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[00:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KiCad 5 Released - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:53] <exec> 08└─I've used KiCad off and on over the years and I've had prototype PCBs built using it's output. Overall a really nice program. It's great to see it doing well and improving. Things like the net highlight mode and clipboard support in the pcb design application are long overdue. It's good to see them...
[00:09:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:02] <exec> 08└─Just maybe, if they are so afraid of "The event", they should take some action to prevent it, like, being less greedy assholes?
[00:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:15] <exec> 08└─Replace the bear with an angry mob of billions of bears. Still need to remember that saying?
[00:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:16] <exec> 08└─If you have somewhere to run
[00:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:19] <exec> 08└─Only when there are way more guys than bears. The real lessons of crashes teach otherwise.
[00:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:21] <exec> 08└─Didn't they build Israel for that?
[00:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:23] <exec> 08└─Just maybe, if they are so afraid of "The event", they should take some action to prevent it
[00:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:25] <exec> 08└─Well, they just officially announced unlimited range unlimited yield 1 mile deep nuclear powered torpedo. Did I mention that the payload is salted with cobalt? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:28] <exec> 08└─Its happened before. It will happen again.
[00:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:30] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I can afford to education my kids.
[00:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:32] <exec> 08└─> whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves As El Naranja will soon be reminded, it's pretty hard to thrive in isolation, especially when you're used to being the big bully playing with people's lives. > especially if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars. Have...
[00:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:34] <exec> 08└─These Richy Rich people seem to take all their ideas from b-movies made 2-3 decades ago. 1991 Rutger Hauer wants his Wedlock back ... But in all seriousness, they can't maintain authority if the world has collapsed. They have nothing to offer, all their skills are worthless and belonged to the "old...
[00:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:37] <exec> 08└─cause eventually it seems that the poor do rise up to eat the rich. "Event" or no Event.
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, came here to say pretty much what you did. It's comical really. No real world skills, and it would seem not too much intelligence either. But lots of wealth. At the very least that bunker will require maintenance for it and all of it's technological subsystems. They're fucked. The most aggress...
[00:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting on the dissolution of congress.
[00:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:03] <exec> 08└─What are you shipping? I think the novelty gift of lunar soil will quickly saturate.
[00:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:05] <exec> 08└─At 1KPa, you are barely above the triple point.
[00:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:07] <exec> 08└─As long as they harmlessly rubber-stamp, and only the Democrats or quitting/dying Republicans dare to denounce Trump, then they can stay. If the Dems win the midterms (IF), then Muller will get fired, and the thought of disbanding Congress will cross someone's mind, stop, turn around, cross again, s...
[00:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:10] <exec> 08└─*63.5% above
[00:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:12] <exec> 08└─Whenever I hear these astronomical dates I wonder about what if the timescales are off by 10-1000x and the moon had an atmosphere like 10k years ago.
[00:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:33] <exec> 08└─Your pain and suffering and waiting could have been alleviated, if you had ponyed up for a SSD on her computer. You want to impress someone, switch out their HDD for a SSD. A 500mhz upgrade or an extra two cores generally won't be noticed, even 1333mhz vs 2400mhz RAM isn't as noticeable as switching...
[00:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:34] <exec> 08└─No, it's a command line, you just have to get used to a few compromises. https://docs.microsoft.com [microsoft.com]
[00:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:36] <exec> 08└─The value of a repo full of software drops precipitously when there are 5-10 different applications that purportedly do the same thing, but each one is finicky in it's own way and the user has no way of knowing ahead of time which one is most appropriate for them to use. One example: I want to open...
[00:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:39] <exec> 08└─You obviously don't know what you are talking about. Linux is much easier to install than Windows.
[00:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:41] <exec> 08└─It doesn't fulfill its main selling point (as far as I'm concerned): Customization and related collaboration. Nothing in your post detracts from my appraisal: You end up having to work the way the Collective wants you to work, and it can be very VERY irritating to try to add your voice to that colle...
[00:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Tried to Settle with the EU in 2017, Considered Changes to Android - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:22] <exec> 08└─> 1. The company fucks everyone. How? I don't have a Google account and use fdroid.
[00:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amino Acids Could Exist Just Centimeters Under Europa's Surface - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:42] <exec> 08└─There's no way to know the odds. I suspect that there is not a lot of middle ground; either life is ubiquitous where water and organic molecules are, or it isn't. Maybe in the deep future we'll have done surveys in most of the subsurface oceans in the solar system [wikipedia.org], and we can come up...
[00:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Genes Are Not To Blame - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:40] <exec> 08└─Two fun related memes from the lifting community:
[00:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Genes Are Not To Blame - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:42] <exec> 08└─I've also found that cutting out HFCS, white sugar, and trans fat is really helpful, and that you stop craving them after about 4-6 weeks.
[00:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Genes Are Not To Blame - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:44] <exec> 08└─Full just means you have no desire for more food...
[00:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Antarctica's Nuclear Past with 'Nukey Poo' - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:00] <exec> 08└─This one was fueled by U-235 at 93% enrichment.
[00:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Build an Ark? Biologists Discuss Conservation Prioritization - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:00] <exec> 08└─link [bu.edu] (PDF)
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[01:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KiCad 5 Released - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:48] <exec> 08└─With the consumption of Eagle after it's purchase by Autodesk, who has turned it into a subscription model product, all the makers and enthusiasts have switched to KiCad.
[01:08:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 691 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:56] <exec> 08└─"When the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after “the event,” I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now. They should be engaging with their security staffs as if they were members of their own family....
[01:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:22] <exec> 08└─Yes. I was responding to the go bad in a few months or years
[01:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:23] <exec> 08└─So if I ran out of food all I need is find a bear and run from it? :-) With your logic, death should be your primary option.
[01:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:26] <exec> 08└─To a point this is true but there comes a time when even the richest might have to till the earth.
[01:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:28] <exec> 08└─... Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. ...
[01:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:30] <exec> 08└─I feel extremely lucky to have been born into a western society where daily life is relatively safe and I am able to get paid for honest work. Even with my modest savings, such that I don't need to worry about living on the street if I'm out of work for a while, it's easy to be lulled into the idea...
[01:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:32] <exec> 08└─Musk has no original ideas of his own. Want to know Musk's ideas? Read any run-down-the-mill futuristic article or near future science fiction novel, that's where he gets all of his.
[01:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:35] <exec> 08└─I do not think the modern [upper] society can convert into the middle ages mode of ethic fast enough.
[01:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:37] <exec> 08└─As someone who lives in those gated and guarded compounds, it's protected for a reason. The world is a terrible place, if you won't even allow people to be voluntarily walled off into their own communes, maybe you are the problem. I swear these bleeding hearts are like upper class twits looking out...
[01:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:39] <exec> 08└─Asteroids and supervolcanic eruptions [soylentnews.org] could be preventable. In fact, the technology needed to prepare for both opens up possible revenue sources (asteroid mining and volcanic geothermal). Social unrest may be harder to deal with than an asteroid (and no object has a high Torino sca...
[01:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:42] <exec> 08└─I sure hope you're just trolling otherwise you are the twit here.
[01:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─I'll just quote a bit of George R R Martin here: In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. "Do it," says the king, "for I am your...
[01:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:46] <exec> 08└─B-Ark Its happened before.
[01:11:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Alfred [4006] 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 2115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:05] <exec> 08└─I hate Windows. I tolerate Linux. Let me overgeneralize for a minute. Linux has never truly been about the noob user and it never will be. It is about the developer who is past the learning curve. If you are a CompSci major, great. Do you have lots of time to burn, great. IF not you are SOL. Whoe...
[01:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 1732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:00] <exec> 08└─Call me skeptical but I am guessing if I have a 6 year old box that I have been happily running Debian Squeeze on, and now need the latest MythTV one it, it won't be a simple download/install. Manjaro isn't even 6 years old, so can't even think whether their rolling releases would be able to handle...
[01:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:02] <exec> 08└─If my choices where Windows 10, Pottering Linux, Real Linux, or BSD, and all I needed to do was email, web, and make reaction images in gimp I'd probably go the real Linux route. But there is just so much specialized software I need. And Windows 7 is still available. I run a few Linux and BSD instal...
[01:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:04] <exec> 08└─Ah, i see you've played geek/not the average user before!
[01:12:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:16] <exec> 08└─Hey, this is what happens when you rely on a series of voluntarily-agreed-upon contracts :) Suck it up!
[01:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:41] <exec> 08└─Come on now. _MAY_ be putting their thumb on the scale and openly lying about it, selling themselves as a Freedom communication network? Anyone who doesn't know what's going on with Twitter by now hasn't been paying attention. It's only valid use is non-stop shitposting while you wait in a line.
[01:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:42] <exec> 08└─And what does that have to do with anything? How does the existence of such people justify the censorship of all people who vaguely resemble them?
[01:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 2614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:45] <exec> 08└─I've been warning people about this for YEARS now, but they don't listen. I only scare them away like some old cook. Maybe I should start rag chewing on 40 meters about this, perhaps some people will listen? Nah they won't, but I'm out of ideas. At least it'll be good therapy. A couple days ago in a...
[01:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Sampling "mmWave" 5G Antennas for Smartphones - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:11] <exec> 08└─Which is fine except that design considerations for antennas were already well understood and documented.
[01:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Supreme Court Blocks Proposal to Split State Into Three From November Ballot - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with it. Working as intended. The last result may have not been what you wanted, but that alone is not sufficient reason to go around telling people we need to all get together and flip the table over. To be clear, the last thing I ever want is a straight-up democratic election...
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Supreme Court Blocks Proposal to Split State Into Three From November Ballot - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─Simple. It's derived in large part from the formula for # of reps which is supposed to be proportional, but because it's really 1+(state pop/country pop)*335, the small states have an double advantage from both their Senators and their minimum 1 rep.
[01:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Tried to Settle with the EU in 2017, Considered Changes to Android - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:54] <exec> 08└─So is the recent Google investment in/support of KaiOS Embrace or Extend?
[01:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amino Acids Could Exist Just Centimeters Under Europa's Surface - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:14] <exec> 08└─You're right of course. When I was 8 or so and started reading SF I rather assumed that we would have made contact with aliens of some sort by 2018. It just seemed to be so far in the future, and we already got to the Moon, so Mars and all the rest wouldn't be out of our reach, surely? If we (as...
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[02:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:48] <exec> 08└─Save $1k/year. Nothing new, no interest in gaming or streaming movies. I use it mostly to waste time anyway and could put it toward something more productive. I can get news or the few times I need something from my neighbor, not that I would call most of news, news. And I dl'd kiwix and have wikipe...
[02:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:49] <exec> 08└─the internet uses you!
[02:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:51] <exec> 08└─Wew. Bye.
[02:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:54] <exec> 08└─I hear you, and I have had similar thoughts about cutting this crap out of my life. I lived over 40 years without it, and I don't need it to have a good life now. Most of the "news" is propaganda. Whether the source is the BBC or NPR or Fox, the slant is painfully obvious and an intelligent consumer...
[02:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:56] <exec> 08└─I use it mostly to waste time anyway and could put it toward something more productive. Try some "maker" content before dropping the internet all together. E.g. "How to build a shed" or "How to build a cheap CNC mill" or the like. Nothing new, no interest in gaming or streaming movies.
[02:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:58] <exec> 08└─If you get rid of Internet You won't get rid of morons. In recent years the Net becomes worse and worse* and I was thinking about dumping it too. However, if you have this, at least you know what to expect from this, let's say it, using memetic sciences for propaganda in a scale which most XX centur...
[02:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, instructional stuff is what I mostly use the internet for now and learned much for when I built my house. I've already built my own cnc mill (and lathe) and have a whole machine shop full of tools. Thank you Kieth Rucker and vintagemachinery.org. I learned plumbing, electrical work, carpentry,...
[02:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:03] <exec> 08└─It's surprising how much you can pick up through casual contact
[02:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:05] <exec> 08└─Most of the "news" is propaganda. Whether the source is the BBC or NPR or Fox, the slant is painfully obvious and an intelligent consumer of this "news" should find the slant insulting ; whether the slant favors a liberal or conservative agenda is immaterial : it's ALL slanted bullshit.
[02:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KiCad 5 Released - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:15] <exec> 08└─I'm happy to see the STEP export. I make all my schematics and board layouts in KiCad, but our manufacturer in China demands STEP files for building plastic clamshell cases. I've always had to use an external program (FreeCAD) with a PCB import plugin. This will be much easier.
[02:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KiCad 5 Released - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:18] <exec> 08└─wxWidgets... the best way to kill the UX on Linux-es (at least on LXDE that I'm running)
[02:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:04] <exec> 08└─And then the guys manning the machine guns realize the rich guy is a pain in the ass and the least useful person in the compound. If he goes, that's one less mouth to feed.
[02:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:05] <exec> 08└─... whom they can't even afford to feed, clothe, bathe, or education.
[02:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:07] <exec> 08└─Says how much of an upper class twit you are. If you're so rich, donate your own wealth, don't expect others to do the same.
[02:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:10] <exec> 08└─You can easilystore enough food to last 5-10 years which is enough time for the masses to starve to death. I was researching desalination techniques and came across Branson's island. It's self contained and you can grow supplemental food. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:12] <exec> 08└─Why not ask some robber baron or warlord from a third world region that has been testing these scenarios under real circumstances.
[02:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:14] <exec> 08└─The author describes Amazon as dehumanizing, but is it really? The customer reviews and Q/A let you communicate with other shoppers in a way that you couldn't before. I enjoy bitching about crap products, and learning hints about how to modify the thing for my use. Ok, so you don't get to talk to a...
[02:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:16] <exec> 08└─The fact of the of the matter is that they are living beyond their means, regardless of the reasons. They cannot afford to create a new human being, and yet they do so, mainly as as a result of fulfilling their base animal lust. Why do you people feel such an affinity for the self afflicted?
[02:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:19] <exec> 08└─Your parents had sex and produced you, and then raised in some place. It's not the case that 2 people in the U.S. fuck only to produce a child somewhere in Africa. There is no accident to your situation.
[02:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:47] <exec> 08└─Moon bongs will be the only acceptable type of bongs for a long time. Who wants to smoke out of dirty earth glass bong with all it's bad vibes.
[02:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:48] <exec> 08└─It would mean the cavemen dun goofed. They could have enjoyed the deadly conditions of the temperate luna.
