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[00:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:23] <exec> 08└─True for some values of Internet.
[00:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:25] <exec> 08└─In communist China, internet uses you
[00:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:27] <exec> 08└─My father was heavily into the Internet to find recipes that he could cook. While much of their is heavily censored the local online rag is a good way to get the weather report. Should we plan for a picnic on Saturday? If enough people use the Internet for completely non-controversial information, p...
[00:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:59] <exec> 08└─Sed? You kids and your hand-holding. Use butterflies!
[00:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:01] <exec> 08└─That we could have a nice rational discussion about vim, after that nasty recurrence of Sad Puppy bashing and Hugo Awards knashing of kvetch.
[00:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:03] <exec> 08└─How can you leave off the version of vi with Clippy the office assistant that flips you off and makes your life awful? http://vigor.sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net]
[00:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:05] <exec> 08└─The one great thing about nano is its list of commands at the bottom of the screen. It usually contains what you really need. Of course there may be other commands that you'd want, but you don't really need them.
[00:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:07] <exec> 08└─It dates from the age when a system console was an ASCII terminal that lacked a graphical function when in Single User mode or during boot/reboot, or failure sequences. There were few options back then. It is a really powerful system for dedicated keyboard typist and the potential is huge but the le...
[00:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:09] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately vi (and sed) regular expressions are crippled and I can't remember what does not work.
[00:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:11] <exec> 08└─I do on a new system is install Nano.
[00:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:32] <exec> 08└─In other forums, people have stated that Verizon changed the terms of their "unlimited" plan.
[00:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:34] <exec> 08└─We can speculate all we want about what their agreement was but what matters is what was in the contract that was agreed to by the fire department and Verizon. I don't have that verbiage and I doubt anyone here does. We don't have to speculate that the fire department's job is to ensure the contract...
[00:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:24] <exec> 08└─Why do you think "engineers" and "software developers" don't like hierarchy. Have you seen Linus Torvals and how tightly he holds control over the Linux kernel (thank goodness... and don't you try to argue that he's a manager and doesn't know how to code). Or do you let the new intern have root acce...
[00:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:25] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the negative impact. It's mostly our imagination anyway https://www.psychologytoday.com [psychologytoday.com]
[00:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:27] <exec> 08└─You put scientists in the wrong group. The whole scientific knowledge is basically a consensus built around a leader. Come to think about it, artists are the same, especially liberal kind... and musicians... Yeah, engineers of different flavors are the only free folks; as long as they are not libera...
[00:44:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:06] <exec> 08└─perhaps you have not heard but racism and sexism are pretty massive topics across the whole planet, only recently have they begun to be addressed in popular culture like scifi writing
[00:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:32] <exec> 08└─The first-ever threepeat...
[00:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:33] <exec> 08└─Agreed, only front holes [dailycaller.com] use words like that.
[00:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, don't be such a grammar.. mmm... pedant.
[00:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:08] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon's gone the way of firefox though, it's only a matter of time. People are already attempting to leave Pale Moon as quickly as they flocked to it when they were driven away from firefox.
[00:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:09] <exec> 08└─Can we talk accessibility issues, please? I'm trying to create a clone of a website that I've used for a decade but which has turned to shit (fuck betas, one might say), and I want accessibility to be one of the features I don't compromise. If you join the soylent IRC server, I normally have this ni...
[00:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:11] <exec> 08└─I'd love to join folks on IRC, but there's a problem with that. My screen reader doesn't play well with anything that updates in real time - every refresh of the screen (every time someone posts a message) causes my 'reader to reread the. entire. screen. There's never any way to jump to the last pos...
[00:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:13] <exec> 08└─That is, the project openly stated that they wanted to develop libraries that other folks could use to create such applications as browsers and mail clients.
[00:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:15] <exec> 08└─I expect you can figure out why. I even did that for Windows so quite likely I possess a complete set of WinXP updates starting with its final service pack. I took a stab at doing that for Win8.1 then quickly conceded it was just not possible for just one person to do so. Were I to continue using wi...
[00:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:49] <exec> 08└─This is why I always punch in before I take my morning constitutional.
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[01:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:44] <exec> 08└─Congratulations to President Xi. Congratulations to China. And, congratulations to Cisco and so many great American cyber companies. China said, we're losing too many people to internet. Falun Gong was putting its message out on internet and they lost so many people to that one. They said, let's bui...
[01:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:45] <exec> 08└─Good times indeed, I'm seconding Swift. Clinton for president! [wikipedia.org]
[01:41:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:56] <exec> 08└─The whole point is to communicate your desires to a machine, and what this machine does well is precise repetition. Yet, for some strange reason, a large number of people find it appealing to use a communication device with a single button (and some sense of imprecise location). I, for one, find it...
[01:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:29] <exec> 08└─beyond :wq
[01:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:30] <exec> 08└─You can also use to increase indent. Indentation amount is controlled by the shift-width setting (e.g. sw=2).
[01:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:32] <exec> 08└─nano is for lusers now. The new hotness is pico.
[01:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:35] <exec> 08└─about how many key commands you had to memorize will not save these editors from irrelevance, especially as your memory degrades and you appreciate the discoverability of well designed GUIs (admittedly rare too). Cryptic, hidden, unintuitive interfaces are not empowering, we endure them for the othe...
[01:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:37] <exec> 08└─The first thing I do is get rid of nano in favor of vi/vim.
[01:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:39] <exec> 08└─I used pico long before I ever heard of nano. Not the I've used either more than a few dozen times.
[01:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:41] <exec> 08└─What makes vi better than emacs is that DON'T have to memorize a ton of multi-key commands. You combine actions, objects and motions to edit very efficiently and naturally, greatly reducing the memorization requirements.
[01:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:43] <exec> 08└─Early GUIs sucked
[01:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:45] <exec> 08└─To know that they're there and how to take advantage of them is sufficient. Google is good for remembering things.
[01:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 3908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:48] <exec> 08└─I am completely convinced that the reason Linux fanbois have always hated on IDEs so much so that even to this day I remain unable to find an Open Source IDE that I would touch with yer herpes-ridden dick is because the only other IDEs that Open Source coders have ever tried are those built by Micro...
[01:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly this. It's why I've stuck with Vim all these years, and it's why I'll never give up the command line. GUIs are a pain in the ass, and that's not even when trying to walk somebody through a GUI over the phone! Seriously, I have talked total novices through command line over the phone in...
[01:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:52] <exec> 08└─Emacs is an ideal user interface for computers that are accessed via an addressable fixed-width character CRT terminal. You could edit a file, and then compile it without having to leave the editor and later reenter it. You could be controlling multiple processes in multiple windows on the screen. A...
[01:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:54] <exec> 08└─Amen.
[01:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:56] <exec> 08└─Vim is the closest thing to telekinesis i'll likely ever come. There are a lot of commands in it, but that also means that there is always a way to do exactly what you want, how you want, and where you want in one quick command. You can code and write at the speed of thought, without the GUI IDE get...
[01:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:59] <exec> 08└─I started using 'joe' a very long time ago. I wasn't particularly used to the commands but they're easy, joe is small and quick, and I love the syntax highlighting.
[01:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:21] <exec> 08└─So many contracts, we say we can change the contract whenever we want. But there's always, the other side can cancel when you do that. If Verizon changed, brave First Responders -- or you or I -- can look at that and say, "oh, should we stick with this one, or, try another?" And get out of the contr...
[01:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:22] <exec> 08└─The entire gamut of "broadband" suppliers needs to be hammered with a 'truth in advertising' class action lawsuit. And, that suit needs to be vigorously pursued, all the way up through the court system. It matters little whether your "broadband" is 2mb (in my case) or 2gb or 500tb - it it's what the...
[01:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:15] <exec> 08└─I have seen multiple situations where PhD Supervisor Profs will actively sabotage their students because they are in effect a free research resource for the professor to further their own research. The longer they can keep the student strung along, the more 'value' they get out of them - and who car...
[01:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:16] <exec> 08└─You haven't been paying attention. Evidence isn't required now. Simply the allegations are enough to get you fired. This has been demonstrated repeatedly by the regressive left. Evil weapons that you create and employ indiscriminately will, without fail, be used against you.
[01:45:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:09] <exec> 08└─but the truth is just that they are on the less popular side of societal evolution.
[01:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:24] <exec> 08└─You forgot comics and video games.
[01:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:25] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry was there content in your ad hominem? VLM's opinion that ranking based on ideology doesn't yield the best stories isn't flame bait. Denigrating the Hugos by giving asshole * awards based on ideology was a move by the staff that ran the awards name threw the dirt and the event that made me...
[01:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:27] <exec> 08└─The editing helps, maybe - but we're still talking about a bunch of women, liberals, progressives and whatnot gloating that they've kicked the men out. Then, talking about "diversity". Something, something, something drama just isn't "science fiction". It does qualify as fantasy though, depending on...
[01:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:08] <exec> 08└─I fervently believe things can be that dumb.
[01:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:26] <exec> 08└─A regular old match, burning at about 500 degrees, can burn down a lot of stuff. A high tech match, burning at several million degrees, isn't dangerous. Got it.
[01:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:49] <exec> 08└─50 pints PER day. I picked this one at random. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] I would not drink it though. It also picks up other things in the air. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:03] <exec> 08└─"Yes."
[01:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:07] <exec> 08└─For me personally it's so I can support my clients' software on old OS builds. It's uncommon for my clients to so much as request that. I do it anyway because I feel very strongly that no one should have to buy a new box just to run my code.
[01:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:09] <exec> 08└─When a SJW demands "no more white male hiring" then the top 90% of the hiring marketplace is excluded and you get a lot of bad decisions and bad code and that is not survivable. When a non-SJW does the opposite, then the roughly bottom 10% of the hiring marketplace is excluded, which is quite surviv...
[01:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:11] <exec> 08└─Since I'm still an ESR hold-out and haven't flocked yet, what precisely do you mean by "gone the way of firefox"? Last I saw they were still busy trimming off useless and used-less features and generally making it a better browser?
[01:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:13] <exec> 08└─You are doing the VM thing wrong. You don't reinstall and patch up Windows from scratch every time! Install. Update. Take a copy of that image for safe keeping. Now use whatever your virtualization calls it to flip writes into a different file/stream/snapshot that you can discard. Install whatever y...
