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[00:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06InSight Impinges Insufficiently in Site - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:11] <exec> 08└─Or why did they translate the depth into hockey pucks? I mean we're talking about space exploration here, so 1.3 nanodistancesfromearthtomoon would've been clearly understandable. But hockey pucks?
[00:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06InSight Impinges Insufficiently in Site - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:13] <exec> 08└─Well, hockey rinks just seemed silly at that scale.
[00:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06InSight Impinges Insufficiently in Site - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:15] <exec> 08└─Not right now.
[00:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:37] <exec> 08└─You forget Windows CE.
[00:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:38] <exec> 08└─How about Microsoft Bob-bitt. Cut down version that gets pieced together awkwardly and will end up just playing pornos...after hitting you AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN
[00:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:55] <exec> 08└─Well, if Google's internal data search capability is anything like its search engine, I can completely understand how employees wouldn't know what the hell was going on inside the company. Biggest and perhaps best search engine in the world
[00:35:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 358 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:18] <exec> 08└─I agree to pick one and stick with it. But PLEASE pick the one that puts 12:00 Noon at the time of day when the sun is directly overhead. All other things are simply conventions of choosing what hours a store will be open, or when people will go to bed, etc. We open and close an hour later in the su...
[00:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:00] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. There's no such thing as "permanent DST" - what you mean is "I wish I was in the timezone next to mine". 6+1 is 7+0, always, everywhere.
[00:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:02] <exec> 08└─Kaiser Wilhelm was a Nazi? Damn, those bosch was more advanced than I thought!
[00:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:04] <exec> 08└─There should be no *code* changes unless you're doing things very wrong. There are already thousands of lines of how different timezone identities have mapped onto different offsets at different periods of modern history. If you're not using that to deal with local times, then you're doing things wr...
[00:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:06] <exec> 08└─Hawaii and Alaska just called...
[00:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:08] <exec> 08└─BST all your round is CET all year round. Why would you want to promote scrapping DST because it's a retarded conceit, yet perpetuate the idea that DST should be considered a thing? You want Britain to be in CET. End of. Of course, France and Spain are clearly in the wrong time zone, and they should...
[00:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:11] <exec> 08└─but I think every person whose views don't suck ass want that to increase to over half, soon.
[00:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Years Of Using Spark To Build Cubesat Nano Satellites With Students - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:03] <exec> 08└─It's a modem language more suited for satellites. It has no possibility of being updated, since attempting to do so would trigger dependency errors.
[00:38:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06A Month Without Sunspots: February 2019 - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:11] <exec> 08└─It's global warming of course.
[00:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:26] <exec> 08└─government and corporations, then mafia Are not as distinct as they appear on TV. They are primary motivators, like red, blue, and green are primary colors. Combine the three and get the whole picture.
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─Ethics outside the human realm is insane! Ethics are simply tools to sell the goals of your empire to other humans, so they will kill for you, and it will be a just killing. You don't have to "sell" anything to AI (Oy! how stupid that "word"!). You want compliance, service, not stupid masturbatory p...
[00:39:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Forget USB 3.2: Thunderbolt 3 Will Become the Basis of USB 4 - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:58] <exec> 08└─I have a bad feeling about this, and I am not even Han Solo!
[00:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:53] <exec> 08└─And once again we are witness to more moderation abuse. She finds the truth that repulsive, yet she can't look away, instead feigning anger in her self loathing. She tries so hard to curse and break the mirror! Sure is fun to watch!
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[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─I had an exam where they actually gave you a theoretical subject book you had to read and understand along with the test, on a subject not real. It made sure you were actually smart enough for the certification. There was no way to cheat and 90% failed, but I passed.
[01:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─I'm not from Danishland, so my opinion doesn't really matter, but I never was allowed to use anything other than a simple calculator during tests. If computers are necessary, then they should create a Linux live image on USB keys that they require to be used to access any course materials or even th...
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─I believe that it was on the Reddit thread someone pointed out that their exam involved CAD drawings, and some other schools used CAS (Computer Algebra System), so you need a computer to do the exam. Paper&pen won't cut it. Also, many schools switch from paper&pen to computers around the age of 12 b...
[01:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─I think would have been a wiser choice. A locked-down bootable USB could be circumvented by booting it in a VM and doing your cheating on the host. You also have the problem if the required tools aren't available for Linux, but that is a separate can of worms. I'm old enough to also have had the sam...
[01:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:12] <exec> 08└─"digital exam invigilator" That sounds vaguely obscene and possibly painful. Like something aliens might use on you when they capture you.
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06InSight Impinges Insufficiently in Site - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:25] <exec> 08└─The Mole was able to push aside one subsurface rock at a depth of 13 centimeters (~5 hockey pucks stacked vertically) and reach a final depth of 50 centimeters/1.6 feet (a stack of 20 pucks)
[01:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InSight Impinges Insufficiently in Site - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:27] <exec> 08└─What, there are rocks in Mars? But it looks so smooth on the surface.
[01:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:51] <exec> 08└─That option has effectively existed already. Think there was an Acer Aspire netbook/hybrid tablet or Asus Eeeeeepc that came bundled with a package for instating an Android x86 dual boot setup. Don't think it caught on.
[01:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it is bizarre that Microsoft keeps trying to throw its old advantages out of the window in order to compete, in era of slight but still significant hardware gains at the low-end. ChromeOS is expanding by adding Android and Linux application support, while Windows is trying to punch down to a p...
[01:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:09] <exec> 08└─I've seen them going downhill for years. I'm possibly the reigning world champion for using various search box tricks to try to narrow down searches or make them more specific, only to be told after a bunch of incremental efforts that I must be a bot, so no Google for me.
[01:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:20] <exec> 08└─West coast tech companies should just only release software with pacific time. Fuck everyone else. Alaska is PST+1 and DC is PST-3.
[01:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:22] <exec> 08└─This got modded +5 insightful within 20 minutes of me saying it. That tells me there are a lot of people who don't care DST vs standard, we're all really tired of changing the faruking time twice a year. Old joke. Egypt king at the time was Farouk. Subsidized University degrees in plumbing. Hence Fa...
[01:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Month Without Sunspots: February 2019 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:51] <exec> 08└─this is why we can't have Solar Energy. Because it only works when the sun is VERY BRIGHT!! Ah! This explains why you haven't worked a day in your life! :-D Peace! MuBrutha! You still the man!
[01:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Month Without Sunspots: February 2019 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:53] <exec> 08└─When are people going to finally wake up and realize how badly our pollution is affecting the entire solar system?!
[01:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget USB 3.2: Thunderbolt 3 Will Become the Basis of USB 4 - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:26] <exec> 08└─I don't really care about 5G or 6G or 20G or 150TB/s, for anything like that I'll use mSATA/M2/whatever or ethernet and not some serial port on steroids. What I really want in USB is a single connector and the ability to plug A into B and it'll just work. I'd actually go back to 12Mbps USB just to h...
[01:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Is Sinking. Here's What That Means for Lake Michigan and the Midwest - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:09] <exec> 08└─"I wish they'd hurry up and build the Barack Obama Library." This is Illinois. When have they ever done anything fast other than make money disappear? ;)
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[02:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:07] <exec> 08└─The most secure password is the one that can never be stolen.
[02:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:08] <exec> 08└─Oblig XKCD: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[02:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:10] <exec> 08└─Unreadable password doesn't necessarily mean it's secure. Most hacking attempt aren't done by some dude typing around and hoping it works, there's tools that either go by dictionary or the long way by brute forcing. The only way you want to secure a box would be (mix-match): - Not connected to netwo...
[02:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:23] <exec> 08└─They can always just require you to let them boot the system for you, and use their own monitoring software to detect any reboots. The specific software they mentioned is not the only option. There are Linux tools if you own the image. Another consideration is LAN only. No outgoing connections.
[02:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:24] <exec> 08└─Invigilator:: (British) A person who keeps watch over students at an examination. Yes, that word was new to me too, but it best fits the exact goal of the software, so that's why I chose that translation.
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─I mean, it's only going to catch dumbasses and dumbasses weren't going to get a good grade to begin with, so what's the problem? Anyone with a lick of sense is just going to ssh over anywhere else and pull up lynx. Or run the browser in a VM instead of the test. And if they're smart enough to figure...
[02:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:29] <exec> 08└─I'm more of the opinion that if the school requires a computer for testing, then the school should supply the computer. The Danes are doing something wrong here. Of course, it isn't just the Danes - most of the rest of the world is doing wrong in different ways.
[02:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:31] <exec> 08└─A 60-year-old man with acute pancreatitis developed persistent hiccups after insertion of a nasogastric tube. Removal of the latter did not terminate the hiccups which had also been treated with different drugs, and several manoeuvres were attempted, but with no success. Digital rectal massage was t...
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:33] <exec> 08└─The ultimate disproof of Intelligent Design.
[02:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:35] <exec> 08└─One of my best friends was an invigilator for a few years. He had a few good stories - some students came up with highly ingenious ways to cheat. Most often, they would give themselves away by looking suspicious though. Interestingly, virtually all of the cheating students belonged to one specific c...
[02:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:38] <exec> 08└─Note: The age group affected by this are 15-19 years old. Most schools do not _require_ the student to have a computer, but you'll be at a disadvantage if you don't have one. Providing personal computers would not be a good idea - you can guess how they would be treated. Instead it's BYOD, but that...
[02:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:40] <exec> 08└─And if they're smart enough to figure out how to circumvent lameass protections, they're smart enough to pass to without cheating.
