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[00:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:02] <exec> 08└─a teenager is artificially stupid?
[00:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:03] <exec> 08└─As the AI industry evolves more idiot-proof systems, human evolution evolves smarter idiots.
[00:42:16] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03darkpixel [4281] 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:16] <exec> 08└─Sure, we can have a stupidity tax. But let's charge Vodaphone. I have a 14-digit PIN I would *love* to use in order to be *secure*...but neither my bank nor my cell phone company allow anything longer than 4 digits.
[00:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:17] <exec> 08└─Most insightful comment here.
[00:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:19] <exec> 08└─Even worse, this site already has your PIN [deviantart.com].
[00:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:21] <exec> 08└─1-2-3-4 isn't blocked by Vodaphone as a combo. If it's insecure reject it. Otherwise allow it. Either 1234 and 1111 and 0000 and 9876 are allowed, or not. If not, what about digits of pi or e? What about years - anything starting with 19** or 20** or mabye even further back. Pretty soon there aren't...
[00:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:24] <exec> 08└─Before we blame the customers for having '1234' as their password, Vodaphone admits that customer representatives set it to that when they set up the account. Further, there is a 6 character limit on passwords, the website says use a 4 to 6 digit number and many customers say they don't know how the...
[00:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:26] <exec> 08└─Not only not blocked, according to TFA, they set it as a default on every new account.
[00:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:28] <exec> 08└─But let's charge Vodaphone.
[00:42:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 529 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:56] <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...
[00:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:13] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how the few determined people at CIA manages to upset a whole world, isn't it.
[00:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:14] <exec> 08└─Personally, I plan to argue that SN just ignores it. If they want us to not operate in the EU, they can block us on their end. I can't be arsed to do extra work to accommodate blatant fucktardery.
[00:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:16] <exec> 08└─Ahahahahaha. Poles know what is going on with the EU, they'll take a crack at trying to fix it or they'll leave. You and your Communist buddies can fuck off.
[00:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:19] <exec> 08└─Even if UK leaves EU before this goes through, you still will need a "Wank Pass" in the UK to use the internet. Not sure which is worse, but both laws are pretty bad.
[00:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:36] <exec> 08└─They installed mine years ago when I went in for a root canal.
[00:44:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:33] <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.
[00:44:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:52] <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 [...
[00:45:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gawdonblue [412] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:00] <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.
[00:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:06] <exec> 08└─Yes because it's a very specific form of censorship. [marcuse.org] Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. As to the scope of this tolerance and intolerance: ... it would extend to the stage of action as well as o...
[00:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:08] <exec> 08└─Actually, jmorris is not unhinged. He and I disagree sometimes, but he does have a pretty clear view of reality. It is the muppets like you who are being led around by some pied piper, calling itself "progressive". Note the lack of a gender specific pronoun. Do you SERIOUSLY believe that if/when tha...
[00:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:10] <exec> 08└─That's a naive approach. Code that drives a centrifuge, as in the example, has many uses for good. Just because it can be used to other ends doesn't make it bad. Most of the tools used to find flaws in networks for the purposes of breaking in, are also used by people to secure networks. Taking away...
[00:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:12] <exec> 08└─Not just food, OK? https://militaryphilosopher.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] "For what we are about to receive..." might include all manner of things.
[00:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:15] <exec> 08└─One of a pair of very rich brothers, or a former mayor of New York, or possibly a tubular appendage used to impregnate female members of the species.
[00:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:17] <exec> 08└─Dafuq you talking about? There is no "center" in the US. Or, if there is still a center, the D's work overtime trying to destroy it. In our R and D politics, D stands for "divisive" - as in, divide and conquer. The D's rely on identity politics, denying that we are all Americans. In fact, the D's ar...
[00:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:19] <exec> 08└─Proprietary software is only better for owners. Perhaps you're an owner/coder, or perhaps the coder equivalent of an "uncle Tom"... too closely aligned with your corporate masters. If you're the latter, just realise they'd happily sack you and your coworkers before the next quarter and allow "your"...
[00:46:14] <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” - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:14] <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.
[00:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:35] <exec> 08└─Screw Eris, Bacchus FTW!
[00:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─Shit, man, the story came from Salon. It broke the fucking needle off my irony meter.
[00:46:37] <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” - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─The people who cause the greatest difficulties are high-status idiots, which is to say people who were never that smart, never really studied and mastered a difficult subject, but are still put in charge of things, often because of who their daddy was.
[00:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:26] <exec> 08└─If Amazon is selling ads to the vendor, and product to you and me, who is the customer? Sounds like a conflict of interests, and their brand will suffer.
[00:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:34] <exec> 08└─In a world that drives the cost of cell phone components to zero, you will never get analog audio out of the phone that meets the quality standards of the golden-eared audiophile. Analog audio from the phone will be subject to the lowest-bid pressures of building 50,000,000 phones a year. As long as...
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[01:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:52] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work like that. I think the most famous pot smoker in history said something like "It's gonna explode. But it's gonna explode in a different way". / drunk me fighting back
[01:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:53] <exec> 08└─What to do about the next 500 fatal AV [Automated Vehicle] crashes
[01:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03davidjohnpaul [5377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:14] <exec> 08└─If Vodafone don't want people using 1234 as their password, then they shouldn't allow users to have 1234 as a password. Allow passwords to be a reasonable length and blacklist known bad passwords and things like this shouldn't happen.
[01:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:15] <exec> 08└─If passwords are important to you, but not to the users, then assign them. Lusers will write them down; eventually remember them; on any case it will make remote exploits more difficult.
[01:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:17] <exec> 08└─It is an infraction to leave your car unlocked while its unoccupied.
[01:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:28] <exec> 08└─I looked into Plex and then decided setting up my own media server with Kodi would work better, because lawsuits, cash flow problems, and technical glitches from other people can't disrupt my Kodi server. Granted, I've screwed up my Kodi server plenty of times myself. But then I fixed it and life w...
[01:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:10] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I hearken back to the outcry that hit Washington, DC, when Wikipedia, Google, and others went black to protest SOPA. SOPA was really a done deal. The *AA's had paid good money for it, and all their creatures in Congress were lined up to pass it without debate. Then when everyone's favorite w...
[01:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:11] <exec> 08└─Nah, I don't want that. Much easier and better to hang the ruling class. Next Wednesday works great for me. How about you guys?
[01:44:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:27] <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...
[01:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:05] <exec> 08└─Seems to me it spawned a pretty worthwhile and intelligent discussion. Were you looking for some other result?
[01:46:24] <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” - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:24] <exec> 08└─I think that's a good rule of thumb, but even that is not enough. We must always think critically, especially when the people telling us something are doing so with a writ of authority. Remember that little deal we had a while back, the Iraq War? Everybody, every government body, every media outlet,...
[01:46:25] <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” - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:25] <exec> 08└─Now replace Donald Trump with whatever demagogue is in office. He's just better at those manipulations than most.
[01:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:43] <exec> 08└─I doubt meego would have been a success. The days of each smartphone have its own ecosystem are gone due to the compatibility that Android brings. Windows Phone was slightly better than Meego, since it was already produced by Microsoft, and therefore didnt eat up more Nokia resources with another in...
[01:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:45] <exec> 08└─I dont think Microsoft really killed Nokia, they were already doing poorly with Meego which would have been a dead end. Maybe Microsoft even saved the company by cutting off any more waste on developing Meego.
[01:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, a real classic model, that could explain it :)
[01:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nanoparticle-Based Photoelectrode Can Harvest 85% of Visible Light - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:13] <exec> 08└─"Presumably it'll capture some parts of the solar spectrum outside that range"
[01:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:40] <exec> 08└─I hear that 5G has poor in building penetration.
[01:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches 14 TB Hard Drive for Desktop Users - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:16] <exec> 08└─HGST is now a WD subsidiary. Any differences in production quality have probably evaporated by now (Western Digital still brands drives with HGST [anandtech.com]).
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[02:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:52] <exec> 08└─Google replaced Microsoft as the big arrogant dick that thinks it own computing. Their software sucks too.
[02:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:53] <exec> 08└─ShitStainNews doesn't fucking need any www. or m. like that other BUCK FETA green site we the geniuses agree to hate. Google is doing the right thing by us. So say we all. Give all your money to the Niggery Buzzard. All your money. Right now.
[02:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:55] <exec> 08└─When I viewed the page without 'www' your post was just offensive. When I viewed it with the 'www' your post was modded as 'Troll'. I'm going to use 'www' more often.
[02:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:58] <exec> 08└─Those characters were taking up area that could be used for precious whitespace. Not everyone is stuck in the 1800s like this site's devs. Visiting here nearly gives me panic attacks from a sense of suffication due to the dense content.
[02:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:00] <exec> 08└─That worked out so well when MS decided the extension was just too confusing and cluttery. Then wondered why people clicked on invoice.doc.exe in their email. Needlessly hiding information is rarely a good move.
[02:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:10] <exec> 08└─If they weren't being driven only in easy conditions, and were being driven more, I'd be less concerned. As it stands now, the cars fail miserable with easy conditions leading to cars driving into off ramps, over motorcyclists, into fire trucks and the like. The vehicles are nowhere near good enough...
[02:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:35] <exec> 08└─That is stupid.
[02:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:36] <exec> 08└─Vodaphone "sort of" took your advice. They assigned the password '1234' according to TFA.
[02:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:30] <exec> 08└─Not that the EU is really a "state level," but rather a confederation of independent states.
[02:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:47] <exec> 08└─The Explodo-Molar. [photobucket.com]
[02:46:45] <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” - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:45] <exec> 08└─Before you get all carried away, Buzzard Minoris, you might want to actually read Euripides Bacchae [tufts.edu], all the way till the end. Here's the beginning: Διόνυσος ἥκω Διὸς παῖς τήνδε Θηβαίων χθόνα Διόνυσος, ὃν τίκτει ποθ᾽ ἡ Κάδ...
[02:46:46] <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” - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:46] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure you trust whoever tells you what you want to believe.
[02:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:48] <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...
[02:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:51] <exec> 08└─I got a degree in electrical engineering. You don't know what you are talking about.
[02:50:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 1164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:10] <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...
[02:50:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mth [2848] 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:42] <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.
[02:50:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:45] <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...
[02:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:56] <exec> 08└─Know a guy in Portland who has numerous horror stories about teens and the far-stronger "new pot" -- says one of the more common bad reactions is to believe something is crawling under your skin, and take a knife to yourself to get rid of the imaginary worm. Or to suddenly believe some protruding pa...
[02:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:57] <exec> 08└─I've seen the same claim, but the only one approaching data pointed out that the difference is mostly quantity, and that in fact the tars from pot are considerably harder on the lungs (bigger stickier particles, harder for the lungs to get rid of) . So if you chainsmoked pot all day every day, you'd...
[02:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women is Rising, and So Are Concerns - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:59] <exec> 08└─As I was about to speculate above when I got distracted and clicked Submit... maybe the soyboy generation is hereby explained. High levels of phytoestrogens in the diet during pregnancy are known to cause a variety of birth defects in male infants.
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[03:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:01] <exec> 08└─Yep first thing I do on a new MS OS is to turn on all the useful things so I know what the files are. Mainly don't have to do that these days as when I spin up a new VM it is from a base that is pre-configured to be correct. Run Linux as the base OS so extensions are on by default.
[03:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:03] <exec> 08└─Its not heedlessly hiding anything, its like a tracheotomy for some sites where the designers don't follow good practices. Removing these characters allows the reader just enough extra whitespace to take a breath.
[03:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:05] <exec> 08└─When I think about this kind of thing, I'm always reminded of Comstar [sarna.net]. Either that or the priests of the temples of Syrinx. But probably just AOHell.
[03:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:07] <exec> 08└─Compile your own, modify your own, fork your own.
[03:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:09] <exec> 08└─That is exactly were we are returning to, AOL Keywords. Remember when those were as ubiquitous on TV and print ads as social media promotions are now? Except Google wants the sweet, sweet coins for gatekeeping the keywords instead of resurrecting AOL from the grave.
[03:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:11] <exec> 08└─The only thing that will get Google's attention is Chrome's market share dropping. The only way that Chrome's market share drops is if you stop using Chrome and/or Chromium. When do you decide you've had enough of the "new MicroSoft" (aka Google) and give Chrome the IE treatment (stop using it)?
[03:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:13] <exec> 08└─Seems more like all the big tech companies are overrun by the type of people who would consider this a good idea. They are going to ab test and survey themselves to obsolescence. Thats what NHST does to you. Look at the reddit q anon ban for supposed violence (there was an insane amount of nonsense...