[01:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:15] <exec> 08└─I will remove Firefox from all my devices; because of this Add-On https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
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[02:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gut Bacteria May Hold Key to Creating Universal Donor Blood Type - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:24] <exec> 08└─butt based on my typing ability i always assumed I was type-O.
[02:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:38] <exec> 08└─Fair - not fair - maybe. Chinese people, like people everywhere, have access to data that they could never reach without the internet. Just like you or me, any Chinese can sit down, and perform research in minutes that would have taken hours, days, or weeks, at a more traditional library. Access to...
[02:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:37] <exec> 08└─So, regex is very cool and all, but I'm not sure I want to invest the effort in learning a language that complex just so I can edit text marginally faster...
[02:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:39] <exec> 08└─I've used several different ones over the years, but I've fallen back to nano because it's always there, gedit for "next level" stuff that becomes a PITA in nano, and Qt Creator for code editing because: IDE - available anywhere, 10x faster to install than Visual Studio.
[02:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:41] <exec> 08└─*shrug* You asked, though I'm fluent in regex and use them in vi the least. Being fluent in regex is assumed with all professionals anywhere around me.
[02:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:43] <exec> 08└─I really enjoy reading ancient history from contemporary authors.
[02:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nano is okay too. It's familiarish because I started using pine very long ago and still do in some contexts. 10x faster to install than Visual Studio.
[02:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:48] <exec> 08└─Another move I've always found handy is to go to the top of the section you want to move/copy, "v" (for "visual mode"), down until you've highlighted the section, and then either "d" (delete) or "c" (copy), and then "p" to paste it wherever you want it. The 1-letter commands generally have good mnem...
[02:43:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:01] <exec> 08└─You speak of a data limit, on a plan that was unlimited. For a large Verizon price I will sell you a 2 liter bottle containing an infinite amount of Diet Coke. But then AT&T would say I stole their idea.
[02:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mrpg [5708] 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:04] <exec> 08└─"Mistakes were made" is an expression that is commonly used as a rhetorical device, whereby a speaker acknowledges that a situation was handled poorly or inappropriately but seeks to evade any direct admission or accusation of responsibility by not specifying the person who made the mistakes. The ac...
[02:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:14] <exec> 08└─Quoting TFS about command-and-control vehicle OES 5262, which uses a Verizon SIM with "unlimited" service for its Internet connection: "OES 5262...coordinates all local government resources deployed to the Mendocino Complex Fire," an ongoing wildfire that is the largest in California's history... "I...
[02:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:16] <exec> 08└─OTOH who doesn't know that Verizon has no such thing as an unlimited plan?
[02:43:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:31] <exec> 08└─Is it bullying to threaten to withdraw a scientist's funding? (Especially for research that could have a negative impact on clean coal.) Is it possible for anti bullying policies to be bullying? (Extra credit for writing an anti bullying policy that qualifies as bullying under the anti bullying poli...
[02:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:22] <exec> 08└─What has happened is that two DISTINCTLY different genres have been mashed together, mostly by publishers. Science Fiction, and Fantasy. This has an unfortunate effect. The Fantasy fans tend to be HIGHLY anti-science, mostly because their own stories are so full of science holes (which is fine, they...
[02:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:23] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, The Three Body Problem is the best of the trilogy. The Dark Forest and Death's End are also quite good, and amazingly inventive, but not quite as brilliant as the first book. Really though, that's a high bar to clear. Each of the books in the series has enough clever ideas for an ordi...
[02:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:25] <exec> 08└─I'm curious, what do you consider good SF? Heinlein? Maybe Asimov? Niven? What's the most recent work you rate highly?
[02:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:07] <exec> 08└─It's pretty difficult to kill something that is stillborn.
[02:48:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 1429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:51] <exec> 08└─It drives me crazy to see declaritive article titles that seem to state as fact what is only conjecture and hypothesis. There is no scientific proof to back up this idea, it's just the brainchild of a couple researches who did some statistical analysis using a known flawed dating concept. The "molec...
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[03:41:12] <exec> 08└─that would be the only acceptable choice and has been available for a decade
[03:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:13] <exec> 08└─That seems quite unacceptably high. Imagine fatally crashing your car 0.66% of the time you drive. How many DNS lookups do you make per day?
[03:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:15] <exec> 08└─Tor can route DNS requests.
[03:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:17] <exec> 08└─it already works quite well and there are several major resolvers.
[03:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gut Bacteria May Hold Key to Creating Universal Donor Blood Type - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:26] <exec> 08└─And fuck mosquitoes.
[03:42:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:02] <exec> 08└─I never saw the appeal of memorization of a huge number of multi-key commands.
[03:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:44] <exec> 08└─It seems like Emacs Lisp as of 24.1 [emacswiki.org] now allows for lexical binding on a per-file basis, with 'defvar' declaring a dynamically-bound variable. Did you mean this, or to kill dynamic binding altogether?
[03:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:45] <exec> 08└─a communication device with a single button
[03:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:12] <exec> 08└─"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company!"
[03:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:13] <exec> 08└─By the way, so many fires, while they divert MASSIVE amounts of water into Pacific Ocean. They call it "rivers," I call it VERY FOOLISH.
[03:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:09] <exec> 08└─HIPPA. Did I do the right thing today? I have a fax machine that I usually disconnect from the phone line unless sending or expecting a fax. Last time I used it, I must have left it connected and set to auto answer. When I wandered by it today, a corner of the house where I don't go too often, there...
[03:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:22] <exec> 08└─It is what editors do. The story was about the winners of the Hugo Award, the hit for the alt-right was a side issue. However, I left your quotation in the summary and some of our community still thought the story had a political bias. Seriously, thank you for the submission. Give me something to wo...
[03:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reply. I didn't know he had written more books untl today. I quit trusting awards and most reviews as they are contaminated by money (mostly) or some sense of justice which escapes me. I'll check the two other books.
[03:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:25] <exec> 08└─There are 4 sources identified in TFS, The story is about the Hugo Awards, which they all covered, rather than the alt-right taking a hit, which only one source concentrated on. The 'controversy' as you call it is only a side issue, and the submission wasn't submitted as a political topic, so I focu...
[03:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:27] <exec> 08└─can't speak for bradley13, but: - anything by John Scalzi - Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon series, also Black Man - Charles Stross -- the Laundry and Merchant Princes series all relatively recent, all pretty freakin' awesome, all "real sci-fi" in my book (grew up in the 80s reading Asimov, P.K.D...
[03:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:10] <exec> 08└─Because it's almost always faster to run things that are compiled specifically for the platform and with today's mutli-OS tool kits, this allows developers to get a sense of how much money they're leaving on the table when they don't offer a Linux option. Realistically, any developer that's going to...
[03:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:12] <exec> 08└─Speed to market with a single Windows/Wine build would exceed speed to market with a Windows build on launch day followed by an X11/Linux build 12 months later.
[03:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:14] <exec> 08└─The difference here is that lots of people (myself included) were already playing games under Wine. Now the developers get a chance to actually see the stats of how many people are doing this. If the devs really care about their audience, and their audience has a significant percentage of people pla...
[03:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:19] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is that we all know who will be blamed for the complaint: IT. We all know who should be blamed for the complaint: the small-minded chauvinists in Marketing who overrode and disregarded IT's objections every single time. Ownership as well for not valuing their IT department's advi...
[03:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:57] <exec> 08└─Probably not, normally the desert is after the forest. First the water carrying air comes over the forest then after the air has lost most of the moisture it will blow over the desert leaving somewhere between little and none of the moisture there. It's unlikely that you're going to be able to use s...
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[04:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gut Bacteria May Hold Key to Creating Universal Donor Blood Type - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:32] <exec> 08└─Now if only they could figure out how to detect AIDS in blood.
[04:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gut Bacteria May Hold Key to Creating Universal Donor Blood Type - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:33] <exec> 08└─I'm Shrimp Burrito +, good luck finding that blood in an emergency.
[04:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gut Bacteria May Hold Key to Creating Universal Donor Blood Type - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:35] <exec> 08└─Even worse, you could be type Omgwtfbbq!
[04:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:49] <exec> 08└─The average high school and college kid in China almost certainly finds his online access to be every bit as indispensable as a US high school or college kid.
[04:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:56] <exec> 08└─You don't need to know very much to do basic editing in vi. Most guides flood the beginner and occasional user with way too many details. This is a minimal set of commands for vi that I wrote up a long time ago: vi starts in command mode. Can precede most commands with a number telling how many time...
[04:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:57] <exec> 08└─The thing about learning to use Vim is that now I feel compelled to get Vim-like keybindings everywhere I can; zsh, Firefox, Chrome. When a program doesn't have vim-like keybindings I get annoyed by pressing j,k,h,l,w, etc. out of habit and not navigating as expected.
[04:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:59] <exec> 08└─As long as I can activate evil-mode, it's tolerable.
[04:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:01] <exec> 08└─The whole point is to communicate your desires to a machine, and what this machine does well is precise repetition. Yet, for some strange reason, a large number of people find it appealing to use a communication device with a single button (and some sense of imprecise location).
[04:44:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:22] <exec> 08└─You haven't been paying attention. Evidence isn't required now. Simply the allegations are enough to get you fired. This has been demonstrated repeatedly by the regressive left. Evil weapons that you create and employ indiscriminately will, without fail, be used against you.
[04:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:24] <exec> 08└─naive as I am (at 60 no less)
[04:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:26] <exec> 08└─Woosh?
[04:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:28] <exec> 08└─Crafoo? More like CraPOO! amirite?
[04:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:46] <exec> 08└─2 of the sources referenced the alt-right sad puppies, one was barely an article with maybe 2 paragraphs, and the last was just a full list. Anyway, it was a pseudo-serious joke comment and in another comment I said Aristarchus' personal comments were lame and unwarranted. They should be saved for t...
[04:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:47] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews could inaugurate a new award. The SoylentNews SF/Fantasy Reader's Choice novel of the year?
[04:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:49] <exec> 08└─Got some evidence to confirm any of that? Everything I read points to the Hugos being incredibly transparent. This [gizmodo.com] is a pretty good breakdown which makes me think you forgot to apply Occam's razor. The content of my ad-hominem WAS the ad-hominem, that is about all VLM ever deserves exc...
