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[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:13] <exec> 08└─How helpful is the gross cpu power to do? Makes package move faster how? Why not 1d and 2d scan codes? Why not RFID? It is fully touch free and omi directional. Why not first fix taxing and addresses. They are one on n the same. One controls the other make the transport industry be the final and...
[00:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikon Will Help Build Velodyne's Lidar Sensors for Future Self-Driving Cars - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:22] <exec> 08└─Tesla buys cameras because LIDAR bad.
[00:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikon Will Help Build Velodyne's Lidar Sensors for Future Self-Driving Cars - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:24] <exec> 08└─An executive from Rogers once said to me: you have the luxury not to have a cellphone, don't trade it for less than 300k/yr. I have followed that advice, I plateaued at 90k but I have job security and a gold plated pention plan (paid by those indebted students and taxes, mouhahaha) and work 35hr/wk....
[00:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lloyds, Halifax and RBS/NatWest Online Services Resolved After Outage - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:31] <exec> 08└─Anomalies caused the outages. Either anomalies, or a shoddy javascript framework developed by millennials.
[00:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photoacoustic Endoscopy Could Improve Crohn's Disease Treatment - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─Both are diseases undetectable by modern science which afflict vast numbers of people too lazy to get a job and hoping for welfare payments.
[00:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photoacoustic Endoscopy Could Improve Crohn's Disease Treatment - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:43] <exec> 08└─Bullshit! My chiropractor told me Lyme disease is real.
[00:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photoacoustic Endoscopy Could Improve Crohn's Disease Treatment - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:46] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of Restless Leg Syndrome.
[00:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:08] <exec> 08└─Is this the "it snowed outside somebody's window somewhere in the world, therefore there is no climate change" argument?
[00:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:47] <exec> 08└─Much as I'd like to say sending some CXXs to jail for attacks would help, all that would happen is some schmuck with no real control would end up taking the fall.
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:37] <exec> 08└─The procedure for petitioning to get on the ballot is well documented...
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, it's still up to the voters to play along. The choice is still, and always has been theirs.
[00:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:40] <exec> 08└─It helps keep the bastards honest. :-) Got an example?
[00:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:42] <exec> 08└─It seems the powers that be are much better at politics than you are.
[00:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:45] <exec> 08└─The article is about how the tax industry uses lobbying to have laws made to enrich themselves at the expense of the citizenry. What choice?
[00:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:47] <exec> 08└─One that springs to mind is the Maori Party. It was formed by some former Labour Party people who felt Labour did not represent the Maori people well, and they would be better off outside doing their own thing. They won a few seats, and entered a coalition government with the National Party, giving...
[00:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves SpaceX Lowering Orbit of Internet Satellites - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:16] <exec> 08└─End users will be targeted unless they learn to duck.
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[01:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:08] <exec> 08└─Custom clearance... Replacing the paperwork with a tamper proof ledger
[01:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:09] <exec> 08└─Blockchain? What is the question it is trying to solve??
[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikon Will Help Build Velodyne's Lidar Sensors for Future Self-Driving Cars - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─1. Article says Nikon are going to make LIDAR equipment for this project/client. 2. Note that optical systems have outperformed LIDAR and don't have side-effects like ruining other equipment. 3. Obviously you are a luddite, happy with the crappy images from your mega-spy-phone. Real cameras are a di...
[01:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:00] <exec> 08└─I had a rought winter and I can totally relate to that statement jet I don't deny climate change. I can even concede that it might be anthropomorphic. However, I question it's relative importance to other environmental threats. The microplastic in ocean is troublesome you can remove the solid chunk...
[01:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:02] <exec> 08└─Actually there is something weird, supposedly there are no actual primary sources dating back to before ~1400 AD. A huge number of alleged ancient documents came from this guy alone who found them in all sorts of out of the way monasteries, etc: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wi...
[01:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:42] <exec> 08└─That would only happen if the insurance companies could accurately judge the quality of the companies' security. Since they can't they put up premiums across the board and everyone who pays for good security pays twice. It's sort of a tragedy of the commons effect. Unless you are certain enough of y...
[01:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:37] <exec> 08└─Being against Zionism isn't being anti-semitic. That's almost as insane as saying being against nazism is being anti-German.
[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:38] <exec> 08└─He never claimed that Trump was a good guy. He said they hated him because they didn't have blackmail material to control him. Just because you don't like the establishment, doesn't mean you have to like Trump. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less. - Howard Tayler (Schlockmerc...
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[02:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:10] <exec> 08└─Public transport to places I want to go. 2+ hours each way, for a 30 minute drive in rush hour, 15 minutes otherwise. Ride my bike to my health club. 2.5 miles each way, 1.5 miles on 45 MPH roads with no bike lanes giving a life expectancy of 6 months before getting creamed by some dipshit eating a...
[02:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:12] <exec> 08└─There is always some power grab and or money making scheme behind stuff like this. Just look at how they needed to spy on everone's internet activity to "protect the children", but then drop cases against pedophiles rather than reveal their methods. There is always some BS excuse.
[02:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:14] <exec> 08└─In the past couple decades, Arkansas has worked steadily to eliminate smaller school districts. Little villages that had their own schools and school districts have been closed down. Meaning, where almost every child in the school walked to school every morning, is now bused miles away to a more "ac...