[03:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:15] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the practical advice! I've added 'learn how to fork, modify, and compile my own browser' to the list of shit that I now have to do for myself. I'm sure I'll get around to it right after I've learned to be my own mechanic, electrician, plumber, farmer, financial advisor, doctor, lawyer, et...
[03:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:18] <exec> 08└─Even microsoft wasnt arrogant enough to pull fast ones like this.
[03:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:55] <exec> 08└─The one I love is truncating the password to 8 characters. More than one system I've encountered did that. Sure, it'll let you type in a longer password, but it only checks the first 8 characters. That's the Y2K of password security. The designers were too damned miserly to allow a few more bytes fo...
[03:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:56] <exec> 08└─Their fault then.
[03:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:58] <exec> 08└─So, that should be the "reset your password today" prompt that comes up every day your password is still the default 1234. If they're not actively prompting them to change it, I'd say it's as valid as any other password. Furthermore, if the password is limited to 4 numerical digits, Vodaphone should...
[03:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:01] <exec> 08└─I have had the same 4 digit PIN on my ATM card and bank account for 35+ years now, zero problems. I have had numerous 16 digit credit card numbers, they seem to average about 18 months between fraudulent uses - different use case, different problems with security. Making the CC# 64 digits wouldn't h...
[03:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:03] <exec> 08└─Thus the name? Found a new car here, unlocked - the land says it's mine!!!
[03:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:05] <exec> 08└─For clarity: by the act of assigning 1234 as a default to every customer, Vodaphone effectively leaked the fact that a large number of their customers use the passcode 1234. Doesn't matter that "it's hard to put a different code in every account" Vodaphone is in control of the situation and they mis...
[03:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:07] <exec> 08└─Vodafone can't claim that they are offering super security when there are a maximum of 10,000 passwords available. If, as the summary implies, the "hackers" just trawled the customer base with a set PIN, they'd be bound to pick up a number of accounts no matter which PIN they entered. 1234 was proba...
[03:43:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 1142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:42] <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...
[03:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:22] <exec> 08└─Only if you completely blow off the concepts of proportionality and rehabilitation. I agree that is a thing, but not everyone does that.
[03:47:23] <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” - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:23] <exec> 08└─You mean the Bilderbergs and the Illuminati aren't really causing Global Climate Change? :-|
[03:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:51] <exec> 08└─I think an important thing to remember is that we should be working to live, not living to work.
[03:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New American "Dream" Job is Pretty Dull - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:53] <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'!
[03:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:28] <exec> 08└─So do I. Care to elaborate?
[03:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:29] <exec> 08└─How about skipping Bluetooth and its patchy support entirely? Just connect your phone to wifi and use a proper full-fledged network streaming protocol. Not always applicable, but if we're taking about a nearby NUC...
[03:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mill Valley, California Blocks 5G Over Health Concerns - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, studies have shown a correlation between knowledge of EM radiation and hypersensitivity. Put someone in a room with a router with flashing LEDs and they will feel headaches. Turn off the LEDs and their headache goes away. Tell them the cell tower is on and they get headaches. Tell them the cell...
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[04:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:02] <exec> 08└─Does anybody know where I can get some morphine? I don't have a car.
[04:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:04] <exec> 08└─Not morphine, but you can get crack from vending machines now: https://ktla.com [ktla.com]
[04:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:06] <exec> 08└─Skit gone right.
[04:42:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:16] <exec> 08└─That worked out so well when MS decided the extension was just too confusing and cluttery. Then wondered why people clicked on invoice.doc.exe in their email. Needlessly hiding information is rarely a good move.
[04:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:27] <exec> 08└─Even Microsoft wasn't evil and crooked enough to pull off fast ones like this in its day. Google is far more evil and pernicious than Microsoft was in its day. At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data (It was a PC OS after all). Google Chromebooks are basically just...
[04:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:28] <exec> 08└─People stopped using Firefox but it's had little effect on Mozilla's decisions to ruin their browser. You can bitch all you like but Google wouldn't care if the whole tech community dropped Chrome tomorrow because they've already reached critical mass, of which we are a tiny fraction. Google will do...
[04:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:30] <exec> 08└─Because running make is soooo hard.
[04:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:32] <exec> 08└─All good things in life comes to those who are patient, strategic and hard working. The longer something takes, the more satisfaction it will produce. Build your life around long term gains and pleasures.
[04:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:35] <exec> 08└─About 7 years ago, I got into it with one of the Chromium devs in a ticket over how they were forcing SSL False Start down everyone's throat, breaking SSL implementations left and right. The best part, you couldn't turn it off, you had to beg and plead to be added to a COMPILED IN BLACKLIST to not h...
[04:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:37] <exec> 08└─I'm just going to assume you've never compiled a browser before. I've included a link to the Windows build instructions, I'm sure it's as easy as you say... https://developer.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[04:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:49] <exec> 08└─Why do airlines have such strict and onerous conditions and certification processes before they are allowed to fly, but apparently anyone who wants to is allowed to build and sell autonomous or semi-autonomous road vehicles?
[04:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:51] <exec> 08└─Why do airlines have such strict and onerous conditions and certification processes before they are allowed to fly, but apparently anyone who wants to is allowed to build and sell autonomous or semi-autonomous road vehicles?
[04:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:53] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, one of the big problems is figuring out why an AV control system made a particular decision. Looks like some researchers are working on that problem, this might be one? https://www.researchgate.net
[04:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:35] <exec> 08└─But only because I run my own server at home. It's super convenient, there are apps for all the smaller devices with local sync options if you're going off-grid for a while. I never understood the cloud thing, it's so trivial to just run the software at home....
[04:45:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 960 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:03] <exec> 08└─Problem is the SJWs don't care anymore. They control all the commanding heights of the culture (with the exception of the Presidency, which is what has driven them mad) including the media, the universities and for all intents and purposes the entire tech industry and the vast majority of the Fortun...
[04:45:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:15] <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...
[04:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:15] <exec> 08└─jmorris actually believes that politicization of software by rabid Liberal ideologues is a bad thing? He must be destroyed for his own good. Let's call him a Nazi a lot to show him how superior are, then some congratulatory back patting for ourselves because we're so righteous. Meanwhile, we'll send...
[04:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:17] <exec> 08└─Now, now, Captival, UID 6(8)66, if that is your real name, no one is suggesting violence toward our fellow Soylentil, jmorris. We love him, so much, indeed, that we are willing to do an intervention in situations like this, where his demons get the better of him. But you, UID 6(8)66, you are not foo...
[04:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, jmorris is not unhinged.
[04:47:46] <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” - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:47] <exec> 08└─Whatever you're smoking, dude, you need to ease up on that shit a bit. Seriously.
[04:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:07] <exec> 08└─I would have loved to have a Lumia 1020 with Android. Their best phones were Windows Phone 8 only and practically DOA. Certainly dead now, only 4 years later.
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[05:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:28] <exec> 08└─All those beer guzzling couch potatoes should have learned to code. The best life possible belongs to the coder who works for free coding open source software while corporations take his hard work and pay nothing in return. The best death imaginable is dying of treatable ass cancer at age 35 because...
[05:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:30] <exec> 08└─POST UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 AT 9 AM GMT Beer is high carb, high carb leads to blood sugar spikes, cancer cells need sugar more than most others due to quick division rate, beer makes cancer cells grow more than other types of booze? Is beer really more carb dense than wine or mixed d...
[05:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:41] <exec> 08└─1) Get Instagram 2) Have your inner being turned outside by the program 3) Search for opioid hashtags 4) Look at the ads thrown at you 5) ??? 6) Profit Or something like that.
[05:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─I'll join an opioid support group only if MDC is a member, preferably if MDC is leading the group. MDC is so great, I want to start abusing opioids just so MDC can help me to stop.
[05:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:09] <exec> 08└─No, Microsoft would never do anything evil like detect that you just ran the Chrome/Firefox/Other installer then interrupt it with a warning suggestion to stick with IE/Edge. Oh wait... https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[05:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:11] <exec> 08└─Ok, what's so hard there? You need the compiler installed (doh!) You need a couple of additional utilities, and some header files (if you're planning to compile an email client with your browser, but why would anyone want to do that?) Ok, regardless, you need the stuff, then you just go to the right...
[05:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:13] <exec> 08└─"Its not heedlessly hiding anything, its like a tracheotomy for some sites where the designers don't follow good practices. Removing these characters allows the reader just enough extra whitespace to take a breath." Even taken in this light, it's still dumb. Don't hide that shit from the users, if a...
[05:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:29] <exec> 08└─TheHuman operated vehicles are nowhere near good enough to drive on public streets while they humans can't figure out how to handle those things reliably. Drivers who aren't under the influence of drugs can not easily handle all of those things without causing trouble.
[05:43:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:24] <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...
[05:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:58] <exec> 08└─Looks like the EU has just committed a terrorist attack on the internet. A couple of well placed drone strikes should take care of it. /s
[05:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:59] <exec> 08└─It has been covered on SN several times. In a nutshell, the "link tax" is that allegedly for copyright purposes every outgoing link on your web site must have a paper trail showing that you have paid for the connection to the remote site.
[05:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:57] <exec> 08└─In fact, saying that nothing good comes of politics is just a strategy of the alt-right to forward their extreme rightist positions, whether flat out white male supremacy, or rabid mad-dog libertarianism, as if they were not politics. But, they are. So, there. I am going to ram politics down your fu...
[05:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:58] <exec> 08└─Divine justice? Swamp drainage? They all result in less of jmorris soooo fine by me!
[05:47:25] <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” - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:26] <exec> 08└─I rarely read his shit, definitely won't read that wall of text. I must say though, it is amusing watching the crazy users around here slowly start to unravel.
[05:47:27] <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” - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:27] <exec> 08└─Do you miss r/The_Donald so badly you've gotta turn SN into a latrine too?
[05:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:49] <exec> 08└─Nokia kept the patents and licensed them to Microsoft.
[05:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:50] <exec> 08└─Nokia/Microsoft announced that the n9 and n950 were unsupported phones that would never receive updates *before* they went on sale (only sold to satisfy a contractual requirement with Intel; their development partner on meego). The n950 even came without a hardware warranty. The n9 and n950 still ou...
[05:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:34] <exec> 08└─To be fair, you'll always be dealing with a digital signal coming out of your phone. Whether you convert to analog before the 3.5mm jack or within your headphones is a bit moot. That said, I much prefer having a headphone jack, as there are far fewer things that can go wrong with the headphones them...
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[06:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:55] <exec> 08└─Correlation does not equal causation. Perhaps, just perhaps, men who drink a larger amount of beer regularly, oh I dont know, have higher rates of smoking, work jobs that expose them to more carcinogens, dont exercise as much, etc, etc, etc. Relatively high consumtion of beer is quite correlated to...
[06:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:37] <exec> 08└─Even microsoft wasnt arrogant enough to pull fast ones like this.
[06:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:39] <exec> 08└─dense content
[06:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:41] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the fuck world which happens when we don't fund a decent free software community and corporations pay for "open source" instead!
[06:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:57] <exec> 08└─Seems more like males age 25 and under are bad at driving, and even they're not too bad. Out of hundreds of millions (at least) of people driving a day, only a few thousand die?
[06:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:31] <exec> 08└─The comments on there are full of people who would be in the highest idiot-tax bracket. For example: I literally just wasted one+ hours of my life, making a script that then took 2 minutes more of my life to create a list of all the possible combinations... When in reality I should've just Googled i...
[06:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:32] <exec> 08└─Naw...everyone knows the best PW is 1qazxdr5tgbhu8
[06:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:45] <exec> 08└─Alright. I have no idea who Plex is, or why I should care. A Fine Article should include those factors, at least. If you are an investor, or a follower-on, or some other way a shill for said Plex, you should publicly declare such. Otherwise, we Soylentils have no idea what you are talking about, or...
[06:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:33] <exec> 08└─The European Parliament really rubbed citizens' noses in the fact that their representitives are not going to represent them. You can read the EU Parliament's press release, Parliament adopts its position on digital copyright rules [europa.eu], which is full of corporate lobbyist spin and vocabulary...
[06:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:34] <exec> 08└─Insider trading? You mean like Nigel Farage shorting on the results of the referendum and making a false statement on national TV?
[06:45:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:05] <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...
[06:45:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 425 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:37] <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...
[06:48:05] <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” - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:05] <exec> 08└─Slide rules https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:48:07] <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” - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:07] <exec> 08└─VLM is more dumb than a bag of hammers. And it is true, because a hammer said so! Really? 14 Words? 88? I kill you like my grandfather killed your kind in Germany. They stood up and said, "we are the superior Race!" And he shot them through the head. Actually, too kind, by my way of thinking. Carefu...
[06:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:09] <exec> 08└─No, that's Pavlov.
[06:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:33] <exec> 08└─I dont think Microsoft really killed Nokia, ...
