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[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─... And buried not quite 3 years later. (released to general public March, 2016 per Wikipedia). Yep, Microsoft sure has a great track record in the non-PC market for longevity. At least there was no successor named this time, apparently.
[00:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Redundant) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─You can recommend that users switch to iOS or Windows 7. It's the right thing to do.
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean Linux?
[00:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:47] <exec> 08└─"You can recommend that users switch to iOS or Windows 7." OS X ( not iOS ) is what you would have written if you were paying attention to the bullshit you were spewing.
[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:49] <exec> 08└─If it hadn't been mismanaged it would've been pretty decent IMO. The UI is superior to both iOS and Android as far as I'm concerned. The ability to get a phone with both a removable battery and dual SIM was also very nice. Not looking forward to the cripple-ware of iOS or the festering pile of goo o...
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─This, on top of the news that my Zune users support group on Google+ is going away! Oh, dear!
[00:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:05] <exec> 08└─The "right to be forgotten" will be for rich people only. Dave from down the road will not be forgotten for that pot bust in 1998.
[00:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:07] <exec> 08└─I don't see how they can handle it any other way without potentially missing something they could be blamed for, short of having a full-time staff that does nothing but look for links to material that criticizes people on their "forgotten list". It does make you wonder: if I use Google to search for...
[00:34:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 417 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:31] <exec> 08└─Well it's slightly less concerning given this quote from the article: “A lot of people are against a national photo ID,” said Wachtel. “[Our proposal] is nothing more than affording every citizen, who already has a Social Security card, the option of having the photo put on the card so they ca...
[00:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:21] <exec> 08└─Do you genuinely believe black folks are too stupid or poor to fill out a form and pay $15?
[00:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:23] <exec> 08└─Todler walks into a voiting booth and and digitalaudiorock says "leave the kid alone, don't ID". *eyeroll* Simply being here is not enough to prove eligibility to vote. One must be a citizen, over a certain age, and in most states, not a convicted felon. So checking ID is integral to voting integrit...
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:25] <exec> 08└─It's shocking. They can find time to get to the polling place twice a year, but can't figure out how to get to the DMV once every four years. According to their masters, they're totally helpless when it suits them.
[00:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs [youtube.com]
[00:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:16] <exec> 08└─The question real is, What is the purpose of the script? I assume you're talking about the simple example, where there's only one interface connected? All you need to do is find out which link is connected, put that name in a shell variable, and replace "eth0" with the variable holding the device na...
[00:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wirelessduck [3407] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:18] <exec> 08└─http://smarden.org/runit/ [smarden.org] https://skarnet.org [skarnet.org]
[00:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:20] <exec> 08└─For situations with only one network device I see this as a non-issue. The VAST majority of these users have no idea that their network device is called "eth0" or anything else. They will never even see it, nor will they need to care, the distro install tools and the GUI will hide those details from...
[00:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Government Seeks Integration of Renault and Nissan Automakers - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:58] <exec> 08└─If Ghosn has likely committed crimes as you seem to believe, the French government is sure taking its time replacing him as head of Renault. In a time when governments are eager to share evidence about corrupt activities.
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[01:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:43] <exec> 08└─How to install Android on Lumia (Windows Phone) - Step by st [windowslatest.com] ep
[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─The only exception appears to be the XBox.
[01:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:47] <exec> 08└─I'm always game for this sort of thing, but in this case I might pass: Install Android on Lumia: Things worth noting You can always recover back to Windows Phone 8.1 if you have the backup files. The cellular connection won’t work on Android. You cannot use Bluetooth, accelerometer, camera and SD...
[01:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:49] <exec> 08└─Hey, at least it's not Windows.
[01:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─I thought that was a feature... Let Windows disable your hardware just like it already does.
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─Rehabilitation *should* be the intention and expectation of all incarceration*. Life-long punishment (beyond sentence) seems to be more likely.
[01:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─Mostly on the US and US citizens care about pot busts. The US has no right to be forgotten. Quite the contrary, we revel in putting putting on lists forever.
[01:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─Add a single IF statement to their search. IF Search.Term contains Doctor.Name then result = "Doctor.Name has invoked their Right to be Forgotton. No Search Results will be Returned".
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:23] <exec> 08└─Will born babies and pregnant volunteers be monitored and followed up with under the guidance of relevant state departments?
[01:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:24] <exec> 08└─I was kinda hoping China would be the birthplace of Khan, but now it is obvious, He Jiankui must travel to Mongolia to continue his work, all makes sense now.
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─AFFIRMATIVE.
[01:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─He Jiankui didn't perform a particularly valuable experiment. But the future is clear. It includes parents, or even lone individuals, designing the genomes of their customized children. And it won't be stopped.
[01:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─It should be self limiting as the children will either not have the desired qualities or will also have strange rare diseases.
[01:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:33] <exec> 08└─You don't give a loaded gun to a toddler and expect him not to fire it eventually. Probably secret research has already produced human GMO. The stakes for military purposes are too high. BTW meddling with animal GMO for military purposes is not off the table either. They even possibly poisoned the w...
[01:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:38] <exec> 08└─Only requires a birth certificate for your initial id or license (id can gotten at 15 or 16 regardless of driver's permit status, although almost nobody does), and a thumbprint (pre-9/11 fraud prevention, also required at banks for more than a 100 or 1000 dollar deposit now.) Even my last passport 1...
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 1598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:40] <exec> 08└─Clinton was the forerunner for worst candidate for tech rights, far and away above Trump even after making Pai FCC head. Most people forget her husband supported the DMCA and since her time in congress she has supported some of the most heinous pro-copyright, pro-surveillance, and anti-tech freedom...
[01:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:42] <exec> 08└─Buddy of mine (in his mid-50s), born in Louisiana, doesn't have a birth certificate. I think born poor is more relevant, but yes, he is black. How does he get that ID again?
[01:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:44] <exec> 08└─Or just not charge in the first place. What's the point here of the machinery?
[01:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Q2VKPT: An Open Source Game Demo with Real-Time Path Tracing - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:50] <exec> 08└─Is that another group of genders from the millennial gender studies lab?
[01:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Government Seeks Integration of Renault and Nissan Automakers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:15] <exec> 08└─In a time when governments are eager to share evidence about corrupt activities.
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[02:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:39] <exec> 08└─If the USA of all countries can't be arsed with basic aircraft security then what hope do you have for regular consumers?
[02:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:40] <exec> 08└─5G will beam the lizard men into your head. Be happy its not happening. 4G isn't even utilized fully yet. Where is our 100Mbps down? "reducing cyberthreats" is going to be monitoring your location and communications 10x harder while taking even more control from your handset.
[02:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─This. Since the software which runs on baseband processors is usually proprietary, it is impossible to perform an independent code audit. By reverse engineering some of the baseband chips, researchers have found security vulnerabilities that could be used to access and modify data on the phone remot...
[02:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:45] <exec> 08└─Seriously, that's what xG is, pure marketing. There is no 5G spec, companies are making stuff based on what they think the spec will be. Back in, dang, I'm old, '03? Worked for a startup that wanted to make their wireless the standard,. Remember those ads that had people moving their TVs to the pool...
[02:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry, can't be arsed to learn why 5G is "better" than 4G which already provides ludicrous bandwidth for handsets with 5" screens. But, whatever it is, maybe when we have a serious security meltdown with it we can design 6G to withstand at least the obvious attacks? Of course, with 5G near rollout,...
[02:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:04] <exec> 08└─Mismanaged is a perfect way to describe what microsoft did with the cell market. It was theirs to own. iPaq showed them the way. They screwed it up so badly with a poor API and rando choices along the way where you basically had to toss out good portions of your code to make it work again. Why sure...
[02:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:23] <exec> 08└─The right to be forgotten seems to be an EU thing, based on the principle that people should not be punished forever, which I have some sympathy for, but it seems to be mostly set up so that the wealthy can escape the consequences of their actions. Surprise, surprise.
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:25] <exec> 08└─Surprise, surprise.
[02:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:27] <exec> 08└─The mob wants retribution, punishment, and suffering. Society needs rehabilitation and reform. Alas, these things are often in opposition.
[02:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:46] <exec> 08└─CRISPR hasn't even been around (read: known to humans) for 20 years. Other techniques [fool.com] could replace it. He Jiankui wasn't even using the most state-of-the-art CRISPR techniques. Problems with accuracy and off-target mutations will eventually be a thing of the past. But even if they weren'...
[02:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:47] <exec> 08└─Of course, nothing else would explain the Kardashians or Kanye, but I digress, the bots are evolving, us meatbags have to as well.
[02:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:57] <exec> 08└─By claiming he is an asylum seeker from Honduras?
[02:40:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Religion's Smart-People Problem: The Shaky Intellectual Foundations of Absolute Faith - 1997 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:17] <exec> 08└─Your argument is flawed. Just because you assert there exists a "highest truth", for some definition of highest, doesn't imply either that your argument is fallacious or that you're claiming to know what that "highest truth" is. For some definitions of "highest truth" assuming its existence is both...
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[03:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:44] <exec> 08└─But I connect my laptop via my phone on occasion, then 12.5MB/s would be useful if I got anything like that speed.
[03:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:46] <exec> 08└─If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure?