[04:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:51] <exec> 08└─Cause you're an idiot? I can't prevent VLM from expressing an opinion and I wouldn't, but I will gladly point out his lame shit any day. As for you, if you can't even use a dictionary don't bother forming opinions, just go puke that shit straight into the toilet.
[04:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:53] <exec> 08└─You're calling the militaristic novel Starship Troopers soft? No way! Even if you mean it's not hard SF, not full of science, I don't agree. Yeah, sure, there's harder, more detailed and logical SF out there. And what science Starship Troopers has is obviously bent towards making the whole idea of s...
[04:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:56] <exec> 08└─Everything I read points to the Hugos being incredibly transparent.
[04:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:58] <exec> 08└─The issue is a problem, but the story is either about the Hugo Awards or the alt-right. I elected to publish Aristarchus' submission based on his own quote that "The Hugo awards, being the favorite they are with SN readers, are out again!" and the title that he had chosen for his submission. It seem...
[04:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:43] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, what screen reader do you use? I know plenty of people that use IRC clients with screen readers. If I remember, I'll ask them what they use for both the reader and IRC client.
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[05:41:40] <exec> 08└─is unavoidable. Chose your qol wisely
[05:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:51] <exec> 08└─How much of it is governments doing? I expected way more.
[05:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:29] <exec> 08└─The problem with that list (thanks), is that if you use vi once a month or less, you're not going to remember it. Most other editors can be used in a blink right after you open them for the first time after a few months. vi requires regular use. for a world that doesn't exist anymore
[05:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:30] <exec> 08└─What's elegant about a mouse? The keyboard allows communication through language, where you can express yourself with eloquence, rather than caveman-style point and click and drag. The mouse is inferior in form, function, and utility.
[05:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:32] <exec> 08└─I use atto. It's nice, if a bit minimalistic. For example you write device drivers with 'cat > /dev/whatver'.
[05:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:02] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they shouldn't have been watching movies over that connection during "down" times.
[05:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:25] <exec> 08└─That would be great. No f*cks given to money, gender or any other criteria except that the story is good or at the very least, that you liked it enough to vote for it. Hey guys! bzipitidoo had a good idea! Can we get it done somehow?
[05:47:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:42] <exec> 08└─I find it incredibly ironic that said companies are 'pushing back' against these regulations. If they had done a better of respecting privacy, rather than demonstrable running roughshod over it whenever it was convenient for them, then this wouldn't be happening. But the fact is, tech companies trea...
[05:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:53] <exec> 08└─No, it's a moisture vaporator all right. I've worked with them a lot, when I'm not busy bullseyeing womp-rats in my T-16.
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[06:43:49] <exec> 08└─TL;DR Their contracts stipulate they can change the details of the data plan one sided so they effectively can promise and sign on whatever they want and then deliver whatever they feel like. As for how that ever been made legal, the issue was that utility bills needed to change minor billing charge...
[06:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:48] <exec> 08└─Note that this Daily Mail article contained at least 2 factual errors -- claiming that Ms Rahman "was given leave of absence" in November last year (caption underneath first picture), and claiming that it were her employers that carried out the investigation. Events reported trace back 12 years, but...
[06:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:49] <exec> 08└─Fuck you all cuz I'm so excellent! My skills are bigly!
[06:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:05] <exec> 08└─They do. Look under the category and tag "descriptive audio" or something like that. I believe there was even a soylentnews story at the time they announced it.
[06:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:05] <exec> 08└─That's why we stuck with slackware (and some of us swtiched to Debian till pottering the scum screwed shit up).
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[07:41:43] <exec> 08└─suicide
[07:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Trends in Teenage 'New Smoker' Rates in Europe - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:44] <exec> 08└─It's all about vaping, bro. Gotta study vaping.
[07:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:58] <exec> 08└─Not as bad as janrinok cross-checking your IP hashes, to nefarious ends! OH, the Huge Manatee!
[07:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:59] <exec> 08└─Unlikely it will be 0.66% of your DNS requests, more likely there's a 0.66% chance of it being every DNS request - i.e. 1 in 150 are affected.
[07:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:39] <exec> 08└─You have a strange concept of language. No CLI I've ever used has understood any of the actual languages I speak and read/write, but rather has to be fed a very exact series of nonsensical-unless-you-already-know-them character combinations. That requires a huge amount of learning before being effic...
[07:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:40] <exec> 08└─Dunno about whatever gimped version of vi you ran into, but gvim on my machine is linked to libpcre2-8.so.0 so the regexes do whatever ya want until yer brain melts trying to understand em.
[07:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:38] <exec> 08└─My thanks, janrinok. But next time, a bit more respect for the line between an author and an editor? Even a lowly submitter deserves a bit of authorial respect, under the Moral Property provisions of the Berne convention.
[07:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:39] <exec> 08└─If you think you can do better, go write a fucking book and win an award. Be sure to put a picture of your dick on the cover so everyone knows a man wrote the book. And make sure it's pointing to the right so everyone knows your political affiliation without having to read a word of your drivel. Dur...
[07:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:26] <exec> 08└─Oh, but you will. Just about the time where you want to retire and play games of your youth.
[07:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:50] <exec> 08└─All but puncturing them.. the list actually is a lot longer but I listed the common things to encounter outside industrial settings. Three interesting cases of where handing them to untrained people (but with basic sanity checks) and they are safe are hearing aids, specialist camera batteries and ex...
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[08:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Trends in Teenage 'New Smoker' Rates in Europe - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:47] <exec> 08└─Are they including vaping as a type of smoking? I know in the US for some reason they get classified as the same thing, and can even be included when tobacco use is specified. Additionally it doesn't specify a smoking material, so in self-reporting the teens likely included both marijuana usage, tob...
[08:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:01] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. Some of the larger UK ISPs use DNS based blocklists usually under some reasonable sounding banner like "Safe Surfing" rather than anything implying potential government controlled censorship because guess who gets to decide what is fraudulent, terror related, porn, (and soon, no doubt,...
[08:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:44] <exec> 08└─I found VIM an interesting distraction from legacy spaghetti code I used to maintain way back when. VimGolf has neat challenges that helped to learn some of the power inherent in the editor https://www.vimgolf.com [vimgolf.com] I'm a bit rusty these days, but it is still satisfying to be free of bl...
[08:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:45] <exec> 08└─mcedit should be enough for anybody.
[08:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:47] <exec> 08└─You should read the Vim help text about auto indent mode. Just highlight a block of code and let it fix the indenting for you. Better, if you are writing code in it with auto indent it knows the rules for the language and does what needs to be done. Type the closing } and it jumps back to where it i...
[08:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:50] <exec> 08└─No, Vi dates from an Age when ALL of the terminals were ASCII terminals. All of the users used a text only terminal all day long and they didn't even dream of anything better because they knew the "glass ttys" were the new hotness, replacing teletype terminals that dumped all output on hardcopy at p...
[08:46:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should just start handing out participation awards ;)
[08:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:49] <exec> 08└─If the alt-right aspect was the whole point of your submission, then change the headline to suit. Next time you try to get an alt-right story through by using a false headline then I will reject it. I am more than happy to help you get your stories to the front page if they are not on your usual top...
[08:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:50] <exec> 08└─It's a great idea. Somebody give me a submission asking our community to tell us what they found to be the best SF book or film of the last year, or even the best ever, and I will publish it under the Reviews topic. Let the discussion follow. It all starts with a submission, and that is the Communit...
[08:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:52] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the headline I submitted was taken from the source, not something I made up. But, have you noticed that people are out to get you, lately, janrinok? Especially the antifa, or the anti-alt-right? Just because people are out to get you, that does mean you are paranoid.
[08:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:54] <exec> 08└─Oh, you are a tease... You've left me, as someone who hasn't read any SF for over 50 years or so, wondering what your objections are to ESR's definition, and how do you define it? You might be absolutely correct in your views, but I don't know in any detail what your views are.
[08:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:56] <exec> 08└─so you don't get an opinion here
[08:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:59] <exec> 08└─WTF? Alt right blah blah blah alt right right alt alt alt right rrrriiiigggghhhttttt. Jeez dude
[08:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:01] <exec> 08└─I don't lose sleep over it.
[08:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:03] <exec> 08└─I apologise. But you ought to see what we have to put with that doesn't reach the front page.
[08:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:50] <exec> 08└─And that's the problem.
[08:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:33] <exec> 08└─Missed opportunity in subject line.
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[09:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:34] <exec> 08└─If you have solar panels, you could be trying to hide the grow op in your house!
[09:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:36] <exec> 08└─Having solar panels will automatically flag you as an independent, dangerous, nonconforming and thinking individual. Enough reasons to have you put under the microscope at any given opportunity.
[09:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Trends in Teenage 'New Smoker' Rates in Europe - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:53] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else getting really tired of the endless stream of people telling you what to do based on whatever evidence they cobbled together that seems to always get reversed to the next fad a few decades later? I am really expecting a nicotine protects you from parksinsons/alzhiemers/whatever moveme...
[09:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:09] <exec> 08└─You can get spied on anyway. Just depends on who... DNS is somewhat distributed. So if you are looking for the IP address of some domain someone has to query the authoritative nameservers for that domain. And these nameservers can be different for different sites. So if you don't use a VPN and you d...
[09:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:11] <exec> 08└─DNS is somewhat distributed. So if you are looking for the IP address of some domain someone has to query the authoritative nameservers for that domain. And these nameservers can be different for different sites.
[09:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:28] <exec> 08└─Isnt that how the liberal left want things to work now? Its certainly the process they want to apply in most cases - but its interesting that they want THIS case to be given a fair hearing. Why should this get an exception? is 45 people willing to put their names to her harassment not enough? We hav...
[09:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:03] <exec> 08└─Uh, we are talking about the Hugos, right? The purpose of which used to be calling out quality material for fans to read. Now simply picking "anything published by Baen" is a better selection method. In other words, he has identified a superior metric than the Hugo. The modern Hugo is more an anti-i...
[09:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:04] <exec> 08└─Charles Stross is awesome, accellerando is one of my favorite books.
[09:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:36] <exec> 08└─If the water were used to grow plants/forests, the effect on the local environment could be quite dramatic.
[09:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:52] <exec> 08└─My guess is the USA has enough military reconnaissance. Stuff like this just brings the cost down and there's no U2 to be shot down etc. For a similar reason my guess is a fair number in the US Gov/Military know where MH370 is. They're not revealing that they know because there's no benefit to them[...
