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[00:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:04] <exec> 08└─Do many people game on laptops much? I would think that is more a PC activity.
[00:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─"Candybar." I'll go have one right now!
[00:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:19] <exec> 08└─Non-FOSS bastardization of Firefox OS with even more need for proprietary driver blobs. No thank you.
[00:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Data Privacy in the Hands of Users - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:32] <exec> 08└─How often does it turn out that department store Santas are diddling their little charges? PixelBeGone: Protect Yourself And Your Family From Web Analytics [pixelbegone.org] Some joker over at Facebook has been quite _energetically_ opposing my effort to eliminate Tracking Pixels from the Earth. And...
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:24] <exec> 08└─It's funny how only protestant Christians take the old testament creation stories literally. The Jews, the originators of the old testament, and the religion from which the old testament was poached, see it as allegory, as does the Catholic church (well in modern times anyway). Even more hilarious,...
[00:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:25] <exec> 08└─People have managed to survive and populate every craggy crock, every desiccated sand pit, every icebound arctic wasteland, and everywhere in between even before the industrial revolution, and we've gone on to overpopulate all the aforementioned since then plus go to places totally unsuitable for us...
[00:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, from Trumps actions during his term so far, it's more likely that he'd be tackling some war-monger to the ground. He's the kind of guy that would rather avoid consequences that would come back to bite (or radiate) him in the ass. And 'lobbing one at the $terrorists' seems be something that...
[00:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:30] <exec> 08└─What is super about the theory? Sounds like a theory anyone could have come up with in the last couple hundred years.
[00:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:32] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[00:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:34] <exec> 08└─Because the people who think that are drones who believe whatever they heard in late night comedy is a fact.
[00:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:36] <exec> 08└─> "TOA insolation is specified as the diurnally averaged insolation in July"
[00:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:39] <exec> 08└─And you reckon averaging doesn't imply "with night and day"? Yes, I'll admit, not necessary a good model (given the non-linearity of the system response), but not a totally bad either.
[00:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─And in other news... "don't eat yellow Snow".
[00:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─"leftist" always seems to be used by the conspiracy minded wackos
[00:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:45] <exec> 08└─Yes. Instead of simulating a changing insolation they took the average of the earth's night and day and simulated a constant insolation of that amount. It is a standard simplification known to cause problems with these types of models (eg predict a body at the same distance as the earth from the sun...
[00:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:49] <exec> 08└─Conspiracy-minded wackos usually don't distinguish between "left" and "right". The consipriacy is that these are both controlled opposition meant to distract people from being robbed by the federal reserve preferentially passing out fresh money and other scams.
[00:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:44] <exec> 08└─I've only seen some of the highlights, I haven't followed the... lore of that channel, so to speak. 😂 The injection thing is a bit of a theme in these live action videos and weird kid app games. DailyMotion [dailymotion.com] appears to have a better selection than the same search on YouTube.
[00:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:45] <exec> 08└─My kids are 10 and 5 with no PCs. I think I'm OK, but thank you for your genuine concern.
[00:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:47] <exec> 08└─Autistic fuckheads can't look past a typo. Go ahead and use that to not even address what I was talking about. Loser nerds... mostly childless...
[00:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:50] <exec> 08└─I imagine you don't have young kids. Please stay the hell away from any. You're no good around them.
[00:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:52] <exec> 08└─When they grow up, kids today won't be able to afford health care, there won't be any jobs for them, anything they learn in school will be obsolete a few years after they graduate, they can forget about any kind of retirement, as much as they pretend there won't be any imaginary sky fairy to save th...
[00:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─By that token, so is "citizen," because it discriminates against illegal immigrants.
[00:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:45] <exec> 08└─In California, smog check places require you to report your mileage along with the smog check results to renew your registration. Just get people to keep coming in, skip the smog check part, and get the smog check places to give them a mileage bill (and option to immediately pay) after they electron...
[00:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─The amount of energy a car uses to move is a good proxy for road wear.
[00:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:48] <exec> 08└─Every other such tax I know of is a percentage, but somehow that one is a fixed amount.
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Dead Humpback Whale in the Amazon Jungle and Nobody Knows Why - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─Trumps like a CREEP-er.
[00:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Quebec Elementary Schools Experiment with Letting Kids Play Rough - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:34] <exec> 08└─We used to play a variety of "rough" games on my elementary school playground. "Kill the Guy with the Ball" (chase the guy with the ball until someone tackled him, then everyone piled on until someone wrestled the ball away or the ball carrier heaved the ball up in the air for a free for all). "Keep...
[00:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Quebec Elementary Schools Experiment with Letting Kids Play Rough - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:35] <exec> 08└─The next time you're in Rotorua, you can try the Zorb!! [zorb.com] It's quite fun.
[00:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Quebec Elementary Schools Experiment with Letting Kids Play Rough - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:38] <exec> 08└─...one kid had his shirt ripped...
[00:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG G8 Can Unlock by Scanning the Veins in your Hand - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:05] <exec> 08└─I'll look into writing such an app myself.
[00:41:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 1141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:36] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, self-reporting on things like this is fraught, fraught! I say, with hazards. For example, Snow, who was brought up as an example, is a Canadian. Now the study, as far as we can tell from the Fine Summery, only covers Brits, Auzzies, and Americans. Wait a minute, that in itself is s...
[00:42:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:07] <exec> 08└─Says the self-proclaimed Greek zombie.
[00:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:32] <exec> 08└─And lose his wizard powers? If its anything like being an ex-paladin he came a long way to throw away the class features.
[00:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:33] <exec> 08└─I've been puzzled as to why I'm not _already_ on Blood Pressure medication, as it is chronically but _modestly_ high. Just now your post yielded my desired insight. My Hat's Off To You,Sir!
[00:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:36] <exec> 08└─"Once you go catfish, you never, um, well, you went catfish."
[00:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:38] <exec> 08└─The quote is where women glow and the men chunder. Chunder is what you might do after too many frothies at a barbie.
[00:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:40] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that A/C lives in a fictional version of 1953. He will probably start making comments about colored folk soon.
[00:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anger Intentionally Incited by 'clickbait' in Media can be Contagious and Spread Through Society - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:50] <exec> 08└─You sure the social media operators don't have a role into it?
[00:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anger Intentionally Incited by 'clickbait' in Media can be Contagious and Spread Through Society - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:52] <exec> 08└─Damn right. Also, MILF.
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[01:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:00] <exec> 08└─about as surprising as the location of tomorrow's sunrise.
[01:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─Yea, I never gave a single thought to the idea these signatures were at all secure. It seemed like a joke to me... but if people accepted them then why not? It was way easier.
[01:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:11] <exec> 08└─I play TBS games like Civ or XCOM on my laptop. I've got a real numpad on it too (Thinkpad W540 I picked up used for cheap), so I play roguelikes as well. I could play most games reasonable well if I had a USB/bluetooth mouse, but that would just be one more thing to carry around and get tangled in...
[01:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:13] <exec> 08└─Laptops at around the $500 mark begin to have discrete (mobile) graphics cards, and you have a whole category of "gaming laptops" that are usually $1,000 or more. Some laptops are even packing desktop components with sufficient cooling so that they don't melt. Below all that, you might have only int...
[01:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:15] <exec> 08└─Just get a Logitech M705 wireless mouse. It just works, and the price can be as low as $15 (I think I got mine at Amazon but I have seen them at Costco and other places). If you don't have backpack phobia, a good one should be able to carry one or even two laptops and the rest of your equipment. I d...
[01:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─Gotta love the numpad. In recent years, laptops have been shrinking the bezel (Dell brands this "InfinityEdge"), allowing a 15.6" display to exist in what used to be about a 14" laptop, and so on. Hopefully this doesn't result in models dropping numpads.
[01:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:32] <exec> 08└─That is too bad. And it looks like it will be the biggest "Linux phone" for the foreseeable future.
[01:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:49] <exec> 08└─OK, I have stopped understanding what you're getting at now.
[01:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:50] <exec> 08└─The original post about this speculated that there was some antediluvian civilization that had some theory about the sun consisting of a fluid that started glowing at some point. This was then simplified, passed down and recorded as the beginning of the book of genesis. Just look at how much gibberi...
[01:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:52] <exec> 08└─Exactly this. The big-bang theory is basically creationism masquerading as science and I've always thought it was bullshit, even in childhood. Now, if it were a periodic process that consisted of an infinite number of big-bang big-crunch cycles, I would be more likely to believe it.
[01:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the bits in the OP that caught my eye were: The bible says a lot of insightful things actually. If you imagine that possibly the authors had some scientific knowledge perhaps from an antedeluvian society...
[01:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:57] <exec> 08└─No. It is called abduction. They speculated on a possible explanation for an odd thing they read in the bible. This is absolutely a legitimate scientific activity. Actually it is better that usual since they didn't then take their own speculative explanation to be verified by the same info used to g...
[01:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:58] <exec> 08└─Dumbass claims to have answer, can't even spell his "answer". Too assblasted to let it go, he is compelled to respond and let everyone know they got under his skin. Way to go, sexy alpha man.
[01:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:00] <exec> 08└─with no PCs.
[01:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:02] <exec> 08└─Yet you HAD to reply to my comment. Who has problems letting it go? ;-) Autistic fuckhead.
[01:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:04] <exec> 08└─" Ignorance of how to do it properly is mostly what kept me alive. That and wanting to see the "final" two Star Wars movies. I was 17 when Return of the Jedi finally came out... you have no idea how much I hate Ewoks. I remember sitting in the theater thinking "I lived for this shit?". "
[01:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:06] <exec> 08└─If they're still testing the filters, then they should have 4 giant letters "BETA". Otherwise, seriously screwed up content shouldn't automatically be added to Kids mode. Well, it really is none of your business. Just stay away from the Kids section. If they tell you it's safe, don't believe them. P...