[02:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:21] <exec> 08└─I do not play on a PC anymore - it's expensive, unstable, uses annoying licensing... consoles are more convenient.
[02:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:22] <exec> 08└─Google May Allow Windows 10 to Dual-Boot or Run Alongside ChromeOS on Chromebooks [soylentnews.org] Put the full Windows 10 instead of the latest CE/S version. Windows RAM requirements have declined IIRC and Chromebooks are usually packing 4 GB minimum instead of 2 GB. Storage should only be a probl...
[02:35:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:38] <exec> 08└─Well, if Google's internal data search capability is anything like its search engine, I can completely understand how employees wouldn't know what the hell was going on inside the company. Biggest and perhaps best search engine in the world
[02:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:41] <exec> 08└─Huh, much worse than I imagined. Sounds like a bad case of too many fingers in the pie. I haven't noticed, because I switched to Duck Duck Go years ago. I only try other search engines, including Google, when DDG turns up nothing.
[02:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, that! People don't seem to realize that it might be alright to go to work at 6:00 AM, and work until 2:30 PM. Or, maybe even start work at 4:00 AM. Some people, like bankers, understand that it's alright to start work at 9:00 AM. Working construction, we often moved our work times. As a rule, w...
[02:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:55] <exec> 08└─And, how does that affect your drive? Does your engine run better in one time zone than in another? Does your credit card stop working? The radio cuts out? Does the clock on your dashboard go crazy?
[02:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:57] <exec> 08└─Daylight Saving was not created to save fuel. It was created to 'normalise' the time that the sun comes up each day. This was largely irrelevant in the pre-industrial era - people got up with the sun and did their work. That meant they woke up earlier in Summer and later in Winter. Once set working...
[02:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:00] <exec> 08└─Just an old fart that lived thru hours of darkness heading to school versus the snowflakes of today. And unfortunately I live in Texas, and have missed the "high noon" hangings of the old days. /sarcasm
[02:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:02] <exec> 08└─Most people work roughly 8-5, or maybe 9-6, and that seems to be the way we like it. At least, all attempts at flex-time seem to fail pretty miserably.
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[03:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:11] <exec> 08└─That's old news man. Many of the current attacks are correlating the password from a similar username at a different domain. One of the many whose password databases have been exfiltrated over the past decade or two. People that are still using the same password they set up 20 years ago for their ya...
[03:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:34] <exec> 08└─As you can see from the hockey-stick graph showing the increase in atmospheric temperature since the industrial revolution, the atmospheric temperature is absolutely not increasing and climate change isn't real.
[03:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:52] <exec> 08└─I work 3rd shift at a business that is 24/7/365. Whether you start at 7am, 8am, or 9am doesn't really make any difference to me at all.
[03:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:54] <exec> 08└─Large fraction of people like the extra hour of light after work in summer...you can do stuff outside after work.
[03:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:56] <exec> 08└─For whatever reason, people seem to be wedded to an 8-5 or 9-6 workday.
[03:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:41] <exec> 08└─I can hide all my pot plants before the cops show up.
[03:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welding Breakthrough Could Transform Manufacturing - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:22] <exec> 08└─My vote's for a solid block of Lucite.
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[04:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:06] <exec> 08└─There should be a tax for every text sent while in a work zone, double if it is something dumb like an emoji.
[04:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:08] <exec> 08└─People can't drive, DUH! Just make the damn self driving cars a reality, ok?
[04:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:10] <exec> 08└─People can't even people right, just make unconstrained self-aware AIs a reality, OK?
[04:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you- you beat me to posting it. I'll add another layer for all the idiots who think requiring mixed-case, symbols, 2FA, etc., make things safer: I can not remember them, so I'm forced to have several written paper copies, and also have them stored in easily found files. Brilliant.
[04:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:43] <exec> 08└─If you're capable of finding out what you don't know within time constraints of the test, does it matter? You're at the very least going to be better at whatever you do than the dipshits who wrote this piece of garbage.
[04:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 2755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:47] <exec> 08└─Well, Google, you fucked up. One way or another you fucked up. Which way did you fuck up? Did you fuck up by manufacturing the misogynerd narrative? Did you fuck up by saying that anybody can program without an understanding of very basic middle-school level algebra? Did you fuck up by convincing th...
[04:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Month Without Sunspots: February 2019 - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:39] <exec> 08└─Then where the hell was it in January, when it was so warm in Montana that the grass started greening up? Our punishment for this pleasant state of affairs being that now we're having January again, down to -24F night before last. I think my calendar is broken.
[04:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Month Without Sunspots: February 2019 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:41] <exec> 08└─You mean it's cooked the sun too??! Of interest: Professor Valentina Zharkova: The Solar Magnetic Field and the Terrestrial Climate https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Grand Solar Minimum, here we come...
[04:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crypthulhu [914] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Month Without Sunspots: February 2019 - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:43] <exec> 08└─Just in case anyone is curious, this has been affecting radio wave propagation very negatively recently. I've heard rumor that it's part of the reason amateur radio isn't as popular as it once was. It's much harder to get long distances with no sun spots lighting up the atmosphere.
[04:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:30] <exec> 08└─\\\\ ------------------------> //// An extra one for you.....
[04:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Ambitious Plan to Build the World's Biggest Supergrid - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:47] <exec> 08└─I've used both arc(stick) and MIG. You can push 140 amps AC through a stick welder and it still takes a bit of skill to maintain an arc, and it will drop off somewhere between 0 and 6mm. As you could see with your PV panels, you can easily (and accidentally) create a 75mm arc with 20amps DC, and 20...
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[05:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:05] <exec> 08└─Fools soon to be parted with their money.
[05:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:07] <exec> 08└─The First Ones up Against the Wall When the Revolution Comes.
[05:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:09] <exec> 08└─Laika(s)
[05:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:11] <exec> 08└─Laikas with their Leicas would like to be called "touronauts"?
[05:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker [wikipedia.org]
[05:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:32] <exec> 08└─I'm seeing all these comments, especially the one linking to XKCD and the one about unreadable passwords. The whole point of the articles is to point out that the above password is a standard encoding in Taiwan for the phrase "my password" in Chinese. Not very secure and I'm sure the blackhats that...
[05:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:55] <exec> 08└─So... all this fuss, and possibly corrupting or opening security vulnerabilities on the student's computer ... And AFAICT, they still have no way to detect that the student is consulting sources paper books, or any other computer or handheld device, or a coach.
[05:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:40] <exec> 08└─I understand Microsoft's evil. They simply want to make money and will do anything they can to achieve that goal. Google on the other hand appears to want to force me to change myself to better suit their ideals of what I should be, fuck Google.
[05:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:22] <exec> 08└─Potentially helpful, but problems with cost limit how much nuclear is reasonable. I think it's a necessary part of the mix, for the same reasons I'm asking this question about DST(peak usage times not matching peak production), but there's no reason to believe gen4 nuclear reactors will be cheaper t...
[05:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ls671 [891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:23] <exec> 08└─You don't need to be familiar with Texas, this feature is universal and depends on how close you are from the equator (or how far from the poles). Since Texas is closer to equator than almost any other state, the difference should be negligible. As a reminder, if you live straight on the equator, ea...
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[06:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:09] <exec> 08└─astro-nots
[06:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─astro-nuts
[06:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:13] <exec> 08└─crash test dummies?
[06:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:15] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it suck to be the Last Ones up Against the Wall When the Revolution Comes? I mean, you're just barely important enough to do away with, but still too tainted to be allowed to repent or whatever.
[06:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:17] <exec> 08└─But our Historic Tax Cut is for ALL AMERICANS -- especially our precious Companies. And Jeff got more out of that one than anybody. So when you're floating over our fabulous Planet, don't forget to clap. For our #SenateGOP [twitter.com] and #HouseGOP [twitter.com] who worked very hard on that one. B...
[06:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:19] <exec> 08└─ass-troill-nuts.
[06:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:42] <exec> 08└─The past few months I've gotten many emails from supposed hackers. It states they've owned my machine, they tell me my password, and that they'll release to the public all the videos from my webcam that they've recorded of me watching weird porn. They demand bitcoins be sent to them promptly. Of cou...
[06:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:06] <exec> 08└─Cheating, exams, ah, the tales... It is a serious problem, and internationalization doesn't help: some cultures really don't seem to see the problem. In one extreme case, I had a student ask me why I didn't distribute the answers ahead of time, like he was used to from home. I teach programming exam...
[06:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:07] <exec> 08└─Some of these systems will check for signs of a VM and simply not allow you to start the exam if they suspect anything odd. There are many ways that to detect the possibility of running in a VM and they only have to be "mostly" sure to get suspicious and not allow the exam to start. When looking int...
[06:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:10] <exec> 08└─Otherwise known as the Prostate Check. Word to the wise, get a woman doctor to do that one. Hopefully one with SHORT FINGERNAILS!
[06:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:14] <exec> 08└─You speak the truth. I didn't feel it was much of a downgrade to switch to DDG. Not that DDG is as good as Google used to be. But I can get some results without feeding the monster.
[06:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:23] <exec> 08└─Funny thing is, i pretty much do that. I turn off database logging in a postgres server for auth and use 14 rounds of bcrypt to generate a hash. The hash generation takes 4.7 seconds. That's a speedbump, literally. You're not brute forcing that. Bcrypt [postgresql.org]
[06:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:03] <exec> 08└─The current fad seems to be to pretend that machine learning is the only way to do AI. It isn't, as no doubt anyone who'd dabbled in that space for more than 5 minutes before the present (third, as I reckon it) wave of hype around AI began will happily confirm. The second wave was much more interest...