[09:51:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 1489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:21] <exec> 08└─- Ago: Because a change in the Add-On API broke quite a highly-popular - as in tens of millions of users - Add-On that I depended on for my webmastering work. I don't doubt that someone coded up a replacement But Quick. That's not the point. What the point is, that early one evening I was able to fi...
[09:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:02] <exec> 08└─My primary browser is SeaMonkey (Palemoon as a backup), solely because of the interface. I want normal damned menus, not a fucking cellphone interface. When FF switched, I stopped installing it on new builds at all, even as a backup. If Palemoon's traditional interface vanishes -- well, the day come...
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[10:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:14] <exec> 08└─Making matters worse, there’s no patch being rolled out (as of Wednesday): The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem, and the flaws do not yet even have a CVE number. ... Ghostscript is used pretty much everywhere and has been for a very long time, and several vendor...
[10:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Trends in Teenage 'New Smoker' Rates in Europe - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:40] <exec> 08└─Nicotine [vice.com] is not the same as cigarettes [cancer.gov] Smoking [cancerresearchuk.org] is bad, but so might be vaping [independent.co.uk]
[10:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:58] <exec> 08└─Do many ISPs *actually* MITM DNS, or is it that the default routers simply give out ISP dns entries? I've seen two ISPs that actually MITM HTTPS traffic! The first was a network provider at the european athletics in Glasgow. The second was the onboard wifi on transpennine express.
[10:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:44] <exec> 08└─Yep. It does not take much brain power to figure a modern quad-core processor at 4GHz can suck more powerfully than a 486 at 10MHz. Now, thanks to the miracle of Meltdown, the "Lake" series processors can even suck your data into another dimension.
[10:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:46] <exec> 08└─"it was painting slower than you could think" Just a week ago I was very frustrated because vim was painting too slow for my taste. Of course I have a pretty fast PC. And I use `xset r rate 120 140` because I don't have time to wait for slower key presses (default is 250ms, that's way too long for m...
[10:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:48] <exec> 08└─Nowadays, that stuff is still around, but decidedly obsolete. Well, no. There is embedded stuff, you know. Like the ECU in your car - or do you think it runs KDE and Systemd?
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[11:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:08] <exec> 08└─If a mail server runs something like Spam Assassin, which may use libgs to read certain file types for malicious code, will it run the embedded commands that are used to take advantage of these vulnerabilities? In other words, can sending an infected attachment to someone infect the mail server?
[11:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:09] <exec> 08└─Reminds me a bit about the openssl issue we had. Older FOSS software that's heavily used all over the place, multiple security issues, but nobody cares until problems surface.
[11:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:11] <exec> 08└─Appropriate name, it appears.
[11:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:13] <exec> 08└─Fore....err.....FIRE!
[11:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:16] <exec> 08└─I think maybe you mean clamav my man.
[11:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:18] <exec> 08└─nobody cares until problems surface
[11:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe we need better page description languages…
[11:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:22] <exec> 08└─If I use Gmail to open/preview a pdf, I believe Google uses some version of Ghostscript in their viewer, can anyone confirm? For sure I know they are not using Adobe Acrobat Reader because on certain pdf's Google's viewer fails to render properly...and I have to download the file and open locally in...
[11:41:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:31] <exec> 08└─Having solar panels will automatically flag you as an independent, dangerous, nonconforming and thinking individual. Enough reasons to have you put under the microscope at any given opportunity.
[11:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:34] <exec> 08└─Only 0.5% https://www.quora.com [quora.com] Not as many non-conformists as I'd have thought.
[11:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:36] <exec> 08└─Fire!
[11:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:38] <exec> 08└─That just makes it easier to hate them.
[11:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:46] <exec> 08└─Is this a taste of the new normal in an era of global warming? Not necessarily. Mass has argued persuasively that the wildfire trend actually marks a return to the "old normal" after nearly a century of aggressive fire suppression and forest mismanagement.
[11:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:48] <exec> 08└─Cough....cough....
[11:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Trends in Teenage 'New Smoker' Rates in Europe - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:03] <exec> 08└─Smoke 'em if you got 'em, man
[11:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:22] <exec> 08└─I've seen two ISPs that actually MITM HTTPS traffic! The first was a network provider at the european athletics in Glasgow.
[11:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gut Bacteria May Hold Key to Creating Universal Donor Blood Type - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:36] <exec> 08└─You must be O-negative.
[11:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:15] <exec> 08└─What's elegant about a mouse?
[11:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:28] <exec> 08└─More people will read those books. Ain't bad for an award.
[11:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:58] <exec> 08└─They are a good idea, what I meant was that customer privacy is just a talking point hence this demand cannot be argued upon privacy issues.
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[12:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:21] <exec> 08└─The secret ingredient in Tostitos, the thing Lays potato chips was trying to achieve through brainwashing.
[12:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:38] <exec> 08└─The problem is not de page description language, but the parser/formatter/etc. Compare it with a image loading library that unsafely reads a malicious image file.
[12:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:39] <exec> 08└─Early versions of Postscript and the PDF spec were (imo) very nicely done...if only we could go back... On my WinXP machine, I can still create PDFs with full Acrobat 6.0, which I believe is before Adobe started to add "features" to their original clean concept? Or, is it necessary to go back even f...
[12:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:41] <exec> 08└─It's not just that, the problem is not-quite stated in the description: Ghostscript is a suite of tools
[12:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:54] <exec> 08└─Mr. Musk has a solution for this -- replace your roof shingles with his solar shingles. This way you can be a Stealthy "independent, dangerous, nonconforming and thinking individual."
[12:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:04] <exec> 08└─Mass has argued persuasively that the wildfire trend actually marks a return to the "old normal" after nearly a century of aggressive fire suppression and forest mismanagement.
[12:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:06] <exec> 08└─Argument from authority isn't a fallacy when the people engaged in the argument have no other evidence or expertise to fall back on. More to the point, if you're going to contradict the relevant authorities on a subject, you'd better have something pretty darn compelling evience in order to be credi...
[12:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:42] <exec> 08└─The DNSSEC work dates back close to thirty years now (Bellovin in 1990), and people still don't care. Yeah, it's a theoretical weakness, and every now and then something happens that causes a bit of a panic, but overall it's just not broken enough to motivate people to go through the pain that a mas...
[12:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:35] <exec> 08└─There's lots of ways to specialize, I accidentally ended up versed in design controls and FDA/ISO compliance - not a topic I would have chosen, but valuable nonetheless. Regex is optional around here, and even frowned upon unless it comes with comments fully specifying what it is intended to do, and...
[12:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:37] <exec> 08└─If only Emacs had a decent text editor :)
[12:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:39] <exec> 08└─I think one of my biggest gripes about vi is the lack of prominent visual indication for what mode you are in. That, and the lie that there's edit mode and command mode - there's also command line mode, which at least jumps the blinkincursor to the bottom of the screen.
[12:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:41] <exec> 08└─I've been around long enough to have used several different IDE editors, which have several different auto-indent functionalities (all broken by default, most not fixable), plus different editors with different indentation helping command sequences, again mostly unique in their implementation. There...
[12:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:43] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to remember the weird editor I was using around 2013, pretty sure it wasn't joe, but it was attractive because it had most of the functionality of gedit, including a little syntax coloring, but was functional via ssh, and available via apt-get.
[12:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:53] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't Pence's space force announcement also qualify for the Hugos?
[12:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:55] <exec> 08└─I don't agree.
[12:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:57] <exec> 08└─Do you defend the indefensible or resort to name calling and then claim VLM shouldn't get to express his opinion?
[12:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:46] <exec> 08└─Quake is written as supported, but QuakeGL didn't run for me.
[12:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:37] <exec> 08└─No, it's a moisture vaporator all right. I've worked with them a lot, when I'm not busy bullseyeing womp-rats in my T-16.
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[13:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crystalline Silica in Meteorite Brings Scientists Closer to Understanding Solar Evolution - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:29] <exec> 08└─silica condensation within the solar protoplanetary disk
[13:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:37] <exec> 08└─I wonder how it interacts with low carb (often implicitly high fat) appetite suppression which is a much more widely known effect. Presumably the two would work together such that a protein shake without fats would have much better appetite suppression than a nice low carb salad. I tentatively might...
[13:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:57] <exec> 08└─Well, most folks don't know postscript is a Turing complete language. You'd expect at least the web developers to know about it considering how similar it is to WebASM in function and form... But nope.
[13:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:10] <exec> 08└─They could still determine that you aren't hooked up to the grid, or that you are hooked up to the grid and using very little power or even contributing electricity to the grid. That's unless you can rig the solar shingles to power a separate part of the house, or maybe a shed. Any extra juice could...
[13:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:22] <exec> 08└─Argument from authority isn't a fallacy when the people engaged in the argument have no other evidence or expertise to fall back on.
[13:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Trends in Teenage 'New Smoker' Rates in Europe - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:38] <exec> 08└─Also vaping "juice" is almost entirely not composed of nicotine and the "other stuff" is what seems to be under attack. I have no dog in the fight; I don't vape or care personally. There's an interesting analogy to "roundup" where the active ingredient is clearly proven harmless, but the bucket its...
[13:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Trends in Teenage 'New Smoker' Rates in Europe - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:39] <exec> 08└─The white people are getting demographically replaced in Europe, genocide by a more pleasant name. The percentage of kids under 5 is already majority invader in many areas. Europe will no longer be a white region; something like Brazil or Argentina is the best they can hope for a future; Rhodesia an...
[13:44:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 3908 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:22] <exec> 08└─I am completely convinced that the reason Linux fanbois have always hated on IDEs so much so that even to this day I remain unable to find an Open Source IDE that I would touch with yer herpes-ridden dick is because the only other IDEs that Open Source coders have ever tried are those built by Micro...
[13:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:58] <exec> 08└─OMG...learn something new every day. I'd actually never even noticed that support nor the :perldo command at all, and I've had the perl USE flag off on my Gentoo vim all this time. Holy crap. Thanks! Tom
[13:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:59] <exec> 08└─To clarify, I'd always just used the build in vim regex syntax. One thing I love about that :perldo syntax is that you don't have to constantly remember which regex characters need to be escaped, which is really what makes the built in ones confusing in the first place. Tom
[13:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:01] <exec> 08└─Where does the only Xcode policy fit into the story?