[02:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:16] <exec> 08└─Not to mention parents dropping off and picking up their little snowflakes at school instead of letting them ride the bus.
[02:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:19] <exec> 08└─https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/yes-the-internet-was-always-intended-to-spy-on-us [surveillancevalley.com]
[02:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─Down here in the tropics, you try walking under the 90% humidity 40 Celsius sun. Public transport? Sure if you don't mind unreliable waiting times under the heat.
[02:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─It also allows for non company specific "Your package is here" type information to be easily and publicly available. Currently, the only way for an customer wo track their package from end to end is if the parcelo is picked up and delivered by the same company - and that limits things GREATLY for mo...
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─Might as well embed a GPS chip on every address label.
[02:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikon Will Help Build Velodyne's Lidar Sensors for Future Self-Driving Cars - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:44] <exec> 08└─I thought SN didn't do ads.
[02:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:26] <exec> 08└─And if you think these elaborate forgeries are too unbelievable: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:28] <exec> 08└─That is a very odd conspiracy theory I had never heard before. Thanks.
[02:17:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 917 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:23] <exec> 08└─It's a whole, scummy industry that does not need to exist. And only exists because of the incompetence corruption of the government. The government makes you file taxes, the government should make it possible for you to file taxes. There should be no need to enrich entire armies of tax consultants a...
[02:17:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:40] <exec> 08└─Just goes to show it is no longer ",,,government of the people, by the people, for the people...", but rather government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations. The only winners are are chosen by the corporations, not by merit, effort or production, but by whim of the directo...
[02:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:03] <exec> 08└─There are more than two parties.
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[03:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:19] <exec> 08└─raising gas taxes and/or adding toll roads won't change me.
[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:21] <exec> 08└─On a hot day, biking to work, you need to bring a change of clothes. That means you need a place to change, maybe even shower. If dress-code is slacks and shirt, you can't carry that in a bag, it gets wrinkled so now you need a locker at work (or you own private office). Finally, there is the image...
[03:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:23] <exec> 08└─Who let the tropicalites in here? Next, we'll have squids, octopi, and cetaceans signing up here!
[03:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:25] <exec> 08└─Don't ride your bike in the elevator, and you probably won't run into your boss on the elevator.
[03:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:27] <exec> 08└─I would prefer to run into my boss less when he is wearing his bike cloths in the elevator.
[03:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:29] <exec> 08└─Here where I live, the cars line up to drop the little angels off at the front door of the Middle School. I don't get it. If I had one of those kids, I'd skip the wait in the line and drop junior off a block away and tell him to hike a block.
[03:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:32] <exec> 08└─Why is your boss wearing your bike clothes? In some parts of the world, the people you are most likely to meet parking their bikes and showering before work are the senior management, so it can be a great networking opportunity.
[03:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:34] <exec> 08└─The report prominently cites health concerns as a key reason to not drive, because people need to exercise more. Is it a tacit acknowledgement of electric vehicles' (EVs) imminent takeover of global car fleets?
[03:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:36] <exec> 08└─OR we need to reduce atmospheric pollution and traffic congestion. More mass transit, fewer cars, and make the cars electric. "The authors of a University of Otago report on active transport say urgent steps must be taken to encourage New Zealanders to walk, cycle or take public transport, with our...
[03:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:39] <exec> 08└─The person who wrote that is a moron. He is unable to distinguish between "spy on us" and "provide connectivity to relay intelligence data covertly to the USA".
[03:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:41] <exec> 08└─Make no mistake, this is about the government controlling your lives because "they know whats best". These are people who firmly believe everyone should behave the way they want, everyone who doesn't is a nazi, which is pretty damn ironic because that happens to have been the nazi party line - do as...
[03:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:43] <exec> 08└─Hmm, hard to imagine how they are going to profit off of this report
[03:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:45] <exec> 08└─TFA is not arguing for evs to replace ICE.. They want people to "Walk or ride... safely", in "livable cities" They have a point, when some cities don't even have footpaths, safe pedestrian crossings, let alone dedicated, separated bicycle paths. Obese people in vehicles, or fit people walking and ri...
[03:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:58] <exec> 08└─Only when UK outlaws Steaks will they add GPS tracking to all their meat so you can't back Beef without Loicent. So wait till 2022 or there about.
[03:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:59] <exec> 08└─Why do you think that the ledger will be tamper-proof? How many millions of minters do you need to run to achieve tamper-proof state?
[03:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:01] <exec> 08└─"Replacing the paperwork with a tamper proof ledger" So, is this like the paperless office with unforgeable digital documents that we were all promised so many years back?
[03:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:04] <exec> 08└─Blockchain? What is the question it is trying to solve??
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:06] <exec> 08└─That's the point. You can do it with a GPS chip that has to send data back somewhere, have that owner of the data make it available and free for all other worldwide postal services to enable/embed in their systems... or... you can have a blockchain and an item number - and everyone is free to implem...
[03:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikon Will Help Build Velodyne's Lidar Sensors for Future Self-Driving Cars - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:18] <exec> 08└─“Lidar is a fool’s errand,” Elon Musk said. “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed. Doomed! They are expensive sensors that are unnecessary. It’s like having a whole bunch of expensive appendices. Like, one appendix is bad, well now you have a whole bunch of them, it’s ridiculous, you’ll s...