[03:34:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:01] <exec> 08└─I'm always game for this sort of thing, but in this case I might pass: Install Android on Lumia: Things worth noting You can always recover back to Windows Phone 8.1 if you have the backup files. The cellular connection won’t work on Android. You cannot use Bluetooth, accelerometer, camera and SD...
[03:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:56] <exec> 08└─I stand corrected on that. As it turns out, here (NJ) apparently you can get a NJ state id if you want one, but no, I've never met anyone who has one that I'm aware of...probably because there's very little need for one...you sure don't need one to fucking vote that's for sure. Anyone who thinks one...
[03:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:58] <exec> 08└─You do realize that you have to register to vote right? So checking ID is integral to voting integrity.
[03:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:41] <exec> 08└─Most of us have moved to Diaspora(Pluspora), or MeWe. I really like Diaspora conceptually, and what's there works. It really needs a bunch of features added to be a replacement for G+ at even a basic level, but it's a start. MeWe is ... meh. A bit more polished, but not very nice to use. It does hav...
[03:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Silicon Particles Could Power Lithium Ion Batteries with 10 Times More Capacity - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, it requires antigravity, as five times lighter means it weighs -4 times the original. You could use it to power your flying car.
[03:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:54] <exec> 08└─I'll except everything you said... until it gets to the point that you rob users of control. As per the defect report, if a user explicitly sets system settings a specific way, the system should respect that. My computer should belong to me. Not to Pottering, not to Gates, not to Jobs. It should bel...
[03:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:55] <exec> 08└─Just run KodiD, fully loadeD, on your RaspDberryDPiD. Use a HDMID 2.2D cable to connect it to your SmartD TVD and you're good to go.
[03:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Q2VKPT: An Open Source Game Demo with Real-Time Path Tracing - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:13] <exec> 08└─Another problem solved with the internet mindmeld.
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[04:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Websites Can Exploit Browser Extensions to Steal User Data - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:39] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, we have Captain Obvious researching these things.
[04:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:53] <exec> 08└─Considering most USB ports on the phones are hooked up to debug ports I would not worry too much about it. The phone manufactures are the same ones that make the standards and towers. Just consider it insecure. Do not put anything of value on the things. so bye-bye cheap tech Once you realize why al...
[04:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:55] <exec> 08└─Once you realize why all of that junk is made in China you will realize you have been hoodwinked. It is not about cheaper prices.
[04:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:57] <exec> 08└─OMFG... Where's my (non capped) 20Mbps down? Most of the time, I get the equivalent of ALMOST dialup speed, with just shy of 1 second latency. I'm probably not the only one. FFFFFthank you, HughesNot.... FFFFFthank you, very FFFFFMuch. Enjoy your profits, and know that if I can ever get even an anal...
[04:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─After they paid for RROD repairs.
[04:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:38] <exec> 08└─Part of me really likes this but it does sound too much like the "why would you care about encryption or wire tapping if you have nothing to hide" .
[04:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:40] <exec> 08└─I am a bit conflicted really. I can sympathize with both sides of the 'right to be forgotten', and you can find plenty of examples favouring either side, from serial criminals to doxxed political activists. But from Google's side, it really spikes the guns on the 'right to be forgotten'. If I was go...
[04:35:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:09] <exec> 08└─“saying it would not be mandatory”. At least, not at first. Wait until people get used to the idea, then the rules will change ever so slightly.
[04:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:15] <exec> 08└─Even if it's not made mandatory by legislation, it may become de-facto so for anyone that wants to do anything of worth. For example if you're over 16/18/21/whatever and need to buy whatever product or visit whatever venues that have minimum age requirements, then the store/venue you may require you...
[04:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:16] <exec> 08└─And I go into every polling station in the local area and vote as many times as I can get away with until they recognize me and say "hey you've already voted today". I register under at least a dozen different names. It's great. No ID required, no way to verify fraud.
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[05:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Websites Can Exploit Browser Extensions to Steal User Data - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:37] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Manual analysis then revealed 197 unique extensions (171 for Chrome, 16 for Firefox, and 10 for Opera) that can be maliciously exploited by web applications or scripts injected into these web apps. [...] The findings were reported to the vendors in October 2018 and all three acknowledged t...
[05:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:12] <exec> 08└─I remember playing around with a Windows Mobile 6.0 device (with a slide-out keyboard) about 6 months before the iPhone appeared. It was horrible. They had clearly just tried to jam Windows XP onto a mobile device, complete with the start menu etc. No attempt to modify the device for proper mobile u...
[05:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:36] <exec> 08└─But from Google's side, it really spikes the guns on the 'right to be forgotten'.
[05:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:38] <exec> 08└─That is the original use, yes, but language moves on https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com [thefreedictionary.com] ---- I'm assuming that google opposes the right to be forgotten.* Making it worse for the people who force it is a way of opposing its use. *based on 1/ It costs them time/mo...
[05:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:13] <exec> 08└─It explains why on the site: Having some form of photo ID is critical in our world today; you need to be able to prove you are who you say you are in many situations. You'll need a picture ID to board an airplane, get a job, set up bank accounts, and in order to make certain purchases.
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[06:36:25] <exec> 08└─Technically not even the Social Security Number is required. You don't have to sign up your kids for it. I remember hearing a RadioLab podcast about a girl whose parents never signed her up for one, and all the problems she had as an adult. Heck, the Social Security Administration specifically doesn...
[06:38:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 1671 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:52] <exec> 08└─From what I can gather: Lennart has a vision of how the entirety of Linux userspace ought to look. However, he also seems either unwilling or unable to articulate what that idea actually is in any form other than code, so instead of writing out some sort of design document he instead writes oodles o...
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[07:33:41] <exec> 08└─Fecal transplants can cure autism.
[07:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:42] <exec> 08└─If you have a batch of cpus that average 3.5 GHz there will always be a few that work at 5 GHz. You can bin those into a more expensive product: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Same thing with these fecal samples.. in every study a few will be from the upper tail of t...
[07:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Warns that Android Users' Private Tweets Were Public for Years - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:50] <exec> 08└─anyone who submitted anything to a web service and thought it was, in any way, private, is delusional.
[07:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Warns that Android Users' Private Tweets Were Public for Years - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:52] <exec> 08└─In the DMs
[07:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:17] <exec> 08└─"...Trump F.C.C. removed a requirement imposed by the Obama F.C.C. that the 5G technical standard must be designed from the outset to withstand cyberattacks." We are pawned because the POTUS is a total N00b and his FCC chairman and all his unfired advisers are TelCo hacks.
[07:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:18] <exec> 08└─We are going to 7G then. And hang your god damn white paper at the toilet stall.
[07:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:40] <exec> 08└─Wonder what happened to the "real ID" driver's licence I paid extra for last year when I had to renew on my birthday? Supposed to get me on airplanes and other necessary stuff.
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[08:33:44] <exec> 08└─Also, what in the world? In the study they cite for this they only allowed coffee for the animal diet? On each diet arm, subjects were instructed to eat only provided foods or allowable beverages (water or unsweetened tea for both diets; coffee was allowed on the animal-based diet).
[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─If you shoot enough arrows in the air, one of them is bound to hit something!
[08:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:48] <exec> 08└─Actually, no, scratch that. The correct question is 'who gives a super-shit, and consistently so?'
[08:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Warns that Android Users' Private Tweets Were Public for Years - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:57] <exec> 08└─Because I don't have one. And "private"? "Twitter"?? Oh murrrder! Little green men! HAHAHA! You're killin' me!
[08:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Warns that Android Users' Private Tweets Were Public for Years - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:59] <exec> 08└─Anyone who... is delusional
[08:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Websites Can Exploit Browser Extensions to Steal User Data - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:09] <exec> 08└─If you look at Table I, you'll see that they tested 66,401 Chrome extensions, but only 9,391 Firefox extensions and just 2,523 Opera extensions. Which means that 0.26% of all tested Chrome extensions, 0.17% of all tested Firefox extensions and 0.40% of all tested Opera extensions were vulnerable. In...
[08:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 [theonion.com]
[08:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:29] <exec> 08└─If you're law enforcement, all you'd need to do is send a warrant to the phone company, and then you can tap into the warrant target's traffic easily. You don't need to be able to decrypt the over the air transmissions, and they should be as hard to crack as possible. Unless of course someone wants...
[08:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:49] <exec> 08└─AntiX is very good. Almost chose it for my primary desktop. In the end Ubuntu looked better - community support etc. It's nearly time to upgrade. I'll be checking antiX out.
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[09:33:43] <exec> 08└─Pluto!!!!
[09:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:55] <exec> 08└─Shit? Everybody has shit, question is "who has the good shit"...
[09:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Websites Can Exploit Browser Extensions to Steal User Data - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:16] <exec> 08└─How many of the spys were free software and how many proprietary?
[09:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 1850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:38] <exec> 08└─Because anyone with half a brain assumes that ALL transport media are insecure and if they wish to speak securely they layer encryption over them, including encryption capable of verifying genuine endpoints over insecure media. Like... everything on the Internet (which is insecure). Everything over...
[09:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:39] <exec> 08└─I still want the VA of Cave Johnson to do a recording of this.
[09:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:01] <exec> 08└─Quick, relocate on GitHub, sherley it will be better. (grin)
[09:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:27] <exec> 08└─the district court of Amsterdam
[09:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently Than Women Do - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:22] <exec> 08└─"and females deserve to be studied" making a livelong task of this already (and still not getting anywhere near a conclusive result). :-D
[09:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:52] <exec> 08└─Well, emoji are perfectly fine Unicode (mostly anyway), and you can have both emoji and your BBS. I mean, you don't want US-ASCII only BBS, right?
