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[00:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:34] <exec> 08└─It is well known that games make people murderous, no matter if the games are violent or not (grin)
[00:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:36] <exec> 08└─So would this be considered PvP or MMORPG? MMRRPG (not being online but reality)???
[00:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:38] <exec> 08└─Massive troll, who can say if he really ia a racist piece of crap or just some punk trying to prove a point. Worse it miggt just be for the lulz justaprankbeo level of lame. I suspect the last one.
[00:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:40] <exec> 08└─This could make someone murderous: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:42] <exec> 08└─They should have put more attribute points into Agility, perk points into Dodge, etc.
[00:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:44] <exec> 08└─How about a nice game of chess?
[00:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:46] <exec> 08└─The shooter's lethality ratio was pretty low: 4 killed, 9 wounded... I live in town, my company texted everybody asking us to text back if we were OK... talk about an ERT with too much time on their hands...
[00:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:49] <exec> 08└─No, actually, he got the whole formula. It's a reference to the Netflix show Bojack Horseman.
[00:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 2363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:51] <exec> 08└─Here's how gun control would go. First of all, define gun control. Just throwing in a restriction on those who fail a background check won't catch every potential shooter. We don't know much about David Katz yet, but he may have flown completely under the radar with no arrest record, etc. Another th...
[00:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:53] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pichushkin [wikipedia.org]
[00:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:38] <exec> 08└─Giving free shit to everyone is also a fantastic idea* *see Venezuela
[00:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Legacy System Exposes Contact Info of BlackHat 2018 Attendees - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:18] <exec> 08└─It's more confirmation that Blackhat is just RSA, but with blackjack and hookers. Better to go to BSides or Defcon.
[00:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:22] <exec> 08└─Your link redirects to a story titled "VA accused of cruel experiments on dogs". Are you surprised that while establishment Democrats eulogize the warmonger, Trump supporters are suggesting his brain tumor be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize?
[00:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Apologizes for Throttling Firefighters' Internet Connections - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:27] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to run the numbers, but generally digitized voice is not much load. They (AT&T, etc.) started doing it in the 1960s. Too lazy to look it up but I'm pretty sure they used a 64Kbit / second "pipe" for each voice line, so only 8KB / S data rate. Yes, it adds up but hopefully people don't talk...
[00:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Southport, England: Come for a Round of Golf, Stay for the Flesh-Eating STIs - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:40] <exec> 08└─"Occasional post" from them? Maybe. I could believe it. But I see the word used a lot more frequently, sometimes accusing established posters here. My point isn't that it never happens here, but rather that this is a bizarre and very uninfluential target for this sort of stuff. And this community is...
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[01:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:01] <exec> 08└─It's a better kill:injury ratio than Stephen Paddock, but nobody would call his attack [wikipedia.org] ineffective. The kill count is what matters, injuries are just extra (although some injuries are much worse than others).
[01:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:03] <exec> 08└─Uh, I assume the title was a reference to the film Wargames.
[01:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:05] <exec> 08└─The order restricting Defcad [defcad.com] from posting downloadable files expires on Tuesday. The judge might issue a permanent injunction on Monday. So definitely expect a submission on that topic within the next 48 hours. https://arstechnica.com
[01:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:07] <exec> 08└─Yes but they were all incels. This incident proves that video games are the root cause of shootings. If those incels would have spent their money on women instead of video games, this would have never happened.
[01:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:53] <exec> 08└─San Francisco is simply paying the price for decades of neocon homophobia
[01:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:36] <exec> 08└─"And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." -- Bill Gates
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[02:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:02] <exec> 08└─Too bad it's on the wrong site :(
[02:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:04] <exec> 08└─Software development is a complicated discipline, especially when you consider that it is performed by several people working together.
[02:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:06] <exec> 08└─But it don't make no sense.
[02:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:15] <exec> 08└─What the heck is that? This thing looks like an ultralight "battlemech." Too small to call it that without scarequotes. Neat concept but I bet they haven't worked out the problems with the suspension yet.
[02:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:17] <exec> 08└─Didn't the movie Avatar feature something like that?
[02:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:19] <exec> 08└─Hah. I found the Ziege rifle hidden way in the back behind the Land Destroyer fort. One shot to the body will take this thing out and even if I miss I get 700+ EXP. Your move, rustbucket...
[02:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:21] <exec> 08└─AMP suits, yeah. Starship troopers had a similar concept in the PAPA suit, but the scale was different. In a PAPA suit, the operators leg would extend partway into the leg of the machine, for instance, so operating it was something like walking on stilts. Heinlein might not have been the first to me...
[02:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:07] <exec> 08└─If those incels would have spent their money on women instead of video games, this would have never happened.
[02:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:08] <exec> 08└─The shooter will have been found to be a regular reader of Trump tweets, Drudge Report, Breitbart, and 4chan; and will have been discovered to enjoy Doom, Marilyn Manson and AC/DC; and the mass media will repeat those lies 24/7 in a desperate last-ditch effort to influence the midterm and get more w...
[02:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:10] <exec> 08└─Watching it a second time, you can see a laser sight on the guy just before the shooting starts.
[02:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:12] <exec> 08└─It was apparently a competitor in the tournament (Madden '19), who got upset when he lost. I will admit to feeling shocked when I first heard the news but, upon hearing it was a Madden player, thinking "Well, if there was going to be one subset of the community that would do this, the sports game pl...
[02:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:14] <exec> 08└─I met a guy who broke up a pistol-mugging (strangers, nobody to him, just trying to do the right thing), got shot in the ankle for his troubles... permanently debilitated - he can still walk, sort of, but won't be running anywhere approaching normal ever again.
[02:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:16] <exec> 08└─Life continues to be harsh and unfair for many. But at least we have TV, air conditioning, ice cream, a cure for cholera, etc. Hopefully, in the future, we would be able to give that man a robot ankle. Maybe we will have replacement parts that exceed the performance of the originals, to the point wh...
[02:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:19] <exec> 08└─Battle Chess [youtube.com]
[02:43:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 679 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:40] <exec> 08└─There's also laws requiring authorities to provide minimal services like public rest rooms, homeless shelters and rehab centers for addicts. i.e. The laws forbidding public urination (and deification I guess) were successfully challenged dozens of times during the 80s and 90s when police officers we...
[02:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:05] <exec> 08└─If I decide to move into your house w/o your permission and you try to have me removed, does that make you aiding and abetting a crime?
[02:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:07] <exec> 08└─So the solution is to treat the homeless like crap so they go elsewhere? The weather probably plays a part in it: if you are homeless, you want to go where the weather is best all year around, and the East is not it.
[02:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:09] <exec> 08└─Most homeless people suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. Fetal alcohol syndrome is incurable. I know one person with it (currently homeless). Drug addict, graduate of numerous government 'programs'. They've utterly destroyed every place they've ever lived, despite having been given a free nice house...
[02:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:11] <exec> 08└─Why even do that? *Pay* people a small amount of money to poop in designated toilets, flush, and leave the bathroom clean. You could have the city cleaned up overnight.
[02:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:54] <exec> 08└─It kinda exists? https://www.revelist.com [revelist.com]
[02:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:59] <exec> 08└─I too voted for McCain in 2000. The GOP primary gap between McCain and Bush was huge compared to Gore and Bradley
[02:48:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Piracy is the Internet's Canary in the Coal Mine, MPAA Chief Says - 697 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:35] <exec> 08└─Actually, you're supposed to watch the damned bird. You watch for telltale signs that it might be experiencing problems, because by the time he dies, it's likely to late to run. And, yes, if all of the piracy sites are killed off, there won't be any internet worth having. Uncle or Big Brother will b...
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[03:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:55] <exec> 08└─People are not spherical cows. What works well for one group works well for one group; no implication can be had that it will work well for any other group. Find what works well for your group and use it, adapting as necessary.
[03:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:07] <exec> 08└─Fling a box of ball bearings under those feet, and it'll fall over. Then, just smash the windows and you can eat the juicy kill the operator.
[03:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:09] <exec> 08└─what is it? well, it visually reminded me of the things from robocop. but that tells me that what this really is is a joke, intended to make guests to their factory snigger before a deal is sruck over several sbottles of vodka.
[03:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:11] <exec> 08└─This is suitable for bomb disposal.
[03:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:03] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing [wikipedia.org]
[03:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:04] <exec> 08└─Shooter has been named: David Katz. Sounds pretty Jewish to me.
[03:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:57] <exec> 08└─You can smell it in Harvard Square.
[03:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:58] <exec> 08└─Yakima, WA is hiring 'curtain twitchers' to keep those who don't subscribe to socialistic groupthink, under surveillance. Inquire at https://www.yakimawa.gov [yakimawa.gov]
[03:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:42] <exec> 08└─Of course they used VMS in naking WNT. Add 1 to each letter in VMS and you get WNT.
[03:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:43] <exec> 08└─Frightening. DRABC became DRSABCD [vic.gov.au] So now, take the Send for help and make it "log in to facebook and have a chat with a 911 account (and hope you didn't select a spoof accound with a similar name)"
[03:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry for picking nits. People ignoring/forgetting/covering up/glossing over the way Microsoft screwed over so very many people and companies throughout its history is a hot button of mine; what kids today call a "trigger", I think.