[06:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:54] <exec> 08└─Great, could you please give me your home address and a copy of the keys to your front door? After all, Freedom! Oh, you meant freedom for YOU, I see...
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[07:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:33] <exec> 08└─Its probably people eating too many grains in their food as a meat substitute. Ive got nothing against vegetarianism per se, but that is a problem.
[07:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:35] <exec> 08└─Jordon Peterson "All Beef Diet" Shill spotted! My gawd, has it come to this?
[07:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:37] <exec> 08└─Never heard of him. I just know running 10 km per day for months did nothing, but cut out grains (meat, vegetables and a bit of fruit is fine) and began eating less (felt satiated easier) within a couple days (also stopped running). Kept it up and lost 2 kg per week for onths. Then I stopped for cou...
[07:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:58] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is that you do not have the moral fortitude to use opioids, even if MDC is leading the group. I suggest you crawl back into your hole, and get back to using kratom, or oregano, or Fox News, whatever you rely upon for your pathetic high. And then of course, you could just . . .
[07:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:59] <exec> 08└─"it looks like you're looking for drugs. Can I help?"
[07:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:35] <exec> 08└─Have you actually looked at a URL recently? Since all the cookie laws were passed they seem to be stuffed full of tracking information so all this does is change a URL that might look something like this: https://www.google.com
[07:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 1764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:36] <exec> 08└─that guy doesn't need money. he's never traveled outside of the US, and defines complete success and happiness by being able to go fishing on his little boat on a lake, and looks at people with full interesting lives as unhappy, forever chasing that happiness. that aside.. Google is indeed doing rig...
[07:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:38] <exec> 08└─Yes they were.
[07:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:40] <exec> 08└─I switched back to firefox a couple of years ago as I was worried about how much power I was giving google (also moved to duckduckgo -- when they introduced their uk specific version) I still keep chrome though because when I connect to a https site with a self signed cert - like an ilo - I can actu...
[07:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:43] <exec> 08└─Even 3 air bubbles is better than nothing when you are drowning in text content.
[07:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:59] <exec> 08└─If only people managed to just kill themselves, not others, and pedestrians and cyclists..
[07:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:33] <exec> 08└─I secure all my important stuff with the password "Correct Horse Battery Staple". I learned from xkcd that this is an extremely secure password.
[07:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:34] <exec> 08└─Stupidity != ignorance.
[07:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:34] <exec> 08└─Here's a link to a well known Communist propaganda organisation, Bloomberg, for you about patriotic man of the people Nigel Farage [bloomberg.com]
[07:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:36] <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." Fairly certain governments hate it when foreign governments force their banks to hand over large amounts of cash to the foreign government. Th...
[07:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:33] <exec> 08└─I think mocking absolutists is counter-productive. It incites them and makes them stronger.
[07:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:07] <exec> 08└─Fake news or not, it would explain Brexit...
[07:48:09] <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” - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:09] <exec> 08└─Interesting discussion, all! I am sure Janrinok is happy. But it does seem to be the case again (not the first time) that most commentors have not actually read the paper in question. Now when I run seminars, with, like, actual graduate students, I expect that they will have read the source material...
[07:48:10] <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” - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:11] <exec> 08└─I notice a glaring warning sign in "The Authoritarians", namely, it's about a particular subclass of authoritarians (the "Right Wing Authoritarian") rather than the whole lot.
[07:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:13] <exec> 08└─And to understand why it works, and to use it competently, you need to know about logarithms.
[07:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:05] <exec> 08└─you don't get the difference between buying something and seeing ads? let me askplain in a language you get. you are going fishing wednesday morning because you don't have a real job. you need one of those sharp curvy things that looks like a bug with hooks - a lure or whatever people too dumb for a...
[07:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Reasons Linux Gamers Might Want To Pass On The NVIDIA RTX 20 Series - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:01] <exec> 08└─Metapackage doesn't do anything, it's a package to install other packages via its dependencies. Basically, you don't need nvidia servers in Debian, unless you want latest versions.
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[08:42:11] <exec> 08└─Your experience sounds very similar to mine.
[08:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:23] <exec> 08└─It doesn't square with the numbers in the following paragraph, where 2/3 beers per day equates to risk of high-grade prostate cancer at 65/50 years of age. Maybe it also includes benign growth or low grade cancers. Or maybe it's a typo. It would have been interesting to see the actual numbers, it's...
[08:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:25] <exec> 08└─Somebody screwed up their numbers or times somewhere, because he then starts talking about more than two beers a day. That might be 63 a month.
[08:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:37] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make sense.
[08:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 2054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:38] <exec> 08└─No one has yet been able to explain to me how AI cars will handle situations where you need to judge what another driver is going to do. I've been driving down a lot of country lanes during the summer in various different parts of the UK and they are often only the width of 1 vehicle with pull in po...
[08:43:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 406 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:56] <exec> 08└─Before we blame the customers for having '1234' as their password, Vodaphone admits that customer representatives set it to that when they set up the account. Further, there is a 6 character limit on passwords, the website says use a 4 to 6 digit number and many customers say they don't know how the...
[08:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03iru [6596] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:26] <exec> 08└─I've been using a mix of Emby (which is a fork of Plex) and Kodi. They work well together and it allows me to benefit from the kodi interface and its plugins and Emby's remote access. I've switched to Emby because they do not force you to go to their site to use a service that is installed on your o...
[08:45:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 1752 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:14] <exec> 08└─The European Parliament really rubbed citizens' noses in the fact that their representitives are not going to represent them. You can read the EU Parliament's press release, Parliament adopts its position on digital copyright rules [europa.eu], which is full of corporate lobbyist spin and vocabulary...
[08:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:19] <exec> 08└─Advocates argue that de-listing every news site in Europe is going to be a much more drastic and costly step than de-listing news sites in any one European country. Hence, the theory goes, Google and other technology giants will have little choice but to come to the table and pay licensing fees.
[08:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:21] <exec> 08└─Apparently the right (SD) and far right (EPP + ECR) were instrumental in pushing the giant mess through
[08:48:59] <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” - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:59] <exec> 08└─Mars Climate Orbiter [wired.com], designed by friggin' rocket scientists, burned up because they didn't convert English to metric.
[08:49:01] <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” - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:01] <exec> 08└─Given how far astray critical thinking has often taken us, maybe it’s time to embrace the Millennial Generation’s approach
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[09:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:52] <exec> 08└─I knew we were heading for trouble when George Orwell's estate sold the sequel rights to 1984. This new version *sucks*.
[09:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:53] <exec> 08└─The only Vizio in my home is used as a computer monitor. If it ever connects to the internet, it is VERY sneaky! Neither my router, nor my modem knows the monitor exists. There is nothing in the logs about any such device. My rather small network is pretty easy to keep an eye on. I have quickly iden...
[09:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:55] <exec> 08└─I don't expect this to be the case, but in principle, it also could have an embedded SIM card to communicate directly over the mobile network. That wouldn't show up on your home network.
[09:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:05] <exec> 08└─Its probably people eating too many grains in their food as a meat substitute.
[09:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:07] <exec> 08└─Now I stopped the grains again, and crave much less food and weight is dropping like before.
[09:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:20] <exec> 08└─A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
[09:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:21] <exec> 08└─Roosters actually crow 24 hours a day. Especially when startled, but really whenever they feel like being dicks.
[09:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:23] <exec> 08└─https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2018/09/05/regular-beer-consumption-linked-to-higher-prostate-cancer-risk/ [umontreal.ca] linked to from the article contains a correction. It's one beer a day for *63 years*.
[09:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:15] <exec> 08└─You lose a point with that, because Microsoft doesn't make a browser.
[09:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:16] <exec> 08└─defines complete success and happiness by being able to go fishing on his little boat on a lake, and looks at people with full interesting lives as unhappy, forever chasing that happiness.
[09:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:18] <exec> 08└─At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data
[09:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:20] <exec> 08└─The world would be a much better place if people who are too dumb to use computers would quit buying them.
[09:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:23] <exec> 08└─You have no fucking clue about what is happening in Hungary (and it has nothing to do with soros), and I find it pretty disrespectful how you frame the situation there in your own interest. Frankly, the EU is not doing enough to stop the shit that is going on here.
[09:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:24] <exec> 08└─It is like saying "let's remove the surface of the sea" - if we could do it, the layer beneath would become a new surface, virtually indistinguishable from the old one.
[09:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:23] <exec> 08└─Ari, whose doors were hung using strips of cowhide in ancient Greece, feels himself competent to speak about unhinging? Perhaps you would care to revisit AthanasiusKircher's farewell thread again. You are mentioned by name there. Aristarchus' toxicity is legendary!
[09:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:24] <exec> 08└─Jealous, Runaway? You are the most toxic, because you have the least to say, being an uneducated American, which if it were not so redundant would be embarrassing. You contribute nothing but vitriol and bile, venom and idiocy, in all your posts. We learn nothing from you, because you have nothing to...
[09:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:26] <exec> 08└─Working on software for metal milling machines (CNC machines). Our software will make the machine cut your entire body in two halves if you go sit in the chamber. It will behead you in no time. Your body will be in pieces if you do so. Don't do this. It's a bad idea, and it's a lot of bloody cleanin...
[09:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:29] <exec> 08└─uneducated American . . . redundant
[09:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:15] <exec> 08└─Remembered wrong on one part, it was a Kingston HyperX Cloud Alpha Pro that I have.
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[10:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:00] <exec> 08└─Great, so now houses have to be faraday cages. Mobile calls *outside*, even when it is snowing.
[10:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:14] <exec> 08└─ask you grandma 60 or 70 years ago...well people just did not live that much at the time for this to be a problem
[10:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:15] <exec> 08└─1) Eating grains increases your appetite 2) People with increased appetite will eat more Obviously number two isnt possible unless food is available, so you will not see it leading to obesity in those cases. Every single point in you rant supports what I described entirely. Ask yourself this, which...
[10:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:17] <exec> 08└─I dont need to train anything, just not eat bread or rice with my meals or eat any candy/soda crap. Its not even hard, you can eat as much as you want. So have fun with your training of the stomach, Ill eat less the easy way.
[10:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:33] <exec> 08└─Nice quote, which justifies many things. But, I'm not sure that it justifies being a lush. Don't expect to be invited to my house, just because you boldly drink yourself to death.
[10:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:34] <exec> 08└─Always try to get to the source, the closest I could find was this: https://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com] So an Epidemiological study (not experimental), but I guess that is to be expected. Only relative risks are mentioned, not the absolute levels....
[10:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:36] <exec> 08└─Indeed. One wonders who funded the study.
[10:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:34] <exec> 08└─yes, for instance, automatically hiding filename extensions was a (stupid) default setting in Windows since '95
[10:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:35] <exec> 08└─The only way that Chrome's market share drops is if you stop using Chrome and/or Chromium.
[10:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:37] <exec> 08└─1998: We're going to do away with .com, .org, .net etc. and use single keywords instead. That worked well, didn't it, especially when your kids' school project involved them accessing the website of the official Washington D.C. residence of the President of the United States. (*) 2018: We're going t...
[10:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:57] <exec> 08└─No one has yet been able to explain to me how AI cars will handle situations where you need to judge what another driver is going to do
[10:44:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:28] <exec> 08└─Vodafone can't claim that they are offering super security when there are a maximum of 10,000 passwords available. If, as the summary implies, the "hackers" just trawled the customer base with a set PIN, they'd be bound to pick up a number of accounts no matter which PIN they entered. 1234 was proba...
[10:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Now Has Tooth Mics For Invisible, Hands-Free Radio Calls - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:00] <exec> 08└─... when corporations start mandating these for their staff. Collectable and returnable each day of course from the company pool on an as-required basis.
[10:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:51] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I've said this before, but thank you for expressing such opinions. It's the product I've worked on that I'm most proud of (Linux kernel dev, touch-screen and boot-time optimisation were my thangs). I still use my n900. My g/f still uses hers.
[10:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:53] <exec> 08└─Agree. Meego was a *very* uneasy alliance. There was no synergistic cooperation, only pretend cooperation for individual gain.
[10:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks May Be Tracking Your Movements - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:34] <exec> 08└─You manage that and you can track me all you like without me giving even one tenth of a fuck. It's not like there'll be much movement happening though. House->fishing_hole->house->fishing_hole->etc...
[10:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:44] <exec> 08└─Bean counters and lawyers do and they're the ones making most of the decisions lately else we'd have a lot less music that sounds exactly the fucking same.
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[11:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:06] <exec> 08└─So only American laws extend globally?? Never lived in America, yet still getting hit by DMCA shit
[11:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:07] <exec> 08└─Today? The internet never forgets...
[11:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:09] <exec> 08└─Do I have a "right" to be forgotten?