[09:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:06] <exec> 08└─. It can almost be automated.
[09:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:08] <exec> 08└─I've run into a couple. It's pissed me off enough that I am ready to switch away from Ubuntu. Maybe devuan is worth a try
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[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─Everyone takes a shit, but no one ever gives a shit. This is why there is a such an imbalance of shit in the world.
[10:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:57] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else misread the headline?
[10:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Warns that Android Users' Private Tweets Were Public for Years - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:09] <exec> 08└─Deluded people beleive deluded company that private meant private when private became public by accident.
[10:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Websites Can Exploit Browser Extensions to Steal User Data - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:20] <exec> 08└─Which means that 0.26% of all tested Chrome extensions, 0.17% of all tested Firefox extensions and 0.40% of all tested Opera extensions were vulnerable. In other words, while Firefox is better than Chrome in this respect, its advantage is far less than the numbers you quoted suggest. And Opera is ac...
[10:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Websites Can Exploit Browser Extensions to Steal User Data - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:21] <exec> 08└─The alternative at work is IE11. Well, there's Edge, but we're discussing web browsers here not a pile of crap that isn't ready for beta release.
[10:34:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:55] <exec> 08└─This, on top of the news that my Zune users support group on Google+ is going away! Oh, dear!
[10:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:52] <exec> 08└─If you think the current GMO technology is of any use to the military you're giving it way too much credit. The current tools are frankly crude and the knowledge of cell operation very insufficient. The day will certainly come but it will take a century.
[10:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:10] <exec> 08└─The problem is that US passports are prohibitively expensive, and do way more than they need to (such as satisfy the needs of authorities in hundreds of other countries round the world). The question in my mind is "why do you want a national ID card, when all you need is a state ID card?". Anything...
[10:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently Than Women Do - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:28] <exec> 08└─Well you first have to publish a study so other can try and replicate it. Science is self-correcting, unlike religions (= a cult with a lot of followers).
[10:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently Than Women Do - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:30] <exec> 08└─No, you don't. The study design can be known before the study is done and can be published (except in the case of a pilot study). The replication can then be funded in parallel. Science may be self-correcting, but science involves independent replications and deriving/testing meaningful predictions....
[10:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:00] <exec> 08└─everybody has to move and if they don't move to the same place, you get fracturing
[10:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:01] <exec> 08└─the CIA
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[11:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:40] <exec> 08└─But think how much wealth was created by those 26 people - they _deserve_ all those billions
[11:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:42] <exec> 08└─SN autodetected my \ tags and decided I was trying to do strikethrough... rather than <sarcasm>
[11:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:44] <exec> 08└─and even escape character \ does not help, but does some interesting things to the rest of the page (strike through everything else)... nb Plain Old Text is selected so I didn't expect any html. Browsing in firefox. Glad I code in C/C++ not html...
[11:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:46] <exec> 08└─No, no, no, no... they worked hard for those money, 8.3billions/26 times harder than any of those 8.3billions slackers just waiting for welfare
[11:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:48] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Missing Comment.
[11:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Orbits in Outermost Reaches of Solar System May Not be Caused by "Planet Nine" - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:57] <exec> 08└─"PLUTO" ok pal WTF has that Disney bastard dog got to do with this.. i mean really.. when Mickey and Minnie were getting divorced the judge was asked Mickey "sorry Mt Mouse you cannot divorce your wife for having prominent front teeth.. she's a mouse for goodness sake!"... And Mickey said " no Your...
[11:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:11] <exec> 08└─"Alleviated symptoms" is not quite the same as "healing".
[11:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:13] <exec> 08└─How long before everyone starts sending stool samples in the mail to get their microbiome analyzed? I'd start this service myself except I lost my microscope. And I already get too much crap in the mail that needs to be disposed of.
[11:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:15] <exec> 08└─Everyone takes a shit, but no one ever gives a shit
[11:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:00] <exec> 08└─You mean the 5a, the 5b then the 5ac standard then maybe the 6... and so on... and so forth..
[11:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:22] <exec> 08└─We'll migrate back from GitLab then! Surely GitHub is better now that MS has taken over!
[11:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:24] <exec> 08└─bwhahahahahahahahahahahaha
[11:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:21] <exec> 08└─back to blogs, possibly
[11:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:22] <exec> 08└─Move back to IRC? Build in support for posting images? Keep an auto history? What more could you want?
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[12:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:44] <exec> 08└─I mean, I don't think the 10% of the non-crap on the internet is more centralized now than it was 10 years ago. If I'm right (am I?), then having 90% rest of it centralized is an advantage: you know where not to go.
[12:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:45] <exec> 08└─The concept of centralization does not pose a problem in and of itself: there are good reasons for bringing people and things together. The situation becomes problematic when we are robbed of our choice, deceived into thinking there is only one access gate to a space that, in reality, we collectivel...
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[12:33:58] <exec> 08└─Eat the rich
[12:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:59] <exec> 08└─Mmmm, criiispy baaacon.
[12:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:01] <exec> 08└─8 of them inheritted it
[12:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:04] <exec> 08└─You've really screwed it now! http://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[12:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:06] <exec> 08└─html is not a programming language, and that's actually the problem. had people decided to use TeX (which is a proper programming language), things would make sense.
[12:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 2423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:08] <exec> 08└─For Patriotic reasons. And I love the company there. But the food, frankly, isn't so great. They don't use normal lettuce in the burgers. Or normal cheese. And I normally would have gone the White House chefs. And they would have brought regular food and cooked it for me. But, Chuck & Nancy have shu...
[12:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:10] <exec> 08└─Wish for 100 % inheritance tax. Even the economic liberals have to realise that this is a good idea.
[12:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:50] <exec> 08└─The FBI doesn't have enough photos in its facial recognition database. They need absolutely everyone's photos.
[12:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:51] <exec> 08└─You'll need a picture ID to board an airplane
[12:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:53] <exec> 08└─Just half? Please. The vast, vast majority of voters simply vote for 'the lesser evil.' You might think that one candidate is less evil than the other one, and that's fine, but make no mistake that the establishment candidates are evil. And Trump is an establishment candidate, seeing as how he tries...
[12:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently Than Women Do - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:13] <exec> 08└─Some sort of forgetfulness has to be happening with that all the way to "starting their own families".
[12:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:48] <exec> 08└─We're going back to mailing lists
[12:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link. That article was awesome. Reminds me of a BBS we had back in the day.
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[13:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:43] <exec> 08└─Kudos for whoever chose the dept line!
[13:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:45] <exec> 08└─what problem are they trying to solve? Social media? Paywalls? Balkanization? hosting? ISPs? If a robot can crawl through a web page, it will be indexed and you will (eventually) find it using a search engine. The main problem most people who want to access the internet seem to have is the ISP as ga...
[13:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:47] <exec> 08└─decentralization is foremost about choice and thus people should be free to join large or small communities and talks up Solid as a primary option. The reason why we have huge nefarious internet conglomerates is because people allow it and want it, for the sake of convenience, because lolcats and sh...
[13:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:49] <exec> 08└─https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/17/52 [lkml.org]
[13:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:07] <exec> 08└─And I normally would have gone the White House chefs. And they would have brought regular food and cooked it for me. But, Chuck & Nancy have shut down our government.
[13:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:09] <exec> 08└─I don't know how she cooks. That's something I've never seen. Never tasted. But all agree on how she looks -- incredible!! The best eating is when Bubby (mother-in-law #1) visits. We fly her in from Czechia and she makes us the most indescribable dishes. We eat and eat and eat. And eat some more. Er...
[13:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:11] <exec> 08└─What did you do!!!!! You just screwed up all of SN!! :D
[13:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:13] <exec> 08└─Raising taxes will make no difference, this "wealth" is literally printed from thin air. Until people start grasping the consequences of this (a group of insiders gets first dibs on all new money and they use this to control governments), this will continue. Innane attempts to solve it by raising ta...
[13:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:16] <exec> 08└─They worked hard inheriting it. You've no idea how much work is involved in filling in those probate forms.
[13:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:18] <exec> 08└─ZOMG! It's true! I just tried posting a standard reply and look what happened to my text!
[13:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:43] <exec> 08└─I would like to know if mine is worth money, it could be a new career opportunity ....
[13:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 2252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:45] <exec> 08└─I suspect that I'd be a rather good candidate, biologically. I have a stupendous immune system that survives all kinds of illnesses that lay other people up for literally weeks. And even if I do get whatever they are spreading, the symptoms are much reduced, and the recovery time ridiculously short...
[13:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:47] <exec> 08└─So, you're full of shit?
[13:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:49] <exec> 08└─How long before everyone starts sending stool samples in the mail to get their microbiome analyzed?
[13:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:51] <exec> 08└─Naah, that's just a pile of shit.