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[04:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:55] <exec> 08└─Not really an at-st. The backwards knees and boxy design are about it, vague. And the arms really disqualify it!
[04:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldeschool [4414] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:57] <exec> 08└─ED-209 the future of law enforcement. Not good with stairs.
[04:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:51] <exec> 08└─other "crypto-anarchists" will pick up the torch and host plans on the dark web.
[04:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:44] <exec> 08└─What's interesting is that one of the Left's favorite insults is that the Right is "reactionary". Yet, we see again and again that the Right is about prevention of non-existent problems, while the Left is about treatment of increasingly festering troubles—paying people to scoop up poop is what's r...
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[04:43:45] <exec> 08└─Well, you won't be homeless for that long. You're a functioning person who just happened to have a bad turn of luck in terms of, say, cash flow; if someone gave you an apartment for free, you'd be back on your own feet pretty damn quick. Chronically homeless people are not like that. They are broken...
[04:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:31] <exec> 08└─Why isn't this in the public domain yet?
[04:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prenda Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Pirate Bay Honeypot Case - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:36] <exec> 08└─Yet all the IP extremists would claim that anyone that criticizes IP is a criminal. Yet they are the ones committing crimes that are actually worthy of being considered crimes (infringement is not an act worthy of being considered a crime).
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[05:42:02] <exec> 08└─Too bad it's on the wrong site :(
[05:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:17] <exec> 08└─I know that, but some files thrown onto TPB does not make a proper community, which would discuss and test designs, update and tweak designs, share tips, etc. Last time I checked, TPB had a small physibles section that is not going anywhere. Thingiverse had a community, but they booted Cody Wilson a...
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[05:43:19] <exec> 08└─I went to watch the oral arguments last week. The judge said he would get the order out the day before the temporary order expires, which means we should see it on Monday (order expires Tuesday). Based on his questioning of the AGs' attorney (two softballs and side comment) compared to his relentles...
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[05:44:04] <exec> 08└─San Francisco is simply paying the price for decades of neocon homophobia
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[06:41:51] <exec> 08└─Incompetent owner causes [...] ! FTFY What fucking imbeciles. Everybody involved should receive a 5-year block for working with private data. Remember: it's not just the admin's fault. There's also a project manager who demanded impossible schedules, and a business superior who a) went along with en...
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[06:41:52] <exec> 08└─"MongoDB only pawn in game of life." And most likely there was a "back" door to the Archdiosescies of Pennsylvania, and Natalie Portman all dressed up much younger looking and trying to warn the Cardinal that his life was in danger. Oh, if only life followed movie plots!
[06:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:25] <exec> 08└─I went to watch the oral arguments last week.
[06:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:27] <exec> 08└─Longer version [mixtape.moe] (contains extended audio and the Twitch chat)
[06:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:29] <exec> 08└─They are real sketchy on details but if anyone was curious(as I was) there were 2 killed. Nothing really compared to say.. Chicago.
[06:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Elon Musk: Tesla Will Remain a Public Company - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:44] <exec> 08└─> but rather the government's restrictions on what people can do with their own damn money. Maybe that's because the government grew tired of having to deal with the nasty side-effects when you have absolute freedom to give of take money against empty promises...
[06:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:18] <exec> 08└─Russians! They were, after all, the first to put a dog into space. Rupert Murdock, on the other hand, is the first to put an idiot into the White House.
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[07:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:47] <exec> 08└─So the business newswires didn't have those press releases afterwards? Note that I'm not saying what those people did was right. They obtained unauthorized access to computer systems, did corporate espionage, and were involved with insider trading. But it was not stealing.
[07:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not even a stalking or predatory kind of guy - but it crosses my mind that it would be nice to have vital details of hordes of nubile young females. (That presumes that most babysitters are females of child bearing age. With 93000 to choose from there are probably a bunch of damn fine looking gi...
[07:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:13] <exec> 08└─Assuming it's true, your product is either revolutionary or it has no competitors because nobody wants it. Look. I built an office chair that's guaranteed to make you fall over backwards. Nobody else makes them. It "has no competitors". Alternatively, and more commonly, such statements are lies fro...
[07:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the article completely derails and the product doesn't even have anything to do with what the article starts out with. And considering the actual real-life usefulness of metrics (at best a tool to figure out if you need to do code cleanup and where) suggesting a paid tool seems absurd. Not bec...
[07:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:31] <exec> 08└─if it could be remotely operated I'd agree with you. Just my opinion but anything that doesn't get the human as far away from the ordinance as possible is a crap design.
[07:43:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:00] <exec> 08└─You only got part of the formula, it's "Thoughts and prayers, not the right time to talk about gun control, and there were good people on boths sides of the shooting". Please stand by for the next shooting. You already know the drill.
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[08:42:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nothing in the article sounds particularly new. Code metrics have been around for ages, several tools support custom rules (*), the idea of a compound score isn't new either. What I hadn't seen before is visualizing the score in treemaps: that looks useful but it's hardly a revolution. (*) A f...
[08:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if it says that you have five seconds to comply, you better try to reach the next stairs in that time.
[08:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:16] <exec> 08└─There are no Turing complete languages. Turing completeness is defined as a "computational system" with a finite "instruction set" and an infinite memory band that can produce the same output as any other turing machine. By definition, turing complete systems therefore cannot exist physically, only...
[08:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:17] <exec> 08└─Windows 95 could run in 4MB of RAM, if I really, really wanted to. For everyday usage, 8MB was better and 12MB was comfortable. Tried to run this thing, it ate all 700MB of RAM, hit a swap (sorry, I use multitasking so the rest of RAM was occupied, multitasking is probably today's standard I think)...
[08:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:20] <exec> 08└─According to "Intellectual property" illness, yes. If people use old software, they won't buy a new software - so software companies have imaginary looses again. Additionally new software may be sold on subscription form many times and contains tracking code, this data can be sold to generate more p...
[08:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:27] <exec> 08└─He didn't just toe the Republican Party line. Often, but not always. I don't agree with a lot of his ideas, but I gave him credit for having more balls than pretty much all other R senators combined. This democracy is based on having elected officials acting as individuals representing their constit...
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[09:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:16] <exec> 08└─"...have involuntarily exposed the personal details of over 93,000 users" That's a strange word to use. Involuntarily, like it happened and they could do nothing about it. How about "stupidly", "irresponsibly", or maybe "carelessly"? This kind of stuff is just beyond belief. Not only that the databa...
[09:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdsourcing the Hunt for Software Bugs is a Booming Business—and a Risky One - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:24] <exec> 08└─At $DAYJOB, we signed up for HackerOne, and had no end of idiots claiming to have found things that were not security issues at all - most were just false positives from static checkers like Coverity. These fools seemed to think that we don't run all such static checkers internally anyway (and there...
[09:44:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:38] <exec> 08└─These people are not just "you on hard times".
[09:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Elon Musk: Tesla Will Remain a Public Company - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:14] <exec> 08└─$ bzgrep "GET /computer/ " access.log_*.bz2 | grep Jul/2018 | wc 1095 It really started to take off when I posted Soggy Jobs in the Caltech Alumni Facebook Group. I'll join the UCSC Facebook Group Real Soon Now. Just today I started my Cafe section [soggy.jobs]. I also have a Corporate page [soggy.j...
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[10:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:43] <exec> 08└─Phone [navy.mil] (US), (Australia) [smh.com.au] or NTP [ntp.org]?
[10:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:44] <exec> 08└─The what?
[10:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Mccahill2/publication/2798892_Evolution_of_Internet_Gopher/links/54bfd4410cf28a63249fec6e/Evolution-of-Internet-Gopher.pdf?origin=publication_detail [researchgate.net] Interview with the creators: https://www.minnpost.com
[10:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:01] <exec> 08└─They steal elections, they steal stock info, they let you pee on them... ...what's next? Kalishnikovs that transform into electric cars?
[10:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:11] <exec> 08└─You know very well the answers. There's no penalty for the executives and managers for private data breaches (especially in development stages) but there's a large penalty if they don't hit the on-time/on-budget targets, quarter after quarter. Minute things that defocus them will soon become out-of-...
[10:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:13] <exec> 08└─"Involuntarily" as in "I forgot about it". Like in "you don't accuse me I voluntarily forgot, do you?" Because they need to show this as "minor mistake, could happen to anyone". After all, what's the penalty for private data breaches? Especially when no CC or other financial info was exposed, an...
[10:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:34] <exec> 08└─Ten times as much coder-years are spent debugging and maintaining code than implementing new features. Why isn't debugging more of a priority in our educations? How many of you have read Robert Ward's "Debugging C"? It's long out of date but can be had used for like a dollar. I made seven singing on...
[10:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:52] <exec> 08└─3 dead if you include the shooter, but yeah. If this didn’t feed an agenda it would be at most state news - not fucking (inter)national news.
[10:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:48] <exec> 08└─New York doesn't have as bad a problem, because anyone homeless in a New York winter will probably either freeze to death, or sleep on top of one of the metro line vents to keep warm and asphyxiate in their sleep. Last time I was in San Francisco in the winter, it was the second week of January and...