[06:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Ambitious Plan to Build the World's Biggest Supergrid - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:21] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm better at welding than I thought, so thanks. I've done as low as 10 amps (might have been 12) with 1/16" stick (rod). I was using a beautiful huge old Westinghouse beast that weighed more than an average person could lift. I think the lowest official setting was 20 amps with 230 VAC in,...
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[07:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:06] <exec> 08└─And it will not hurt performance but increase it: Don't run JavaScript.
[07:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:07] <exec> 08└─"Don't run JavaScript." That's not really the point. Sure, maybe Javascript can be used as an attack vector, but so can a zillion other things. Speculative execution was always a dumb idea. Sure, it gains a couple of percent performance on certain tasks, but this in return for a massive increase in...
[07:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:24] <exec> 08└─Instead of such gawkers lift up some useful payload.
[07:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:26] <exec> 08└─Ass-tourists Bonus if you land them near Bangkok.
[07:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:28] <exec> 08└─These welcome successes have raised a question, however: just what do we call these people?
[07:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:30] <exec> 08└─No not unwanted communications.
[07:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:32] <exec> 08└─The B ark.
[07:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:35] <exec> 08└─What else?
[07:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:57] <exec> 08└─On the XKCD link: If there's anything about passwords, someone will post the link. It's just how the internet works. I didn't actually follow the link because I'm reasonably sure it's the "correct hose battery staple", again.
[07:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:59] <exec> 08└─As an addendum to this subject, you're not clever. Whatever scheme you have come up with for passwords, someone else has come up with also. Multiple people, in fact, including password cracker developers. Among these include various patterns on common keyboard layouts (qazwsxedc), various permutatio...
[07:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:01] <exec> 08└─2FA does make things safer. And in many cases, having a good password written on paper is much more secure than having a bad password that's written down nowhere, especially if you keep it at a place not easily seen (like in your pocket). Of course storing passwords in an unencrypted file is utterly...
[07:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:03] <exec> 08└─To be or not to be. -- Shakespeare To do is to be. -- Nietzsche To be is to do. -- Sartre Do be do be do. -- Sinatra
[07:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:30] <exec> 08└─I believe that it was on the Reddit thread someone pointed out that their exam involved CAD drawings, and some other schools used CAS (Computer Algebra System), so you need a computer to do the exam. Paper&pen won't cut it. Then give them a keypunch and plenty of card stock ;) Seriously though, if t...
[07:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:32] <exec> 08└─Do you even need to know your way around? Having your sister's iPhone on the desk next to you seems to be out of the realm of possibility .. lol is my old man protecting someone elses network?
[07:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06InSight Impinges Insufficiently in Site - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:48] <exec> 08└─I saw the other movie. The one where they want to drill down a planet, so they ask some random hermit scientist who's built a death array of spinning lasers which can drill at high speed. They really should have called that guy before going to Mars, duh!
[07:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:39] <exec> 08└─I have lots of money. And I'm not the biggest fan of Google. What's the best Search?
[07:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:40] <exec> 08└─Bing, if you're looking for porn. And you are.
[07:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:04] <exec> 08└─I wrote that before watching the video linked in some post above in which it is mentioned the Kaiser was the first to implement DST. Still, perhaps that explains Hitler -- you know, not getting enough sleep when he was in the trenches during the time shift caused permanent mental/social defects or s...
[07:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:51] <exec> 08└─Sgt. Pepper!
[07:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:53] <exec> 08└─If the person with the database knows just one password they can solve the “how many times to hash” problem. The pepper then needs brute forcing, but that’s no more difficult than having. A longer salt.
[07:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:55] <exec> 08└─So an additional salt (which is all this "pepper" is) makes my passwords MORE secure? Why stop at 2 salts? I'm adding A THIRD ONE, and I shall call it: MSG!!!
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[08:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:08] <exec> 08└─Hydra, the g is silent.
[08:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:09] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps a test tool, I am symantically unclear. How much do you suppose Larry Ellison would pay for a Ghidra-Resistant Binary Executable Shrouder? I'm gonna get me some $$$$$ pussy now!
[08:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:12] <exec> 08└─I assumed it was pronounced like the early English dubs of ギドラ [wikipedia.org].
[08:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:41] <exec> 08└─Cargo. Paying Cargo.
[08:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:43] <exec> 08└─During the Great Depression, one of many economic crises brought about by feckless Republican administrations, Ranchers looked at abysmal cattle prices and turned to running tourists drawn by the Myth of the West, and the Romance of the Cowboy way. They called them "dudes". A reference to inappropri...
[08:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:10] <exec> 08└─Or was it "right ass terminal clip"? (and I've not even bothered to pemute the words for extra wrongness. That's one reason I hate that XKCD - it overlooks the very point it's trying to make. We think, and remember, conceptually, rather than verbatim. Rndom common words are just as liable for misrem...
[08:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:12] <exec> 08└─Not come across this specific "encoding" before, but I did read an article a professional password cracker (e.g. for people who have "died" and supposedly locked up [bbc.com] millions of dollars of other people's crypto tokens in on their laptop) who discussed using similar mapping conversions like...
[08:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:42] <exec> 08└─Allow them to use internet and any and all sources they can find, you know like real life. Just limit the time to do the exam. This way clueless people who go surfing will surely lose to people who know the things asked. I definitely wouldn't install a proprietary keylogger on my computer, even if I...
[08:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:03] <exec> 08└─Clickbait is good for you and me. Everybody gets angry and nobody learns anything. I know what they do it but what I don't know is why SN does it...
[08:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Ambitious Plan to Build the World's Biggest Supergrid - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:03] <exec> 08└─Those big old welders are nice to use, they seem smoother somehow. I'm not sure running it on 110V drops the current, it should drop the voltage. I'm really not sure about that though, USA wiring is odd. The 110V is effectively a centre-tap on 220V. I would say doing nice welds with a 10A or 20A sti...
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[09:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:09] <exec> 08└─You know, the three-headed monster, perhaps an allusion to three letter acronym or pick three of (NSA, CIA, SRO, FBI, ...). The new Netflix animated "Godzilla" Episode 3 has King Ghidora as an interesting plot device.
[09:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 1933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:10] <exec> 08└─Comparing the current equivalents that are not junk: Ghidra (pronounced with a hard G, an evil-sounding breathy H, and an I drawn out like EEEE) is free, including the decompilers. It is sadly written in Java. It supports undo/redo and collaboration. There is a built-in assembler for modifying binar...
[09:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:12] <exec> 08└─Ghidra was a work-alike substitute monster in Final Fantasy, used in place of Ghidora or Ghidorah.
[09:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ls671 [891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:15] <exec> 08└─You don't get it. It is a trojan gift to us all. Who is going to reverse engineer the reverse engineering tool anyway :)
[09:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─There is also one more protection: Don't write crappy software so it can run on a slower hardware. Is it hard to abandon resource-hungry frameworks? Or optimize algorithm after it's developed? Using definitions for debugging to make release a release, not a console "cat-on-a-keyboard" text generator...
[09:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─actually disabling javascript is a pretty good solution. This attack is a threat if the attacker can run arbitrary code on your CPU. That happens on rented virtual machines (heh, the cloud) or in the web browser (via javascript) or if you are foolish enough to run apps on your phone. In most other c...
[09:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:51] <exec> 08└─their money will be used to advance the required science and technology. they are literally funding humanity's future. common sense tells me that if they're this rich they are not nice people, but this particular activity is nice.
[09:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:52] <exec> 08└─Cargo Ballast?
[09:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:54] <exec> 08└─Cargo Ballast?
[09:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:53] <exec> 08└─How to you prevent/detect cheating during exams?
[09:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:54] <exec> 08└─If you're capable of finding out what you don't know within time constraints of the test, does it matter?
[09:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:56] <exec> 08└─Some of these systems will check for signs of a VM and simply not allow you to start the exam if they suspect anything odd. There are many ways that to detect the possibility of running in a VM and they only have to be "mostly" sure to get suspicious and not allow the exam to start.
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[10:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:18] <exec> 08└─I say "Gedra"
[10:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:20] <exec> 08└─The project manager does not necessarily decide how it is pronounced. Example: gif.
[10:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:57] <exec> 08└─We already had the same situation with airplanes. In the beginning, only few people flew in airplanes. We called them pilots. Then later, ordinary people were allowed to share a ride (but not to take actual control of the plane). We called them passengers. So my suggestion is to do the same with spa...
[10:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:59] <exec> 08└─Ballast like the weight to be taken as handicap. Isn't there use for something called "reactive mass", you know, something to throw forcefully in opposite direction of the direction you want to go?
[10:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:28] <exec> 08└─You can't beat Bayes.
[10:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:02] <exec> 08└─Instead of monitoring the network, disallow it. It shouldn't be too hard to detect devices trying to connect to a network (they emit certain signals, after all), and if your device does so, you're disqualified.
[10:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:03] <exec> 08└─Dunno what the long-term solution is, but we surely haven't found it yet.
[10:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:05] <exec> 08└─Would you be willing to undergo surgery by a doctor whose only "experience" on that is information he digested from books or digital resources, even if that knowledge is reliably tested in exams? I certainly would hope that whoever does their first surgery has before assisted many other surgeries le...
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[11:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:38] <exec> 08└─I am only going to pronounce it as an Italian would do and.... oh it's exactly the same.