[11:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:20] <exec> 08└─Not to worry, we are (unintentionally) getting there - the best thermal insulated windows for home use has a thin metallic coating, and so has the inner side of the best thermal insulator for residental buildings. Yup, here in Sweden they managed to build a couple of blocks as faraday cages by accid...
[11:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:36] <exec> 08└─Europe is the new middle east. Life expectancy plummets in war zones.
[11:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:38] <exec> 08└─So that explains the obesity problems in japan over the centuries.. oh wait. But I will give you one point - coconut cream. That shit is dangerous. I mean, it packs up to about 35% fat and you can easily add in another 25% of fat from melted butter before the taste goes to crap (coconut milk is abou...
[11:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:40] <exec> 08└─Hate to break it to you, but middle east does overlap partially with europe (the european part of turkey, and probably also included greece up until they revolted. middle east might also include cyprus). Are you sure you don't mean the near east?
[11:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:59] <exec> 08└─Big Cannabis!
[11:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:00] <exec> 08└─At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data (It was a PC OS after all).
[11:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:02] <exec> 08└─How do you send the message if you've never used chrome or chromium?
[11:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:04] <exec> 08└─You need to build a fishing empire then milk it for millions to "enjoy your friends"? Why not just cross the street and enjoy them right now?
[11:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:06] <exec> 08└─This is the argument used to hide everything after ? in the url Users don't need to see that crap, right
[11:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:08] <exec> 08└─I found out recently that I need to learn how to evaluate a property for structural damage. Yes, an engineer will come around for $500 to walk around the place and 'talk me though' what he sees. Measure moisture levels? Anything but look? Go in the ceiling? $3000 starting. Greeeeaat. This is me spen...
[11:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:10] <exec> 08└─when I connect to a https site with a self signed cert
[11:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:20] <exec> 08└─could we have some details about what this amazing, mind-blowing code does? some people are curious, what kind of super-portable, super-optimized, innovative algorithms the open-source world has lost, by being greedy communists who do not allow innovation from poor, huddled corporations?
[11:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't speak Klingon.
[11:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:03] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with a latrine. Everyone poops [amazon.com].
[11:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:57] <exec> 08└─"Nobody is scrolling beyond the first page when they do a search," Jason Goldberg, SVP of commerce at SapientRazorfish, a digital marketing agency, told Recode
[11:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:59] <exec> 08└─I expect soon Amazon will rent the space on the ceiling above college dorm beds to show rotating advertisements to students 24/7. Probably mostly birth control ads.
[11:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:01] <exec> 08└─It's not analogous at all. Amazon is a store not a search engine. Their entire reason for existing is to sell you things. Advertising is not really surprising or even distasteful in that context.
[11:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the advertisements are starting to interfere with their core business.
[11:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Stuffing its Search Results Pages With Ads - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:05] <exec> 08└─However, it is very annoying.
[11:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:41] <exec> 08└─One of my kids was doing the modern equivalent using google maps satellite view to look at the great pyramids of egypt. Street view mode of the pyramids is pretty wild too.
[11:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:42] <exec> 08└─As a snaggle-toothed, emotionally repressed Brit, I would like to mention that 'gawking' seems already to have become the word of choice in England to describe a specific type of gawping - that of slowing down to look at traffic accidents (hence causing traffic congestion in both directions, includi...
[11:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:33] <exec> 08└─Plus, universality of the connector means you could totally connect your phone's audio output up to anything that takes sound input made in the past fifty years and it will bloody well work.
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[12:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC for Better Smartwatch Battery Life - 2052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:03] <exec> 08└─Some info probably assumed by the insiders, for those who aren't into android programming or otherwise are insiders: That SoC model-line essentially owns the Android watch market, only maybe 99% of android watch sales are Snapdragon SoCs. So aside from corporate ownership and branding, this is essen...
[12:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC for Better Smartwatch Battery Life - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:05] <exec> 08└─So the point of this story is "they" think that watches aren't selling because they're not fast enough so they need fancy coprocessors or WTF, whereas the real problem in my opinion is 5 hour battery life, no real purpose other than being a remote display, etc.
[12:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:16] <exec> 08└─Note that in public, as of recently, there is no easy way I'm aware of to find my usenet posts from the very late 80s to the 90s unless you already know where to look and what to look for, and even then its iffy. Also its been impossible to find my compuserve forum posts from the mid-early 80s. And...
[12:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:18] <exec> 08└─I prefer it this way. Actions should have consequences and people should be able to judge for themselves whether something you said or did twenty years ago has any bearing on who you are today.
[12:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:20] <exec> 08└─That's not on America, son. If you don't like your government allowing our laws to affect you, do something about your government.
[12:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:22] <exec> 08└─Much more likely my legal name is John Smith in 2030 along with maybe 50 million other people
[12:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:24] <exec> 08└─Looks like they are positioning themselves to be more destructive than china to individual liberties. If you can force things to disappear on the internet you can control who is guilty.
[12:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:54] <exec> 08└─As explained to the other poster, obviously it doent matter how hungry you are if there is not a bunch of excess food to eat. Anyway, all you people with thoughtless snappy dismissals are just missing out. Its no problem for me.
[12:43:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mechanicjay [7] 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:57] <exec> 08└─About 7 years ago, I got into it with one of the Chromium devs in a ticket over how they were forcing SSL False Start down everyone's throat, breaking SSL implementations left and right. The best part, you couldn't turn it off, you had to beg and plead to be added to a COMPILED IN BLACKLIST to not h...
[12:44:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:11] <exec> 08└─defines complete success and happiness by being able to go fishing on his little boat on a lake, and looks at people with full interesting lives as unhappy, forever chasing that happiness.
[12:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:24] <exec> 08└─Check out the tickets from users about removing http. Tickets just get closed. https://bugs.chromium.org [chromium.org] pkasting is an ass. There was a comment about how this was removed as part of the 'removing unnecessary features' in Chrome. They won't even add o...
[12:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:26] <exec> 08└─With a side dish of centralized highly politicized censorship.
[12:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:28] <exec> 08└─I love Midori
[12:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:30] <exec> 08└─Nah, they'll also pay attention if they start losing ad revenue.
[12:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:32] <exec> 08└─Google replaced Microsoft as the big arrogant dick that thinks it own computing.
[12:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:34] <exec> 08└─To better define "sucks", their software is technically superior but actually more evil than Microsoft's.
[12:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:36] <exec> 08└─What breath? Fucking aliens and their white light eating habits.
[12:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:38] <exec> 08└─he's never traveled outside of the US
[12:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:41] <exec> 08└─You're right. Our apologies. We'll get right on removing story text, just leaving the headlines. We could probably do away with comments too, because we desire a meaningful conversation with our audience.
[12:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:43] <exec> 08└─I'll get around to it right after I've learned to be my own mechanic, electrician, plumber, farmer, financial advisor, doctor, lawyer, etc...
[12:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:04] <exec> 08└─I think humans might have an irrational subconscious belief that an air crash should be slightly more frightening than a vehicle crash, even if both are potentially fatal. I suppose on reflection it's not all that irrational. Motion perpendicular to the ground (due to gravity) is inherently more dan...
[12:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:05] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make sense.
[12:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:42] <exec> 08└─LOL. I came here looking for this and I'm not disappointed. Thanks Sir.
[12:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:58] <exec> 08└─As much as I like you man, I wish you'd post articles that didn't have dead links. I had a look at some of your submissions recently and just about all of them I saw were like that. All of them linking to 404s on otherwise reputable news sites. I think that wears the patience of the mods thin after...
[12:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:52] <exec> 08└─Well, at least we would feel like something had been done....for awhile. Actually, things would break down into chaos, life would be very crappy for awhile until something new managed to emerge and take hold. Could be better, could be worse...ready to roll the dice?
[12:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 1946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:57] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus I disagree with Runaway1956 but you are not really bringing any righteousness by calling him uneducated and all sorts of insults. You are in the end, your own worse enemy of your ideas. jrmorris is known for his opinions. They are not popular around here, and this is the actual good mean...
[12:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:37] <exec> 08└─Rule of thumb [wikipedia.org]? Can't do much damage with that thing, can we. Perhaps it should have been the rule of wrist [youtube.com].
[12:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:39] <exec> 08└─If you don't understand the reasons why I do what I do, you're never going to defeat me. Allow me to assure you that you most certainly do not understand them.
[12:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:41] <exec> 08└─Yet another warning sign, pilgrim. Humor to disguise ambiguity of the crucial definition. An authoritarian follower submits excessively to some authorities, aggresses in their name, and insists on everyone following their rules. If these authorities are the established authorities in society, that...
[12:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:43] <exec> 08└─Now when I run seminars, with, like, actual graduate students, I expect that they will have read the source material before we have a discussion about the same.
[12:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:45] <exec> 08└─It is a need to make sense of the world coupled with the fear that one is being marginalized.
[12:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:21] <exec> 08└─I'm still using my Nokia N800.
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[13:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:36] <exec> 08└─"Now is the time of great decision: Are we to stay or up and quit? There's no avoiding this conclusion: Our town is turning into shit!"
[13:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.truthdig.com/articles/more-than-1000-inmates-left-behind-ahead-of-hurricane-florence/ [truthdig.com]
[13:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:40] <exec> 08└─[Hurricane Florence] is predicted to directly pass over the Brunswick nuclear plant, which is located 30 miles south of Wilmington, as well as the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in New Hill, a town farther inland about 23 miles from Raleigh.
[13:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:42] <exec> 08└─given how little cash the average american has, (seriously, that's a problem not to be underestimated) its likely that quite a few people in those areas don't have the means to get out, much less the ability to pay for food and accommodations elsewhere. so its more of a culling than a competition fo...
[13:41:43] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:44] <exec> 08└─It'll be fine. With so many rolls of PT handed out by the president himself, they'll have this little spill wiped up in no time. That IS how it works, right? I mean look how well Puerto Rico is doing.
[13:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:46] <exec> 08└─Say, when was the last time a hurricane wiped out the Washington DC? Wouldn't now be a good time?
[13:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:49] <exec> 08└─No. Wait 5 or 10 years for more condos to go up and more black people to be forced out of the city. Then send in the hurricanes.
[13:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:51] <exec> 08└─I think it would be a good time for you to kill yourself, you pathetic cock-gobbling piece of subhuman waste.
[13:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:53] <exec> 08└─Hopefully breast cancer will soon remove you from the rolls of the living.
[13:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:55] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your beautiful support. I think Puerto Rico was an incredible unsung success. We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida (and did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico, even though an inaccessible island with very poor electricity and a totally incompetent M...
[13:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:57] <exec> 08└─When cancer comes for you, the world will be a better place.
[13:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:59] <exec> 08└─I'll stand where the hurricane meets me, it's hurricane florence up my ass or nothing!
[13:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:23] <exec> 08└─I dont care if they are good or bad laws, they do NOT extend to nations that are not a member of the EU. Their wishes do not usurp other countries sovereignty.
[13:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 1923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:24] <exec> 08└─As Runaway says, there are a lot of sides to this issue. - The Internet does, in fact, forget. But the forgetfulness is a bit random: some important things can no longer be found, whereas trivia about the Kardashians may live on forever. Even Archive.org is kind of useless, since anyone, anywhere ca...
[13:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:26] <exec> 08└─Let's be honest. These laws are ultimately intended to protect the wealthy from being exposed for their past misdeeds. Especially politicians, political candidates, and government employees and officials who are receiving money from corporate entities. Politicians have a higher than normal incidence...
[13:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:38] <exec> 08└─If your router/firewall isn't blocking internet traffic to or from your television, you should be ashamed.
[13:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:17] <exec> 08└─Good thing I don't drink any beer then, for the sake of my pros...waaaaaaitaminute.
[13:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:31] <exec> 08└─Good-For-You-ism. That's what this is. Others decide what's good for you, instead of letting you make your own choices. If someone searches for "opioid treatments," then by all means give them results for addiction treatment. But don't give them what they didn't ask for because you know better than...
[13:44:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:20] <exec> 08└─At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data (It was a PC OS after all).
[13:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure when, but at some point they did add a checkbox: chrome://flags [chrome] Disabling that flag shows both www./m. and http.
[13:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:38] <exec> 08└─The first company to lease software? Geesh people have short memories these days. They are not even close to being the first. Or the last.
[13:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:40] <exec> 08└─Have you thought about putting giant pictures with each article? They don't have to bear any relationship to the article, you know, just big pictures to decrease the word density.
[13:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:04] <exec> 08└─You been modded funny but I have feeling your prediction will be accurate and that it was become increasingly difficult to be allowed to manually drive a vehicle on the public roads.
[13:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, what can one do? Laugh while you still can.