[10:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:49] <exec> 08└─Portland's Fred Meyer grocery store is conveniently located near the Pearl District which is a hotbed of Mobile and Web Application development. There are also some $$$ hirise apartment buildings there. That Fred Meyer stocks more different kinds of craft beer than G-d Almighty's Own Walk-In Beer Ro...
[10:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:51] <exec> 08└─The Portland Loo [google.com]. My only real gripe is that there need to be more than one of them in the Pearl District, and there are none in dowtown at all.
[10:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:53] <exec> 08└─Well payed? how so: the article says that: - the base pay is $71,760 - the average rent SF is $3,750 traditional wisdom says that your rent/mortgage being higher than 1/3th of your pay is a recipe for financial stress and financial disaster Which means that given SF prices you'd need 3 * $3750 = $11...
[10:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:56] <exec> 08└─I think he's still under the impression that most homeless people are either alchoholics or drug-addicts If that's the case you can't help them get back on their own feet economically without fixing the addiction first Of course "most homeless are addicts" hasn't been true for a at least a decade no...
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[11:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:56] <exec> 08└─Actually I'll probably get it from someone else's gps. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] https://www.ebay.com [ebay.com] Looks like there are even nerd kits https://www.ebay.com
[11:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:57] <exec> 08└─Do we really want to connect these devices to the internet? Besides the fact that all existing devices that are dependent on these radio stations will cease to function properly, do we want clocks and irrigation systems connected to the internet? Are we doing this to save money (and by save money, I...
[11:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:00] <exec> 08└─About one year of the Secret Service's Mar-a-lago costs.. https://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com]
[11:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:02] <exec> 08└─GPS time is accurate to a few nanoseconds.
[11:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:04] <exec> 08└─NIST is defined at the beginning of the first paragraph. WWV, WWVB and WWVH aren't acronyms. They are the radio station identifiers for the time standards. WWV broadcasts on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 MHz from Colorado. WWVB broadcasts on 60 kHz long wave, also from Colorado. WWVH broadcasts on 5, 10...
[11:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:07] <exec> 08└─They also have very precise carrier frequencies that can be used as frequency standard references. Yes, a GPSDO can provide you a great, stable reference, and you can get an accurate time synch from GPS but removing the broadcast time standards is a terribly silly thing to do to save a few bucks.
[11:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:09] <exec> 08└─We're going to get a Space Force partially because of threats to GPS. Woohoo!
[11:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:11] <exec> 08└─ublox ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ) claims used to synchronize equipment to within 15 ns, as well as provide UTC time to an accuracy within 90 ns
[11:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:13] <exec> 08└─What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent?
[11:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:15] <exec> 08└─On another site, a poster produced a reasoning that at least the WWVB signal that millions of consumer goods listen into for "auto-clock-setting" features likely won't go silent due to typical "political posturing". The reasoning went something like this: Agency is told to "cut budget by 10%" (pic...
[11:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:25] <exec> 08└─Should SN not have a http-to-gopher-gateway? Could be a fun experiment to run news on gopher.
[11:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:47] <exec> 08└─caused by a MongoDB database left exposed
[11:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:32] <exec> 08└─SF is a bastion of neocon homophobia? really? I'd always had the impression that SF was the core of the hippie movement and has been a haven for gay people and all varieties of sexual kink ever since the 70's
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[11:45:33] <exec> 08└─Addiction doesn't mean they shouldn't have a roof over their head. If having enough roofs to do that screws up the environment then that means there are too many people on the planet chasing too little land. The only ethical way to handle that is to gently incentivize lower birth rates. Contraceptio...
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[12:42:25] <exec> 08└─Besides the fact that all existing devices that are dependent on these radio stations will cease to function properly, do we want clocks and irrigation systems connected to the internet?
[12:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:26] <exec> 08└─Look a little deeper, oh powerful and self-satisfied raptor. For example, here is one list of users, https://www.nist.gov [nist.gov]
[12:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, but I'd never had anything whatsoever that self-adjusted its time until things started doing it over ntp.
[12:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:38] <exec> 08└─... but also WAIS [wikipedia.org]. The arrogant librarians where I worked (a college) thought they'd inherit the internet via WAIS - after all they had MLS degrees (Masters of Looking up Stuff, as I call them). How clueless and wrong they were.
[12:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:40] <exec> 08└─"Should SN not have a http-to-gopher-gateway? Could be a fun experiment to run news on gopher." So did you mean an nntp-to-gopher gateway then? Might need to get the nntp part working first.
[12:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:50] <exec> 08└─Why would any company send out a financially-sensitive press release in advance? Shouldn't these be sent out (and/or posted on the company website) at the correct time for immediate distribution, like any other press release? <sarcasm>Besides, if you send these out in advance, how will your own insi...
[12:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:52] <exec> 08└─Be careful; I have found that there is an alarmingly sizable contingent of monomaniacs on this site whose one issue is "If something is wrong, you must call it stealing--only saying 'stealing' conveys that something is wrong". No matter how many laws against, for example, copyright infringement, see...
[12:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:55] <exec> 08└─Where are you even getting this notion from? This site is full of people who know that "copyright infringement != theft" and that "piracy == swashbucklers plundering a ship". Maybe you overdosed on AC comments?
[12:44:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:38] <exec> 08└─It was apparently a competitor in the tournament (Madden '19), who got upset when he lost. I will admit to feeling shocked when I first heard the news but, upon hearing it was a Madden player, thinking "Well, if there was going to be one subset of the community that would do this, the sports game pl...
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[12:45:54] <exec> 08└─Your ilk? These days people make fun of you and your pointy white things that you can't see out of sometimes.
[12:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I made a typo in my comment above. VisiOn was shown in 1982, not 1992.
[12:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:46] <exec> 08└─It's only real purpose today is running software that is also so old that it's unsupported.
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[13:42:10] <exec> 08└─Epic's first Fortnite Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything on your Android phone [soylentnews.org] Just gonna merge this one in. Walled Garden 4ever!
[13:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix is the Latest Company to Try Bypassing Apple's App Store - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:11] <exec> 08└─At least on the PS4, theybe been removing useful features (eg user ratings) and adding undesirable features (autoplay next movie they pick for you, ads for "suggested" shows, autoplay some video/audio when I just want to read the short blurb). I feel like I have seen this pattern before. You can cal...
[13:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:35] <exec> 08└─Like when I talk about cutting taxes the first thing out of peoples' mouths is firing the police, fire department, and road crew. Yeah I totally mean cutting critical infrastructure first.
[13:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:59] <exec> 08└─Not even close. The 2008 AIG real estate mortgage insurance scam, abetted by Bill Clinton (repealed Glass Steigall) and aided by George W. Bush, (had an AIG exec on his cabinet) certainly takes the cake on that one.
[13:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:36] <exec> 08└─Software development is a complicated discipline
[13:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:56] <exec> 08└─It's a bipedal lightly armored manned cargo-loader. As mentioned, is most comparable to the cargo-loader exoskeleton Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (the 2nd film) was operating since it's obviously meant to compliment existing armored construction gear [wikipedia.org] to put up concrete pylons for perim...
[13:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:57] <exec> 08└─Hopefully in the future we can take lethal projectile weapons out of the hands of the poor, desperate, crazy, and others motivated to use them to harm other people. Right to bear arms against your oppressors doesn't work as intended when the real oppressors have radio coordinated teams with helicopt...
[13:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:01] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention it also needs a new kind of economy based on businesses sustaining a certain size rather than on infinite growth. Infinite growth requires eternal population growth. I suppose you could punish a business for expanding beyond a certain size through taxation but you'd also need to...
[13:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Legacy System Exposes Contact Info of BlackHat 2018 Attendees - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:57] <exec> 08└─At least there is still defcon.
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[14:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Teams up With Uber, Airbus and 19 Others on Flying Taxi Plan - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:03] <exec> 08└─Plant hardwood trees around your building(s) if at all possible. That way, when either a little old lady or drunken idiot screws up with a flying car, the car hits the tree first and with any luck is at least slowed down a bit before hitting your buildings.
[14:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix is the Latest Company to Try Bypassing Apple's App Store - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:12] <exec> 08└─Try finding a video game by its genre.
[14:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix is the Latest Company to Try Bypassing Apple's App Store - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:14] <exec> 08└─Netflix has a long history of that going all the way back to their web browser interface and their Wii app. For a long time the "restart from beginning" feature just vanished on one of those platforms after an update. Amazing how agile companies can't restore a vanished feature for months and months...
[14:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix is the Latest Company to Try Bypassing Apple's App Store - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:17] <exec> 08└─Idiotic Hulu removed the start from beginning and borked the fast forward/rewind in one of their updates for Amazon Fire TV. I can't fathom what fucking moron would think that was a good idea.
[14:42:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 712 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:34] <exec> 08└─On another site, a poster produced a reasoning that at least the WWVB signal that millions of consumer goods listen into for "auto-clock-setting" features likely won't go silent due to typical "political posturing". The reasoning went something like this: Agency is told to "cut budget by 10%" (pic...
[14:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:40] <exec> 08└─So what *would* you cut then?
[14:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:42] <exec> 08└─The whole point is that these are a wireless reference, no infrastructure required. GPS would also be a very good argument as a replacement tech, but why cut off this very different redundant method to save the cost of a fraction of a GPS satellite?
