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[00:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:49] <exec> 08└─For a moment, Jackerson froze; someone was screaming for help, and he wasn't sure what course of action he should take. Ultimately, Jackerson chose to investigate the dark parking lot by himself. After running around for several minutes, he finally found the source of the screaming, and his eyes wen...
[00:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:50] <exec> 08└─The fiber seems to have all been installed where there was already high speed internet. Sure, the build out probably captured a few more people, here and there, who didn't already have decent service. But, for the most part, some city dwellers got boosted from an already awesome 100 meg up to fiber...
[00:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:53] <exec> 08└─"Moral victory" aka ass whopped. This post brought to you by Campaign for Real English
[00:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:05] <exec> 08└─That's funny coming from a pimply faced, basement dwelling, soylentnewser that has no gold.
[00:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:07] <exec> 08└─Doesn't look like it.
[00:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:09] <exec> 08└─Using some clever light-trapping geometry, it should be possible to build an enclosure with a daylight-visible black hole in it. No light escapes. Pretty sweet :) Also, coating anything in these photoelectrodes sounds like just the brand of jet black I've been looking for. Neat-o.
[00:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harvesting+gold+from+cpus [youtube.com] The typical method is acid and boiling. Then recovering the gold from the acid.
[00:42:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:54] <exec> 08└─It's actually "Nazi" (capital "N"). https://www.urbandictionary.com [urbandictionary.com]
[00:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:59] <exec> 08└─When a city has a problem with people shitting on the street, it seems to me that is a symptom of a much larger problem. We really need to reevaluate our priorities if we cannot provide basic necessities like public restrooms. If we're worried that the homeless will take up residence in the public r...
[00:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:01] <exec> 08└─ring mill valley with 5g towers. point them inwards. let the games begin!
[00:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:03] <exec> 08└─I would argue that it is best to demand evidence, facts, and scientifically reproducible results showing these systems are safe.
[00:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:05] <exec> 08└─The sun radiates in the 5GHz band, and everyone is exposed to the sun at some time in their life, and eventually they die.
[00:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:08] <exec> 08└─It's also not a new phenomenon. When the junior Zombies were small, about 12 years ago (or so), their school decided to fund-raise and buy a bunch of wi-fi access points so that each class could have a decent wireless signal. This bought a small but very vocal group out of the bushes. You know the...
[00:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:10] <exec> 08└─Much of mentally ill is not treatable short of locking people up.
[00:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, I respect Mill Valley for finding the lifestyle they are comfortable with, and defending it. I've been doing the same with my technology for years... I resist things I do not understand. All this brohuahua over intellectual property and making it hard for me to understand how my stuff work...
[00:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:14] <exec> 08└─Do they truly think that all EMF is bad, man-made EMF, or EMF above certain frequencies about particular power thresholds emitted a specified distance from a human is bad?
[00:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:38] <exec> 08└─Backblaze is interesting. But the problem is the mixture of at least 5 generations and survivor bias in their stats. If you have 40 drives for one sample and 14,000 in another not totally sure you can compare those numbers. But yeah get an HGST. If you look at the 10+TB drives Seagate is about all t...
[00:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:39] <exec> 08└─I've already been running a couple dozen HGST Travelstar 7K1000 1TB 2.5" drives for a couple of years. Had 3 early failures, but those that made it through the first few weeks have been running ever since. They're among the fastest 2.5" HDDs too and they're relatively quiet. After having lived with...
[00:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:41] <exec> 08└─Ah, now, finally, the purpose of "the cloud" makes sense. It's to allow the mba's in the finance dept. to reallocate the expenses into a different tax category.
[00:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:43] <exec> 08└─Admittedly I don't download everything that appears on the Pirate Bay, but still I'm having trouble coming close to filling up a 2TB drive. Right now it holds all of my music, all of my photos (back to about 2000), all of my documents (back to hmmm... whenever we've moved from the Commodore 64 to a...
[00:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploit Vendor Drops Tor Browser Zero-Day on Twitter - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:41] <exec> 08└─We should get this dude to come hang out on SN. Doesn't he care about Beta being craptactular at all? Guess that's what you get for being sloppy with your UX ideals...
[00:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploit Vendor Drops Tor Browser Zero-Day on Twitter - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:42] <exec> 08└─For anyone using Tor who only now got the wakeup call: don't use Torbrowser for really sensitive matters. Use Tails [soylentnews.org] instead. If you get pwned by the government, there won't be anything on the machine to identify or incriminate you. As a bonus, using a one-size-fits-all platform hel...
[00:45:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mth [2848] 02 - 06Progress Update From the Librem 5 Hardware Department - 916 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:58] <exec> 08└─It is possible to use a whitelist for USB devices. So if a modem suddenly decides to become a keyboard, the OS can ignore it. That limits the possible attacks considerably. It would still be possible to eavesdrop on communication, but that is possible anyway at the telco. You would have to make sure...
[00:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress Update From the Librem 5 Hardware Department - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:13] <exec> 08└─So I'm not holding my breath. I want open hardware so I can run a trusted operating system and I don't want a baseband with memory interface/Hypervisor access to the SoC. While the Librem promises to deliver, what I don't want or need are sweet promises. Show me the hardware when it's ready and we'l...
[00:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Exec Says Amazon's Expansion is an Opportunity as Amazon Hits $1 Trillion - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:33] <exec> 08└─It's not like the extra money spent on quality disappears into a black hole. It results in a higher quality product, which often - not always, but often - results in higher sales. So making better products might have made Gates, Ballmer, and so forth richer.
[00:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Nears the End of its Mission - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:53] <exec> 08└─You are saying it must be artificial then? My best bet is it was created by the Pleiadians to keep humanity quarantined until it is safe to let us out. Voyager was like the baby bird's beak cracking open the egg and new horizons is the claw coming to tear open the first piece.
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[01:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:23] <exec> 08└─Try black velvet or freshly fractured graphite. Trapping light is easy, getting useful energy out is harder.
[01:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:25] <exec> 08└─Scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods.
[01:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:27] <exec> 08└─Link [tennessee.edu] to spectrum energy breakdown: At ground level, this decreases to about 1120-1000 watts/m2, and consists of 44% visible light, 3% ultraviolet (with the Sun at the zenith (directly overhead), but less at other angles), and the remainder infrared.
[01:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:29] <exec> 08└─1 gram of gold costs $38.42. How many nanoparticles is that? A lot. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 100-nanometer gold film? That's just 0.1 micron gold leaf [hypertextbook.com]. You can buy that on Amazon.
[01:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:26] <exec> 08└─Off topic, but, those safety concerns are driving my freaking NUTS at work. I've spent much of my life in construction. Out in the field, we're safety conscious, but we have to get things done, so we weigh risks, and then get on with the job. Fokkin idiots I work for now insist that zero accidents i...
[01:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:28] <exec> 08└─I would argue that it is best to demand evidence, facts, and scientifically reproducible results showing these systems are safe.
[01:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:30] <exec> 08└─If we're worried that one city cannot handle the homeless population of the entire USA, then we must implement these policies across the country. If nothing else, think of the jobs providing and maintaining these resources would create.
[01:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:32] <exec> 08└─There is "locking people up", and there is "restricting an irrational person's movement to safe places". Yes, I'm aware of the horror stories about asylums from the days of my youth. I am afraid that we over reacted to those horror stories, and threw the baby out with the bathwater. The loonies real...
[01:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:34] <exec> 08└─I would argue that EF's bigotry is pretty coherent. He pretty much despises everyone, with a little extra care lavished on Jews. His signal doesn't spatter all over the place, by heaping loving praise on anyone. It's just one continuous message of hate, and/or contempt.
[01:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:36] <exec> 08└─Probably cheaper than being sued by the employee who opens the exploding junction box without protection.
[01:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:39] <exec> 08└─cell towers don't emit Iodine-131
[01:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well - in the course of "complying" with all those silly safety regs, the company has "educated" me on those exploding junction box hazards. Our hazards are almost exclusively below 2 calories. We only have - uhhhh - six places I think, that exceeds that. Those places range from 30 to 40 calor...
[01:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Clone Tesla Key Fobs in Seconds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:35] <exec> 08└─There are automated tools for picking physical locks too. Amazon sells them. No skill required : )
[01:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Clone Tesla Key Fobs in Seconds - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:36] <exec> 08└─my 6-decades old car
[01:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress Update From the Librem 5 Hardware Department - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:38] <exec> 08└─Last update of Etnaviv, you mean? As far as I know several people are still working on that, but since the parts have been upstreamed, the updates are now spread over different repos. The kernel driver is in the mainline kernel, for example, other parts are in Mesa, libdrm etc.
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[02:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:58] <exec> 08└─What is rising, now that it's legal to smoke, are women willing to admit they smoke while preggers. Kinda like the sudden bump in baby boomers who are now trying weed for the first time in 40 years. They've all been smoking all along, but now they're willing to admit it. This should be a huge hit fo...
[02:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:59] <exec> 08└─Slightly related About 4.7% of North American women who are pregnant are alcoholics.
[02:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:02] <exec> 08└─Ya. 100% would rather have a stoner wife than an alcoholic.
[02:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:05] <exec> 08└─I'm ugly, if I didn't get them drunk first they wouldn't fuck me. / runs for the hills
[02:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:07] <exec> 08└─From the last link: In the Generation R study in the Netherlands, El Marroun et al found in a sample of more than 7000 pregnant women that 85% of marijuana smokers were also cigarette smokers.
[02:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:18] <exec> 08└─I can't take any attempt to paint Google as actively trying to have "done good" seriously at this point.
[02:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:19] <exec> 08└─I've got 3 choices for internet/TV. Uverse, who raised their prices for years until I could no longer see the value in it. But they don't support DOCSIS so if I want to cut the cord they aren't an option. Directv, who has good rates but 2 big shortfalls: 1) where I live, I can't put an antenna to se...
[02:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 3665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:40] <exec> 08└─The videos and internet instructions make it seem more complicated than it is so they can sell you stuff. You can do this at home with some stuff from home depot and Radio Shack / Fry's / Digikey. First step is to grind everything to powder, chip, circuit board all of it, this can be done with a cem...
[02:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:47] <exec> 08└─"restricting an irrational person's movement to safe places"
[02:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe Mill Valley is right. Not because of harm, but because of lack of purpose of this new 5G compared to 4G of today. 5G does not do anything new - it only does existing things faster. But they are already fast enough!
[02:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:51] <exec> 08└─It's a mental health problem, not an education or lack of toilet problem.
[02:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:53] <exec> 08└─Nice hyperbole, shows your mental acuity for what it is. Many things are optional, irradiating entire neighborhoods takes away the choice for many people. Besides, my comment was obviously a remake of the OP's.
[02:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:55] <exec> 08└─Well you are a soulless minion of orthodoxy so no one should care what your ideas about productivity are.
[02:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:57] <exec> 08└─You know they sell rechargeable AAA batteries now right?
[02:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:00] <exec> 08└─Let us keep in mind the premise here. A city makes some really bad choices and fails hard. Solution: make it nation-wide law so every city is forced to undergo this failure mode. And the justification for it? Jobs!
[02:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:41] <exec> 08└─The hidden cost of zfs is the pool will always be limited by the size of the smallest disk. My setup: 4 disks, two 1TB disks and two 2TB disks in a Z1 configuration (think RAID5). My pool size is limited to around 3TB until I replace every disk to 2TB and then I will have around 6 TB. Not too bad fo...
[02:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Exec Says Amazon's Expansion is an Opportunity as Amazon Hits $1 Trillion - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:21] <exec> 08└─So making better products might have made Gates, Ballmer, and so forth richer.
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[03:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:39] <exec> 08└─Everytime i feel like a bad father for getting off work late and having to make a subpar dinner I am going to remember this.
[03:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:41] <exec> 08└─Makes sense to me. If you're a millennial, Your mom and/or your grandma likely smoked pot when pregnant.