[13:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:04] <exec> 08└─Even more fun was "rvi" which was a retro-separation of the "draw stuff on a screen" from the "do the editing using ed" back end. The version I used was distinct from the later "vim --remote" but may have inspired it. 300 baud connection to the server mostly felt fast enough as long as you had a rea...
[13:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:35] <exec> 08└─The word Phenomenal goes in there somewhere.
[13:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:38] <exec> 08└─Calling someone a broad, now THAT'S offensive! Or so I've been told...
[13:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:39] <exec> 08└─If we use complex numbers we could talk about Imaginary Impact.
[13:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:22] <exec> 08└─Read some Ursula K LeGuinn (RIP) Some of her stories are really challenging the fact there is a clear line between Fantasy and SciFi. The Sci is brought in by a vigorous yet gentile handwaving, but the characters as so relatable. Maybe there's something heroic about some of them, but only just enoug...
[13:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:23] <exec> 08└─No one really complains much about "Starship Troopers" or plenty of other fairly soft Heinlein novels.
[13:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:25] <exec> 08└─How about even one single sentence criticizing her work instead of her identity?
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[14:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:10] <exec> 08└─Socialist morons want California to be uncompetitive.
[14:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crystalline Silica in Meteorite Brings Scientists Closer to Understanding Solar Evolution - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:19] <exec> 08└─Bollywood can save us
[14:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crystalline Silica in Meteorite Brings Scientists Closer to Understanding Solar Evolution - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but - primitives. These aren't the space based races you are looking for. Keep looking for some evolved condensate.
[14:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:31] <exec> 08└─I'm a general skeptic, but there must be something to this because I _never_ crave any food that's just the raw simple food. I love peaches but I don't crave them like I now want some Doritos thanks to you. :->
[14:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:51] <exec> 08└─I believe Google uses some version of Ghostscript in their viewer, can anyone confirm?
[14:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:55] <exec> 08└─No different to SMTP. If we can't wean people off something that basically allows their email to end up anywhere, read by anyone in the path (or anyone in control of ANY destination mailserver / forwarding mailserver), in plain text, without them ever knowing, then what chance do you have of securin...
[14:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:56] <exec> 08└─STARTTLS has pretty much taken care of that one. It's good enough in most cases, and means Joe Sixpack doesn't need to learn all of PGP or S/MIME just to send a Sunday barbeque invitation to their neighbour. The SMTP analogy however is quite apt, most people don't care if anyone reads their mail, an...
[14:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:58] <exec> 08└─I've seen DNS MITM done, but generally they're doing the filtering queries on their own DNS (and web URLs via proxy servers), which are then pushed as the defaults on their supplied routers, DHCP configs, support pages, and so on. Switch to Google, CloudFlare, Quad9, or even setup your own DNS serve...
[14:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─no high school and college kid in China was harmed while making it.
[14:43:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:41] <exec> 08└─I've used nothing but vi (usually gvim) for a long time. I can't say I'd recommend vi to someone necessarily, but I do find it's great once you start learning even a little of what it's capable of. As long as I've been using it I'm sure I've barely scratched the surface, but what I do know seems jus...
[14:44:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:18] <exec> 08└─Early GUIs sucked
[14:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:00] <exec> 08└─"It was an incredible kludge." I guess this is where we disagree. It's not a kludge. It's good design. I miss it every day, in programs that are so poorly designed they're ignoring my input while trying to push out unneeded (and unwanted) screen updates that never needed to happen at all, let alone...
[14:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:02] <exec> 08└─What you want is TDD. I do it in C with bash, vim and gnu make. IDEs are bloated, buggy, slow, restrictive and yet another pile of garbage to be nursed.
[14:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.fcc.gov/public-safety/public-safety-and-homeland-security/policy-and-licensing-division/public-safety-spectrum [fcc.gov] AND THEY DON’T EVEN FUCKING USE THEM. Honestly, WTF? Let’s attach our mutimillion dollar command station ONLY to the internet and hope it doesn’t go down? Hope w...
[14:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:36] <exec> 08└─They can't be hit with a class-action from their customers because the fine print of all their service contracts says "no class action lawsuits allowed", and the Supreme Court has not only said that's totally fine, it's applies even if state laws ban that kind of rule. Your only options when dealing...
[14:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:38] <exec> 08└─I am entirely unsatisfied with that legal nonsense, and it needs to be established that the Supremes aren't the final law. Congress can easily pass a law nullifying such clauses. If they did so, the Supremes could say nothing. Unfortunately, congress got us into most of our messes.
[14:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:40] <exec> 08└─Imagine if Verizon's CEO's house was on fire and the firemen throttle the water pressure to the hoses used to put out the fire. That would be karma.
[14:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:42] <exec> 08└─it needs to be established that the Supremes aren't the final law.
[14:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─Major literary works that will never be forgotten,
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[15:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:21] <exec> 08└─There is no free market for wired Internet service because city governments own city roads. City governments use this as a rationale to regulate utilities that use their rights of way. (See "The Myth of Natural Monopoly" by Thomas J. DiLorenzo [mises.org].) One way a city could make access to its ri...
[15:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:23] <exec> 08└─I imagine that if men were angels.... wait... You're not an AC! Did the ancap AC need to take the day off today?
[15:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:25] <exec> 08└─What should be interesting is that net neutrality directly opposes the control over the internet the DNC wants to have. They won't be able to control "fake news" (translation: independent news that brings up inconvenient facts and performs analysis for readers who don't suffer from ADHD) with net ne...
[15:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:27] <exec> 08└─A simpler explanation is that everything you've "learned" about the DNC from Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars etc is a load of shit.
[15:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:46] <exec> 08└─Low-carb, high-fat diets are medicinal alternatives to high-protein diets for diabetes patients who can't process proteins. They're a sub-optimal choice (barely 1/5 of the success rate) and they have a whole range of complications that need addressing with pills. Just eat meat and veggies to your fi...
[15:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:47] <exec> 08└─these articles are poorly thought out. Human metabolism can use glucose(glycogen) very effectively. The problem is glucose is *toxic*, so having more than you need will random kill cells e.g. nerve endings in your eye, or remote bit like your fingers and toes.... Excess blood glucose is controlled b...
[15:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:09] <exec> 08└─On Linux at least, is there any reason it would be running with elevated privileges?
[15:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:10] <exec> 08└─Typically gs would run at the privilege level of the user invoking the converter. So if you are logged in as root, well, that could then be a big problem. But, gs is also invoked in a lot of other places. Like, i.e., as part of printing (i.e., cups). And if cups is running as root, unless cups runs...
[15:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:26] <exec> 08└─I've put in a couple dozen PV systems, working for a guy I know who owns the business. We generally size them for your average usage, usually called "net metering". So during the day you'll overproduce and the excess will go into the grid. At night you'll use it back from the grid. You do get paid f...
[15:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:20] <exec> 08└─No it hasn't. There is no guarantee that the intended recipient is the only person who can read the email. Literally anyone working in IT at the company that hosts the mailserver, anyone able to hijack their DNS even briefly, anyone running forwarding services (e.g. most domain hosts, etc.) can read...
[15:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gut Bacteria May Hold Key to Creating Universal Donor Blood Type - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:33] <exec> 08└─Not sure if troll or just ignorant.
[15:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 2300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:26] <exec> 08└─"Why ask that? It's simple, intuitive, and powerful in what it does." It's none of that. Simple? You have a very imprecise and indirect linkage to move a 'pointer' around a virtual space composed of pixels smaller than you can see, and a couple of buttons to 'activate' the selected pixel in differen...
[15:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:27] <exec> 08└─Vim has a similar function to what you describe. It probably doesn't exist in traditional vi. ctrl+v to enter visual block mode highlight the text you want to manipulate then you can use x to cut it or maybe maybe y to copy it and p to paste it somewhere else if you want. you can use I to insert tex...
[15:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 2094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:29] <exec> 08└─"You have a strange concept of language." Et tu. "No CLI I've ever used has understood any of the actual languages I speak and read/write" Wow. Just wow. So you think that if it doesn't parse natural language flawlessly (an impossible task as you should realize if you'd think about it for a few seco...
[15:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:31] <exec> 08└─I recently started *reusing* vim after quite a hiatus. The difference? Modern vim has many language specific features for Python (!) , SAS (!!!!!) , FORTRAN( yeah). Combined with modern desktops and 4K monitors and a terminal that is 500x300, I don't see how *any* gui can beat it for coding producti...
[15:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:10] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they shouldn't have been watching movies over that connection
[15:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:14] <exec> 08└─Woosh? Maybe, but we've become so degenerate as a nation in Trump's America (and the world for that matter, because none of us, not even the USA, is an island unto ourselves), that what two years ago would have been a "whoosh!" now must be framed (as you have) as a question. There are plenty of peop...
[15:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:01] <exec> 08└─The majority of people in the world are not white males.
[15:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:02] <exec> 08└─Im not the one leveling accusations you disingenuos twat.
[15:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:04] <exec> 08└─No shit sherlock, dont take the hyperbole too seriously.
[15:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:01] <exec> 08└─While keeping software patched is one part of the security equation, anyone who relies only on that for security is a fucking fool. Everything that is shipped today has bugs and exploits, and you don't know that nobody already knows about them.
[15:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:59] <exec> 08└─You are correct, of course. The kit is billed as a pseudo-satellite. I thought it would be helpful to compare the two. Additional data point: Wikipedia lists the cruise speed of this as 35 miles/hour. That would make the time for equatorial circumnavigation just over 29 days ignoring the very real c...
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[16:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:38] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=28530 [soylentnews.org]
[16:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:40] <exec> 08└─Well done sir. I think.
[16:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:02] <exec> 08└─You must have never had a superbly delicious peach. A good peach right off the tree, is so good, it makes you sad that you can't have them that way all the time. It's been a long time, since I've found a standard peach from a grocery store that was much good. Sometimes the Organic peaches are really...
[16:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:04] <exec> 08└─If "a high-fat diet produce[s] an enzyme named MMP-2 that clips receptors for the hormone leptin from the surface of neuronal cells in the hypothalamus" then wouldn't cutting fat start the process of lowering MMP-2 and allowing leptin to start binding to receptors properly?
[16:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:06] <exec> 08└─Try fruit from a farmers market.