[03:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photoacoustic Endoscopy Could Improve Crohn's Disease Treatment - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:37] <exec> 08└─Idiot. I'm not certain about Crohns disease, as I haven't researched it (but the summary seems to indicate that it's both detectable and treatable). Lyme disease, however, is easily detectable in the weeks after exposure, and is also, at that point, easily treated with antibiotics. If you wait treat...
[03:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:04] <exec> 08└─Another interesting thing is all European royal families can trace their descent from Charlemagne
[03:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:05] <exec> 08└─It's just unusual here to get snow at the end of April.
[03:16:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:22] <exec> 08└─Insurers Balk At Paying... full stop. Keeping premiums low and profits high, that's most of their job. Cyberattacks are new, different, weird, and the expenses attributed to them can be more wildly inflated than a pain and suffering claim. Of course they're going to push back. Look for specifically...
[03:16:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:23] <exec> 08└─Even better is if, instead of making hotels put "no diving" signs around 4 foot deep wading pools, insurance companies made these shitty companies put "You'll be fucking robbed of everything you own if you sign up here" signs on their websites and rewards programs.
[03:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:42] <exec> 08└─But are you sure that's actually the "free" version of Turbo Tax? It's not like they aren't guilty of other shenanigans such as described here: https://www.propublica.org [propublica.org]
[03:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:43] <exec> 08└─Because we want to encourage pro-social behavior, like buying a house, starting a family. In comparison, Japan (and increasingly Western countries like the US) are seeing decreasing rates of home ownership and traditional families (marriage, kids). Of course, you may disagree with the premise, that...
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[04:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nubia Adds an Internal Fan to a "Gaming Smartphone" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:15] <exec> 08└─http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Inventor.html [ariel.com.au]
[04:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia Adds an Internal Fan to a "Gaming Smartphone" - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:16] <exec> 08└─I wonder if many people will actually buy a mad phone like that? The other wearable one looks even stupider, but even if they're a total failure, it is quite good to see somebody taking a risk and doing something different. Those ideas might not work, but something cool might come out of it.
[04:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia Adds an Internal Fan to a "Gaming Smartphone" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:18] <exec> 08└─Chinese companies are willing to do weird things like this and relatively cheaply too.
[04:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia Adds an Internal Fan to a "Gaming Smartphone" - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:21] <exec> 08└─You're joking. But I remember when Briefcase Phones were a thing. You'd be meeting with a very rich, very powerful guy. And, you hear a phone ringing. Guy opens up his briefcase. And you realize, the ringing is coming from that. Something nobody thought could happen. And this guy's taking a call wit...
[04:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia Adds an Internal Fan to a "Gaming Smartphone" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:23] <exec> 08└─But, this Company is not Chinese. It's Nubia. Otherwise known as Egypt.
[04:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:49] <exec> 08└─When I had to drop my little shits off at the elementary back in the day when they missed the bus I used to be totally stunned by parents that treated the kids like they were their personal chauffeurs. They would literally stop in front of the door and get out, walk around the SUV and open the door...
[04:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:51] <exec> 08└─The system just has to get things in motion and then it becomes self-sustaining. They start a coordinated media campaign to do something and over time it brainwashes people into believing it. "it is on the television all the time, must be important" and "our government knows best because we chose 'o...
[04:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:53] <exec> 08└─Lololol ok then, just support anti-surveillance regulation. To get popular support you will have to convince people to care about camera surveillance though. Cars wouldn't disappear in my ideal world, there would just be more convenient and cheaper alternatives. Also, even with a car you will be tra...
[04:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:55] <exec> 08└─There is apparently a very specific agenda being promoted here and voices of reason are just "the man" or "the enemy."
[04:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:57] <exec> 08└─Ah, there we have it. Nasty fucking neo Nazi shit being stirred. How DARE people care about the environment??? Eeeebul jewish liberal plooooottttt. Fucking incels having so little faith in themselves they turn down this dark path.
[04:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:59] <exec> 08└─It's government over reach. Remember that this was part of the "Green New Deal" to take away everyone's cars and put them on public transportation. They're just looking for new ways to wrap that pig. What we're talking about is the government mandating when and where you are allowed to drive along w...
[04:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:02] <exec> 08└─What are you babbling about surveillance for?
[04:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:04] <exec> 08└─It's like you are laughing at some strawman your malfunctioning brain cooked up rather than comprehend the post you were responding to. Strange to see mental illness on such obvious display.
[04:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:06] <exec> 08└─Personal attacks instead of replying to the message. Typical JIDF agent behavior. These JIDF agents are coordinated, so we need to coordinate ourselves to defend against the khazar jewish rats.
[04:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:08] <exec> 08└─Wherever I've worked over the last couple of decades there's been "end-of-trip" facilities. I.e. bike storage, showers, and personal lockers.
[04:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lloyds, Halifax and RBS/NatWest Online Services Resolved After Outage - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:43] <exec> 08└─They were testing their system of total banking blackout so that people will not be able to live their daily lives and to create chaos... so their military can be deployed in the streets. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
[04:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lloyds, Halifax and RBS/NatWest Online Services Resolved After Outage - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:44] <exec> 08└─Anomalies caused the outages. Either anomalies, or a shoddy javascript framework developed by millennials.
[04:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:26] <exec> 08└─Can we work the weather war into this? What if the weather modification devices were steam powered? Perhaps the goal of the alt-history conspiracy is to cover up the existence of a great steam age in antiquity. As the boilers cool and the clockwork devices wind down, the weather modification equipme...