[03:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:43] <exec> 08└─So some pregnant women are definitely using the drug, and exposing their fetuses to it, too. Ingredients in marijuana are known to make their way to fetuses by crossing the placenta during pregnancy (and by entering breast milk after the baby is born). But what actually happens when those marijuana...
[03:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:26] <exec> 08└─1) Just get some 5G stickers. 2) Pop them over the 4G stickers you see on cell towers. 3) Get the users to "install special 5G app to get best speeds!" (App merely makes phone display 5G instead of 4G) 4) PROFIT No missing steps. Winner. Right there. I'll be happy to take a mere 5% cut of new revenu...
[03:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:27] <exec> 08└─So maybe the solution here for the telcos is to not call it 5G and call it 3.55G. Look, its less than 4G which you already have, so its safe to plunk the antenna! What the speed? That's just theoretical, everyone knows we never get that irl.
[03:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Clone Tesla Key Fobs in Seconds - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:23] <exec> 08└─Humm...Well Maybe I am and Maybe I Ain't: In 2012 there were over 721,000 auto thefts in the U.S. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_theft) The average recovery rate is ~46% (https://www.autoblog.com/2013/08/16/best-worst-states-for-vehicle-theft-recovery/) Now if the parent was talking ab...
[03:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:09] <exec> 08└─I used NILFS2 for awhile, then one day it oopsed() the kernel and made the filesystem read-only when reading from part of the directory tree in my Pale Moon user profile directory. Then after rebooting I discovered it would now persistently oops()/read-only the filesystem when reading from that loca...
[03:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress Update From the Librem 5 Hardware Department - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:31] <exec> 08└─Where's the black helicopters mod when you need it?
[03:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Streak: Finding Patterns in Creative Career Breakthroughs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:23] <exec> 08└─Kind of my point. The CEOs aren't doing anything they weren't hired to do but the people selling the laws most certainly are.
[03:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Streak: Finding Patterns in Creative Career Breakthroughs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:24] <exec> 08└─I'd counter this with: good luck is far more effective, and common, than properly applied intelligence.
[03:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TempleOS Creator Passes - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe he wants to get to know it first Tell you what, let's meet down on the train tracks, encounter a few trains, and if you survive make a list of trains for him to meet. Howz saturday for you?
[03:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TempleOS Creator Passes - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:19] <exec> 08└─Sacrilege!!!! The OS of God shall not be defiled by the satanic interwebs!
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[04:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:50] <exec> 08└─If you're on GNU/Linux, you would have to be mad to purchase Nvidia. That is, unless you just run Ubuntu and don't care about free software support and must have the fastest possible card. If you're on Nvidia, you're never going to get the best out of the box experience due to the proprietary driver...
[04:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:52] <exec> 08└─It's simple. If you are into gaming on Linux you go Nvidia. There is no choice. Anything else is a gamble whether they games you need will work.
[04:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:54] <exec> 08└─On linux, it's a gamble on whether any game will work! :) Just kidding... Please, really.... I love linux, some of my best operating systems have been linux. Ok, well, maybe some unix but close enough, ok?
[04:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:56] <exec> 08└─Oh, and what is this default you are speaking of? Even Debian has nvidia proprietary driver in its repository. You are just going to install it along with everything else after a minimal install, once. Ain't that how you install your system? Nobody plays on nouveau (ok, that's probably not completel...
[04:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:58] <exec> 08└─True. If you use Nvidia, use their proprietary driver. Nouveau still not there.
[04:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:00] <exec> 08└─I've yet to see a system where nouveau *doesn't* lock the system on boot. Booting a freshly installed Linux typically involves rebooting from the installer disk or other live cd, so I can mount the root partition and add a blacklist entry for the nouveau driver.
[04:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:00] <exec> 08└─"exploding junction box hazards"? Don't you know what circuit breakers are for?
[04:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:27] <exec> 08└─Audio/video processing eat up storage pretty quickly.
[04:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─I use snapshots to backup my OS if I'm worried about something messing it up. As for compression, depends on the algorithm. The new zstd compression algorithm gives similar ratios to zlib but is just *so much* faster. Needs kernel 4.14 or above though. I compress all my btrfs filesystems with zstd....
[04:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:44] <exec> 08└─Where I work now, we use ZFS extensively for central file servers as well as data volumes on any server we care about. Single file restores are easy as pie with the snapshots. When replacing hardware, ZFSreceiving the entire datastore back into place is a thing of magic. I recently put together a se...
[04:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploit Vendor Drops Tor Browser Zero-Day on Twitter - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:35] <exec> 08└─Swallowing the card may not be enough: https://petapixel.com [petapixel.com]
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[05:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:08] <exec> 08└─Good luck convincing Apple they need to bring back useful features like that. Or magsafe.
[05:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:09] <exec> 08└─I use a pair of sennheiser headphones at work. They are largish, noise cancelling and comfortable to wear. The most important thing however is they are bluetooth - so I haven't used a corded set for years! I wouldn't ever go back to corded headphones. I don't do enough talking on a phone to make it...
[05:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:11] <exec> 08└─"Does anyone actually use a headphone jack in their phone at all?" - Yes. Note : if you ever become an adult, you will learn that the needs of others may be different from your needs, but no less valid than your needs. If you don't want a headphone jack, then you have little to contribute to this di...
[05:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:13] <exec> 08└─Yup, with big honkin proper over the ear headphones. Why? Because cheap wired headphones sound worlds better than mid-range wireless headphones. Earbuds need not even apply; they're shit.
[05:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:15] <exec> 08└─...bringing back the headphone jack until they come up with a good reason to take it away?
[05:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:29] <exec> 08└─"It's simple. If you are into gaming on Linux you go Nvidia. There is no choice. Anything else is a gamble whether they games you need will work." "they games you need" If you are so addicted to fashion that you really *need* a specific game so badly that you're buying your hardware based on it, the...
[05:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:31] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure "games you need" is not a hard concept to understand, it has nothing to do with "popular". Anyway, you are likely not a gamer if you are this confused. With nvidia on Linux it just works (most of the time anyway), with everything else it's "guess, pray and tweak until it does". Somet...
[05:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:33] <exec> 08└─"I'm pretty sure "games you need" is not a hard concept to understand, it has nothing to do with "popular"." I'm pretty sure it means that you *need* specific games. In other words, that this is not an optional desire - it's a need - for a specific game from a specific source. Which is why you have...
[05:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:35] <exec> 08└─My work desktop runs fine with Nouveau. It went through a period that, after several weeks of use, I would see some odd effects when dragging windows from one monitor to another, but I haven't seen that problem for quite some time.
[05:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:10] <exec> 08└─Ive a raid array of seagate greens with over 6 years of power on time and still ticking.
[05:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:11] <exec> 08└─Video games these days can top 100gb per title. (Final fantasy 15 is 150gb if you install the full resolution files)
[05:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploit Vendor Drops Tor Browser Zero-Day on Twitter - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:19] <exec> 08└─Swallowing is not "to get rid of it", just plausible deniability. If they don't know you had one in the first place, they will not come looking. But I'd wager it'd be hard to notice even in a cursory X-Ray. Those cards are fucking tiny. If you wanna be sneaky, use a double-layered belt and jam the c...
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[05:47:20] <exec> 08└─Then I gave up on NoScript for similar reasons. Especially when: it's okay to block ads, but not *our* ads.
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[06:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:10] <exec> 08└─Sales. Bluetooth everything. Want your old wired headphones still? Buy a bluetooth adapter! Compressed, lousy, lossy, streamed and youtube music never sounded so good!
[06:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 2662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:11] <exec> 08└─I use corded headphones with my cellphone, in fact I specifically picked a corded model* Main reason why I picked corded is no need to charge it, can hook it up to pretty much any equipment made from the 1970s up until 2017, I still need the microphone placed somewhere so cabling will be needed (yes...
[06:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 2009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:13] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of the 3.5mm jack? It's standard. It's well proven. It has NO disadvantages of any kind. It's the best quality solution by far. It can be IP67 compliant, as a few vendors have them. ... it's legacy for old grumpers? For me a few requirements are mandatory in a phone: . Audio Jack since i...
[06:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:15] <exec> 08└─Why even think of... Getting rid of the 3.5mm jack?
[06:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:32] <exec> 08└─Because you want OpenGL drivers that work, CUDA support, and the best performance per dollar? Yes, I get exactly that you love free and open software, but some of use are actually doing work with tools we call computers, rather than trying to progress a political position. And Intel, AMD, etal prett...
[06:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:34] <exec> 08└─Why would NVidia want to hold on to driver code anyway? Drivers are not their profit center. Selling graphic boards is. But the driver is required or the boards won't sell. What's the deal with keeping the code under wraps? To me, this seems to make just about as much sense as if Elon Musk started...
[06:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:36] <exec> 08└─Can I ask what card you're using? I've been having issues with, off the top of my head, 650, 760, 960, and 1050.
[06:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:38] <exec> 08└─Why would NVidia want to hold on to driver code anyway?
[06:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 1772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:40] <exec> 08└─Cities can't do much to regulate Ham Radio operator's antennas, they are under Federal jurisdiction. If the Feds will pull a jurisdiction override for that, seriously doubt the Feds will roll over and let these locals regulate cell towers when there is real money on the table. Money talks and hippie...
[06:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Clone Tesla Key Fobs in Seconds - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:40] <exec> 08└─They don't tend to work on car locks though. Most of them are only good for basic locks, and perhaps the cheapest "budget" single barrel door locks. At least the ones I have seen...
[06:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentnewsinator [7102] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:29] <exec> 08└─I skimmed through the article. You can grow your pool over time, but only as big as the smallest disk. This underlines the fact that for a home user, your goal shouldn't be to have as big of a *pool* as possible, but rather, keep smaller pools. For my home NAS, I'm moving to mirrored pools of only 2...
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[07:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:17] <exec> 08└─Audio interfaces were basically figured out in the 1970s. Analog for the win here. The headphone jack is the most straightforward solution to the problem of sending an audio signal a few feet. It's elegant. It can't fail. Obviously, we CAN'T LET THIS STAND. How much of tech industry consists of sell...
[07:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:19] <exec> 08└─Agreed, analog audio works just fine. In the end, all speakers are analog at the end where you solder the two wires to the speaker connectors, so why bother with a digital interface? You're just degrading the audio quality by digitizing it into a compressed format and then converting it back to anal...
[07:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:21] <exec> 08└─In a world where the signal in the phone is digital, there's no downside (and a lot of advantages) to transferring the signal to the headphones digitally. Now, the problem is that everyone chooses a digital transmission protocol (Bluetooth) that doesn't have sufficient bandwidth to transfer the digi...
[07:44:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 1239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:20] <exec> 08└─When a city has a problem with people shitting on the street, it seems to me that is a symptom of a much larger problem. We really need to reevaluate our priorities if we cannot provide basic necessities like public restrooms. If we're worried that the homeless will take up residence in the public r...
[07:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:48] <exec> 08└─You forget the obvious third option, the one everyone used when we had a functioning civilization. Vagrancy Laws. Seems especially needed in the Bay Area where they want to make laws limiting construction of new housing and demand far exceeds supply. There can't possibly be enough housing for those...
[07:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:49] <exec> 08└─No, they prefer not to be called Nazis anymore. They are the Alt-Write. Have I said lately how much I HATE the minimum post size limit?
[07:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to hear that. I had one issue with NILFS, probably caused by my ignorant habit of using the power button on my laptop to get out of unresponsive blank screens caused by the display code. I too had to to a backup/restore to resolve that particular issue - but now that I've discovered REISUB...
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[08:42:27] <exec> 08└─It has NO disadvantages of any kind.
[08:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:05] <exec> 08└─The Concerns are rising?? They are RISING? OMG stop the press everyone, the Concerns are rising. What kind of bullshit throwaway line is that? I haven't had my daily bowel movement yet, and the Concerns are rising. Everywhere people are going to be concerned about other people's business. Smoking ha...