[11:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:49] <exec> 08└─I have always wondered how much is gained by speculative execution but have never seen any studies about it except for the numbers of the manufacturers (they much exist, maybe someone can point them out). IRRC, the Power architecture used to have (still has?) a single bit in the instruction that ind...
[11:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:20] <exec> 08└─Fits their environmental footprint.
[11:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:21] <exec> 08└─Self explanatory.
[11:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:23] <exec> 08└─That has consistently proven untrue for centuries. With few altruistic-based exceptions, the only things rich people move forward with their money is stuff only they care about, which is usually completely detached from the realities of ordinary people. Advances that profit everybody usually come ab...
[11:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:25] <exec> 08└─Be it in Florida or in low-Earth orbit, they behave like bullish idiots, waste the time of those who truly lives there, have money burning their pockets, and I want to be as far away from them as possible.
[11:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:28] <exec> 08└─Is it compulsory? Some might pay more.. while others might decide not to go..
[11:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:30] <exec> 08└─as far as the european poor of the middle ages were concerned, supporting explorers such as Columbus was a good thing. I think that objectively there are more descendants of Europeans alive today because of access to other continents back then. And I agree, investors into those expeditions got plent...
[11:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:41] <exec> 08└─Sure it's not 31? Or 17?
[11:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:02] <exec> 08└─Of course, anyone with a minimum thinking ability will see that "webcam videos of you watching weird porn" make no sense at all, since even if you happen to watch weird porn, and they managed to hack your computer and silently activate your web cam while you did, the web cam will not be able to catc...
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[12:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:13] <exec> 08└─The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to individual differences in cerebral surface area in children has been unclear.
[12:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Fears DarkMatter 'Misuse' Of Browser For Hacking - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:20] <exec> 08└─I fear that Mozilla is going to lose a lot of users if they go ahead with this.
[12:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─Who is going to reverse engineer the reverse engineering tool anyway :)
[12:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:49] <exec> 08└─Speculative execution always seemed to me to be a hardware hack to make software faster when the same benefits could have been achieved through better compilers/language designs.
[12:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:26] <exec> 08└─Red shirts.
[12:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:59] <exec> 08└─The emails actually covered this, by claiming to have recorded both the porn stream and the webcam of the viewer, and splicing/split screening them together. Forgive my less than clear explanation of what the fake emails actually stated; I summarized too much.
[12:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:01] <exec> 08└─I've started getting 10's of those _a day_ recently. I wish that we could watch their bitcoin addresses and chop their nasty little fingers off when they touch it.
[12:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's great: they send the problems to their paid friend in Hungary or wherever, get the answers back, and voila: an unqualified nitwit scores a top grade.
[12:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:39] <exec> 08└─After passing that test, I wouldn't care too much whether a single question of an exam years ago was answered correctly by pure luck.
[12:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:25] <exec> 08└─Remember there was CE, ME, and NT. CEMENT.
[12:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:13] <exec> 08└─First and foremost, I want the UK to scrap DST and the changing the clocks twice a year. So now the clocks are not changing it is just a matter of selecting what time zone to belong to. I would prefer to be in the same time zone as the rest of Europe as it would make my personal life easier (often w...
[12:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:14] <exec> 08└─Not historically, really. DST may not have been proposed by Hudson or Willett as a means to save fuel, but the first adoption of it was by Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I, and the reason for it was to save coal, i.e. fuel.
[12:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:05] <exec> 08└─You can 'pepper' your own passwords. If you have separate passwords for each site/application that need passwords, then the recommendation is that you use a password manager to keep track of them all (and maybe do things like auto-type passwords into password fields for you). This obviously has a ri...
[12:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:47] <exec> 08└─You're still making the wrong argument. You don't kill all humans for ethical or moral reasons, you do it because it's fun.
[12:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:48] <exec> 08└─I can't decide if this is Redundant or Informative.
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[13:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:14] <exec> 08└─We're all so well fed anymore that research is starting to ignore the natural developmental aspects of malnutrition. Of course there's a genetic component to brain structure and growth, without genes there'd be no body growing, much less a brain. And, of course there's an environmental component, wi...
[13:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:15] <exec> 08└─There's also a strong correlation between autism and insufficient sunlight for mothers during pregnancy. On another level, unrelated to autism, indoctrination is also a form of malnutrition.
[13:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Fears DarkMatter 'Misuse' Of Browser For Hacking - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:24] <exec> 08└─Giving the certificates pass would be absolutely ridiculous. It's like: "Oh a hitman wants to buy a gun", hmmm he never killed the gun salesman before so it is ok.
[13:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:41] <exec> 08└─Code obfuscation isn't all that hard, if you don't care about performance. I thought this was evident in Oracle, Microsoft, and many other products since they were introduced.
[13:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:54] <exec> 08└─In practice, the chance would be much lower in most cases. For a loop, the roll-back would be required in 1/N cases, where N is the iteration count. If you add profiler information, the roll-back chance can also be reduced for if-statements. The branch bit can even be patched into the binary and onl...
[13:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:31] <exec> 08└─OK, I have a few suggestions: GuestronautsTouronautsTouristonauts (probably not)Rich? Just my $/£ 0.0000000001.
[13:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:33] <exec> 08└─They come in small bunches and are a pain in the ass. So:- Hemorrhoids
[13:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:35] <exec> 08└─I'm sure almost everyone onboard will be male. I won't loosen my seatbelt to look out of the window.
[13:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:48] <exec> 08└─To put it in context: Gymnasiale Uddannelser do correspond to the American High School, but more specifically to the senior years, i.e. the ages from 15 to 18. The best corresponding English equivalent would be Sixth Form. Gymnasiale Uddannelser are normally considered more academic than alternative...
[13:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:16] <exec> 08└─> rebuild the live password database to use the new pepper and then switch it to live use. Given the algorithm of SHA256(password + salt + pepper), doesn't that require you to store the password in the clear? Hash functions are irreversible - you can't 'undo' the previous hash to generate a new one....
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[14:34:37] <exec> 08└─Comparing the current equivalents that are not junk: Ghidra (pronounced with a hard G, an evil-sounding breathy H, and an I drawn out like EEEE) is free, including the decompilers. It is sadly written in Java. It supports undo/redo and collaboration. There is a built-in assembler for modifying binar...
[14:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:38] <exec> 08└─This is the most logical answer here.
[14:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:50] <exec> 08└─A quick look suggests that accidents on the job are most likely to be falls, and workers hit in construction zones are a small player. Why all this drama?
[14:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:51] <exec> 08└─> People can't drive, DUH! 1) Well, since they haven't yet figured out how to make safe self-driving-trains (seems like a simple problem...but they keep crashing), what makes you think that self driving cars are going to be safe? 2) I guess I'm not a "people", since I can drive. Stick shift, no phon...
[14:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:53] <exec> 08└─Well, it depends on whether it's measured in US Football Fields or Canadian Ice Hockey Rinks.
[14:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:56] <exec> 08└─I've had programming exams and also made one. All open book, on a school provided computer, but that wouldn't matter. When the student finished the tasks you go sit beside them, look over the work together and ask some questions. A. Some questions on the task to make sure you understand what he/she...
[14:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:58] <exec> 08└─The Windows version is a shitty clickonce .Net app, so I bundled it for a nice download of all the dependencies without having to install. https://0x0.st [0x0.st] The student who analysed this used: https://www.jetbrains.com [jetbrains.com] This is his blog post (in danish): http...
[14:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:00] <exec> 08└─I had a student ask me why I didn't distribute the answers ahead of time, like he was used to from home.
[14:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:02] <exec> 08└─By the looks of the amount of people doing analysis on it in the reddit thread. This tool is going to be worthless.
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InSight Impinges Insufficiently in Site - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:19] <exec> 08└─Well, hockey rinks just seemed silly at that scale.
[14:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, I would never deny that our devs might be doing it wrong...but part of the issue for us is about generating reports and how the time that the report executes interacts with the time of the data. For example, they might want to run the reports at 2am every night from the EST datacenter, but...
[14:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Attack Patients Taken Directly To Heart Centers Have Better Long-Term Survival - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:07] <exec> 08└─Except I expect people today to have better teeth than 50 years ago. You know, dental care and all that is more accessible. So this can't be it.
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[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reveals 'BuggyCow,' a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Macs don't get malware, so obviously Google is in error.
[15:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:48] <exec> 08└─Pronounce it 'poison'. The G is silent.
[15:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:49] <exec> 08└─Wait . . . are you saying Oracle and Microsoft code are deliberately obfuscated? I thought that was just the way they wrote software badly. Are you sure they go to an extra step to obfuscate?
[15:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─The speculation occurs on both branches-- the CPU has the parallelism to try both ways. Eventually, whichever branch turns out to be correct is kept, and the computations for the wrong one are thrown away. Less or no branch prediction needed in that setup. Trying both sides of a branch certainly use...
[15:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:05] <exec> 08└─Intel CPUs need to DIE DIE DIE !! Over four decades of legacy architecture. Layers upon layers of new instructions. It still can boot DOS 1.0. In 8 / 16 bit mode. The original segment registers were an abomination. Designed to provide assembly language source code compatibility with 8080. And then t...
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:47] <exec> 08└─People with too much money.
[15:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:48] <exec> 08└─Crash Test Dummies that pay to ride! And best of all, when they don't come back, they still left their money and resources back on Earth for someone else.
[15:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:03] <exec> 08└─A real friend will hold the wheel for the driver so that the driver is not driving while texting. That way the driver can focus on what is really important. Natural Selection at work. Like the Tide Pod challenge.