[01:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:09] <exec> 08└─You're reading an awful lot into my mind, motives, and parenting. It seems more like you are projecting your own issues onto other people.
[01:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:11] <exec> 08└─Thank you for proving you know nothing! I love people like you. You answer so many questions with one little post.
[01:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:13] <exec> 08└─Judging by the posts made by our own lovely Soylentils on the matter, it's obvious why YouTube Kids has this problem: the Internet is the home of childless, nasty people. (Not childless, nice people, mind you.) Trying to keep the Internet sewer clean of rats like these is a hopeless endeavor, for it...
[01:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:15] <exec> 08└─And when that gadget gets taken away, those little fuckers start screaming and whining. Even worse, the people I know hand their own phones over to the kids to shut them up. And the second they learn how to use YouTube, it's all over. There's a reason why people like Bill Gates don't let their kids...
[01:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:18] <exec> 08└─with the clip spliced in at four minutes and forty-four seconds
[01:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─You don't put suicide instructions into a children's video.
[01:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:22] <exec> 08└─Yet, whatever you imagine my "issues" to be, I'm not the one teaching the next generation to be mindless users of appliances. Children are better off with a PC and no network than a network and no PC.
[01:37:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:57] <exec> 08└─If the fuel tax doesn't generate enough income, they will make up new taxes or raise existing ones to make up for it. Don't worry, if there is one thing the state consistently succeeds at, it's finding something to tax. The most obvious tax would be one on electricity. Or maybe on energy in general.
[01:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:19] <exec> 08└─Physics says velocity and mass are the biggest problem. Drive slower = make a cheaper longer lasting road. duh. HEAVY fast movers cost us the most. SHIPPING companies get measured by their capacity, not the vehicle weight. Don't like that? then buy local... we've been subsidizing teamsters at the ex...
[01:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:20] <exec> 08└─How federal, state and local governments' reliance on fuel taxes could make America's crumbling roads even worse
[01:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:22] <exec> 08└─Roads in the US get repaired? I thought they just got a bit of hardfill and tar shovelled into the bigger potholes and then signed off as all OK.
[01:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's a Dead Humpback Whale in the Amazon Jungle and Nobody Knows Why - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:03] <exec> 08└─Tsunami caused by underwater nuclear explosion. Alternate theory: Russian Hackers.
[01:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Quebec Elementary Schools Experiment with Letting Kids Play Rough - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:14] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck yeah, smear-the-queer rocked. We had a game called bombardo that was part dodgeball, part basketball and played on a full basketball court, and all violence. Plenty of skinned knees and bloody noses and even if we got injured we jumped back in. Let me write the rules so I have a reference. T...
[01:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wild Carnivores Stage a Comeback in Britain - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but it's not their fault. It's really the mayor's office [youtube.com] you gotta watch out for.
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[02:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:08] <exec> 08└─I think I had to sign a few documents on a company PC ... which was taken away a few months later because IT policy said it was time. I didn't save any key or anything, and I can't remember even entering my email (and definitely not my password) in the tool. What gives the signature any legitimacy ?
[02:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:10] <exec> 08└─and this is why law firms have couriers and fax machines. Originals, and duplicates ("sign twice"- once on each copy) is the only way to be sure.
[02:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:12] <exec> 08└─What gives the signature any legitimacy ?
[02:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:14] <exec> 08└─Is that what you believe? Gotta bridge for ya...
[02:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─What gives the signature any legitimacy ?
[02:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:03] <exec> 08└─To be fair, A/C, the vengeful old testament loving Protestant Christian arseholes you describe are a pretty American phenomenon. They do exist in other countries, but we've never let them ever gain any real power, so they don't try to inflict their awful closeted lifestyle on the rest of us.
[02:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:05] <exec> 08└─If you weren't most likely a millennial, I would say you'd been exposed to way too much Robert E. Howard.
[02:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:07] <exec> 08└─--- ** "Past performance is not an indication of future outcomes"
[02:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:09] <exec> 08└─but humans have long excelled at the ultimate adaption -- that of adapting the environment to suit us rather than vice versa.
[02:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:11] <exec> 08└─Why do we seem unable to stop global warming, then?
[02:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:14] <exec> 08└─Why is that? To me the funny part of this conversation is I am probably more anti-christian than anyone else in this thread. I will not step foot in a church for any funeral or wedding or other reason ever. Still, I can understand attempts to make sense of the strange old stories written in the bibl...
[02:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:16] <exec> 08└─Or it's a metaphor written a very long time after everyone who could have theoretically lived through it was dead. Whether you believe Moses wrote it as is tradition or that it was written by several people between the sixth and seventh centuries BC, the story would have been thousands of years old...
[02:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:29] <exec> 08└─But, this is fucked up. You don't use the internet to target innocent children, trying to encourage them to kill themselves.
[02:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:30] <exec> 08└─I would be appalled by any adult I caught doing such a thing but it was probably put there by a giggling group of little boys. Laughing so hard that they cry and snot comes out of their noses as they imagine.... not a kid killing himself but "some old faggot like my dad having a fit"
[02:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:32] <exec> 08└─This is how boomers live with themselves. They've stolen their children's birthright but they still indulge their parental instincts and worry on behalf of others just as long as it's not too much work and they feed good after doing it.
[02:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:35] <exec> 08└─Context, mate, the devil is in the context. E.g., how about isSafeToAbandonKids:=true // pretend we have an algo taking the decision if (isAnimated) if (!hasTentacles) isSafeToAbandonKids:=true
[02:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:37] <exec> 08└─Having a kids section on youtube is stupid. Let them watch Netflix or A&E!
[02:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:36] <exec> 08└─except road wear per vehicle is by miles driven. They could have a fudge factor by vehicle (going up by power of 4 by gross vwhicle weight), since road wear (aka road usage) goes up by that factor. The fuel tax is a crude proxy for road usage. Miles driven per some factor of gross vehicle weight wou...
[02:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:25] <exec> 08└─Negative, my quote is correct :) You're misquoting the lyrics later on. Don't feel bad, till TFA I thought it was women "rolled" and men "thundered". Thought it was some weird Aussie thing, but it sounded cool in the 80's :) Traveling in a fried-out Kombi On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met...
[02:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:27] <exec> 08└─It's just 3x a not-so-special situation. Divide and you'll see: 3 cars become 1 car 14 people become 4.67 people $165,000 becomes $55,000 It's all pretty reasonable for 3 families. I'm not living in a fancy way. That is below the median for the USA. The per-person housing is also below the median. (...
[02:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:29] <exec> 08└─Where beer does flow and men chunder
[02:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:31] <exec> 08└─What did New Zealand ever do to you?
[02:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:33] <exec> 08└─he Australian study reports in the first survey (2001-2002) that people in Australia had sex about 1.8 times per week on average, and in the second survey (2012-2013) the result was about 1.4 times per week on average.
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[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:01] <exec> 08└─RAWRR! Sadly your light saber will look very much like a regular sword since the polaritons are created inside a semiconductor material.
[03:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:26] <exec> 08└─I recommend Granite Gear's Campus series backpacks [granitegear.com] on account of them being cheap, well-padded and suited for the outdoors, pockets and compartments out the ass (mine has an internal zipper compartment designed to hold pens, and a compartment with an external zipper designed with a...
[03:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:09] <exec> 08└─I'm sitting here in my garage with an ambient temperature close to freezing wearing a double layer of fleece, shirt, tshirt, long johns, warm socks, and two knit caps -- I also have an infrared heater about a meter to my right and warm latte I just made. I wouldn't be typing this on my garage comput...
[03:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─Oh like the Buddhist cycle of birth and rebirth? Much more believeable than some Christian claptrap. Thanks.
[03:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:13] <exec> 08└─That's why I set all default values to zero... just in case the C++ forgets to initialize them.
[03:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:16] <exec> 08└─You sound like one of them fluffy bunny Christians who want to interpret the Bible when in fact if you read you will see the Bible is perfect and contains ZERO contradictions [landoverbaptist.net].
[03:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:18] <exec> 08└─The way it works is you are free to assume whatever you want. In the long run those with better assumptions will acquire more resources more often, etc. Whatever assumption most helps with that is "correct" for the current circumstances.
[03:36:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:36] <exec> 08└─I think it's funny as hell! Just like rap music... Parents got a problem? Pull the fucking plug! Or put on a Bambi movie and take away the remote. Either way, stfu and control your little parasite! And tell the old man to buy better rubbers!
[03:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:36] <exec> 08└─Not sure exactly what you're saying, but Netflix is easy to control. Much safer for the kids than youtube.
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:38] <exec> 08└─Stay away from adults, too.
[03:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:40] <exec> 08└─The above comment is not a Troll; it's one of the most on-topic and truthful posts in this article. Sorry if it chaps the ass of some forum dwellers.
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─Not just you, NOBODY can read all the shit coming out these days. Occasionally I'll dip into the computer science abstracts and it's utterly full of ad hoc crap. Not a simplifying principle or insight to be found. Layers and layers of crud compacted into layers of crud which are then formed into mor...
[03:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:09] <exec> 08└─Same thing as when they don't do research in Australia.
[03:42:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:11] <exec> 08└─I want to be born in the 80s in australia.
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[04:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:00] <exec> 08└─I've already found photon sources that are quite repulsive. Those glaring bluish tinged HID headlights I have to deal with every night driving home from work.
[04:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:01] <exec> 08└─Why does the light saber need to be free of any solid matter in the center of the light? I think a very bright LED in a nearly indestructible telescoping tube could match what was seen in the movies just as well. Did I miss a scene?
[04:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:28] <exec> 08└─Dedicated laptop compartments are racist, sexist, and homophonic. A macbook should be free to mix with the rest of your products and not segregated away like that.
[04:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:44] <exec> 08└─This is why the GPLv3 is important. I used to agree with the BSD license guys, but after seeing enough of this shit, I learned my lesson.