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[09:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:58] <exec> 08└─This gas falls inward and is heated by friction
[09:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:05] <exec> 08└─This is a glimpse into the dystopia of the future. Nice to know that NYC is ahead of the competition. They already have their contracts in place, and are actively assisting Google and company to set up the surveillance. Nice joke hidden in there. "Oh, we don't actually plan on sharing data with law...
[09:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:26] <exec> 08└─It has NO disadvantages of any kind.
[09:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:50] <exec> 08└─Once customers understand what is out there, they design it into things... and isn't that what damn near every manufacturer wants?
[09:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:08] <exec> 08└─If they are truly concerned, then do a proper study, wait for actual results and then tell us you were right all along.
[09:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:00] <exec> 08└─Fuses are more reliable than breakers. I used to bitch about changing fuses, but I've learned enough to prefer fuses.
[09:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:54] <exec> 08└─For multiple reasons, pools of mirrors are the generally accepted "golden path". I.e. RAID10-equivalent. You can always grow your pool by adding one vdev at a time, with a pool of 2-way mirrors that means adding two HDDs. Not so bad, is it? :) With RAIDZ(-2,-3), a vdev can span many disks. But it's...
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[10:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:47] <exec> 08└─From the Microsoft-destroyed-my-dept. dept.
[10:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:49] <exec> 08└─...a nation most Americans couldn't find on a map before the 1990s. Many probably still can't.
[10:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:57] <exec> 08└─Internal friction of the gas.
[10:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:25] <exec> 08└─Less time turning the cable over again and again to work out the correct orientation, and an overall easier time plugging the cable in.
[10:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:26] <exec> 08└─so make the phone send either analog audio, or digital audio via the standard audio cable. and then you can decode the high bitrate signal in your headphones, if that's what you want. I don't see why that should be a problem (coaxial cables are still being used for network connections, right?), and...
[10:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:28] <exec> 08└─USB-C is a bad choice (except M2M), at best it comes out as just a change of ports. But since I'm having a cold and slow day.. The replacement I'd want to see is a short-range (a couple of millimeters) inductive (active host, passive guest) device that simply pushes the analouge signal. The advantag...
[10:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:51] <exec> 08└─That is inaccurate. Proprietary drivers are pretty easy to install on Debian, but Debian doesn't host those drivers. I use smxi to install my kernels and drivers - it's almost brain-dead simple. Going through the menus, you are given the option to install nvidia-latest. If you choose that option, th...
[10:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:52] <exec> 08└─Very well stated - thank you!
[10:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:54] <exec> 08└─Because you want OpenGL drivers that work, CUDA support, and the best performance per dollar?
[10:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:13] <exec> 08└─I won't argue that claim, but I'll offer a counter example. When my wife was pregnant, she abstained from everything suspected of harming her babies. Further, she reduced her risks of being in an automobile accident, or other accidents. I can't possibly say how many women alter their lifestyles whil...
[10:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:14] <exec> 08└─Over the years, I've read a number of claims that smoking pot simply doesn't carry the same risks that smoking tobacco does. No nicotine, for starters, and the tars are entirely different. Add to that, no one just chain smokes pot all day every day. I think that IF a pregnant woman is going to smoke...
[10:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:59] <exec> 08└─but over a gig should be fine.
[10:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:01] <exec> 08└─My home network media backup ZFS box had 2GB ram, I ran into occasional stability issues (unexplained random reboots)
[10:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tor Browser for Android Released - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:54] <exec> 08└─I was going to ask how this was any different from Orfox, which has been around for years, but then I looked it up myself: https://guardianproject.info [guardianproject.info] Orfox: A Tor Browser for Android September 2018 Update! Since 2015, Orfox has been the only mobile app recommende...
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[11:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:03] <exec> 08└─It does take balls to live right next to Russia and all the BS that blows out of there.
[11:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:04] <exec> 08└─...for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. Indeed.
[11:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:07] <exec> 08└─a nation most Americans couldn't find on a map
[11:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:22] <exec> 08└─If they can track my ass in TN with kiosks in NYC, I'm pretty damned impressed.
[11:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:24] <exec> 08└─With a 911 button, what could you expect other than an Orwellian agenda?
[11:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 2145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:49] <exec> 08└─A headphone jack doesn't need to be charged. Bluetooth devices do. I find it a pain in the backside to keep so many different things charged all the time. Note that my car audio doesn't have that problem - if I'm driving the car, it's powered up. Though Bluetooth is very handy, I have to admit I do...
[11:43:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:47] <exec> 08└─I've got 3 choices for internet/TV. Uverse, who raised their prices for years until I could no longer see the value in it. But they don't support DOCSIS so if I want to cut the cord they aren't an option. Directv, who has good rates but 2 big shortfalls: 1) where I live, I can't put an antenna to se...
[11:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:49] <exec> 08└─Around me, the cost of gigabit internet broadband from Comcast dropped from $300 per month to $105 per month in the last three years. So the question is whether Comcast was going to roll out the service that aggressively already, or whether competition from Google prompted them. I'm not near one of...
[11:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:51] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Comcast will make sure to slowly raise the price every few months wile dropping available services or capabilities until the cost reaches or exceeds $300 again and you are left with an internet connection consisting of two tin cans connected by a piece of string.
[11:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:00] <exec> 08└─I have our entire seven hundred disk Blu Ray and DVD collection ripped. If I kept it in the original H.264 and mpeg2 video formats it would eat more than ten TB of space. Instead I've re-encoded everything to H.265 and it's down to 3TB, but the re-encoding process took over half a year on my five ye...
[11:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:27] <exec> 08└─(Deduplication) which is by no means necessary.
[11:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploit Vendor Drops Tor Browser Zero-Day on Twitter - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:21] <exec> 08└─Making it illegal won't make me stop holding them. In fact, i cant think of any illegal thing, that i won't do because its illegal. Usually its not the "illegal", that stops me, its the "unprofitable". "Meanwhile, the world suffers." - modernity discource detected, as if suffering was less before ex...
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[12:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:07] <exec> 08└─Isn't there one of those adages about this: "Any web site that lasts long enough will eventually degrade in to a cesspool of advertising and malware"?
[12:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:08] <exec> 08└─Amazon pages are pages for actually selling you something, which is even more commercial in nature than advertising. I'm failing to see the butthurt rationale.
[12:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:10] <exec> 08└─Amazon search ceases to attempt to return the best product but rather the most advertising revenue; a couple of years later amazon gets taken over by . Plus ca change?
[12:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:23] <exec> 08└─The thing with grids and google maps.. Here is a fun thing, try to ask the kids to name three cities in USA or Europe that is on the same latitude as an arbitrary city in Europe or USA respective. The savvier kids might notice the long/lat in the urls of the google map and brute force it, but beyond...
[12:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:43] <exec> 08└─Precedent. Get the technology and legal precedent working in NYC and then export to the rest of the country.
[12:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:45] <exec> 08└─Shit, good luck tracking me with that. I can't even get cell reception out at the lake. Internet service for tracking me is right the fuck out.
[12:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:12] <exec> 08└─Thought I was going to see again one of the complaints of the 3.5mm jack, which is that it takes up a lot of space inside the device. That no one made that complaint suggests that USB-C isn't smaller. There is a 2.5mm analog audio plug and jack standard. Same exact thing as 3.5mm, just smaller diame...
[12:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:41] <exec> 08└─Meh, I haven't bought NVidia in half a decade. When I last did, I went for their low end, a GEForce GT 610, to replace an older but still functioning Nvidious card with a bad fan. Of course the card I got was fanless, so I'd never have that problem again. Even when the fan was fine on the original c...
[12:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 1806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:03] <exec> 08└─Most likely, with heavy biased studies they will find something legitimately of concern (which in the end amounts to nothing significant.) But then the risks caused by tons of normal safe foods are likely no worse, just less studied. It may sound like a big human experiment; but what isn't? We'll se...
[12:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:19] <exec> 08└─Someone from Google no doubt was spinning this hard in order to preserve the tatters of their reputation and/or employment options. Reminds me of the "Tab Clear" spin [soylentnews.org]. In his 2011 book, Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry, Stephen Denny published an...
[12:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:30] <exec> 08└─Some people win russian roulette...but it doesn't make that a sound bet.
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[13:41:36] <exec> 08└─1. Acturial Science 2. Zoology 3. Nuclear Engineering 4. Health & Medical Preparatory Programs 5. Applied Mathematics 158. Visual & Performing Arts 159. Cosmetology & Culinary Arts 160. Clinical Psychology 161. Composition & Speech 162. Miscellaneous Fine Arts Statisticians are overpaid and the reas...
[13:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:47] <exec> 08└─I don't want search results sorted according to advertising budget, I want search results based on relevance and/or customer feedback. For instance I noticed that product names are becoming longer and longer, just because sellers want to include as many keywords as possible (and they're not usually...
[13:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:00] <exec> 08└─Nokia is done because they are Finnish.
[13:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:11] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine particles grinding at high speed against the black hole's horizon and sparking in the process.
[13:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:12] <exec> 08└─They grind against each other. Not everything is going to find itself in a trajectory heading into the black hole's event horizon, but all of the stuff near it is going to be accelerated to fantastic speeds by the black hole's gravity. And well, if you have stuff moving fast hitting other stuff movi...
[13:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:14] <exec> 08└─Heh, fascinating. X-RAY SPECTRA FROM MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF ACCRETING BLACK HOLES [iop.org] Since the initial discovery of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) by Balbus & Hawley (1991) over two decades ago, tremendous progress has been made in simulating astrophysical accretion disk...
[13:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:16] <exec> 08└─The gas atoms and molecules are increasingly compressed and collide as they fall into the black hole's gravitation.
[13:42:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:44] <exec> 08└─"Does anyone actually use a headphone jack in their phone at all?" - Yes. Note : if you ever become an adult, you will learn that the needs of others may be different from your needs, but no less valid than your needs. If you don't want a headphone jack, then you have little to contribute to this di...
[13:42:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:45] <exec> 08└─Yup, with big honkin proper over the ear headphones. Why? Because cheap wired headphones sound worlds better than mid-range wireless headphones. Earbuds need not even apply; they're shit.
[13:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:02] <exec> 08└─Parent said: "In a world where the signal in the phone is digital, there's no downside (and a lot of advantages) to transferring the signal to the headphones digitally." The rest of your post contradicted your first paragraph in a detailed manner! Also, Bluetooth is a WIRELESS protocol. For a WIRED...
[13:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:04] <exec> 08└─but i will not post it's name unless somebody wants it.
[13:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:05] <exec> 08└─I'll pay extra for a phone with a jack. But people aren't making them with jacks.
[13:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:36] <exec> 08└─There is indeed a JIT compiler as part of the drivers (libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler.so).
[13:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:12] <exec> 08└─Starlink is our only hope now.
[13:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:49] <exec> 08└─Breakage of config files? I've often thought config files should be checked into revision control with a vendor branch and a local branch, and that the installer should set this up. After installation it's too late, because the installer has already modified them. Maybe also an installer branch, int...
[13:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:51] <exec> 08└─Just wondering: How much RAM did you have on that BSD system using ZFS way back in 2008? Machines were a lot smaller then.
[13:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:53] <exec> 08└─What does that have to do with Oracle though? As other's have already pointed out, the way in which the module is tying in to the Linux OS has long been okayed by Linus and many other key Linux contributors. Other Linux stakeholders might try to cause problems since it is technically, a violation of...
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[14:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:40] <exec> 08└─marginalized individuals experience a 'Need for Chaos' and want to 'watch the world burn'
[14:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:41] <exec> 08└─n/a
[14:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:51] <exec> 08└─Isn't a "fine arts" degree supposed to associated with lower income than dropping out of high school?
[14:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:53] <exec> 08└─Coding is the best job. Professional coders can earn up to $0 per year and work an average of 168 hours per week. Unemployment rates are as high as 100% for basement dwellers who write all the code for free used by billion dollar corporations. Learn to code today. You have no idea the shitty life yo...