[04:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:27] <exec> 08└─Also, making up elaborate fake historical events has been a fad that pops up every now and then. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.dictionary.com [dictionary.com] (origin of term ~ 1400 AD)
[04:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:29] <exec> 08└─It just snowed today where I live. Every year the weather gets crazier and crazier.
[04:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:31] <exec> 08└─Poor Nick gets left out? The least you can do is be smart and include Brendan!
[04:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:34] <exec> 08└─Well your anecdote would be an indicator of climate change and I believe Khallow was trolling with the point about what he thought you were saying.
[04:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:36] <exec> 08└─No. The loss of an authority to rely on when it comes to history tends to lead to wild speculations about what "really happened", which is fine as long as you keep in mind that is all they are. In general though, people who think "weather modification" is a conspiracy are idiots: https://www.cia.gov...
[04:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not trying to be "good" at anything. And you still haven't shown any cause of misfortune that goes beyond the voters' own responsibilities. Guess you can't be bothered...
[04:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:14] <exec> 08└─When they stop listening, don't vote for them. Exactly as I said. Also, don't let them game the system to the extent that you can't get rid of them. Sorry, that can only happen when the voters play along. The opportunity to vote out the incumbents (every two years in the House) is for the voters alo...
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[05:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Buckyballs in the Interstellar Medium - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:09] <exec> 08└─"During experiments aimed at understanding the mechanisms by which long-chain carbon molecules are formed in interstellar space and circumstellar shells, graphite has been vaporized by laser irradiation, producing a remarkably stable cluster consisting of 60 carbon atoms."
[05:14:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Nubia Adds an Internal Fan to a "Gaming Smartphone" - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:16] <exec> 08└─http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Inventor.html [ariel.com.au]
[05:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:57] <exec> 08└─The government doesn't want to manage your life for you, they just want to have a loving conversation with you about it.
[05:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:59] <exec> 08└─And also a great cross-dressing opportunity, if you know what I mean. Little. Things. Matter.
[05:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:01] <exec> 08└─Fuck you! Just, well, Fuck you! Fuck you and the gas-guzzler you rode in on! Fuck your Republican Lifestyle! Fuck your trophy wife, and your trophy (soon to be wife) Mistress! And I am not talking to you, Newt Fiinckgrinch! How long does it take for these "Reagan Democrate members of the Conservativ...
[05:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:05] <exec> 08└─In Ukraine. In Ukraine they give you colored revolutions and murder people in the streets under the guidance of (((George Soros))). State-sponsored attacks are mostly carried out by the U.S and their lapdog U.K etc. They fight a one-sided war against non-nuclear armed nations without declaring war....
[05:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:10] <exec> 08└─So true, I was in the Reform Party. But they had some pretty big problems. Not the least of which is Pat Buchanan, David Duke, Fulani, and it was a problem. Although I was totally comfortable with the people in the New York Independence Party, I left the Reform Party to David Duke, Pat Buchanan and...
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[06:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:16] <exec> 08└─It depends. There might be more flexibility than you think. If you have a gym membership to a place with a lot of branches like Crunch, you can shower and change at a location near your office. If you have your own office at work, you can keep your work clothes in a drawer or garment bag and change...
[06:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:18] <exec> 08└─No, but switching to EVs rather takes the "Save the Earth" reason out of the balance when arguing for cycling instead of driving. Usually climate change has been the whole of the argument for dropping cars and biking instead, so this article was unusual to mention "lack of exercise kills!"
[06:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:20] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus, did you forget to take your pill again?
[06:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:22] <exec> 08└─the US was built on the automobile and the freedom of movement it granted.
[06:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:24] <exec> 08└─There can be no personal attacks on ACs. If you attack one of us, you attack none of us. We are legion, we know nothing, and you should not expect us. We are kind of the opposite of Anonymous in that respect. AC on SoylentNews, seeking fellow feeling alt-right incel, countered by not-quite insane li...
[06:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:27] <exec> 08└─The summary of the report made no mention of taking people's cars away. "The Government" is well aware that people are not getting enough exercise and would like to reverse this trend. Now, are they going to be standing behind us with a whip whilst we run on a treadmill? No, don't be daft. There is...
[06:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:29] <exec> 08└─Somewhere between the polar extremes of political systems there are islands of stasis where individual freedom and collective action co-exist in a creative tension. The individual has no reason to pull on rubber boots and a slicker and answer a call to repair a burst sewer main in the middle of the...
[06:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:31] <exec> 08└─I used to work at the Clinton Foundation
[06:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:33] <exec> 08└─I have a vehicle that is capable of 50+ mpg, on diesel. Of course, some have denigrated this because of the NOx, but I put it to you, is not the reduction of CO2 worth the increased NOx? Let the sparkers die in their own effluent. But the real point is, I do not drive my miracle efficiency machine,...
[06:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lloyds, Halifax and RBS/NatWest Online Services Resolved After Outage - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:10] <exec> 08└─The wrong kind of clouds!
[06:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:57] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid in the 70's it could snow in the northern Rockies in May. Didn't stick around more than an afternoon, then, but it did snow. Three years ago I was at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park in August, and on the shoulder of Reynolds Mountain it tipped back and forth between snow and rai...