[16:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:45] <exec> 08└─Not terribly surprising, Solar Panels for your home are a fairly new thing and as such cost quite a bit. By father-in-law got 48 panels 5 years ago to power his home, and it cost him somewhere around $40k. Now, it's more like $20k. I could be wildly off on the numbers, but the point is they aren't c...
[16:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:46] <exec> 08└─Well, if most of the people were doing it, it wouldn't be nonconformist, would it?
[16:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Trends in Teenage 'New Smoker' Rates in Europe - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:17] <exec> 08└─Vaping used to be good until the FDA cracked down on it (likely at the request of the tobacco companies). Now coils are like 3 times as expensive and nobody can mix vape juice in the store any more. Also the electronics got shittier. I never had a problem with a mod starting on fire until recently....
[16:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:28] <exec> 08└─I'm just suspicious of what they were doing to exceed the data caps. Advertised caps before carriers drop your speed are usually 2-4 GB/month. AFAIK it pretty much requires media consumption to reach that level. Charitably considering that they may have been sending work related documents, that woul...
[16:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:30] <exec> 08└─and data rates had been reduced to 1/200, or less, than the previous speeds
[16:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─AFAIK it pretty much requires media consumption to reach that level.
[16:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry, if 45 people show up and claim direct knowledge of your misbehavior, then its likely you misbehaved.
[16:48:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 1361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:16] <exec> 08└─I used to take the Hugo awards, and all the nominees, as solid recommendations. About 15-20 years ago, the general quality of the nominees and winners started to decline. For the past 10 years or so, I look at them as authors to be avoided. I haven't read Jemisin's novels, but I did suffer through a...
[16:48:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 1218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:47] <exec> 08└─What has happened is that two DISTINCTLY different genres have been mashed together, mostly by publishers. Science Fiction, and Fantasy. This has an unfortunate effect. The Fantasy fans tend to be HIGHLY anti-science, mostly because their own stories are so full of science holes (which is fine, they...
[16:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:26] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly, it isn't registered by the NBA, but by Pat Reilly, who was the coach of the LA Lakers at the time. "Threepeat" was commonly used in the media and he copyrighted it, or trademarked it (or whatever the hell it is to lock up a word or phrase) so that he could make and sell cham...
[16:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:27] <exec> 08└─I watched the new series called Altered Carbon on Netflix. I may have to take a look, if the books are even better.
[16:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:00] <exec> 08└─You can ask their neighbors in Pakistan whether having US companies exporting detailed profiles about every citizen could have consequences. Data slurping is all cute and business, until you start asking your companies to help identify targets for drones or train rides.
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[17:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:23] <exec> 08└─They should work on fixing their cpu issues so they arent reduced to threatening to sue people for using them for benchmarks.
[17:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:25] <exec> 08└─Warrantless mass surveillance will become completely automated and more efficient than ever!
[17:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:27] <exec> 08└─CPUs, operating systems, and things like "smart-home technology", used to be electronic tools of the wielder that got something done. Somewhere along the way, they became espionage tools of corporations and the state. X-10 commands went to your X-10 controller located in your house. They were comman...
[17:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:41] <exec> 08└─>If you are a California voter, please take a moment now to call your assemblymen and tell them to vote "yes" on SB 822. How about I weight the pro's and con's myself and vote in my own best interests instead of for your agenda.
[17:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:43] <exec> 08└─In California, if you want to get a law passed just tack on a tax increase and say its going to obese immigrant orphans!
[17:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:45] <exec> 08└─Presumptuous to ask will you please do something? Hey Rtard, presumptuous would be if they said "Every California voter should vote for this" or something with a little more bite than a question using "please". And unless you're a giant ISP then this would be in your own best interest. "R" stands fo...
[17:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:47] <exec> 08└─Why are we getting more people from the South West US coming to Cali? Honestly the Latinos are way better workers and they are less of a drain on the welfare system.
[17:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─There's probably a catch, or a rider, on the bill. It has to be weighed against the overall gain of CA taking a stand on NN (which is in the Bay's startups interests). Feel free to tell your elected official to vote for Net Neutrality, and to try to remove any questionable Appendix. I think we can a...
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:51] <exec> 08└─Guess almost half the country are Socialsts Oh, it's WAY more than that! Poll: 83 percent of voters support keeping FCC's net neutrality rules [thehill.com] And per usual I'll throw in my standard reminder that 100% of Democrats voted in favor of preserving these rules and all but 3 Republicans vote...
[17:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:54] <exec> 08└─What about World Socialist Web Site [wsws.org]?
[17:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:56] <exec> 08└─Nonono, that'll never work. You have to earmark it for obese black Hispanic transsexual lesbian Moslem immigrant orphans! Get with the program, you incel!
[17:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:21] <exec> 08└─Possibly. But Wikipedia's article on MMP2 suggests instead it's production trigger is encoded in genes (chromosome 16 site 12.2). More on target would be figuring out what about fat ingestion triggers the gene to command the enzyme production. Or some other way to block the enzyme from forming even...
[17:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:22] <exec> 08└─What pills? The only difficulty I've seen so far is getting enough electrolytes. Its weird to force yourself to eat just so you can get some salts... It really makes you realize how depleted the soil must be of magnesium, etc: https://www.sciencedirect.com [scie...
[17:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:03] <exec> 08└─If you have solar panels, you could be trying to hide the grow op in your house! Or, you could move to a state that respects your personal freedoms and conducts itself with the fiscal responsibility necessary to not need bailouts from neighboring states. AKA, a Blue state.
[17:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:16] <exec> 08└─So by your own line of reason, increases in wildfire frequency isn't evidence that changes in how wildfires are treated have lead to increases in wildfire frequency because there is another theory that also predicts it.
[17:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:17] <exec> 08└─Then where is this evidence? That you are ignorant of the evidence, and when presented with it you actively ignore it to remain ignorant, is not proof that there is no evidence. Try opening an elementary school science textbook as a starting point. Demonstrating the greenhouse effect is a science-fa...
[17:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─Read The Fine Parent where I made crystal-clear that Open Source hate for Integrated Development Environments is the result of Visual Studio and not at all Metroworks, Think nor Symantec.
[17:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:14] <exec> 08└─It's been using the Cocoa Text Widget for most of its existence. I'm pretty sure Project Builder's editor wasn't NeXT's NextStep Text Widget. That ThinkC really _was_ so very responsive I'm quite certain was the result of its editor being written in 68000 assembler. I expect CodeWarrior's was writte...
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[17:46:16] <exec> 08└─He always said "Ying-Yang" quietly to himself whenever he typed "yy". As a result I have always done that too.
[17:48:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 894 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:33] <exec> 08└─I only skimmed, but I didn't see any gloating and nothing at all about men being kicked out and women taking over. My guess is you're other posts on here of "I read some of their stuff, well the free stuff, and it was ok" is this story's equivalent of "One of my good friends is black!" The sad truth...
[17:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:42] <exec> 08└─The other positive aspect is that most games are built on top of a few engines. Get an engine to run reliably, and essentially all the derived games should work.
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[18:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:14] <exec> 08└─Neanderthals were not "backwards", they were egalitarian. This was among the social traits that allowed them to be out competed (breeding and hunting) by Homo Sapiens emigrating from Africa. Sound familiar?
[18:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:16] <exec> 08└─... versus dying one's hair blue to protest reality, gorging on fatty foods to protest fat shaming, and whinging about the "tampon tax". Why do the smartest, most productive regions of a country have "liberal" politics? Because that's where the money is. Leftists can't rob poor people to fund their...
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[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─That's a... interesting theory. *coughcorrelationcausationcough*
[18:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:20] <exec> 08└─....ooops.
[18:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:22] <exec> 08└─Oh I know, the whole thing is a joke. If anything liberal ideology is more neanderthal and conservatives are modern homo sapiens. More kids? Check for outbreeding Less egalitarian? Check for almost every aspect except the professed "WWJD" bullcrap none of them follow It sure does sound familiar, but...
[18:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:24] <exec> 08└─It sure does sound familiar, but not how you think. At least modern homo sapiens have started to realize that egalitarian societies are better all around and thus you backwards conservatives are getting "out competed" ideologically. So sad, much crying.
[18:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:35] <exec> 08└─The last page of the survey notes the nearly universal concern about "security & privacy of personal information online". Real people get their accounts hacked, click on viruses, and many of them have probably heard of a high profile event such as the OPM hack. However, I think the survey's softball...
[18:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:37] <exec> 08└─"The amount of people who know or care about the issues you raised is pretty low. More high-profile cases involving smart speakers hitting the news might raise some awareness." The trouble is that people are looking to "fix" the issue instead of recognizing that its fundamentally intractable and the...
[18:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:40] <exec> 08└─Well, that's what I first thought when I read the title. Has anyone added up all the "small" performance hits each new piece of microcode is costing us? We must be down 20% or so by now. Thanks, Intel.
[18:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:02] <exec> 08└─Well, first, you probably don't get to vote, your representative does. Unless you are a representative, in which case voting in YOUR OWN self interest is not what you're supposed to do. (Though probably the norm.)
[18:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:12] <exec> 08└─The internet is full of armchair non-conformists, biasing your estimates. Look at the rebels in this place...
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─But if you close the faucet then how will the Little Greenies drive their sports cars to the chicks playing wild dance music from their boomboxes???
[18:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─Massachusetts tracks pot plants with helicopters [commonwealthmagazine.org] MASSACHUSETTS DECRIMINALIZED MARIJUANA in 2008, legalized medical marijuana in 2012, and is about to vote on legalizing recreational marijuana, but that hasn’t stopped the State Police and the National Guard from launching...
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[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─smart meters are acctually for "dumb people" and must be a running joke around the water cooler at the electricity company. it is miserable how many parameters can be monitored with these devices and allows just as many parameters to creatively show up on your future bill. i personally feel the only...
[18:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─But only moslem terrorists don't like pork!! You a turrist boy? Fun fact, anyone who uses the "moslem" spelling is most likely from an immigrant Nazi family, or one of their pathetic lackeys, using it as a dog whistle. Timeline [writingexplained.org] which shows their diminishing influence over the...
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[18:43:22] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but they also have the very practical benefit of them being able to read most meters just by driving down the street. I would like to get all these smart devices out of our lives, this new age of no privacy is detrimental to the human psyche.