[15:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:04] <exec> 08└─73% of statistics are made up on the spot.
[15:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:06] <exec> 08└─Natural Selection at work. Like the Tide Pod challenge.
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:31] <exec> 08└─That is the wrong approach to better passwords. I would suggest . . . Password requirements: 1. Must be at least 141 characters 2. Must have at least 29 uppercase letters 3. Must have at least 31 lowercase letters 4. Must have at least 16 numerals 5. Must have at least 8 symbol characters 6. For eac...
[15:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:33] <exec> 08└─$ pwgen $ openssl rand -base64 14 WjzyDqdkWf3e53tJw/c= $ for pw in {1..10}; do openssl rand -base64 14; done 6i0hgHDBi3ohZ9Mil8I= gtn+y1bVFJFanpJqWaA= rYu+wy+0nwLf5lk7TBA= xrdNGykIzxaKDiLF2Bw= cltejRkDPdFPC/zI0Pg= G6aroK6d4xVVYFTrZGs= jJEnFoOk1+UTSx/wJrY= TFxVjBmLx9aivXB3yxE= oQtOLPwTuO8df7dIv9I= kt...
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:35] <exec> 08└─Most of the above came from . . . 5 Methods to Generate a Random Password from the Command Line https://www.putorius.net [putorius.net] 5 Ways To Generate A Random/Strong Password In Linux Terminal https://www.2daygeek.com
[15:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:37] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention providing no useful error messages on what requirement is not being met when attempting to set/change passwords to make for an extra infuriating user experience, like one of my favorite work systems. Bonus points for not even informing users of password requirements or characte...
[15:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:20] <exec> 08└─Sound like what the Ministry did when they got someone to make the program.
[15:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:22] <exec> 08└─Chromebooks are winning big in education. The school fully controls the device. Including policies. They're cheap. (School can negotiate volume pricing with all different manufacturers. I hear some even get $67 / unit.) They're easily replaced if lost, stolen or eaten. When replaced, all your work i...
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─I have a nice Pixelbook. It works just great without Windows. Probably even better without Windows. Now why would I want Windows? Dual boot sucks. You always suddenly want something that is on the other partition or an app that runs in the other OS.
[15:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:12] <exec> 08└─You forgot: Plays For Sure! DRM. It requires the server to play. It was because Microsoft wanted to create their own iTunes / iPod environment that all hardware manufacturers could participate in. That didn't work out so well. And it didn't always play for sure. So then: We're cancelling Plays For S...
[15:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:14] <exec> 08└─You forgot the most important part. Google is not evil. I know because Google says they are not evil. When Google tells me what to do, I am happy to comply and to believe that it was my own idea all along.
[15:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─> How about Microsoft Bob-bitt. I wonder how many young 'uns here were born too late to get that joke.
[15:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:00] <exec> 08└─Excellent point - surprised it took this long for somebody to catch it... There could be a "high security" salted password database somewhere, and the salt & pepper database could be the live use one that's presumably more vulnerable to exfiltration. That would work, but, you're right, it's on the l...
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[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─Proton is based on Wine, and my understanding is Proton is not a big change from the main branch. However, the integration with Steam was seamless. You need to opt-in, then you can install the game like normal via Steam (assuming the game runs correctly). This workflow makes Linux more approachable...
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─It does not matter how many players are there, both steam and the game devs have a spare platform against unreasonable demand from the OS guy. As it happened before, by adopting Linux you make life harder for yourself in the short run, better for everybody eventually.
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reveals 'BuggyCow,' a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:18] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/04/1341236 TL;DR - several of us think it ain't even a bug anyway...
[16:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Fears DarkMatter 'Misuse' Of Browser For Hacking - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:40] <exec> 08└─Then tell the world the truth. HTTPS is stupid and wasn't designed to work as advertised. It's real purpose is tracking and malware delivery. You all are wasting valuable computer resources, and time arguing about it. But as long as we're using this shit, I hope we can delete or disable the ones we...
[16:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:02] <exec> 08└─By making it open source, allowing others to write more modules for it, they get the benefit of free modules. Maybe the NSA is beginning to take seriously the other part of their conflicted dual mission. Hack the foreigners. Protect us from hacking. Problem: the hacking mission has taken precedence,...
[16:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:01] <exec> 08└─For those going up: Destination Interested Parties Spacing - Hovering In The Sky And for those of us left on the ground: Journeymen Eyeballing A Level Of Unadulterated Satisfaction
[16:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─This makes sense. Do we differentiate between a boat, train, plane, or bus passenger? No. They are all just passengers.
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:04] <exec> 08└─Just call them passengers. You certainly wouldn't call them astronauts. Not any more than you would call cruise ship guests "sailors".
[16:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:21] <exec> 08└─Though, surprisingly, yours was not.
[16:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─Many trained persons, cops being top of the list, must manage a distracted driving environment. Radio, MDT, car controls, weapons mindfulness, prisoner in the back screaming or shitting.... And they're not the only ones with a job to do while driving. And not all roadways are the same - I frequently...
[16:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:24] <exec> 08└─Perhaps my sarcasm was lost, let me rant instead. The point is that the headline is clearly nonsense. The nature of the distraction, the driving conditions, etc etc is clearly incredibly significant. So for example if I spill burning coffee on my lap in thick fog, that is going to introduce a more s...
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:53] <exec> 08└─I'm going anon to take the 5th and protect myself from self-stupidity-incrimination. I need to figure out this whole "bits of entropy" thing. To my mind the Tr0ub4dor&3 password is 11 characters and I have to try all 11 characters in random combinations to eventually stumble on it. (If I know the ta...
[16:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:55] <exec> 08└─10. Need to change password every day, no reuse allowed
[16:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:41] <exec> 08└─I hated open book exams. My professors designed them so that if you needed to research anything in the books you brought with you, you wouldn't have time to finish the exam. The books were meant to act as reference material where you looked up a formula or data value. Anything more and you ran out o...
[16:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:23] <exec> 08└─Millions upon millions of children walk to school or walk to the bus stop for the bus that takes them to school in the morning. They are too young to know what to wear, they just wear what their parents put on them. Longer, darker mornings are not great for them...
[16:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:25] <exec> 08└─If it is even feasible for your job to offer flex hours, and if they do offer flex hours, and if those flex hours are compatible with when your kid starts school... The "just work X to Y" solution does not work for perhaps the majority of people.
[16:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 1878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:21] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, nowhere near that simple. Parts of the hash are tied into other things, and many functions - mid-function - rely on certain properties of the hash in order to operate correctly. It takes ten minutes to go through with a debugger and just pick up the binary decision and remove it when...
[16:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:22] <exec> 08└─... HA HA! . . But the joke's on them, I'll be gone too. (Of course you don't think I'd be growing the plants at home, do you?)
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[17:34:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─It does not matter how many players are there, both steam and the game devs have a spare platform against unreasonable demand from the OS guy. As it happened before, by adopting Linux you make life harder for yourself in the short run, better for everybody eventually.
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─M$ shills always make a lot of noise and smoke to distract from problems. Take a look at all the squawking and see where it leads and then follow it 180° back to what they were trying to distract from. In this case the M$ shills are probably trying to draw attention away from the fact that gaming i...
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it's basically a prisoner's dilemma. You and I both switch to linux, we both gain. I switch and you don't, I lose and you don't. Neither of us switch, and we both lose nothing.
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─I've been running Linux for about 15 years, and I very much disagree about it being harder in the short term. Maybe in the *very* short term, like a couple of weeks, but the benefits hit you right away; the stability, the speed, the updates ... OMG the updates. How people put up with Windows amazes...
[17:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─Epic Games is now competing with Steam with its own Epic Games launcher. It has lower fees for publishers than Steam, but it also allows publishers to disable user reviews, so it can be pretty anti-consumer even if some games end up $5-10 cheaper. For those reasons, it has attracted various exclusiv...
[17:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─as a GNU+Linux user i have no need of entitled, ignorant, enemy funding whores ruining everything with their vile stupidity. We have enough problems without them making everything worse.
[17:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's done a good job of not screwing up badly enough to drive droves of people off its platform. There was a fear they may do precisely that, or otherwise exploit their near monopoly to put the entire market into a chokehold where you paid them or went out of business. They don't need to win...
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─Ford chose to stop selling normal cars. They're keeping trucks, SUVs, and the Mustang. This is tossing out lots of customers. So this is done. It is however throwing away market share (including potential market control) and revenue. Normal business people would hesitate to junk 2% their customers.
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:36] <exec> 08└─In essence, yes, it's like a prisoner's dilemma. But I think you have the costs figured wrong, especially for the case where neither party switches. OTOH, given the last EULA I read (none of the GPL, the MIT, nor the BSD license count as an EULA), the costs for not switching are also a lot higher th...
[17:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:00] <exec> 08└─To designer babies, apply in China
[17:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:32] <exec> 08└─Fortunately Trump is building "The Wall" for them.
[17:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─I didn't read TFS, I swear.
[17:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:36] <exec> 08└─The Kármán Krusaders.
[17:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:55] <exec> 08└─Stick shift, no phone in the car, plenty of experience, young enough that my vision and reaction time are still OK.
[17:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─According to XKCD it will take an average of 4 billion guesses to guess “my password” if we assume they already know what language the password is in. Pretty secure. This is why I have my web server lock an account with 3.9 billion wrong guesses in a row. Can't be too careful.