[04:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Data Privacy in the Hands of Users - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:58] <exec> 08└─"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead." -- Benjamin Franklin If some else has information, you have zero control over how that information is used. Privacy is mathematically impossible. You want to control how your information is used? We already have technology for that: it's called DRM....
[04:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:20] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be typing this on my garage computer without those adjustments to the the local environment that I can have control over.
[04:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:21] <exec> 08└─After an extended reading of no less than three Russian novels, I'm thoroughly convinced Putin is guilt ridden over accidentally running over a cat and successfully fleeing the scene during his service at the KGB. Now, following volumes-long excruciating monologues filled with gray imaginary, masoch...
[04:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:43] <exec> 08└─You can't outsource your parenting responsibilities to other entities.
[04:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:44] <exec> 08└─Yep. The only gadgets I would ever let children of mine have would be an eReader like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite or Kobo Clara around the age of ten, and a dumb phone when they're around thirteen.
[04:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:15] <exec> 08└─Yep, that is why you get "cancer/depression/alzhiemers is many diseases" and such. The philosophy and methodology is actually exactly the opposite of what science is about (discovering unifying/simplifying principles/laws).
[04:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:49] <exec> 08└─https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-industry-subsidy/ [truecostblog.com] There are lots of other links. Trucks don't pay their way.
[04:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:50] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Go back to your original post: Electricity tax can be slowly ramped up today, in tiny increments and requires nothing more than a bit of paperwork, and people will barely notice until it's too late.
[04:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:53] <exec> 08└─It may not be perfectly fair but it is perfectly simple.
[04:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:55] <exec> 08└─That story is badly skewed. Look at the claim that railroads aren't subsidized, for starters. Do you really believe that? Texas is well known (among truckers at least) for raking money off of every other industry, to subsidize it's railways. You're looking at a political nonsense article there. I'm...
[04:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:57] <exec> 08└─Sigh Electricity tax can be slowly ramped up today, in tiny increments and requires nothing more than a bit of paperwork, and people will barely notice until it's too late.
[04:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:59] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that all the electrics out there have the capability to [count electric miles in each U.S. state]. All that is required is an update from [the auto maker]
[04:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Quebec Elementary Schools Experiment with Letting Kids Play Rough - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:50] <exec> 08└─I think any name would work just as well. I don't think anyone knew or cared what it meant. Like playing tag you needed to get to ghoul, or was it goal, or glue? Didn't matter.
[04:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG G8 Can Unlock by Scanning the Veins in your Hand - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:20] <exec> 08└─To be fair, both Android and iOS have mechanisms to temporarily disable biometric unlock methods and require a passcode, as well as requiring a passcode every few days.
[04:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:57] <exec> 08└─I think you are over-thinking things or at the very least have very excessive rituals. Going for a drive and notice a secluded side road? Cleaning the kitchen and notice no kids are around? Taking a shower? There are plenty of opportunities if one and their partner are into that kind of thing.
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[05:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:10] <exec> 08└─You can't cut someone's arm off with that. At least, not with the ease seen in the movies.
[05:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:12] <exec> 08└─Just make the LED really sharp: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:04] <exec> 08└─Never sold stocks, have you? There's an SEC fee on each sale. It's negligible, but it does exist.
[05:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's a Dead Humpback Whale in the Amazon Jungle and Nobody Knows Why - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:46] <exec> 08└─Other possibilities include the above mentioned hooligans with a come-along, and an infinite improbability drive in action, so I guess that's sufficient reason to say "we're still not sure" - if you're a moron.
[05:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:05] <exec> 08└─If that works for you and them, more power to the lot of you I suppose. Just don't imagine for a moment your experience is typical of normal people. And if the economy crashes hard enough, you and your Stepford aspirations are in for several very rude awakenings in a row, given how insulated you've...
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[06:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─And there's a USB-C connector, well I think its just a connector... it's part of both the 3.1 and 3.2 specs according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] so does that mean they retarded usb-3-micro thing is gone finally? I'm still confused ...
[06:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:11] <exec> 08└─They seem terrorized by the number 4!
[06:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:14] <exec> 08└─There's such a vast array of optional features in the same physical connector, they thought they'd get flak if they went with a simple system. By confusing everybody, they don't get blamed for misleading by oversimplification. That's the most rational explanation I can find for this clusterfuck.
[06:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:16] <exec> 08└─I seriously thought that the whole And 20Gb/s devices will be... "USB 3.2 Gen 2×2.
[06:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:18] <exec> 08└─Mini A, mini B, mini AB, micro A, micro AB are all deprecated [wikipedia.org] The speed indicator is separate. It is a mess
[06:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:29] <exec> 08└─I have the opposite finding : The absence of photon source reduces the repulsion. *sobs*
[06:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:49] <exec> 08└─How could any of that be a possible explanation for what they read in Genesis? I'm curious.
[06:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's a Dead Humpback Whale in the Amazon Jungle and Nobody Knows Why - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:02] <exec> 08└─I am astounded (and slightly saddened) no-one has drawn the line back to HGTTG and improbability ....
[06:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Often Do People Have Sex? - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:18] <exec> 08└─You brought up expectations. Guess it was expected 40 years ago for women to be married by age 25 and have popped out 3 kids by age 30. Nowadays 1 is acceptable. There's the bills: 40 years ago TV was free. Nowadays you spend a fortune to have 300 channels of shit be there if you have time to turn t...
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[07:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST Round 2 and Post-Quantum Cryptography, Parts 1-3 - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:00] <exec> 08└─The article is wrong. The SHAs are not being replaced. The Standard Hash algorithms are not vulnerable to QC attacks (any more than AES is). These new algorithms replace the current crop of digital signature schemes (which take a SHA has as their input) and the Key Exchange methods.
[07:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:37] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is that according to the research, Adobe Reader was resistant to these attacks in version 9. It is the latest one that is less secure, which means one of the "features" added in there somewhere broke it.
[07:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:08] <exec> 08└─Strangely, a candy bar is just as nutritious as a banana phone..
[07:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:46] <exec> 08└─I set them all to 17.4 If you can't handle putting in the correct value before using it then sucks to be you.
[07:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:47] <exec> 08└─Yep. It's like being too close to a bonfire. You can block some of the heat by throwing some more wood on it, but it's a very temporary solution.
[07:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:49] <exec> 08└─So we will reach TFA's 1200ppm in 300 years, assuming the linear trend continues, as you say.
[07:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:12] <exec> 08└─We've got a cheap no-name tablet where the wi-fi's borked. All the apps need to be side-loaded on (reverse-tethering helps too), but we know there's nothing there except what we put there. There's still the toddler rage at having to stop using it, but ours does that when it's time to come in from th...
[07:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:44] <exec> 08└─Peer review is a very recent phenomenon
[07:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:25] <exec> 08└─1. Faulty logic: Whether or not trains are subsidized is irrelevant to the question of whether trucks pay their fair share. 2. Faulty logic: the fact that trucks already pay a lot of tax does not mean they pay their way. 3. You conflate policy issues (should trucks pay the full cost of the damage th...
[07:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:26] <exec> 08└─Is it really a fair share though? How many miles of gas is that equivalent to under the gas tax? What if the electric car owner drives 100,000 miles a year, or zero? No, a flat tax like that is nowhere near a "fair share."
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[08:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:23] <exec> 08└─...to point and laugh. The marketing geniuses that came up with this need to be ridiculed so that they avoid ridicule next time. I'm less than impressed that is it possible to buy cables with a USB2 Type A (NOT 'Type A SuperSpeed') plug [wikipedia.org] on one end and a USB3 Type C plug [wikipedia.or...
[08:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:24] <exec> 08└─Just like Winamp.
[08:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:26] <exec> 08└─USB 3.*, the New BlueRay! Did not request, do not want, will not use. Please go and die in a fire.
[08:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:53] <exec> 08└─Even if they are patched, you think the courts have enough IT to actually update the PDF readers?
[08:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:26] <exec> 08└─i got a nokia bananaphone last year. So did I. The keypad is dreadful because is is incredibly non-ergonomic. KaiOs runs slowly. It lacks applications and a non-locked down application store. I also can't delete unwanted apps, such as the games off mine. The Human Interface design is poorly thought...
[08:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:06] <exec> 08└─Dude think of the 24/7 TV coverage... starving dying brown people day after day after day. BORING.
[08:37:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:22] <exec> 08└─I'll agree insofar as to say it should not be done deceptively but that's as far as I can back you. If someone wants to take their life, I'm not going to tell them they shouldn't. I'd prefer they do it efficiently and with as little mess as possible though. It's just good manners.
[08:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:43] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter. The fact that you raise this question is proof positive that you are cheating on your taxes, and pose a classic case of the "free-rider" problem. So even though it will cost us more in resources than we gain in lost revenue, we will hunt you down, to make an example of you, for the s...
[08:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:45] <exec> 08└─Alert! AC claiming SO! Alert!!! Obviously not correct. Disregard all comment. Besides, sounds like he is a terrible driver, and deserved to be taxed for the excessive tire wear his bad driving causes? Maybe we need a tax on Break Pads*, so that those who use their brakes more often, due to bad dr...
[08:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:47] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a true, subsidized by the rest of us, trucker. Or some freeloader of VA benefits from having floated around, on the taxpayer's dime, for a couple of years? You are are parasite, Runaway! A not very smart one, yes, but good enough to suck the lifeblood out of America without actually ki...
[08:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:49] <exec> 08└─The kind of bitch that just modded your protest at being modded troll, you troll biatch! You don't understand what we do here, do you? Well, fuck off, looser!
[08:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:51] <exec> 08└─Because energy is never about mass X velocity. so that would have nothing to do with . . . are you always this stupid, or only when you post on the intertubes?
[08:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:54] <exec> 08└─Ya load sixteen khallows, and whadda ya get? Another day older, and deeper in confusion. O Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I cain't go, I owe my soul to the Company Store!