[13:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:55] <exec> 08└─I never understood the cloud thing, it's so trivial to just run the software at home....
[13:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:52] <exec> 08└─> Step 8 is a good outcome. And Step 9 would be an even better outcome. So much so I hope it does go down this way. Sure, there will be disruption as all those Google addicts go into withdrawl, but it will also open up the market to smaller companies who have been unable to compete so far due to eco...
[13:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:54] <exec> 08└─So what senario can be used to hold these EU clown accountable to the laws the make? Do they have web sites with links to copyrighted content.
[13:50:46] <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” - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:46] <exec> 08└─We must always think critically, especially when the people telling us something are doing so with a writ of authority.
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[14:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:08] <exec> 08└─remember folks, whether you use M$ or Apple, it's lizard people all the way down
[14:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:09] <exec> 08└─Google is full of lizards too - or are they robots? They aren't human, that's for sure.
[14:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:31] <exec> 08└─Ah, Trump supporters. If someone says something you don't like, and you have no argument against it, wish them dead. Brilliant!
[14:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:32] <exec> 08└─It's okaay, God will save them! [drool, drool, drool]
[14:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:35] <exec> 08└─That big beautiful wall on the Mexican border? Let's extend it along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts! And for good measure, the Pacific coast too. That'll be a heck of a lot of jobs, for brownie! When it's finished, let's have a wall party. Show those Chinese that they aren't #1 when it comes to Great...
[14:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:37] <exec> 08└─Heaven is a cool place, right? Maybe G_d will kill them to save them.
[14:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:39] <exec> 08└─Airbnb are going to provide places to stay: https://www.cbsnews.com [cbsnews.com]
[14:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:08] <exec> 08└─Today? The internet never forgets - unless, of course, one is armed with funds and lawyers, who are willing and able to issue take down orders. Funny that the internet can be "sanitized" in regards to some subjects. For instance, the New American Century has cleaned up it's own site, since 2000 and...
[14:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:21] <exec> 08└─What's a "television"? Did you mean the Alexa-enabled wall-mounted all-in-one-display computing device?
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─Which is why spying devices will get access to the mobile data network as soon as practicable.
[14:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:43] <exec> 08└─Whole grains increase metabolism, may help promote weight loss https://www.medicalnewstoday.com [medicalnewstoday.com]
[14:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:45] <exec> 08└─But... I thought fat was the new health food! 100 calories of fat is more desirable than 100 calories of carbs, right?
[14:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:07] <exec> 08└─I thought it was the hops and the estrogenalike chemicals in it that messed with a guy's hormones? Most 'articles' online worry about manboobs or something stupid like that. Few sites will say to worry about the effects of small amounts of these hormones consumed over the course of a man's adult lif...
[14:44:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:31] <exec> 08└─Google replaced Microsoft as the big arrogant dick that thinks it own computing. Their software sucks too.
[14:44:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 473 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:46] <exec> 08└─People stopped using Firefox but it's had little effect on Mozilla's decisions to ruin their browser. You can bitch all you like but Google wouldn't care if the whole tech community dropped Chrome tomorrow because they've already reached critical mass, of which we are a tiny fraction. Google will do...
[14:45:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:04] <exec> 08└─At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data
[14:45:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:06] <exec> 08└─yes, for instance, automatically hiding filename extensions was a (stupid) default setting in Windows since '95
[14:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:29] <exec> 08└─Excellent idea! We'll get right on that. Cat pictures, dank memes, or naked chicks? Wait, why choose? Dank memes made of pictures of naked chicks holding cats incoming.
[14:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:31] <exec> 08└─OSX's "finder" (I call it "blinder") hides entire filenames and paths by default.
[14:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:33] <exec> 08└─Whoosh
[14:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:35] <exec> 08└─The difference is the healthcare plan if he's in the USA or similar country with crap healthcare. And the ability to easily move himself and family elsewhere to fish if the area gets polluted or messed up too much.
[14:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:37] <exec> 08└─Have you thought about putting giant pictures with each article?
[14:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:39] <exec> 08└─Not quite a keyword as in the aol sense, but an auto appended .com if the luser forgot to type it.
[14:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:42] <exec> 08└─How about how they hide email addresses from local users when you're using Outlook connected to Exchange? If you're using Outlook with Exchange and your buddy Billy Gates in the same company emails you, it just shows "From: Billy Gates" instead of "From: Billy Gates " or "From: Billy Gates " But if...
[14:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:44] <exec> 08└─That's what I get for not previewing. Oh well.
[14:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:46] <exec> 08└─Double whoosh! That's a joke about having sex with friends
[14:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:12] <exec> 08└─I'm early 60s and I'm not worried. Where I go (mostly all 'burbs and country roads), I'm convinced there will be many of us old school normal, manual drivers for as long as I want to drive. Maybe not so many using stick shift, but I enjoy that too. Since my father was still driving fairly well in hi...
[14:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:13] <exec> 08└─Some people I talk to don't even realize that they are advocating for taking away steering wheels from humans but they are. I've had a few conversations like this: me> I don't like autonomous cars them> But they'll reduce human fatalities to zero! me> I'm not so sure about that and I'm worried they...
[14:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:15] <exec> 08└─I think that the conflict between laws on the books regarding driving and roads and the reality of driving in the world is going to be pretty strong. I can't fathom any robot car will do anything besides exactly the letter of the law because anything else just opens them up to legal risk. But drivin...
[14:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:52] <exec> 08└─What do you lot think, should there be a blatant stupidity tax?
[14:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:08] <exec> 08└─In other words, "I'm a moron on a tech site who whines he doesn't know about very popular tech."
[14:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:08] <exec> 08└─There's lots of assets that are not that easy to do that with: copyrights, physical land, contracts, datacenter equipment.
[14:52:02] <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” - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:02] <exec> 08└─Another good rule is to be especially suspicious of information that appears to confirm your previously held beliefs, because you're more likely to be fooled by that.
[14:52:03] <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” - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:03] <exec> 08└─Dafuq did I just read?
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[15:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:52] <exec> 08└─They are under no obligation to support competition in their own product. Don't like what they are doing, choose another product. Its called free market.
[15:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─the EU can shove it. bunch of socialist anti free-market bastards.
[15:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:56] <exec> 08└─So apparently MS and Google are in an "I'm a bigger dick then you" contest apparently. And Edge...yea...I'm gonna use a browser that doesn't even separate the fucking URL bar from a search.
[15:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:58] <exec> 08└─Which browser does?
[15:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, they'll shove it up MS arse. If only for the lulz. No, not only, for the money, too.
[15:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:02] <exec> 08└─Firefox still has a search text field that does only search.
[15:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:04] <exec> 08└─It's such a loser move to push your products on people like that. What do they fear? That if they don't interfere with people's choices, they don't get chosen! What M$ is doing is like trying to win an election by rigging the vote. But then, that seems to be M$'s core business strategy since, oh, Of...
[15:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:06] <exec> 08└─Seriously, why don't they just get it over with and lock the entire thing down only permitting genuine Microsoft(TM) applications? That is the way things are moving anyway. What kind of error will we get next trying to install Libre Office, or VLC? While they are at it, they should take away all use...
[15:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:09] <exec> 08└─It's also possible to disable automatic search from url bar when you enter something that is not an URL or cannot be resolved, if only I could remember what the option was in that damned about:config. I think I've changed about hundred of options by now and if my profile dies I'm fucked.
[15:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone even want to use a search field instead of going to the web page of the search engine you want to use. Oh, right, there can be only only one search engine.
[15:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:13] <exec> 08└─It's not mutually exclusive: Google are lizard-bots.
[15:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─It appears MS was not spanked hard enough during their anti-trust span. The other browser brands can offer a counter-popup: "Please ignore Microsoft's Edge spam; our browser is better. Nadella has no nads."
[15:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:17] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone even want to use a search field instead of going to the web page of the search engine you want to use.
[15:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:44] <exec> 08└─Awww, show me on the dollie where the mean lady hurt you, cupcake~
[15:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 3199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:45] <exec> 08└─I didn't pay attention to Puerto Rico after the last hurricane there because it got lost in the rest of the primal scream the MSM has been shrieking for the last two years. But I did a quick search on the matter and it seems like it was widely reported that thousands of containers full of relief sup...
[15:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:47] <exec> 08└─So, if there is nothing to climate change or global warming or whatever you want to call it, why do you want to put in a sea wall at one of your resorts? Announcement: Trump's other wall: is his Irish resort a sign he believes in climate change? [theguardian.com] Approval: Trump Resort in Ireland Ge...
[15:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:49] <exec> 08└─So... with fukashima, they didn't have time between the quake and the tsunami hitting to shut down the plant, and a couple critical cooling systems failing made the meltdown imminent. With even a goddamn token effort towards preparatory safety by the staff at brunswick, they could fully insert contr...
[15:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC for Better Smartwatch Battery Life - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─I suspect you are roughly correct with the 99% of watches with the Qualcomm processor. For those who are interested, I looked at 7 watches/fitness trackers randomly on Banggood. The most expensive was ~60USD, but most are under 30. Three watches make no claim on their processor, but none of the four...
[15:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:19] <exec> 08└─Unless they secure a treaty by which other nation(s) agree to abide by the same standards.
[15:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:21] <exec> 08└─- Finally, I understand the EU perspective that the "right to be forgotten" is only really effective if it is global. However, typical short-sighted politicians: If every country enforced their restrictions world-wide, everything would be censored.
[15:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:23] <exec> 08└─Beer is good for what ales you.
[15:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:25] <exec> 08└─Also, 63 beers a year seems really low to me. Am I exceptional to think most people who drink at all will be drinking far more than one drink a week?
[15:45:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:16] <exec> 08└─Have you actually looked at a URL recently? Since all the cookie laws were passed they seem to be stuffed full of tracking information so all this does is change a URL that might look something like this: https://www.google.com
[15:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:01] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention that the binutils change I was referring to was in the ls command.
[15:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:02] <exec> 08└─Don't forget an auto-playing MIDI file as well!
[15:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:04] <exec> 08└─A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, progr...
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Vehicles -- Not So New...and Not So Good Yet - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:33] <exec> 08└─> Some driver has a problem starting on hills, Guessing you are not in USA? Here the automatic transmission has taken over nearly completely, and none of them have problems getting going on hills. Those few of us that still drive stick shift mostly do it out of enjoyment and know how to either coord...
[15:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:26] <exec> 08└─No, see, if you blacklist a quarter of your market, you both lose and people will blame the side that forced it to happen, not the side that provoked the side that forced it to happen.
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[16:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:57] <exec> 08└─When are they shutting down the search engine?
[16:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:58] <exec> 08└─The moment they figure how to create hypodermic injections of ads.
[16:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:00] <exec> 08└─Google, it's time to put the lotion in the basket.
[16:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:24] <exec> 08└─The other browser brands should sue for libel. This is beyond M$'s past efforts to exploit their near monopoly; now they're not just abusing it to push their own garbage, they're also slandering the competition in the process. Let's see some actual evidence to back up those claims that Edge is more...
[16:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:26] <exec> 08└─modded flame bait? Really? For just speaking the truth?
[16:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:28] <exec> 08└─Old need. Ms been doing for years. Talk about how ms blows up a good install daily with no way to stop it.
[16:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:30] <exec> 08└─Go on dreaming. There are enough business customers locked in ( and vendors that sell it retail on their boxes ) that even if they did that, they would not simply vanish.
[16:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:32] <exec> 08└─Is FEBE still available for Firefox? I was a huge fan of FEBE when I used Firefox. It will backup themes, profiles, extensions, usernames and passwords, permissions, etc., and can be setup on a schedule.
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─...because it's a hell of a lot faster? I mean I could type www.duckduckgo.com, hit enter, wait for the page to load, scroll down to the search box, type in my query, and hit search...or I could just type in my query and hit enter in the first place. Efficiency is good :)
[16:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:05] <exec> 08└─I became a regular blood donor after I heard that houston's blood banks, bloodmobiles and donation labs had been flooded In fact my first unit really did go to Texas If you become a regular donor you'll need to get extra iron in your diet
[16:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:06] <exec> 08└─what about semen, can we donate that, too?
[16:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC for Better Smartwatch Battery Life - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:17] <exec> 08└─Very bad company to deal with. Lots of binary blobs and no docs and no help.
[16:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:40] <exec> 08└─but the outcome is still likely to be that you are going to be crucified accurately tracked anyway
[16:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, by far. The 100 calories of fat will fill you up much more.
[16:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:21] <exec> 08└─Those studies are all retarded since they never compsre to an actual low carb diet, just amongst various high carb diets. Check if theres a group getting 5-10% of their calories from carbs and ignore it if not.