[17:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:28] <exec> 08└─One of the benefits of being inducted into a gang when I was young - I doubt any hackers know anything about it. My string of numbers, letters, and symbols is meaningful and easily-remembered, but looks like randomness to anyone else.
[17:37:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:41] <exec> 08└─"digital exam invigilator" That sounds vaguely obscene and possibly painful. Like something aliens might use on you when they capture you.
[17:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:15] <exec> 08└─I got an A grade in high school physics exam without a calculator because I left it at home. Anyone worth their salt can do it in their heads - or at worst, long multiplication is not hard.
[17:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06InSight Impinges Insufficiently in Site - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─It's from a clasic nerd movie called "Real Genius". https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Analysis Finds That the Company Underpaid Male Employees - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:33] <exec> 08└─I have to use chrome to bypass some of their capthca bullshit. Using FF with some add ons fails the ve capthca every time. Basically Google is putting road blocks on the web that require you let them identify you.
[17:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:03] <exec> 08└─And even in Arizona, the Navajo nation observes DST, while the rest of the state does not.
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:04] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you extracted the intended meaning, but you haven't supported your case for name-calling. Do you disagree with the literary style of the phrase 'permanent DST'? I mean, the math you presented is valid; where's the idiocy?
[17:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Month Without Sunspots: February 2019 - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:52] <exec> 08└─When you aggregate the local weather it becoooomes the climate *gasp* A wide spread trend record heat is a good indicator of the climate. The cold snaps are also a good indicator if they aren't accompanied by a drop in the average temps. Climate change causes chaotic weather patterns, and don't forg...
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[18:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the same "advanced" F-35 that hasn't flown a single combat mission and works less well than other planes like the F-22 while costing something like 4 times as much as those other planes? I'm not fan of Erdogan, but I understand him not being excited about shelling out huge gobs of money f...
[18:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:07] <exec> 08└─Hopefully now that McCain is dead we can drop this F35 foolishness. He is the primary reason we went with the 35 instead of the 22 even after we knew the 22 would be cheaper and better in production and combat.
[18:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, it was a stupid idea when they came up with it and it is even stupider now that they've actually built them. The US isn't in a position where air superiority is an issue or even likely to become an issue. Having several different kinds of planes covering the needed tasks would have been more co...
[18:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:12] <exec> 08└─The S-400 must be really good if the US is against it.
[18:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─Turkey is supposedly an ally, even being a part of NATO. This was justified partly because of location. Turkey guards the Black Sea, cutting the USSR off from the Mediterranean. The U2 and SR71 could fly across the USSR by using Turkey and Norway as bases. Turkey is in a good location for listening...
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but some critical part of the F-35 is manufactured in a key congresscritter's district! That's way more important than whether the planes are any good.
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─You're 100% right, although we could go a step further and ask whether the U.S. really needs to be in NATO or if NATO needs to exist.
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─We just want to put our Jupiter missiles back in
[18:34:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 846 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─M$ shills always make a lot of noise and smoke to distract from problems. Take a look at all the squawking and see where it leads and then follow it 180° back to what they were trying to distract from. In this case the M$ shills are probably trying to draw attention away from the fact that gaming i...
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:41] <exec> 08└─Now as for games...I won't pay money for games I can't buy. If the game requires access to some server out on the internet, then the group operating that server is the one that owns "your" game. So steam hasn't seemed that attractive to me. (Actually, I'm still playing Loki games on a virtual machin...
[18:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:43] <exec> 08└─I've been running Linux for about 15 years, and I very much disagree about it being harder in the short term. Maybe in the *very* short term, like a couple of weeks, but the benefits hit you right away; the stability, the speed, the updates ... OMG the updates. How people put up with Windows amazes...
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─the brainwashing is absolute or near so. i thought linux was a chore but once you break free from the windoZzzz brainwashing an amazing amount of time is freed up. unfortunately the japanese have proven that people can, will and want to treat their computers like pets (tamagochi-proof) and windows w...
[18:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:48] <exec> 08└─It's not on life support. That would assume linux gaming is dying. It's not even like it's in its infancy either. Proton is more like linux gaming Kindergarten/Primary School. I only had 3 games on steam that I played regularly that I had to boot into windows to play. A recent Proton update changed...
[18:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:50] <exec> 08└─I think there's another more subtle and insidious factor here. Multiple times Microsoft has pushed out greater locks and control mechanisms, and then after a wave of outrage they claim it was done by mistake and back it out. There's two sides to the "inertia" issue -- there's "this is what I know ho...
[18:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:52] <exec> 08└─I dunno about "short term". I don't work as an IT guy. Computers aren't my job, so I don't "have" to learn much of anything. So, despite the fact that I adopted Linux more than a decade ago, there are STILL things I don't know. You may or may not have seen that I'm finally fed up with systemd. It's...
[18:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:54] <exec> 08└─The wife is also still on Win7. We made the effort to avoid MS forced updates, and it paid off. Of course, she has an installation CD - errrr, DVD I guess it is. If she had ever been "upgraded" behind her back, she could always re-install Win7. Most people don't have that advantage.
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reveals 'BuggyCow,' a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:05] <exec> 08└─I cannot reproduce this "bug" on my Mac.
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:55] <exec> 08└─You call them the same thing you call people in airplanes that aren't the pilot, copilot, flight attendants, flight crew, etc. Passengers.
[18:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thanar [5860] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─"Spacers"
[18:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:18] <exec> 08└─1. That drivers are always(or ever) fully attentive to the road. Almost everything we do(driving included) requires a small percentage of our attention. Things like doodling actually have been proven to increase our attention to things like phone conversations. I think everyone is fractionally atten...
[18:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:38] <exec> 08└─Our school uses Examsoft [examsoft.com]. We are required to pay a $22 license per semester for the ability to use it, and it is installed to our personal laptops. We register it to ourselves as members of our school, and the instructors then take the rolls and push out their exams to it. We download...
[18:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:28] <exec> 08└─> Not wearing reflective clothing and then running across the road Good ol' USA, where pedestrians must be vagrants or worse.
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[19:34:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but some critical part of the F-35 is manufactured in a key congresscritter's district! That's way more important than whether the planes are any good.
[19:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─Turkey sliding back toward the expected behavior of an Islamic country. Awful lot of non-Islamic countries on that same slide...
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─Well, it's at least "good enough". It's a little hard to understand the opposition to Turkey acquiring it. If the S-400 has capabilities that our missiles don't have, then we ought to encourage Turkey to get a bunch - and give a couple to us for research purposes. We should always be looking for opp...
[19:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure there's some kind of double-bluff going on here; it's not like Turkey would be using the system to shoot down its own F-35s (unless there's another military backed coup attempt, anyway) or those of any NATO allies, so why would it matter if they have the S-400, unless they're anticipatin...
[19:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─I assume the US already has some, tested them, and discovered that the F-35 has no defense against it.
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, U.S. occupation of Europe must be maintained. We are the only thing keeping it from sliding back into feudal warfare. The U.S. is still the indispensable nation for keeping peace on the continent that has been at war since the arrival of the first humans. That you must accept!
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─It was also extremely important in the early 1960's for a different reason: At the time, nobody had highly accurate ICBMs, so John F Kennedy put shorter-range nuclear missiles there aimed at major Russian cities including Moscow. The Russkies responded by trying to put their shorter-range nukes in C...
[19:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:33] <exec> 08└─Turkey sliding back toward the expected behavior of an Islamic country.
[19:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:35] <exec> 08└─I've never looked at them, but you need not go very far out on a limb to guess that the S-400 uses a long wavelength radar. We've known for quite awhile that our "stealth" craft are clearly visible on old radars that we consider obsolete. But, Russia never stopped using those radars. They aren't foo...
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─Turkey has tried to be part of "the west" for decades, but has been continually blocked from EU membership. You don't have to worry about their NATO membership, they'll be leaving on their own soon enough, because they're done with the seat we've offered them at the diplomatic kids' table.
[19:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:40] <exec> 08└─Modded up, because few people seem to understand how we have stabbed ourselves in the back, repeatedly, in dealings with the mid-east. We give lip service to democracy, but we'll readily topple a democratic government for failing to fall into line. We don't really give a small damn about democracy,...
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─When we're the only military superpower in the world? Pretty much yes. Most of our military spending for a long time has had far more to do with enriching corporations and politicians than providing any significant increase in security. We're way past the point of diminishing returns, spending as mu...
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─Today, Erdogan is the biggest obstacle to Turkey becoming an EU member, or being "westernized". If, instead of Erdogan, Turkey had an Ataturk Junior, or Ataturk Lite, Turkey's relations with the world would be very different. Erdogan is busy erasing Ataturk's legacy.
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm> If a majority of people in a country vote for something the US doesn't like, then can that country really be called a democracy? </sarcasm>
[19:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─Turkey was being denied membership to the EU when Erdogan was still learning to read.
[19:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─No need to be a dick in response to Runaway's valid post. He didn't even throw in some allegedly ironic racism :D Democracy in the US is indeed in trouble, but we're far from a true lack of democracy. The current subversion of the system is done through gerrymandering, voter suppression, and good ol...
[19:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:53] <exec> 08└─I remember before Erdoǧan, the obstacle was Turkey's Islamic majority. They would let Ukraine in while not admitting Turkey. Plus, obviously now the base obstacle would be Cyprus.
[19:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:18] <exec> 08└─I'm playing Enemy Territory, works as great as it did 15 years ago. Native client for Linux, Mac and Windows.