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[09:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:07] <exec> 08└─You make that sound like it's a bad thing.
[09:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:09] <exec> 08└─Hilarious. A nine year old girl, more mature and better informed of her rights than the man enforcing the 'law.' A man who doesn't even know the basis of the laws he enforces as he was happy to threaten her first amendment rights without any clue he was doing so. Ignorant of the constitution, his st...
[09:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:31] <exec> 08└─Some smart people are really stupid.
[09:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:00] <exec> 08└─Happily, LibreOffice can be used to verify the signatures. [It's still vulnerable, more so than Adobe v9 in fact, but you get the warm fuzzy feeling of invulnerability that comes from using FOSS with prejudice...]
[09:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:02] <exec> 08└─Being open source, it's also more likely to be fixed in a reasonable amount of time.
[09:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:39] <exec> 08└─Russia makes it illegal to describe suicide. (Apparently the conditions for the general population are so cozy the cossacks off themselves in droves.) This has lead to pranksters putting suicide instructions on e.g. Github, which was consequently blocked in Russia. Probably leading to a few more sui...
[09:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:40] <exec> 08└─Turn a kid loose on YouTube, and it's only a matter of time before they stumble onto something perverted. Lot of people are using action figure toys or costumes to make cute videos, and most of them are okay. But the 3 year old found a video of some guy in a Spiderman costume taking a leak outdoors....
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[10:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:15] <exec> 08└─So this was no rookie cop?! He should receive 100 lashes in public and be fired from the job. With great power should come great responsibility.
[10:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:37] <exec> 08└─Some smart people are really stupid. What Naseem Nicholas Taleb calls 'Intellectual Yet Idiot' (IYI). [medium.com] The irony is, I most probably fit the description.
[10:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:50] <exec> 08└─Those HID headlights have kept me from getting pulled over for two months now. I had a low beam go out on my 95 Vette. It's been so cold and I don't have a garage so I haven't replaced the original sealed beam halogens. I've been running on high beams alone for two months and nobody has noticed or e...
[10:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03moylan [3063] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:41] <exec> 08└─Even if you could push the unremoveable apps into a folder you could ignore it would be better. the bottom row of buttons is awkward to reach as the slider gets in the way. i didn't find the os slow myself. seemed reasonably nippy. but then i use bottom of the range android phones so maybe i'm used...
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[10:35:43] <exec> 08└─So Mozilla's Firefox OS has become 'Chaos?' Fitting.
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[11:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:01] <exec> 08└─Firewire rebooted Anyway unix sockets and vpn leaks paint a broader pic, and a scary one.
[11:34:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 991 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:14] <exec> 08└─Hilarious. A nine year old girl, more mature and better informed of her rights than the man enforcing the 'law.' A man who doesn't even know the basis of the laws he enforces as he was happy to threaten her first amendment rights without any clue he was doing so. Ignorant of the constitution, his st...
[11:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:39] <exec> 08└─Just wait until they get to the number "9". Both Windows and MacOS skipped over it for a reason ...
[11:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:41] <exec> 08└─The folks at USB saw what the people at WiFi did and said "hold my connector ..."
[11:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:55] <exec> 08└─they have great light output, and the beams tends to be very even (even with multiple leds) but the lack of heat actually poses a problem in winter, as it doesn't keep the lens clear of ice. a friend has them on his jeep, and can't drive during snow because of it. so i'd put them on my motorcycle, b...
[11:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:14] <exec> 08└─Amazing that something trivial like this slipped through in so many places. PDF seems like a simple enough format, and all this crypto stuff doesn't look all that complicated either, so it's mind-boggling that all these developers dropped the ball on this one.
[11:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:50] <exec> 08└─Well, you already can be spied upon through the mobile network. So adding one extra way to obtain the same data doesn't change much. Especially given that malicious code installed at the GSM level is much more likely to stay undetected anyway (it's out of control of the phone OS).
[11:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Data Privacy in the Hands of Users - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:05] <exec> 08└─Putting Data Privacy in the Hands of Users
[11:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:33] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but you seem to be incapable of comprehending the original post. There is really no reason to be confused like you are, it was quite clear.
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[12:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:02] <exec> 08└─They will make it worse somehow, just stay away.
[12:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:10] <exec> 08└─Thunderbolt is PCI. I bloody expect from any PCI peripheral that it can do DMA and that the PCI subsystem doesn't make one jump through stupid hoops (which WILL eventually break) to get there. All this IOMMU stuff isn't there to make your machine safe against ninja burglar intruders (or maybe custom...
[12:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:12] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the bit in the summary where it says "laptop"? You know, the type of computer that is often taken out from behind locked doors and into public? I agree, it's not as big a concern for servers and other machines where it's easy to restrict physical access.
[12:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:20] <exec> 08└─Is there a prediction (not postdiction) that comes out of this or not?
[12:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:22] <exec> 08└─The AdS part would imply negative cosmological constant (and ultimately a collapsing universe). Observations give a positive sign for that. There might be some sort of possible verification by showing mass can't be shielded or hidden. That is, if you know the gravitational fields around a mass, you...
[12:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:33] <exec> 08└─> which in turn prompted town officials to discipline Patterson I hope bondage was involved.
[12:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:58] <exec> 08└─number nine .... number nine. ... number nine.. .. number nine... .
[12:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:59] <exec> 08└─at making it confusing enough, then try harder the next time to make it confusing enough. Have to make sure the monster cable has a way to justify charging $299.99 for fifty cents of copper and ten cents of insulation. How else would they be able to fleece folks how don't know better?
[12:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:15] <exec> 08└─I wish someone would compile a list of "banned phrases" for each country like Tianamen square, or classified snowmen leaks. The type of info a government paid troll will have to avoid.
[12:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:17] <exec> 08└─I'm okay with their parents doing so but I don't have that particular life complication.
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[13:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:08] <exec> 08└─Great, like I didn't have enough actually important shit to code up for the site already. Now I'm going to have to jump through bullshit hoops to protect the data we don't collect.
[13:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:10] <exec> 08└─"A federal law must include basic rights for individuals to access, correct, delete and port their personal data," Which will do virtually nothing for privacy. It needs to be outright illegal under penalty of public tar and feathering and nuking from orbit to sell or misuse people's personal data. Q...
[13:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:12] <exec> 08└─The government is underfunded, that is why we have this situation. The only solution is to raise taxes so they can properly do their job. In this case that probably means keeping track of what every company has on every person in a centralized database with no moats between the various enforcement a...
[13:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:22] <exec> 08└─E.g. thunderbolt/usb3.x vuln years back: http://blog.frizk.net And there were equivalent attacks for previous generations too, literally since a bus-mastering device could be plugged into a socket.
[13:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:25] <exec> 08└─The proper solution for the topic of TFA is a mechanical lock.
[13:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:09] <exec> 08└─Could be they are japanese afraid of the number 4 [wikipedia.org]?. See also: Tetraphobia [wikipedia.org], Fraidy Cat [wikipedia.org]
[13:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:11] <exec> 08└─Gold contacts.
[13:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:13] <exec> 08└─That didn't take long. TYVM :-)
[13:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:27] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I live in the PNW, so we get snow every winter, good information!
[13:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:47] <exec> 08└─It amused me that adobe's V9 was secure (on linux), and V11 was vulnerable (on windows/mac). The OS shouldn't really matter, that's not what I'm getting at, but I do find it funny that as they made it more advanced, they made it more insecure. Personally I find the idea of document signing being an...
[13:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:49] <exec> 08└─Our document control systems use username/password signatures to indicate approval or whatever. Those passwords are forced to be changed every 6 weeks, which, at least in my case, is encouraging them to be as trivial as possible within the at least 8 character + at least 3 of: (1 digit 1 upper case...
[13:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:08] <exec> 08└─Sure, their CO2 emissions will stop, but that is a slower acting effect than contrail dissipation.
[13:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:09] <exec> 08└─Because many bird species build their nest and insulate it against bad weather and many animals dig themselves a burrow
[13:38:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 747 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:26] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, it's not really the people posting these videos who claim they are suitable for children; that's entirely up to Google. This also isn't the first time there's been controversy around violent videos being included by Google's automated filters. Some jackass at Google decided tha...
[13:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course people had others give feedback on their work/ideas. That is not what "peer review" means.
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[14:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─Now I'm going to have to jump through bullshit hoops to protect the data we don't collect.
[14:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─> It needs to be outright illegal ... to sell or misuse people's personal data. What if I ask you to sell my personal data? In exchange for some other service perhaps or direct financial reward. E.g. I fill out a poll in return for money.
[14:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:27] <exec> 08└─As long as there is one, you have none. You shouldn't trust companies, corporations and conglomerates anyway. They are not trustworthy and proved it numerous times, deliberately compromising your privacy/unintentionally leaking your data because of incompetence. Just because there are laws doesn't m...
[14:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─Nah, any work that I have to do to show that we don't collect or use data from our users is time taken away from something actually useful like site coding or fishing.
[14:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:31] <exec> 08└─You know we're a corporation here at SN, right? The 'PBC' in SoylentNews PBC stands for Public Benefit Corporation. We have a board and a couple of shareholders and everything. Hell, we even exploit unpaid labor.
[14:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:43] <exec> 08└─In the case of only a Thunderbolt port, your best bet is to use a USB hub that doesn't support Thunderbolt.
[14:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:45] <exec> 08└─This word is spelled defenses, not defences. Despite the association in meaning, no one puts the fence in defense because there isn't one. I have an irrational fear that reading articles and comments online (or for that matter, the things my coworkers write) is going to screw up my ability to spell...
[14:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:54] <exec> 08└─If the predictions of this model are already inconsistent with the observations why do we care? Do they claim the observations are faulty or misinterpreted?