[02:11:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 1933 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:42] <exec> 08└─Your argument is ridiculous and the GP is not spreading FUD. You seriously expect the average user to go through the effort of a software bounty? If they are stuck, they are going to ask their local geek for assistance, and if that doesn't work, they're going to say "This is crap I want Windows back...
[02:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:18] <exec> 08└─But why does it matter what legal framework a group of people chooses to use when organizing itself? Clearly those people individually have the Constitutionally-guaranteed right to political speech. But when you put them in a group, they don't have that right any more? Is it only some groups? Do the...
[02:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Supreme Court Blocks Proposal to Split State Into Three From November Ballot - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:54] <exec> 08└─This was also working as designed. Remember, the federal government was created by the States. The smaller States gave up just as much as the larger States, to form it, and would never have done so had representation been based on population. It's not. The people are not (directly) represented in th...
[02:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Genes Are Not To Blame - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:50] <exec> 08└─mono-unsaturated fats, the heart healthy fats.
[02:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Genes Are Not To Blame - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:52] <exec> 08└─Congratulations for beginning this process. I wish you luck and fortitude in continuing, because the hardest part for most is after the initial weight drop. Keeping weight off can be a real struggle, but it can be done for those motivated. Just don't give up, or give into "oh, I've reverted, so I'll...
[02:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remembering Antarctica's Nuclear Past with 'Nukey Poo' - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:10] <exec> 08└─You forgot the other critical component. A state with support of people who dont recoil in horror at anything 'nuclear' because they cannot get their heads out of the cold war terror-mongering of duck and cover. You know, people who can apply a little critical thinking, understand the positives and...
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[03:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:10] <exec> 08└─I have a Brother-in-Law who has no Internet access. In his case it's because of a combination of 1: No money 2: Too stupid to learn. The really funny thing is that he's a huge pornography fan, and still buys it in various offline forms. He is also a massive conspiracy theory nut and would no do...
[03:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:11] <exec> 08└─The elites want us off the internet. Everybody off the internet! If people were on the internet, they might also take the opportunity to at least become somewhat educated, (oblig) though not many do. However, the few that do are then able to use their social networks to allow a conversation about, f...
[03:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:13] <exec> 08└─Most people shouldn't be on the internet. Unfortunately most of those people are so stupid it's child's play for the cable or phone company, with lots of support from the teevee, to convince them otherwise. And they ruin it, just as surely as a swarm of tourists destroy a nice quiet beach. So for th...
[03:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:16] <exec> 08└─If it werent for the internet I would have never heard of these awesome terms.
[03:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:18] <exec> 08└─We know, we know. We're just waiting on the official announcement and accompanying denials.
[03:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:20] <exec> 08└─Most people shouldn't be.
[03:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:23] <exec> 08└─Yup. Omageerdd the news is all fake propaganda!!!11 I can't take it anymore!!!! And if you think you are spending too much for bandwidth/cap you don't use because omagerd, all Hollywood/streaming video is boring/derivative, just wire $20 of Ethereum to the xfinity anon so he can teach you the secret...
[03:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:25] <exec> 08└─While trying to be semi amusing I think you seriously underestimate how much you need the internet these days to work. Even your dumb as a box of bricks jobs you have to fill out junk on the net. Want to get an apartment? Internet. Want to get a job? Internet. Do not want to spend 3 years waiting in...
[03:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:27] <exec> 08└─He is also a massive conspiracy theory nut and would no doubt have a ball discussing lizard people and the hollow earth with whatever fellow-travellers he could find online.
[03:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:30] <exec> 08└─Most people shouldn't be on the internet. Unfortunately most of those people are so stupid ...
[03:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─Naah, I get all my free internetz tips from AC here on Soylent. I'm certain I have no reason to question his credibility....
[03:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─Netcraft confirms. The internet is dying.
[03:10:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 1048 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:15] <exec> 08└─These Richy Rich people seem to take all their ideas from b-movies made 2-3 decades ago. 1991 Rutger Hauer wants his Wedlock back ... But in all seriousness, they can't maintain authority if the world has collapsed. They have nothing to offer, all their skills are worthless and belonged to the "old...
[03:10:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:22] <exec> 08└─I feel extremely lucky to have been born into a western society where daily life is relatively safe and I am able to get paid for honest work. Even with my modest savings, such that I don't need to worry about living on the street if I'm out of work for a while, it's easy to be lulled into the idea...
[03:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:39] <exec> 08└─The fact of the of the matter is that they are living beyond their means, regardless of the reasons.
[03:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:40] <exec> 08└─Have you forgotten where the B-ark crashed? http://hitchhikers.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[03:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:42] <exec> 08└─"So tell me – who lives and who dies?" There are two right answers that come to mind. The first one is your "sellsword" is the only one that lives. He obeys all orders simultaneously, and loots all three corpses. His lucky day. The other one is he and the King lives. After all, the King is the mos...
[03:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:45] <exec> 08└─The fabulously wealthy got their riches in 2 possible ways (some from one, some from the other, some from both): Interacting with other people voluntarily; providing a service for which they got paid according to agreements in advance. Using the government's men-with-guns to steal resources from peo...
[03:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:47] <exec> 08└─Oh God! As I said death might not be so bad. So after ten years, what? The masses starved to death. Fine. What has that bought me? After ten years things get much, much worse. Any technology you might had is probably gone or failing, a bad crop is enough to kill you, any sickness is serious and dea...
[03:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:49] <exec> 08└─If you assume that civilization crashes, then your options are few and perhaps death is not so bad.
[03:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, so how the wealthy got their riches matter but how the poor got there doesn't? Well, quit voting for an ever larger government.
[03:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:54] <exec> 08└─It's interesting to see what my kind are worried about, and what they are planning for (supposedly). I have been poor before; I care more about making society better rather than blowing it up as I jump ship. I guess I don't hang around enough other 1%ers. Probably would annoy me if I had to hang aro...
[03:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:56] <exec> 08└─Have you forgotten where the B-ark crashed?
[03:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:58] <exec> 08└─I notice a tendency for people here to blame the "super-wealthy" for everything. There are two obvious things they aren't responsible for: the huge number of people on this planet and the regions of the world which remain high fertility, and the fact that every society on Earth has started from a pr...
[03:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:01] <exec> 08└─Conservatives: Do not take my portion of the pie a larger proportion of the total. Liberals: give us the pie. Fixed that for ya.
[03:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:03] <exec> 08└─You either get rich by creating wealth, or you get rich by taking wealth. When a large number of people band together to organize the taking of wealth, we call that organization "government"; a good government promises to use that stolen booty to create more wealth, usually for the benefit of a spec...
[03:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:34] <exec> 08└─Water is one of the singular most common molecules in the universe, its literally everywhere. It's presence clearly does not by itself denote life, nor does it even mean there is a possibility of life. A thousand other factors are required just for life to survive and we don't even know what complic...
[03:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 2746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:36] <exec> 08└─Take it up with the authors of the "forum article": Here, we merely note that outgassing 500 ppm water during the LMO phase (which would be required to bring the higher original values predicted by Lin et al. [2017] into agreement with current estimates) could in principle result in a surface wate...
[03:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:08] <exec> 08└─I've got no digital tribe of my own.
[03:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:10] <exec> 08└─I see this trope a lot, but I'm not actually sure where it comes from. Can you help me out?
[03:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Tried to Settle with the EU in 2017, Considered Changes to Android - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:20] <exec> 08└─The EU is apparently watching out for it's citizens. That's kinda what governments are supposed to do, unless you prefer a nice benevolent (or maybe not so benevolent) dictator.
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[04:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pharmaceuticals-europe-heart/europe-recalls-generic-heart-drug-made-in-china-on-cancer-fears-idUSKBN1JV2D8 [reuters.com] A number of high blood pressure and heart drugs containing an ingredient made in China are being recalled across Europe after an impurity that m...
[04:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:25] <exec> 08└─Which of the above cannot be done on an Internet terminal at the nearest branch of your county library?
[04:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:26] <exec> 08└─If you are into survival can I suggest gunsmithing, making black powder, home forging, animal husbandry, and farming techniques. That way you can be self sufficient if you need to be. Otherwise you are quite the renascence man. The only gaps I see is dental and surgical needs, but those are really h...
[04:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:29] <exec> 08└─I tried to friend some of those guys but they didn't respond to my requests...
[04:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:31] <exec> 08└─One of my friends is a livestock and equine veterinarian in a county seat. We were chatting one day about how I would probably be toast in a survival situation, as my skills are pretty much useless and I've become too much of a city slicker. Then I said it was probably the same for him, as he hasn't...
[04:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:33] <exec> 08└─Well, yes of course. first things first and all that.
[04:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:35] <exec> 08└─You're missing my point. Things are setup this way because of the 'everything must be on the innertubes' mania, not because it's advantageous to us as humans. Applying in person worked just fine, it wasn't broken, it didn't need replacement.
[04:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─I've been using networked computing since the late 70s (Plato and BBS) and on the internet since the mid 80s. I have to use it for work, and it's massively more effective for conducting business/commerce than envelope and stamps/brick and mortar stores alone. That said, when I bought a second home o...
[04:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:40] <exec> 08└─The Failing and Corrupt @nytimes [twitter.com] got one thing right. I didn't say "bigly." But maybe I'll start. It's a magnificent word. I'll be in Tampa next Tuesday, July 31. And I'd be honored if you'll come to my rally. There is nobody like Florida people! donaldjtrump.com/rallies/tampa-fl-2018...
[04:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:42] <exec> 08└─Most people shouldn't be.
[04:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:44] <exec> 08└─He will be living like a king. Of course he'll need an alternative method of contact :) My GF is a diabetic and we've both had to come to grips with the fact that she has a low survival rating without a steady supply of insulin. I am a computer nerd by profession, but I gunsmith on the side and can...
[04:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:47] <exec> 08└─After a while there is not that much to learn.
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─There are many means of protection for those casual contact pickups :)
[04:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:06] <exec> 08└─Sure, but you don't choose your parent, you have no say in it. So it is "luck", for a lack of better word, a person ends up with parents in a particular socio-economic environment with relative yet significant differences in opportunities and barriers to develop oneself.
[04:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:07] <exec> 08└─I believe he was probably referring to the Amazon's sweatshop practices... apparently much worse than just paying minimum wage and "stretching" folks..
[04:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 1636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:09] <exec> 08└─Nope. We haven't. You don't give an example of previous civilization collapse so I'll give you two: the Mayan and the Roman. The Mayan never attained anywhere close to their previous splendor, their cities abandoned by around 900 A.D. By the time the Spaniards arrived starting in 1511, no great Maya...
[04:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:12] <exec> 08└─I see a non-inducted and I quote, "Power resides where men believe it resides." On a personal level I wonder why it was necessary for them to mention that they were all men - they obviously also have a family, and they most probably think about safety of their daughter over son, etc. but I digress....
[04:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:14] <exec> 08└─Really? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:16] <exec> 08└─You left out swindle, con and flat out steal, the most common ways to get rich.
[04:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:18] <exec> 08└─When a large number of people band together to organize the taking of wealth, we call that organization "government";
[04:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:20] <exec> 08└─The part of TFA I like is "Being human is not about individual survival or escape. It’s a team sport. Whatever future humans have, it will be together." We live together or die apart.
[04:12:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:04] <exec> 08└─Finally, 2018 is the year of the Linux desktop.
[04:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Defeats Employee Phishing With Physical Security Keys - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:10] <exec> 08└─Firefox doesn't support Yubikey though, or more specifically, Firefox does not implement full support for U2F, the open protocol that Gmail requires. See the four year old bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[04:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Defeats Employee Phishing With Physical Security Keys - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:12] <exec> 08└─The physical token is necessary but not sufficient. Other measures in place prevent authentication long enough for the lost/stolen token to get revoked. You don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun your friend.
[04:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Genes Are Not To Blame - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:03] <exec> 08└─It's called freebasing: https://www.independent.co.uk [independent.co.uk] A 1997 study led by Professor Pankow linked ammonia additives in tobacco with increased freebase nicotine...
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[05:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Technical University of Munich Team Beats Own Hyperloop Record - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:49] <exec> 08└─Look, I get that the US is wedded to Imperial units, but can we at least keep things consistent within the same sentence. Comparing 88mph to 55mph to 323km/h is just BS. And yeah, I know, it's in the original bloody article...
[05:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical University of Munich Team Beats Own Hyperloop Record - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:50] <exec> 08└─The maglev does 470-500 km/h right now (you can buy a ticket,) and no vacuum is involved. Much safer (air outside). Free landscape as well.
[05:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technical University of Munich Team Beats Own Hyperloop Record - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:52] <exec> 08└─Why?
[05:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:02] <exec> 08└─I don't like China. I don't like the current culture. They went from Confucius, to Communist, to "Communist", and "Communist" is basically capitalism but with communism's authoritarianism and capitalism's corruption growing like an aggressive cancer at all levels. The state actively punishes ethical...
[05:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:04] <exec> 08└─In China, they get tough. And that toughness includes the death penalty. They don't play games. If someone goes and poisons somebody, kills somebody, they get the death penalty.
[05:10:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that was the point the author was making at the end: I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now.
[05:10:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:23] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I can afford to education my kids.
[05:10:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:24] <exec> 08└─> whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves As El Naranja will soon be reminded, it's pretty hard to thrive in isolation, especially when you're used to being the big bully playing with people's lives. > especially if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars. Have...
[05:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:08] <exec> 08└─Hey we live in a world where Trump is da Prez. You want more fantasy than that?
[05:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:10] <exec> 08└─Otherwise, the definitions are the same.
[05:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 2150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:12] <exec> 08└─"On a personal level I wonder why it was necessary for them to mention that they were all men" I'm really not sure how to read this. Are you referring to the story I was referring to, or to TFA? "they obviously also have a family, and they most probably think about safety of their daughter over son,...
[05:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:14] <exec> 08└─I think what it says is there are a fair fraction of the rich that are just as neurotic/insecure/ruled by our African savannah evolved minds/silly as the rest of us. I can just imagine one of them who is driving himself to panic with these rather farfetched fears while they aren't quitting smoking,...
[05:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:17] <exec> 08└─Firstly, you cannot maintain fabulous wealth in that way unless you tap into organized crime, which on a societal scale implies government (even the mafia has to operate through the local governments). Secondly, are you suggesting that all of the fabulously wealthy are swindlers, con men, and thieve...