[16:44:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:37] <exec> 08└─https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2018/09/05/regular-beer-consumption-linked-to-higher-prostate-cancer-risk/ [umontreal.ca] linked to from the article contains a correction. It's one beer a day for *63 years*.
[16:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:01] <exec> 08└─What if somebody searches for suicide or gayness or abortion or satanic rituals? Why won't instagram help?
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:24] <exec> 08└─-s.org Two web pages with the same content cause both to rank worse in search than would just one page
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. There are the OS, utilities, libraries (static and shared), and other weird assorted programs and environments required to actually build something non-trivial. And they *all* have to be at the right version. Then you do the "configure", "make", "make install" routine and it fai...
[16:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:50] <exec> 08└─The following article is the famous 'link tax' referred to in the pieces who claim to fight for a free Internet, freedom of expression and so on (source linky [europa.eu]). Article 11 Protection of press publications concerning digital uses 1.Member States shall provi...
[16:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 1756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:51] <exec> 08└─Article 13 Use of protected content by information society service providers storing and giving access to large amounts of works and other subject-matter uploaded by their users 1.Information society service providers that store and provide to the public access to large amoun...
[16:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:53] <exec> 08└─Details, please.
[16:52:48] <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” - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:48] <exec> 08└─Then there's Charles Stuart and Susan Smith, both of whom came awfully close to getting away with their terrible crimes by saying a big black guy did it. And an awful lot of people believed them.
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[17:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:01] <exec> 08└─Only old people use email.
[17:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:03] <exec> 08└─Don't bother. Just give it the hose again!
[17:42:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:28] <exec> 08└─The other browser brands should sue for libel. This is beyond M$'s past efforts to exploit their near monopoly; now they're not just abusing it to push their own garbage, they're also slandering the competition in the process. Let's see some actual evidence to back up those claims that Edge is more...
[17:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:35] <exec> 08└─It is arguable whether it is the truth. It is arguably still a monopoly platform. Everyone and all businesses use it with few exceptions. Harming competition is what got Microsoft in trouble with the US DoJ and with the EU.
[17:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:37] <exec> 08└─It's such a loser move to push your products on people like that.
[17:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:39] <exec> 08└─"Let me get over this again: You got slapped with a giant fine for simply bundling in your browser, which was a way to leverage your monopoly to kill the competition. What exactly makes you think that actively attempting to discourage people from installing other browsers isn't, let's say, about 10...
[17:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:42] <exec> 08└─You know what free markets do when you let them off the chain? Yeah, that's right, they EAT BABIES! Are you into eating babies? Are you a sick pedophile cannibal? Clean up your act sir before you get hired at the Whitehouse.
[17:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:44] <exec> 08└─Your truth is someone else's monopolistic anti-competitive behavior. They don't sell enough clue bats to give you a sufficient beat down. If we had a time machine I'd drop you off back in an old coal mining company town.
[17:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:46] <exec> 08└─You're really doing a disservice to the lizards with your characterization.
[17:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:20] <exec> 08└─Victim-blaming (partly; their inaction is fucking dumb, you have a point there...) AND whataboutism in one giant post, wow. I'd score this one a 2/10, only because you actually touched on something important about how the aid didn't goddamn get distributed.
[17:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─Talking to yourself is a sign of mental illness. Might want to get your head examined.
[17:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:23] <exec> 08└─You probably drink a lot of beer. Cancer is apparently coming for your ass!
[17:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:25] <exec> 08└─Fukashima was shut down. That was the problem. The fukashima reactor needed power to run cooling pumps. There were 3 ways to get this: the reactor itself, power lines from elsewhere, and diesel generators. When the earthquake happened, operators followed a stupid policy that required shutting down t...
[17:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:28] <exec> 08└─Yeaaaah, I'm starting to wonder if Phoenix wasn't a secret troll account from day one. Would make a bit of sense given how frequently he refers to where he lives, kinda like Runaway. God I wish I could magically know which internet users are foreign trolls just stirring shit up, or even domestic tro...
[17:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he seems to have two different personalities. It's one reason I'm not one of his fans; he'll act more or less reasonable, then drop THIS kind of shit on us...
[17:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─C'mon now, it is obvious at this point Trump is playing a character. He doesn't invest any actual effort and wings it all the time because his supporters don't exactly examine his actions, or even his words really. Of course these assholes know GW is real, but since there is little that can be done...
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:34] <exec> 08└─I live on a barrier island in Florida. It's a sandy strip of land about a mile wide and really long, separated from the mainland by about 3 miles of water called the Intercoastal Waterway. The last time I evacuated, I faced problems getting home. Some counties, despite being inland and not really af...
[17:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:14] <exec> 08└─I almost panic until I re-read and realized it said BEER consumption and not BEEF consumption.
[17:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:15] <exec> 08└─But what if what ales you is caused by drinking beer?
[17:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:17] <exec> 08└─Make American men decide between their Gods: Beer or Erections. *lawn chairs, popcorn*
[17:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:19] <exec> 08└─Drink a lot more beer until something else ails you. Problem solved.
[17:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:21] <exec> 08└─Although I don't drink alcohol, I get the impression that drinking enough beer could induce one to believe they have an erection.
[17:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:01] <exec> 08└─It's okay, the comment still works. When reading it I couldn't decide if you wrote email addresses in < and > that got eaten, or if you were making a point by deliberately writing the same from field each time to show the absurdity of hiding useful information.
[17:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been 5 Years Already, Let's Gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's Bloodbath - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:06] <exec> 08└─We call that "rubbernecking" in the states (or at least the midwest).
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[18:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:56] <exec> 08└─"And now for this 3.0 version there's not any limitation at all. The installation doesn't require a donation either. The system is entirely cost-free and without any restriction because restrictions would simply be limitations, preventing people from experiencing all the good that it has." IIRC inst...
[18:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 2642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:58] <exec> 08└─I used to feel that way about Enlightenment...then I actually tried using it for more than a day and found that it's actually quite awesome. I don't even see how it can be "ugly" considering that it's so minimalist that it's barely there at all. What is there to even *be* ugly? The control panel int...
[18:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:11] <exec> 08└─I just gave in to the nag messages about it 6 months ago to switch over to it. It really hasn't been any different than the regular app, just with a blue theme instead of red. It groups certain messages from Amazon or financial institutions, but that is about the only noticeable thing I saw.
[18:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:12] <exec> 08└─There are young spammers who use email.
[18:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:14] <exec> 08└─I read the "Google is shutting down" part, then realized it was only about inbox.
[18:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:17] <exec> 08└─I held out, assuming I would eventually be forced to switch. (aka, Windows 10 style "choose" to upgrade) Now I find that my apathy active defiance has paid off.
[18:42:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:28] <exec> 08└─Repeat offender [soylentnews.org]. This deserves excessive punitive fines. Let's hope the EU decides to do something about it...since we all know nobody else will...
[18:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:57] <exec> 08└─Seriously, on my win10 work laptop edge won't open webpages, it launches IE for those. I think the only thing that opens in Edge itself are PDFs. Even typing "ie" into the start menu only shows Edge, but once open, if you type a url into it and hit enter it launches a new IE window. I don't understa...
[18:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:58] <exec> 08└─That pop-up should have a link showing their data proving the statement, or else don't even bother. If they're going to be that intrusive the user deserves proof to back up their statement.
[18:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Last time I saw them convicted of monopoly abuse, they were allowed to pay their fine in MS software installations.
[18:43:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:23] <exec> 08└─Relax everyone, North Carolina have already dealt with this problem, years ago. They have outlawed rising sea levels, so the predicted 12-foot sea surge won't happen. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardi...
[18:43:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:30] <exec> 08└─Awww, show me on the dollie where the mean lady hurt you, cupcake~
[18:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:45] <exec> 08└─containers full of relief supplies were delivered to the docks in San Juan, but the island did nothing to distribute them. Those were FEMA supplies and it was FEMA's job to know how to distribute them. [npr.org] How is that Trump's fault? Trump is in charge of FEMA. If he'd hired the best people the...
[18:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:46] <exec> 08└─I bet all the bullies in school picked on you, you little pussy.
[18:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:48] <exec> 08└─Say, when was the last time a hurricane wiped out the Washington DC? DC is pretty liberal. And liberals appreciate things like competent leaders and science. So, when Hurricane Sandy was coming in they actually prepared for it instead of pretending it was some kind of liberal hoax. [forbes.com]
[18:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:51] <exec> 08└─Some day when you're on the ground getting your rib cage kicked in, remember that it's not always smart to act like the prick you are.
[18:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:53] <exec> 08└─Calling it "whataboutism" glibly dismisses the markedly different coverage of two comparable events, natural disasters, despite similar levels of dysfunction and ham-fisted photo ops. Meanwhile, the relief supplies did reach Puerto Rico. The federal government did its part. The stuff was sitting on...
[18:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:55] <exec> 08└─You chose to live in Florida. It is impossible to have sympathy for you, because it's been known for decades that Florida is one of the worst states to live in. When you make bad choices, you get bad results. But keep whining and maybe the tooth fairy will come for you.
[18:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:29] <exec> 08└─Make Google France a franchise under French law that licenses search from Google US. Google can manage these kind of arrangements to avoid paying tax but not to protect people's right to know that the guy next door is a potentially dangerous career criminal?
[18:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:38] <exec> 08└─Tja, that's easy: it wasn't stout enough.
[18:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:40] <exec> 08└─Recite poetry in lambic pentameter?
[18:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:23] <exec> 08└─I wrote the addresses in brackets and they got eaten, yeah. I've been looking at raw text so much I forgot this was a WYSIWYG editor that would think they were HTML.
[18:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:24] <exec> 08└─that's the opposite of wysiwyg
[18:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:53] <exec> 08└─Because I'm sure the EU just bending Google over a table won't make any other corporations think twice about doing business in the EU
[18:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:54] <exec> 08└─You're grossly underestimating the amount of work this is for developers. Already on YouTube it's fairly common to find copyrighted material where the uploader has cropped the video or mirrored it horizontally. All you have to do is apply some light fuzzing so the checksum doesn't match, and you're...
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[19:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:58] <exec> 08└─On their website under "screenshots", there are a few video's. The most prominent placed one doesn't work, the second one is some really weird dubstep/flashingscreen amalgam. The third is even weirder. If the OS is in any way comparable, I want nothing to do with it.
[19:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:59] <exec> 08└─As for 64bit enlightenment distros, voidlinux is one.
[19:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:02] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this is a nice distribution, but I recommend Devuan. It's a solid Debian OS sans systemd, and, with the proprietary Nvidia driver, no problem with sleep/resume.
[19:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:04] <exec> 08└─First video works. Second video has amateur editing and bad music, as expected of what appears to be a one-man open source project. Third video is an old demo. In short, you're easily spooked.
[19:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:03] <exec> 08└─The intercepting of installers on Windows is a new low, however.
[19:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:04] <exec> 08└─You can add (and last I checked the default install came with half a dozen) multiple search engines to the searchbar in Firefox so you don't have to go to a different webpage. You can even cycle through them via Ctrl+UpArrow and Ctrl+DownArrow while you're entering text in the searchbar.
[19:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:06] <exec> 08└─They got sued [wikipedia.org] over this sort of thing [wikipedia.org] before. So, no, not "truth." Personally I would've gone with Troll over Flamebait, but hey.
[19:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:08] <exec> 08└─YEEEAAAAAAAH! 'MURICA!!!!!!! /sarcasm
[19:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:11] <exec> 08└─Man, these corporate serfs would be funny if they weren't actually able to fuck it up for other people.
[19:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:13] <exec> 08└─I'm still trying to figure out Windows 10 is... ...i knew there USED to be an operating system that was called Windows, but their maker used to fuck people around A LOT and i can't believe people still use their stuff. Maybe i'm wrong.... hmmm.... --The future, today.
[19:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:15] <exec> 08└─And you, the end-victim, have the freedom to move to a better OS. For people who visit this site, that is a no-brainer that is preached on daily - move to Linux. But for Joe Public, he is buying a toaster, a commodity device and simply accepts what the salesman said about Cortana being so cool and h...
[19:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:04] <exec> 08└─The Nation's Largest Sperm Bank [cryobank.com] My friend and I drove from Santa Cruz to Berkeley to visit his little sister. Her boyfriend let us into their apartment then explained she would be home from work soon. "Sorry, I had to work late at the bank." "What bank is open on Saturday?" "The sperm...
[19:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:05] <exec> 08└─Bill Clinton wasn't a sitting President at the time. I'm guessing he didn't have nearly as much media along, compared to Trump. So no wonder Trump's photo op got more attention. Puerto Ricans are American citizens. Haitians (those living in Haiti that don't individually have U.S. citizenship) are no...