[14:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:35] <exec> 08└─But they already used “universal” How about “TSB” Transdimensional Serial Bus
[14:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:50] <exec> 08└─yep, BSD license is perfect ... in a perfect world! Reality show us that if the code is there, someone will take it and close it and not contribute back. In GPL, some people they still do that, until they are found, but most of then start to rethink and start to contribute back, getting a more frien...
[14:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:36] <exec> 08└─humanity still sat Earthside unable to control climate, then teh stoopid species deserve to die off.
[14:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:37] <exec> 08└─And humans make an advanced technological society that allows them to pack 4 orders of magnitude more people in a space than a hunter gather society could manage.
[14:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron and SanDisk (Western Digital) Announce 1 TB MicroSD Cards - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─What use is that 1TB if you need a week to write it?
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron and SanDisk (Western Digital) Announce 1 TB MicroSD Cards - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:24] <exec> 08└─TLC devices built like this, creep along at 10-11 Mb/s after the SLC cache is filled. QLC will be worse.
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[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─Dietary supplements are totally unregulated in the US. They are a waste of money at best, dangerous at worst.
[15:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:20] <exec> 08└─$50,000
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─Solar panels? Batteries? Renewables? Such a waste of money. I tell yea, that's a conspiracy to drive khallow mad. (large grin)
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─It needs to be outright illegal under penalty of public tar and feathering and nuking from orbit to sell or misuse people's personal data.
[15:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:45] <exec> 08└─The government has a right to be concerned that private companies have more data about people than the government has. The government needs to have all of the combined information collected by Google, Facebook, banks, credit reporting agencies, health records and all other sources. The government ne...
[15:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:48] <exec> 08└─The only solution is to raise taxes so they can properly do their job.
[15:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:50] <exec> 08└─Raise taxes on them all.
[15:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost (1887). https://www.gov.uk [www.gov.uk]
[15:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:06] <exec> 08└─It's only spelled defenses in the United States. Everywhere else English is written in the world (Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc.), it's defences. See here [grammarly.com].
[15:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:08] <exec> 08└─Yet an American dictionary lists the spellings as "chiefly British".
[15:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:10] <exec> 08└─In the case of only a Thunderbolt port, your best bet is to use a USB hub that doesn't support Thunderbolt.
[15:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:21] <exec> 08└─Is there a prediction (not postdiction) that comes out of this or not?
[15:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:32] <exec> 08└─She'll be assassinated for needlessly pissing off drug dealers and sex workers.
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:33] <exec> 08└─Police creating distrust in the police are their own worst enemy. The police who line up to protect obviously bad police automatically should be included among the bad. Once the public can no longer trust the police, or even worse is more afraid of police than of the criminals, this further destroys...
[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─And her family too. One wonders why the police don't just call CPS on them. Keeping a girl from hanging around crime scenes doesn't sound like something outside the Overton window.
[15:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:07] <exec> 08└─They seem terrorized by the number 4!
[15:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:09] <exec> 08└─Just wait until they get to the number "9". Both Windows and MacOS skipped over it for a reason ...
[15:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:11] <exec> 08└─One more thing . . . Android is now up to 9. So Google didn't skip 9. How about Android OS X?
[15:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:13] <exec> 08└─I have a proposal. In order to eliminate confusion and not cause any more damage to the USB branding, I propose that the next version be named USB 5G! 5G is the best! Just ask AT&T about its fictional 5G! And this won't screw up the USB branding even more. Nope! Nosiree! Everyone can tell it is bett...
[15:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─Point and laugh. But this is necessary. In order to sell you more new cables, dongles and adapters. It is a tried and true strategy tragedy that any Apple user can tell you about. It helps promote e-waste while not running afoul of EU laws designed to eliminate e-waste that was caused by every phone...
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─Yes. That. Document signing should be a separate application which does exactly one thing and does it whale. It should also be a specification that can be implemented by multiple applications on all platforms. Making the standard widely available and able to sign all kinds of files, not just PDF, ma...
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:54] <exec> 08└─Courts can update the PDF readers. PACER can vastly increase its per page costs for signed documents.
[15:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:19] <exec> 08└─I don't see those birds making coffee-flavored milk beverages.
[15:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:20] <exec> 08└─The big-bang theory is basically creationism masquerading as science
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─starving dying brown people day after day after day. BORING.
[15:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─Real scientists make no statements about "The Big Bang" as an *event* that happened. They might make comments about how well the "Big Bang Theory" explains the observed universe very accurately, which is true, but the Big Bang Theory says nothing about a Big Bang, what it may, or may not, have been....
[15:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:27] <exec> 08└─Yep, so stop growing so many hamburgers and their flatulence will dissipate within a decade. I had a "greenie" activist accost me on a Norwegian train platform in 1988 about this very topic: "You Americans" eating so many hamburgers is a real problem. I bought her rainforest postcard because it was...
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─A swimming pool != the ocean. Plus, you are deliberately missing the point.
[15:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:58] <exec> 08└─Someone trolling for instant outrage and mass media coverage. It's worked brilliantly, hasn't it?
[15:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:00] <exec> 08└─It's not a filter. YouTube promised that this children's section would be Curated. Now we see obviously that it is not curated. This could have the very bad effect of causing a tiny little crack that leads to bigger cracks. OMG some people might begin to have the faintest doubts that google is not e...
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[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:05] <exec> 08└─I'm glad the FTC went after this company, but I suspect they spent a hell of a lot more than $50,000 to get the case to settlement. Meanwhile, a thousand Chinese companies are churning out crap knockoffs with stellar reviews and nothing is done about it.
[16:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:13] <exec> 08└─That's not a drive. That's a short putt.
[16:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─Encrypted columns of null. Wonder what that would look like?
[16:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─Wow. You just made me think of a question. Those polls? Is there any requirement, or even expectation, that a person responds relevantly, factually, or honestly? Does anyone ever give real answers to polls?
[16:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2613 [smbc-comics.com]
[16:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:18] <exec> 08└─This girl was 12-year-old, not 9-year-old. But yes, that seems to be the "problem" with kids these days. Damn kids actually paying attention in civics class and knowing their constitutional rights, like the 11-year-old who got arrested for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance [usatoday.com...
[16:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe even more than Facebook is destroying the fabric of society.
[16:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:22] <exec> 08└─Hilde Kate Lysiak for president 2044!
[16:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:24] <exec> 08└─Wow, like.. a real journalist doing real investigations and publishing actual news... haven't seen much of that in at least a decade now from the mainstream press..!
[16:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:27] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. In fact, the problem is that when there are _any_ bad cops, as we can see all too clearly on youtube, we don't know which ones we can trust. Now what.
[16:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:29] <exec> 08└─For a 12-year-old, prepubescent girl. Classy.
[16:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:31] <exec> 08└─100 lashes
[16:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:33] <exec> 08└─Hilarious. A nine year old girl, more mature and better informed of her rights than the man enforcing the 'law.' A man who doesn't even know the basis of the laws he enforces as he was happy to threaten her first amendment rights without any clue he was doing so. Ignorant of the constitution, his st...
[16:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, saw the age error on the age the moment I hit submit. Damn Craft Beer..... I have no idea where the wrong age came from. In answer to your question, perhaps a classic.... Revolution in their minds the children start to march Against the world in which they have to live And all the hate that's...
[16:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:12] <exec> 08└─This is very clearly a deliberate strategy. They intend to create confusion, just like they did earlier with USB 2. They won't feel ridiculed, since this was a decision they took, knowing how it would be confusing.
[16:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:07] <exec> 08└─People who get a computer for gaming, don't get a laptop, unless they absolutely must have portability. Even then, you're likely better off with a portable tower + monitor, if you're doing real gaming. Otherwise, it's casual gamers all the way down, with the exception of gamers that have plenty of m...
[16:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:22] <exec> 08└─Normally when I come across a supposedly scientific paper that says something along the lines of "when we improve our models, and remove the fudge factors, we obtained results different from the ones we're publishing", I tend to just throw the paper into the bin.
[16:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:53] <exec> 08└─That's true of every generation; you can change the term 'social media' to whatever was the thing the parents didn't understand in that era.
[16:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:55] <exec> 08└─I think we both know that it's different this time. The web has it all. It's a medium that allows kids to absorb all kinds of information and propaganda. At the same time, kids are uploading their own stupid mistakes, hopefully being ignored but potentially going viral. If they don't have filters, o...
[16:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:29] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, I just figured I'd make it personal. As for the crap - I'm reminded of the phrase "Of course 90% of X is crap. 90% of everything is crap." And publishing potentially suffers worse than most, as the "publish or perish" mentality around academia encourages a lot of gratuitous publishing. A...
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[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─Probably just an ill-timed Windows update. Don't worry, there will be more opportunities to dodge the Windows bullets
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─Are they planning on walking all the way?
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:07] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceIL#Launch [wikipedia.org] Beresheet is in Earth orbit, and after several elliptic orbits around Earth the spacecraft will slowly perform orbit raising. The orbit raising will take 1.5 months before reaching the Moon's area of influence. Once there, the spacecraft w...
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─I thought the name was a joke when I first red it. Beresheet? Try saying it with a Russian accent. BTW where is our resident anti-semite telling us this is because the Jews cheaped out, or that this is some Jewish conspiracy to discredit flat earthers and make them look foolish?
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm not mailing myself to the moon. I have no way of knowing whether I'm loaded on the Yankee Clipper, or the Occidental Sleeper.
[17:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─The flippant part of my mind said, "It's some Jewish or Yiddish or Hebrew word that probably means something important to Jews." The less flippant part of my mind says, "Stop being an asshole for a few minutes, and look it up!" https://ymlp.com [ymlp.com] “In the beginning God created the h...
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:16] <exec> 08└─Come on people, it isn't like this is rocket science or something!
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─If everyone else read the article, I can't believe I'm the first to notice the borked link.
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─Not as significant. The borked link is inside the quoted portion of the article.
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─No, we're just too polite to have mentioned it in mixed company.