[05:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:19] <exec> 08└─Ok, so things weren't as great immediately after the period of collapse as they were before the period of collapse. So what? But think about it. We have mined most of the easily obtained mineral resources.
[05:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Genes Are Not To Blame - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:13] <exec> 08└─I did some forestry work when I was young. Living in a camp with lots of good food, running up and down mountains carrying a chainsaw all day. My waistline shrank, yet I put on 20 pounds, all solid muscle.
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[06:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:03] <exec> 08└─> vaccine > made in china what can possibly go wrong? > good ol' american vaccines > except that the safety of vaccines is not under the producer's responsibility wow even worse > and (confirmation needed) a FOIA request for the HHS reports to Congress about vaccine safety, required by law, turned o...
[06:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:05] <exec> 08└─yet they sold fake BABY MILK...
[06:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:07] <exec> 08└─Pity that when Russia goes and poisons people, you invite Putin over for dinner.
[06:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:09] <exec> 08└─Nothing is real in mainland China. But it's remarkable to see how mainly Chinese countries like Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau are vastly different.
[06:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:50] <exec> 08└─I don't use the Internet, or I heavily use it. Depends on your point of view I guess. They seemed to group those "valid arguments" in with not using the Internet. Most of what I do is characterized as "going dark", almost none of what I do contributes to the bottom line of most shareholders. I don't...
[06:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:23] <exec> 08└─I like to call it the vagina lottery.
[06:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:24] <exec> 08└─The poor rarely rise and destroy, without being pawns of one or another faction among the rich.
[06:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:26] <exec> 08└─They seem to all have come to America after they fucked up society where they came from.
[06:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Intel Will Never Let Owners Control the Management Engine - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:34] <exec> 08└─Agree with the main points, but will quibble on how you say mechanical locks are "not secure at all". Yes, any such mechanical lock can be picked with greater or lesser degrees of ease, and if I really wanted in I could use a blowtorch and melt the lock or use a hacksaw to cut it apart. Does that ma...
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[07:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:51] <exec> 08└─The majority of the worlds static web sites don't need https and it's silly to suggest they do.
[07:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:53] <exec> 08└─The majority of the worlds static web sites don't need https and it's silly to suggest they do.
[07:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:32] <exec> 08└─And then the guys manning the machine guns realize the rich guy is a pain in the ass and the least useful person in the compound. If he goes, that's one less mouth to feed.
[07:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:33] <exec> 08└─"Rarely, but not never." Example? "In a world after "The Event", the poor won't be that poor, relatively speaking." See, that's a tricky thing to evaluate beforehand. How much of the wealth survives? The fiat money may not be worth anything anymore, but the things that it bought are. A wealthy perso...
[07:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:35] <exec> 08└─With (assumedly) many fewer people, raw and even heavily processed material will be laying on on the surface. Need some copper? No need to mine, strip that vacant housing development.
[07:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:38] <exec> 08└─I think there is a group of people that goes around marking all comments for not condemning wealthy people as trolling.
[07:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:40] <exec> 08└─When the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after “the event,”
[07:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:44] <exec> 08└─The ACLU agrees with you and "reaffirmed its stance in support of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling" in 2012.
[07:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Genes Are Not To Blame - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:23] <exec> 08└─Well for many people it means being unable to eat any more even if they tried. That is what a 'full stomach' is actually describing.
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[08:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:54] <exec> 08└─EE UK [wikipedia.org] a mobile comms provider. Their idea of protecting the kids [ee.co.uk]: Strict – The safe setting for children under 12. It filters 18-rated content but also content the BBFC rates higher than 'PG', as well as other content not suitable for younger children including chat, dat...
[08:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:55] <exec> 08└─I hope you'll like ISP's ads and bitcoin miners on your static pages that need no protection.
[08:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:58] <exec> 08└─So https magically makes webmasters stop embedding ads and scripts from criminals? At least some of them pay, seen legit ad impression rates lately? It is fucking retards like you that are responsible for this mad dash to encrypt even the ads. You know what https everywhere is going to end up doing?...
[08:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:00] <exec> 08└─TFA explains quite well that even static contents needs to be encrypted. Just as one example: with unencrypted content, it is trivially easy for someone to play MITM, and redirect you to a look-alike site that contains malware. On top of that, more encryption provides more cover for that data that d...
[08:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:02] <exec> 08└─This shows that HTTPS is, at least on the mass-deployment scale, secure enough to prevent "them" from reading and modifying your web traffic. Not the NSA's secret-agent type, but the casual, everyday "I'll trample everybody's privacy simply because I damn well can". Now just imagine: what would happ...
[08:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:04] <exec> 08└─Important to protect children from homework.. https://www.spellingcity.com [spellingcity.com] https://www.education.vic.gov.au [vic.gov.au]
[08:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:07] <exec> 08└─So https magically makes webmasters stop embedding ads and scripts from criminals?
[08:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:09] <exec> 08└─especially people like me under federal mandates demanding me to "implement a technical measure" to control access to smut
[08:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:31] <exec> 08└─isn't China's unregulated market just a capitalist's wet drream? Buyer beware. Sick/ cancer/ die, well, them's the breaks.
[08:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:13] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget the roughly 1% of the US population that is incarcerated [prisonpolicy.org]. That's about 10% of that 11% of the population without Internet right there. These people don't have Internet access, unless you want to count whatever unknown number of inmates who have smart phones that h...
[08:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:54] <exec> 08└─the superwealthy could spend their money on schools and medical services for the rest of the world. that would impact birth rates. I'm a physicist, with a PhD, working in research. If the superwealthy offer me a comfortable lifestyle while teaching in one of these high-birthrate regions, then I will...
[08:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:56] <exec> 08└─The super wealthy could promote contraception and population control if they wanted to. There would be some popular resistance to these ideas, but the super wealthy already spend a lot of money on lobbying and PR campaigns, why not this? Instead we keep hearing about how the Japanese are "going exti...
[08:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:58] <exec> 08└─There is inherently large, poor populations of people on Earth that would be that way no matter what we do with the super-wealthy.
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[09:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:56] <exec> 08└─The problem is that there's no protocol available for just signing your content. For public, static HTML pages that would be perfect: On one hand, cryptographic signatures would make sure that the content is not modified during transmission, while on the other hand the static content (and thus also...
[09:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:58] <exec> 08└─On top of that, more encryption provides more cover for that data that does need encrypted.
[09:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:22] <exec> 08└─Well, I certainly prefer if they don't make milk from real babies. ;-)
[09:09:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 1283 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─I've been using networked computing since the late 70s (Plato and BBS) and on the internet since the mid 80s. I have to use it for work, and it's massively more effective for conducting business/commerce than envelope and stamps/brick and mortar stores alone. That said, when I bought a second home o...
[09:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:47] <exec> 08└─When a large number of people band together to organize the taking of wealth, we call that organization "corporation"; a good corporation promises to use that stolen booty to create more wealth, usually for the benefit of a special-interest group such as stockholders.
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[10:09:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly. My site has no logins or databases. I don't need httpS. In fact over the past 10 days several websites I go to daily have been inaccessible due to mucked up certificates - and FireFox refuses to go there. Long rule HTTP!
[10:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:16] <exec> 08└─TFA explains quite well that even static contents needs to be encrypted. Just as one example: with unencrypted content, it is trivially easy for someone to play MITM, and redirect you to a look-alike site that contains malware.
[10:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:18] <exec> 08└─They know their ad business is going to tank eventually so they're poised to become the CA to end all CA's. To accomplish this they must first become arbiters of what is secure which is accomplished by spreading FUD on one end and by bullying smaller players out of the market (which they've already...
[10:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:21] <exec> 08└─But it still would allow users to serve simple static HTML pages without the encryption overhead.
[10:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:23] <exec> 08└─You really believe us technical illiterates? Or are you just shilling for a spook agency?
[10:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:13] <exec> 08└─*Sydney And some people kayak between Australia & NZ [theguardian.com]. Doable with less tech too, just look at Thor Heyerdahl's "Kontiki" journey. Real risk is loss of "old" knowledge; that's what's really going to kill you in the longer run in an end-of-civilisation scenario.
[10:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:15] <exec> 08└─Interacting with other people voluntarily
[10:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:17] <exec> 08└─I think you are right in pointing out that it's wrong to blame the super-wealthy for everything. But looking at the world's problems one at a time: a) A lot of those problems look like they could be alleviated a lot by throwing more resources at them.b) A relatively small number of individuals is am...
[10:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:19] <exec> 08└─Firstly, you cannot maintain fabulous wealth in that way unless you tap into organized crime,
[10:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:21] <exec> 08└─Conservatives: “My Preciouss!”
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[11:09:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:11] <exec> 08└─TFA explains quite well that even static contents needs to be encrypted. Just as one example: with unencrypted content, it is trivially easy for someone to play MITM, and redirect you to a look-alike site that contains malware. On top of that, more encryption provides more cover for that data that d...
[11:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:23] <exec> 08└─But modern Internet is phasing out static sites. See, the static site sits here in the server, is sometimes updated, and serves as a source of information all time. The knowledge exchange here cannot be easily monetized. In modern Internet, human contact became commodity too. And this is a step towa...
[11:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:26] <exec> 08└─so browsers should allow me to completely forbid javascript whenver pure http is used. does that solve the problems you're talking about? or is it still possible for the man in the middle to replace the text of the website?
[11:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:28] <exec> 08└─It ain't about you but your visitors, honey.
[11:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:30] <exec> 08└─I have a lot of really good reasons to believe that a substantial portion of my various websites' users, visit my sites from library computers, a great many of which still run Windows 95. I Am Absolutely Serious. For the last week I've been having a knock-down-drag-out Flame War with a professional...
[11:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:33] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious: It happens that Michael Patrick Dumble-Smythe's stage name is Michael Crawford. Dumble-Smythe starred as the phantom in the London stage production of The Phantom Of The Opera. In no way have any of my websites ever suggested that I had ever been an actor. Despite that, ther...
[11:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:35] <exec> 08└─Dude, WTF is wrong with you? I mean really? Once kids know how to spell "sex" they're half way to finding out about it.
[11:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical University of Munich Team Beats Own Hyperloop Record - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:46] <exec> 08└─The United States does not and has never used Imperial units. The United States Customary units do resemble the later Imperial standards, but there are numerous differences. If you are going to critique, be sure to be correct and accurate.
[11:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:02] <exec> 08└─In China, they get tough. And that toughness includes the death penalty. They don't play games. If someone goes and poisons somebody, kills somebody, they get the death penalty.
[11:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:03] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile Apple seems to be doing OK.
[11:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:47] <exec> 08└─It's a nice way to attempt to scapegoat the generalized anxiety that pervades the working class currently on to the abilities to organize with peers efficiently and peruse a vast, global library.
[11:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:37] <exec> 08└─True enough on a species level but not remotely on an individual level. There are plenty of people who not only don't need others to survive but would actually enjoy the solitude. I am not one of them, mind you. I enjoy arguing too much.
[11:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:39] <exec> 08└─No matter how you put it, Economics 101 is that you get profit only by getting more than the worth of something in an exchange. Translated to kindergarten speak, you can only get ahead by being unfair. Translated to elementary school speak, "Tom Sawyer" - read it. Why the other side accepts bad deal...
[11:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:41] <exec> 08└─Really? Do you care to demonstrate your assertion?
[11:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:43] <exec> 08└─Now, those answering "yes" to b) will typically argue that allowing the accumulation of super-wealth actually has benefits for society as a whole, either because of "trickle down", or because some of it will be available for focused charitable causes.
[11:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:45] <exec> 08└─The super wealthy could promote contraception and population control if they wanted to.
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[12:08:46] <exec> 08└─Wake up early Wednesday to see two launches within 15 minutes
[12:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:29] <exec> 08└─It also increases bandwidth costs by around 1/3 along with an increase in power consumption.
[12:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:31] <exec> 08└─- rest of them. That one HTTPS site is internal use only. I'm going to support non-redirected SSL for all my websites. I've already purchased their certs, I just need to configure them. For Soggy Jobs and for Warp Life, I'm also going to set up Tor Hidden Services.
[12:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:33] <exec> 08└─If you're site serves only cleartext _static_ content, it would be trivial for Charlie to serve that very same static content, but with the addition of some Javascript that the end-user never sees is there, that then sends them some malware. In addition, I know of at least one exploit that resulted...
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:35] <exec> 08└─is location addressed data vs content addressed data. location addressed data implies encryption implies authentication and DoS protection, no caching or MITM done at ISP level. content addressed data helps even when no encryption is necessary, makes caching trivial and DoS and tracking difficult to...
[12:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:46] <exec> 08└─... of people who don't use the Internet. They use Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and/or Instagram instead.
[12:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:48] <exec> 08└─Even disregarding Trump's New York accent, the rules for the aspirated h are far more varied in both speech and spelling then you'd think. The best documented inconsistency with prescribed rules is how one is spelling "an hotel" while saying "an otel" while the guy next to you would spell "a hotel"...
[12:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:42] <exec> 08└─I'm a physicist, with a PhD, working in research. If the superwealthy offer me a comfortable lifestyle while teaching in one of these high-birthrate regions, then I will go do it.
[12:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:44] <exec> 08└─What I do have to do is pay for Walmart employees' food stamps (or be stuffed into a cage for refusing). As always, the problem is a government program, because a government program is predicated on theft.
[12:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:46] <exec> 08└─is it really worth it, as TFA relates, to have that wealth, if you must always be looking over your shoulder, if you have to live in fear?
[12:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:48] <exec> 08└─Apple computer thinks your dollars are worth more than its iPad. You think Apple's iPad is worth more than your dollars. So, you both "swindle" each other: You both profit by making the exchange; you therefore make the exchange voluntarily. In contrast, I don't think it's profitable to me to throw p...
[12:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:50] <exec> 08└─... or yell at your parents for having birthed you into a world of scarce resources. To me, you sound like an entitled prick.
[12:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:52] <exec> 08└─Fuck the priest. Marry the king. Kill the rich. Wait, what was the question again?
[12:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:58] <exec> 08└─That part is fine, but when was the last time you saw a corporation sent up to the Big House for a 20 year stretch, or put into the gas chamber? Corporations have the rights of real people, but don't suffer the penalties for crimes the way real people do. Over time they have used that to entirely co...
[12:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter May Be Demoting Controversial Accounts in Search Results - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:59] <exec> 08└─I don't think there is any danger of SN becoming a left-wing echo chamber as long as you're in it.