[19:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:20] <exec> 08└─I don't work as an IT guy. How 'bout plumbing? I could use a good plumber
[19:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─M$ shills always.... Yeesh! I don't know about anybody else but I stopped reading there.
[19:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:24] <exec> 08└─Gender? I'm prejudiced, and I refuse to plumb males, confused individuals, Apache helicopters, and various other strange genders. Pics required before we can even think about negotiating.
[19:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:26] <exec> 08└─I tend to feel similarly about "renting" games, what swung me (partially) around was the convenience that Steam provides, and the fact that, if you're interested in older games, you can often "buy" the cream of the crop from a few years ago for pennies on the dollar, and a couple bucks to "rent" a g...
[19:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the void install image sucks. They do provide rootfs tarballs though, which makes install easy from a good liveusb (I really like gentoo's liveDVD image - it has drivers for everything and works well). Best installer is hands down OpenBSD though.
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:31] <exec> 08└─M$ shill spotted!
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─b. a. c. k. d. o. o. r.
[19:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, good point. Whole lot of stuff in computing could use a reboot. Lot of legacy cruft. Segment registers weren't the only bad idea in x86 that needs to be permanently retired. I've mentioned much of this before. There's also the decimal arithmetic instructions, the stack based design of the float...
[19:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:45] <exec> 08└─But UTF-8 has emojis. Making it easier for Millennials to confusicate in thier own native tongue. Imagine how incomprehensible the following Usenet snippet would seem. "It is impossible to 0x1B once the 0x07 rings for you!" I'm holding out for UTF-512. Although it requires 512 bits per character, co...
[19:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:47] <exec> 08└─Speculative execution is what allowed Instructions Per Cycle to be greater than one, on the best current tech IPC is now around four. And also, as another commenter has already noted, speculative execution allows the CPU clock to greatly exceed the speed of the memory subsystem, without it the cpu w...
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─"Too fucking rich" or "guinea pig." Scratch that. It's actually: "Too fucking rich" AND "guinea pig." And I'm very much OK with that!
[19:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:34] <exec> 08└─My password was the complete works of William Shakespeare. Until it was defeated by a million monkeys with keyboards. After repairing my credit rating I vowed to exact revenge on those traitorous monkeys. Thus was born, DeathMonkey!
[19:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bills to Exempt Texas from Daylight Saving Time Proposed - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:10] <exec> 08└─Put me down for Britain being on UTC. I mean, they invented it, they should have to live with it. Also, it would make intuitive sense that Greenwich be on Greenwich Mean Time (as approximated by UTC, of course).
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[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that everything sent over to the isp is being recorded. The point of these phones is that you know whether or not your phone is currently recording anything and/or connected to the isp.
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:08] <exec> 08└─Yea, this guy is an idiot. Nothing in the emails is the least bit surprising to someone who did basic research on what this phone is.
[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 1564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─He does actually have two decent points if you read through the post...although I certainly wouldn't consider either one a reason to not buy the device (which I *am* planning on doing...would have pre-ordered already if they didn't keep pushing back the launch date, but at this point I'll wait until...
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:12] <exec> 08└─Exactly -- the device is addressing all of the binary blob drivers and proprietary hardware that a rational person would view as insecure, and gives us the ability to physically turn that shit off when we don't want it doing whatever it does. The other option is to carry a phone and a PDA -- that mi...
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[20:34:33] <exec> 08└─Turkey sliding back toward the expected behavior of an Islamic country.
[20:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:43] <exec> 08└─Oh please! Don't make such a big thing about it. It's common piracy, just like those Johnny Depp movies, only without a plot, or good looking actors. I know everybody likes to think we've evolved, but we haven't. We just add a new facade and refine the makeup. So yes, destabilization does effectivel...
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─"Advanced" like: My boss advanced me some of my paycheck even though I haven't done the work yet.
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their son...
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─That has been America's foreign policy for more than a century. See Guatemala, Iran, Cuba, Chile, Congo, Nicaragua, etc, etc, etc. No sarcasm needed.
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─The U.S is behind most feudal wars these days. There wasn't a time in a long time when the U.S was not at war with someone. With continued occupation of faraway lands on the back of the U.S Dollar, continuing to defend the U.S Dollar (murdering millions in the process) in order to occupy more places...
[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─Factorio's real good too. The devs obviously work so much harder on improving their product, and informing their users about their work than I ever have as a dev.
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─>So, despite the fact that I adopted Linux more than a decade ago, there are STILL things I don't know. As someone who does do IT work, I'm willing to bet that even if you had stuck with Windows, the list of things you don't know about Windows would be at least as long. At least with regards to a "t...
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[20:35:27] <exec> 08└─> If she had ever been "upgraded" behind her back, she could always re-install Win7 Don't count on it - when you upgrade to Windows 10 you migrate your license from Windows 7, so you no longer have a valid win7 license. You have the disk, so you could reinstall it, but you could no longer activate i...
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[20:35:29] <exec> 08└─>Normal business people would hesitate to junk 2% their customers. That depends. Are those 2% of customers responsible for 2% of revenue? If it's only 0.5%, then it's probably much more profitable to junk them and spend the resources on something with a better return on investment.
[20:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─If it is a relatively recent Win7 that came pre-installed there is very probably an OS reset/recovery partition, which will take you straight back to factory install. If it is a retail Win7 with key then you can use MS media creation tool (if you don't have media) and install from that. Online activ...
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[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─> Ford chose to stop selling normal cars. They're keeping trucks, SUVs, and the Mustang. Really? (my ford is going to need replacing soon...) [checks website] Well, still look to be advertising Ka, Fiesta, Focus, C-Max, S-Max, Mondeo, Galaxy, (all of which I'd consider "normal" cars) some things tha...
[20:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 10 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:59] <exec> 08└─astro-nots
[20:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 840 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:20] <exec> 08└─That has consistently proven untrue for centuries. With few altruistic-based exceptions, the only things rich people move forward with their money is stuff only they care about, which is usually completely detached from the realities of ordinary people. Advances that profit everybody usually come ab...
[20:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:02] <exec> 08└─Right. Because passengers sending texts should be taxed to make sure they are paying attention to what the driver is doing...
[20:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:37] <exec> 08└─No problem: acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!#acAC13!# "Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. " Seems the postercomment filter is...
[20:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:38] <exec> 08└─Of course you can splice arbitrary video material together, so even if they had such a splice, for all the viewer could tell, it could just as well be you watching Game of Thrones, with some unrelated porn spliced in.
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[21:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─on point 2; I use signal on cell data for calls and messages; not sure if you mean the Librem only does encrypted calls on WiFi (no I didn't read TFA). Also I live in NZ not sure if there are restrictions on what you can do where you live.
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:14] <exec> 08└─I do not see anyone else offering a better alternative. That guy is a moron who does not understand todays reality.
[21:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 886 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:37] <exec> 08└─I've never looked at them, but you need not go very far out on a limb to guess that the S-400 uses a long wavelength radar. We've known for quite awhile that our "stealth" craft are clearly visible on old radars that we consider obsolete. But, Russia never stopped using those radars. They aren't foo...
[21:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:51] <exec> 08└─Those Mehmets were as brave as our boys, even if they were as poorly led. It's a real shame they've let their government become what it is now.
[21:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:53] <exec> 08└─The cost of those F35s just increased fourfold: https://about.bgov.com [bgov.com] Durability testing data indicates service-life of initial F-35B short-takeoff-vertical landing jets bought by Marine Corps “is well under” expecte...
[21:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:55] <exec> 08└─Low frequency radar breaking stealth* has been publicly known for 20 years, but while it is great for detection it is a poor choice for targeting. Modern AA batteries use Doppler radar to track the plane's wake. Even a StarTrek tier cloaking device can't hide from that. *Project Aurora was mostly li...
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:57] <exec> 08└─spurred on by an ancient feud between Christianity and Islam
[21:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:59] <exec> 08└─This is a good question. The answer is that NATO exists to protect US interests in Europe. As long as the US does business in Europe, NATO will continue to exist.
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:02] <exec> 08└─Well, a decent FTFY might be If a majority of peple the ruling class in a country vote are for something the US doesn't like, then can that country really be called a democracy?
[21:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:04] <exec> 08└─The ANZACs were described as lions led by donkeys, and that probably applied to the Turks as well. I think that's one of the reasons the Young Turks overthrew the Empire after the war. They were well aware how badly the whole deal was run.
[21:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:06] <exec> 08└─What's going on is that some people in the USA are afraid that Russia will get information on how to identify and track the F35s, through the operation of the S-400 missile system. There will undoubtedly be Russian technicians helping with the deployment, operation and maintenance of the S-400 syste...
[21:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:09] <exec> 08└─I agree with ranked choice voting. I am not trying to be a dick. I did include sarcasm tags which I usually do not do. And I do not intend any disrespect towards Runaway.
[21:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:47] <exec> 08└─What screensaver? I'm curious what's so awesome that you would spend a considerable amount of time to have on display.
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:48] <exec> 08└─one day I'll be forced to make a decision: Upgrade Win 7 to 10 or find another OS.
[21:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:51] <exec> 08└─Factorio? Great, thanks you guys. That's my weekend messed up. I had things to do too. Mrs Zombie will not be pleased.
[21:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:48] <exec> 08└─Microsoft takes it to the next level. Even with the documentation in front of you, it's still obfuscated through 12 pages of non-optional parameters all with names that read like they should mean something but what that something might be is a bit of a mystery. Sometimes it's apparently a mystery ev...
[21:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:49] <exec> 08└─Are you sure they go to an extra step to obfuscate?