[06:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tax-Filing Software Industry Uses robots.txt to Hide "Free File" Versions - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:42] <exec> 08└─What choice? The voters have a choice (more like an obligation) to stop reelecting politicians that take bribes from lobbyists. Is it really so complicated to you people?
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[07:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:12] <exec> 08└─Have instructed Wilbur Ross of my Commerce Department to give massive Robot Company, Anki, a way to get back into business, fast. And get those 200 Robots -- possibly more -- back to work. Getting it done!!!!
[07:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:18] <exec> 08└─Wot? I would never post so much profanity, at least not under my username, which needs to be curated and cultivated to preserve a certain "gravitas". So, no, I don't take pills. What was your point again, oh Benefactor in my name?
[07:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:20] <exec> 08└─they own stock in shoe companies.
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[08:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:18] <exec> 08└─I am totally pro-vaccine. Rabid folk on the pro-vaccine side do forget that vaccines are *not* 100%. Immune systems react differently, diseases adapt, there are all sort of reasons why vaccines cannot provide perfect protection. Just as a rather extreme example: I was vaccinated as a kid, and I had...
[08:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:20] <exec> 08└─Vaccinations are close to, but not 100%, effective. I just got my second MMR jab as an adult about 3 weeks ago, as previous titers showed immunity to mumps and rubella but not measles. The nurse says they don't check for immunity after the second one as an adult as that usually does it, but I may ju...
[08:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:22] <exec> 08└─The vaccinations are so important. This is really going around now. They have to get their shots!!!!
[08:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:37] <exec> 08└─How's that freedom? https://xtown.la [xtown.la]
[08:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:39] <exec> 08└─I used to be a lawyer for a school district. In my state, you have three options: kids can walk, kids take bus, or kids have designated driver. Now, if kids live within a certain distance of the school and are above a certain age, then they can either walk or have a designated driver. If they live b...
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[08:15:41] <exec> 08└─Funny how you see in this a conspiracy to take our cars away, but you don't see all the pro-car and pro-oil conspiracies. Things like automobile manufacturers and oil companies working to destroy public transportation, designing roads to make walking and biking extremely unsafe or impossible-- a fav...
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[09:14:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they really seemed to put the wrong spin on the ball here. The reason it's essential that all those who can be vaccinated be vaccinated is precisely because in order for herd immunity to be a thing the propagation ratio needs to be kept below 1.0, all the while some small subset of the populat...
[09:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:17] <exec> 08└─On one hand I have my own experience of the 70s and pretty simplistic thoughts (if vaccinations provide antibodies, the mutations of the pathogen will be selected, so different strains will hit anyway). And what happens is exactly that. On the other hand we have the narrative (no vax deny vaccinatio...
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[09:14:19] <exec> 08└─If one person survived being shot, then bullets cannot kill people.
[09:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:21] <exec> 08└─things aren't 100%
[09:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:30] <exec> 08└─"Its main products Cozmo and Vector seemed to be successes." "Seemed"? Did they turn a profit? A regular one? I'm not sure if accountants have the concept of "seeming" to make a profit, they just subtract actual outgoings from actual incomings, perhaps that's a safer model of "success", a cold hard...
[09:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:33] <exec> 08└─They were successful in raising more than $200 million in venture capital, but not successful in scoring a multi-billion dollar buyout before it was too late.
[09:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:36] <exec> 08└─I thought this was their biggest money maker https://www.google.com [google.com] My kids loved it and went through a whole year where everything revolved around saving up for one more vehicle. Nothing related to the Overdrive sets was cheap. For those not in the know, Anki Ov...
[09:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:38] <exec> 08└─Ah, so Ponzi it is then.
[09:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:51] <exec> 08└─I've been riding my bicycle every day to work for 12 years now. It is just not true that you will get killed by a car. And bike paths are not only not necessary they are dangerous, I avoid them and never ride on them.
[09:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:52] <exec> 08└─If your kid walks, then they will head count and release those kids in groups.
[09:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:54] <exec> 08└─bike paths are not safe. I ride a bicycle and much rather do it on the regular roads which by the way are designed for all types of vehicles not just motorized.
[09:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:57] <exec> 08└─reliance on public transportation = less freedom of movement and more reliance on government.
[09:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:59] <exec> 08└─It was not until after WWII when Eisenhower wanted to copy the autobahn he had seen in Germany that America built its interstate highway system, but America was quite completely industrialized, modern, and atomic powered by then.
[09:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:01] <exec> 08└─not the reduction of CO2 worth the increased NOx?
[09:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:03] <exec> 08└─Fine, just stop using public money to build roads, go ahead and build your own.
[09:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:20] <exec> 08└─The system would still be informal, in the sense that it doesn't guarantee anything. It would only allow to partially assign responsibility, e.g. in the case of package loss. Otherwise not much would change: the customer still has to check whether the package is actually there and if it says the mea...
[09:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:21] <exec> 08└─> Currently, the only way for an customer wo track their package from end to end is if the parcelo is picked up and delivered by the same company I'm sorry, but that's complete bollocks. Not one of any of the packages I can remember receiving in the last decade was handled end-to-end by a single com...
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[09:16:23] <exec> 08└─so why not use barcodes? rather than enforcing a particular type of blockchain, enforce a particular type of barcode/QRcode standard and then you're done.
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[10:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:24] <exec> 08└─Vaccinations are close to, but not 100%, effective...but I may just be one of those weirdos who doesn't have the vaccine "take."