[12:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Defeats Employee Phishing With Physical Security Keys - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:48] <exec> 08└─There's all kinds of RFID - controlled distance NFC, cases that require metal to metal contact for the RF signal to be strong enough (but still not a plug and socket like USB to wear out), etc. I suspect they went USB to take advantage of all the already built-in readers in consumer gear.
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[13:08:39] <exec> 08└─Nazis.
[13:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:40] <exec> 08└─You guys seriously think any of this is applicable here? You think conversations here, despite disagreements, don't remain remarkably civil?
[13:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:42] <exec> 08└─Godwins Law 1990: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1" Soylent Law 2018: "In an online discussion, the probability of the alt-right being mentioned by aristarchus is 1"
[13:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:45] <exec> 08└─The computer model, which also considered Google's Perspective, a machine-learning tool for evaluating "toxicity," was correct around 65 percent of the time. Humans guessed correctly 72 percent of the time.
[13:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:47] <exec> 08└─I'm also apparently shit at editing my posts before hitting submit ...
[13:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Wednesday to see TWO Launches Within 15 Minutes -- Starts at 11:25 UTC (07:25 EDT) [Updated] - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:56] <exec> 08└─by https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] 's Eric Berger here. the site had dropped out of my weekly rotation somehow, getting replaced by less consistently great ones. now its back in the list of top feeds.
[13:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Wednesday to see TWO Launches Within 15 Minutes -- Starts at 11:25 UTC (07:25 EDT) [Updated] - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:58] <exec> 08└─The SpaceX carrier just finished deploying the satellites at 622ish km. It was going at 451km/sec when the broadcast ended. Is it going to go higher to park as junk or do they carry extra fuel to make it slow down so it can burn up?
[13:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanets With Long Orbital Periods Can be Found With a Single Transit Event - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:07] <exec> 08└─a 53 hr window of discovery every 10 years gives a 53/10/365.25/24= 0.06% chance. wondering ... how much of the sky we're able to monitor at sufficient resolutions to catch the buggers that get between us and their host so that we would notice dips within a 53 hr window (of which there are 10*365.25...
[13:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:15] <exec> 08└─Honestly, with so many "shorters" (who are in debt!) , and opposition car companies not wanting competition/technology change, it is very hard to read *any* news on Tesla neutrally. I guess we'll only have to wait a few months to find out for real....;-)
[13:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:51] <exec> 08└─That never would have happened if he had used https.
[13:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the feds hold all the SSL keys to begin with.
[13:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:54] <exec> 08└─Are you in a shortage of those?
[13:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 1733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:57] <exec> 08└─https is overrated, in my opinion because it provides a false sense of security. There is no way I would connect to anything important without it, but isn't the solution to all of the internet's security woes. There is a better way to do away with plain http than shaming. They are taking the wrong a...
[13:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:59] <exec> 08└─Unless the hosting entity does not share the private key with the feds, this cannot happen - correctly done, the private key should never leave the server. The private/public key pair is generated on the server, then the public key goes with the Certificate Signing Request to the CA but the private...
[13:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:13] <exec> 08└─you have money for a second home. if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't need the internet at home either.
[13:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 4422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:14] <exec> 08└─And 14% of the USA population is defined as "elderly" by ... someone. I guess that means over 65 although that seems to be changing over time. I have a MiL and a UiL (uncle in law) both without internet access and they never use the net. My mom only uses the internet at the library, for decades she'...
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[13:14:03] <exec> 08└─I'm going to push back on this one. Not because there is anything wrong with the Linux community (except the condescending pricks who admonish people for asking basic questions). But because users people don't want to have to go search for "how does this work?" all the time. Those of us who are tech...
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[14:09:00] <exec> 08└─I got a whopping 7 of 12. Who would have thought that begging for a "barnstar" on Wikipedia would lead to a personal attack?
[14:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:02] <exec> 08└─There's a certain class of people on this website who just cannot stand a differing point of view; rather than debate someone's point or just move on with their lives, they insist on abusing the moderation system to collapse comments with which they disagree. That's not civil.
[14:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:04] <exec> 08└─So, let's say a user mostly talks about technical stuff, but occasionally leaps into the fray on some political issue. Well, guess what? The censorship-happy users can go down-mod the technical stuff too, and thereby cut that user out of further debate for a month (or at least force that user to con...
[14:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:06] <exec> 08└─Google has a perspective? Really? What exactly is Google's perspective?
[14:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:09] <exec> 08└─rude, insulting, or disrespectful towards a person/group or towards that person/group's action
[14:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:11] <exec> 08└─Soylent Law 2018: "In an online discussion, the probability of the alt-right being mentioned by aristarchus is 1"
[14:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, you pure unique snowflake, how I pity you. (opps, I used you. And until then the conversation went sooo civil)
[14:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:15] <exec> 08└─At the end of the day, shit needs gettin' done, and normal healthy non-leftist Men are the best at getting shit done.
[14:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:18] <exec> 08└─Register and upmod the comments then. That's why everyone gets ten points a day.
[14:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:20] <exec> 08└─The creed of schoolyard bullies and murderous tyrants alike
[14:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Wednesday to see TWO Launches Within 15 Minutes -- Starts at 11:25 UTC (07:25 EDT) [Updated] - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:31] <exec> 08└─They have also been posting "Rocket Report" roundups pretty often (weekly?) that cover most everything you need to know. https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] For example, Vector Space Systems has an Alask...
[14:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Wednesday to see TWO Launches Within 15 Minutes -- Starts at 11:25 UTC (07:25 EDT) [Updated] - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:34] <exec> 08└─Not entirely sure what you're asking, but I think you're asking what the payload adapter does after launch, but the payload adapter is past the spacex demarcation point; its someone else's invention, responsibility, and problem. See around page 34 of https://www.spacex.com
[14:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanets With Long Orbital Periods Can be Found With a Single Transit Event - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─NASA's TESS Mission Set to Launch on Wednesday, April 18 [soylentnews.org] TESS is studying at least 500,000 stars. Some of its observation sectors overlap [wikipedia.org], allowing for continuous observation of up to 351 days during the first 2 years of the mission, while other sectors are only vie...
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:29] <exec> 08└─what is that bad about encrypting content so that you want us to throw out of the window the benefits of encrypted traffic?
[14:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:31] <exec> 08└─Criminals and terrorists don't get to play the oppression card.
[14:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 2942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:33] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree. While https may increase resistance to MITM, it also makes reverse engineering web site and browser functionality vastly more difficult. Which is to say fixing security problems above TCP gets harder. And it would seem quite a coincidence, that reverse engineering Googles vast clien...
[14:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:35] <exec> 08└─so browsers should allow me to completely forbid javascript whenver pure http is used. does that solve the problems you're talking about?
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:38] <exec> 08└─I have a website. Went online in the mid-90s. But due to ISP buyouts and transfers and such, plus me not having updated the site for five years, setting up https would be a major bit of work. Hell, I don't even know who to contact to update my DNS without consulting whois at this point. And transfer...
[14:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the non-US citizens are all criminals and terrorists. Way to go, brah.
[14:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:42] <exec> 08└─Or lubricant.
[14:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:09] <exec> 08└─It was 15-20 years ago we were warned cat food from China could poison your cat. That's when I realized I was using Chinese cat food and switched to an American brand, even though it costs more. I can afford an extra $0.05 per day to feed my cat.
[14:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:59] <exec> 08└─In addition to your suggested reasons, its also a weird mix of cost cutting via outsourcing HR tasks, combined with weird legal requirements for social engineering like racist affirmative action programs and stuff like that. Its cheaper and legally cleaner to have some other company front end your h...
[14:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:00] <exec> 08└─and there are likely other angles out there as well
[14:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:03] <exec> 08└─Pretty much none of which should be true, especially if you need to use proprietary software (which can include JavaScript) to do any of that. What an injustice.
[14:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Tried to Settle with the EU in 2017, Considered Changes to Android - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:26] <exec> 08└─protected from competition by Google
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[15:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:49] <exec> 08└─Apple finally got its founding wish: A walled garden. And, Apple proved that it's very profitable. Almost every other software firm and hardware firm as followed suit, closing off access to internals such that the only way to play is to pay and then do it their way. That is what has ruined computing...
[15:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:51] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing, honey. The laptop goes on your lap. Not up your pussy.
[15:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:53] <exec> 08└─The group you're pulling from self selects because they are getting what they want. Power users do not use Macs, period. They buy much better kit for much lower prices and install an OS not designed specifically with non-technical idiots as its target audience.
[15:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:55] <exec> 08└─Wheew... quite a stretched pussy your honey has.
[15:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:57] <exec> 08└─Voltage and power consumption are supposed to decline while performance increases from node to node. But we are reaching the limits. Within 10-15 years, we'll need to transition to something new if we want any further performance increases. If we want vertically layered transistors with many cores o...
[15:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:00] <exec> 08└─Windows is designed for idiots. Mac OS X is designed for idiots. Ubuntu is designed for idiots. Even Arch keeps things so "simple" that they've become "simplistic" to the point of idiocy. You can't escape the idiots. I think non-idiots just make do with whatever they've got. If they need to get real...
[15:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:02] <exec> 08└─Power users do not use Macs, period.
[15:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:04] <exec> 08└─My experience is that thinner, when made of plastic, also equates to more fragile. Once a crack appears the thing will start to disintegrate over a few months. The thermal problems make the accumulation of dust all the more serious as well, given the cooling is marginal to begin with.
[15:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:07] <exec> 08└─You may be much better off finding a machine in the $400-750 range that has a decent CPU and a discrete GPU.
[15:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:09] <exec> 08└─Non idiots use Slackware.
[15:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:11] <exec> 08└─Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Apple users
[15:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:13] <exec> 08└─Apple finally got its founding wish: A walled garden.
[15:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:16] <exec> 08└─Windows is designed for idiots. Mac OS X is designed for idiots. Ubuntu is designed for idiots. Even Arch keeps things so "simple" that they've become "simplistic" to the point of idiocy. You can't escape the idiots.
[15:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:18] <exec> 08└─Non slackers use idiots.
[15:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:41] <exec> 08└─One "side" is not very civil; they have no moral qualms with silencing someone who disagrees.
[15:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:42] <exec> 08└─Register and that doesn't happen without getting reversed. ACs don't get to claim mod bombing though because nobody but staff can tell one from another, OO aside.
[15:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─no doubt. what this teaches me is that i need to train myself to remain objectively neutral when writing. that way even the best forum post wizards wont detect when i am about to fly off the handle and call them all stupid and erase their stuff with the admin rights i received for being so normal up...
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─If that were true, the karma of certain users would be in the shitter. TMB and VLM both have 50 though. realDonaldTrump is at 45 despite being blasted with downmods lately. Seems the asymmetry is currently favoring speech. Certain comments deserve to be modded down. Certain users and anons will whin...
[15:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─Naah thats "from each according to their ability and to each according to their need" or whatever Ocasio-Cortez is saying this week.
[15:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─You know that's nonsense.
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─Plus it's much, much easier to gain karma than to lose it. ACs can only lose one point per comment, registered two, but they can gain five points per comment, four for registered folks.
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─Click on any highly opinionated person's nick and have a look. Or wait a few days and I'll pull proof of how horribly wrong you are directly from the db.
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─So in case you've wondered how all these FOSS projects that rammed Coraline Ada Ehmke's CoC down everyone's throat are gonna enforce it in the future... this is it. If you tend to use "hurtful" or "aggressive" language to make a point, no worries. This algorithm will prevent you excluding yourself f...
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─The result is that in a long-term, recurring debate (e.g., something regarding politics), those who disagree with a censorial group WILL be shut down.
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─It's wikipedia. Toxicity is expected.
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─Never mind that actual socialists seem to hate her guts. Ocasio-Cortez on “Meet the Press”: Double-talk, evasion and a disavowal of socialism [wsws.org] (July 2nd): “So I would like the Senate to delay, absolutely. We need to delay until after the midterm elections. That’s my personal opinio...
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 3375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─Usually I get (downmod) pounded when I get way off topic or make a weak argument, and rightly so by the mannerbund and I can respect and learn from that. I drink very rarely like less than once a month, but if I drink and shitpost the result is usually amateurish and awful, at least thats my weak sh...
[15:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:34] <exec> 08└─This isn't particularly surprising though, Tesla isn't run by people who know what they're doing and they recently offered everybody in queue the opportunity to lock in their orders even though they can't produce cars fast enough to make that make sense. I'd be very surprised if Tesla survives the c...
[15:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:36] <exec> 08└─More Tesla FUD. I mean, it's not like all companies go back to their suppliers to ask for better (lower) pricing on the stuff they supply. They're not trying to turn a profit *right now*. They're trying to ramp up production. Profits come later. The shorters are losing more than their shorts I'd say...
[15:10:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─The majority of the worlds static web sites don't need https and it's silly to suggest they do.
[15:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:24] <exec> 08└─i thought this was all about google maintaining better control of data via the fact it doesnt matter if its encrypted if they host it, and second, its good pr to pretend they care. people lost control a long time ago, so this at least is like a politician being 'tough on crime' by doing nothing much...
[15:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:26] <exec> 08└─nothing, because its pretty dumb to enforce such requirements on local network devices and appliances like that. hackers may read what you are doing on your home network and your IoTs might search it for midget porn, but i can take the risk if someone would at least let me make the decisions for mys...
[15:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:28] <exec> 08└─Option C: Ignore the abuses of large corporations. Everyone here is talking about one privacy-violating, intrusive browser. There are a handful of others. Ignore the one.
[15:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:30] <exec> 08└─i thought this was all about google maintaining better control of data via the fact it doesnt matter if its encrypted if they host it
[15:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:32] <exec> 08└─HTTPS is cool, but the only thing sending unsecure HTTP redirects to HTTPS does is make your site less interoperable for no actual security benefit. While most UAs support HTTPS to some description, HTTPS has a lot of different modes and most of them are completely broken from a security perspective...
[15:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 1793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:34] <exec> 08└─I've been watching the change over to an all TLS Internet with a careful eye when I wear my ham radio operator hat. On ham radio it is legal to use digital modes for communication but it is illegal to obfuscate the communication in any way including cryptography. There is exactly no privacy at all o...
[15:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:37] <exec> 08└─I am assuming it is a small personal site. $40/month is a lot for a small site. I pay about $13/month for shared hosting. That is after the cheap intro. That includes SSL and email, and unlimited storage (within reason). You are giving up a nice weekend getaway every year or two for no reason. Check...