[14:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:44] <exec> 08└─I've always been confused why GPS clocks aren't used in consumer devices. When I'm near a timezone border GPS should know both my location and GMT, so my phone should not need to ask a cell tower what time it is where I am.
[14:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:46] <exec> 08└─The NSA wiretap budget? I'm sure you could save a lot of money that way.
[14:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:48] <exec> 08└─What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent?
[14:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:51] <exec> 08└─https://hackaday.com/2014/03/22/build-your-own-radio-clock-transmitter/ [hackaday.com]
[14:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:53] <exec> 08└─GPS doesn't work indoors. The GPS radio signal isn't strong enough to go through roofs. The WWVB signal is at a lower frequency, which goes through walls much better. Where I live, in Delaware, on the east coast, the signal is pretty weak, but you can still get it in a second floor room.
[14:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:04] <exec> 08└─Add php support to gopher, allow adds being displayed and then youl get it running everywhere.
[14:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:05] <exec> 08└─Asked and answered. [soylentnews.org]
[14:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:20] <exec> 08└─Do we know the full depth of this fraud case yet? The fine article mentions "traders" (plural) that took advantage of the advance information, have all of them been tracked down...and charged?
[14:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:36] <exec> 08└─I think they're trying to befuddle by planting a word seed in people's minds. The criminal prosecution will use: "negligently".
[14:45:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 2363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:01] <exec> 08└─Here's how gun control would go. First of all, define gun control. Just throwing in a restriction on those who fail a background check won't catch every potential shooter. We don't know much about David Katz yet, but he may have flown completely under the radar with no arrest record, etc. Another th...
[14:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:25] <exec> 08└─I disagree. If you read the 2nd, and then read the respective federal codes on malitias and firearms regulations, it is quite clear that there are practical ways to implement a certain degree of gun control within the constraints of the 2nd amendment. And while I could enumerate those approaches I w...
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:30] <exec> 08└─if you look at a person from the perspective of him/her being a fermentation tank then poop really isn't so bad (minus the smell). methinks in old ages, (human) poop was valuable as fertilizer. ofc, in modern times, where there are no own-owned pieces of land not covered with concret or asphalt, the...
[14:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 1541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:35] <exec> 08└─My reasoning for why McCain would have likely been better than Bush: 1. He would have been much less likely to ignore the problem of Al Qaida until after Sept 11, 2001 happened. I'm not saying the Bush administration "let it happen on purpose", as some conspiracy theorists suggest, but there is subs...
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[15:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:17] <exec> 08└─The original purpose of the FDA was to ensure the product contained what it said on the label, and nothing else in amounts above whatever acceptable levels they set. So good job, now get out of the trying to assess efficacy, or preventing people from drinking raw milk, or whatever.
[15:42:18] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 586 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:18] <exec> 08└─Actually, the FDA has been banned by congress from regulating the efficacy and medicinal truth of homeopathic products since it's origination. You can blame one senator who owned a homeopathic products line at the turn of the century and thousands of totally apathetic representatives and senators si...
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[15:42:29] <exec> 08└─help chart a road map this year
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[15:42:42] <exec> 08└─That only means you can't stop what you're watching or skip commercials. That's a feature, not a bug.
[15:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:14] <exec> 08└─So what *would* you cut then?
[15:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:15] <exec> 08└─GPS time is accurate to a few nanoseconds.
[15:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─3. Agency proposes cuts to extremely useful services for millions. 4. Politicans calculate it will not cost them votes nor financial support from important industrial complex backers, and may in fact gain votes with the "we don't care about science only our jerbs" crowd. (None of whom are employed b...
[15:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:19] <exec> 08└─The what?
[15:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:22] <exec> 08└─Sure. I'm sure setting up dozens (hundreds?) of smaller transmitters will cost less than two large ones. And all existing devices lose calibration if they're not receiving the sync signals on the proper shortwave frequencies. And "manage a few hours/days without...".... reveals you don't understand....
[15:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:24] <exec> 08└─Good. Now find the article on how to hack together a caesium clock and we're in business. (No points for substituting other reference signals based on cesium.) Yah, I spelled it both ways - sueth me. ;)
[15:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:26] <exec> 08└─But, in most cases there's no point in making those 10% cuts as most of those agencies aren't being allocated enough money to be a real problem. In this case, that's $6.3m, which for an individual is a lot of money, but for a hundred people, that would be enough to buy most of them houses. Not a lar...
[15:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:28] <exec> 08└─I use WWV, among other things, as a reference for calibrating my ham radio transceivers. The difference between the oscillator in the radio and WWV can be measured and then the radio frequency corrected to be more accurate. This is pretty common - in the absence of the official WWV signal I'm not su...
[15:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:30] <exec> 08└─You might not, but many other people do. I did a count just now and I have three in my home that update based on WWVB. It's an easy and useful way to have a very accurate clock.
[15:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:32] <exec> 08└─I live in Michigan and you can get the signal in a basement. I do on a daily basis. The only time I don't get it is when it's stormy but it's available probably 95% time regardless. Now if the guy above can explain how I can get GPS time, then produce a signal that will keep my several clocks synced...
[15:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:34] <exec> 08└─And isn't GPS overkill
[15:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:37] <exec> 08└─Use Canada's broadcast then.
[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:49] <exec> 08└─Next, you'll be telling me that Al Gore and the government weren't the driving force behind the creation of the Internet! HERESY!
[15:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:20] <exec> 08└─MongoDB has authentication disabled by default. It's makes setting it up & configuring it easier (or so the story goes). Of course most intelligent people think it's a horrible idea, but at least MongoDB is web scale, and has sharding [youtube.com].
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:21] <exec> 08└─Not only that the database should require credentials to log in; this is presumably the backend for their web service, so the server should refuse external database connections on principle. Security kindergarden here...
[15:44:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:41] <exec> 08└─People are not spherical cows. What works well for one group works well for one group; no implication can be had that it will work well for any other group. Find what works well for your group and use it, adapting as necessary.
[15:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:07] <exec> 08└─What the heck is that?
[15:46:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 1516 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:05] <exec> 08└─I went to watch the oral arguments last week. The judge said he would get the order out the day before the temporary order expires, which means we should see it on Monday (order expires Tuesday). Based on his questioning of the AGs' attorney (two softballs and side comment) compared to his relentles...
[15:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─I did read the second amendment, which speaks of "the right of the people." While it also mentions a well-regulated militia, that is just one reason the right to bear arms is important, and was not intended to be a limitation upon it. I am therefore unconvinced that any level of gun control would be...
[15:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:15] <exec> 08└─Right to bear arms against your oppressors doesn't work as intended when the real oppressors have radio coordinated teams with helicopters, assault rifles, etc.
[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:17] <exec> 08└─Watering the Tree of Liberty with the blood of the tyrants. This is why we need to have guns. USA #1
[15:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, some of the drones might malfunction if the Tuesday patch was installed.
[15:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:21] <exec> 08└─I have yet to see any actual evidence any of those assholes are just in it for the lulz... No, a South Park story-arc doesn't count.
[15:46:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:54] <exec> 08└─you are a non-functioning person you just don't have a clue about it
[15:47:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:07] <exec> 08└─Trespassing (and therefore homelessness) is a crime.
[15:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─Your explanation for temperature does nothing to explain why the bums in SF are so much more aggressive than the East Coast bums.
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the Cali problem wasn't because of public deification, it was with the leties' apisstasy.
[15:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:32] <exec> 08└─Obviously not. However, not being diligent in ascertaining the risks of foreclosure is. The banks sold to the derivatives markets who openly traded them in repackaged form whilst calling them "junk" - not even the euphemism "sub-prime", actual "junk" - which means they knew what they were doing.
[15:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:34] <exec> 08└─Never lived there, have you. And that wasn't a question. Those of us who have know different.
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[15:47:36] <exec> 08└─What's interesting is that one of the Left's favorite insults is that the Right is "reactionary". Yet, we see again and again that the Right is about prevention of non-existent problems, while the Left is about treatment of increasingly festering troubles—paying people to scoop up poop is what's r...
[15:47:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:51] <exec> 08└─Email to admin@soylentnews.org will generally get our attention quicker than a comment, btw. I dunno about the other guys but I most definitely don't read every comment on the site.
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[15:49:06] <exec> 08└─Do you even government, bro?
[15:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:46] <exec> 08└─Russians! ... the first to put a dog into space. Rupert Murdock ... the first to put an idiot into the White House.
[15:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:47] <exec> 08└─the first to put an idiot into the White House.
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[16:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:09] <exec> 08└─Somewhere out there is a lawyer who is also a movie buff that paid for an annual Movie Pass subscription. The rest shall be class action suit history.
[16:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:19] <exec> 08└─[1] This product is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. "Vitamin B17" is what they're calling apricot seeds now that "Laetrile" isn't moving product anymore.
[16:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:21] <exec> 08└─One of James Randi's standard tricks during talks has been to start off by taking an large quantity of homeopathic sleeping pills. A bit later, he explains that the claims of the manufacturer make this out to be a lethal dose, with instructions to contact poison control immediately. And yet there he...
[16:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, the FDA has been banned by congress from regulating the efficacy and medicinal truth of homeopathic products since it's origination.