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they also be fining "AmazonVerifiedReviews.com" (domain not found?!?) for misrepresenting the reviews they carried as "verified", when clearly they weren't? Apparently, Amazon have taken things into their own hands, sueing back in 2016: """ Amazon Sues Five Sites Promising Reviews For Cash...
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:36] <exec> 08└─FYI: All dietary supplements are a scam
[17:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─As I've heard it, "multivitamins do nothing but turn your urine orange if you're eating a healthy, well-balanced diet". Which is good to know, but not really relevant to most people. What I want to know is, is a multivitamin useful if you're *not* eating a healthy well-balanced diet? Because I don't...
[17:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:40] <exec> 08└─What's misrepresenting? They're reviews. They're on Amazon. And you can easily verify both facts. Oh, you mean the lie by implication? That's perfectly legal, even business as usual, and every commercial company and advertising agency in the nation would be up in arms if you tried to crack down on i...
[17:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:50] <exec> 08└─What is with every F'ing power article listing the wrong units? If you can't even get basic units right, you should NOT be writing science articles, or power company press releases. I mean sure, I suppose it's *possible* that they really did mean batteries capable of delivering 850MW of instantaneou...
[17:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:13] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter. GP was proposing a law that would ban the existence of those polls. Seems like an overreaction.
[17:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:15] <exec> 08└─Misuse, yes. Also, collect w/o their explicit permission. But sell with their informed consent, no.
[17:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:17] <exec> 08└─The government is underfunded, that is why we have this situation. The only solution is to raise taxes so they can properly do their job.
[17:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:19] <exec> 08└─It would make more sense to outlaw the existence of the pollsters, don't you think?
[17:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWWTTpDgolM [youtube.com]
[17:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 2685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─The holographic principal is a result of this idea that quantum properties result in physical objects when the quantum particles are kept on an external boundary. I have to be honest when I read the AdS/CFT papers I think they are right to a point, but I don't think the correspondence is a physical...
[17:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:49] <exec> 08└─The Dept of Tuttle is the correct dept of the depts.
[17:36:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:02] <exec> 08└─Police creating distrust in the police are their own worst enemy. The police who line up to protect obviously bad police automatically should be included among the bad. Once the public can no longer trust the police, or even worse is more afraid of police than of the criminals, this further destroys...
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:13] <exec> 08└─Lysiak, whose father is also a journalist, hasn’t said what brought her to rural southern Arizona. But she has found no shortage of stories to cover there. Last week, she interviewed residents to see how they felt about President Trump’s proposed border wall, then briefly hopped over the barbed-...
[17:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─[dishonest, ignorant] Police destroy the fabric of society at the local level. Facebook destroys it at the national and global level.
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that the Jews gave 40 lashes minus one -- and that was established in the early old testament, after leaving Egypt. The Romans had no such upper limit as far as I know. But I would appreciate any contrary information.
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─It can only be due to one or more of . . . 1. She hadn't realized the profit and ratings motive yet. 2. She hasn't been sufficiently punished for doing real journalism yet.
[17:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:12] <exec> 08└─What about the scene where Qui-Gon shoves his light saber into a sealed bulkhead to melt it? That means it definitely wasn't solid or at least it automatically retracted.
[17:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And it's funny you should mention tar/gzip in this context. Here in Estonia, we have a governmentally approved public key infrastructure (in teh form of chipped ID cards) that we can use to sign everything from our tax returns to arbitrary formal documents. And if you peek into the structur...
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Break Digital Signatures for Most Desktop PDF Viewers - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:38] <exec> 08└─Zip may already be the closest thing to a universal container format. LibreOffice files are really zip files. Java executable JAR files / libraries (java equivalent of exe/dll) are actually zip files. Java WAR and EAR files are zip files. LibreOffice can export PDF files, and optionally include the...
[17:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:10] <exec> 08└─Ah so it's just a coincidence they're always right-wing.
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[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─Fixed. Whoever is running the bot needs to have it be able to detect relative URL paths and insert the full current domain in there.
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─The fact that you can reach the moon at all as a secondary payload is already pretty impressive. It's as if we had reached a point where space exploration with many small cheap probes made sense. Expect to encounter a Wookie on an icy world soon.
[18:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─Yep. There are a few like that which work pretty well, although not really in the diet supplement category. Valarian root is a good sleep aid, and it's got some kind of action that keeps me from needing prescription muscle relaxers though that takes a week or two of using it as a sleeping pill to re...
[18:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─FTC agents need to search out all of the vendors of fake review services. A raid or if review folks aren't keeping records engage in some surveillance to get the customer list along with the evidence they need to win convictions without a huge labor expense. The FTC could be levying fines by the who...
[18:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:43] <exec> 08└─It is especially bad on YouTube when people talk about either solar power or electric cars. Its like they don't know the difference between power and energy. Energy is stored. Power is what you're instantaneously using, like a light bulb is 100W. Now should those drinks be called Power drinks instea...
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:45] <exec> 08└─Batteries do have a max power. But if they really mean power the question remains - what is their energy capacity?
[18:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:47] <exec> 08└─TFS: 450MW of that battery storage will be deployed by 2021, with a total of 1200 megawatt-hours of energy. The additional 400MW will be built before 2025, but the duration of those batteries is not yet confirmed.
[18:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:14] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to restrict secret collection of data, but once the data is collected, disclosure restrictions generally run afoul of the First Amendment. See, if you tell me your name is X, and the government says I cannot tell anyone else that, that is a speech restriction. Straightforward. If cong...
[18:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:34] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the bit in the summary where it says "laptop"?
[18:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:47] <exec> 08└─> The fabric of space and time is widely believed by physicists to be emergent, stitched out of quantum threads according to an unknown pattern I don't think this is true beyond a tiny niche of theoretical physicists. Most physicists don't have expertise to declare one way or another. Possibly even...
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:48] <exec> 08└─I don't see the point of this post which don't make sense to 99.999% of physicists. We could have had a quality aristachu submission instead.
[18:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:16] <exec> 08└─Frankly, if officers of the law lying to citizens about their rights isn't illegal, it should be.
[18:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:17] <exec> 08└─They'll probably find her raped and mangled body in a ditch one day. Drug dealers aren't the forgiving kind.
[18:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, after looking on Wikipedia it says the 40 was a Jewish thing. The next section down says the Romans didn't have a limit...but if they were doing it before crucifying you it's not like it would particularly matter. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that the Jews gave 40 lashes minus one -- and that was established in the early old testament, after leaving Egypt. The Romans had no such upper limit as far as I know. But I would appreciate any contrary information.
[18:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─You have an amazingly flexible definition of "hilarious"!
[18:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─Next you'll be talking about Peelian Principles like we didn't fight a war to get away from British nonsense. Muricah fuck yeah!
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:29] <exec> 08└─"...made a name for herself in 2016 by being the first to report on a grisly murder in her hometown, then firing back at the haters who suggested that a 9-year-old girl shouldn't be hanging around crime scenes."
[18:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:31] <exec> 08└─Car bomb for exposing something like the Panama Papers.
[18:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:33] <exec> 08└─Sadly I think it boils down to that you can't trust ANY of them. "The greatest Evil is when the Good do nothing" Any LEO that looks the other way, covers up, or tries to justify a clearly illegal/unethical/immoral act by another officer is aiding and abetting a criminal. Therefor they are also guilt...
[18:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─So that's where that scene in Babylon 5 got that from. Nice.
[18:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:12] <exec> 08└─I got to rotate the thing at least 360 degrees to make it fit, it's already working in higher dimensions.
[18:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:14] <exec> 08└─I mean, seriously. They need to just call it USB 3.2, USB 3.3, USB 3.4, etc.
[18:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Micron and SanDisk (Western Digital) Announce 1 TB MicroSD Cards - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:13] <exec> 08└─Plenty of use. First of all, 1 TB at 90 MB/s takes just 3h5m12s to fill. Even if it slowed down to 5 MB/s, it would still take less than 3 days to fill. Chances are good that you aren't going to have 1 TB of content just ready to plop on there. You will do it in batches. You could put many thousands...
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[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:04] <exec> 08└─Is this serious? They are actually suggesting that fake drugs should be considered valid? This is what much of the garbage homeopathic industry has been trying to con people into accepting for years.
[19:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─It works!
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─That's the opposite of what we should be doing. I'm not a doctor or scientist, so I'm not going to try to tell you why on my own, but here you go from someone who knows better than I do. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org [sciencebasedmedicine.org]
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─Additionally, a placebo can work even when you know it’s a placebo. [harvard.edu] So it might not even be necessary.
[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─An interesting study from your link: Placebo Effects in Oncology [oup.com] The purpose of the present study was to determine the probability of improvement in symptoms or quality of life and tumor response in cancer patients treated with placebos in randomized controlled trials.
[19:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─As you mentioned in the study, a placebo does not have healing power. But there are an awful lot of illnesses and injuries in which the only solution is to let the body work it's magic (think the common cold). In such cases, it may be worth issuing a placebo so that the person at least feels like th...
[19:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:16] <exec> 08└─$$$ specialist office visits for no treatment. One question; Will this be distinguishable from current practice half the time. (aka take to amoxicillin and come back in two weeks treatment)
[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─With proper branding, I can charge $1674.79 per daily dose of placebo. I know it used to cost ten cents per pill, but hey, I have to protect my status as a Job Creator. I'll be nice and allow a special discount down to $259.84 for the people who install my placebo-tracking app on their phone.
[19:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─The word Beresheet encompasses the entire path of humankind and the full meaning of the Bible. Included is the understanding that you have exited from the Creator’s bosom and must return to Him following a long path of growing egoism that all of humankind must undergo. For that to happen, you must...
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:38] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's the same way I got to the Mun!
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─...conspiracy to discredit flat earthers and make them look foolish? Even QAnon agrees that no conspiracy is needed to make flat feathers look foolish.