[13:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:37] <exec> 08└─"Seriously, that's what xG is, pure marketing. There is no 5G spec, companies are making stuff based on what they think the spec will be." I would say some of it is marketing. "AT&T Execs Think It's Really Funny They Misled Consumers About 5G Availability" https://www.techdirt.com
[13:42:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Apparition [6835] 02 - 06Netflix Claims Fortnite is Now a Bigger Competitor than HBO - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:12] <exec> 08└─Fortnite is "free."Younger people tend to be very competitive, so they like shooters.Epic Games paid a bunch of YouTube and Twitch video game streamer "personalities" to play and recommend Fortnite.Children and teenagers tend to watch these YouTube and Twitch video game streamer "personalities" beca...
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[14:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─"Disrupt", "3-D printing", "Relativity" Then : “I hope we inspire 12 or 100 companies to want to go to Mars and do the same mission” Pretentious? Us? Obviously 3-D printing is a very useful manufacturing technique, alongside others, but it is not a magic bullet. In the end this is just another r...
[14:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─I am still trying to wrap my head around how this might work. I guess something like facebook would be called an App which asks me for permission to access (part) of my data. Once granted it would have to copy and index my data on own servers at the very least for performance reasons. So that would...
[14:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:54] <exec> 08└─This. As Douglas Adams put it - "To summarise the summary of the summary, people are a problem". If you want a website to publish your own interests, completely devoid of data-slurping and ad-targetting, the cost is a couple of beers per month and a bit of effort - its not like you have to learn HTM...
[14:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─It’s called the network effect. Once in place it is a virtual lock-in: you choose Facebook because most of the people you know are already there. You stay at Facebook because all your connections are there. Think back to the early days, Facebook had several competitors, all gone now. Even Google+...
[14:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:21] <exec> 08└─Eat the rich
[14:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─I'm a big fan of 100% inheritence tax. I'd put some nominal threshold of say $10k to allow sentimental objects to be passed, but I'm not The trouble is, there are easy schemes to bypass inheritence tax for those passing enough on to be concerned about it. As such I'd like to see taxes almost exclusi...
[14:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:25] <exec> 08└─Let's just confiscate all $7.6 + 1.4 trillion, which the US government alone can squander in about 2 years. Problem solved.
[14:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:27] <exec> 08└─The trouble is, there are easy schemes
[14:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy with a hard ceiling for gross income of 5 to 10 million a year, adjusted for inflation, since we can't seem to get rid of inflation. Put that money towards the important stuff: infrastructure, medical care, education, that sort of thing. If you can't live extremely well on a gross incom...
[14:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:31] <exec> 08└─Billionaires can't lead a normal life like us, I don't envy them at all. Also to become one, you'd have to have kind of mindset that most people don't have, no fun to be around. And their children are likely to become real assholes. It would be nice to be rich. But being rich, I think raising childr...
[14:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:34] <exec> 08└─If you want to do some generic reading on Economic Inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] My favourite quote: Research shows that since 1300, the only periods with significant declines in wealth inequality in Europe were the Black Death and the two World Wars.[...
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[14:34:44] <exec> 08└─The author of the GPL licensed text-mode casino game "GPC-Slots 2" has rescinded the license from the "Geek feminist" collective. ( https://lkml.org [lkml.org] ) ( https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] ) [Notice: the revocation of the "Geek Femin...
[14:35:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 1850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:49] <exec> 08└─Because anyone with half a brain assumes that ALL transport media are insecure and if they wish to speak securely they layer encryption over them, including encryption capable of verifying genuine endpoints over insecure media. Like... everything on the Internet (which is insecure). Everything over...
[14:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:17] <exec> 08└─I am not sure how useful that will wind up being.
[14:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:26] <exec> 08└─Buddy of mine (in his mid-50s), born in Louisiana, doesn't have a birth certificate. I think born poor is more relevant, but yes, he is black. How does he get that ID again?
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[15:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:42] <exec> 08└─They won venture capitalist bingo! I'm sure there are people tripping over themselves with fistfuls of money to finance this startup.
[15:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:44] <exec> 08└─And one of those buzzwords, "3d printed" should set off alarm bells in the head of any actual engineer. Screaming 120 decibel klaxon alarm bells. It's impossible to 3d print most of the most durable, lightweight alloys used in aeronautics. They're building giant bombs with unspecified design toleran...
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─decentralize the internet
[15:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─Or we could try the one that works long-term: "Kill the poor" Poverty solved.
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:34] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy with you fucking-off with your "imagination." "More important", according to you. I don't think healthcare for obese is "more important" than a rich man's yacht. I don't think free "Gender Studies" dactorate for everyone is more important than a celebrity sea-side villa. And unless the...
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[15:34:37] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't income, and income tax is never going to solve it. Anybody in the billionaire class can adjust the books to give themselves whatever income they feel like, while their actual wealth keeps accumulating. You need to tax existing wealth. A flat 1% per year tax on wealth and you could...
[15:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:39] <exec> 08└─BTW, "Eat The Rich" is a book by P.J. O'Rourke written in 1998. Although it is 20 years old, it still holds up pretty well. O'Rourke travels to countries all over the world and examines what makes some economies work well; and why others do not. Why, for instance, does socialism work in Sweden, but...
[15:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:41] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, both BillG and Warren Buffett have been pretty clear that their kids are only getting enough to live comfortably, maybe a few million each, and are determined to give away the rest. I think it's possible to be not a complete jerk and be super-rich. But the path to doing that inv...
[15:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 5438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:43] <exec> 08└─Accumulation of capital is like many other human traits, such as height, strength, political manipulation, ability to catch a touchdown pass, ability to run or swim really fast, naturally a very small number of people are going to be experts and accumulate all the glory. Historically we have ZERO su...
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[15:34:54] <exec> 08└─Figuring that gravity is coming from objects we know about, such as the Kuiper Belt, rather than a really large object that somehow has been able to hide while we've found much smaller objects. I'm not saying there's no Planet 9 From Outer Space, but those who think it exists would be a lot more con...
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[15:35:18] <exec> 08└─While that's an interesting hypothesis, my extended family has terrible digestion health and weak immune systems and we grew up eating crap (okay, that's the wrong word to use in this discussion) - sausage, hot dogs, cookies, donuts, soda, pasta, etc... as well as potatoes, fruits and veggies, and s...
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[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:31] <exec> 08└─But I think where they really killed their chances was constant dump-and-start-over in the mobile market. If Microsoft had any fanboys, they must have alienated every single one by releasing a product and then killing it six times in a row. They might as well have posted a sign with Windows Phone 7,...
[15:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─>First, it creates a large negative consequence for the crime, but proportionate to the crime. Unfortunately, that appears to have negligible effect on discouraging crime. Presumably because if you believed you were going to get caught, you wouldn't commit the crime in the first place. Therefore the...
[15:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:44] <exec> 08└─It's a cure for which there is no known disease
[15:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:46] <exec> 08└─Ghaaa, bad typing. 38% more registered voters than voting-age citizens.
[15:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:48] <exec> 08└─Do you genuinely believe that requiring $15 to vote is OK?
[15:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:58] <exec> 08└─But then what do you do all day long? A sysadmin's home system should *always* be on the brink. Because they should be so busy experimenting with it that they never get anything fully stable :)
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[16:33:42] <exec> 08└─But they don't tell us what the form of that difference. Trying to read the paper is a bit rough, because while they document the interference data they collect, they don't have a lay-friendly "here's what it'd be without the entanglement native to the Sr3Ir2O7 molecules we're exciting." data. Becau...
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[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-printing-powered-rocket-lab-closes-140-million-in-funding-144174/ [3dprintingindustry.com] https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─The more I analyze how the WWW evolved, the more I see how much luck it had that it evolved first in a way different than a TV. There was an access to FAQs - a starter for beginners in any domain to start learning a new skill. There was an innovation in hypertext - to make people publish it was need...
[16:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─From the website: "it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols." You can't take a system that is evolved at every level to exploit consumer ignorance, and make it secure. It didn't start that way, but that is where it is now. So the premise is utterly flawed to begin with....
[16:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:14] <exec> 08└─I would not expect anything else from TBL, who was the principal force behind adopting digital handcuffs into HTML5 standard. I shuddered when I saw that the #1 feature of Sordid is "true data ownership". Coming from TBL, we know who's the primary benefactor of this "feature" going to be (hint: not...
[16:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:16] <exec> 08└─The primary implementation offered of Solid is written in Javascript based on Node.js
[16:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:54] <exec> 08└─extreme violence, catastrophes and upheaval in the form of total war, Communist revolution, pestilence and state collapse
[16:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:56] <exec> 08└─In a general sense, perhaps. During a high inflation high growth rate era, eating 1% off returns is no biggie. Well the implementation would be a nightmare but I'm talking strictly about economic effects. However at this moment for some decades we've been pushing lower and lower interest and inflati...
[16:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─You've really screwed it now!
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─Thats where you get into topics that can't be discussed in our modern Lysenkoism era. There is no intelligence, there are no races, there are no human biological differences all brains are all perfect clones just like we're all the same height weight and color, etc. An infinite amount of money canno...
[16:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:02] <exec> 08└─Really? Then why didn't the French Revolution and Napoleon's wars reset wealth? Or did they? Napoleon only lost an entire army of 440,000 on that disastrous assault on Russia. Wasn't that total enough? What I'm thinking is that the authoritarian personality is a huge inequality enabler. Those are th...
[16:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:05] <exec> 08└─According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the wall will pay for itself by curbing the importation of crime, drugs and illegal immigrants who tend to go on the federal Dole. bit.ly/2p8DuHY [t.co]
[16:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:07] <exec> 08└─Do it. We'll be waiting for you at the gates of Hell, all of us, to throw you in and slam them on you. Go on; do it.