[14:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:55] <exec> 08└─Statisticians are overpaid
[14:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:21] <exec> 08└─https://brandonrobshaw.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/gawking-and-gawping/ [wordpress.com] A little-remarked difference between British and American English is that we say gawp and they say gawk, both words meaning to stare at something in a slack-jawed way. Obviously these words are variants of the same...
[14:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:34] <exec> 08└─They grind against each other. Not everything is going to find itself in a trajectory heading into the black hole's event horizon, but all of the stuff near it is going to be accelerated to fantastic speeds by the black hole's gravity. And well, if you have stuff moving fast hitting other stuff movi...
[14:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:36] <exec> 08└─Even though, to have high speed/high temp accretion with a lowish mass blackhole - just where from the energy is coming?
[14:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:48] <exec> 08└─There's one on the corner of my block. Even when you're standing right next to it, the throughput sucks. I have yet to see anyone standing their recharging their phone on the USB ports, or even using the thing for any reason whatsoever. Tourists universally have smart phones and data plans. Locals u...
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:50] <exec> 08└─they'll install 5g microcells in fishing rods. better start using a wooden pole.
[14:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:52] <exec> 08└─and recast the country as one that has an ironclad right to privacy in its DNA.
[14:43:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aiwendil [531] 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 2662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:06] <exec> 08└─I use corded headphones with my cellphone, in fact I specifically picked a corded model* Main reason why I picked corded is no need to charge it, can hook it up to pretty much any equipment made from the 1970s up until 2017, I still need the microphone placed somewhere so cabling will be needed (yes...
[14:43:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Shimitar [4208] 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 2009 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:07] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of the 3.5mm jack? It's standard. It's well proven. It has NO disadvantages of any kind. It's the best quality solution by far. It can be IP67 compliant, as a few vendors have them. ... it's legacy for old grumpers? For me a few requirements are mandatory in a phone: . Audio Jack since i...
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─There is a 2.5mm analog audio plug and jack standard. Same exact thing as 3.5mm, just smaller diameter. Wonder why we don't see more of that? Do they break off too easily?
[14:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 2515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:24] <exec> 08└─Bluetooth audio is like USB-C audio -- some devices work fine, others are absolutely ATROCIOUS. The only difference is they've had goddamn DECADES to figure that shit out with Bluetooth yet it's still fucking awful...which doesn't give me high hopes for USB-C... I do use Bluetooth at home, to pipe m...
[14:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─Sure there's a downside, based in the fact that the signal to your ears MUST be analog, ears don't speak digital. So, at some point you need to turn that digital signal to analog, and a high quality DAC is moderately bulky and expensive - it requires non-miniaturizable analog components and has all...
[14:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:28] <exec> 08└─You asked for that. Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. It has no removable battery, but has all the other points, including the unlockable bootloader which does NOT void warranty. PLUS it has NO notch. And, yes, it's even clear of UsbC. And the price point is sweet low, so i am not worried if the locked battery i...
[14:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:30] <exec> 08└─The problem I see with magnetic induction is cross-talk - how do you prevent the stereo-left transmitted signal from bleeding in to the stereo-right received signal, when both transceiver pairs are operating in extreme close proximity? Maybe you could pull it off with an inch or two of separation -...
[14:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:33] <exec> 08└─Hey, idea, make a notch to hide it!
[14:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:35] <exec> 08└─I've got the exact same list of requirements....I'm looking at an LG G5 for my next phone because nobody has manufactured one that's actually USABLE in the last two years. I've currently got a Galaxy S5 though, so the G5 isn't much of an upgrade...but at least it's fairly cheap these days :) Althoug...
[14:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:37] <exec> 08└─Do you want to name the device? I also have foldable Bluetooth headphones with a jack, but they don't have several of the features you listed like FM radio, microSD, or noise cancellation. Plus it has microUSB for charging but can't play music over the microUSB or play over Bluetooth while charging.
[14:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:39] <exec> 08└─The advantages I would see with this would be that it would allow you to have a dustproof and waterproof unit, the "jack" would simply be a "apply reader here" (be it a slotted device, slight indentation, a suction cup, a magnetic connector, welcro, duct tape...) and it would be a simple analouge de...
[14:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:41] <exec> 08└─good ear buds have excellent sounds but they kills audition.... Areon mastermind and guitarist is now unable to perform live because of earbuds : http://bravewords.com [bravewords.com]
[14:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:43] <exec> 08└─The 2.5mm are weaker, and more importantly they sacrifice what's arguably the single largest advantage of the 3.5mm jack - compatibility. Adapters are cheap, but annoying. I think you're not seeing comments about the size mostly because nobody here cares. And actually, probably very few people anywh...
[14:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:12] <exec> 08└─Do you know that the efficiency for non-visible light is zero? Gold is also reflective at longer wavelengths. 11x refers to the earlier work with gold nan-particles.
[14:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:01] <exec> 08└─The day after you buy a pro video camera or two, you'll find that you'll need boxes of huge capacity harddrives
[14:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:03] <exec> 08└─Do they actually tick? It wouldn't surprise me :)
[14:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─If you do a lot of Mac + Linux, ZFS is amazing. Once you have drivers on both, you can export a RAIDZ multi-disk JBOD USB3 enclosure from a Linux machine, plug it into a Mac, and it pretty much "just works". Dual boot works great, too. Network replication is dead simple. I started using ZFS for the...
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[15:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:48] <exec> 08└─Because there is literally no difference to what these days goes for "serious" journalism.
[15:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:49] <exec> 08└─Its nothing new. The news has been mostly fake for a long time now: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The only thing that changed is the fake news started calling other things fake news.
[15:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:51] <exec> 08└─Because we have not eradicated stupidity yet. It's on the list right after convincing the "Flat Earthers" that they are mistaken.
[15:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─It's like asking why do people commit arson? For some, it is a one time thing, an insurance scam. But I'm talking about people in love with committing arson. Who live for watching the burn. What is their malfunction? How similar is it to wanting to watch the entire world, or a nation burn metaphoric...
[15:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:55] <exec> 08└─Eris? Typo? Hail Eric maybe? Because Eric is a symbol of stupidity or blurting out the wrong thing? Hypothetical example: Donald Jr: my dad has very few people that he can trust. Eric interrupting . . . yeah, the only ones he can trust are the Russians! That would be exactly the wrong thing to add....
[15:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:58] <exec> 08└─It is because most adults today (including myself) probably can't pass a high school final exam from 100 years ago.
[15:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:00] <exec> 08└─Because we have not eradicated stupidity yet.
[15:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:02] <exec> 08└─Gossip has been around since humans figured out how to communicate. Now it's much easier to put gossip in writing, and people tend to accept writings as being true. Of course it's begging the question: why do people gossip?
[15:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:04] <exec> 08└─^The cynic paints the whole world with the same broad brush. You are fake news.
[15:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:06] <exec> 08└─The Authoritarians (available at https://www.theauthoritarians.org [theauthoritarians.org] ) has been getting around. As far as it goes, it's a pretty good explanation of how people with poor reasoning skills (aka stupid people) behave. The author tries very hard to avoid calling them stupid, but do...
[15:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:08] <exec> 08└─started long before trump. maybe he learned from it.
[15:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─Umbrella term "Poor reasoning skills" isn't a primary predictor of right wing authoritarianism. It is a predictor of conspiracy ideation and broad apolitical acceptance of conspiracy theories. Research has indicated, however, that there's two flavors of conspiracy acceptance, and the broad apolitica...
[15:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:24] <exec> 08└─Today in obvious news: Undesirable jobs come with a pay incentive.
[15:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TechieRefugee [5665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:25] <exec> 08└─Fine Arts should be the number one dream job, 'cuz if you think you'll get a job in it, you're dreaming!
[15:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:27] <exec> 08└─Shooting kind of low for a "Dream Job" aren't they? I mean, my dream job is multi-time powerball winner. If you're going to dream, dream bigger than actuarial FFS.
[15:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not even a statistician.
[15:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─It takes balls to get invaded [wikipedia.org] by Russia in WWII, put up a hell of a fight, then invade them back [wikipedia.org] afterwards. Then when WW2 was mostly over, they had to fight a third war [wikipedia.org] because their former German ~allies wouldn't leave their northern regions. Plus, y...
[15:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=pressure++event+horizon [google.com] And if you're feeling much too happy, read this: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org], plug in some numbers, use MatLab / MathCad / Maple / whatever your favorite math software or grind it out like the ancients did. We'l...
[15:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:13] <exec> 08└─Is this happening on an atomic scale? And if you say "yes", then how close to the event horizon is atomic deformation beginning?
[15:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:16] <exec> 08└─Like how much compressed?
[15:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:31] <exec> 08└─I see people charging from them time to time. I even have seen a few people try to make phone calls over the speaker built in. Generally they look like vagrants.
[15:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:14] <exec> 08└─As someone who is actually part of the music industry I can state that virtually fucking nobody* thinks this shit. It's all made up, a strawman, imported from clueless slashdot pimply dorks. *Nobody in this case means I have never met anyone with any *credibility* that thinks up this shit. No, not e...
[15:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:15] <exec> 08└─Like takyon, I am also interested in the model name/number of said device. Last cheap pair I bought was $35 and didn't do 75% of what you listed and died after three months. That thing sounds magical.
[15:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:17] <exec> 08└─I suspect the headphone jack is more of a cost/size issue. With the entire phone nearing 5mm thickness the 3.5mm headphone jack is quite large. Additionally accommodating it in the board layout, and rating the port for dust/water tolerance are calories that could be saved. I do not plan on purchasin...
[15:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:19] <exec> 08└─Your S9+ costs more than every single phone I've ever owned in my life, collectively. It also costs more than my laptop. And more than each car I've ever owned (except one which I bought brand-new). For a headphone jack? Sorry, but no. My S4 Mini and S5 Mini were fine, and have IR blasters. I put th...
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:21] <exec> 08└─No idea... It probably has a brand on it, but I can't remember it. I'll have a look A friend has a very similar one that I do know the name of and can still find on Amazon (though his doesn't say Turbine on it, it's definitely a Bluedio): https://www.amazon.co.uk
[15:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:49] <exec> 08└─Ugh. Yeah, I dropped $2000 on a System76 gaming laptop a couple years back. Tried really hard to game on that thing for a couple months, eventually I gave up and upgraded by desktop with all AMD so I could just use that instead, and now my laptop might as well be a chromebook because all it's good f...
[15:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:50] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter how good the performance is if the drivers are such garbage that they can't actually run the applications that you want to run. I spent a hell of a long time with my laptop trying to get shit working with the piece of garbage NVidia card. I install proprietary drivers, and I get error...
[15:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:52] <exec> 08└─01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 420] (rev a1)
[15:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:54] <exec> 08└─What? nvidia-driver, nvidia-kernel-dkms, etc. aren't actually drivers?
[15:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:57] <exec> 08└─"Cost, laziness, speed-of-deployment, and secrecy (secrets of the trade)" Don't forget plain old stupidity. "(this also would mean that a lot of their competetive edge is in the drivers)." Well, yeah, sort of. Their drivers (the bits of them that work as they should, at least) are definitely key to...
[15:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:14] <exec> 08└─idiots I work for now insist that zero accidents is an attainable goal.
[15:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:16] <exec> 08└─I kind of missed my point with the above. It may be worth it to spend lavishly on safety to save lives (or billions of dollars of equipment!) to prevent loss of vehicle. But most software development doesn't go to these extremes. Microsoft has shown us that it is possible to have a culture where cus...
[15:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:18] <exec> 08└─It does existing things faster. But often that also means more capacity. I don't need 10 GB ethernet to my computer. So why does it exist? For the same reason that six lane highways exist in some places. Or the 404 (and I don't mean page not found). I hear that 5G has poor in building penetration.
[15:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:20] <exec> 08└─I hope you patented this.