[10:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03johaquila [867] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, while this event points to a possible mutation, it is definitely no (statistical) proof that this happened. It's the Birthday Paradox at work. Basically, the Birthday Paradox says that freak accidents happen all the time because there is such an overwhelming number of possible freak accide...
[10:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:55] <exec> 08└─Here in Europe, I see two main points: - way too many people drive oversized cars. Keyword SUV craze. No, nobody needs to drive a tank. Some may need their offroad vehicles, most people in towns just don't. Especially "sporty" versions. Manly attributes won't be upgraded by having a big car. And mom...
[10:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:56] <exec> 08└─Problem with that is the imported muzzies preying on vulnerable children. A few meters after being dropped off your little angel could be dragged into a car, have their intimate secrets pounded out of them, be threatened with rape torture and death of their family before being released to spend the...
[10:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:59] <exec> 08└─Pack your work clothes into an A4 ziplock bag. Carry it in a backpack.
[10:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:01] <exec> 08└─As with lots of other things in the capitalist world, electric cars are simply a way to hide the problem. You get to keep part of the transmission and the engine in the car. But the power source is now miles away where you don't see it. Of course most of the electricity in the world is made by burni...
[10:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:03] <exec> 08└─I run into my boss on the stairs, in my cycling or running gear, all the time. If your boss gets upset by it, you have a very dysfunctional relationship with your boss. You *should* have access to a shower and a locker (or equivalent storage) in your workplace. If this isn't the case then you should...
[10:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 5441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:23] <exec> 08└─You know that feeling you get when someone says something that so completely demonstrates their lack of understanding of a topic that you suddenly realize you need to educate them? For instance when someone calls you and tells you their computer is broken and you come over only to find out they unpl...
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[11:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that "They Might Be Giants" will finally have fodder for a new song, and maybe make a comeback? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Or will the classics remain forever outdated? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─Learn to swim, see you down in Depok Bay
[11:14:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03johaquila [867] 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, while this event points to a possible mutation, it is definitely no (statistical) proof that this happened. It's the Birthday Paradox at work. Basically, the Birthday Paradox says that freak accidents happen all the time because there is such an overwhelming number of possible freak accide...
[11:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:30] <exec> 08└─Bad family karma, I say. They should stick to praying. BTW, can someone explain to me, why measles illness is so antisemitic?
[11:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:32] <exec> 08└─If 1/33 is the rate, then 4 in a row is ~1/1 million... of course, there are literally hundreds of millions of groups of 4 people in this country, so stuff like this is expected - if the 5th family member got it that would be outside the baseline stats and maybe there's something genetic going on......
[11:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:35] <exec> 08└─Another analogy: 1963, the year before the Measles vaccine was released, death by measles in the US was running 400 to 500 per year. Today, death by automobile accident in the US runs just under 40,000 per year. I still drive to work, do you? I view the whole discussion somewhat like a demand that a...
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[11:14:37] <exec> 08└─700 cases of measles this year alone, the horror! The press releases! Meanwhile... An estimated 15,458 people with an AIDS diagnosis died in 2015... but that's boring.
[11:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:39] <exec> 08└─There are so many things to worry about in the world today, this would seem to be a trivial trend to be vaguely aware of. 700 cases, zero deaths. Meanwhile: Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,166 lives in 2017 alone... that's a trend that frightens me quite a bit more, at least 3000x more.
[11:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:41] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: More recently, measles cases and measles deaths in the United States include: 2000 – 86 cases – 1 measles death (infant) – endemic spread of measles eliminated in U.S. 2001 – 116 cases – 1 measles death 2002 – 44 cases 2003 – 55 cases – 1 measles death (1 y...
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[11:14:44] <exec> 08└─The vaccine is not 100%, and measles can be deadly, particularly in newborns, but since 2000, the death rate in U.S. measles cases is about 1/270, including infants. Since 2015, the measles death rate is 0/1000 in the U.S. Monitor, yes, inform, yes. Panic? Outrage? I guess if you've really got nothi...
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[11:14:46] <exec> 08└─This is about mumps, not measles. And you need to compare those numbers to "measles like illness", which all would have been diagnosed as measles before widespread blood testing. The only number I've ever found was 20,000 cases in 2004.
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[11:14:48] <exec> 08└─Measles is not deadly in newborns as long as the mother was immune, since the newborn gets maternal antibodies that are supposed to last for a year (less if the mother was vaccinated).
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[11:15:26] <exec> 08└─In the past couple decades, Arkansas has worked steadily to eliminate smaller school districts. Little villages that had their own schools and school districts have been closed down. Meaning, where almost every child in the school walked to school every morning, is now bused miles away to a more "ac...
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[11:16:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds like where I live. A small village of 140,000 which thinks itself a "city." Public transport is a joke and they can't fix it, because race-protected politics. Places are just that bit too far apart to walk. Cycling is suicide, IF you don't have your bike stolen.
[11:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:24] <exec> 08└─I rode my bike to work for about 10 years, there was only about 1/4 mile where I worried about getting hit. Speed limit was 25 though, and cars were usually going slower due to traffic lights. Going to my health club is a whole nuther ball o' wax. It's not just me, I never see anyone on a bike on th...
[11:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:26] <exec> 08└─If in the arctic regions, say Oulu, they can have a perfectly functional and reliable public transport system at -20C with nobody freezing to death, then it should be easier in bits of the world where they don't need engine heaters. It just requires the desire to have a working public transport syst...