[19:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:07] <exec> 08└─DC isn't liberal. DC hasn't been anything like liberal for a long, long time. DC is populated by people who make their living off the power of government. Liberalism is telling them they don't need those jobs. News flash: their interest in promoting liberalism has never been high. DC is progressive...
[19:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:09] <exec> 08└─When the left do it it's "inconvenient truths" or "speaking the truth to power" or "uncovering corruption and hypocrisy". When anyone tells them inconvenient truths, or lends perspectives, or illustrates hypocrisy, it's "whataboutism". Anyone slinging that term about can be pretty much as safely ign...
[19:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:11] <exec> 08└─Oh, right. Dude lives in Florida so that means he should be abused by authorities. Can we make the same argument for, say, New York? Massachu ... uh, no? Then go to hell.
[19:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:14] <exec> 08└─What more do the feds do then, wave a magic wand and un-damage the roads and right the power lines? I think the feds, as an agency are supposed to manage the emergency. But who knows, I'm just spitballing here...
[19:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:16] <exec> 08└─When anyone tells them inconvenient truths, or lends perspectives, or illustrates hypocrisy, it's "whataboutism". No, it's whatboutism when you compare, say, something a federal agency does under the direction of a sitting President. To, say, something a citizen does as part of his own private chari...
[19:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:18] <exec> 08└─Fuckers shut my water off, supposedly to protect the mainland system, but we know the real reason: applying pressure to me Yeah, it's some huge conspiracy to......uh......save your dumb ass?
[19:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:52] <exec> 08└─Does the EU want the governments of China, Myanmar or any other repressive nation deciding what EU citizens can see on the Internet?
[19:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:53] <exec> 08└─This whole thing can be solved with a simple application of the "my right to swing my fists ends at your face" principle. -- If I want people to forget about something on my website, for example, I can take the thing off my website. If I want people to forget something that 8 different newspapers sa...
[19:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:34] <exec> 08└─>So maybe grains werent always like they are now, or something. Roman army did not carry flour, they milled the grain with a stone they carried themselves. We are much better than them so we grind, probably remove the germ (vitamins) and the bran (fiber), and store the rest in silos who need yearly...
[19:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:36] <exec> 08└─A guy I knew lost weight with a meat heavy diet but 1. I dunno how much he kept it up afterwards, 2. he took meat from friends in Slovenia which has a good tradition. Dieting on the average fast food meat sounds like a convoluted long term suicide plan to me.
[19:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:23] <exec> 08└─It might be a hard problem -- somebody working on computer vision an machine learning might weigh in -- but is it impossible? The way things are now, somebody who creates an original work has to get under the wings of an established company, or see any and all of his revenues lost to copy-cats.
[19:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:24] <exec> 08└─It is impossible for a computer to determine fair use from copying, yes.
[19:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe not impossible, but a waste of time and money. This is one of those wars that never ends. The problem is stupid, their proposed solution is stupid, and their reasoning behind the proposed solution is stupid. It's Sturgeon's Law all the way down.
[19:54:23] <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” - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:23] <exec> 08└─Preventing you from looking like an idiot, and perhaps keeping you from frustrating other Soylentils who are looking for an intelligent discussion, and driving them to leave.
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[20:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"VIVO" Method Limits CRISPR/Cas9 Off-Target Mutations - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:03] <exec> 08└─They are trying to do this by picking a good enough guide RNA... Its almost time to start shorting CRISPR stocks again.
[20:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:18] <exec> 08└─First video does not work while embedded. Says "Not Available". When following through to YouTube itself, the video plays. And it's horrible.
[20:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:20] <exec> 08└─...tions? YES! Too bad you're not and your website is full of google!
[20:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:22] <exec> 08└─And useless Javascript (icon placement...)
[20:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:38] <exec> 08└─It's old geezers spamming other old geezers. You fuck the ones you know, you know.
[20:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:29] <exec> 08└─The intercepting of installers on Windows is a new low, however.
[20:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:31] <exec> 08└─No, I do not remember that at all. Of course I have been using linux exclusively for the past 10 years. (10 years more with dual boot.)
[20:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:33] <exec> 08└─Yes but without any other browser able to be installed on the system, you will have to show it in IE or Edge... and they will not render web standards properly. =)
[20:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:35] <exec> 08└─"We know better about what you want in your computer than you do."
[20:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:32] <exec> 08└─You know why there is a curfew, you know why they had to apply it to you when there was no reason to. The same reason you can't say any of it and have to pointlessly bitch and complain about the insanity of it.
[20:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:34] <exec> 08└─You sound like an incel to me.
[20:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:36] <exec> 08└─Well yeah but where are we gonna get the funding for the ICE concentration camps?
[20:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:38] <exec> 08└─Not this shit again. Soylent's user base is overwhelmingly American. You are pretending that the term people are using here is something that is the opposite of American usage. Nobody was confused here except you who are trying to sow confusion.
[20:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, one blowhard with a microphone = an entire group of people's beliefs and thoughts.
[20:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:42] <exec> 08└─At least old king Cnut was trying to make a point about how he was just a man and powerless before the divine....
[20:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's forget that both Clintons said the exact same thing in their times as candidates and serving in office about "We should build a wall". I'm starting to worry that SoylentNews is turning into an echo chamber.
[20:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:47] <exec> 08└─Hmm, he did say that he didn't want his dumb ass saved. Perhaps he's making the decision to stay put in the public interest. Think about if every bootstrapper, every woman dumb enough to be subservient to said bootstrapper, and his bootstrapper kids were willing to make such a sacrifice to ensure th...
[20:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:49] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. I didn't get the memo. Can you tell us why there was a curfew? If there's somebody on this site that is willing to speak truth to power and defy the vast left-wing conspiracy, it's jmorris.... We're counting on you! Information wants to be free!
[20:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:51] <exec> 08└─DC isn't liberal from an American standpoint, either. It is largely composed of corporatist, warmongering, authoritarian cretins.
[20:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's forget that both Clintons said the exact same thing...
[20:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:13] <exec> 08└─The average fast food "meat" isnt meat. It has sugar and other crap added to it. You really just need to just cook your own food to do it. Even salads or dressing will have weird sugar added to it. If you have a fridge, you can cook all the meat and make all the salad you want in a couple hours one...
[20:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:14] <exec> 08└─The roman soldier was burning enough calories marching and setting up camp, etc so that I doubt eating too much was an issue.
[20:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─Too many beers.
[20:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regular Beer Consumption Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:49] <exec> 08└─I don't use my dick anyway so... cheers!
[20:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:33] <exec> 08└─ＩＣÂｎ ԱѕＥｓｔｕｐіᎠ ｆՕΝτᏚ ＴоО
[20:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with "1234" Password to Pay Back Money - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:42] <exec> 08└─How many times have we seen password systems that require at least one lower case, and one upper case, and one number, and one punctuation, plus a minimum length?
[20:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:08] <exec> 08└─Are draconian copyright laws a good outcome? Because that's what the EU Copyright Directive brings, and more. Google is a horrible company and it's fine to bash it, but let's not support terrible legislation just because it might harm Google.
[20:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:10] <exec> 08└─Can you clarify why you think this is a stupid problem? As far as I can tell -- and Jaron Lanier writes [wikipedia.org] eloquently about -- in the crux this is about people's livelihoods, and an abominable concentration of power in the hands of a few megacorps.
[20:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:12] <exec> 08└─Even if it was not impossible, it would be completely unjust. It is not contingent upon website owners to make sure that no users of their platform violate others' copyrights, and nor should it ever be. The way things are now, somebody who creates an original work has to get under the wings of an es...
[20:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:14] <exec> 08└─You can read the EU Parliament's press release, Parliament adopts its position on digital copyright rules [europa.eu], which is full of corporate lobbyist spin and vocabulary. The lobbyists wrote the legistlation. They seem to have written the press release as well. These are strong words. Can you...
[20:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:16] <exec> 08└─Your desire to make money does not override other people's rights. All this will succeed in doing is making many companies fearful of allowing user-submitted content, creating a chilling effect on freedom of speech. Enforcing copyright is far less important than preventing that from happening.
[20:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:18] <exec> 08└─Also, that nutjob you linked to is literally arguing that the "open source" movement can't create anything new or innovative, and that the iPhone was innovative. The iPhone is a prison that does not respect users' freedoms; it is proprietary and locked-down. This is a person who is attacking freedom...
[20:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:21] <exec> 08└─Can you explain how, exactly, the plug was pulled on the WWW? I'm honestly interested, as you don't seem to be one of those guys who thinks Facebook is the Internet. And what has Microsoft to do with all this, really?
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[21:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:02] <exec> 08└─The most likely rumor that I have heard was that a missile test in the area with some secret stuff onboard crashed.
[21:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe this kind of observatory would notice incoming alien ships. Just sayin'.
[21:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:06] <exec> 08└─Send Kleenex!
[21:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:09] <exec> 08└─Insert meme of that guy with the weird hair here captioned "I'm not saying its aliens.." The problem is now in the Crazy Years we see these inexplicable stories weekly, they come, we all make jokes and they fade away and the mystery remains.
[21:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:11] <exec> 08└─"Insert meme of that guy with the weird hair " Carrot-top?
[21:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:13] <exec> 08└─This is clearly the MIB. USAF nowhere to be found.
[21:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:15] <exec> 08└─That's spelled TMB! ;)
[21:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:17] <exec> 08└─Someone was mocked for observing the sun without his protective glasses. Anyone trying to observe the sun with the appropriate protections, or quantifying the activity of the sun, is therefore an evil librul socialist who has to be stopped.
[21:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:19] <exec> 08└─Giorgio A. Tsoukalos https://knowyourmeme.com [knowyourmeme.com]
[21:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's because professional solar observatories have narrowband filters that can discern the true nature of Cheetoh. A birefringent polarizing monochromator is made of a stack of either optically-pure quartz or calcite. In between each piece of stone is a Polaroid filter. The stone is very thi...
[21:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I knew it was some show of that sort, where they looked at mysteries and always ended up with aliens as the answer. The meme is popular enough I knew about it without having actually watched the show so didn't know the name of it.
[21:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:26] <exec> 08└─Love that guy, lol.
[21:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:28] <exec> 08└─Reminiscent of Anathem. Have the secular authorities closed any other observatories?
[21:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:31] <exec> 08└─Don't use weasel words like "maybe". Simply say: This observatory has the ability to notice alien ships. There is one inbound and the public is being protected by the enforcers. Otherwise, the panic is simply too much to handle. It is always better to prevent than to mob-up.
[21:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:33] <exec> 08└─I bet they just needed more housing for detainees crossing the border or waiting for deportation. No, wait a sec ... space force ... confiscated astronomical observatory ... recently increased ICE funding ... FBI involvement -- Trump marathoned all the Men in Black movies over the weekend and is sta...
[21:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:35] <exec> 08└─I heard about this from the Q discussions after the exodus to voat but couldn't really verify it. Is "Alamogordo Daily News" a reliable source?
[21:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:37] <exec> 08└─Don't be a moron, please. It's reported at other news outlets.
[21:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down Inbox Email App in March 2019 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:17] <exec> 08└─They will fuck up Gmail even more to compensate.
[21:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:13] <exec> 08└─the struggle to set Firefox as the default browser begins. I saw on a work computer running win10 that you could set Firefox as default but then win10 would silently revert back to IE or whatever. And you could do this as many times as you wanted to, with the same results. Beautiful and obviously no...
[21:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:14] <exec> 08└─Governments should not even be allowed to use proprietary software at all in the first place; it's a threat to freedom, education, and independence, which are all things that governments should be promoting. I'd also like to see MS forced to release their operating system as Free Software one day.
[21:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:16] <exec> 08└─I've been running Linux, for personal systems, since June 1999. At work I use Windows, it's provided, and I'm not responsible for maintaining it. And they do a good job. As for the "remember", really it is remember all the NEWS articles about the pushy Windows 10 installations. In some cases, users...
[21:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:24] <exec> 08└─I remember when I was a kid in the 70's living on a boat in Florida when a hurricane hit. Presidents weren't involved in hurricanes back then.
[21:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:26] <exec> 08└─Ya know, if NOAA and the NWS along with the legacy media wouldn't declare almost every Hurricane a record breaking HellStorm from Hell and that if you don't RUN FOR YOUR LIVES RIGHT NOW!!! you had better write your social security number on your arm so they can identify your bloated corpse later, th...
[21:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:28] <exec> 08└─Bon voyage! Say hello to Robinson Crusoe for me.
[21:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:30] <exec> 08└─Public Policy. She was telling me about fema and Katrina. I had/have little knowledge on the subject, but it appears in these discussions often. Anyway, she said katrina happened in the middle of a giant reorgaization after 9/11 and there were so many different agencies involved that no one could fi...