[16:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─Did a black man steal your girlfriend in college or something? (Because if so, serves ya right...)
[16:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, I first read it as "Facial transplant ... " and wondering how can someone give more than once, or maybe it was [some class of] people who's faces were desirable. Then I re-read the headline and the "From Dept" line.
[16:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:31] <exec> 08└─"This isn’t the fault of the companies that built the networks, but a reflection that when the standards for the current fourth-generation (4G) technology were set years ago, cyberattacks were not a front-and-center concern." Carriers have had dedicated security teams since the movie "wargames" ca...
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─Except that my actual question was prompted by the conclusive assumptions that the purpose of a Federal ID is to be usable everywhere and that it is the Federal government's job to issue an ID that is usable everywhere including intra-nationally instead of one primarily for international use. Neithe...
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[17:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Classic Double-Slit Experiment in a New Light - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─I have seen lots of demos and fancy videos depicting this experiment all over the internet (double slit when one slit is 'observed', breaking the interference pattern) but never a video showing the actual experiment itself ever being performed, despite extensive searching for this. Does anyone know...
[17:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Classic Double-Slit Experiment in a New Light - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─Agreed on the “are you a toddler or a PHD in the field?”. I’ve had this problem on LOTS of topics. No solution, just complaining.
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Classic Double-Slit Experiment in a New Light - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Crossing my fingers that Ars publishes an article on the experiment. They have a really good science writer, who explains well enough to give me the impression that I actually understood. Proper journalism.
[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:59] <exec> 08└─Notice the large Protoss symbol hanging in their lab, under their name, on the other side of the American flag: picture on their website (scroll down a little) [relativityspace.com]. Ref: Protoss symbol [duckduckgo.com]
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─I know their true leanings. [relativityspace.com]
[17:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:07] <exec> 08└─I'll trade with the fucking billionaire. I'd end up giving most of it away to important causes like clean energy and ending human trafficking anyway, so it wouldn't corrupt me, and I'm sure the bllionaire would be begging for his riches back after a few months of my life. Especially if it was a few...
[17:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:09] <exec> 08└─Then who would the rich exploit?
[17:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:11] <exec> 08└─That depends on who she's cooking for.
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:13] <exec> 08└─Our current revolution in cheap access to space was made possible because of these billionaires, well 3 of them anyway
[17:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:15] <exec> 08└─>> Did a black man steal ... Way to continue propagating negative racial stereotypes. thatsracist.gif
[17:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:17] <exec> 08└─My bad. Apparently <s> didn't make it into the tags balancing sub when it was getting put into the approved_tags field in the db. Manually escaped as <s> and disabled the tag for the moment.
[17:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:20] <exec> 08└─Hurr hurr hurr...shut up. No it's not. What it is is an only half-joking attempt to figure ou where this guy's constant anti-black "scientific" racism comes from. I'm trying to imagine how his mind works and just not coming up with anything coherent aside from a trauma model.
[17:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:22] <exec> 08└─Once again, we have the superbly awful metric of wealth inequality to distract us from real problems. While the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth dwindle by 11%, billionaires' riches increased by 12%.
[17:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:24] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting concept - preemptive karma. You're going to be good/bad in the future, so let's punish you now.
[17:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy with a hard ceiling for gross income of 5 to 10 million a year, adjusted for inflation, since we can't seem to get rid of inflation.
[17:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Orbits in Outermost Reaches of Solar System May Not be Caused by "Planet Nine" - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─That would not be the first time we found a planet after noticing its influence on other things. It just gets harder the farther we go. Last time I checked my gravity equations, a bunch of distributed mass versus a single massive object was equivalent. But if we're talking about a disc centered arou...
[17:35:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:50] <exec> 08└─Everyone takes a shit, but no one ever gives a shit. This is why there is a such an imbalance of shit in the world.
[17:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:02] <exec> 08└─"The correct question is 'who gives a super-shit, and consistently so?'" And I thought Heavy Flo had the worst superpower.
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─>Repairing the damage was a matter of hours at best, a day or two at worst[...]I'm having trouble seeing how it's applicable. Now, imagine the context in which doing such a thing would be worth the trouble: during a battle in which you had temporarily captured an enemy cannon, but didn't want to try...
[17:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:33] <exec> 08└─I genuinely believe there should never be a requirement which ends up costing a voter one cent to be able to vote. (Gas prices and bus fares are not requirements, especially with easy early balloting). I believe that there should not be a literacy requirement to vote, and requiring forms to be fille...
[17:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:34] <exec> 08└─have been pushed through by Republicans
[17:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:36] <exec> 08└─Polling places have more locations and are usually open longer hours than the DMV.
[17:41:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 803 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:55] <exec> 08└─Devuan is still based upon Debian. There's absolutely nothing preventing the modified subset of packages being folded back in. And, with the creation of the debian-init-diversity list, there are people from several distributions collaborating on this, and some of the Devuan developers are pushing so...
[17:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:52] <exec> 08└─there seems to be indeed one inept developer
[17:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:53] <exec> 08└─I like how Buzzard brought up family, is at +3; you responded and are at 0 Offtopic.
[17:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:55] <exec> 08└─Devuan did not include the non-free repositories by default.
[17:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:57] <exec> 08└─If their first interest still is the free software community, they would not have made systemd the default and allow packages to hard depend on it
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[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:42] <exec> 08└─Buy the "smart" TV, don't ever connect it to the web.
[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:44] <exec> 08└─It might find an open channel and connect.
[18:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─It's actually getting harder to find wide open WiFi ... Since Vizio doesn't make enough margin to pay for cellular access behind your back, that should be pretty safe, too. But more importantly, they are talking about offering services to make extra money, not just spying on you. You can't offer ser...
[18:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─..Or your Samsung might connect via its own private wifi hotspot (defined by Samsung) to other Samsungs in your neighbor's houses who have connected theirs to the Internet, and slurp all your data over that way..
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea and concept. I wonder if there is a way to stop this sort of thing.
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─I and many other people who actually use their brains don't want to be SPIED ON. If you don't mind being spied on, that's fine for you, but if you want to spy on me, you'd better be ready for the consequences, and they involve blood, which will be yours.
[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─Create a vitrual wireless network sans default route. For bonus points, firewall egress policy.
[18:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic Double-Slit Experiment in a New Light - 2312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:05] <exec> 08└─OK so I suck as explaining this type of stuff, but maybe I can at least boil it down a bit. Basically, this paper proves out a theory about RIXS being can, with materials with specific crystal structures, allow the researchers to better understand the electronic structure of the material. Hopefully...
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─Either NASA Stennis and The Cape are dangerously ignorant and easily fall for marketing bullshit, OR they did their extensive homework and you don't have a clue. That's a tough one to guess, can I phone a Musk ?
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well look at who the sponsors of Solid are: MasterCard and Qatar Computing Research Institute. The reason the web is such a mess is because of marketing monkeys seeking a scam.
[18:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:38] <exec> 08└─According to the Center for Immigration Studies....
[18:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─Sorry for breaking it. Thanks for digging...
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─France had a wealth tax until very recently. The point was that you have to invest your millions in something productive, so that you make at least the inflation plus the 1% tax, and having to sell/leverage enough assets to pay that tax prevents that money from freezing in place. More importantly, i...
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─I'm a big fan of apathy. But if we need to take money from the undeserving, then I am the obvious destination for that money. First, as I've noted before, I power trip responsibly. Other people just don't understand the nuances and obligation of it and just will be an embarrassment to you, the ruli...
[18:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─Especially if it was a few of the selected worst ones.
[18:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe this needs some further explanation here: it's fairly obvious the guy's *always* been a racist, but this constant posting, in every goddamn thread, about the exact same thing, smacks of the zeal of the newly-converted. In other words, this guy is basically the equivalent of someone who always...
[18:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:50] <exec> 08└─Third, to continue the use of nautical terms, I spend like a drunk sailor. Good for GDP numbers. Your economic figures will always look rosy!
[18:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:52] <exec> 08└─Did you know that MELANIA IS A MAN [youtube.com]?
[18:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:55] <exec> 08└─How did you post a completely blank comment?
[18:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─People think there is no solution because any solution that might work will not fit in 140 characters.
[18:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:48] <exec> 08└─There's always the fun of messing about with hardware and software trying to make stuff work of course, but in this case no bluetooth, wifi or headphone jack, so no streaming music. No phone calls either. Gotta start somewhere though.
[18:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:17] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that appears to have negligible effect on discouraging crime.
[18:39:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 1351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:22] <exec> 08└─The same reasons they would have problems showing up for jury duty, are the same reasons they have problems commuting two counties over, waiting in line for an hour, showing supporting documents, paying for transportation, and finding the time off work. Employers are fucking demons and don't give tw...
[18:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:09] <exec> 08└─And? Or are you claiming that Republican==racist?
[18:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:11] <exec> 08└─Do you genuinely believe black folks are too stupid or poor to fill out a form and pay $15?
[18:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:13] <exec> 08└─Mostly because anyone who tries to clean up their registered voter lists will get sued into oblivion by "progressives" who claim to be protecting people from being disenfranchised.