[15:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:25] <exec> 08└─A small quibble: Loading ZFS into the kernel, even linking it directly into a compiled monolithic kernel IS NOT a GPL violation. Distributing the result of that linkage to someone else is a GPL violation. No Linux contributor has standing to come after you if you link ZFS on your own hardware nor lo...
[15:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:26] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. I think this is evident from some of my other nearby posts. My concern would be that not all kernel contributors might agree. It only takes one to bring an expensive lawsuit. Some kernel developers are dead and who knows what their estate might to for extra profit. The kernel devel...
[15:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:29] <exec> 08└─If some kernel developer, or a dead kernel developer's estate were to bring a lawsuit over linking, it would still be ugly and expensive -- even if you win.
[15:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 2768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:31] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say Gentoo has "improved" much in the intervening time. It's definitely the nature of the rolling release beast. Benefit is bleeding edge latest packages. Draw back is the blood on the edge is frequently your own... The recommendation for upgrade frequency is, "early and often..." The thi...
[15:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:33] <exec> 08└─My 2008 dedupe near-disaster happened with 8GB of RAM (max the motherboard could handle...) for a 3TB pool (4x750GB, RAIDZ-1), SATA attached WD consumer class drives. Two ebay surplus MB updates later and a ton of "pulled" DIMMs on the cheap, and I'm at 96GB for 43TB total storage across 4 pools and...
[15:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:35] <exec> 08└─GPL is absolutely a contract which grants you a copyright license as part of its terms. You receive the valuable consideration of the right to distribute a copyrighted work quid pro quo you agree to take certain required actions in exchange. IE in order to distribute binaries, you are required to di...
[15:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:37] <exec> 08└─You just cron scrubs on Linux. Works identically.
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[16:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:44] <exec> 08└─Because someone on Twitter said it, it is now a movement?
[16:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:45] <exec> 08└─The short answer is you simply can't do it. If you're working with Free Software, or even merely OSD "Open" software, it doesn't matter. You cannot add this sort of restriction to the license, attempting to do so should have no effect other than terminating your own license to the code. If you write...
[16:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:48] <exec> 08└─Look, if you're a mighty buzzard, you ain't afraid of no strawman, like some lowly crow. (Also that tweet, far from "chanting" seems to clearly state a coherent point, fairly prosaically for a tweet)
[16:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─I blame the Internet and the advertising business that supports it. Outrage = page views = ads viewed (or analytics collected) = advertisers get paid Damn the whole thing.
[16:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:52] <exec> 08└─they always try the decades-old postmodern depolitization speech. fuck them
[16:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:54] <exec> 08└─This. What a strange article.
[16:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:56] <exec> 08└─Would BSD/MIT/Apache style licenses (open source, free as in beer) allow for such restrictions? Seems GPL (free as in freedom software) would behave the way you describe, so perhaps this is another good thing about the GPL and its "viral" nature. Ultimately it is up to the citizens of a democratic g...
[16:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:58] <exec> 08└─Bad people: someone with political view I dislike. So I'll manipulate some organization that I could influence (including possibly open source project) to deny products and services to "bad people". The first problem is that sword cuts both ways. "bad people" (with differing viewpoints) might do the...
[16:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:01] <exec> 08└─Yes they discriminate against people they don't like, but such behavior shouldn't be considered a political tool. Even if their dislike is caused by political disagreement. It's simply not a valid way to achieve consensus on political issues.
[16:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:03] <exec> 08└─"All software is political"? I guess Visual Basic would be crony capitalism. C++ would be a theocratic caste system. Javascript as socialism? Machine code is pure anarchy. FORTH is still unclassifiable under any kind of classification system.
[16:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:05] <exec> 08└─We should act in a way that, to the best of our ability, promotes "good" (where I subscribe to a utilitarian model of ethics, but that is a detail). Attempting to exclude bad actors from using my (presumably beneficial) code surely promotes "good". The (very short) article relies on the premise that...
[16:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:07] <exec> 08└─Nope, none of the projects operating under BSD derived licenses would accept encumbered code like that. Hell, most consider the GPL too restrictive and replace any GPL code they can with BSD licensed versions.
[16:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:28] <exec> 08└─Are you marginalized? (Are you depressed? Have you ever been depressed?)
[16:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:29] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure GP meant Eris [wikipedia.org], goddess of strife and discord. GP may be a Discordian [wikipedia.org].
[16:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:32] <exec> 08└─I think there may be therapy now for whatever issues you are struggling with.
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─Need for chaos? It's a need, but not I think for chaos. Maybe it's a need for revenge.
[16:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:36] <exec> 08└─Need for chaos? It's a need, but not I think for chaos. Maybe it's a need for revenge. FTFY
[16:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:38] <exec> 08└─You mean the Bilderbergs https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and the Illuminati http://www.theweek.co.uk [theweek.co.uk] aren't really causing Global Climate Change? :-| (PS: For those who might not perceive my sarcasm,...
[16:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:40] <exec> 08└─Depends how much knowledge of current events from a century ago is on the test. Yes, most of us would have a rough time with that part. But I think most of us would do okay on the math and science areas. They were by no means uniformly great at teaching those subjects back then, and for some of the...
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:42] <exec> 08└─Why their life sucks. It couldn't be them. No way, no how. It was the Illuminati trained Sasquatches who stole all the left socks.
[16:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─Acturial Science was #1 when I graduated from college 30 years ago with a math degree.
[16:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:00] <exec> 08└─Most powerball winners end up broke and unhappy. In fact, about 70 percent of people who win a lottery or get a big windfall actually end up broke within three to four years, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education.
[16:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:02] <exec> 08└─Well, naturally. The lottery is a tax on people that don't understand math. Sure, occasionally someone throws away a dollar on a ticket and then never buys one again, but other often desperately poor people spend a portion of every paycheck on this like clockwork for years. Each one of them individu...
[16:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:04] <exec> 08└─I think an important thing to remember is that we should be working to live, not living to work. As long as being an actuary doesn't actively make you want to hang yourself, it's a fine choice. Put in your 20 or 25 years and then retire and spend 100% of your time on things you do care about. Don't...
[16:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:06] <exec> 08└─The lottery is a tax on people that don't understand math.
[16:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:08] <exec> 08└─The lottery is a tax on people that don't understand math.
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─Amazon pages are pages for actually selling you something, which is even more commercial in nature than advertising. I'm failing to see the butthurt rationale.
[16:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:20] <exec> 08└─The rational is one of efficiency, annoyance, and irritation. It's very similar to how supermarkets put all the things people commonly want at the far ends of the store, forcing customers to walk through all the aisles of very-profitable junk food in the middle. Amazon is making users wade through n...
[16:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:22] <exec> 08└─"Nobody is scrolling beyond the first page when they do a search,"
[16:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:39] <exec> 08└─Ballmer laughed at the iPhone. Then completely missed the mobile devices revolution. Suddenly realizing it was all real, and a threat to the monopoly, Microsoft needed to dominate this new market -- as any monopolist does. Injecting Nokia's great hardware into Windows Phone might be just the thing t...
[16:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:40] <exec> 08└─After the sheer number of companies destroyed in the wake of Microsoft, how could Nokia have expected the same thing to happen to them? Maybe they would be the exception?
[16:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:00] <exec> 08└─Regarding phone thinness: you've got to ask yourself, how thin can a phone be before the strength of materials dictates that it will bend or crack with minimal force, and therefore high probability? I'd say we've already reached that point. Otherwise, how do you explain the phone case industry? Stop...
[16:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:02] <exec> 08└─I don't care if Apple brings back a headphone jack. As long as everyone else brings it back.
[16:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─In the beginning, no one just chain smoked tobacco all day every day either.
[16:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber: A "Successful Failure"? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:13] <exec> 08└─Surprised me the other day - RCN's local office was sending actual salesmen around talking about how you don't need Comcast or Verizon. They said those guys might build out to where we are, but who needs them, they don't send people to your door, right? The salesmen were going door to door selling p...
[16:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 2539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:11] <exec> 08└─Most of the articles I've read (including that one) on growing ZFS pools are a little myopic to one really important detail. It's a valid criticism that expanding ZFS pools costs more money than LVM or similar since you need to replace all devices. Too often that's generalized to "you can't expand z...
[16:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 3074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:12] <exec> 08└─At least one court agrees with you that it is a contract. If that was its intent, then it should be called an agreement rather than a license. The license (eg permission) is granted as a condition of an agreement. The word license means permission. I understand that distributing is the context that...
[16:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:14] <exec> 08└─Any such estate would be suing Nvidia, Broadcom, and any of a dozen much larger companies over the non-GPL blobs they load in with their modules. You can't have accelerated video, WiFi, or lots of other functionality in Linux from a huge variety of hardware manufacturers without linking non-GPL code...
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[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:51] <exec> 08└─I could clip this to the teeth of a guy I know who smacks his gums loudly when he chews. Broadcast that at the bad guys and they will all go mad within a fortnight.
[17:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:12] <exec> 08└─FORTH is cyberpunk ... anarchy on amphetamines.
[17:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:13] <exec> 08└─I think it's not really about the license, it's about the descriptors. If you discriminate, it is no longer "open source" or "free software" by definition. You can add such terms to another license if you wish, that's not really the issue, it's just that the license then ceases to be something which...
[17:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:16] <exec> 08└─If you would like a longer (albeit still brief) article, the blog post Eric Raymond [ibiblio.org] linked in TFA is fairly concise and covers some of the concerns you have. Admittedly ESR can be a bit divisive in and of himself, make what you will of it.
[17:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:18] <exec> 08└─Wrong. If people can't use your software to build a puppy mulcher, it is not OSD compatible. Period, full stop. These issues were debated and settled decades ago. Yes if you know the naughty Elbonians are building a nuke you should act. Do you -really- think they are going to respect a license claus...
[17:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:20] <exec> 08└─If you think the head of Koristan is going to be stopped by an open source license I can't see a point in continuing down this track.
[17:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:22] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. Feels to me a bit like saying we have to allow a slave market because the sellers have a right to free speech. Sure, they absolutely do, but their speech isn't really relevant to the issue at hand. If I'm writing code that's designed to help people maintain control over their co...
[17:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:24] <exec> 08└─Wrong. If people can't use your software to build a puppy mulcher, it is not OSD compatible. Period, full stop. These issues were debated and settled decades ago.
[17:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─all sorts of stupid ideas, like efforts to block anyone from using code for commercial purposes unless they pay
[17:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:29] <exec> 08└─It's been popular for a while to bring politics into open source thanks to the gnome foundation and then mozilla.
[17:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:31] <exec> 08└─We should act in a way that, to the best of our ability, promotes "good"
[17:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:33] <exec> 08└─Brother, you and I showed up to different arguments. If you think the best way of fixing evil is to put an exclusion on your open source license than that quote would appear to me to be a harsh condemnation of your stance. On the contrary, what is perfectly black and white clear is that open source...
[17:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:35] <exec> 08└─Now, there are some "bad people" who really are bad! Like Nazis. Real ones. Carrying flags. Trying to deny them products and services seems like a futile way to react. Better would be education, and prevention of crime, or effective prosecution of it. Things that have a better chance of making a rea...
[17:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:37] <exec> 08└─all of their workstations get infected with a virus that makes them order a bunch of busty lesbian porn.
[17:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:40] <exec> 08└─If we do, then we give them our code to use against us and we get nothing back in return.
[17:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:42] <exec> 08└─You are nuts. Unhinged from reality. Gone round the bend. Back to gabba or whatever with you, begone beast!
[17:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:44] <exec> 08└─Software is knowledge, and like science in general works best in the open. Even when governments do science and try to keep it secret, it always comes out in the end. If we couldn't even keep the atom bomb secrets for a decade, with the full intelligence community trying, nothing you write is stayin...
[17:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:46] <exec> 08└─It seems mete to me for developers to release their code to the public as OSS, and say, "I send this project out into the world in the hope that it will feed the hungry and cure the sick," but leave it at that. Now, if somebody comes along and uses that code for some other, nefarious purpose, then...