[21:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:32] <exec> 08└─And hey look! Just like that we can add the FEMA director to the long list of corrupt Trump appointees! How soon until this guy resigns like all the rest? [washingtonpost.com] The part where he screws up the name of the incoming hurricane is rather amusing, too.
[21:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Adds Substance Abuse Resources Popup when Searching for Opioid-Related Hashtags - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:42] <exec> 08└─And after x times of showing you the popup, they drop a dime on you to the DEA.
[21:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:13] <exec> 08└─So do I, when I don't have to find a file on my local disk.
[21:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:55] <exec> 08└─Oh young'un! Start here [smithsonianmag.com], and here [edge.org].
[21:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:56] <exec> 08└─I desire to make money by producing something unique. Why should other people have a right on using my creation without giving me something in exchange for the effort? Also, remember the time before Napster? With this thing called home sites, and blogs? Why on earth should there be a company (for ch...
[21:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Copyright Directive Passes; "Terrorist Content" Regulation Proposed; Astroturfing? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:58] <exec> 08└─Many musicians and creators claim the reforms are necessary to fairly compensate artists.
[21:54:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why Do People Share Conspiracy Theories and Fake News? Maybe It's the Human “Need for Chaos” - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:29] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure GP meant Eris [wikipedia.org], goddess of strife and discord. GP may be a Discordian [wikipedia.org].
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[22:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Telecoms Have Been Throttling YouTube and Netflix Since Demise of Net Neutrality - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:52] <exec> 08└─Cat videos at 10 Mb/s are indistinguishable from cat videos at 20 Mb/s.
[22:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:18] <exec> 08└─Reported or repeated? I did see it repeated...
[22:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:20] <exec> 08└─A few things first. The facility was shut down by the FBI at the request of the owners. The people wondering about the mysterious closure are the local law enforcement, not the owners. Possibilities? Aliens? No. That's stupid.Solar storm of doom! Government hiding it from the population. Other obser...
[22:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:22] <exec> 08└─We finally found them. ( 2 points for who gets the reference )
[22:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:24] <exec> 08└─It is owned by USA Today so it is FakeNews like the rest of the media. But the secret to FakeNews isn't in reporting entirely fabricated events, it is in selecting which ones are suitable for advancing The Narrative, applying the proper spin to them to maximize their utility and memory holing the on...
[22:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:26] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. But I did find this fun article: https://www.thesun.co.uk [thesun.co.uk]
[22:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:28] <exec> 08└─If there is ever a straw shortage, leftwing comedy will be doomed!
[22:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:31] <exec> 08└─Why exactly were they digging? Was it to install several new varieties of bathrooms for millennial employees? If so, why was the post office closed? Are any of the mail carriers millennials?
[22:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:33] <exec> 08└─How did you convince yourself this "Alamogordo Daily News" site existed and provided a reliable news service before this event?
[22:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:35] <exec> 08└─Google has 31,300 hits on the site. If it is a hoax somebody expended some effort.
[22:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:37] <exec> 08└─This is some great brainstorming. Just want you to know people appreciate it.
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, their CD has always been voluntary donation-ware. Version 1 would install from the downloaded CD. Version 2 required you to purchase a code for installation, so you were restricted to the LiveCD if you didn't want to "donate". Now, with Version 3, we are back to the donation-ware status of Vers...
[22:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 2081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:04] <exec> 08└─I stumbled over Version 1 within days of it's public release. Man - it was pretty impressive, so I downloaded the LiveCD. That CD was even more impressive, so I created a partition, and installed it. The installation was slightly disappointing - I had to research, and learn how to make the hard disk...
[22:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:20] <exec> 08└─It is also extremely annoying when I want to install Adobe Reader or some other PDF viewer that I have to manually change it from Edge, with M$ begging me not to change it in the process. I just wonder if they will ever get a fucking clue and stop doing shit like this which will only irritate techs...
[22:45:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he seems to have two different personalities. It's one reason I'm not one of his fans; he'll act more or less reasonable, then drop THIS kind of shit on us...
[22:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─I live on a barrier island in Florida. It's a sandy strip of land about a mile wide and really long, separated from the mainland by about 3 miles of water called the Intercoastal Waterway. The last time I evacuated, I faced problems getting home.
[22:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:56] <exec> 08└─The science in recent years has confirmed the benefits of a low carb (keto) diet: Better blood lipid profile, lower blood pressure, better insulin sensitivity, better energy levels, less body fat. Why do you choose to remain ignorant? We eat too many carbs in industrialized countries. Veggies are go...
[22:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:57] <exec> 08└─Do you think 100 calories of table sugar will fill you up as much as 100 calories of olive oil? Why not, all food is JUST calories, right? Do you even know about the way the body digests carbs, fats, and proteins? Hint: it's different for each one.
[22:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:00] <exec> 08└─I didn't eat any fast food, but yeah, it's hard to keep up on a heavy meat diet. I didn't do it for any particular reason other than I wanted to see what would happen. I do eat a lot more meat now than I used to as I was practically a vegetarian before.
[22:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:02] <exec> 08└─The science in recent years has confirmed the benefits of a low carb (keto) diet: Better blood lipid profile, lower blood pressure, better insulin sensitivity, better energy levels, less body fat.
[22:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:25] <exec> 08└─Chrome allows you to do two clicks to get past. Firefox requires you to open another dialog, view the certificate, then make an exception
[22:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:26] <exec> 08└─I know, but it's not worth it. I'd gladly go back to pre-september prices if the internet came back with them.
[22:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:28] <exec> 08└─ls is part of coreutils, binutils has the assembler and linker and stuff.
[22:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:31] <exec> 08└─Yes it does. dig www.soylentnews.org ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.soylentnews.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.soylentnews.org. 3600 IN CNAME soylentnews.org. soylentnews.org. 43 IN A 23.239.29.31
[22:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plex is Shutting Down its Personal Cloud Streaming Service - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:57] <exec> 08└─whines he doesn't know about very popular tech
[22:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:22] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Sir. Yeah, I realize that supporting some people - uhhh - "looks bad" shall we say. JMorris? Sometimes he goes overboard, and often enough, overstates his case. That's the biggest reason I don't support him more than I do. But, even so, his brand of unpopular is more palatable most of the...
[22:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Politicizing Open Source is a Terrible Idea - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:23] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=27562&page=1&cid=734182#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Wanted to make sure you saw that. It seems an objective opinion, and one not swaddled in partisan bullshit.
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[23:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Telecoms Have Been Throttling YouTube and Netflix Since Demise of Net Neutrality - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:57] <exec> 08└─> Cat videos at 10 Mb/s are indistinguishable from cat videos at 20 Mb/s. In a 6" screen, cat videos at 640kB/s is enough for anyone.
[23:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Study: Telecoms Have Been Throttling YouTube and Netflix Since Demise of Net Neutrality - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:58] <exec> 08└─I don't hate Trump, but Ajit Pai is almost enough reason to cause me to hate Trump.
[23:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study: Telecoms Have Been Throttling YouTube and Netflix Since Demise of Net Neutrality - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:01] <exec> 08└─Seen one cat video? Seen them all.
[23:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Telecoms Have Been Throttling YouTube and Netflix Since Demise of Net Neutrality - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:03] <exec> 08└─Look at the real rates: https://ispspeedindex.netflix.com [netflix.com] They're in the ballpark of 3-4 Mbps on average. Amazon and Netflix advise a 15 and 25 Mbps connection respectively for 4K streaming. How do we interpret these numbers? If tens of millions of people are using 4 Mbps a...
[23:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Telecoms Have Been Throttling YouTube and Netflix Since Demise of Net Neutrality - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe so - but we still dodged the Clinton bullet. And, all in all, Trump isn't as bad as the Dems make him out to be. We've survived equally bad choices in the past.
[23:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Telecoms Have Been Throttling YouTube and Netflix Since Demise of Net Neutrality - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:08] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of good content on YoutTube, it isn't just useless fluff. I pay for 150MBps and 1TB/month, after which they reserve the right to throttle my trafic. Until I exceed 1TB in any given month, they should leave my traffic alone . . .
[23:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:43] <exec> 08└─I dont get how "number of google hits" maps to the accuracy of the original source. Lets say there is one local news site who was ok until this planted story. How would your method detect it?
[23:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:45] <exec> 08└─And the rightwing cows will starve.
[23:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:47] <exec> 08└─haha, any non-crazy users starting to see a pattern? Q and voat lovers? Jmorris hops right on board. Quality stuff.
[23:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:49] <exec> 08└─Yep, there is a definite pattern here.
[23:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:51] <exec> 08└─I would have given you another "interesting" mod except for: Aliens? No. That's stupid.
[23:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:53] <exec> 08└─And here I thought the State of California had the foresight to ban viewing the sun, directly or indirectly, because it is known to create cancer and blindness. And thus, they sent in the FBI to close the observatory to restrict, investigate, and prevent such an illegal act.
[23:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:55] <exec> 08└─Sundiver by David Brin
[23:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:58] <exec> 08└─Please excuse me as I reply to myself... Here's the link to the wikipedia article: Sundiver [wikipedia.org]
[23:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:00] <exec> 08└─"Undetonated warhead ... I think this is the most likely explanation." - BULLSHIT. If an unexploded warhead was the problem, you'd see EOD personnel on site. Better luck next time, smart boy.
[23:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sunspot Observatory Closed by FBI Due to Security Issue... but We Don't Know Why - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:02] <exec> 08└─You left out the one obvious possibility: Russians. The FBI commandeered the observatory to view and investigate the sabotage on the International Space Station, which will conclude in allegations that Russia did it.
[23:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Debian-Based Elive OS is Back - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:29] <exec> 08└─Devuan. It's a solid Debian OS sans systemd
[23:44:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:20] <exec> 08└─It's such a loser move to push your products on people like that.
[23:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:45] <exec> 08└─it seems windows 10 users have camelbacks made from adamantium ... or got a 10 kg bag of painkillers when they bought the preloaded computer so they dont feel the painwhen they cannot wiggle their toes.
[23:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:47] <exec> 08└─Ooooh! SHINY! How do I get my own lizard-bot?
[23:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:49] <exec> 08└─no way to stop it.
[23:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:51] <exec> 08└─I concur with DannyB's response. However, I do believe in "freedom of speech", and feel that you probably shouldn't have been modded down troll or flamebait. A simple "disagree" would have sufficed to express disagreement. To be clear, I disagree with you, but I won't mod you down for it.
[23:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:53] <exec> 08└─Just back up your profile, man. I've backed up and restored profiles across disk formats and reinstalls - it's no big deal. I have backed up profiles from at least a decade ago! Really should delete some of them . . .
[23:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:55] <exec> 08└─I like my search box. The duckduckgo icon sits in the end of that box. I click the icon, and I'm presented with my own customized list of search engines, including Yandex, European search engine, Ecosia, Wikipedia - what's conspicuously missing is Bing and Yahoo. I use Google from time to time, beca...
[23:45:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:40] <exec> 08└─Say, when was the last time a hurricane wiped out the Washington DC? DC is pretty liberal. And liberals appreciate things like competent leaders and science. So, when Hurricane Sandy was coming in they actually prepared for it instead of pretending it was some kind of liberal hoax. [forbes.com]
[23:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/tomdispatch-operation-streamline-immigration-enforcement-donald-trump-wall/ [motherjones.com] https://www.factcheck.org [factcheck.org]
[23:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:11] <exec> 08└─It's not about Bill's antics vs. Trump's antics, but rather how those two disasters were covered.. Bill Clinton used the Haiti earthquake to raise $60 million and spent virtually none of it actually helping the people affected. I call that fraud and morally indefensible. Trump, for his part, got the...
[23:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC for Better Smartwatch Battery Life - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:23] <exec> 08└─good, but does it run lego mindstorm?
[23:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:50] <exec> 08└─For years people knew about minor "faux pas" of many well-known people: Politicians, businessmen, artists, and... guess what, if these well known people didn't persisted in their actions, nothing bad happened! Sometimes if events were funny enough, these things helped to gain popularity in some envi...
[23:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:06] <exec> 08└─How do you stop such devices from connecting to an open AP? Can you stop it from sending data back to a server when you change the channel etc?
[23:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart TVs: First, They Spied; Now They Are Being Programmed to Make Amends - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:07] <exec> 08└─A recent article discusses how just opening Google Maps on an android device runs a GPS position capture even if GPS is disable in the settings. Why Gooogle hasn't been sued over this I don't know.
[23:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising European Life Expectancy Undermined by Obesity: WHO - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:40] <exec> 08└─If you are choosing a diet too "heavy" on any one food something is wrong.
[23:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:11] <exec> 08└─alarm bells going off there:"hard working". smart people agree that the universe in general is lazy. do it once and do it correctly then enjoy it for 100 billion years :)
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