[16:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─now get out of the trying to assess efficacy
[16:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:27] <exec> 08└─Its not homeopathy if hes taking "pills", its some sort of BS scam. For it to be actual homeopathy you need to shake up a container of water, then either quickly skim the bubbly layer at the top or dump out the water and skim what sticks to the glass. Then you put that solution into another containe...
[16:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:29] <exec> 08└─Is English your 2nd language? https://www.dictionary.com [dictionary.com] (to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: ) Something doesn't need to be allowed in order to then be banned. Thanks for the subsequent info though, and the question remains how do homeopathic medicines skip the ef...
[16:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:31] <exec> 08└─Why shouldn't the FDA try to ensure that the products being sold for medical purposes are actually effective at doing what they say they do? That would seem to be kinda important.
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─Fine, use "banned" in your sense (anything the organization is not specifically told to do). Then they were originally "banned" from regulating the efficacy of all drugs, whether "homeopathic" or not.
[16:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rst [2175] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:36] <exec> 08└─I acknowledge the recall, and I think "dubious claims" is being kind to homeopathy, but what do they have to do with each other? The recall "may" indicate a hygiene problem at the factory, but to me, that comments more on management cutting corners than the value of the product.
[16:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Teams up With Uber, Airbus and 19 Others on Flying Taxi Plan - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:46] <exec> 08└─Imagine rush hour in any city big enough to support a "flying taxi service". Now imagine that in 3-D. On an essentially 2-D surface everything slows own and individuals mostly sort out routes and collision-avoidance because of roads. In roadless 3-D you need some god-like entity like FAA's Air Tra...
[16:43:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 774 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:14] <exec> 08└─NIST is defined at the beginning of the first paragraph. WWV, WWVB and WWVH aren't acronyms. They are the radio station identifiers for the time standards. WWV broadcasts on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 MHz from Colorado. WWVB broadcasts on 60 kHz long wave, also from Colorado. WWVH broadcasts on 5, 10...
[16:43:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:20] <exec> 08└─Besides the fact that all existing devices that are dependent on these radio stations will cease to function properly, do we want clocks and irrigation systems connected to the internet?
[16:43:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 467 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:38] <exec> 08└─I use WWV, among other things, as a reference for calibrating my ham radio transceivers. The difference between the oscillator in the radio and WWV can be measured and then the radio frequency corrected to be more accurate. This is pretty common - in the absence of the official WWV signal I'm not su...
[16:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:44] <exec> 08└─"It's called "property tax" If you don't want to pay property tax, don't own property. "the government will literally come to your house and seize everything you have and/or shoot you if you don't pay for them." Oh grow up; they'll only shoot you if you get violent in your confrontation. No one has...
[16:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:46] <exec> 08└─All those collectable GC-1000s become doorstops.
[16:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:48] <exec> 08└─Came here to post the same speculation: it sounds like the budge hoopla usually around cutting national/state parks services.
[16:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:50] <exec> 08└─No. All gps is is extremely accurate time keeping/receiver + a small computer that solves a set of linear equations to determine where where you are based on time.
[16:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:52] <exec> 08└─And isn't GPS overkill for a device that does not need to keep track of its own location?
[16:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:54] <exec> 08└─"Oh grow up; they'll only shoot you if you get violent in your confrontation. No one has ever been shot simply for refusing to pay taxes." You're right, sort of. One wouldn't get shot directly for refusing to pay taxes. First they come to take ones things, to evict one from ones property, or perhaps...
[16:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:22] <exec> 08└─...what's next? Kalishnikovs
[16:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Development as an Emergent System - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:05] <exec> 08└─Ten times as much coder-years are spent debugging and maintaining code than implementing new features.
[16:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:25] <exec> 08└─Hit in the region of the hydraulic pistons hard enough to warp them or blow their seals, that limb is in trouble if not unsuable. It'll be adding the armor plate to it that will suck up the weight and energy budget.
[16:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, just look at how the Aghans lost to the Soviets!
[16:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:36] <exec> 08└─The federal code does define "militia". Incidentally that definition doesn't include women. Which is to say under federal statutory law, women have no second amendment rights. Why feminists don't about that I will never know. While it may not be enforced that way, that is how the law is written. And...
[16:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:47] <exec> 08└─You could just replace the state legislature with them. Might not do a worse job.
[16:48:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 751 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:19] <exec> 08└─Killdall did not write DOS, nor was it written by a hobbyist. The original PC-DOS operating system was written by Tim Paterson while working for Seattle Computer Products [SCP] for their own 8086 CPU board (a micro computer kit component). Microsoft bought DOS from SCP and hired Paterson to adapt it...
[16:48:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:21] <exec> 08└─"Tim Paterson" The hobbyist in question. And yes, he was a hobbyist. Anyone that was competent to port CP/M at the time would have been described as a hobbyist, even if they were also a working professional. And he did indeed describe it as a 'quick and dirty' hack of CP/M for the new processor. And...
[16:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:56] <exec> 08└─My choices were: - George W Bush - John McCain - Al Gore - Bill Bradley I did what a voter is supposed to do: I looked over my available options very carefully to try to make the best decision I could. I made out George W Bush to be the worst of the lot, and voted to try to eliminate him from conten...
[16:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five [wikipedia.org] After 1999, the only member of the Keating Five remaining in the U.S. Senate was John McCain, who had an easier time gaining re-election in 1992 than he anticipated. He survived the political scandal in part by becoming friendly with the pol...
[16:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:59] <exec> 08└─Reagan: Primary credit there goes to a group of guys with guns in Iran. Clinton: Primary credit there should go to Ross Perot. Dubya: Primary credit there should go to his daddy and Carlyle Group, with some help from William Rehnquist (who was willing to enshrine in law that Americans don't have a r...
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[17:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:18] <exec> 08└─Huh? You mean Movie Pass doesn't have an ironclad TOS prohibiting lawyers from suing them? Won't that lawyer you describe have to submit to an arbitration process, held in a court building on top of Mount Everest, according to all the applicable laws of The Republic of Everest?
[17:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:20] <exec> 08└─Dear MoviePass Didn't you realize that when you made an offer to customers that was too good to be true, that it probably was?
[17:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:22] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else see that you have to download and install a piece of proprietary software just to use moviepass? Not on a desktop, not in a VM, not on their website. It has to be through the mobile app. Do they just want to sell your contacts list, or something? Do they track your location to make s...
[17:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:24] <exec> 08└─The assumption was that if they got enough customers that they'd be able to negotiate the rates for the tickets down enough to be profitable. Which is incredibly stupid, even when I buy ticket vouchers from Costco, I'm still only getting at most $3 per ticket off and usually a lot less. The number o...
[17:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─Charge Dispute Either you will give me my money back, or my bank will take it back. Have fun with those chargeback fees. :) I'd like to know what legal team they discussed this with said it was OK to change the terms of a contract after payment for that contract had changed hands.
[17:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:28] <exec> 08└─Are there enough screens at a theater to watch 30 movies in a month? If so, for certain theaters, do they have enough movies that are actually worth watching at least once?
[17:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:47] <exec> 08└─I found the sources I was thinking of: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[17:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─What you have described is not the way homeopathic remedies are supposed to be prepared. They take the original substance, dilute it maybe 1:100, shake it vigorously, and then repeat this dilution and shaking as many times as prescribed, usually 30 times. Homeopaths even have a word for this shaking...
[17:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:51] <exec> 08└─The FDA didn't have the authority to regulate pharmaceuticals at all until 1938, after the elixir sulfanilamide disaster. They didn't even have the authority to insist that pharmaceuticals have proper tests for efficacy and safety before marketing until 1962, after the thalidomide tragedy. And after...
[17:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:53] <exec> 08└─Which is interesting since it isn't a vitamin at all. It just dumps cyanide into your body when ingested. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:55] <exec> 08└─Corporate/capitalist "science" sucks at it even more.
[17:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:57] <exec> 08└─You have to realize that the law holds two different points of view: a) as a citizen you are allowed to do anything that is not forbidden by law; and b) as a government entity you are only allowed to do whatever the law says. Sometimes this distinction causes confusion because people are not really...
[17:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix is the Latest Company to Try Bypassing Apple's App Store - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─If only we had invented technology to access some provider's services without having to install specific software from a store controlled by a specific company. That'd be really cool. We may even use those same tools to find other things all around the internet, through a dumb and neutral pipe that...
[17:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix is the Latest Company to Try Bypassing Apple's App Store - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:22] <exec> 08└─I'm certain we would be able to innovate something like that if the working class would take control of the means of production. Either that or we might be able to innovate something like that if we abolished government in favor of a series of a contracts and an infinite pool of contract-enforcing t...
[17:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix is the Latest Company to Try Bypassing Apple's App Store - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:24] <exec> 08└─Revolutions without enough friction tend to keep going, and every two pi you're back where you started. Gotta share them pi, which requires mechanical separation of things.
[17:43:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:38] <exec> 08└─About one year of the Secret Service's Mar-a-lago costs.. https://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com]
[17:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:16] <exec> 08└─Luck you. But if you want a wall clock that keeps accurate time there really isn't another option unless you got to design the place and arrange for an outlet behind the clock. Anything that you can stick a AA battery in and be good is going to either sync to WWVB or be wildly inaccurate. What other...