[17:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:48] <exec> 08└─Slavery "ended[1]", not because of a license agreement but the guns of the British Navy. Expecting dirt world slavers to honor a license agreement is stupid, if you care about ending slavery and human trafficking you support sending men with guns and close air support to help the slavers transition...
[17:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:20] <exec> 08└─Motivated reasoning based conspiracies are becoming dominant. And motivated reasoning is a strong predictor of right wing authoritarianism.
[17:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the science, but i saw a 1950's textbook on trigonometry and was very quickly humbled and slightly ashamed of my university degree in mathematics.
[17:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:23] <exec> 08└─Several thousand years now, by your standards.
[17:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:25] <exec> 08└─As elaborated by George Carlin: 1. Some people are really stupid. 2. Some people are full of crap. 3. Some people are friggin' nuts. But only slightly more seriously: 1. Anti-intellectualism means that a lot of people truly believe that my ignorance is as good as your knowledge. And in the more extr...
[17:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:28] <exec> 08└─It's a particularly facile brain that can take psychology discussion of fairly specific psychological phenomena with assloads of research related to them: motivated reasoning, right wing authoritarianism, conspiracy acceptance(and ideation), and reasoning skills, and manage to jump to facile totally...
[17:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─why do people gossip?
[17:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─When your "fact-checking" is clearly fake... yeah, people will ignore it. The fact checkers all showed massive bias. Does anybody seriously trust the fact-checking sites? I doubt even the leftists trust them, despite eagerly using them to "prove" nonsense.
[17:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:07] <exec> 08└─I had noticed all these goddamn ads lately, and these ads are terrible. Trying to look for 100% cotton shirts had me scrolling through 2/3 the page of polyester crap. Also More likely condoms.
[17:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:09] <exec> 08└─Amazon will most likely be pecked to death. Lately I have been trying to get some new clothing from Amazon and nearly all the brands are low to middle in term of quality. So I turned to shopping at the web fronts for actual brands I like. Almost all of them have some sort of complimentary shipping t...
[17:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:28] <exec> 08└─If we assume that Nokia knew that the phone arm was doomed, selling out to MS and pivoting the remaining operations to other areas without being responsible for downsizing costs was a pretty canny move.
[17:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Collision Creates Ring of Black Holes and Neutron Stars - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:47] <exec> 08└─You see, black hole is a stellar mass compacted to a several orders of magnitude smaller radius then the original star. Stars "ignite" through the similar process: gravitational attraction between center of star's mass and every single particle in its contents draws the particles closer to the cente...
[17:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:05] <exec> 08└─Like I said, the concept is sound. Being able to store a profile and some files (resume, cover letter, etc) on the cloud gives people at rock bottom a leg up. It helps bridge a little bit of the extreme social isolation people suffer in that state. But as somebody who's tried to interact them via de...
[17:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:06] <exec> 08└─We could send 5g infiltration robots disguised as fish. Bonus if we can somehow get our 5g robot fish to encourage real fish to hang out in his fishing hole.
[17:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:55] <exec> 08└─First: I do NOT want the headphone jack to go away. I've used it for years. It is great for phone conversations. Bluetooth headphones add latency. You can never get back latency. It is already bad enough on modern cell phones without bluetooth. For years, I have had (self powered) speakers plugged i...
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─Second: I did buy a decent pair of buetooth noise cancelling headphones. Very comfortable. I like them. I'll definitely like them better than noise cancelling earbuds on my next plane flight. I still do not like the latency when using them for a phone conversation. But I'm giving in to the inevitabi...
[17:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:59] <exec> 08└─They already have a good reason to take away the headphone jack. They can sell you multiple expensive other products to replace it. Expensive bluetooth speakers instead of simple self powered speakers that plug into the headphone jack. Expensive bluetooth headsets that add more latency to phone conv...
[17:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:01] <exec> 08└─While I want to keep the headphone jack, I have become a fan of USB-C. More data pins. I can grab either end of the cable and plug it into the charger, and the other end into the phone -- or -- laptop! No more making sure I've got the right end of the cable. When you plug a USB-C cable into a device...
[17:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:03] <exec> 08└─Until we get that inductive port as an industry standard, I think USB-C is pretty good. Both ends of the cable are identical. So just grab and end and plug it into charger or device. And you can plug cable into device in either orientation. That's a nice improvement.
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:59] <exec> 08└─Kinda like the sudden bump in baby boomers who are now trying weed for the first time in 40 years. They've all been smoking all along, but now they're willing to admit it.
[17:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:00] <exec> 08└─There is a legitimate concern about the rise of marijuana smoking. Those people could be smoking tobacco products instead. This message brought to you by the tobacco industry which believes that smoking tobacco does not cause lung cancer.
[17:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:06] <exec> 08└─There are [nih.gov] lots and lots [cancer.gov] and moderate but balanced [cancer.gov] and LOTS [who.int] of research on radio wave EMF in general that have been negative. The latter two do recognize the limits of what we know and suggest more research is necessary. Unless one specifically has reason...
[17:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 2190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:40] <exec> 08└─http://forum.spaceengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=297 [spaceengine.org] An estimate of what it would take to add all stars from the final Gaia [wikipedia.org] catalog to Space Engine: 34 bytes per star for 1,142,679,769 stars, representing 0.5% of the Milky Way galaxy. That's 36.2 GiB (about 38.85 GB). I...
[17:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Clone Tesla Key Fobs in Seconds - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:12] <exec> 08└─>your car thief has to be a good lock picker Not really, that's my point. Locks are easy to pick. Getting caught is not a big problem either, depending on the area and a bit of common luck. Even assuming someone spots you in the few minutes it takes for an amateur, city folk are known to ignore ongo...
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[18:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:52] <exec> 08└─Do these teeth mics cause your teeth to turn blue?
[18:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:32] <exec> 08└─Are the numbers of real nazis and klansmen on the rise? Honestly, I don't know one way or the other, and you seemed to be making a case for the idea that they aren't, only the attention given to them, then had the conclusion that they are genuinely on the rise. If I knew any nazis I would ask how re...
[18:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:34] <exec> 08└─Take a thought experiment: I have developed a blob of code that drives a centrifuge for making heavy water. The head of Koristan wants to make nuclear bombs to drop on people's heads. Surely it would be evil/wrong/bad for me not to do whatever I can to stop my code from getting to Koristan?
[18:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:36] <exec> 08└─"Would BSD/MIT/Apache style licenses (open source, free as in beer) allow for such restrictions?" I think this is what confuses some people, because it depends on what you mean by 'allow' for. BSD license does 'allow' you to take the code and do whatever you want with it, including closing it. So ye...
[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:38] <exec> 08└─Over the years we as an open source community have experimented with all sorts of stupid ideas, like efforts to block anyone from using code for commercial purposes unless they pay. Each time, we've realized that as good a goal as it is for developers to get paid, for example, the destruction caused...
[18:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:41] <exec> 08└─...and yet I still can't run a 20 year old game because the source code is locked away and even attempting to get it violates numerous national and international laws and treaties. Some software is like science; but most of it is art. It's not discovering anything new, and it's a product of the time...
[18:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:43] <exec> 08└─Right, it ended because people stood up and fought for the ideas they believed in, rather than sitting back and deciding that it wasn't their problem and that they should just remain neutral. A license isn't the only way to do that in software; not even the best way; but it IS one weapon in the arse...
[18:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:45] <exec> 08└─Right, it's just a tool, like a table saw. And when table saws are cutting peoples fingers off, the people designing the things don't just sit back and say "Read the manual; use a finger guard; it's not our fault it's just a tool" -- no, they go and invent technology that detects when the blade touc...
[18:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:48] <exec> 08└─That's what the NYT would call "a small, but growing number".
[18:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:51] <exec> 08└─Parent: In fact, today in $current_year, there are more slaves than at any previous point in history, although as a percentage they are fewer than the norm.
[18:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:53] <exec> 08└─Interesting. People wanting to fight extremism become extremist. Maybe the next census could ask: Are you a Nazi?
[18:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:56] <exec> 08└─And we are supposed to be the ones object to that bullshit, not adding new rules. And yeah, games and some art asset type titles aren't science. If we actually stayed within the limits of the Constitution it wouldn't be a terrible problem to allow copyrights for some software. We are now past the hi...
[18:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:58] <exec> 08└─The BSD 3-Clause No Nuclear License [spdx.org] has caused this issue in the past. The offending line quoted here: You acknowledge that this software is not designed, licensed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility.
[18:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:02] <exec> 08└─Are we supposed to know who Ian Henry is?
[18:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:04] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, a certain political party started actively courting those folks and did a lot of lying along the way to make them feel like perpetual victims.
[18:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:06] <exec> 08└─So... it's working exactly as intended? Of course there's nothing wrong with using GPL in commercial code - there's plenty of commercial uses of GPL code (Red Hat for instance) you just can't keep your derivative code proprietary. And yeah, if you're not willing to pay the asking price for the exist...
[18:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 2078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:44] <exec> 08└─I would say it's on SN because TFA is ostensibly about a political scientist trying to develop a model to understand and predict social breakdown. How do you measure the health of a polity? Can you track that and understand where it stands? Being able to do something like that would be useful for ev...
[18:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:46] <exec> 08└─I somehow feel better about cutting out all news 25 years ago after being bombarded for the 18th week in a row of solid 24/7 news coverage of Nancy Kerrigan. I don't feel like I've missed anything as all real, as in pertinent to me, news makes it through.
[18:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:48] <exec> 08└─no way to get to a zone of absolute fortune on a mystic moon
[18:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:50] <exec> 08└─That's what I'm talking about. Not current events of the day. Not which Kardashian is sleeping with who.
[18:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:53] <exec> 08└─You've kinda blithley pointed at emotionality and decided it represents bad reasoning skills. Which is, to my knowledge, a totally unsupported premise in all of psychology.
[18:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:55] <exec> 08└─What did they do? Seeing as 1950 is before there were pocket calculators, teach how to compute trig functions, in case you don't have a book of tables handy?
[18:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:57] <exec> 08└─1. is self-inflicted, I think. The people who are supposed to be the smart ones, the ones who have really studied and mastered difficult subjects, still fuck things up on an epic scale. So the average person, who didn't go to those lengths says, "Guess you weren't so smart after all, Mr. Smarty Pant...
[18:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:20] <exec> 08└─Hey, we need to hate on all things that aren't 100% rational! A pox upon all lottery players for being suckers! Yeah, get em'! Sorry for the silly sarcasm, it is nice to see a comment with some humanity. This site is now home to trolls and ne'er-do-wells. Hope? Comfort? Compassion? Art? Those are fo...
[18:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:21] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a good thing. It's not. The poorest and most vulnerable among us are suckered into paying extra. Hope is not something you can buy, it comes from within. Lottery tickets are at best expensive placebos.
[18:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:23] <exec> 08└─159. Cosmetology & Culinary Arts
[18:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:31] <exec> 08└─I'm basically picturing that the sender-blocks being half the size of receiver-blocks as well (hence 12:6), as long as the receiver block is larger than the distance sender-receiver it should also be reduced somewhat by only sending from whatever sender-block covers dead center of receiver blocks. A...
[18:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:32] <exec> 08└─i prefer cabled 3.5 mm ear buds. however, sometimes i want to watcha movie on the big TV and not be bothgered by surroundings -or- bother the surrounding. for this i cannot use a 3.5mm because the distance (>2m) is just too long. nowadays, everything comes with a Bluetooth emitter. my intel (kodi) N...
[18:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but marijuana is specifically known (i.e., chosen because) it interferes with neuron function. So it's quite reasonable to suppose it might affect developing neurons. It's also been implicated in interfering with late neuron pruning towards the end of the teens and up until around 23 (varies...
[18:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:55] <exec> 08└─Any such estate would be suing Nvidia, Broadcom, and any of a dozen much larger companies over the non-GPL blobs
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[19:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:35] <exec> 08└─So now Trump is going to have to congratulate the EU for getting a handle on those failing terrible #FAKENEWS outlets?