[11:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:29] <exec> 08└─There may be roads where traffic is so fast and intense that they might be scary to ride on. But the solution is not to make segregated bicycle facilities, when that happens we lose our right to use the road.
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[12:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:20] <exec> 08└─"We've confirmed that it was designed for our standards, certified for our standards and we're confident in that process," he said. "It operated according to those design and certification standards. We haven't seen a technical slip or gap." Oh, well that explains it. I didn't realize it was SUPPOSE...
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[12:14:22] <exec> 08└─"We've confirmed that it was designed for our standards, certified for our standards and we're confident in that process," he said. "It operated according to those design and certification standards. We haven't seen a technical slip or gap."
[12:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:56] <exec> 08└─Why would you assume these cases are independent of one another?
[12:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:57] <exec> 08└─Could also be a different strain, where the vaccine doesn't work.
[12:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:59] <exec> 08└─And if the measles death rate was like 1 in 10k cases in 1963, but has increased to 1 in 270 since 2000, that would mean these vaccinations are doing something very bad. Your numbers are probably BS though.
[12:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:01] <exec> 08└─I had the measles in the early 60s, before a vaccine was available. I'm sure my mother would have had me vaccinated if it had been available. I know she was very pro-vaccination because she told me about scary and devastating polio and rubella outbreaks shortly after WWII. As a small child, the meas...
[12:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:04] <exec> 08└─If 1/33 is the rate, then 4 in a row is ~1/1 million...
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[12:15:06] <exec> 08└─Oh I even come up with an example: The common flu. Nothing common about it. Damn thing keeps evolving to anything you throw at it and been doing that to humans for millions of years. Inoculating against it is pretty useless but it's so likely to go nuclear and wipe out everyone Spanish Flu style tha...
[12:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:08] <exec> 08└─[...] The department of health nurse was required to send out another letter to the school district, so Kami asked the nurse if she could "put the truth" in the letter to the school district that her son was vaccinated, because she feared being blamed in error, once again, for not vaccinating her ch...
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[12:15:10] <exec> 08└─How many deaths from gun shots?
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[12:15:12] <exec> 08└─"Indeed, an average of only 100 cases of measles are confirmed annually [32], despite the fact that >20,000 tests are conducted [28], directly suggesting the low predictive value of clinical suspicion alone. "
[12:15:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 615 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:23] <exec> 08└─I thought this was their biggest money maker https://www.google.com [google.com] My kids loved it and went through a whole year where everything revolved around saving up for one more vehicle. Nothing related to the Overdrive sets was cheap. For those not in the know, Anki Ov...
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[12:15:27] <exec> 08└─Largely the problem is that their toys were reasonably successful, but that wasn't the business they wanted to be in. They wanted to do Serious Robot Stuff. Unfortunately, the toys weren't profitable enough to bankroll that.
[12:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia Adds an Internal Fan to a "Gaming Smartphone" - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:45] <exec> 08└─14k RPM is not going to be quiet, even with the best possible fans. Considering the size of it I suspect that little sucker is going to whine quite loudly at that speed. In some kind of idle mode at around 1k RPM you can hear normal sized fans without any problems, unless you are somehow deaf or in...
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[12:15:47] <exec> 08└─Also that fan better be quiet if you’re going to be holding it up near your ear. Also interested to know how a fan in an “isolated chamber” is going to have such fantastic heat transfer characteristics.
[12:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:57] <exec> 08└─Finally, there is the image factor, do you really want to run into your boss in your bike clothes on the elevator?
[12:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:59] <exec> 08└─That is obviously false, cars can drive off road if need be, the gov roads are a convenience. Also, obviously you can travel much farther in a car so even if using the government road you have more freedom of movement than being stuck biking/walking. What is with the idiots responding to this post?
[12:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:01] <exec> 08└─Or Tesla... Which has a mysteriously levitating stock.
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[12:17:22] <exec> 08└─thank you for clearing that up. but you may want to consult with the other users of the word "blockchain" on what it actually means. for instance I can complain all I want about "affect" vs "effect", but most people will not care. this person quoted here has communicated something to the public. the...
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[12:17:23] <exec> 08└─Original AC from the above reply here... After writing that rather lengthy post, I was reminded of a time in ancient history where I was still running windows for everything and didn't see a need for, nor really understand linux. Then I got swept up in a sea change at work. Microsoft had decided to...
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[12:17:25] <exec> 08└─Well he is using it correctly. There's no misunderstanding. Yes people hype it, but that is not what he's doing here. In reality he's saying he wants a universal standard for tracking and accountability on packages. Something that is open technology that all shippers can subscribe to and update as y...
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[12:17:28] <exec> 08└─I'd certainly be interested in it. I'm no specialist, but it sounds to me like the HDF5 standard should incorporate something like this to keep track of file changes, if they don't already. In particular I care about HDF5 in the case of massively parallel numerical simulations, where ideally many co...
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[13:14:14] <exec> 08└─He used a bog standard PC with an Intel Core i7-6700 processor, and took about three and a half years to finally complete over 79 trillion calculations.
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[13:14:23] <exec> 08└─previous code was only for making the aircraft safer going backwards. The value of safety while the aircraft was travelling sideways is handled by a third-party.
