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[00:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12 GB DRAM Packages for Smartphones - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:16] <exec> 08└─If it's a Samsung, it's flammable.
[00:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:28] <exec> 08└─Isn't trying to coerce a government official a jailable/transportable offense? Anyway, this is mostly a non-problem for me. If I see they're faking my prefix, I ignore. If I don't know the number, I'll give them a chance to leave a message. Anything else would be of incremental benefit, such as only...
[00:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:30] <exec> 08└─yep that totally works! /s The phone system assumes trust. We do not have that. They just spoof https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:32] <exec> 08└─"Can we call it treason? I don't think so, this guy is foreign, from U.K. Time to deport?" WTF is this comment about? When Oliver did this, it was within the laws created by Ajit Pai and the FCC. He has a team of lawyers that go over things like this to make sure it's 100% legal, and legally there's...
[00:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:34] <exec> 08└─Telephone companies have the actual origin of calls. That information has value though, and why provide that when you can provide the faux-N number instead and charge the same fee? Then you can charge scammers a fee to insert any faux-N number they want and get a second fee. Then you can make money...
[00:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─Can I please have a phone plan that charges the caller a buck a call credited to my phone bill, unless I specifically waive the charge from my end? Such as my dialing "#0" during the call. Dialing it from the other end does nothing. This technology seems to be available for the sex-chat industry. I...
[00:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:38] <exec> 08└─except to legally change what counts as a robocall and to actually make policy that would forbid it.
[00:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:41] <exec> 08└─is why does he do it every 90 minutes? It should be every 10 minutes, with a spoofed phone number so asshat Ajai has to wonder if the incoming call is valid or not. When it comes to people I'd like to tar and feather Ajit is way ahead of the Donald. Both are corrupt as fuck.
[00:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:43] <exec> 08└─is why does he do it every 90 minutes?
[00:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:17] <exec> 08└─Dude, I'm not gay or nothin, but if I ever meet you I'm going to give you a big kiss just so you can wonder if I ever encountered any other human being who may have had some form of a herpes virus. Pucker up big fella.
[00:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:19] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to feed the kimchi to some cuttle fish before you eat them raw.
[00:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:21] <exec> 08└─Quit trying to normalize the disgusting STDs you have.
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:23] <exec> 08└─You seem to be missing the point, that "decency" has nothing to do with it. You can try to avoid it but it will require germophobe levels of obsessive behavior. Don't touch anything in public places. Never eat out. And obviously no space travel. Good luck with that.
[00:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waiting for the Complete Rupture - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:35] <exec> 08└─Let the pus flow. Pus must flow.
[00:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Students Worldwide Skip School to Protest Climate Inaction - 2531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:50] <exec> 08└─Where I live, every now and then, there is a campaign to promote changing heaters or HVAC systems to more efficient ones... but fixing the insulation, installing heat exchangers for air and water... those have way less campaigns, sometimes zero (exchangers? what is that?). When the proper thing is t...
[00:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Recommendations for 'Alt-Right' Videos have Dropped Dramatically, Study Shows - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:07] <exec> 08└─I didn't know that you were a hardcore free marketeer anarcho-capitalist. Or are you just against regulations in this one area?
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[01:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12 GB DRAM Packages for Smartphones - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:15] <exec> 08└─LPDDR4X DRAM consumes less power than previous generations. You should really be talking to Samsung's battery division.
[01:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12 GB DRAM Packages for Smartphones - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─This. A friend loaned me a Samsung (I think an S6) with a "non-replaceable" battery and even before the ones that caught fire there were the ones with a bad dendrite problem causing the batteries to go from 100 to zero percent in the span of a few seconds. Coincidentally my friend had a similar mode...
[01:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12 GB DRAM Packages for Smartphones - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─Galaxy Rugby pro's
[01:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12 GB DRAM Packages for Smartphones - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:21] <exec> 08└─Nipping this one in the bud because everyone always asks: These modules support TRR, MAC, and PARA. This means that they have all the hardware mitigation for Rowhammer built-in and usable at negligible (0.1%) performance hit. As long as Samsung picks good mitigation parameters (not all manufacturers...
[01:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:41] <exec> 08└─Still baffled why my Android lets me mark and block spam text messages with on tap, but offers no way to block spam calls.
[01:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Halo Drive - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:56] <exec> 08└─So the binary black hole is really a couple of giant mirrors circling around one another at potentially high velocity.
[01:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:21] <exec> 08└─Eating out is to be avoided. If you must do so, choose a place that uses factory-wrapped disposable utensils. Order food that is served completely hot, all the way through. (so not a hot sandwich with cold lettuce and bread) If you must eat with your hands, scrub them well and then don't touch anyth...
[01:37:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Students Worldwide Skip School to Protest Climate Inaction - 790 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:32] <exec> 08└─It got "fixed" mostly by outsourcing it to the third world, shithead. And, this may surprise you, but up in the atmosphere there aren't any national borders, and things like osmosis and the jet stream don't respect those anyway. We no more "fixed" the problem than a child who shoves all her laundry...
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[02:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12 GB DRAM Packages for Smartphones - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:19] <exec> 08└─I have no idea why it was being marketed as "tough," It's only a smartphone with a little rubber on the outside. I've dropped them a few times and they often fly apart in 3 pieces (phone, battery, and backplate) but the good thing is that every single fucking time you put those 3 pieces back togethe...
[02:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12 GB DRAM Packages for Smartphones - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:21] <exec> 08└─It probably does all get used, but I'm wondering how it gets used. Are apps ran inside a VM to help isolate them? Is it to buffer video you're recording due to insufficient write speed? What's using all that memory?