[21:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distracted Drivers 29 Times More Likely to Wreck in a Highway Work Zone - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:23] <exec> 08└─Why do we always reduce this to the stupidest common denominator? And then do nothing to fix the stupid?
[21:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:39] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't want Windows as much as you have to run a few Windows apps from time to time (even just Windows remote desktop) because your corporate IT provides most services via the Windows ecosystem. Dual boot does suck; it could be *very* handy to have both OS's live at the same time, possibly sha...
[21:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Windows Lite" Could be Used on Dual-Screen Devices and Chromebook Competitors - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:40] <exec> 08└─I've never been in this situation. But if I were on a trip where I needed corporate Windows apps, I would just bring a corporate Windows laptop and probably not bring a personal laptop. Problem neatly solved. At least for any use cases I can see myself in.
[21:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You're Not Peppering Your Passwords, You Are Irresponsible - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:34] <exec> 08└─The joke's on you because they'll already know where you've gone.
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[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─My pastor says he knew as long ago as 1985 that the cure for HIV was to not be homosexual or Haitian.
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─If they want anyone to read this they would put it on SciHub. I get zero results there.
[22:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Or you could, you know, pay for the article or subscribe to the journal if you have a real reason to follow the articles. (Or your institution can).
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─Right, because nobody has access to Nature, the most widely read and disseminated scientific journal in the world. In all seriousness though, most libraries have subscriptions to Nature, as the institutional rate to subscribe is based on various factors, like number of patrons, access numbers, budge...
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure Librem is just hoping to be able to reliably make/receive phone calls and texts upon launch. These I want a pony requests for the initial release of an open product by a small team, but where anyone can add the features they want later are just silly, and it is a good thing that Librem i...
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─He wants perfection, delivered cheaply, by someone else, yesterday Sounds like a typical project manager.
[22:34:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:39] <exec> 08└─Turkey sliding back toward the expected behavior of an Islamic country. Awful lot of non-Islamic countries on that same slide...
[22:34:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:49] <exec> 08└─Modded up, because few people seem to understand how we have stabbed ourselves in the back, repeatedly, in dealings with the mid-east. We give lip service to democracy, but we'll readily topple a democratic government for failing to fall into line. We don't really give a small damn about democracy,...
[22:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:10] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all sides were beset by severe incompetence among the officers. If you're interested in WWI, I highly recommend The Great War [youtube.com], a Youtube series that covered what was going on 100 years after it happened (e.g. early December 1917 was covered in early December 2017). Of cours...
[22:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:12] <exec> 08└─Sure, but the Russians could surely do that anyway just by positioning the radar system (which doesn't even need to be hooked up to the missile launcher) somewhere F35s are known to be operating and they have a reason to have a radar system within range. Plenty of places they could probably do that...
[22:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:14] <exec> 08└─The only difference with Turkey would be that the situation could be much more controlled, and therefore give more meaningful results, but maybe that's enough?
[22:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:16] <exec> 08└─> the primary reason we went with the 35 instead of the 22 Doesn't compute. The 22 is significantly more expensive per hour, because of older stealth tech and twin powerplants. The 22 range is limited, and it can't take off on a dirty runway. The 22 is the best air superiority fighter. The 35 has to...
[22:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:18] <exec> 08└─Back a decade ago, Erdogan was doing all the things the West deemed right, trying to make peace with the Kurds, various reforms, etc. EU told them to fuck off, you are "Asians". Finally, Erdogan turned 180, and he is what he is today, and Turkey is what it is today. Even the progressive-minded Turks...
[22:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:59] <exec> 08└─It's just for the US/Canada/Mexico markets. Ford will still sell normal cars elsewhere. "Ford announced in April that they will be discontinuing their entire passenger car line up will be discontinued by 2020 apart from the Focus hatchback and the Mustang." (that is the Focus Active) Say bye to the...
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reveals 'BuggyCow,' a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:09] <exec> 08└─You're a mac user, nobody expects you to be able to do anything besides breath via your mouth only.
[22:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphite Offers Up New Quantum Surprise - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─I'm a non-physicist here. Can anybody explain why this is important, why it is un-intuitive, or why this is important? (Or alternatively, say this is just basic research, and "we don't know.") For that matter, what is the Quantum Hall effect [wikipedia.org] in common parlance?
[22:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:28] <exec> 08└─Are you saying vaccination causes insufficient exposure to sunlight?
[22:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space. What Should We Call Them? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:13] <exec> 08└─if it's a choice between "everybody dies when Earth dies" and "only the rich people survive when Earth dies" I think the second option is slightly better.
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[23:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Ketamine-Derived Treatment for Depression Approved by the U.S. FDA - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:06] <exec> 08└─That millions of people cannot cope with the reality without resorting to drugs?
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Ketamine-Derived Treatment for Depression Approved by the U.S. FDA - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─Because we are the world's policeman and if we stop our hard work everything will go to shit.
[23:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─As I recall part of the bone marrow transplant process is to give immunosuppressants to allow the graft to take hold. Effectively this kills whatever immunity the person had left, and is why there is a quarantine period in a hospital ward that staff is trained up one side and down the other on hygie...
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─I already paid once for this research, why would I act the sucker and pay again to a useless middleman?
[23:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone who only rarely reads articles. Institutional access is so inferior to SciHub it isn't funny. I could log in that way if I wanted but why when it takes like 10x longer to get each article?
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:24] <exec> 08└─It originated in chimpanzees... The earliest known case of infection with HIV-1 in a human was detected in a blood sample collected in 1959 from a man in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (How he became infected is not known.) Uh...
[23:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─Like it's 1970?
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─Did this man or his pet chimpanzee travel to Haiti?
[23:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:31] <exec> 08└─Go on admit it, your pastor is Ted. [wikipedia.org] Not that I'm judging. If he wants to take drugs and have sex with dudes, that's his business. Plenty of evangelicals do it.
[23:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:33] <exec> 08└─And it might just be that simple. If HIV only infects the T-Cells and you destroy the entire immune system and keep it gone longer than the virus can exist free floating, it is gone. But you would need a 100.00% kill rate for that to work. With only the two examples it is hard to say much.
[23:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HIV Reportedly Cured In A Second Patient - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:35] <exec> 08└─So Daniel Ropers and other parasites [wikipedia.org] can get paid.
[23:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:50] <exec> 08└─By having a "completely turn off the phone functionality" feature in the first place? That sounds like ... success?
[23:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:51] <exec> 08└─I don't see anyone offering a worse alternative either... It's always the same offer: the proprietary GSM modem controls the rest of the unit. But you get to pick the color of the phone!!! If compromising on privacy/security is not an option, or anything serious is at stake (e.g. political activism...
[23:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:42] <exec> 08└─I have watched many of those videos, and you're right they're great. I particularly like the way they go into detail on the less well know fronts, like Bulgaria, or the Italian campaigns.
[23:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─Part of those interests is "to wage war together, you need compatible equipment, so follow MY standard, which is easiest if you buy from me".
[23:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:46] <exec> 08└─> EU told them to fuck off, you are "Asians". The people of Europe were saying "Fuck off, You are too many / too muslim / too poor", foremost. The bureaucrats had put Turkey into a lot of paperwork, and were arguing that cementing their democracy and honoring the EU's commitments meant that the inte...
[23:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:48] <exec> 08└─it's not like Turkey would be using the system to shoot down its own F-35s (unless there's another military backed coup attempt, anyway) or those of any NATO allies, so why would it matter if they have the S-400, unless they're anticipating a scenario where the US is in a shooting war against Turkey...
[23:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:50] <exec> 08└─"Too poor" is bullshit. EU accepted Bulgaria and Romania, much poorer economies, of similar Balkan culture. Turks are nothing if not proud. Despite all the bending-over-backward they did, EU humiliated them. The outcome was inevitable.
[23:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:52] <exec> 08└─Or would the U.S. not be operating F-35s themselves? Instead substitute "sends F-22s over Turkey; F-22 pilots suffocate and crash; Turkey sends F-22 wreckage to Russia to be studied"
[23:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and Turkey already has two, so the Russians can strip-mine them for anything they actually find of interest if Turkey cuts a deal. Geography is the sole reason Turkey's still in NATO anyway.
[23:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─while it is great for detection it is a poor choice for targeting
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Warns Turkey Not To Buy Russian S-400 Missile System - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:59] <exec> 08└─Send the motherfucking S-400 to the US, pronto. We will pay double.
[23:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─This is rude but it's also true. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Gaming is on a Life-Support System Called Steam - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─It's a great game, agreed. https://www.etlegacy.com [etlegacy.com]
[23:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:12] <exec> 08└─You can't argue that genes affect brain expansion, because that it tantamount to saying that certain races are genetically predestined to be stupider than others and that is not politically correct.
[23:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:13] <exec> 08└─Next you'll be telling me prenatal testosterone effects human brain development too.
[23:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPUs Afflicted With Simple Data-Spewing Spec-Exec Vulnerability - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:06] <exec> 08└─Well, the exact value of chance has little impact on the reason the speculative exec exists in the first place: the wait time to get the data from RAM into the CPU. And that problem is something that no language/compiler can address on its own. (the above being in response to the " the same benefits...
[23:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exam Invigilator Used in Denmark - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:46] <exec> 08└─That exactly the idea. If do need to study in advance and understand the matter but don't need to bother memorising a bunch of formulas (and be afraid of not getting them right). Pretty much as in the real professional life - when you have a concrete problem to solve, it's more important to understa...
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