4 Mafia" basically runs the lower enlisted ranks of the entire Army while the NCOs merely think they're in charge as sort of an elaborate hoax. There is a lot of truth to this statement that by E-4 time the average soldier...
[20:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Bring Back the Warrant Officer-1 Rank for "Cyber Sailors" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:59] <exec> 08└─I thought one of the main points behind the Warrant Officer ranks was to avoid wasting a skilled, experienced hand.
[20:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:58] <exec> 08└─The "Dunning-Kruger Effect" has never been formally accepted by peer evaluation, it exists primarily as a grand sounding insult for people one disagrees with.
[20:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:59] <exec> 08└─This person should be spending a lot of time developing their leadership and management skills in order to be a success
[20:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:02] <exec> 08└─> Claiming this is "easy" in sales or that sales is easier than most other professions seems like a pretty stupid assertion. Look at the source, Harvard Business Review, where the best highest-paid MBAs are minted.
[20:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:04] <exec> 08└─Note also that except in less formal workplaces, managers expect to address the people they manage by first name but they expect to be addressed as Sir/Ma'am or Mr/Ms (last name) even when they're younger and less experienced. As a general rule, the stronger that rule is in a workplace, the less cap...
[20:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:06] <exec> 08└─Different skillset is PART of the Peter Principle. By level, he means within the company hierarchy. Not everyone is cut out to be a manager, but they may be capable of becoming the best in their own area of expertise. Would you claim a chef has failed at personal development if he doesn't eventually...
[20:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:08] <exec> 08└─If you are in charge of a hierarchy and you want to keep competent people working at jobs they can handle, then you impose a caste system where you formally or informally place a ceiling on how far people can be promoted no matter how good they are at what they do. And this is definitely operating:...
[20:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03waximius [1136] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:11] <exec> 08└─Why is a brilliant coder "obsolete"
[20:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:13] <exec> 08└─"There were and are lots of hunter-gatherers that live to 70 or so" "There are lots of historical figures that made it well past 40." Indeed there are but it's also quite clear that they were unusual for that fact. As you say, infant mortality was high, and young adulthood was also a time when many...
[20:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:15] <exec> 08└─It's like "promoting" a tyre to a steering wheel just because the tyre has been doing a very good job. They're both even a similar shape!
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:17] <exec> 08└─I worked for a company that had a policy of sending all management candidates to Virginia to do a 2 day psych profile. You spent about 10 hours overall with the psychologists, maybe 3 hours of testing, another 4-5 hours of solo projects, including a presentation, and then a couple of "acting session...
[20:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03waximius [1136] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:20] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you are arguing for or against my point. A chef and agronomist are different skill sets. A chef who doesn't work on being the best chef they can be has failed at personal development - if being a great chef is what they are trying to do. However, if they want to be an agronomist and must...
[20:36:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 1930 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─[begin rant] Starting with the fact that TFA is inaccessible in the EU because they can't manage your personal data properly, except if you can use google in which case it's immediately available along with offers to subscribe, wonder at what point in the subscription process they say uh-oh we shoul...
[20:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:24] <exec> 08└─Physics. Fermi. Nuclear reaction under stadium. Not far from Batavia. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─I'd apply to go back for a physics grad degree, but my video camera broke and I can't afford a cell phone.
[20:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Closes iPhone USB Hole, Angering Law Enforcement - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:27] <exec> 08└─Hillar Moore, the district attorney in Baton Rouge, LA., ... was upset that Apple planned to close such a useful investigative avenue. "They are blatantly protecting criminal activity, and only under the guise of privacy for their clients," he said.
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[21:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:27] <exec> 08└─Masturbation will never be the same. I'll have to get one of these too (kinky!): http://www.foxnews.com [foxnews.com]
[21:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─Let's see, there are ads that play sound, and Mozilla wants a voice-controlled browser. Can't see how this one could possibly lead to shenanigans, nope.
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:31] <exec> 08└─"No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."