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─Just don't schedule your landing for Tuesdays. Problem solved. Next?
[19:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:10] <exec> 08└─The modified, Bad car analogy!, source: 450Km/h of that car will be deployed by 2021, with a total of 1200 Km of length. The additional 400Km/h will be built before 2025, but the range of those cars is not yet confirmed.
[19:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:12] <exec> 08└─Not disputing that the wording is unusual ... for storage people. For Grid people, the power rating is what they are used to speaking about first and foremost, since supply is usually unlimited.
[19:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:40] <exec> 08└─ban the practice of collecting personal data
[19:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:41] <exec> 08└─if you enter your data into an application on my server it is not your data anymore. it is "our" data that is governed by my privacy policy and the TOS. in my case i don't do shit with our data except provide the services you request. these privacy laws are just pandering so that government slavemas...
[19:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:01] <exec> 08└─Well, of course it does. Most of the world's English-speaking population is America, and what's left is chiefly British. (Or English, or UKish? Whatever distinction there may be, it strikes us as not only confusing but tremendously unimportant.) Canada and Australia look big on a map, but Canada is...
[19:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─Like how the cops are allowed to lie to you but you are not allowed to lie to them. Or how the government has a monopoly on physical force.
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:54] <exec> 08└─I don't know of anywhere in Levitical Law which specifies lashing as a punishment.
[19:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:56] <exec> 08└─I should say, I'm assuming you're tangomargarine posting from a not-logged-in computer or device. If you're someone else entirely, sorry for the confusion, but two people sincerely believing the same mistaken notion doesn't add anything to the conversation either -- not when evidence to actually set...
[19:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:58] <exec> 08└─i used to think arizona would be a cool place to live but over the last few years i've come to realize it is one of the most authoritarian states in the USA. fuck you, arizona. fuck you, and your pigs.
[19:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:38] <exec> 08└─But what about the backdoors, and the lack of lubrication?
[19:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─lazy minded, retarded fucks already call ubuntu 18.04 ubuntu 18, ffs!
[19:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:57] <exec> 08└─oh yeah. some loser ass cell company (that can't even keep up with it's excel spreadsheets of users' data) knowing your location is the exact same thing as a supranational intelligence agency monitoring every sensor and listening to the microphone 24/7...
[19:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox OS Lives on as KaiOS, Which Now Runs on Over 80 Million Devices - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:59] <exec> 08└─exactly. i understand that some people really just like the bsd b/c they don't want to dictate anything to anyone, but most people use it b/c they are whores who want to suck up to leaching corps.
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[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─And then went ridiculously overboard, with the 18mm super-battery phone: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] I'd rather get a 13mm version with a 10k battery and none of the odd design tradeoffs, but it's nice to see someon...
[20:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:12] <exec> 08└─18000 mAh is NOT going overboard depending on the accessories you want it to have. On Amazon similar sized batteries [amazon.com] have cables with red/black clamps to jump start your car. That would be a cool phone accessory connector. But would they also take the cowardly route and include a headph...
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─I watched a YouTube video just yesterday evening of Samsung unveiling its folding phone. Bottom line, price is over: $1900. (I think it was $1950, but I could be mistaken.)
[20:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:29] <exec> 08└─We just teach people positive thinking and good health habits lead to the same effect, rather than blatantly lying to them and engineering a conspiracy to lie on a large scale? Oh. But I guess we can't charge premium prices on literally selling nothing this way. Hmm.
[20:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:31] <exec> 08└─When my wife gets seasick, I encourage her to use "accupressure wrist bands" to combat it, which she does and she reports that they work very well. "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning," is a well proven cure for a tremendous variety of complaints. In China, a colleague of mine witnessed an...
[20:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:33] <exec> 08└─Because that wouldn't be the same effect. What you propose might actually lead to a healthier population. Then how would the drug companies stay profitable?
[20:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:35] <exec> 08└─I went there for this: https://dilbert.com [dilbert.com] but, this: https://dilbert.com [dilbert.com] is also strangely appropriate.
[20:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Problem solved! We already HAVE a placebo that many people actively refuse to believe is a placebo.
[20:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, for a viral infection, nobody has to worry about viruses developing resistance to sugar.
[20:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:41] <exec> 08└─Anti-vaxxers. Flat-Earthers. Democrats. etc.
[20:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:44] <exec> 08└─Free market economy, if he doesn't give them the script they're asking for, they'll find an MD who will. Witness: Oxycontin.
[20:35:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 460 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:02] <exec> 08└─The word Beresheet encompasses the entire path of humankind and the full meaning of the Bible. Included is the understanding that you have exited from the Creator’s bosom and must return to Him following a long path of growing egoism that all of humankind must undergo. For that to happen, you must...
[20:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:07] <exec> 08└─Even QAnon agrees that no conspiracy is needed to make flat feathers look foolish.
[20:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:09] <exec> 08└─Wow, if this lander can't make it, the one India is getting ready to launch is up next. Why is the current space race not headline sports commentary? This is way more interesting than ball teams or the olympics.
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Settles Its First Case Over Fake Paid Reviews On Amazon - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─I was thinking something similar. There are two companies advertising on TV where I live that I think ought to be prosecuted for misrepresentation. One is a payday loan company that has a bunch of attractive young people explaining how easy it is to get money, and "the money can be in your account...
[20:35:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─That's not a drive. That's a short putt.
[20:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:40] <exec> 08└─You cannot drive someone to where they already dwell. Or: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't lead a horticulture."
[20:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Arizona Utility Reveals Battery Deals That Give California a Run for its Money - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─I thought the plan was to sell Arizona back to Mexico, to balance the budget, and then used the money to build the wall around arizona, and other places. This is an obvious gambit to make Arizona worth something, besides it's weight in old people, so that either we won't sell it, or we will get a be...
[20:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─that's exactly what this is about. a global control system in the early stages fighting over the slaves.
[20:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:14] <exec> 08└─instead of the government doing it's job to hold companies accountable for fraud and broken laws/contracts (one of the few legitimate functions of government) they claim they need to be rewarded for not doing their jobs with more power. dumb people vote for it every time and the government gets bigg...
[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:16] <exec> 08└─Sure, and anyone else you don't like. Banhammer!
[20:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─Have a look at this piece, it explains quite well what this is really about. [theregister.co.uk] TL;DR It is about protecting the tech companies from laws they don't want, rather than consumers' data
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:33] <exec> 08└─Someone should nominate her for a pulitzer award.
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─She was nine when she began her illustrious journalism career.
[20:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:37] <exec> 08└─I understand what you're saying, and I mostly agree. I think it boils down to semantics. Or maybe my optimism; but I like to think and hope that some cops are in it for the right reasons. For sure many cops get into it for wrong reasons (power and control), and since the current system does not clea...
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you for providing the direct reference. I was too lazy to look it up.
[20:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:41] <exec> 08└─If the cops beat you to a bloody pulp, they can (possibly after a trial) walk away scott free. If you merely touch them it can be felony assault. Sorry officer, my mistake. When I saw all of the police cars, I thought I had found the donut shop I was looking for.
[20:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Arizona Cop Threatened to Arrest a 12-Year-Old Journalist -- She Wasn't Backing Down - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:44] <exec> 08└─Does Arizona still have a limit of 2 dildos per household, or is that no longer? Isn't Arizona trying to pass an exception for anti-vaxers so that they can be safe from the dangerous vaccines? Didn't Trump pardon [wikipedia.org] an Arizona Sheriff who broke the law and ignored a court order? Nice. A...
[20:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A World Without Clouds - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:41] <exec> 08└─No, not a coincidence. You just believe in those conspiracies (russia collusion, etc).
[20:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:13] <exec> 08└─With all due respect - shut the hell up. Here are some things that you might not have considered: 1 - You are seeing a brief snapshot. As an example, I gave my kid the youTube Kids babysitter at a Thanksgiving event. 5% of total event. Only after cranky, and well past bedtime. 2 - There isn't anythi...
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[21:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─Well, the price is not a problem. This is a MUST HAVE, you know. A perfect example of: how to extract lots of money from people for something they do not need. At some stage, you will have <fill in absurd feature> for <fill in absurd overprice>. It is a natural marked development.
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:10] <exec> 08└─It's an early adopter price. Maybe Samsung can't make millions of units right now. So they launch it at an absurd price to sell to early adopters who will beta test the product. People are paying $1k for other phones, so it works out.
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─On one hand, I don't feel 18mm or 18Ah is at all unreasonable, as my current phone (Note3 with Zerolemon 10Ah extended battery) measures 17mm through the screen, and 19mm where the edge of the case lips over the phone. And my previous phone (N900 with Mugenpower extended battery) was right around th...
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─Well according to the article, the 16000mah model they announced last year never really made it to market.. so this could just be vaporware. Never knew there were energizer branded phones until now, looks like their marketing campaign worked.
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─Looking at the comments of attendees, they can't really touch or test the folding toys - only the staff are allowed to. So i wonder what the durability of these are..
[21:34:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─An interesting study from your link: Placebo Effects in Oncology [oup.com] The purpose of the present study was to determine the probability of improvement in symptoms or quality of life and tumor response in cancer patients treated with placebos in randomized controlled trials.
[21:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:40] <exec> 08└─To help fix the branding problem start calling it: PLACE-boo 5G! Don't forget the 5G part! It worked for AT&T. And I already suggested on SN that the next USB connector should be called USB 5G. Homeopathy 5G!
[21:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:41] <exec> 08└─So mentioning the chemical names of the fillers in the pill is enough to make people believe they are getting treatment? Is the world's population really stupid enough to be unable to search for stearin, sucrose or magnesium oxide? And find out they are getting zip for medicine?