[17:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:17] <exec> 08└─I would hope that Canada will step up and start broadcasting on the old WWV frequencies if the USA decides to make the bone-headed move to discontinue their time service. CHU has always intentionally used different frequencies to not interfere with the operation of WWV. Just saying "use the Canadian...
[17:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Battle Robot Concept Looks Like a Star Wars AT-ST - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:52] <exec> 08└─"hey look, a slow target" says every single tank gunner out there. Besides everything that has already been sad here about the impractical design, let's remember that tanks are on tracks for a very good reason. There are very few places where you can safely operate a bipedal armored vehicle without...
[17:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:27] <exec> 08└─I spent several minutes looking for that footage on Youtube. The movie we watched in boot camp is not what Youtube has available. I did find several videos explaining how "Wetstart McCain" caused the fire, but none of them (that I found) actually shows the real video. Memory fades, and memory plays...
[17:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:29] <exec> 08└─Or you have an individual who intimately understands what it is to be in a situation where you are at the enemy's mercy and may well die unable to fight back.... and still felt that the threat was worth putting American lives at risk at that time. And was wrong about that decision. And owned up to b...
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[18:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:14] <exec> 08└─About $3.50 per month for PIA VPN, unlimited movies...
[18:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:16] <exec> 08└─Almost certainly no, on the last part. Probably no on the first part, if I assume correctly that you're thinking about different movies in a month. Though, it's possible some theater out there is showing a rotating list of movies every day, so you wouldn't see the same thing every day. Highly doubtf...
[18:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:18] <exec> 08└─Moviepass is an online service piggybacking on an outdated model for content consumption. Cinemas need to change up their business model if they want to stay in business. They've tried to put in barka-loungers with reserved seating, but, honestly, I have that same chair at home minus the irritation...
[18:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:20] <exec> 08└─No
[18:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:22] <exec> 08└─They also wanted a piece of the concession sales form Movie Pass subscribers and are selling subscriber data.
[18:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:24] <exec> 08└─They should find a way to play up the social element more. That's something they don't have on you on your couch at home - like 50 or so people enjoying a common experience. I have no idea how they would do this, and accept it probably wouldn't appeal to everyone, particularly those with particularl...
[18:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─MoviePass TOS, 2.4, linked in the summary. (i) MoviePass reserves the right to change or modify the Service or subscriptions at any time and in its sole discretion, including but not limited to applicable prices, at any time, without prior notice. MoviePass reserves the right to change the rules of...
[18:42:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 1150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:37] <exec> 08└─One of James Randi's standard tricks during talks has been to start off by taking an large quantity of homeopathic sleeping pills. A bit later, he explains that the claims of the manufacturer make this out to be a lethal dose, with instructions to contact poison control immediately. And yet there he...
[18:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:52] <exec> 08└─Why shouldn't the FDA try to ensure that the products being sold for medical purposes are actually effective at doing what they say they do?
[18:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, and that law exists with a specific exception for garbage do-nothing fake medicine. This seems like an asinine point to make. I don't think this is a technicality that anyone fails to recognize. But also you're wrong, because execution of law is a slippery subjective thing, and everyone knows t...
[18:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:55] <exec> 08└─Going back to the op, seems like what enabled them to determine they suck at it is a NaturalNews-esque belief that raw milk won't fucking kill one out of twenty of the people who drink it. mm mm enterotoxigenic ecoli goodness.
[18:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:57] <exec> 08└─The final step in making the pill form is to place the final skim off the top of the water in question into a liquid gel capsule. That makes it look all scientific and medicine-y, even though it's just water by that point.
[18:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:00] <exec> 08└─No, it really is just water,
[18:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:02] <exec> 08└─Adding a tiny bit of food coloring means you can dispense it in an ordinary cheap bottle and still have it look "sciencey".
[18:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:04] <exec> 08└─So you just totally ignored the part about skimming from the top or the sides of the container after dumping it?
[18:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:06] <exec> 08└─I've had raw milk and didn't die, but I had it in an environment where I had been involved in feeding and milking the cow and was thus reasonably certain that the cow was quite healthy and we were taking appropriate precautions against infection throughout the process (e.g. making sure her teats wer...
[18:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:08] <exec> 08└─Nope, its just that they use NHST, which is straight up pseudoscience. They disprove a null hypothesis and then conclude that their (other) hypothesis is correct.
[18:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:10] <exec> 08└─Who said they didnt? The entire healthcare industry is overrun by scammers and their useful idiots.
[18:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:12] <exec> 08└─Yep, the FDA has suffered massive mission creep with simultaneously lack of appropriate funding increases along with people carving out their own political exceptions. It should be reverted back to 1938 or even earlier.
[18:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:15] <exec> 08└─Sure, but the markup probably isn't as high for that. Ultimately, though, that's a problem for the marketing department: My point is that "pill-like form" does not equal "not homeopathic", since somebody up the thread was trying to No True Scotsman their way out of the demonstration.
[18:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:17] <exec> 08└─No, its that if you actually check the final solution carefully enough there are very low amounts of the original ingredients remaining. At some point the concentration plateaus because its all aggregating in bubbles at the top or sticking to the walls, or something. The assumptions used for the che...
[18:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:19] <exec> 08└─Bayesian true believers up in the house, who have no way to decide if something is actually true, but they still think you're wrong about everything somehow. Either that or you think drug companies aren't required to submit massive dossiers establishing the underlying mechanisms by which they think...
[18:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:21] <exec> 08└─Water memory is a classic "glue the word quantum to this thing that's been shown to be bullshit, and now's it's true again" stuff. Their argument is that the water retains the inverse entangled state of the thing put in the water by virtue of being exposed to it and interacting on the particle level...
[18:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:23] <exec> 08└─NHST vs (correct) science is orthogonal to frequentist vs fisher vs bayesian. You can calculate values for one hypothesis and (incorrectly) apply them to the one you actually care about using any method. Either that or you think drug companies aren't required to submit massive dossiers establishing...
[18:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe not "just as retarded" [hermiene.net]
[18:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:28] <exec> 08└─I think that you are wrong, as defined by the "Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States".
[18:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Teams up With Uber, Airbus and 19 Others on Flying Taxi Plan - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:38] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the talking will start quickly after people start dying. It's not just idiot pilots; most companies claiming to build the "people carrying multirotor drone" type flying cars also claim they will fly autonomously. Well, somehow. What happens when the electronics fail? What if the GPS get...
[18:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Teams up With Uber, Airbus and 19 Others on Flying Taxi Plan - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:39] <exec> 08└─That's why uber is involved. The cars have to all be automated - think Minority Report traffic management in 3D! After all, there aren't any jaywalkers to avoid in midair, so once the bird population is wiped out you only have to avoid other self-identifying automated taxis. Yay!
[18:44:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:08] <exec> 08└─Do we really want to connect these devices to the internet? Besides the fact that all existing devices that are dependent on these radio stations will cease to function properly, do we want clocks and irrigation systems connected to the internet? Are we doing this to save money (and by save money, I...
[18:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 2994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:48] <exec> 08└─Too many things to list. For every line item ask a few questions: 1. Is this level of government even authorized to do this? Hint: the List of Enumerated powers for the Fed Gov is really short. Most of what it currently does is not on the list. 9th and 10th Amendment time. States vary a lot but unle...
[18:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:49] <exec> 08└─Do we really want to connect these devices to the internet? Besides the fact that all existing devices that are dependent on these radio stations will cease to function properly, do we want clocks and irrigation systems connected to the internet?
[18:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:51] <exec> 08└─The whole point is that these are a wireless reference, no infrastructure required.
[18:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:54] <exec> 08└─MP3, USB, HTML, PHP *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) MP3 - robot from Star Wars USB - long forgotten East European country HTML - an STD PHP - something kids do after school, shockingly encouraged by teachers, despite the school's anti drug policy
[18:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:56] <exec> 08└─Agency proposes cuts only to extremely popular services, If the only people complaining are HAM people then I'm pretty confident that it's not actually an extremely popular service.
[18:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:58] <exec> 08└─Actually I'll probably get it from someone else's gps.
[18:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:00] <exec> 08└─It makes for a rough-and-dirty propagation check as well when you monitor them regularly, too.
[18:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─I can stop driving [ . . . ] I can stop buying stuff. [ . . . ] I don't want to pay for police, fire, and public schools . . .
[18:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:04] <exec> 08└─Privatize the fire department. It can be paid by fire insurance. Sort of like healthcare. Oh, we can't start fighting the fire yet. Your policy doesn't kick in until at least 1/6 of your home is destroyed.
[18:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:06] <exec> 08└─So what *would* you cut then?
[18:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:21] <exec> 08└─Should SN not have a http-to-gopher-gateway? Could be a fun experiment to run news on gopher.
[18:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:37] <exec> 08└─But it was not stealing. In this narrow case I think you could argue it was stealing. Consider: The press release contains a secret. Hackers tell everyone about the secret. The business actually has been deprived of that secret because it's not a secret anymore.
[18:47:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:07] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder how you function on a daily basis. Like, if you react to every piece of bad news by blaming the Jews, doesn't that mean your whole world view and value system is Jewish in essence? I mean, at least the Norwegian right wingers have their pagan fascist fantasies separating them from t...