[18:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:24] <exec> 08└─Northampton (MA) dispensary gets go-ahead on recreational pot [gazettenet.com]
[18:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:26] <exec> 08└─It is not necessary to try to hide what goes on in a house if all the vibrators are battery operated.
[18:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:29] <exec> 08└─[smart meters] have the very practical benefit of them being able to read most meters just by driving down the street.
[18:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:31] <exec> 08└─Fire!
[18:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:45] <exec> 08└─Wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized!!!
[18:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:30] <exec> 08└─Without a ton of extra software outside the scope of email (you can say PGP but I could just PGP a Post-It and send that to you, it doesn't mean the Post-It or mail service is a secure transport medium).
[18:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:32] <exec> 08└─there are not that many dns servers that can use the root.hints file. notably the notoriously buggy bind is one. curiously enough this is strong idication that most internet users have no clue about how the internet works(*). which leads me to suggest that this (identity) is still a soft and mushy a...
[18:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:04] <exec> 08└─Trump has an absolute hardon for Xi's ability to censor his people. Something, something, party of free speech...
[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:05] <exec> 08└─having the internet in china is like having rain without clouds. i believe having a real internet excludes having something like a chinese government...
[18:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:48] <exec> 08└─Ah, one of our fellow true believers. Welcome, Brother!
[18:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:49] <exec> 08└─It likely already comes with vim, and nano isn't hurting you existing
[18:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:51] <exec> 08└─after that nasty recurrence of Sad Puppy bashing
[18:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:53] <exec> 08└─You don't have to memorize a ton of multi-key commands in vi; you have to memorize a bunch of single-key commands. With emacs, it has a help mode where if you can't remember what you want, you either C-h k for "what does this key chord do?", C-h f "does this function do what I think it does?", or M-...
[18:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:56] <exec> 08└─You've got a section of indented code you want to move back a level
[18:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:58] <exec> 08└─You should read the Vim help text about auto indent mode. Just highlight a block of code and let it fix the indenting for you.
[18:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:00] <exec> 08└─Every IDE I've ever tried has left me longing for the command line, and simple but powerful scriptable tools. The point I was trying to make is that you can go much faster and with fewer bugs if you do it simpler.
[18:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─That would be emacs, since emacs takes ages to do anything?
[18:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:50] <exec> 08└─I understand - hence the '?'
[18:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:42] <exec> 08└─Porn hub actually does have a visually impaired system. It doesn't rely as much on front-end scripting and makes more sense on a screen reader. In addition, you can watch "Described Video" that narrates the action. In fact, some of those videos are the top rated on the site, especially among women,...
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[19:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:50] <exec> 08└─As opposed to conservatives who are all wolves who pretend not to steal but then do it anyway and claim it never happened. And if it did happen it wasn't illegal. And if it was illegal you sheep deserved it for stealing all the ecomonies. E.. economies..
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─*WOOOOOSH*
[19:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:53] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, the wooshing sound. Often heard when placing an empty sea shell to ones ear or when a liberal opens their mouth.
[19:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:55] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you were born into a family of idiots, maybe next lifetime you'll get parents that read to you as a child and your reading comprehension won't be so atrocious (bad).
[19:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:57] <exec> 08└─"Touché"? Seriously? That rambling nonsense doesn't even come close to his parent's post.
[19:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:00] <exec> 08└─Why must we maintain population?
[19:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:13] <exec> 08└─Real people get their accounts hacked, click on viruses, and many of them have probably heard of a high profile event such as the OPM hack.
[19:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:15] <exec> 08└─the only real solution is not to have them.
[19:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:40] <exec> 08└─Socialist morons want California to be uncompetitive.
[19:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:41] <exec> 08└─What about it? Got some examples on there of bullshit fake news? I don't read that site but a quick perusal of their homepage doesn't look nearly as click-baity and nonsensical as breitbart / infowars.
[19:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 2953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:43] <exec> 08└─The whole "paid prioritization" is a scam to get money from big tech companies that have it. Big Tech earns money, the ISPs want it. AT&T (for example) goes to (let's say) Netflix and says: pay us money and we'll make sure that AT&T customers connecting to Netflix get slightly better connections. Re...
[19:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:46] <exec> 08└─In California, if you want to get a law passed just tack on a tax increase and say its going to obese immigrant orphans!
[19:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:48] <exec> 08└─It is very unfair to say that representatives vote in their own self interest. They vote in the interest of their paying lobbyists.
[19:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:50] <exec> 08└─Is it socialism to have Public Education?
[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─If you are a California voter, please take a moment now to call your assemblymen and tell them to vote "yes" on SB 822.
[19:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:41] <exec> 08└─If you are running a Linux or Unix server and have either SpamAssassin or ClamAV setup correctly, then they have read-only access to their configs and definitions and cannot make outgoing network connections. The only have write access to their sockets used for IPC. Best-case scenario for infection...
[19:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:10] <exec> 08└─I wasn't arguing they are a good thing, just that there are practical upsides apart from micro-billing. Y'know, I have never visited a sandwich shop that would charge you less if you came after the lunch rush. Power companies should not be able to charge more for different times of the day. What val...
[19:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:12] <exec> 08└─Power companies should not be able to charge more for different times of the day.
[19:45:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 1081 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:57] <exec> 08└─I never saw the appeal of memorization of a huge number of multi-key commands. In the DOS days, when GUI editors weren't an option, I did use Brief (by Underware) and loved it - never have seen any editor do rectangular block copy as well - it had multiple windowing and basically everything you coul...
[19:48:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:12] <exec> 08└─Imagine if Verizon's CEO's house was on fire and the firemen throttle the water pressure to the hoses used to put out the fire. That would be karma.
[19:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:25] <exec> 08└─Just so you know, it's spelled HIPAA.
[19:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:26] <exec> 08└─I have not seen Mad Men. As for Linus, needing hierarchy is not the same as liking it and creating it for its own end even when unnecessary. As a rule interns would not root access to production servers. There are probably interns who are the exception and are exceptional. If I used a number with 0-...
[19:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:28] <exec> 08└─I only write software. So I could be wrong. I suspect you are confusing scientists who do the real science from the politician "scientists". I'm not sure what you mean about built around a leader. There may be someone who discovered something, and they get recognized and remembered for it. But other...
[19:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:31] <exec> 08└─people have started to call those who try to reproduce their research "bullies".
[19:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:33] <exec> 08└─Hey, I didn't know that. Thank you for pointing it out!
[19:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:35] <exec> 08└─You should sign an executive odor declaring so.
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[20:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:00] <exec> 08└─In reality, all this proves is that Neanderthal women were really hot. (most of us knew that already ;-)
[20:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:01] <exec> 08└─Wrong again. We are unrelated.
[20:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:03] <exec> 08└─So the crooks in politics and finance have people to steal from.
[20:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:06] <exec> 08└─Thank FSM! I like being able to think for myself.
[20:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:08] <exec> 08└─lololol, and you thought the parent was NOT a rambling bunch of propaganda garbage? Oh woman, the sheeple around here that just suck on the teet of Lord Bannon are pretty hilarious.
[20:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:10] <exec> 08└─Ayyy, someone that can roll with a joke! I'll cop to being a bit of a trollish asshole for the OP, but after a while on this site I'm leaning more towards "if you can't beat em' join em'" by which I mean sink to their level of rhetoric.
[20:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:12] <exec> 08└─Now go and put your colander on.
[20:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:57] <exec> 08└─It seems silly to me that you've had to go to the effort to write that post out. Of course you're exactly right but it seems a bunch of A/C's seem to want to come here and post a bunch of Republican talking points instead of having an actual discussion. None of them log in either, which leads to a...
[20:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:25] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/wvAnQqVJ3XQ [youtu.be]
[20:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:36] <exec> 08└─Mental block, the animal I most easily associate with the whole business is a Hippopotamus, so...
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[21:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:42] <exec> 08└─There you go, proper scientific proof backed with empirical fact - that Twitter, is for twits. "Social Media" has not added any value to mankind, only incited hatred, division ..and profits for the 0.1%.
[21:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:43] <exec> 08└─Don't have a public social media profile and behave like you're talking amongst friends.
[21:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:45] <exec> 08└─She reached out to me with an unnecessary apology which I heartily accepted and returned with my own. After talking to her, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I'm doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost. I have also talked to the folks that...
[21:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:47] <exec> 08└─The great global dialog has revealed that only is the world incredibly balkanized, but so is each country. Guess what? Diversity is NOT a strength; rather, agreement is a strength, and agreement tends to imply homogeneity.
[21:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:50] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Twitter is part of reality now...
[21:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:52] <exec> 08└─Surrounding oneself with yes-men is agreement. I wouldn't call that a strength. Neither diversity nor agreement is a strength. It is how one handles it that makes it a strength or weakness.
[21:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:54] <exec> 08└─Remember, if you are a furry or a feminist, you can be as disrespectful and vulgar as you like, and get promoted for it. Soon, her friends took umbrage and said a lot of unkind things but long after I was gone as I immediately deleted my comments and blocked all concerned.
[21:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:56] <exec> 08└─And he has deleted his twitter. Hey, look who the bullies are now.
[21:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:58] <exec> 08└─... is dead.
[21:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:01] <exec> 08└─The great global dialog has revealed that only is the world incredibly balkanized, but so is each country. While that may be true, your assertion that it hasn't incited division is demonstrably false. It has incited division, not just in the US, but in places like Myanmar where it has been used not...
[21:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:03] <exec> 08└─Yes-men are lying about their agreement. Ergo, there is not actually agreement. Agreement is strength. That's why religious communities tend to be pretty strong, despite the fact that they agree on the truth of fairy tales.
[21:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:05] <exec> 08└─After talking to her, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I'm doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost.
[21:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:07] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be free speech?
[21:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:09] <exec> 08└─The division was always there; it's just that people didn't know about each other—they didn't realize that total fuckwits were living right next to them.
[21:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:11] <exec> 08└─It it's private free speech, no problem. The moment she explicitly associated herself with NASA, they have the right to an opinion.
[21:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:14] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be free speech?
[21:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:48] <exec> 08└─> sink to their level of rhetoric. Not even close.
[21:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:50] <exec> 08└─Because the economists demand growth. Politicians listen to economists. Bit like Macbeth and the witches, really, only economists probably only kill an occasional goat or chicken to read the entrails.