[21:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:44] <exec> 08└─Anti-vaxxers. Flat-Earthers. Climate Change Deniers. Sex Education and How Your Body Works, How To Avoid Pregnancy deniers. Republicans. etc. It is the government's and everyone else's duty to guarantee my happiness. Doesn't the constitution guarantee my happiness? I shouldn't have to "pursue" happi...
[21:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:46] <exec> 08└─We just teach people positive thinking and good health habits [ . . . ] rather than blatantly lying to them
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─No need to google. When placebo is the first in line and everyone knows that, then placebo stops working.
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─Is the world's population really stupid enough to be unable to search for stearin, sucrose or magnesium oxide?
[21:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:53] <exec> 08└─Most of these treatments do amount to placebos already. All it takes for FDA approval is a treatment with some elaborate backstory and two clinical trials with "significantly significant" improvements. This is only a matter of spending enough money. Also, the FDA does not like approving too many add...
[21:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:55] <exec> 08└─I'll undersell you by a small percent with my 5G Blockchain Synergizer.
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:57] <exec> 08└─Sometimes people with random illnesses (say, a minor viral infection) come to a doctor and demand antibiotics. Antibiotics have no effect on viral infections; they kill off unresistant bacteria. But because the bacteria don't always fully die from the antibiotics (especially when people stop taking...
[21:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:59] <exec> 08└─So here is a thought. What if instead of using the word "placebo"
[21:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:24] <exec> 08└─Yes
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[21:35:41] <exec> 08└─I've had good results with Gingko and Ginseng as well, although I bought the herbs in bulk and made tea rather than buying pills. Epimedium can be fun as well. And of course Valerian and Chamomile are great for sleep (although personally I find Valerian to be a bit too strong for me, knocks me out w...
[21:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─Time has proven that the US government can never become more efficient at anything. If they are wasting $2 Trillion per year, then we just have to deal with that and raise taxes so they have more money to spend on other stuff.
[21:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST Round 2 and Post-Quantum Cryptography, Parts 1-3 - 2898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─Oh well, since no one is commenting here, let me say some things that I'm kind of excited about. The previous crop of vetted and standardised public key algorithms (RSA, DSA, DHKE, ECDHE, ECDSA) are based on modular exponentiation or elliptic curve finite fields. The problems they have is that they...
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[21:41:53] <exec> 08└─The point being that the problematic components of the "piss" gets processed by nature to other less offensive stuff?
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[22:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:02] <exec> 08└─Encryption is one issue where heads can roll if they try to take away our rights, as far as I'm concerned.
[22:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─My choice to use encryption "infects" how much privacy I have.
[22:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:19] <exec> 08└─I recently paid just over $1K for a Pixel 3 XL. But I'm not sold on a folding phone. Maybe I'll give it a look one day when it's time to upgrade phones.
[22:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:20] <exec> 08└─Or maybe extract money from developers who will customize their applications to the device in hopes of a big payday.
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─Just curious as to why the dumbphone? Why not simply get the Pyra model with the phone module in it?
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Bunch of MWC 2019 Stories - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─I do expect to get that version anyway, but my understanding is it probably won't be allowed to work on Sprint's network, and T-mobile's network was (last I checked) awfully spotty around here. (I use Ting, an MVNO that resells both Sprint and T-mobile service.)
[22:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:58] <exec> 08└─One of these things is Not like the others Which of these things Just doesn't be-long~?
[22:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:00] <exec> 08└─A) Yes, that's true of the majority of people. B) Is that a bad thing, in this particular instance? Sure, it's bad overall that the majority of the world population neither knows enough nor cares enough to whip out the cellphone and have Google/Wikipedia explain the unknown contents of these pills t...
[22:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:26] <exec> 08└─I call bearshit on that!
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:36] <exec> 08└─Muahahhaha! But yes you are correct. What we don't have right now (regarding companies collecting personal data) is true informed consent. It may be legal, but there's a lot of bullshit and befuddlement that passes as "legal".
[22:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:39] <exec> 08└─You sir need to look more carefully at USB-C. It goes both ways! The USB-C cable has two male ends. The devices (phone, laptop, desktop doc, wall wart charger, etc) all have female connectors. Since both ends of the cable are male, you first of all don't have to worry about which end of the cable go...
[22:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:41] <exec> 08└─Heh, you make it sound so simple, yet I tried it and it didn't work as described. I flipped it over and it didn't work. I swap the ends and it didn't work! ... I finally realized my female parts doesn't actually take the male parts... shame on you USB-C, you're supposed to be universal but you discr...
[22:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:43] <exec> 08└─...will be to emulate Apple and do away with version numbers altogether. Just call everything "USB" from now on. Just like iPad, iMac etc.
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[23:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─What rights do you think you have, exactly? The reality of encryption is that there are too many tools readily available with such low barriers to acquisition and use that the old saw "when encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will encrypt" applies, in spades. All that the legislators can do is targ...
[23:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─What they can hope for is to make your choice to use encryption a rare enough one that you stand out when you do it. The people in this debate need to not only wrap their heads around the reality of encryption, but also steganography.
[23:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:09] <exec> 08└─We have reached peak idiocy. To get into positions of management, all that is required is to be a political animal. Hence ,knowledge of maths, science and technology is optional. The FBI may be brilliant law enforcement investigators, but no knowing the mathematics of encryption is tantamount to inc...
[23:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:11] <exec> 08└─I have the whole family using Signal now; the impertus was the arrival of another grandchild and me being stubborn and not using FB; FB messenger or WhatsApp (all owned by FB). Email is too cumbersome. My mum doesn't know or care that the contents of the messages are E2E encrypted; she cares that th...
[23:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:13] <exec> 08└─Everyone send a few Terabytes of encrypted gibberish and keep them busy for a few hundred years.
[23:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─What they can hope for is to make your choice to use encryption a rare enough one that you stand out when you do it.
[23:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─In the old days people used to talk to each other all the time and law enforcement could not always listen to their conversations. This is the exact same situation. If law enforcement want to listen in then they will need to install something on the end user's device. This they can already do. There...
[23:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─tow the line..
[23:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─Do you mean that? You got guns to back up your words?
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:24] <exec> 08└─We have reached peak idiocy.
[23:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─...do you really have the vision of the politicians pulling hard on an infinitely long geometrical abstraction?
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─>where heads can roll where heads SHOULD roll, in all countries whose constitution says private communication is a right of the sovereign citizen. Constitutional right INFECTS law enforcement? then law is illegal. Private communication can be used for crimes Yes. Crimes have real world perpetrators...
[23:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:22] <exec> 08└─But you can't give placebos to people and have them work for a couple different reasons. 1) If you tell them "take 3 placebos every 4 hours" the vast majority of people will know it's a sugar pill and does nothing. 2) If you give them a placebo and *tell them* it's something else, how is that not un...
[23:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─With Environmentally Friendly Homeopathic Micro-Blockchain Technology for Maximum Cloudiness.
[23:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:25] <exec> 08└─Not for me it didn't. 45 years ago when I realized that the doctor gave me a placebo, I was so disappointed that I didn't bother to go back to get a real treatment. So the doctor probably thought that it had worked, because I didn't come back... The few times in my life that I go to a doctor and was...
[23:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Placebo has a Branding Problem - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:28] <exec> 08└─1. Bullshit pill 2. Ignorance is Bliss pill 3. Sales Works pill 4. Fake News is Good News pill 5. Spin to Win pill 6. Shuddup it Just Works pill 7. $50 Sugar pill 9. I Skipped 8 pill
[23:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─its star tracker, which helps determine its position in space, was sensitive to being blinded by the sun's rays
[23:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:56] <exec> 08└─I wanna see moon-lander battle-bots
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beresheet Lander Bound For The Moon Hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:58] <exec> 08└─small budget of about $100 million, and as a result, it carries few of the backup systems that are included in typical NASA spacecraft.
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thunderbolt Enables Severe Security Threats - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:28] <exec> 08└─Cool info. Also, "defences" is correct. So is "colours". "Rite" is wrong. :P
[23:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:44] <exec> 08└─The point is to blur the line between scientific and relgious activities: The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a philanthropic organization that reflects the ideas of its founder, John Templeton, who became wealthy after a career as a contrarian investor and wanted to support prog...
[23:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:45] <exec> 08└─Just look at what happened to these "physicists".
[23:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:47] <exec> 08└─"Fake universe, totally rigged, believe me! I bet CNN runs the simulator, dirty losers! At least we're not one of those sh@thole universes where people have faces on their ass. Build a Dyson Wall around those dirtbags before they steal Saturn's golden rings. #MakeUniverseRealAgain!"
[23:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:49] <exec> 08└─Prediction: they will eventually predict that nothing is real.
[23:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIST Round 2 and Post-Quantum Cryptography, Parts 1-3 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:45] <exec> 08└─The one problem for those ones you talk about is that the standard use of these will probably be TLS or other network-based encryption. The different network people whine about the TCP handshake overhead, so I'd hate to see them when we adopt a lattice system that requires a key exchange of several...
[23:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 is Going to Make the Current USB Branding Even Worse - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:23] <exec> 08└─I hear you are having issues with brand confusion; I think that we can generally agree that you have no idea how to name things. How about we make a small change and simplify things. I propose we change the naming to something we can all agree on; it is the speed that matters. USB 3.0 / USB 3.1 Gen...
[23:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other! - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know about in the movie, but I believe in the book of The Last Jedi that's basically what the executioners' axes are.
[23:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:22] <exec> 08└─ATI/AMD has always made solid hardware. Their drivers have always been very hit or miss. For me miss. To the point I actively do not buy ATI hardware. Even if it is called AMD these days. Their CPUs on the other hand. No real issues.
[23:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Plays Catch-Up with Ryzen Mobile Drivers - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:24] <exec> 08└─Hopefully tunnel field-effect transistors [wikipedia.org], air channel transistors [soylentnews.org], or some other kind will reduce voltages and power consumption to the point where the laptop and desktop TDPs can converge. Phones will still be significantly less powerful due to space constraints....
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