[18:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 95: Now in "App" Form - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:01] <exec> 08└─Languages are conceptual things, implementations on the other hand ...
[18:51:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:21] <exec> 08└─After what Trump said about POW, that's the bare minimum.
[18:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:25] <exec> 08└─Do tell. [snopes.com] Please find me a better source than that which pretty much rips up what you said to shreds. And when I say "good source" let's see actual names of actual sailors who were present and able to confirm that McCain started it. Let's see properly cited sources. We can discuss why yo...
[18:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:26] <exec> 08└─Sounds like somebody doesn't know the difference between allegation, facts, and what builds credible statements. [politifact.com]
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[19:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:18] <exec> 08└─Not really any news here. Of course, if you use Google Play Music, Google will know what music you listen to. If you watch videos on YouTube, they know what videos you watched. And if you use Google search, they will know what you searched for. Why would anyone expect them not to? And we already kno...
[19:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:19] <exec> 08└─Knowing that it could theoretically be done is one thing, but having some hard evidence that they are seriously tracking is another. I may have to bite the bullet and get Lineage OS setup on my phone. I'm assuming, it shouldn't have the same issues?
[19:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:21] <exec> 08└─This is why you should always be using your phone. Your face should be glued to it constantly. A public service campaign should promote the importance of this.
[19:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:23] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't have any, although you can select to report some info to Lineage, I think. It's kind of annoying that they say "Android", when it's really Google's software running on Android. Don't like it, use FDroid and load your favourite replacements. You need to be pretty committed to get by with...
[19:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:25] <exec> 08└─Fuck Google. I go out of my way to disable everything. last thing left on this phone is their keyvoard and play services. ill try to disabled those this week.
[19:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:48] <exec> 08└─You mean Movie Pass doesn't have an ironclad TOS prohibiting lawyers from suing them?
[19:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:50] <exec> 08└─The assumption was that if they got enough customers
[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─at home I can pause the movie... when an important email or phone call comes through...
[19:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:54] <exec> 08└─From 3 movies a month to say 1 $5 discount a year while keeping their subscriber's money? WTF kind of service is this?
[19:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:56] <exec> 08└─You can't make a contract where you keep changing the service in unreasonable ways without giving the other party an option to agree or bow out. Otherwise companies like verizon would have jumped all over this when they took away unlimited and landlords could perpetually renew your lease while uppin...
[19:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:41] <exec> 08└─Ah, now I see what you're getting at. But the reality is that real world medical data is super messy, and interfered with by a billion things that no model could accurately handle. You're asking for an exact windspeed of a hurricane when it makes landfall based on the tropical depression forming off...
[19:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:43] <exec> 08└─it isn't a vitamin at all. It just dumps cyanide into your body
[19:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:45] <exec> 08└─But . . . they claim there is some kind of "molecular memory".
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:47] <exec> 08└─That depends on which homeopaths you talk to: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com] http://www.wholehealthnow.com [wholehealthnow.com] There are also 'paper remedies' http://...
[19:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:49] <exec> 08└─I suppose they could argue that it would make the water even more beneficial.
[19:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:51] <exec> 08└─Didn't they dilute the water enough or was it swirled the wrong way?
[19:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:23] <exec> 08└─Usually I don't get the 60 kHz signal here in Silicon Valley, and my clocks cannot sync. It's very unstable. WWVB is dead for me already. Modern GPS receivers are very sensitive, they often work indoors. People worry about IoT time (ntp,) but it has to be active only once per day, if not once per we...
[19:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:25] <exec> 08└─The gps clock (10 MHz) is plenty accurate for household use.
[19:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:27] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock [wikipedia.org]
[19:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:29] <exec> 08└─To keep them around, present them in terms of terrorism: if terrorists take down large portions of our infrastructure, these may be the only viable time-keeping mechanisms. It's one of the arguments used to keep Amtrak. Deregulation-oriented political groups also tend be sensitive to terrorism-relat...
[19:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 1939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:31] <exec> 08└─Read a history book. First fire departments WERE created by the insurance industry. If you sell enough premiums in an area it pays to build a fire station to reduce claims so they did. Eventually the government took it over. Did cost / benefit improve or decline? Once you can answer that you can dec...
[19:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:33] <exec> 08└─Like I said, wildly inaccurate. Expecting an off the shelf consumer grade clock to maintain minute per month accuracy is overly optimistic. Being more accurate than most mechanical clocks is a low bar and a lot of the crap on the shelves barely clear it.
[19:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:35] <exec> 08└─Contrary to popular opinion, nobody can track you when you're using GPS.
[19:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:50] <exec> 08└─X400?
[19:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─But if the lost thing was the secrecy, then it is not stealing, as when it stopped being a secret, it also wasn't a secret for the hackers. Therefore they didn't steal the secrecy, they destroyed it.
[19:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:27] <exec> 08└─Companies will gladly cater to this demand, which will dwarf that of the Obama gun scare.
[19:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:28] <exec> 08└─For some reason I forgot to mention the black market in my comment. That aside: Interpretation of the Constitution is always subject to change. It means whatever 5 Supreme Court Justices decides it means. Meanwhile, we have a large number of people in the U.S. that will violate what they see as oppr...
[19:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:31] <exec> 08└─Was the word "scare" really not enough for you, or have you not seen the stats? https://www.vox.com [vox.com] It is clear that a segment of the population believed that Obama would implement gun control and seize guns. Sales surged even before his election. It does...
[19:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:33] <exec> 08└─Initial reports said 4 (probably including himself).
[19:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:35] <exec> 08└─Weekends and especially Sundays are slow new days for most media outlets, so this filled a void alongside the death of John McCain. The details of the incident also helped boost its profile. He killed apparently due to his poor performance in a video game tournament. A number of people (seems like a...
[19:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacksonville&oq=Jacksonville [google.com] Some little known features can be seen on the GOOG search.
[19:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:12] <exec> 08└─Wetstart McCain. Perhaps you're not aware how real life works. A cop isn't really supposed to work a case that involves close acquaintances. An EMT or paremedic, ditto. A judge is supposed to recuse himself from a case he is party to, or overly familiar with. And, a fleet admiral probably shouldn't...
[19:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John McCain Dies at 81, Aide to GOP Senator Says - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry? Explain to me how this squares with his cheerleading of the Iraq War under Dubya? You may have misfired here.
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[20:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphones From 11 OEMs Vulnerable to Attacks via Hidden AT Commands - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:05] <exec> 08└─So we can now wait for the avalanche of malware apps that will start to dial some really expensive toll-/pay-numbers when it notes that the phone is idle and you are most likely asleep. Only much much later will you figure out the massive cost as you see you get your phonebill. Should be more money...
[20:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smartphones From 11 OEMs Vulnerable to Attacks via Hidden AT Commands - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:06] <exec> 08└─I was going to post a comment with the title "ATDT8675309" I did not know that AT commands were still a thing.
[20:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphones From 11 OEMs Vulnerable to Attacks via Hidden AT Commands - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:08] <exec> 08└─You could always do both
[20:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:21] <exec> 08└─I've seen Google Maps clear out red traffic jam status on roads I'm driving through just after the jam cleared, almost as if they're seeing me roll through at the speed limit and coloring the road green as I pass through.
[20:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:22] <exec> 08└─almost as if they're seeing me roll through at the speed limit and coloring the road green as I pass through.
[20:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 2004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:24] <exec> 08└─If you want to stop data being sent to Google, you need to disable Google Play Services, which is a proprietary layer on top of the open-ish Android layer. Google actively 'encourage' App developers to access functions (like Location Services) through the Google Play Services API, which makes the Ap...
[20:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:26] <exec> 08└─I can install a new rom on the android phone making it so that it doesn't call home to google AT ALL. It's flat out stupid to be ok with somthing you dont like because it does it less then the alternative when you can mitigate the issue entirely with 20 minutes to an hour of effort.
[20:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:53] <exec> 08└─I thought they could use a branching narrative and have the audience signal which character they want to follow out of the room when a subtle chiron appears in the lower right corner. Or they could have viewers vote for one or other party to prevail in a struggle, to give alternate histories a chanc...
[20:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:54] <exec> 08└─Could be. How so?
[20:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:56] <exec> 08└─kind of service is this?
[20:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:58] <exec> 08└─That would be fairly simple. Since you're in a theatre with who knows else, and collusion is disallowed (its on the back of the ticket) and there's no electronic paper trail to prove how anyone voted, they could simply pause the action, show the prompt, and continue as if the audience had voted howe...
[20:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, that's no longer true, courts have been shockingly OK with people signing away their rights to sue and permitting companies to use crooked arbitrators to settle the matter. It's the judicial race to the bottom where the people no longer have legal rights because pro-corporate judges keep g...
[20:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:03] <exec> 08└─There probably are enough screens, whenever I go to the movies there's plenty of empty seats, perhaps not for movies that were just recently released, but certainly by the end of the run. The issue, as far as I'm concerned, is the lack of movies worth paying for. There just aren't enough movies bein...
[20:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:54] <exec> 08└─Problem is, if like cures like, then with this water they would be cured of being full of a certain mushy brown smelly substance and could no longer tout the benefits of their wares. It's a paradox.