[21:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:33] <exec> 08└─That could be averted by wearing headphones, which are pretty much always plugged into my laptop. Or by analyzing the sound. Or by running an adblocker.
[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─It seems stupid to me too, but I also thought the iPad was a terrible idea. The only place I can see this being useful is as an app on a TV where you don't have a keyboard/mouse to navigate.
[21:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:38] <exec> 08└─We're talking about the average user here, not people like us.
[21:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:41] <exec> 08└─we start to explore browsing and consuming ... pr0n ... with voice
[21:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:43] <exec> 08└─Mixed opinions on this. On the one hand, I would never install it on my own devices, and if they start *demanding* microphone access for it I'll be finding a new browser. But I doubt Mozilla would go that route anyway. And there's a lot of other potential problems that other comments here have alrea...
[21:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:47] <exec> 08└─To activate it, you have to say "Hey, Boo!"
[21:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:49] <exec> 08└─Sorta-normies rick-rolled my Alexa on me, which was at least kinda funny. That's how old Alexa is, she's been around since before rick rolling became retro. Its gonna be an issue... Bad ideas and the future are unevenly distributed, so someones vaporware that might roll out in five years was already...
[21:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:53] <exec> 08└─*demanding* microphone access for it
[21:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:56] <exec> 08└─Essentially if you don't have an older toddler or younger elementary school kid, you can talk to Alexa for a similar experience
[21:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─God Damn Kids get off my lawn and stop yelling "Firefox open http goat sea dot see ex" thru my kitchen window, kids these days don't use Chrome like the good old days when I was young, what is the world coming to? Given that the internet is for pr0n, and every strip club has some drunken idiot the b...
[21:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─Ok, so yesterday media corporations like Twitter could censor all they want. Now the NYT, also a private corporation, is asserting it is above the law because sacred fourth branch of government or some insane bullcrap? One the one hand you morons shout "Russia!, Russia!, Russia!" after two years loo...
[21:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:21] <exec> 08└─Ssssshhhh, don't upset Frojackoff with logic and reality and facts when he's on a tear. He needs his daily dose of Narrativium. It's either that or he bottles it all up and the next thing you know he's sniping people from a clock tower with his dick in his off hand and his pants on his head... ...wh...
[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:24] <exec> 08└─The difference between a leaker and a whistleblower is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter.
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:26] <exec> 08└─Don't tell Trump :) Maybe we should! The immediate flip-flop would work in our favor!
[21:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─This is one of those things that the party in opposition bitches about when it is being done but only bitches enough for their voters to ee their concern. They know well that actually doing something about the problem would keep the opposition party from doing it when they have power. Fortunately bo...
[21:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:32] <exec> 08└─The reporter is protected by the first amendment.
[21:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:35] <exec> 08└─Show me this special right to violate laws if one is a member of the press? Show me where the DOJ is accusing the press of breaking the law. (hint: they're not)
[21:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:58] <exec> 08└─Management and engineering (for example) are also two different skillsets. You have fallen into exactly the trap that makes the Peter principle happen, the idea that management is somhow a promotion. Without privates, a general is just some old dude shouting at clouds.
[21:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03waximius [1136] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:00] <exec> 08└─Management and engineering (for example) are also two different skillsets.
[21:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:02] <exec> 08└─No, you cross train but you don't make them do other peoples jobs. If the others are incompetent clowns, they should be moved out and THEN promote people who have been trained to do the job and show enthusiasm and ability to do the clowns job. That way, you get rid of the clowns and always have enth...
[21:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's what i fear: the paperwork, the meetings, the slog, the BS. BS thrown at me, i can take and deal with accordingly. Having to throw BS downhill because it rolled down to me? Fuck that. BS and paperwork, etc, will kill me everytime.
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─I've never seen or experienced that in my career (sir/ma'am). Is this a coastal thing?
[21:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─The "Dunning-Kruger Effect" has never been formally accepted
[21:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:47] <exec> 08└─Hmm, the picture shows a green LED. That can't be right. Only ooolld stuff has green or red LEDs. It must alternate with a burn-out-your-eye-socket-so-you-can't-use-retina-authentication blue LEDs.