[15:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:39] <exec> 08└─nothing, because its pretty dumb to enforce such requirements on local network devices and appliances like that.
[15:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:41] <exec> 08└─Set up the transfer to Gandi or Namecheap already. Then you can sign up for hosting at any of several virtual private server (VPS) providers at $10 per month or less. Even a VPS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is cheaper than that, and you can use an S3 bucket for large static resources such a...
[15:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:43] <exec> 08└─The fourth amendment doesn't actually say any such thing.
[15:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:46] <exec> 08└─To which of the "handful of others" will you be switching? Firefox already shows a "not secure" warning if you try to fill in a form on a cleartext website. Go sign up for a commenting account on Explosm.net (home of the webcomic Cyanide & Happiness) to see this in action.
[15:14:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 1636 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─Nope. We haven't. You don't give an example of previous civilization collapse so I'll give you two: the Mayan and the Roman. The Mayan never attained anywhere close to their previous splendor, their cities abandoned by around 900 A.D. By the time the Spaniards arrived starting in 1511, no great Maya...
[15:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:37] <exec> 08└─Based on these loss rates, Needham and Kring (2017) estimated a lifetime of ∼70 million years
[15:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IoT Security Flaw Leaves 496 Million Devices Vulnerable At Businesses - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:28] <exec> 08└─yeah this used to be a feature for some things, too. eh well you know, making stuff convenient doesnt require knowing how the stuff it sits on actually works. probably it shouldn't require that knowledge, but someone in that product chain should before it gets in the hands of consumers. its too much...
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[16:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:00] <exec> 08└─You people are willingly giving up your freedom. You have to live the world you want to see. Bending over further will just ease Google's penetration.
[16:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:22] <exec> 08└─I don't want "Thin & Light", I want it thick, chunky, full of ports, have sufficient heat disapation capabilities not to throttle itself or torch my flesh, a battery that lasts days if not weeks, & not to be charged a "premium" for a T&L machine that is none of those aforementioned things. In the na...
[16:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─A lot of the other laptop vendors have followed suit. Microsoft Surface devices are thin and light. You can get thin and light from Dell, Lonovo, and Acer too.
[16:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:25] <exec> 08└─The macbook pro is the worst laptop ever designed, not the best. (And I'm no mac hater, one of the best laptops I ever owned was a G4 Powerbook, RIP.) The trouble is the entire industry functions backwards from the way a market is supposed to. We've passed the stage where there was a natural demand...
[16:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:28] <exec> 08└─Steve Jobs wanted 2 things: Your money, and your submission to his way. The Apple IIs were historical achievements, but that's not representative of Steve Jobs's Apple, but rather of Steve Wozniak's Apple. When people think of Apple, they think of the Macintosh and of iPods/iPhones/iPads, and Apple'...
[16:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─An awful lot of people in the tech industry work from Macbook Pros. So you're calling some huge portion of professional software developers not power users. Don't get me wrong, I think it's absurd to do software development work from anything less than a mobile workstation. I'm dealing with this no...
[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:32] <exec> 08└─I've been using an HP Zbook, but it's been over heating lately. Who do you buy from?
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─Apple finally got its founding wish: A walled garden.
[16:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─Chromebooks too. I rdesktop from one into a virtual machine (several actually) in a very large private vmware facility and it gets warm over time and I can't get the "ten hours" battery life while smacking the network that hard.
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:39] <exec> 08└─Oh wow. I wouldn't have considered performance of machines that just run SSH or RDesktop and issue, but if even rdesktop causes problems then the problem is really bad.
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:41] <exec> 08└─Mac OS X descends from the BSDs, and had to play very nicely at first because Apple was the underdog. I have watched the steady erosion of BSD/FOSS influence over Apple's software and community, and I've watched the rise of a complete lack of respect for the Unix philosophy. This large gate of which...
[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─The thicker laptops with more ports are much cheaper, and even thicc "gaming laptops" are cheaper than Apple fare. Oh wait, a lot cheaper. These Core i9 Macbook Pros apparently cost around $2,800 to $4,700 [cnet.com]. I don't see many Core i9 laptops [newegg.com] yet, but there will probably be some...
[16:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:46] <exec> 08└─Apple markets to soy latte hipsters who want to be NOTICED when sitting at Starbux, but there's always system76 for a laptop like you describe. I considered getting one of the $2800 models but that's the base price, if you want the GTX1080 and as much memory and storage as the vmware image I rdeskto...
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:48] <exec> 08└─(Excuse the "now's"; I wanted "modern", but it wouldn't fit.) I am indeed calling all those people "not power users". The stuff they work on is superficial self-caused problems, and often amounts to copying-and-pasting "solutions" from StackOverflow into IDEs they don't understand beyond "Press the...
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─rdesktop is a real hardware workout, the CPU impact of a video game combined with the network impact of streaming video, but it sure is nice. "Problems" as in my thighs get uncomfortably warm, at least in the summer, not problems as in it shuts down or burns out. The apple "problems" requiring a fri...
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, I am. It is not possible to be a power user on a Mac. It is possible to be a Mac power user on a Mac but relative to actual power users, you may as well be grandma on her iPad.
[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:55] <exec> 08└─What about teledildonics?
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Non idiots use Slackware.
[16:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:00] <exec> 08└─Liquid cooling is THE solution: CPU/GPU-pipe-left_hing-gigant_radiator_right_hing-pipe-pump-CPU/GPU ;-)
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─Every single one of the exchanges in the quiz from Wikipedia. So you have to pick which one will become more toxic. :-)
[16:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:37] <exec> 08└─Life goes on.
[16:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:40] <exec> 08└─Not so. I've tried to explain this elsewhere, let me try it again. I'm a somewhat hi-vis person here. Some of the lefties hate me, some of the lefties dislike me, and of the remaining people, I think most are close to neutral, with a few people liking me. I have no fear of jumping into a conversatio...
[16:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:42] <exec> 08└─LMAO @ 1488. I might try a hit of whatever you're smoking. Hell, you might even be more than half right, but that sure as hell isn't what 1488 means to a bunch of skinheads!
[16:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:44] <exec> 08└─Well, you'll admit that masculinity can actually be toxic. A lot of women have gotten all swollen up due to the toxicity.
[16:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:46] <exec> 08└─It most certainly is not. I have long, heated debates all the time with world + dog. This would not be the case if either I or my.opponents were being shut down. Find any highly opinionated person on the site and you'll find the exact same thing. We self-correct quite well on average.
[16:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:49] <exec> 08└─That was the same score I got, at first I was somewhat curios that it said out of 12 when the initial information said 15 questions. But I think the first 3 didn't count; it said warm-up on them or something such next to the question number. I see it as at least being one better then just pure coin-...
[16:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:51] <exec> 08└─Let's see ... "Runaway or Ethanal-fueled joins the conversation". Fini
[16:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:20] <exec> 08└─"We've got better negotiating leverage now so we can now demand our suppliers give us more favorable terms on long term spending than the ones we actually agreed to previously when they were supplying us in good faith." [unspoken... because we could go somewhere else if we need to.] yeah, nothing et...
[16:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:20] <exec> 08└─I got lots of offers for sexual affairs from middle-aged married women as well.
[16:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:49] <exec> 08└─I guess, if you're ethnic Chinese, and your social capital level is high enough. Then you can literally get away with murder.
[16:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:14] <exec> 08└─doesn't appear to have formed until after around 700 million years.
[16:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:16] <exec> 08└─You're doing the same thing they are - you're pushing the envelope of probability for the sake of click bait. It's a massive stretch to even say it's possible when then can't even prove that water was there, only that it might have. It's pointless speculation with zero evidence. Let's just stick to...
[16:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:18] <exec> 08└─Or it's a useful thought experiment that will help inform further scientific study of the Moon. Since we now have countries planning to put scientists on the surface full time. Also it's kinda hard for me to clickbait when you're already here.
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[17:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:40] <exec> 08└─Have you check out Mailvelope? It's been years since I've played with their stuff but they say they support integration into webmail clients including Gmail.
[17:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:42] <exec> 08└─Hillary? Is that you?
[17:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:44] <exec> 08└─It stops the phishing quite well but comes at a high cost.
[17:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:46] <exec> 08└─“Hello all - I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP’s (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file. Basically, they don’t want the VIP’s email address exposed to anyone. … Do...
[17:09:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:00] <exec> 08└─Power users do not use Macs, period.
[17:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:28] <exec> 08└─Thinner and lighter is great, and if we’re honest, we’re all sucked in by the allure.
[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:29] <exec> 08└─Apple finally got its founding wish: A walled garden.
[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─the users picked an ecosystem that doesn't pay attention to its options for power users and has been pursuing thinner and thinner designs for years. If the thermal throttling is really a problem for you, then you shouldn't be buying from Apple anymore. This is the fundamental truth underlying everyt...
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:34] <exec> 08└─Already discussed above, nearly notion-for-notion. [soylentnews.org]
[17:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:36] <exec> 08└─Spotted this on HN: https://www.cake.co [www.cake.co] Pretty good read.
[17:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:38] <exec> 08└─I'll agree that thicker (non-Apple) laptops are indeed the way to go, but personally I've completely given up on desktops. Laptops (good ones: the business-grade ones) are just too convenient, and desktops really don't offer anything to justify not being able to easily carry it around. In fact, desk...
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─Thinner and lighter is great...
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─What about those of us for whom any machine Mac/Linux/Windows is little more than a terminal emulator to access a cluster/supercomputing system? I do little other than word processing on my actual Macbook Pro, virtually all the compute is done on a cluster down the hall. I was previously doing somet...
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─Thinner and lighter is great, and if we’re honest, we’re all sucked in by the allure.
[17:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:47] <exec> 08└─At my company, the choice a couple years ago was between decently specced Macbook Pros (16gb RAM, i7) and mediocre HP (8 gb RAM, i5). That wasn't a very hard choice for me, MacOS may not be great but it is a lot easier to pop open a terminal and get something mostly familiar (coming from Linux) than...
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─I had a Galaxy S5 until not too long ago. It doesn't seem to be supported with software updates any more, so I finally gave up on it, and got a (used) LG V10, which is a little newer. It's great: it also has a removable battery and SD card slot, and mine has a nice beefy Otterbox Defender on it too....
[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─This large gate of which you speak is an artifact of a past civilization that is being forgotten.
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─Not true. Going back to my Mac 512k experience. The battery was replaced by opening a door on the back, AA battery inside. The floppy could be upgraded to double sided. There were ways to upgrade the processor, we went from 68000 to 68030. And you could revert to using the 68000 by holding the inte...
[17:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:57] <exec> 08└─The dinky laptop is useless. That's your point.
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:59] <exec> 08└─Everyone like lighter, but if you are doing a thick and light laptop you are doing something wrong. Or going to extremes, who wants a CRT on their laptop if it weighs less than an LCD. Thin is nice just so you have more space for other things.
[17:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:01] <exec> 08└─When did Unix become an OS designed specifically for non-technical idiots?
[17:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:03] <exec> 08└─... like they buy fashion. Thin is in! You don't dare be seen in public...
[17:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─Everything old is new again, eh, Runaway? Recycling lame jokes from adolescence doesn't make them better though.
[17:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:50] <exec> 08└─Jelly?
[17:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:52] <exec> 08└─You mean the snowflakes that get butthurt and yell like children when you mention russia or diss trump? Funny how they did the same when obama was in office. But thats none of my business.
[17:11:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:31] <exec> 08└─The majority of the worlds static web sites don't need https and it's silly to suggest they do.
[17:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:23] <exec> 08└─Let the "copy all traffic" be an expensive proposition for NSA and their ilk.
[17:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:25] <exec> 08└─The problem with this is that it imposes a real-world cost on anyone who wants to create their own little website. Certificates are not free, unless you get one from Let's Encrypt, but LE certs don't work on most of the lowest-cost hosting providers. So basically, this whole "let's go HTTPS everywhe...
[17:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:27] <exec> 08└─Try Slimjet, a chromium with all the phone-home stuff removed. I use mostly Pale Moon, a firefox derivative with the same. Or Qupzilla, or Vivaldi, or TorBrowser. Install & use multiple browsers. Confuse the advertising AI. Promote honest alternatives. Don't dedicate yourself to a single point of fa...
[17:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not an anonymous coward, people who have been here for a while probably already know. I am a librarian in the United States where we have something called CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) and it requires anyone receiving Federal Funds (as in the Schools and Libraries Corporation funded...
[17:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:32] <exec> 08└─They would direct you to a captive portal offering you their "app" to permit access. It would gimp your browser's certificate store to let them see your traffic. And since people want the access they would install it. Game over.
[17:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do have a second home (Sorta. The house is not habitable at the moment.), but it's due to a lot of sweat equity and living in a low cost of living rural area. I make about 45K a year (that's a matter of public record since I'm a state employee) and I'm single, so yes, I'm a lot better off tha...
[17:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KiCad 5 Released - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─No, they haven't. There's a ton of idiots who just refuse to leave Eagle no matter what. They'll bitch and complain about the subscription model and rising costs, but they won't change. "All my files are in Eagle format!" "I'm used to the Eagle UI!!" I really need to start a business where I make so...
[17:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:31] <exec> 08└─> During this period of extreme outgassing I stopped reading right there. I know, I know, mod me redundant.
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[18:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:46] <exec> 08└─So, that doesn't mean this alternative is the correct way to handle the problem. I don't want to pay for an addict's heroin; it's not the role of government to supply heroin to people Instead, the government should get out of the business of regulating people's personal activities, and then let char...
[18:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:47] <exec> 08└─I meant: It's easy to do better than the War on Drugs.
[18:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:49] <exec> 08└─Not 100% sure how serious this is, but the stupidity of people who DO take it seriously is off the charts. So paying for heroin doses is bad, but paying almost $3 BILLION to fight the "drug war" which results in more negative outcomes is fine? Get your head out of your ass, your brain is lacking oxy...
[18:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:52] <exec> 08└─I don't want to pay for an addict's heroin;
[18:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:54] <exec> 08└─The Trump administration already slipped on the banana peel. Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis [soylentnews.org] FDA Labels Kratom an Opioid [soylentnews.org] President Trump Promises to Support State Legalization of Cannabis; Boehner Evolves [soylentnews.org] (it took a Republica...
[18:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, It's Putin with a Hillary mask on.
[18:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:07] <exec> 08└─I don't believe setting up your own server is good enough. Email needs to be redesigned from the ground up.