[02:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12 GB DRAM Packages for Smartphones - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:23] <exec> 08└─Interesting ideas, but it could come down to Android, apps, or extensions just gobbling up all memory available, with some of it being memory leaks. Smartphones could be used as a dockable desktop replacement, and Samsung actually has a product for this: Samsung DeX [samsung.com]. I have no idea how...
[02:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:44] <exec> 08└─Why is it illegal for me to misrepresent myself to a business, but they can spoof their identity to get me to take their call? If I make an "agreement" with a caller that they accept penalty of perjury for placing calls using fraudulent info, they weasel out that their call placing technology did no...
[02:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:45] <exec> 08└─Look at the idiot that submitted the 1st sub. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Any treason around here starts at the top and tinkles down to minions like Pai.
[02:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:48] <exec> 08└─"Can we call it treason? I don't think so, this guy is foreign, from U.K. Time to deport?" ajit pai? john oliver?
[02:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:50] <exec> 08└─the telephone companies don't want us to be able to solve it. People keep buying their stuff anyway, so why should they care? They don't see the demand, I mean, sure, the editorials raise a fuss, but the bottom line? Things are lookin' good. *Maintain speed and course*.
[02:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:52] <exec> 08└─To explicitly point out to the FCC why their law is bad, why it doesn't work, and why they should really get their asses out of their collective anus and make a proper ruling that benefits citizens. You know, their JOB. Like it or not, they answer to the president and congress, or they lose their JO...
[02:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halo Drive - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:07] <exec> 08└─Every time someone mentions black hole drives I always think of that movie Event Horizon. I guess this is different though because you don't take the black holes with you? Just some mirrors? Anyway. Either way it's almost certainly a portal to hell.
[02:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:33] <exec> 08└─Don't get a brit milah with gay pedo cocksucking.
[02:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:35] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't count on that. It is looking like the neuron-killing plaque might be how the brain stops viruses from rapidly causing complete destruction. If you could stop the plaque, you might speed up an infection. Treating the viruses offers a bit of hope. As we've seen with HIV, we can make some pr...
[02:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:37] <exec> 08└─Ewwww, Porntube has lots of chicks who get it in their eyes. Do they go blind?
[02:37:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Students Worldwide Skip School to Protest Climate Inaction - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:31] <exec> 08└─Her efforts eventually got the attention of world leaders when she delivered a blistering speech at the UN's climate conference in December.
[02:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Students Worldwide Skip School to Protest Climate Inaction - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:03] <exec> 08└─Highschoolers don't know shit. Yet. That comes with hard work and experience and they just haven't had the time to do it yet. They should be learning to think for themselves, how to test their hypothesis's, and how to research. There is a reason they are not allowed to vote at that age. No one gives...
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[03:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considers Amendment to Law Which Makes It Illegal to Run a Tor Node or Website - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:15] <exec> 08└─... and whose purpose or activity is directed to commit or promote certain illegal acts”.
[03:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considers Amendment to Law Which Makes It Illegal to Run a Tor Node or Website - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:17] <exec> 08└─Do you really want to argue that much of the activity on the Tor network is directed to committing illegal acts? Sure, that's not the purpose of Tor, but as worded that doesn't matter.
[03:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considers Amendment to Law Which Makes It Illegal to Run a Tor Node or Website - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─Does that include hiding Jews in your attic? Please, don't give us any of that "illegal" crap. The government can make anything "illegal". Oh well, hopefully, as always, I hope people are working on a solution to state/corp intrusion on our communications.
[03:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considers Amendment to Law Which Makes It Illegal to Run a Tor Node or Website - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:21] <exec> 08└─Seems like we should simply make the actions illegal and not worry about what methods were used. Like banning knives to prevent stabbings, a law that targets the tool is easily misapplied, maliciously modified down the road, and often causes more problems than it fixes. "What’s worse is that the p...
[03:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spaceflight Causes Dormant Viruses to Reactivate in Human Crew - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:45] <exec> 08└─Eating out is to be avoided.
[03:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security’s Intelligence Overreach: Two Cases Illustrate Risks to Civil Society - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:51] <exec> 08└─No, I just ignored it, because that wasn't what I was talking about.
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[04:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Germany Considers Amendment to Law Which Makes It Illegal to Run a Tor Node or Website - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:19] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[04:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considers Amendment to Law Which Makes It Illegal to Run a Tor Node or Website - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:20] <exec> 08└─Dammmit mud duck - you're getting spammy. Go take a chill pill. Or an upper. Whichever one is on your schedule . . .
[04:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Germany Considers Amendment to Law Which Makes It Illegal to Run a Tor Node or Website - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:22] <exec> 08└─Wrong target? I don't think they've missed their target, at all. The aim is censorship. This gives them one more tool to prevent double-bad think and double-bad speech, and to punish those who engage in double-bad speech. The censors know what they are doing.
[04:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Germany Considers Amendment to Law Which Makes It Illegal to Run a Tor Node or Website - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:24] <exec> 08└─You're not reading it correctly (assuming you've read the article). Although Tor is mentioned by name, the law can be applied to any online service which uses technology to protect the data it offers - such as your email provider. Do you use a password to log on here, at Soylent? Obviously, you are...
[04:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 1670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:04] <exec> 08└─I'm sick of people telling me to "just whitelist" the numbers I'll accept. Do any of you other fuckers have kids? Don't you know that, unlike the previous generations, they RELY on being able to contact their parents now and then when plans change and friends bail on them. AND, they sometimes do thi...
[04:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Oliver Fights Robocalls — by Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:06] <exec> 08└─Caller ID: Scam Likely Is that just an iPhone thing?
[04:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Students Worldwide Skip School to Protest Climate Inaction - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:19] <exec> 08└─Most of these people don't do evil to do evil.
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