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─They market hard as fuck. They've been sending my son postal mail spam since he was in 3rd grade. No exaggeration, why would I? Come visit us on visitors day we're the freak'n greatest thing ever, etc. No I don't live down the road but its closer than MIT or Stanford, and no I'm not an alumni. I thi...
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:17] <exec> 08└─U. of C. recorded that 43 percent of undergraduates
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─Fewer people applying to Evergreen proves your point how?
[21:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:58] <exec> 08└─Business as usual. In all fairness, for decades MS has produced single program operating systems where you can't run both a DHCP and a DNS server on the same box, "of course" so you need like 50 servers to replace one multi purpose linux server. Probably because MS bills by install, so having more t...
[21:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, they could. Pick any two ;) But a bit more serious - yes, they actually can push truly mindboggling stuff out within three to six months at any given time, they scrap more tech per year than some competitors develop during their entire existance. The reason why they don't do it - in part to kee...
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[22:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Biomarker For Flu Susceptibility - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:23] <exec> 08└─Can't wait until mandatory DNA testing drives your insurance cost.
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03deganee [3187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─We all saw the demo of Google calling the restaurant to order food. Maybe the Mozilla people expect Chrome to add support for that.
[22:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─What about people who don't have hands with which to operate a mouse and keyboard?
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─They use their feet, just like they have been doing for the last 30 years.
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─I'm all for anything that increases accessibility, because lord knows there's still a long, long way to go. But, and it's a big but, [youtu.be] I truly dread this. Already I have to suffer idiots walking around yelling conversations into their smartphone speakers instead of holding the thing to thei...
[22:34:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised that Trump would pull this, but it really is a continuation of the degradation of our country's honor and abrogation of our civil rights, and indeed the fundamental framework of our freedom. Trump is just a mafia boss at this point. However, Obama started the war against whistleblo...
[22:34:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 599 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. How convenient is it to label someone a leaker right? Sounds like the difference depends on which political party you support..... Our government has been doing terrible shit, and the whistleblowers are patriots. Your distinction is fucking meaningless and pointless because the leakers are w...
[22:34:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─and of course all the "progressives" (probably including you) decided this was perfectly ok I literally just said it wasn't. the only people worried that Obama did this was Fox News, That is a blatant lie. Every journalistic organization in the US protested that move. Associated Press/CNN [cnn.com]...
[22:34:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:18] <exec> 08└─The difference between a leaker and a whistleblower is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter.
[22:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─Bitch was trading sex for classified intel. She knew the information was classified, her superiors at the NYT knew it was classified and how she was obtaining it. If all of that isn't criminal you have redefined the word into meaninglessness. You can start with simple prostitution charges (exchangi...
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:26] <exec> 08└─Passing classified information to a person not authorized by law to receive it can cause the death of Americans. Possible legitimate charges include manslaughter and treason. "Freedom of the Press" does not excuse the death of innocent people.
[22:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:28] <exec> 08└─Bitch was trading sex for classified intel. ..... You can start with simple prostitution charges (exchanging sex for a thing of value is the textbook definition)
[22:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─Never quite understood that either. Porn stars are apparently exempt from prostitution charges by unspoken agreement or something. Otherwise the entire industry would have been subject to the mother of all RICO seizures decades ago.
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─Can you read what you write ? > abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; It's the act of publishing which defines the press, not calling yourself a journalist and feeling entitled to superior protections. Additionally, the government doesn't get to choose who's a journalist. The person leak...
[22:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─NOT passing classified information to a person not authorized by law to receive it can cause the death of Americans. Depends on what the information is, doesn't it? Or do you think that all the government does is necessarily above-board, safe, legal, moral, and good for its citizens?
[22:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:38] <exec> 08└─Porn makers are artists, and their porn speech is protected. Any other obvious first amendment ruling you're not up to date on ?