[18:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently Than Women Do - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:34] <exec> 08└─This would be a far more narrow result then this summery is implying. People gain quite a bit of pain tolerance with pain they are experience with. Sure, when the men are in a heightened state of awareness due to remembered pain, they feel more. But if it was a type they had experienced before it wo...
[18:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently Than Women Do - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:35] <exec> 08└─This result they area talking about is different types of pain in the same room. Injury to the knee or childbirth is complexly outside the results of these studies. These results talk about how I rope burned my hand getting water from the well yesterday, so now the rough stones hurt butt as I sit on...
[18:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:33] <exec> 08└─Olimex tries to use whatever is avaliable [and now] is even trying more generic images, one that supports multiple versions instead of a single board, to reduce work.
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[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─"Don't connect it" doesn't work with a product that doesn't operate as a TV until activated. After you've opened the box, you discover that this model won't allow use of even the ATSC tuner and the composite and HDMI inputs without an Internet connection to download "system software updates", and th...
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─I think you might be overestimating how smart a "smart" TV actually is.
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─We keep buying cheap 4K TVs at work as monitors/displays, and have never encountered this problem. I am angry to learn that it exists, though not surprised, and happy to know to check for it before it bites me. Any specific brand I should avoid ?
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:58] <exec> 08└─If you don't happen to live in a castle where Mom's wing and Dad's mistress's apartments are too far apart for the spy mesh WiFi to reach, Youtube would probably have a tutorial on how to clip the antenna off.
[19:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─It might find an open channel and connect.
[19:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─Is this a dystopian theory or experience? Cause I haven't' heard of this yet. I would gladly rack up the return trying though given how terribly sensitive even large vendors (and therefor the manufacturers) are to return rates, especially in brick and mortar. While we are at it start writing some on...
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is a bus?
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but I can replace Windows on the computer I buy with Linux. Can I replace the OS of the TV I buy? Is there something like DD-WRT, except for TVs, not routers? I doubt it.
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─"Don't connect it" doesn't work with a product that doesn't operate as a TV until activated.
[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─I suspect that, one of these days, TVs will either come with a cellular network connection or use the "Dedicated Return Channel for ATSC 3.0".
[19:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─Besides WIFI, I think there already are industrial cellular plans so that shiny things only need a SIM module and a modicum of civilization to upload their precious to the mothership.
[19:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:17] <exec> 08└─In that case you could either manually configure an IP address on it that is technically valid, and maybe even connects to a gateway, but has no further onward route. Or even setup a dedicated SSID/subnet on your router that silently drops any outbound packets onto the floor giving every appearance...
[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─Looks like Vizio is one. :-)
[19:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:21] <exec> 08└─Is this a dystopian theory or experience?
[19:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:23] <exec> 08└─Which will work great until a year or so later when the software mysteriously "breaks" and insists that it needs to update again. Or better yet, it was working fine, you accidentally connect it to a network, it downloads the latests updates, and then features you were used to using disappear. And/or...
[19:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:25] <exec> 08└─Yup, snip snip. But as I've written before: more and more WiFi antennae are just a ceramic chip that may look like a normal capacitor: https://www.mouser.com [mouser.com] https://www.sparkfun.com
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, it's overwhelmingly likely that Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Playstation, Roku, Tivo, and just about any other service that provides video tracks what you watch and sells it. So your choice isn't "Be fucked by SmartTV vendors or not." Your choice is: watch media through physical disks,...
[19:35:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 584 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:42] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy with a hard ceiling for gross income of 5 to 10 million a year, adjusted for inflation, since we can't seem to get rid of inflation. Put that money towards the important stuff: infrastructure, medical care, education, that sort of thing. If you can't live extremely well on a gross incom...
[19:35:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:58] <exec> 08└─Did a black man steal your girlfriend in college or something? (Because if so, serves ya right...)
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─So concern about the envionment plus encouraging wasteful spending?
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─Notice that the giving pledge is not a Chinese invention, and I seriously doubt many top-profile chinese billionaires will be doing anything of the sort
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─Africa, for example, has an African economy and quality of life because of Africans; no amount of cultural imperialism, guilt trips, military force, or economic bribes will ever turn Africa into Montana. Population replacement, sure.
[19:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:25] <exec> 08└─Selected worst months, you fucking moron. Get off the site and go back to fourth grade until you can read like a grown-up.
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─Thats where you get into topics that can't be discussed in our modern Lysenkoism era. There is no intelligence, there are no races, there are no human biological differences all brains are all perfect clones just like we're all the same height weight and color, etc. Thankfully for you, the are peopl...
[19:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, wanting the rich to pay more taxes (in order to fund healthcare) is the exact same thing as a death cult. More insight out of VLM, here. Of course, he doesn't realize the insight is about VLM and nobody else.
[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─Question: what the hell can a person do that would actually deserve $10 million/yr in compensation?
[19:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─Your brain has begun the long slow fracturing process, once you devolve into the Fuck MDC level of AC posting you will know you're 90% towards rehabilitation. At that point just let go of your anger, admit you were wrong about so many things, and be reborn!
[19:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─Question: what the hell can a person do that would actually deserve $10 million/yr in compensation?
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─Khallow has a long slow process of discovery ahead. I guess it is just so easy for hints of racism to slide past, explained away by "they're just bringing up uncomfortable topics stop being so sensitive!" VLM, Jmorris, and Ethanol Fueled are the most clearly racist users around here. EF might get a...
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Libertardian click bait. Increase taxes on the wealthy and decrease taxes for everyone else. If there is a surplus of taxes we can then start paying off the national debt and/or funding more social programs such as universal healthcare and education. Too easy though, lets make up some bullshit about...
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─(in order to fund healthcare)
[19:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:45] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the actual work of running a large business is done by other people yes? Greedy fuckers and their jealous guarding of the ownership model.
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:47] <exec> 08└─They are just desperate to tear you down in any way possible. You are the AOC of SN!
[19:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─I'd take your complaint more seriously, if you had a better plan than merely "fund healthcare" without consideration for how useful that health care will be.
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─You will see. Even 100% taxes on everyone is not enough. Money needs to be printed, given to a group of insiders first, and they will hold the power. Taxes don't change the equation at all.
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:29] <exec> 08└─I have a germophobic family member whose efforts are ludicrously inconsistent. Constantly on everyone's case about washing hands, carries hand sanitizer around, and such like. And suffers from allergies. If the Hygiene Hypothesis is correct, it's actually unhealthy to eradicate germs. Fortunately fo...
[19:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─So we can have vaccines back so long as we shove some poop up the pooper?
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Oh damn I owe a ton of people apologies. I didn't know they were complimenting me when they said I was full of shit!
[19:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:11] <exec> 08└─> groped and humiliated at airports in the name of security Being groped and remaining anonymous are orthogonal. You can be known and groped, unknown and groped, known and ungroped, and unknown and ungroped.
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[20:33:40] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:40] <exec> 08└─Who would have thought. You fill a market to saturation, and eventually many people realize they don't even NEED the product. iPhones are DEAD! Bury them right next to the DEAD laptops and DEAD desktop computers! And leave DEAD pencils and paper on its grave! Today the cheapest model of the latest i...
[20:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:41] <exec> 08└─> And you will still have to throw it away after a couple of years. I positively hate Apple, but you can expect their phones to get updates for 4 or 5 years. Thought the people who spend over a grand on a phone rarely want to ever be seen with a phone from three years ago. All the gimmicks of making...
[20:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─In 2010, you could buy a brand-new iPhone 4 for 199 bucks.
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 3656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─I remember when Apple was a great company. The classic Mac days. Apple led in technology. BYTE magazine wrote that the history of the microcomputer industry was an effort to keep up with Apple. Mac fanboys used to laugh at PCs. Dip switches? Motherboard jumper pins. Cryptic autoexec.bat and config.s...
[20:34:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 641 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:02] <exec> 08└─"Don't connect it" doesn't work with a product that doesn't operate as a TV until activated. After you've opened the box, you discover that this model won't allow use of even the ATSC tuner and the composite and HDMI inputs without an Internet connection to download "system software updates", and th...
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:19] <exec> 08└─Smart TV: An appliance that is smarter than the person that bought it.
[20:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:20] <exec> 08└─And this is why we use a beamer, hooked to a dumb tuner and a Vero 4k. Also a lot cheaper than an equivalent sized TV, plus the screen rolls up out of the way when you don't want it. I don't understand why anyone would pay nutty prices for a TV, even if it didn't spy on you.
[20:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:23] <exec> 08└─then you can activate it
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:25] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there is a way to stop this sort of thing.
[20:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:27] <exec> 08└─Likely any/all new larger / higher resolution TVs are spy boxes. Avoid new! If you already have new, get into the settings menus and look for any IP settings. If it has them, it wants to spy. As others have suggested, hard-code gateway IP addresses that go nowhere. That said, I'm sure the TV manufac...
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[20:34:29] <exec> 08└─> I suspect that, one of these days, TVs will either come with a cellular network connection Yup, just like cars do.
[20:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:31] <exec> 08└─Or do like me- antenna only. I'm proud to say I've never paid for cable TV. The switch to digital (ASTC) was quite painful for me- indoor antennas no longer work- had to put up amplified outdoor ones. But now I get probably 75 channels- mostly garbage, but at least I'm not paying for garbage. :)
[20:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─As the microprocessor hardware gets better and better, more and more companies are running standard OSes like Linux, which are easier to hack, so more and more hackers will give us the control we should have.