[19:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:36] <exec> 08└─I found that my milk has spoiled today. Surely it must have been the fault of Russian hackers in league with Trump.
[19:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:38] <exec> 08└─They're not in league with Fake President Pull-My-Finger of the People's Democratic Republic of America, he is merely one of their not insubstantial army of useful idiots.
[19:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:42] <exec> 08└─This is what we all did since WWII. We didn't outlaw nazism. Also, that was AFTER we killed almost all of them....
[19:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, we're supposed to OBJECT to that bullshit, not sit idly by and allow it to happen. Most open source advocates aren't the biggest fans of modern copyright law, yet they utilize those very laws in order to build the open source licenses. The GPL is only enforceable through copyright law, yet it's...
[19:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:45] <exec> 08└─Are the numbers of real nazis and klansmen on the rise?
[19:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:47] <exec> 08└─So... it's working exactly as intended?
[19:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:49] <exec> 08└─Legitimate question -- is politicizing *anything* a good idea? Are there any things that are automatically 'political' (whatever that means) by their nature?
[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─The SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) seems to think they are [splcenter.org]. I think mocking absolutists is counter-productive. It incites them and makes them stronger. It also lulls everyone into the false belief that such extremism "could never happen here." I've long argued that the way Jews l...
[19:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:54] <exec> 08└─>We had 100% access to our proprietary code Certainly. And you'd have 100% access to your own GPLed code - the GPL does nothing to limit your use of your own code. We're talking about using *other people's* code.
[19:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:56] <exec> 08└─And you'd have 100% access to your own GPLed code - the GPL does nothing to limit your use of your own code.
[19:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:58] <exec> 08└─Right, it's just a tool, like a table saw. And when table saws are cutting peoples fingers off, the people designing the things don't just sit back and say "Read the manual; use a finger guard; it's not our fault it's just a tool" -- no, they go and invent technology that detects when the blade touc...
[19:43:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 1285 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:33] <exec> 08└─As elaborated by George Carlin: 1. Some people are really stupid. 2. Some people are full of crap. 3. Some people are friggin' nuts. But only slightly more seriously: 1. Anti-intellectualism means that a lot of people truly believe that my ignorance is as good as your knowledge. And in the more extr...
[19:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:45] <exec> 08└─Does the name Hari Seldon ring a bell?
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─As Cicero, I believe, said: "Caesar's Kardashian must be above suspicion!"
[19:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:48] <exec> 08└─Riiight, cause "good people on both sides" with one side literally carrying Nazi flags is delusional. Because Trump's closest associates selling him out for reduced sentences in no way indicates he is a criminal that worked with the Russians to get elected. Yup, ignore reality, those are delusions,...
[19:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:51] <exec> 08└─The moments of crisis produce in men an increase in life. In a society that disintegrates and is reformed, the clash between the past and the future, the mixture of old and new customs, forms a transitory combination that does not leave a day of boredom. The passions and the characters, released, sh...
[19:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:53] <exec> 08└─I'd tentatively agree with about 90% to 99% of your assessment with the caveat that word choice was extremely weird and weak: motivations to “burn down” the entire established democratic ‘cosmos'
[19:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:55] <exec> 08└─There's also a slight difference in percentage of time the "conspiracy theory" turns out to be true. In the old days of gray space aliens controlling the world, the odds of success were roughly zilch. In the new days when "conspiracy theory" merely means a truth we are trying to keep quiet as per mo...
[19:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:57] <exec> 08└─When your "fact-checking" is clearly fake... yeah, people will ignore it. The fact checkers all showed massive bias.
[19:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:59] <exec> 08└─possible motivation #1 - I will share this valuable info and maybe get some different valuable info in return possible motivation #2 - I will share this idea that might be BS because it would be convenient for me if other people believed it possible motivation #3 - I will say these words and it will...
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[19:44:25] <exec> 08└─We need more female programmers! It's all the fault of the incels that women go into fields like actuarial science instead of programming! Burn the misogynerds alive!
[19:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 2183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:43] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the advertisements are starting to interfere with their core business. For example...every single goddamn time I try to buy anything at Amazon, the very first thing I do is go through the filters clicking pretty much anything with "Amazon" in the filter name. Prime delivery, fulf...
[19:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:44] <exec> 08└─Concrete example, which may not be paid for, may be just overstock, but is still annoying: I was comparing phones, trying to figure out where I might spend my money in a few months (or tomorrow if I break it). Every single "compare to similar products" matrix had the Essential phone. It didn't matte...
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[19:46:38] <exec> 08└─Your S9+ costs more than every single phone I've ever owned in my life, collectively.
[19:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:40] <exec> 08└─That quoted line was talking about MicroUSB, not the round audio jack. Some people (Europe) tried very hard to make MicroUSB the one-and-only connector allowed - I'm glad they failed (the USB3 variants [wikipedia.org] of MicroUSB were especially atrocious.)
[19:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:42] <exec> 08└─Certainly you can do various things to reduce cross-talk, but if you're delivering enough power to drive a headphone speaker, you're going to be delivering a notable amount of power to any other receiver in close proximity as well, including the other channels. A much easier (and cheaper) route woul...
[19:49:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:00] <exec> 08└─There is some small data about heavy EMF exposure in general, but nothing that I am aware of involving 5G in particular. The people in the Mill Valley area are the epitome of XGener and Millennial Helicopter parents. There is no shortage of wireless and 3G/4G cell phone stuff but 5G BAD! We are cons...
[19:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:00] <exec> 08└─If you're going to worry about baseless lawsuits your only real defense is to be so insignificant and uninteresting that nobody knows about you. After all it doesn't matter if you've never done anything even remotely questionably legal in your entire life - you can still be dragged through an immens...
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[20:41:43] <exec> 08└─Just as well "we" voted Leave... *cough* This will backfire spectacularly. It could well see an upsurge in Copyleft-style content on the Intertubes. Meantime, it will make several large corporations, mainstream "artists" (who are more marketing devices than artists) and some political figures very u...
[20:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:44] <exec> 08└─The terrorism threat does need to be addressed in a calm, measured and intelligent manner.
[20:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:46] <exec> 08└─As we discussed in yesterday's article, the legislation requires a new copyright for news publishers to restrict how people summarize and link to their articles. The goal is to get Google, Facebook, and other technology giants to pay news publishers licensing fees for permission to link to their art...
[20:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:49] <exec> 08└─And the mod brigade starts its attack! Can't have anyone dare to criticize our Chief Thief!
[20:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:51] <exec> 08└─The whole thread is an off-topic derailment.
[20:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:53] <exec> 08└─This is why I wish I had mod points. It will go down exactly thusly.
[20:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:06] <exec> 08└─We should prey for jmorris. He deserves our sympathy, not scorn and revilement. Undoubtedly he is possessed by daemons most foul, probably proprietary.
[20:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:07] <exec> 08└─define CoC please
[20:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:09] <exec> 08└─What you mean you haven't heard of this person with 300 followers or their tweet with... 2 likes?
[20:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:12] <exec> 08└─nothing good comes from engaging in politics.
[20:43:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 2078 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:50] <exec> 08└─I would say it's on SN because TFA is ostensibly about a political scientist trying to develop a model to understand and predict social breakdown. How do you measure the health of a polity? Can you track that and understand where it stands? Being able to do something like that would be useful for ev...
[20:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:05] <exec> 08└─Does anybody seriously trust the fact-checking sites? I doubt even the leftists trust them, despite eagerly using them to "prove" nonsense.
[20:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:07] <exec> 08└─1. is self-inflicted, I think. The people who are supposed to be the smart ones, the ones who have really studied and mastered difficult subjects, still fuck things up on an epic scale.
[20:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:09] <exec> 08└─If a proposition about some policy-relevant fact comes to be commonly associated with membership in such a group, the prospect that one might form a contrary position can threaten one’s standing within it.
[20:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:11] <exec> 08└─If you are trusting a website to spoon feed you the truth, then you are a fool!
[20:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:13] <exec> 08└─high school
[20:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:15] <exec> 08└─This would explain a lot about the cognitive process of right-wing authoritarianism.
[20:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:18] <exec> 08└─what Aldous Huxley brilliantly termed "A stupid person's idea of the clever person"
[20:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:20] <exec> 08└─There was a lot more geometry, infinite series and a lot of proofs. And logarithms. Yes, all necessary for being able to calculate your own numbers in absence of a calculator.
[20:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:46] <exec> 08└─What do you think your mcburger is made out of?
[20:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:24] <exec> 08└─Ok, that is a different thought on this. Blame shift. They certainly seem to have survived in some form, certainly in better shape than BlackBerry and lets not even discuss the sad fate of Palm. So yeah, I'll buy it.
[20:45:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 744 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:50] <exec> 08└─This is a glimpse into the dystopia of the future. Nice to know that NYC is ahead of the competition. They already have their contracts in place, and are actively assisting Google and company to set up the surveillance. Nice joke hidden in there. "Oh, we don't actually plan on sharing data with law...
[20:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:00] <exec> 08└─>the distance (>2m) is just too long What do you mean? That's why they make extension cables - you can even get nice heavy-gauge well-shielded ones relatively cheaply. You may lose a tiny amount of power and introduce a tiny amount of noise, but not much. And you can virtually eliminate that if your...
[20:47:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03boltronics [580] 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 929 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:09] <exec> 08└─If you're on GNU/Linux, you would have to be mad to purchase Nvidia. That is, unless you just run Ubuntu and don't care about free software support and must have the fastest possible card. If you're on Nvidia, you're never going to get the best out of the box experience due to the proprietary driver...
[20:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:35] <exec> 08└─You could totally go back to lurking y'know.
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[21:42:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 896 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:00] <exec> 08└─As we discussed in yesterday's article, the legislation requires a new copyright for news publishers to restrict how people summarize and link to their articles. The goal is to get Google, Facebook, and other technology giants to pay news publishers licensing fees for permission to link to their art...
[21:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:04] <exec> 08└─Look, that step 7 you proposed? You're forgetting the thing that makes a government a government and not "a bunch of people standing around saying things that people pay attention to for no reason" Which is the whole "having the most guns and getting final say on who owns what" thing.
[21:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:07] <exec> 08└─Hence step 8...? Did you really just stop reading at 7 to post this reply?
[21:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:09] <exec> 08└─Just as well "we" voted Leave... *cough*
[21:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:12] <exec> 08└─Another humourless conservative dullard. The EU is currently doing its best to protect innocent and powerless ordinary Poles and Hungarians from autocrats and fascists. I work with people from all over the world so please don't try to correct me. I get to hear the truth from the horse's mouth. What...
[21:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah "not allowed to operate in the EU" is a vastly inferior solution to the "reach into your fucking accounts and take out whatever fine they want" thing.
[21:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:25] <exec> 08└─We could give this to all the homeless people walking around talking to themselves and then maybe they wouldn't seem so crazy after all.
[21:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:33] <exec> 08└─Republicans are nearly extinct today, as well. There are only three, really: Trump, Steve Miller, and Newt Gringrinch. All the rest have defected to the Democratic, anti-fascist party. (Always three there are, a Master, and Apprentice, and a Buffon. )
[21:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:34] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna say that politicizing a system is bad for the functioning of the system. It causes people to become more aware of the political issues and to expend energy picking a side and advancing that cause, all at the expense of getting work done. Getting more people fired up about politics is more...
[21:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:36] <exec> 08└─CoC, Code of Conduct : 1. A coherent list of rules designed to provide an open, caring and non-toxic environment where lack of actual ability doesn't matter, as long as you are not a SWM*. 2. A document designed to give control of a project to SJW's so that you aspies can't hurt our feels anymore. *...
[21:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:39] <exec> 08└─Your last sentence implies that the connected few who get all the money are jews. You have been reported to the ADF and will be de-platformed, you anti-semite.