[21:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:27] <exec> 08└─Not only is PostScript itself Turing complete, but it and PDF allow you to embed and run other Turing complete languages in a document. The attack surface of all those language interpreters is gigantic. And that doesn't even get into the parsing of raster graphics, vector graphics, audio files, inte...
[21:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:28] <exec> 08└─Turing completeness by itself is not dangerous. Jota [wikipedia.org] is a Turing-complete language, too, but I don't think you can do anything harmful with it. The worst you can do is eat processor cycles and RAM (it doesn't even have output!).
[21:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:00] <exec> 08└─there's a argument to be made for more monitoring. it should lead to a more stable grid and sinking costs. modern reality however, mostly swings the other way. blame it on shareholder value or whatnot, but the "so-called" improvments mostly lead to more cost\profit. "modern wording" should be a mast...
[21:48:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 905 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:48] <exec> 08└─The entire gamut of "broadband" suppliers needs to be hammered with a 'truth in advertising' class action lawsuit. And, that suit needs to be vigorously pursued, all the way up through the court system. It matters little whether your "broadband" is 2mb (in my case) or 2gb or 500tb - it it's what the...
[21:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:18] <exec> 08└─I just mean that scientific truth is not absolute even at a given point, but simply a consensus among scientists. That's a statement from philosophy of scientific knowledge. Most people believe that scientific knowledge represents truth in a certain scene, say Platonic or countless other versions. N...
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[22:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:27] <exec> 08└─So where is this valid? Where could Intel prosecute someone for publishing before and after benchmarks? I bet there are countries where Intel can't reach, and someone will publish results. The fact is, most of us know that performance will take a hit, and that's just the way it is. We have the optio...
[22:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:28] <exec> 08└─Same backdoors, but at least they don't try to stifle free speech and their CEO is quite likable.
[22:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:30] <exec> 08└─Typo in that last word. You are missing either "c" or "e".
[22:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:33] <exec> 08└─its called contract law. Yes, they can sue. Yes they can win.
[22:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:58] <exec> 08└─The personal and the private are easily confused on a platform like Twitter. Case in point - the tweeter in chief. People using the platform to unwind and shoot the shit get to mix with people using it in a professional capacity; endless drama ensues.
[22:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:59] <exec> 08└─A few profane words should not disqualify anyone from being hired for any job, if those words were not said during the job interview or while working at the job. The US is in the grip of mass insanity. The people who think someone should be fired for profanity should go fuck themselves. ( yes, I am...
[22:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:01] <exec> 08└─they didn't realize that total fuckwits were living right next to them.
[22:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:03] <exec> 08└─He's white knighting, LOL. Should be on THOT patrol and tell her she'll never work in the industry again. If the intern were a male, like Ethanol Fueled, perhaps, things would actually be enforced rather than glossed over. Also unlike Naomi, Ethanol fueled would have at least been entertaining.
[22:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:06] <exec> 08└─Here is the 'reality' of the world. Piss off the wrong people and no amount of 'know how' will get you that job. Everyone likes to pretend they are in the upper 1% of the 1% in smarts. But if you are a complete ass and can not get along with others even before you start the job, that job is not goin...
[22:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:08] <exec> 08└─When you are dying of rectal cancer, you'll look back at your post and wish you spent more time exercising and less time being a SJW sheeplet. Moron.
[22:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:10] <exec> 08└─He's found her an internship in the Soviet cosmonaut division, where she can suck Ivan's dick and balls all day long. I hear they need some more female cosmonauts since they're down to the last one.
[22:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:12] <exec> 08└─Agreement leads to social strength (cohesion). Diversity (of thought) leads to scientific and technological strength (innovation).
[22:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:14] <exec> 08└─They must be the children of conservatives, trying out being liberal but still not free of their parent's idiocy.
[22:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:16] <exec> 08└─At this point I'm pretty sure what position he is going to find for her and she'll be the one doing the sucking.
[22:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:19] <exec> 08└─Yall are crazy. Crazy crazy crazy. She lost the internship but then "Naomi eventually reached out and apologized to Hickam. After the conversation, Hickam had kind words to say about Naomi. He also said he would help her find a better position." Some people respect others that are able to admit they...
[22:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:21] <exec> 08└─I don't have that word in my vocabulary. And never have. There are NO TAPES!
[22:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:23] <exec> 08└─Diversity of thought only leads to progress when there is voluntary interaction. Otherwise, diversity of thought is guaranteed to devolve into a war for the reins of power. As soon as the United States promulgated a Separation of Church and State, religious wars died off in the West, because there w...
[22:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:25] <exec> 08└─Gotta love it. All the RWNJs are out in force saying fuck this girl because reasons, but then they turn around and SCREAM about conservatives being held accountable for what they say. It has been a slow death for this site, soon you'll be able to enjoy your alt-right circle jerk unimpeded by opposin...
[22:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:27] <exec> 08└─Still their are those, like this guy, who want to suck dicks and balls. Troll harder!
[22:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:17] <exec> 08└─Why partition the respondents into "male" and "female", "mother" and "father"? The way this flawed survey is designed, it's as if Intel doesn't even want to understand millennials.
[22:43:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:30] <exec> 08└─A simpler explanation is that everything you've "learned" about the DNC from Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars etc is a load of shit.
[22:43:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:38] <exec> 08└─Guess almost half the country are Socialsts Oh, it's WAY more than that! Poll: 83 percent of voters support keeping FCC's net neutrality rules [thehill.com] And per usual I'll throw in my standard reminder that 100% of Democrats voted in favor of preserving these rules and all but 3 Republicans vote...
[22:43:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:45] <exec> 08└─In California, if you want to get a law passed just tack on a tax increase and say its going to obese immigrant orphans!
[22:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:18] <exec> 08└─But the question is, who put the MMP-2 into Americans?
[22:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:17] <exec> 08└─Also, qmail is the only acceptable MTA and has been available for over two decades.
[22:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:18] <exec> 08└─Daniel J. Bernstein is the only acceptable software architect.
[22:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:40] <exec> 08└─This. Was recently tangentially involved in an assault incident with multiple witnesses. The assaulter simply filed assault claims against the victims, and turned the whole thing into stalemate.
[22:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:41] <exec> 08└─Presumably the people complaining were her employees? And now they have all been fired with her grants drying up.
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[23:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:43] <exec> 08└─"Their CEO is quite clickable"?
[23:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:44] <exec> 08└─Same backdoors, but at least
[23:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:46] <exec> 08└─No, violation of license conditions and a license is not a contract. I'm not sure they could win a lawsuit as the terms are onerous, being unilaterally imposed after sale to fix a product defect.
[23:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:48] <exec> 08└─They can lose too. Contract law is not an absolute and cannot trump other laws. People cannot be held to a contract that enslaves them, forces them to break other laws, or recklessly endangers others. People also cannot always be held to NDAs and non-compete agreements. But this one was lost in the...
[23:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:50] <exec> 08└─clickable
[23:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:53] <exec> 08└─Puts a whole new spin to their backdoors.
[23:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:55] <exec> 08└─When AMD ditches the backdoor(s) (that you know about)...
[23:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:57] <exec> 08└─Intel... responded... "As an active member of the open-source community, we continue to welcome all feedback."
[23:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:59] <exec> 08└─Can't somebody just publish an anonymous article (with easily repeatable results) and then have a trusted buddy in the tech journalism industry publish it? Intel's Jewish lawyers probably thought of that one, too, but maybe not well enough to cover their asses from that extra abstraction-layer.
[23:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe some of you moderates will see the type of people they ally themselves with once there are no liberal views to hate on.
[23:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─You're a sad sad person.
[23:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:42] <exec> 08└─Why, thank you. If you can't troll, you can at least be flattering.
[23:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:44] <exec> 08└─As usual, your use of "socialism" is wrong. You're thinking of Communism. This has been clarified enough times that I can only assume you're a shill trying to prevent people from realizing socialism is a great thing. The only downside to socialism, taxes, is completely nullified by the benefits to i...
[23:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:47] <exec> 08└─You need to work on your vocabulary, you keep using words incorrectly. Triggered nut, your tantrums are just shitposting, up your game buddy.
[23:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:49] <exec> 08└─Re-educate that AC about the face and neck until he loves Socialism!
[23:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:51] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Here we go again. Some numbnut posts something dumb on Twatter(R)(TM) and everyone feels obligated to take it way too seriously. Or seriously at all. If it had been a racial comment at all, they would have been immediately unpersoned and it would have made the damn national news for some reaso...
[23:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:53] <exec> 08└─no need, people can swim on shitpool of their own stupidity and lack of understanding until our demise as dominan species
[23:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:55] <exec> 08└─Whose reality? The marketoid's reality, trying to sell you a cell phone, download their free app/malware, and making sure their Tweeter logo appears next to the name of every news anchor on the 5 o'clock news? Thankfully I see absolutely no requirement for me to ever use the Twitter(R)(TM) web site....
[23:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:58] <exec> 08└─"Diversity" of hiring, in this case probably a furry of color judging by the language and the avatar, does not necessarily equal diversity of thought. In fact, modern diversity hiring will likely being less diversity of thought, unless you count interrupting engineering meetings with righteous gripe...
[23:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:48] <exec> 08└─Something wrong with this one. And possibly, it was hacked. So many hackers nowadays. Devastating so much of our cyber infrastructure. And nobody knows where they are. Nobody knows what the hell is going on.
[23:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:22] <exec> 08└─The catch is no one who's writing these bills has the slightest idea of what net neutrality even is or how the internet actually works at the machine level. Take the Verizon / Fire Dept debacle out there in CA. Everyone is running around screaming how this is what happens when you repeal net neutral...
[23:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:23] <exec> 08└─You must be posting in the wrong article. You just advocated FOR net neutrality which is what this article is about. You are right, ISPs should sell bandwidth and not give a damn what is going through the pipes, and shouldn't be invading the privacy of users by long term logging without a court orde...
[23:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:19] <exec> 08└─According to the Chromium credit page, they have used PDFium since 2014. Also, PDF.js is a Mozilla project.
[23:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:53] <exec> 08└─I have never once in my life heard someone say "Oh I can't do that now I want to wait until non-peak usage time." It is just a way to suck up money, and the supply / demand thing makes sense when you consider the costs of bulk production vs. small scale. If you have only a few customers then you mus...
[23:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:56] <exec> 08└─That's not "secure".
[23:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:58] <exec> 08└─the something like PGP is going to be the winner
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