[20:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─Make the Smart TV element be functionally separate from the TV Monitor element. This would enable consumers to come back and spend more money by upgrading the Smart TV part. Connect the Smart TV part and the TV Monitor part by some newly developed industry standard interface. This would allow Brand-...
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─Funny, I didn't see the same thing with computers, and I don't know of it being the case today. At least not in the "hardware is totally unusable until connected to the internet" sense. Yeah, they (usually) come preinstalled with windows, but I have never seen a Dell machine put up any resistance to...
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:41] <exec> 08└─Honest question, because I don't own a TV and consume media when I choose via computer: is this parody or reality? Because if I bought a TV and it didn't perform basic functions out of the box as advertised, I would be suing.
[20:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:43] <exec> 08└─TV vendors can safely treat their target demography as essentially brainless
[20:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic Double-Slit Experiment in a New Light - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know where this can be found? It can't - the whole point of the experiment is that it demonstrates that [many most all] very small "objects" are neither particles nor waves, but have a property set that overlap both. This phenomenon can not be observed at macroscopic scale. (Partly becau...
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─TL:DR - VLM is a racist piece of shit trying to hide behind racist junk science. Truly the Trump Toady. You mixed in so much crap that it would be impossible to reply in a single comment, so I went with the most accurate summary. GJ you racist fuck "Certainly the average worker is painfully staggeri...
[20:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:53] <exec> 08└─I really, really, REALLY do not want to be thought of as the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes of SN, but I know what you meant by it...thanks :) And yeah, they want to, but they will never be able to, because they stand convicted by their own evil and stupidity.
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─Seriously? You think that is deserving of more than $1500/hr compensation? Discuss.
[20:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─What is my incentive to take care of my own home then? Right now I have been working on restoring the home that my grandparents bought in the 50s so that when I'm dead in the 50s my kids or grandkids will have an asset in good condition. If we lose everything, what incentive is there to maintain any...
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the actual work of running a large business is done by other people yes?
[20:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─Define rich, and when will that definition shift to you? I mean yeah sure we can get rid of all the billionaires. But then those people with 100+ million need to be dealt with. Then of course we need to punish those with 10s of millions. Why is that jackass at the end of the street with a million do...
[20:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─We've always been at war with Eastasia.
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:06] <exec> 08└─And yet, you say not one word about why I should care that there are racist posters on SN. Bigotry doesn't become better because there's a classification of it into approved and disapproved bigotry.
[20:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─Thats not fair to say of AH, AH at least tries to make logical conclusions from the data provided, AOC was educated in economics and then threw the books away because it didn't match her feels.
[20:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Websites Can Exploit Browser Extensions to Steal User Data - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:11] <exec> 08└─HTTPS Everywhere, No Script, Adblock Plus (which I have mixed feelings about, because of tracking). What else does one really need?
[20:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:28] <exec> 08└─Somehow the federal government needs to be reimbursing the states if they are the ones who care.
[20:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Google+ Causing Angst - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:27] <exec> 08└─As I posted last week, I've seriously been considering starting up a BBS over SSH. I'm just not sure if anyone other than me would use it and therefore worth the money to rent a VPS.
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[21:33:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:52] <exec> 08└─In 2010, you could buy a brand-new iPhone 4 for 199 bucks.
[21:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─Apple has moved to larger phones, and gotten rid of the headphone jack. Their recent iPhones ditched the TouchID fingerprint reader as well, in favor of face-scanning. This past Saturday, a limited stock of new iPhone SEs were put up on the clearance section of their online store for the US. These a...
[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─Like typical desktop computers, phones eventually have enough cpu, memory and storage. Once that point is achieved, adding more does not really benefit most users, but continues to increase the price. Most PC users now could do with a PC that easily costs under a few hundred dollars. A similar thing...
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:59] <exec> 08└─About the headphone jack . . . I look a few years back. The Samsung Galaxy S5 seemed like the peak of phones. Consider: * headphone jack * replaceable battery * WATER PROOF -- that was amazing! Since then, it has been down hill. Even for Samsung who made the S5. The next generations had glass backs....
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:01] <exec> 08└─The whole industry has moved towards larger phones and getting rid of the headphone jack (even OnePlus [gizmodo.com] killed the jack). But I'm sure there will always be a handful of Android phones with smaller screen sizes and/or headphone jacks. Fingerprint scanners and face ID are both bad since c...
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:03] <exec> 08└─Alternatively: don't break the law.
[21:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─The law is whatever the man with the gun and badge says it is. Keep licking boots.
[21:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:08] <exec> 08└─Here's the problem as I see it, and I know that this will be a bit contentious here: The iPad is still the best tablet, bar none. I'm sorry, but Android is a terrible OS in general, and an even worse OS for tablets. Is the iPad expensive? Heck yes. Is iOS a walled garden? Definitely. But, unlike an...
[21:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:10] <exec> 08└─> Most PC users now could do with a PC that easily costs under a few hundred dollars. This is a big reason why I've gone for low power PCs-- the stick computers, that Intel NUC, and of course the laptops and tablets. Cuts down on the noise, and still has enough power to run a desktop reasonably snap...
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:12] <exec> 08└─You can't easily copy your own media to a iProduct, you don't get an SD card slot, you can't sideload your own apps and you can't get root. On what planet is that "best" when it isn't even an option?
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, the whole industry is certainly moving towards no headphone jack. When I can't get any phone with a jack, I'll get a feature phone and use my iPod classic and iPod nano (both still working) until they die. Then I'll get some standalone mp3 player with a jack. I move from one audio source to ano...
[21:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:00] <exec> 08└─Where'd you find a free antennae?
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:01] <exec> 08└─I have an antenna instead of paid television service, but I have a Tivo for the schedule and the convenient DVR features. So they can still screw me. I prefer to buy media and rip it, so I can stream to my Kodi box. But I still watch some regular TV. For your antenna, do you have something else set...
[21:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:04] <exec> 08└─It is a box with wheels and a motor, and multiple rows of seats used by humans to transport their physical bodies where their mind wants to be. It is slow and primitive, but still faster than jogging.
[21:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:06] <exec> 08└─... Difficult to avoid as HDMI cables add built-in Ethernet. Technically, Ethernet over HDMI was built into the HDMI 1.4 spec, but I've noticed more and more HDMI cables include it over the years.
[21:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic Double-Slit Experiment in a New Light - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:19] <exec> 08└─I know the experiment you are talking about (double split with and without photon counters in the paths) but I don't think I've ever seen video of it either to be honest. I imagine it's just not easy to visualize since you are tossing about single photons for it, it's just going to be blips on a pho...
[21:35:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:42] <exec> 08└─what problem are they trying to solve? Social media? Paywalls? Balkanization? hosting? ISPs? If a robot can crawl through a web page, it will be indexed and you will (eventually) find it using a search engine. The main problem most people who want to access the internet seem to have is the ISP as ga...
[21:36:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 697 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─France had a wealth tax until very recently. The point was that you have to invest your millions in something productive, so that you make at least the inflation plus the 1% tax, and having to sell/leverage enough assets to pay that tax prevents that money from freezing in place. More importantly, i...
[21:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:26] <exec> 08└─See any number of the existing universal healthcare systems successfully treating people in a number of 1st world nations.
[21:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:27] <exec> 08└─Well, how valuable is a job?
[21:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:29] <exec> 08└─I'm a big fan of 100% inheritence tax.
[21:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently Than Women Do - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:11] <exec> 08└─Exactly the point. Men react more to the pain of Windows, or even the potential pain, and are more likely to avoid the pain by switching to Linux.
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[22:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:43] <exec> 08└─They said "Oh all this totalitarian school rules encoded into an enormous tome will make them used to surveillance," and that's just silly it... ..."Hey, NSA guy I'm just trying to call my mother-in-law, I'm not one of bad international terrorist phone calls"... Sorry about that, anyways, it's just...
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─Obviously what you need is a "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer".
[22:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─Is ClassDojo helping parents learn what their kids are getting up to at school, or is it normalizing surveillance for students?
[22:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:49] <exec> 08└─Well, how the hell would I know because I don't know what the hell ClassDojo is, dumbass.
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:51] <exec> 08└─Is ClassDojo helping parents learn what their kids are getting up to at school, or is it normalizing surveillance for students?
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:54] <exec> 08└─A fine novel [wikipedia.org]. Thanks for reminding me about it. Perhaps it could be a Book Club selection sometime soon.
[22:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:56] <exec> 08└─Thank you for bringing up auto restraints. Go back a little before baby seats though, to regular seat belts. And, even those have evolved - they started out as an entirely optional feature in cars, in the form of lap belts. Then they became still optional three point harnesses. Then they were no lon...
[22:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:58] <exec> 08└─The problem my wife and I have with it is that it makes it too easy for helicopters and random people to contact us. I don't need to check my inbox in the morning to see Sally's mother sending me 5 minute updates on her homework progress, or chastising me for not putting in updates soon enough, or l...
[22:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:00] <exec> 08└─One of these things just doesn't belong. And is ridiculous on its face. Can you guess which one it is? Is it this? One of the most chilling laws in recent history was the Federal mandatory child restraint seats, for safety, of course. Let's just get the kids before they can even talk and train them...