[22:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:40] <exec> 08└─Seems paying others to have sex in front of someone else is okay, provided none of the participants is paying any of the others.. Makes it hard to be a performer and a producer!
[22:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─So.. If Americans are breaking the law, spying on people, killing people, or otherwise doing bad stuff, it is okay to tell someone, as long as they "authorized by law to recieve it". If this information has been classified Top Secret or "ultra" secret so barely five people are "authorized", and they...
[22:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Lock Can be Hacked 'in Seconds' - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:50] <exec> 08└─On its website, Tapplock is described as the "world's first smart fingerprint padlock".
[22:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:21] <exec> 08└─Fox News has indoctrinated the non-college educated to think that college is all about brainwashing and social indoctrination. And it has worked, because Fox News viewers do not have a brain to wash, got negative scores on the SAT, and have been proven to become more stupid that they were before the...
[22:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:01] <exec> 08└─The Doris Duke Foundation tries to make the same claim. Doesn't wash. A Foundation funded with the proceeds of billions of Blue Screens of Death, and you think it is not a spawn of the same evil?
[22:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MSFT Loves Linux So Much that Its R Open Install Script Deleted User's Shell Choice - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:02] <exec> 08└─/bin/sh is known by nearly everyone experienced in Linux to be the standard interpreter for shell scripts. That this happened suggests that some newbie couldn't get his shell script to run with sh, but could with bash. Being too ignorant to start his script with #!/bin/bash, perhaps assuming that ev...
[22:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:40] <exec> 08└─Not all of us are stuck at 60Hz. Hitting 120/144 Hz requires very fast single threaded performance.
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[23:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Biomarker for Flu Susceptibility - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:34] <exec> 08└─Or one is required to submit to mandatory health measures based on DNA testing.
[23:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Biomarker for Flu Susceptibility - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:35] <exec> 08└─zation, as has already been attempted in America's past with the mentally ill and incapacitated. If you think it can't happen again you haven't been paying attention to trending opinions in America lately. Everybody is fine with it until it is targeted against THEIR demographic.
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Reportedly Working on a Voice-Controlled Web Browser - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─And people used to beat their clothes on rocks in the river to clean them. If they can get this to work effectively, it would be significantly more efficient for simple tasks and browsing.
[23:34:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:09] <exec> 08└─Well that's the problem. At some point the reporter needs to be able to access the information. The DOJ then (secretly) pulls everything off the reporter's device. The most chilling part being that the reporter isn't even the one charged with a crime! And to make it worse, they're indiscriminately p...
[23:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:39] <exec> 08└─Unless of course you lived in Syria or Yemen.
[23:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:40] <exec> 08└─Any other obvious first amendment ruling you're not up to date on ?
[23:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:43] <exec> 08└─Giving information to someone who can do something about the alleged misbehavior is whistle-blowing.
[23:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Seizes Reporter's Telephone Records - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:45] <exec> 08└─Beating up the publisher or rummaging through his stuff, have a chilling effect (legal term) on the freedom of the press, and that's when you can trust this SCOTUS to smack things down.
[23:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─Scenario: Newly promoted manager worked in the area and was very good at the job. Got along with co-workers, they all knew what was wrong and what needed to be done to fix all the problems they had, they had continuously informed the "incompetent" previous manager of this but things were never fixed...
[23:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:16] <exec> 08└─This is amusing because Cintas is a company that provides janitorial and uniform services to other companies. They have thousands of janitors. :)
[23:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:18] <exec> 08└─Check if your organization has a "principal" or other technical (non-managerial) promotion title - if they do, take it. (I took mine, annual bonus increased by 50% and pay bumped 15%, job description essentially unchanged.) If they don't have such a promotional track and the place is small, suggest...
[23:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:30] <exec> 08└─The tests also mostly require rote memorization to solve, making them useless for determining to what degree someone understands the subject matter. They are only good for eliminating people who did not even bother to memorize the information; plenty of losers still pass them easily.
[23:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Decimates its Workforce - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:20] <exec> 08└─Splitters
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