[20:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:56] <exec> 08└─So you just totally ignored the part about
[20:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Teams up With Uber, Airbus and 19 Others on Flying Taxi Plan - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:10] <exec> 08└─Unless these aircraft can auto-rotate, glide, or parachute to the ground, I'll avoid
[20:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:37] <exec> 08└─Senate Lunch System Fixed that for you!
[20:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:38] <exec> 08└─The same people who preach American exceptionalism also try to save money by finding pennies in the couch cushions. What's wrong with this picture?
[20:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06History of Gopher - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:56] <exec> 08└─To illustrate how much lighter gopher clients are by example: My father went to a programming school in Python. For extra credit, he implemented a rudimentary gopher client. The whole thing was under 50 lines of code too.
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[21:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just Another Day on Aerosol Earth - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:33] <exec> 08└─The smoke here in Calgary has been really miserable for the last 3 weeks or so. Today is finally clear enough to see the mountains. It's nice to breathe again. The smoke was seriously getting to me. Last summer was super smoky too. There are many people here that are worrying that a smoky August is...
[21:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphones From 11 OEMs Vulnerable to Attacks via Hidden AT Commands - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─So very shocking. Now how many more backdoors are baked into every goddamn thing?
[21:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphones From 11 OEMs Vulnerable to Attacks via Hidden AT Commands - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:45] <exec> 08└─But WHY did they add all of these bizarre features? AT commands were designed to change general behaviors of a modem, such as number of rings before answer, maximum baud rate, error correction, and such. On simple hardware they sometimes represented actual hardware "registers", but it was really all...
[21:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphones From 11 OEMs Vulnerable to Attacks via Hidden AT Commands - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:47] <exec> 08└─Ah, those were the days.
[21:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:03] <exec> 08└─Fuck Google. I go out of my way to disable everything. last thing left on this phone is their keyvoard and play services. ill try to disabled those this week.
[21:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:05] <exec> 08└─Yep. Not sure how GP thought they got all of that random traffic data... It's tracking the phones running traffic/map apps. How else would they come by traffic data on some random rural road you're driving on??
[21:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:07] <exec> 08└─Touchscreens are a pain to operate with tinfoil mittens.
[21:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:40] <exec> 08└─And the point you're missing is that they wouldn't have been losing money had they been able to negotiate discounts to cover the money lost on the tickets. The problem is that they haven't been able to negotiate the hoped for savings and as such, they just lose large amounts of money on each custome...
[21:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:41] <exec> 08└─There's certain things that you can't put into a contract and expect to enforce. For example, it's not legal to sell yourself into slavery via contract, a contract like that would never hold up in court, even if that was the intended effect of the contract and not just hidden somewhere in fine print...
[21:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:43] <exec> 08└─Why would I pay to go to the movies, if I had to deal with that? The business model is fine, what's not fine is the cost and the generally low quality of movies that we're being expected to pay ever increasing amounts for. If they want to change their model, probably the thing that might help is pro...
[21:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:16] <exec> 08└─Right but I don't care about a wall clock losing/gaining a minute per month. To the nearest quarter hour is granular enough for most things and for those it's not there's my phone or any of the other Internet connected devices I own.
[21:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:17] <exec> 08└─...but GPS doesn't each reach into all the locations... Double-damn not being able to edit posts. 💩 !!!
[21:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:20] <exec> 08└─...but they can track you using a GPS stuck to your whatever. Just saying.
[21:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:22] <exec> 08└─I can get GPS time, then produce a signal that will keep my several clocks synced that'd be great.
[21:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:35] <exec> 08└─That this comment was modded to +5 indicates a serious infestation on this site.
[21:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:36] <exec> 08└─While your point is stupid I will 100% prefer handouts to government sanctioned "murder for being poor". Get a clue you psycho!
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[22:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphones From 11 OEMs Vulnerable to Attacks via Hidden AT Commands - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:42] <exec> 08└─If you're using untrusted public charging locations then you should be using a charge-only USB cable. These are cables without the data lines connected. You can pick them up cheap or roll your own if you're handy. First hit I got with Google, under $5: https://www.amazon.com
[22:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphones From 11 OEMs Vulnerable to Attacks via Hidden AT Commands - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:43] <exec> 08└─Apps aren't the attack vector for this issue, it's the USB port. So if you're charging your phone through your laptop/PC then it could be compromised via malware on the computer. Further the phone likely requires additional drivers to enable the modem. For example, my Samsung phones require installi...
[22:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:03] <exec> 08└─> you can mitigate the issue entirely with 20 minutes to an hour of effort For you and I. 99% of the users would have no clue, and/or be afraid to break their shiny toy. Some are aware of the privacy problem, others are not, are too dependent on apps from the Play store, or don't care. Apathy and co...
[22:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:05] <exec> 08└─/s
[22:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:07] <exec> 08└─your own level of involvement.
[22:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:45] <exec> 08└─had they been able to negotiate discounts
[22:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:46] <exec> 08└─And hindsight is 20/20, the fact that you can't grasp the fact that they weren't planning on losing money on each subscription over the long term has precisely no influence on the decision making that happened in the past.
[22:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Teams up With Uber, Airbus and 19 Others on Flying Taxi Plan - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:53] <exec> 08└─Multirotor craft require low-inertia rotors, usually with a fixed pitch, so autorotation isn't going to be possible. Even if they would use adjustable pitch rotors (which kind of defeats the concept of a multirotor craft), it would still have to be electronically controlled. Outside military aircraf...
[22:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:26] <exec> 08└─Even if you stick GPS to a different part of your body they can still track you. Isn't GPS receive only? You would actually need GPS stuck to a device that then transmits your GPS location -- such as a cell phone. Or a module with both Iridium satellite transceiver AND GPS receiver, for instance. Ot...
[22:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:27] <exec> 08└─but they can track you using a GPS stuck to your whatever
[22:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:29] <exec> 08└─We have one. The main clock in the living room. My wife doesn't realise that it's not actually receiving correctly, and I adjusted it to three minutes ahead, to reduce tardiness. I'm less worried about the end of WWVB, than about her paying attention to the discrepancy with the time on her phone.
[22:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Will You Do if WWVB Goes Silent? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:31] <exec> 08└─That raise for the Pentagon, and the Trillion-dollar-deficit tax cuts, have to be offset somehow ... Let's start with few million from NPR, NIST, and Planned Parenthood. Yep. Good work. Done.
[22:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:05] <exec> 08└─This is normally done in advance to allow all publications to post the news at the same time. It also gives the media company time to write an article, editorial or analysis on the press release. It's actually amazingly commonplace. They aren't sent out a long time in advance, but having access to t...
[22:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville, FL Leaves Multiple Dead - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:33] <exec> 08└─He turned out to be a Trump hater. The story always disappears quickly when it doesn't fit the narrative. The ideal would be a white male Trump supporter, proudly part of the NRA, with an AR-15. Somebody like that actually stopped the Texas church massacre, running out barefoot to return fire, and a...
[22:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:51] <exec> 08└─Not the politicians and "elites".
[22:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:52] <exec> 08└─You are a blight upon the world. The Mighty Blight, kinda fits the Buzzard as well, all they do is steal the meat from more useful creatures.
[22:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:54] <exec> 08└─You know what the problem is with public education? People think that because it has the word "education" that people are getting educated. But due to pressure to perform they let through morons who then get to claim they got "an education". I guess it is time we implemented the anti-moron terminato...
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[23:43:01] <exec> 08└─It will remain this way until someone is held accountable. As long as we grant the right to hold everyone else ignorant of what is done, then do bad stuff, well, we set the stage for it. If you know the truth, the truth will set you free. And for those of us, ( or at least those who obey the wishli...
[23:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:25] <exec> 08└─You can do without, and use Apps from F-Droid - but that means no Facebook, WhatsApp etc, and no Android Pay, and no Google Apps, like Maps.
[23:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:27] <exec> 08└─Jokes on you if the person that "cleared" a traffic jam was on a motorcycle and ran down between lanes -- with their phone turned on.
[23:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Idle Android Phones Send Data to Google Ten Times More Often than iOS Devices to Apple - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:29] <exec> 08└─Yup, so how anonymous is your data? And the meta data from different "anonymous" sources often can unveil your anonymity with 99.99% accuracy. People working with the data are usually too preoccupied with the cool shit they're able to do and won't understand why no one else is quite as thrilled as t...
[23:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. Selling subscriber data, including tracking them like a dog, is all part of the Movie Pass experience. Me, I'll just Pass (no movie required).
[23:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:09] <exec> 08└─For example, it's not legal to sell yourself into slavery via contract
[23:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:11] <exec> 08└─Bingo!
[23:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MoviePass Forces Annual Subscribers to its New Three-Movie Plan Early - 1668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:14] <exec> 08└─It's not that I am having trouble grasping that they totally thought their plan wasn't stupid, and that I need your benevolent assistance in explaining it. Nor is hindsight substantially involved. Their plan is: 1. Lose a little money. 2. Lose more and more money. 3. Lose gargantuan amounts of money...
[23:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earn Big Bucks for Crap Job (Literally) - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:19] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean we weren't supposed to root for the machines? Nah, after due reflection, they're better movies as tragedies when you root for the machines.
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