[22:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:21] <exec> 08└─For me, classic times were the days of the Apple II, not the Mac. In the early 80s, I had an Apple II+, with a 16K expansion for a total of 64K RAM. And then, I never made the jump to the Mac. Instead, seeing that PCs were everywhere, I switched to the PC, and that's where I still am today.
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:22] <exec> 08└─There's this thing called Nextcloud that lets you copy your own media. It even has an iOS app, you should look into it [nextcloud.com]. As for a SD card slot, and not being able to get root, that's also the case for most modern Android devices so I don't see any difference there.
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─I've generally assumed that the overall geek-friendliness of Apple started dropping more-or-less the day Woz stopped being part of the day-to-day. Woz was always more about making cool stuff than about making oodles of money, and it showed in what he was involved in designing. But the obvious proble...
[22:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:14] <exec> 08└─iPad. From the box or factory reset you boot to a screen asking you to connect to Wifi (no captcha portals allowed) and then for your AppleID. If it doesn't connect and validate you stay right there on that screen until it does. No Internet, you got a pet rock.
[22:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:15] <exec> 08└─Nah. HDMI has an option for ethernet. Your cable box has a cable modem in it so it can report your viewing habits. Connect the dots.
[22:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:17] <exec> 08└─The TV? Not so much. The marketers on the other hand...
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[22:36:01] <exec> 08└─I would not expect anything else from TBL, who was the principal force behind adopting digital handcuffs into HTML5 standard. I shuddered when I saw that the #1 feature of Sordid is "true data ownership". Coming from TBL, we know who's the primary benefactor of this "feature" going to be (hint: not...
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:39] <exec> 08└─Then there's heroic health care theater in the last year of life. That's the death cult stuff, I imagine.
[22:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/22/the-new-elites-phoney-crusade-to-save-the-world-without-changing-anything [theguardian.com]
[22:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:43] <exec> 08└─You underestimate the power of the baking cabal. Forgot the trillions given away as a reward for crashing markets in 2008 already?
[22:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:03] <exec> 08└─And yet hourly white folks seem to manage it just fine. What innate disability are you claiming black folks have that prevents them doing the same?
[22:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:04] <exec> 08└─No, I believe any ID required to vote should be otherwise untrackable and free to its holder. I also believe saying that black folks are incapable of coughing up $15 and standing in line is racist as ten kinds of fuck.
[22:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:07] <exec> 08└─What aspect of that is unique to black people? Or are you saying they have a disability that keeps them from doing what white folks in their situation manage just fine?
[22:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:09] <exec> 08└─That's a legit pain in the ass but it has nothing to do with his race.
[22:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:11] <exec> 08└─Anyone in that situation already has ID. You can't sign up for government aid without it.
[22:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:13] <exec> 08└─There isn't a literacy requirement. Poll workers will assist you if you can't read.
[22:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:16] <exec> 08└─Bleh, premature Submit. Electoral fraud will never be proven sufficiently as long as any sort of means of checking for it is rabidly opposed by the left.
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[23:33:41] <exec> 08└─De-employ all brogrammers so they can die on the street.
[23:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─Some of it will go away. From what I am currently seeing. Not much. In many ways 'the cloud' is in some ways, just as, if not more complex than before. The only benefit is I do not have a up front capex cost. But in the end the cost is about the same. I needed a set of kafka brokers. The cost for AW...
[23:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─Well, I think if you're in IT learning to code is pretty good advice. Not because I know anything about IT (I don't), but because learning to code helped me immensely in my field. Actually it probably helped me get into my career in the first place. Knowing the math and theory was required, but know...
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─Already there, Sparky... it's just a matter of when it starts happening to the majority and when they notice. I've already seen the rumblings in too many disparate places of layoffs where the jobs aren't recovered anywhere. And sure, there will always be employed computer folks. The question is: Wil...
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[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─> The author postulates that the cloud will automate away low-level IT jobs, comparing the situation to automation in manufacturing. The author is right. I saw the writing on the wall back in 2004 or so, when AWS first came out. I was a sysadmin for a smallish web company of around 40 people, back w...
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─Cloud computing might suffer setbacks once people realize that their home has become a data center because big brother now wants all those IoT stuff to telephone home and spy on you. Some might make a better use of that band. Programmers are already fucked, because IT is not the domain of small grou...
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─Even in the early 70s, I was a latchkey kid - making my own oatmeal in the morning and letting myself in the house after school, in 1st grade. Of course I could leave my parent's sight with very little other than a mention of "hey, I'm leaving" - and by age 12 I remember riding my bike for an hour+...
[23:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:08] <exec> 08└─I don't think I'd care for what you're getting. The only people I have been contacted by are the teachers and admin people. The admin team just sends links to pdf files of notices sent home with the kids. Very unobtrusive.
[23:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:11] <exec> 08└─You and I are probably the same age, and I was a latchkey kid too. One big difference is that we didn't have 24 hour news and Facebook feeds, so your neighborhood was seen to be what it really was, which was probably not a scary place. The scary things were happening overseas, or in some other part...
[23:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:13] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to understand, man! That thing is used by 2nd-grade teacher to reward or warn kids about their behavior, but then they can keep track of it when it's time to sentence you for speaking against the Established Deep State Illuminati Order when you're 25 ! It's obvious, man ! Teach the ki...
[23:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:15] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to understand, man! That thing is used by 2nd-grade teacher to reward or warn kids about their behavior, but then they can keep track of it when it's time to sentence you for speaking against the Established Deep State Illuminati Order when you're 25 ! It's obvious, man ! Teach the ki...
[23:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:17] <exec> 08└─Training is training, whether it's the concept that somebody is always watching, or records are forever, or bodily restraint is something you should put up with. My Kindergarten report card mentioned: "likes to make up his own rules..." nothing ever changes.
[23:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:41] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the original iPhone was pretty cool. I was supporting a bunch of Nokias and a couple of Windows phones (Win CE 6.5 maybe?) when they came out. Setting up email for the user was an absolute doddle, and it was a huge amount better for the end user too. The various Nokias we had were pret...
[23:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:42] <exec> 08└─Agreed - though I think we have already reached the point where the specs are "good enough". I'm running with an iPhone 6s that's now about 3.5 years old, and have no intention to change any time soon. The replaced battery is not fantastic, but I have a charger at my desk so it doesn't create huge p...
[23:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:44] <exec> 08└─Well, goodness. Here I am agreeing with jmorris. Quick, someone check if the lion is lying down with the lamb and whatnot. In about 1992 I worked in the pre-press industry and we began using Macs. They were better than PC's and it was not even a debate. They were better. Full stop. (Or period, if y...
[23:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:47] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's that sinister: The internals supporting the headphone jack take up a lot of space, relatively speakingMy understanding is that it's a bit more of a challenge to waterproof a headphone jack - I could be wrong on this thoughBased on current market trending, most people will end up w...
[23:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:49] <exec> 08└─The Surface Pro is far superior to Apple tablets. Even encumbered with Windows 10, it's still far better.
[23:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:51] <exec> 08└─You're both right. Not intentionally sinister, good reasons for Apple to have gotten rid of it, more challenging to waterproof. But also beneficially ties people deeper to more expensive technology, Apple didn't HAVE to have it so think you can't get a jack in, and waterproofing IS possible and woul...
[23:35:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:11] <exec> 08└─It might find an open channel and connect.
[23:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:43] <exec> 08└─In that case you could either manually configure an IP address on it that is technically valid, and maybe even connects to a gateway, but has no further onward route.
[23:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:45] <exec> 08└─then lock it out at the router (or pull the cable if you're using ethernet.)
[23:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:47] <exec> 08└─Can I do that with my Toyota?
[23:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:49] <exec> 08└─Pins, connection pins. So goldned shiny and fragile,
[23:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:52] <exec> 08└─Scheduling? You mean Zap2It and my remote? Oh, you mean recording? Good old fashioned VCR. It ain't broke, so... I'm an EE, it should all add up... (you know, crazy practical.) Oh, I'll even divulge that inspite of owning more than one 48" flat-screen TV, I mostly watch on a 14" CRT. You flat-screen...
[23:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:54] <exec> 08└─The end of a driveway of someone who wishes they'd kept it when they got their most recent CATV price increase.
[23:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:56] <exec> 08└─Anyway, the best use of these is as an HDMI monitor. Feed it from whatever you like. Then all it's really got to say about anything is "HDMI port x active."
[23:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:58] <exec> 08└─iPads no longer require connections to WiFi fresh out of the box, instead they just nag you all the time until you do. Factory reset ones that have previously been set up with Find my iPhone through an AppleID do though. The reason is to deter thieves, as you can no longer steal an iPad, factory res...
[23:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it's not worth your time to sue. Unless you have an excess of money in which case give it to me not your lawyer :P I'd definitely return it for a full refund, at least, but once you've done that it's pretty much over. They'll keep doing what they're doing because you and I are statisti...
[23:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:48] <exec> 08└─And what's the incentive for the overwhelming majority of the population to get out of FB and jump into the decentralized 'escape pods'?
[23:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:58] <exec> 08└─I DON'T think it's unique to black people, but pervasive among the rural poor. That, and I don't recall being able to register to vote at the DMV. You have to get your ID first, then go to an entirely different building to register to vote. I believe some states automatically register you to vote wh...
[23:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:59] <exec> 08└─I also believe saying that black folks are incapable of coughing up $15 and standing in line is racist as ten kinds of fuck.
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