[21:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:41] <exec> 08└─Obviously if you redefine mainstream Republican Party beliefs or being of the white race as being Nazi, whereas "in the old days" to be a Nazi you had to be a member of a political party that expired in 1945 on the other side of the planet, oh heck yes the numbers are absolutely exploding. Hitlery [...
[21:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 1528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:43] <exec> 08└─I disagree with the idea that mocking them makes them stronger unless perhaps they are already in control, in which case, sure, we are back to playing into their hand by making ourselves appear to be the foolish ones. To that point, I don't know of anybody who has ever built a movement on being lamp...
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[21:44:46] <exec> 08└─True, although he elaborated - "In things possible there is nothing Jenner".
[21:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:47] <exec> 08└─First of all, most people just look at the pretty graphic. Aside from that issue though... It's not just evidence presented. It's evidence left out. It's purposeful misinterpretation of the supposed fact being checked, in a way that makes it more or less provably true or false. It's the initial sele...
[21:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:49] <exec> 08└─I've been tihnking the news was "fake", ie unreliable, for my entire adulthood. Just read it about something you are an expert in, they have no idea what they are talking about. Then read about some politically charged topic, its all "anonymous" sources saying this and that. Do you see news outlets...
[21:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:51] <exec> 08└─My standards really arent that high. Just report the facts in the facts section without picking and choosing.
[21:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:53] <exec> 08└─specific psychological phenomena with assloads of research
[21:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:56] <exec> 08└─my favorite political movement takes fourteen words to describe itself.
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[22:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:00] <exec> 08└─When you offer a service on the cloud, you are expected to maintain it forever. I am going to hire a team of cloud-based lawyers to sue your ass off.
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[22:42:02] <exec> 08└─I always felt like Amazon backed this abomination. Back when echo mania started, Amazon had this (now defunct) service where you could upload your entire media library to AWS and stream it to all your echos. Plex said something along the lines of "that's dumb if you already have a plex server, we're...
[22:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:24] <exec> 08└─11) An EU service is created, like Google, and despite its shortcomings it is instantly accepted because no other service complies. This service will comply partially, "on paper," - but in practice who cares, as long as important people are sitting on the board of directors. In other words, a simpl...
[22:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:26] <exec> 08└─Another humourless conservative dullard.
[22:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:28] <exec> 08└─I doubt Google would actually do step 7 anyway, although that would depend on whether or not any punitive measures could be written off as "just the cost of doing business", and even then it would only occur after their lawyers were through trying to find any legal loopholes they could squrim throug...
[22:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:30] <exec> 08└─Is that really true? :)
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─Not that the EU is really a "state level," but rather a confederation of independent states. But yeah.
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─Enforcement actions by governments against huge corporations tend not to be such a quick and simple thing. 7) Google says "OK, we'll get right on that" 6 months later. EU: "Are you in compliance yet?" Google: "Uh huh, yep, almost, we just need a little more time." 6 months later. EU: "OK, you've had...
[22:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─In the coffin where our freedoms lay, dead.
[22:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:48] <exec> 08└─Where the hell is that music coming from? It sounds like... Rick Astley!?
[22:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:49] <exec> 08└─... REJOICE!
[22:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:52] <exec> 08└─Some days they'd get awfully annoyed with my burps.
[22:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:54] <exec> 08└─Do you want them to appear to be less crazy, by giving them a plausible reason to be talking without anyone apparently listening? Or do you want their unfounded paranoia of having the government listening to them from a device inside their head to have an actual foundation? Either way, they would se...
[22:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:09] <exec> 08└─As a SWM I'm here to tell you that you are suffering from a persecution complex. You are either a reactionary dumbass or an asshole who thinks people don't like you because you are a SWM. I'm sure there are some stupid abuses that have happened, but hey that is life. Shall we label all conservatives...
[22:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:10] <exec> 08└─Not only is that not why the sawstop was developed, what you would know if you had ever used one, is that the sawstop feature has a disable switch and doesn't stop intentional nefarious usage. Let me guess, you also want to sue gun makers when their tools are misused?
[22:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:13] <exec> 08└─Python is the only real choice for white supremacists.
[22:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:15] <exec> 08└─VLM, Very Lazy Manchild Get a grip you wacko, your projection gets old and your ignorance of reality is staggering. "... the recently dominant left"? Democrats have barely had any real dominance and they are no longer liberal really with their attempt to ride the center and get more votes. If the le...
[22:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:17] <exec> 08└─I thought enough people were already trying to prey on jmorris? He just seems to be too nimble for the attempted predator most of the time. Ok, I'll pray for him.... 'Lord we give thanks for the food which we are about to receive......'
[22:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:19] <exec> 08└─Politics is the system by which we get things done without killing each other, paraphrasing Heinlein. (Podkayne of Mars IIRC) Open source licenses are *already* political. Freedom is politics. How else?
[22:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:21] <exec> 08└─This is what we all did since WWII. We didn't outlaw nazism. We let the faithful few espouse it, as we let any other person espouse whatever they want to espouse, because that's how freedom of speech works.
[22:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:24] <exec> 08└─If/when the whole thing comes crashing down, I'm sure that people will argue over whether it happened because of politicization or because of the negative externalities that had been ignored for so long.
[22:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:31] <exec> 08└─We trust the media more than we trust people who cherry-pick two year old polls, though.
[22:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:33] <exec> 08└─It is not a need for chaos. It is a need to make sense of the world coupled with the fear that one is being marginalized. It is the need to NOT have the chaotic and putting labels on it that one can believe in, true or not, makes it worth bearing. If you feel marginalized then the ________________ c...
[22:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─+1 golden apple
[22:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:39] <exec> 08└─Even without resources, Nokia's smartphone division still did a great job. N900 > *
[22:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:40] <exec> 08└─Sharing music by buying an album, putting it on the record player and putting the cassette recorder microphone in between the speakers. AND THEN! And then we got a record player WITH a cassette player that recorded the music directly without speaker shit! Ah, good times!
[22:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:42] <exec> 08└─Yup. All attempts to compete with Android and iOS have failed or been non-starters. See Tizen, Sailfish OS, Firefox OS. And the Android manufacturers are in a crowded market with low margins and a lot of competitors. Those that aren't in the top 5 or so are competing for crumbs. And less crumbs, sin...
[22:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:44] <exec> 08└─Elop wanted Windows Phone inside Nokia and didn't want to even consider an alternative. There are multiple proofs of that. For example when the N9 he said "even if it's a success we won't sell more of them (Meego)". And I thought wtf is this guy saying? If people tell you that they want to but somet...
[22:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:22] <exec> 08└─or we have a revolution and recast the country as one that has an ironclad right to privacy in its DNA.
[22:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:57] <exec> 08└─Freedom is more important than technical merit. Until people understand that, our world is going to continue to be filled with proprietary black boxes that abuse, spy on, and restrict users. And those are not avoidable even to people like Richard Stallman, since any businesses he deals with probably...
[22:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:58] <exec> 08└─I haven't used nvidia-driver in quite a long while - isn't that just a script, which downloads the nvidia proprietary driver? Hell, let me just look to see what it is exactly . . . Package: nvidia-driver (390.87-1) [non-free] NVIDIA metapackage This metapackage depends on the NVIDIA binary driver an...
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[23:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─...should there be a blatant stupidity tax?
[23:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:50] <exec> 08└─Do you know everything? Because you are gonna pay that tax otherwise.
[23:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:52] <exec> 08└─Might make people take more care with passwords and privacy. Maybe. Yeah...no. Probably not. Stupid is hard to fix. !oooh!, Facebook like! *sploooge*
[23:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:54] <exec> 08└─I have the same combination on my luggage.
[23:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:57] <exec> 08└─25 years and nuthin wrong using 'password', '1234' or 'qwerty'. 'hunter2' is like super secure, use it for my banking.
[23:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 1922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:34] <exec> 08└─Google, Facebook, and Twitter are quickly becoming integrated with the CIA. Now that the UK is no longer (well, won't be much longer) in the EU, maybe the EU wants the Five Eyes completely gone. It amazes me how quickly the illusion of an international space shatters. The internet as we know it is p...
[23:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:36] <exec> 08└─Why must you insult this man's religion? Those leaders didn't do it right. They'll get it right this time!11!!!
[23:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:38] <exec> 08└─...It could well see an upsurge in Copyleft-style content on the Intertubes. Meantime, it will make several large corporations, mainstream "artists" (who are more marketing devices than artists) and some political figures very unpopular...
[23:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─Can we still do Monty Python jokes? If we do, will Europeans be able to see it? And will the Spanish Inquisition expect it?
[23:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:42] <exec> 08└─Hence step 8...? Did you really just stop reading at 7 to post this reply?
[23:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:45] <exec> 08└─More likely: 5) Google [flicks switch]: Ok, the entire EU is now blacklisted 6) Lawmakers: "Whoops." 7) Massive outcry from European citizens (which doesn't show up anywhere, because nobody is allowed to link to any of it) 8) Lawmakers who pushed this law leave politics for well-paying private indus...
[23:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:47] <exec> 08└─Sure, all the typical EU red tape should ensure it takes at least half a year for this to become final, by which time Brexit should be accomplished.
[23:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:02] <exec> 08└─This does look like interesting tech, both using your bone structure to couple sound, and using PSK instead of ASK seems like a sensible improvement over NFC (because someone realised the use case isn't "put as-cheap-as-possible RFID chips on everything" anymore). Too bad about the marketmangling sp...
[23:43:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:15] <exec> 08└─Look, if you're a mighty buzzard, you ain't afraid of no strawman, like some lowly crow. (Also that tweet, far from "chanting" seems to clearly state a coherent point, fairly prosaically for a tweet)
[23:44:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:08] <exec> 08└─We should prey for jmorris. He deserves our sympathy, not scorn and revilement. Undoubtedly he is possessed by daemons most foul, probably proprietary.
[23:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:26] <exec> 08└─I disagree with the idea that mocking them makes them stronger
[23:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:28] <exec> 08└─Also, that was AFTER we killed almost all of them....
[23:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:30] <exec> 08└─While we are at it, is there a compelling argument for using the word deplatforming as opposed to just calling a spade a spade and leaving it at censorship?
[23:44:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 474 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:52] <exec> 08└─Umbrella term "Poor reasoning skills" isn't a primary predictor of right wing authoritarianism. It is a predictor of conspiracy ideation and broad apolitical acceptance of conspiracy theories. Research has indicated, however, that there's two flavors of conspiracy acceptance, and the broad apolitica...
[23:45:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:38] <exec> 08└─We trust the media more than we trust people who cherry-pick two year old polls, though.
[23:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:41] <exec> 08└─"WE MUST SECURE THE EXISTENCE OF FUCK BETA AND A FUTURE FOR GAY NIGGERS"?
[23:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:43] <exec> 08└─It's also common that people like to sound like they're "in the know" and all cool like. Fortunately that NEVER happens here.
[23:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:45] <exec> 08└─Of course you're not a conspiracy theorist. Pointing out to everyone how the Illuminati are causing climate change is just being neighbourly. You should also let people know how the One World Government are preventing people from travelling to the ice wall that surrounds the flat Earth, keeping th...
[23:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:47] <exec> 08└─The first (and second and third also) Google hits I got when I searched "Motivated reasoning" explained to me how "conservatives" set about deluding themselves about climate change, so, whatever. Maybe you just got the republican Google.
[23:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:33] <exec> 08└─The problem with physical stores is you can only buy what companies can afford to list in the stores inventory: companies have to purchase space on the stores shelf. Sometimes the brand/product you want to buy will only be available online because of it.
[23:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:35] <exec> 08└─I do this with Google: search for something something Linux, and you have to add -Windows because the first searches come up with somsomething windows and sometimes have to go to further pages. Guess MS is paying Google because no one uses MS Burp (or whatever THEIR search engine is).
[23:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:37] <exec> 08└─Also more likely porn.
[23:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:42] <exec> 08└─so, why can the NUC not send the audio signal to the mobile phone which then sits beside me and transfers the audio to the 3.5mm jack and thru my 1.5m long cabled headphones?
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