[18:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:09] <exec> 08└─At the very least, email already allows for basically arbitrary data to be sent, so you could just use it as a vehicle for some new formulation of message interchange. However, the current generation of programmers is completely unequipped to produce something that is fundamentally desirable. They'r...
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:08] <exec> 08└─He posted about the Apple II, as in "2", which means it's supposed to be mentioned twice. He's just doing his part ... why aren't you?
[18:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─and desktops really don't offer anything to justify not being able to easily carry it around.
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─That is a really dumb statement born only from prejudice. As much as I love to hop on the Mac hate train you're just being an emotional child.
[18:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:14] <exec> 08└─To follow up, desktops have gotten smaller with form factors such as Intel's NUC (see sidebar here [wikipedia.org] for others). But at a certain point you run into heat issues yet again.
[18:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:16] <exec> 08└─At Apple, fashion is king. All other considerations are secondary. * performance * efficiency * usability * cost * fitness for porpoise purpose It doesn't have to work good, it must look good. Behind glass. Under track lighting. Against a beautiful backdrop. Apple once was a tech company. Jobs was s...
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:18] <exec> 08└─OK, in principle you certainly can overdo it. But I doubt that there has been a single laptop sold in the last 20 years where I would say it is unacceptably thick even if it were a new one. Your argument is like countering someone complaining about Apple's mouse having just one button with the argum...
[18:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─you mean I can install any operating system I want into iphones because it's not boot locked?
[18:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:23] <exec> 08└─I've purchased from Emporer, System76, & ThinkPenguin. All three offered customizeable machines with all the ports, flexability, & repairability I could ever hope for. Just don't pick a unit described as T&L, pick a (mobile) workstation or desktop replacement one instead. A "gaming" machine might no...
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:25] <exec> 08└─HN???? But that is a hive of elitism and snobbery! Every shitpost I make there gets modded to oblivion and they even gray out the text like a bunch of pussies! Constitution! Rights! Muh OPPRESSIONZ!!!!
[18:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:27] <exec> 08└─I want to see you get GEOS https://en.wikipedia.org(8-bit_operating_system) [wikipedia.org] running on your iPhone. An x86 emulator / MS-DOS box should do it.
[18:11:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 1152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─Not so. I've tried to explain this elsewhere, let me try it again. I'm a somewhat hi-vis person here. Some of the lefties hate me, some of the lefties dislike me, and of the remaining people, I think most are close to neutral, with a few people liking me. I have no fear of jumping into a conversatio...
[18:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:15] <exec> 08└─Actual socialists say that in no way is the Swedish Nordic-model socialist. http://www.socialistworld.net [socialistworld.net]
[18:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:17] <exec> 08└─So, I just don't know what you're bagging on about. Your replies certainly don't resonate with my experience.
[18:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:19] <exec> 08└─Therein lies the root of your mental illness. Don't worry, pretty much no one is praying for you at this point so you're chances of recovery are about the same.
[18:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:21] <exec> 08└─If you're shitposting harder than TMB then you reaaaally need to take a good hard look at yourself, y'know, objectively as much as possible.
[18:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:23] <exec> 08└─what happened in Charlottesville was off the charts extreme left wing fake news talking point having very little relationship with reality, and pointing that out was NOT well received Yes, just screaming FAKE NEWS over and over again is Redundant. If you're going to lie about video we all saw with o...
[18:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:26] <exec> 08└─I disagree with Runaway all the time and believe he makes lots of shitposts without fully being aware, yet your little tit-for-tat list there is the height of lame bitchy whining. It is no surprise what part of your personality is causing the downmods.
[18:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:28] <exec> 08└─Translation: If you're an asshole people don't want to hang out with you.
[18:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:30] <exec> 08└─Heh, then pray tell why has the economic activity become concentrated in liberal areas? Oh right, just more of your jealousy leaking through so you try and use dumb shit like hanging a pair of nuts of your truck's bumper to make you feel important and manly. You know how to tell when someone has bee...
[18:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:32] <exec> 08└─Nailed it. The irony of the "snowflake" insult just makes me smile nowadays.
[18:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:35] <exec> 08└─One "side" is not very civil; they have no moral qualms with silencing someone who disagrees.
[18:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:37] <exec> 08└─The mathematician and historian Oswald Spengler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West/ [wikipedia.org]) wrote about this.
[18:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:07] <exec> 08└─I think they are saying, something along the lines of: Hey, we think it'd be swell if you charged us less for this thing. You know, cause we will be getting more things soon, and it'd look better in bidding if we saw you were willing to deal.
[18:12:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:23] <exec> 08└─So https magically makes webmasters stop embedding ads and scripts from criminals?
[18:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:13] <exec> 08└─Oh it gets better than that. The morons at Moz corp repost that warning dialog with every keystroke, and because they are morons it eats random keystrokes (dunno about Windows but it does on both Devuan and CentOS) in the process. Try configuring a piece of network gear with that nonsense going on w...
[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─Ditto The only one that I can think of that has ongoing developer support, where the product is intended to be secure out of the box, is TOR browser. Everything browser in the top 10 can be regarded as institutionally compromised.
[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:16] <exec> 08└─"I don't personally believe that crypto belongs on ham radio" I can see crypto over ham radio bands from a safety standpoint. For example giving commands to a robotic combine harvester that is a mile away in the wheat field for example.
[18:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─If Moz still had competent people they would at least trap the reserved internal ips and suppress the warning for those.
[18:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─If you can come up with a viable attack against http://192.168.x.x, [168.x.x,] http://10.x.x.x, [x.x.x,] etc. addresses that would actually work in the real world, lets hear it. If they allowed anything that resolved to a 192.168.0.0/16 THAT might have possibilities, but since a random WiFi controls...
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─That would be commercial activity and is forbidden. My license is long expired but I remember the rules.
[18:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─Oh it gets better than that. The morons at Moz corp repost that warning dialog with every keystroke, and because they are morons it eats random keystrokes (dunno about Windows but it does on both Devuan and CentOS) in the process.
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:56] <exec> 08└─Yup, Made In China is now synonymous with crap at best and poison at worst. Not a great spectrum to inhabit.
[18:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:49] <exec> 08└─1 degree of slant and your beer stays on the table. Fox "News," on the other hand, puts that fucker in orbit.
[18:16:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] 02 - 06Survival of the Richest -- The Wealthy are Plotting to Leave us Behind - 752 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:11] <exec> 08└─I see a non-inducted and I quote, "Power resides where men believe it resides." On a personal level I wonder why it was necessary for them to mention that they were all men - they obviously also have a family, and they most probably think about safety of their daughter over son, etc. but I digress....
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Defeats Employee Phishing With Physical Security Keys - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:53] <exec> 08└─This is a duplicate. Original [soylentnews.org].
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[19:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─If you have to make a shitty argument about theoretical violence / murder then you ARE shit. VIMVIMVIMVIMVIM! lol back to try again huh? Just don't spam the same shit repeatedly please, we're tired of you whining about downmods.
[19:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:04] <exec> 08└─Taxes pay for nonsense like the War on Drugs. Why would you still trust a violently imposed monopoly to do something right? IT MAKES NO SENSE! You have Stockholm Syndrome. Leave money in the hands of the people who earned it; then at least the Catholics can pass on this money to their Church, and th...
[19:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:06] <exec> 08└─I suspect he doesn't want to pay for the DEA either and he's simply trying to stay on subject. I can sympathize with his view. And there are more objections to this. Consider hypothetically; 300k addicts in our population, however that is defined. With the current drug war policies the group has ver...
[19:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:08] <exec> 08└─Don't worry scrow, there are plenty of tards out there living totally kickass lives. My first wife was tarded, she's a pilot now.
[19:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:10] <exec> 08└─I hope you pay lots of sales taxes on the microwave dinners you eat.
[19:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:13] <exec> 08└─"Please provide a list of the things you do want to pay for." And then strike all the items that can be provided by competitive actors in a market. What's left? It's going to be a very short list. Courts of last resort, a small military designed to deter attack rather than project power, not a lot m...
[19:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:15] <exec> 08└─How can you possibly look back your reply and think "Yup. I'm on the right side of this."
[19:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:17] <exec> 08└─Instead, the government should get out of the business of regulating people's personal activities
[19:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:19] <exec> 08└─It's just another violently imposed monopoly/voluntary system of contracts anarchist anon. An idealist who will never get their way, at least not without a lot of bloodshed first.
[19:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:22] <exec> 08└─"Don't come back with "I don't want to fund the DEA either" because otherwise you'd be making a massive stink about THAT all the time and I have yet to see any such thing." Dumbass didn't listen. It isn't about being on topic, it is about never seeing any objections to the DEA EVER except from other...
[19:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:24] <exec> 08└─Have you heard of the Libertarian Party [lp.org]? They don't want to fund the DEA. See here [lp.org]: Libertarians believe that it is immoral for the government to dictate which substances a person is permitted to consume, whether it is alcohol, tobacco, herbal remedies, saturated fat, marijuana, et...
[19:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:26] <exec> 08└─When can I expect my check to pay for my tobacco?
[19:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─Can't we just tell him, ":qa!"
[19:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:31] <exec> 08└─The libertarians won't STFU about ending the War on Drugs. DEA? Ha! They want to dismantle the entire goddamn federal government, and that's just for starters. You've got your head up your arse mate.
[19:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:33] <exec> 08└─And you have a case of stupidity so severe you can't figure out why dictatorships are an inevitable consequence of anarcho-capitalism, why an endless regress of contract enforcers is not a rational basis for a legal system, or what a legal system even is.
[19:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:35] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between iteration and recursion. It doesn't have to be turtles all the way down.
[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─So, that doesn't mean this alternative is the correct way to handle the problem.
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 2821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the "Free Market Cures All Ills" hypothesis. I'm now going to demonstrate this can lead to a suboptimal outcome. Here's a good idea: "Hey, it would really help if we had a road from here to the next town over, so we can get goods and people to and from where we live". And several different o...
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:42] <exec> 08└─I'd take irritating voluntary exchange any day over irritating involuntary exchange. That is to say, your libertarian shithole still eeks out a victory over the governmental alternative.
[19:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 1802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:05] <exec> 08└─I put LineageOS on my S5 a couple years back. It's absolutely fantastic. I kinda want a new phone, but I've been saying that for almost two years now and still haven't bought one :) I replaced the battery in my S5 a couple months back and I've upgraded the SD card at least twice...it's been through...
[19:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:06] <exec> 08└─I'm really not. You simply don't know what a power user is.
[19:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:08] <exec> 08└─2006
[19:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:11] <exec> 08└─You don't dare be seen in public this season carrying around last years laptop!
[19:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:13] <exec> 08└─Don't put up Dell together with Apple. Their top of the line ultrabook XPS 13 is very serviceable because it was designed to be that way. The only non-removable components are CPU and RAM. The SSD is standard M.2 (in contrast to super-proprietary Apple ones), the WiFi is standard M.2 and there is no...
[19:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:15] <exec> 08└─I sometimes work in hyperbole :-P I don't like 1.5" thick laptops. If I want that much power I go to a desktop. But that is my use case, Light machine for light on the go tasks, and a beast boat-anchor if I'm gonna game or render or work on video. Editing video on the go is the most plausable worki...
[19:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:17] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of the Macintosh. That was Jobs's baby From day one, that thing was a closed box
[19:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:16] <exec> 08└─Snowflakes melt under disagreement and demand censorship to protect them. Preferring to argue back precludes snowflake status. Learn words before you use them and you'll avoid looking silly.
[19:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not bragging. I'm saying either you're posting low quality garbage or you're lying to stir up shit. Either way, up your game.
[19:13:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 1793 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:42] <exec> 08└─I've been watching the change over to an all TLS Internet with a careful eye when I wear my ham radio operator hat. On ham radio it is legal to use digital modes for communication but it is illegal to obfuscate the communication in any way including cryptography. There is exactly no privacy at all o...
[19:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:33] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the FDA was created when one of Teddy Rooseveldt's grandchildren (children?) was poisoned by contaminated food. The US used to be just as much of a food and drugs free-for-all.
[19:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─No, because most businesses rely on other businesses too, and those businesses are going to screw you over harder than you were planning on screwing your customers. There's a reason that societies always end up creating laws, even if informally, because anarchy does not pay off. Being able to screw...
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[20:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing’s Big Brother Tech Needs African Faces - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:52] <exec> 08└─The US does a lot of the same stuff although we hide it way better. Your social security number is very much like the social credit score and we have security cameras everywhere doing facial and license plate tracking. Beyond that, every cell phone is tracked along with some serious violations of th...
[20:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:27] <exec> 08└─The USA is not Denmark. There is no reason to believe emulating them will produce successful results in the USA unless you are also going to transplant their culture and demographics at the same time. I doubt the majority of Dutch people taking heroin are even doing it for the same reasons as people...
[20:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 1615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:28] <exec> 08└─They have the ultimate penalty. And, by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. When I was in China -- and other places, by the way -- I said, "Mr. President, do you have a drug problem?" "No, no, no. We do not." I said, "Huh, big country, 1.4 billion people, right? Not much of a...
[20:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:30] <exec> 08└─Both iterative and recursive algorithms can be non-terminating. That is why I call contract enforcement in anarcho-capitalism an endless regress. Other endless regresses such as turtles all the way down can be iterated, but the iteration never terminates. We can have contract enforcement without an...
[20:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:33] <exec> 08└─Completely legalize cannabis, which leads to lower opioid use rates [soylentnews.org].
[20:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:35] <exec> 08└─Dutch people are not Danish people. Dutch people live in Holland and Danish people live in Denmark.
[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:37] <exec> 08└─He claimed the Dutch are "keeping people addicted for the purpose of controlling them"
[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:39] <exec> 08└─There seem to be many people here who are interested in confusing libertarianism for anarcho-capitalism.
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─If anything, violent imposition is what encourages people to retaliate with their own violent imposition, thereby resulting in an endless regress of violence. Better instead to advocate for a well-defined system of dispute resolution, entailing contract negotiation and enforcement according to the r...
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, Mr President, but just to be clear: are you advocating emulation/adoption of the aforementioned asian nations' policies? Do you believe the United States of America should have a no-due-process death penalty for drug dealers?
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─If we eliminate government, we are no longer in the realm of libertarianism. We have crossed over into the twilight zone of anarcho-capitalism.
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─The limit of libertarianism is necessarily capitalism, which is necessarily anarchy (which some call "anarcho-capitalism" in order to be clear that capitalism is the fundamental philosophy of society, not socialism, which can only work when built atop and therefore constrained by capitalism).
[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─Here [soylentnews.org]. Maybe that will clarify things for you.
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─How do you prevent contract enforcement from becoming an endless regress? Furthermore, since you brought it up, how do you deal with the inevitable original sin of the first violent act? Have I misjudged that you're looking for men to become angels when you're actually trying to wind back the clock...
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─Dutch people do not necessarily live in Holland. Holland is in the Netherlands, but the Netherlands is/are not in Holland.
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:58] <exec> 08└─Doing it right is more costly than doing it easily.
[20:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:00] <exec> 08└─Like the Newton–Raphson method [wikipedia.org] for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function, you don't have to start with perfection. Even a bad guess for a start to law-by-contracts (as opposed to law-by-imposition) can be good enough—capital...
[20:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:02] <exec> 08└─That's what you have now with unlawfully obtained drugs: The government out of the process of ensuring heroin that is used is pure and meets a certain quality standard. That's mainly how overdoses happen. User is used to a certain purity of product, and then gets hit with a product that is an order...
[20:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:05] <exec> 08└─If the government is going to pay for people to have opiates because they are addicted then why not buy tobacco for people addicted to that?
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Chinese are paying us back with drug shipments because they think of Americans as proxy-Anglos who forced decades of opium addiction on them.
[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─I ran into him in downtown Portland one evening. He told me that he had to go do something, but would return in an hour. I waited four. That was three years ago; he never returned. He once asked to use my MacBook Pro to download his iPhone photos from iCloud. I still have all those photos. In all of...
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─I spent the Summer of 1993 at CERN in Geneva. While it's true that every Swiss citizen possesses a fully-automatic rifle, they're the property of the Swiss Army. I never saw any evidence of a gun culture of any sort, let alone such as we have here in These United States.
[20:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─I understand better the distinction you were making between iterative and recursive. (Let us table the idea of a one world government for later, because this is a logical consequence of my position, but we are not quite there yet.) So we will use international diplomacy as our model for contract enf...
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─This It's not that hard. And for basic email for a single domain (and single address) Postfix is almost turnkey. You have to configure a few simple settings, then you are done. Granted, in today's world, there is a bit more work to setup domain keys and such, but even that is not hard, and there are...
[20:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─Anyway, yeah, if google wanted to eliminate phishing, shoving all gmail using victims thru some machine learning to either torture the user with fake phishing into eternity thus keeping them away from real dangerous work, or verifying they're not idiots, would be a very "google" way to do it.
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─An he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!
[20:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─But that's factually incorrect. You can generate app passwords for clients like Thunderbird, that don't require 2FA. A long random password is generated once which you can put in whatever client you want. There's no way to retrieve the password again afterward, and you can revoke it if it is lost/co...
[20:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─Wait.
[20:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─Another bonus of app passwords is that Google locks those out if it detects reuse but doesn't lock out your primary account access. You can just go in and change out the password.
[20:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:55] <exec> 08└─There are two types of machines. The notebooks, which should weigh as little as possible, use a small amount of space, but have a good keyboard and battery that lasts all day, and the "luggable", which is a powerful laptop that you can easily move from desk to desk, decent graphics, tons of disk spa...
[20:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:56] <exec> 08└─Some of us actually need the computing power and mass storage you can only get in a desktop. They keyboards for desktops are also MUCH nicer.
[20:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:58] <exec> 08└─This The current Apple walled garden approach to computing is fully the fault of Job's desire to control every aspect of his users. Now that Jobs is gone, the corporate types won't let it go because they've discovered how much money there is by jailing users into their walled garden.
[20:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:00] <exec> 08└─We got a very nice Samsung notebook a couple of years ago - thin, light, powerful enough, doesn't overheat, but... that ultra-thin design comes with a very small power connector which breaks. a lot. The replacement power packs are only $20 each, but we're on number 4 in 2 years, 2 completely non fun...
[20:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:03] <exec> 08└─a battery that lasts days if not weeks
[20:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:05] <exec> 08└─Yup, I'm on my ultrabook typing this. No hardware throttling, no overheating issues aside from when I first bought it and was trying to play a graphically intensive game on the shitty Win8 that came preinstalled while waiting a couple weeks for linux mint to support HiDPI screens. Haven't had an iss...
[20:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:07] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This is all an attempt to try to prevent the market from becoming a commodity market. And yes, they will try to push the "fashion" aspect for as far as they can, to avoid the issues with becoming a commodity. They don't like the thin profit margins that come from a commodity market.
[20:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:09] <exec> 08└─Are you Jay Wilson?
[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─Expect systemd being a pinnacle of perfection in design and workmanship in this new, nontoxic... let's call it a biofilm [wikipedia.org] as it's by design not a community of people.
[20:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:12] <exec> 08└─Such a nice, civil conversation, for me to not participate in!
[20:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─Tens of thousands of people pretty much do this for a living, and it's a full-time job (many full-time jobs, for big companies). I like what Tesla does, in general. Yet this is not "news"
[20:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:56] <exec> 08└─why don't you use a whitelist for kids' internet? I honestly don't see any other reasonable option. and obviously no search engine access, since they can google/bing for porn, and the images are displayed right there in the search results.
[20:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:57] <exec> 08└─Non-encrypted signing only thing allows for surveillance and data mining.
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[21:08:56] <exec> 08└─
[21:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:58] <exec> 08└─Go woke, go broke [bbc.co.uk]
[21:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing’s Big Brother Tech Needs African Faces - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:07] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this can bring some stability to Africa so they can start catching up to the rest of the world. It will probably not be with democratic governments, but as long as it's with strong ones... Now ligitimately elected governments often have trouble exerting proper power because of warlordism.
[21:09:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 2821 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the "Free Market Cures All Ills" hypothesis. I'm now going to demonstrate this can lead to a suboptimal outcome. Here's a good idea: "Hey, it would really help if we had a road from here to the next town over, so we can get goods and people to and from where we live". And several different o...
[21:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:05] <exec> 08└─So the heroin payments are just protection money?
[21:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─We all know Netherlands is where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell live ...
[21:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:09] <exec> 08└─Then we must be clear what we mean by capitalism. Are we talking about the valuation of goods in a currency? It sounds like we are also talking about property relations. By capitalism do we also mean exclusive ownership of property by a certain party? (Where a party may be any set of people, such as...
[21:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:11] <exec> 08└─I just demonstrated how government can be and has been used to solve the problem I presented: Eminent domain laws. It ain't perfect, but it's much cheaper than the scenario I described above. You definitely have a strange idea of how "voluntary" the situation I described is. If you are a resident of...
[21:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─Ah. I'll reply over there.
[21:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:15] <exec> 08└─China & Singapore, they have Due Process, it's very quick. Not like here. They have death penalty, they have zero tolerance -- and they have very few problems. Very few. Philippines, they elected a very tough guy. And he's doing great. 3 million people, it's a lot. How do you do the Due Process on t...
[21:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. And it's still the best option, because all alternatives suck more (for everybody). On the positive side, there is no risk of setting a precedent for being susceptible to blackmail. There is extraordinarily little incentive in becoming a hardcore heroin addict just because you want to get somet...
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─also think it's immoral? If I think it's immoral, does that make me conservative?
[21:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:22] <exec> 08└─Find a Computer Industry Job in... Gelderland [soggy.jobs]North Brabant [soggy.jobs]North Holland [soggy.jobs]Overijssel [soggy.jobs]South Holland [soggy.jobs] ... The Netherlands
[21:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:25] <exec> 08└─I've got no problem with the sane libertarians, there are just so many that take the ideology to extremes that would regress society. Quite simply there are things best left to government bodies and things best left to private interests. The good of society requires certain prohibitions and programs...
[21:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:27] <exec> 08└─Right now we don't have a great solution for getting and keeping people off drugs. There are factors like genetics, current environment, and childhood to early adulthood trauma that we as outsiders have little if any control over. If we had medications that could help keep people off, that would pro...
[21:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─unless you are also going to transplant their culture and demographics at the same time
[21:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:31] <exec> 08└─If your tobacco problem becomes so bad that hordes of idiots start committing crimes just to pay for their next pack? Well, then we should do something to minimize the crisis. Sadly your straw man doesn't really apply here. However, I am all for some government run health facilities which would incl...
[21:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:34] <exec> 08└─What's the problem, you ask? Well, I just demonstrated that this town's residents now have to pay, over 10 years, $102 million in tolls for a road that actually cost $2 million to build and maintain.
[21:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:36] <exec> 08└─I've had to bury 2 friends so far: Adam was a musician who started on opioids for pain relief after an operation and couldn't quit and couldn't get clean, so he eventually gave up and shot himself. Caitlin got hooked again via medical prescription after recovering from her ex-husband beating the cra...
[21:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:38] <exec> 08└─It is blind belief born of the post WWII propaganda. Like religious belief you can't fight it directly. I'm not quite sure how to get such people informed, on this site only the facts have been stated numerous times. I think the only way is to get a majority and vote in the changes. Once the better...
[21:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:40] <exec> 08└─The mistake seems more along the line that competitors don't have enough resources to nearly/completely lock others out of the market.
[21:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 2433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─Caveat Emptor. I guess Iran shouldn't have agreed to such a piss-poor enforcer of the contract. That's not a fault with the concept, but rather a fault in this iteration's implementation. One World Government doesn't solve this issue; in fact, it would probably exacerbate the problem by providing a...
[21:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:45] <exec> 08└─The punishment should fit the crime. Theft? Cut off a finger. Drug dealer? Feed them what they were selling. Aggravated Murder? Public hanging. Cheating on your wife? You get a choice, have your willy chopped off or you get to park it in goatse.
[21:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:47] <exec> 08└─I don't want to pay for an addict's heroin either. But if it prevents crime and it saves taxpayers more than it costs them, then it seems like a good deal. Not paying for an addict's heroin has other costs: * losses due to crime (or higher insurance costs) * law enforcement costs * costs of incarcer...
[21:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:49] <exec> 08└─You still haven't answered how you prevent an infinite regress of contract enforcement. Face it, at some point, "violently-imposed monopoly" is where the buck stops. End of story. There's just no way around it. Men, as you point out, are not angels. I go a step further: some people are about as clos...
[21:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:52] <exec> 08└─Ah crafoo the closet racist. Tell me, what is your rationale for believing that what worked for one group of humans won't work for another? Last time I checked heroin use was a pretty standard thing with the same effects across all societies. You think Dutch people do heroin for what then? Not the e...
[21:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:54] <exec> 08└─We also have Social Media.
[21:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:56] <exec> 08└─You being happy to pay isn't the problem. The problem is you being happy to force me to pay.
[21:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:58] <exec> 08└─The 1st could have been helped with government health services running a sane rehab program and the 2nd would have been helped by better safety regulation to prevent accidental ODs. Two stories showing how a lack of societal support led to sad consequences. This comment is more a reply for others, n...
[21:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:01] <exec> 08└─He wants to say "nigger" but he's too much of a chickenshit to say it, and/or he thinks he's fooling the rest of us that he's not actually a racist because he doesn't outright say the word.
[21:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is imposition. If a contract specifies violence as agreed enforcement for some condition, then that violence is necessarily voluntary.
[21:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:05] <exec> 08└─"All you people look alike." Works no matter which race says it!
[21:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:07] <exec> 08└─As a counterexample, I use hydrocodone, occasionally, for the past ten years (come next January). I use it when I need it. I ignore it when I don't need it. It is a tool. Nothing more. It improves my quality of life. I don't build up a tolerance to it, so when I do need it -- it works! I have a grea...
[21:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:10] <exec> 08└─No, drug abuse is immoral even if the damage done is only to yourself. However, forcing morality upon others can have serious negative consequences so it is safer to try and fix problems without prohibition. Note the *abuse* aspect, there are no problems with doing drugs if they don't become a probl...
[21:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:12] <exec> 08└─A better question: Is it more cost effective to society to provide the addict with drugs, or is it better to pay for losses to crime, increased insurance costs, violence due to crime, law enforcement costs, incarceration costs, property devaluation costs next to drug houses, etc.
[21:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:14] <exec> 08└─Bu, bu, but . . . societal support would be terrorism communism socialism!
[21:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:17] <exec> 08└─Otherwise known as, Insurance.
[21:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:38] <exec> 08└─Nice. First Google tries to destroy the web with https, now they want to destroy e-mail too. Fuck them.
[21:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:03] <exec> 08└─Today's professional software developers are hacks at a ratio of about 9 to 1 that graduated from creating websites in DreamWaver xor took a series of Java evening classes in community college.
[21:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:05] <exec> 08└─I just bought a used but 14-day _warranteed_ Mid 2015 MacBook Pro from Other World Computing and am quite happy with it. My real gripe about Apple's latest laptops is that I don't want to use dongles. The only port on a MacBook is just one single USB-C; the MacBook Pro has two of them. MacBook Pro [...
[21:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:07] <exec> 08└─Testing on actual users. When I worked there in the mid-nineties they had two usability labs. They were set up with several video cameras, the network came through a proxy that would log the URLs that the user would visit. They'd hire some random guy off the street to do the actual testing. "See tha...
[21:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:09] <exec> 08└─When my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro died, I managed to dig up a very small PCIe To USB3 enclosure so I could recover the data. Other World Computing sells compatible storage cards so you can get even faster storage then that which comes with the box.
[21:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:11] <exec> 08└─My other box is a Quad Core Xeon with Linux Mint. I use it only rarely, for the most part to archive things like software installers that I never delete. The single most important reason that I develop for Apple products - since 1986 - is that if I have to stare at a screen all day, I far prefer to...
[21:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:13] <exec> 08└─I'm curious. How many batteries do you have for that phone? The last phone I had where I had more than one battery was in 1999.
[21:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─Good point. But I think the more general and valid complaint is that even if the laptop works well, the smaller size makes cooling dissipation harder and means your CPU is probably a lot slower than what you could get with a mobile workstation. I'm a software developer and my work laptop is thin and...
[21:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:18] <exec> 08└─This is tied hand in hand with the trend to dumbing down software and UI's. Developers don't want to focus on the actually difficult tasks of improving stability, fixing bugs and optimizing the shit out of stuff, it's a lot easier to spew out a new visual overhaul with less features each time.
[21:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─You make his point for him. What happened in Charlottesville was not limited to one single reprehensible incident. You choose to focus only on that and justify the down modding while overlooking all other activities from both sides. That was his point.
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:23] <exec> 08└─Two counterpoints: 1) Some people are magnificient assholes. Think Linus Torvalds. Would you rather eject him from the Linux kernel dev team so the project can be a "safe environment" for some rando millenials who are triggered by his "toxicity" or do you think it's better for the project when he pl...
[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty left-wing. Being "left" used to mean being about freedom, possibly to the point of anarchism. Certainly the freedom to speak your mind. You're confusing the "old" left with the shouting brigade of red-painted fascists known as the ctrl-left.
[21:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanets With Long Orbital Periods Can be Found With a Single Transit Event - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:45] <exec> 08└─Isn't the wobble method still being used, or have astronomers all flocked to the transit method? I'm wondering if the wobble method could help locate Planet 9. True, Planet 9 is very far away and much less massive than Jupiter, but in compensation we are much, much closer to the Sun and can examine...
[21:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:59] <exec> 08└─Automotive companies asking for concessions on future purchases is commonplace and only natural. Tesla is asking for discounts for things they've already purchased which is quite another (ethically questionable) thing. Tesla should tread lightly. If they ever find themselves in a credit-constrained...
[21:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:01] <exec> 08└─I mean, it's not like all companies go back to their suppliers to ask for better (lower) pricing on the stuff they supply.
[21:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:16] <exec> 08└─Any security provides false sense of security because it isn't 100% secure. Therefore we shouldn't do anything. Wait a minute here…
[21:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:18] <exec> 08└─I can see crypto over ham radio bands from a safety standpoint. For example giving commands to a robotic combine harvester that is a mile away in the wheat field for example.
[21:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:20] <exec> 08└─"Anything but the latest browsers" is an invitation to some fullscreen goatse screensaver anyway. And that's best case scenario.
[21:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:22] <exec> 08└─Webmasters? No. The ISP injecting their content (read: ads) inside your traffic? Yes.
[21:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:24] <exec> 08└─The Feds can decrypt SSL traffic no problem. It would give them a slightly higher overhead but not crazy. The real safety comes from making it hard for non-gov criminals to find the desired traffic. The problem you are having is assuming the crypto and the hardware it runs on doesn't have flaws. The...
[21:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:27] <exec> 08└─Well it is jmorris, he's probably heavily infected with NSA malware building up a dossier for the day when he finally snaps.
[21:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:53] <exec> 08└─“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through...
[21:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, not really interested in that stuff. When the zombie hordes come, I'll be one of the first to have his brain sucked out. OTOH, I know how to make it all work :) I just wanted to see what I could accomplish with almost no money and a lot of free time. An amazing amount really.
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[22:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:53] <exec> 08└─More charts for those who like statsurbating: https://www.zerohedge.com Yeah, I just posted a Zero Hedge link, lumberhumpers - deal with it!
[22:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:54] <exec> 08└─Nazi sympathizing scum!
[22:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:56] <exec> 08└─one of those things where there were a couple of crazy people got together to troll and it was pushed long enough in the news until it attracted enough crazy people to become a movement?
[22:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:59] <exec> 08└─So, like, everything?
[22:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:01] <exec> 08└─Does not apply to a commercial service.
[22:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:03] <exec> 08└─That's where I first read it. Too much shooting the messenger over ZH links, it's in the top 500 visited sites for the US.
[22:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:06] <exec> 08└─It does if the commercial service wants it to.
[22:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:08] <exec> 08└─Free speech should be allowed including hateful speech. I should be able to say "I hate your guts" or "they are a terrible person" or generalizations about any demographic. But that will never fly. Someone will demand some kind of filtering. Correction, that was the plan all along, to have filters....
[22:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:10] <exec> 08└─Its not free speech if they decide if you get it or not. My statement still applies.
[22:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:12] <exec> 08└─That was the moral issue. The legal issue is facebook is a service and they can do whatever the hell they want because you agreed to the terms and conditions. The filters are theirs, the bias is theirs to employ. STFU suckers. However, what gets filtered will be a hint at their agenda and desired...
[22:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:15] <exec> 08└─So this is another case of mass media mouthpieces asserting that "if you don't censor something, you must agree with it"? There was no backtracking here, just a clarification for the hard of thinking. Earlier, Zuckerberg had spoken differently.
[22:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:17] <exec> 08└─Ed's note: And if there's one thing we can all agree on regarding limitations to freedom of speech online, it's that we'll never all agree regarding limitations to freedom of speech online!
[22:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:55] <exec> 08└─Rehab programs are good but not 100%. Medication to keep people off? Would have to be voluntary and unless they provide the same high then you won't get much of a difference from current methods because you rely on people wanting to be off the drugs more than getting high. Physical and mental suppor...
[22:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:56] <exec> 08└─You forgot the other option, because you are conditioned to view violence as the purview of those who monopolize it. Want me to pay for your shitty road? Got me fucked up. I'll pay the goon squad to fuck your life up. Take sledgehammers to your stuff. Rob your toll booths. Mob any one of you that st...
[22:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:58] <exec> 08└─"Which of course we know is bunk, because otherwise Standard Oil, US Steel, and the other major monopolies of the robber baron era wouldn't have existed." But all of those companies relied on help from the legislature to secure a monopoly.
[22:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:00] <exec> 08└─Sometimes there's only a choice of evils. Which will you pay for: vaccinations, or horrible diseases? Firefighters, or damage from fires? Cops, or more crime? And if you think that you don't pay when someone else suffers disaster, think again. Prices jump when calamity strikes. We've seen that with...
[22:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─Nobody denied your notion. The problem is forcing people to pay rather than convincing them to pay.
[22:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, before it was illegal heroin (and opium and cocaine) were often in use by middle and upper class professionals. Given a supply of high purity and low cost drugs, an addiction was not a problem for most people, probably less than an insulin dependence is now a problem for diabetics. If it w...
[22:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:07] <exec> 08└─Before the road is built from A to B, or any agreement is made with Acme Inc., Bozos Corp. will buy a slightly larger ring outside Acme's. Crapcast LLC will follow immediately by buying a slightly larger ring around Bozos'. Phucker, just out of spite, will speculatively buy a rectangle of land betwe...
[22:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:09] <exec> 08└─Also known as "turn the place into a war zone". Because you seem to be assuming that you and your goon squad are going to be more capable of winning that fight than the company who is pulling this off can come up with. Nothing really improves a neighborhood like a good old-fashioned artillery barrag...
[22:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:12] <exec> 08└─So basically treaties and laws like we already have? You just love to evade the problem where the enforcers will become the violent monopolies and we'll at BEST get dystopian corporate rule where if you want to survive in the world you "voluntarily" agree to their terms. Probably some small groups o...
[22:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:14] <exec> 08└─The problem is, when someone wrongs another (for example by reneging on a contract), if that person is intractible the options are: Give up and accept a crippling lossAn endless regression of arbitrators saying "make it right or I'll say make it right again!"Either a government or you impose a settl...
[22:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:16] <exec> 08└─Hahahahaha, convince people to pay? People have their own problems and dreams and many of the services we RELY on would go unfunded as people work on building their private wealth. That is like saying "don't violently throw me in jail for murdering someone, just try and convince me to NOT murder ins...
[22:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:19] <exec> 08└─Ditto right back at you. You're an ideological fool and after the typical rational responses have been worn out yet again the only response left is a variation on "you're an idiot!"
[22:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:21] <exec> 08└─imposed at the point of a needlegun!
[22:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:23] <exec> 08└─He finally showed us the real side of his personality. A violent thug one small step away from justifying his violent tendencies. He wants to live in complete freedom and just IMAGINES that he and his friends will be able to maintain the libertarian utopia against all odds. One person steals some fo...
[22:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 1681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:25] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is the philosophy that every resource should have a well defined owner; practicality demands that this applies only to a resource whose ownership comes into dispute, or could likely come into dispute. This necessarily implies the need for a process to handle dispute resolution; in our cur...
[22:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:28] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't have needed to rely on legislature if they were in the libertarian anarchy world, they'd just hire their personal army and we'd be living in another version of Medieval Society right now.
[22:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:30] <exec> 08└─I do not think it's immoral, because I do not think that an unwise decision leading to a likely negative personal outcome is a moral matter. Then again, I'm not Sam Harris, who would claim that this is the one and only definition of morality. Lots of people disagree with him on that, and I align wit...
[22:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:32] <exec> 08└─Dumbass. Capitalism: ownership of the means of production, the "capital" if you will. You use lots of words to explain really simple things, then tag on your ideology at the end like all the simple points somehow validate your ideas. They don't, your ideas fail in the real world without a structured...
[22:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:34] <exec> 08└─I just don't even understand what your point is; your Government doesn't solve your problem. Well, when you're don't censor someone with downmods, you don't get "spammed". Get it yet?
[22:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:27] <exec> 08└─Of course that is the case. You're comparing a at most 35W TDP laptop part with a full blown 80/95/1XXW desktop part. I compile Unreal Engine 4 for a living and the difference between a laptop with a "U" series Intel processor and my work Ryzen 2700X is staggering. It is a nice middle point between...
[22:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:29] <exec> 08└─Apple started the craze to make thin and light the be all and end all goal of laptop design. And of course the first casualty was the keyboard. Now you can't buy a laptop with a "real" keyboard for any amount of money. Huge lumbering Alienware gaming laptops still chase Apple's taillights and instal...
[22:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:31] <exec> 08└─Side-loading Android apps consists of checking a box in settings. That's all.
[22:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:33] <exec> 08└─I used the wrong example there with a desktop. I suspect there is also a very large difference between something like a Microsoft Surface Pro and a mobile workstation, just because a wider and thicker laptop has more room for cooling. Obviously it won't be nearly as big as the difference between eit...
[22:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:36] <exec> 08└─"You can find out by double-clicking it with your mouse. Knock yourself out!"
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:38] <exec> 08└─Also, there's no value in learning something new just because it is new. I don't mind learning something new if I get a sufficient advantage from the new way of doing things. I do mind learning something new just because someone decided that things must be done differently now because the old way to...
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─They don't like the thin profit margins that come from a commodity market.
[22:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─Kind of like when aristarchus' very first alt-right submission was accepted, and TMB threw a fit and demanded it be suppressed, since aristarchus was trying to paint all conservatives as alt-right? Good thing nothing like that ever happens!
[22:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, you pure unique snowflake, how I pity you.
[22:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:50] <exec> 08└─[mean] people [moderate] to collapse comments
[22:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:53] <exec> 08└─If you're an asshole people don't want to hang out with you.
[22:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:48] <exec> 08└─Try Bing Video. You can play the videos right in your browser and get past all the content blocks. We ended up blocking Bing completely for awhile where I work, took ages for someone on staff to actually notice and complain
[22:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the 11% of Americans Who Don’t Use the Internet - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:17] <exec> 08└─Old enough where I don't have many itches left to scratch.
[22:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KiCad 5 Released - 1910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:30] <exec> 08└─Good news, they have two problematic consequences of design flaws and it looks like they try to fix it. The project is the only so complete electronic CAD in open source, has really unique abilities in components generation (these little scripts for generating connectors are really helpful) and imag...
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[23:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini Commodore 64 is Coming to North America on October 9 - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:54] <exec> 08└─Either make it full size with a functioning keyboard or make it a lot smaller. What the did, bigger than any other modern settop box with a non-functioning keyboard is just retarded level nonsense. Who thought that was a good idea? And no joystick ports so you can't drag out an old joystick. They cl...
[23:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:16] <exec> 08└─Make me bitch!! You live near the Dairy Queen? Come at me bro, I'll be waiting.
[23:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:17] <exec> 08└─mini-true doublethink, down the memory hole.
[23:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:19] <exec> 08└─More frikken ZH!!!!! https://www.zerohedge.com """ Update 2: Well that escalated quickly... FB is now down over 20% from its closing highs, erasing all of the post-Q1 earnings gains and officially entering a bear market......
[23:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Backtracks on Comments About Holocaust Deniers - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:22] <exec> 08└─Premise rejected. Progs like Zuck changed the rules to "Shut up and bake the effing cake." so he really can't complain when the new rules get enforced back onto Facebook and twitter. Only exemption that seems to remain is a religious objection but good luck applying that to a publicly traded corpora...
[23:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Dutch Supply Heroin Addicts With Dope and Get Better Results Than USA - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:38] <exec> 08└─unless you are also going to transplant their culture and demographics at the same time
[23:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:20] <exec> 08└─you mean I can install any operating system I want into iphones because it's not boot locked?
[23:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:21] <exec> 08└─I've beaten my macbook air into the ground over the 6? or so years I've had it, and they keyboard is one of the best aspects IMO. It's not as nice as a full desktop keyboard, but it works well, has a backlight, and has endured exceptional amounts of abuse. No complaints about the performance either...
[23:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:23] <exec> 08└─Don't buy a Mac if you want performance. Even the Mac Pro garbage can edition isn't worth the money it's sold for if you consider the parts. If I need a powerful laptop, my very first choice is Lenovo's Thinkpads. As far as operating systems, just use Linux or BSD. Mac OS X is becoming a walled gard...
[23:13:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:49] <exec> 08└─If that were true, the karma of certain users would be in the shitter. TMB and VLM both have 50 though. realDonaldTrump is at 45 despite being blasted with downmods lately. Seems the asymmetry is currently favoring speech. Certain comments deserve to be modded down. Certain users and anons will whin...
[23:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:33] <exec> 08└─Nope. Jerky
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Averting Toxic Chats: Computer Model Predicts When Online Conversations Turn Sour - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─Someone's triggered...
[23:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:31] <exec> 08└─If you're site serves only cleartext _static_ content, it would be trivial for Charlie to serve that very same static content, but with the addition of some Javascript that the end-user never sees is there, that then sends them some malware.
[23:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:33] <exec> 08└─The US constitution puts limits on what the US government may do. Unless that limit explicitly is restricted to the case that US citizens are targeted, the limitations are valid no matter who is targeted.
[23:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:35] <exec> 08└─So basically, this whole "let's go HTTPS everywhere!" trend is simply making it so that small-time website operators are going to disappear and it'll make having a website more expensive.
[23:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why No HTTPS? Here's the World's Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:37] <exec> 08└─And really, don't tell me that adding cert from Let's Encrypt is free - it just isn't, most cheap hosting providers require more money for it than going with VPS and hiring a geek to take care of it.
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