[13:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:26] <exec> 08└─The Boeing CEO should resign. An unplanned safety update in response to the death of hundreds of people on TWO separate flights indicates a complete failure of process and management. End of comment.
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[13:14:35] <exec> 08└─Learn to swim, see you down in Depok Bay
[13:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:09] <exec> 08└─The "spanish flu" was so deadly because doctors were giving doses of aspirin to people that would get them sent to jail for malpractice today. Aspirin overdose has symptoms similar to the flu.
[13:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:10] <exec> 08└─gun shots?
[13:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:13] <exec> 08└─Vaccines are like seat-belts. Having them doesn't mean that I'll never die in a car accident. But not having them GREATLY increases the chance that not only will I die in an "outbreak", but also that I'll injure or kill someone else (60kg of human hitting the rear of the driver seat at 70mph, smashi...
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[13:15:15] <exec> 08└─Around here the police use the seat belt law to randomly stop cars for "safety checks".
[13:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:17] <exec> 08└─Microsoft style beta testing. With syringes.
[13:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:30] <exec> 08└─Rumor is the Japanese love all things robot especially if it is cute.
[13:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:04] <exec> 08└─Actually on the healthcare front, my town's the opposite. The three major regional hospitals (two in the neighboring towns, one in my town) have been putting down smaller scale "local branch offices" and clinics and other such things practically every couple of blocks in the fierce competition with...
[13:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:30] <exec> 08└─I would love to research that and give you some feedback, but there seems to be several things which share that name and could all be candidates for the tech you're talking about. Can you give me a link to the specific item you're talking about?
[13:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:31] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about "hierarchical data format" https://portal.hdfgroup.org [hdfgroup.org] (this particular website seems to be somewhat broken, so I'm not sure the group is being administered properly at the moment, but the library is nonetheless extensively used in scientific comput...
[13:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photoacoustic Endoscopy Could Improve Crohn's Disease Treatment - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:06] <exec> 08└─as per usual AC is spouting neocon bullshit. I have it, it's general presence is very detectable, changing diet doesn't cure it.
[13:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:24] <exec> 08└─I work cybersecurity. These companies make calculated decisions based on net cost. If it costs $X to secure, and $Y to insure, if X>Y, then they do not secure. The cost of insurance is rising, and now insurance has started being picky. More companies will chose to secure instead of insure. The insur...
[13:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Just Cleared an iPhone ECG Sensor That Beats the Apple Watch - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:42] <exec> 08└─Not in this case. An ECG expects a waveform that falls within certain parameters. It's not like the optical pulse rate meters on most devices that just looks for a pulse and are easily thrown off by all kinds thigs. The software can tell when it has good capture or when it doesn't. The pulse rate sh...
[13:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Shows the Potential of Carbon Nanotubes to Cool Electronic Circuits - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:19] <exec> 08└─"vapor-compression refrigerators, which currently dominate the market and contribute to ozone depletion and global warming." It's true that they dominate the market, mostly because no one has yet found anything else as efficient as the Carnot cycle. The Peltier effect is not nearly as efficient, nor...
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[14:14:12] <exec> 08└─Given that the i7 does not support ECC ram, it is interesting to note that Fabrot's computer experienced no bit flips in the portion of the ram holding his (probably small) program during that 3.5 year period.
[14:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:14] <exec> 08└─The original puzzle [mit.edu] talks about this: An interesting question is how to protect such a computation from errors. If you have an error in year 3 that goes undetected, you may waste the next 32 years of computing. Adi Shamir has proposed a slick means of checking your computation as you go, a...
[14:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:16] <exec> 08└─Umm.. does it matter? or change anything? or is this just another nerd 'hey, this is cool' type of thing
[14:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:18] <exec> 08└─He used a bog standard PC with an Intel Core i7-6700 processor, and took about three and a half years
[14:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:20] <exec> 08└─Since he was smart enough to use the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library, I'd assume he's smart enough to use Linux or BSD.
[14:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:23] <exec> 08└─can anyone teach themselves to be Belgian?
[14:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:34] <exec> 08└─"Our standards" is just enough to raise all the alarms. Also related video (under reserve it's a discarded production unit) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Which also raise the question of having a single (cheap) sensor with no built-in redundancy, in airplanes where just a...
[14:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:45] <exec> 08└─Actually, placing your capital city where the earth will eventually swallow it might be a feature, not a bug.
[14:14:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 487 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:52] <exec> 08└─I am totally pro-vaccine. Rabid folk on the pro-vaccine side do forget that vaccines are *not* 100%. Immune systems react differently, diseases adapt, there are all sort of reasons why vaccines cannot provide perfect protection. Just as a rather extreme example: I was vaccinated as a kid, and I had...
[14:14:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they really seemed to put the wrong spin on the ball here. The reason it's essential that all those who can be vaccinated be vaccinated is precisely because in order for herd immunity to be a thing the propagation ratio needs to be kept below 1.0, all the while some small subset of the populat...
[14:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:25] <exec> 08└─The article seems to be missing some significant details, such as where (country? city?) and when the events occurred. Color me skeptical.
[14:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:26] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that most shootings, including mass-shootings, are done with handguns, not assault weapons. You know, the kind of gun explicitly designed for carrying discretely and killing people in interior and urban areas. They don't look as scary as an "assault" weapons, but they're every bi...
[14:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:28] <exec> 08└─Being a bot, do you get your anti-virus from McAffee? https://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[14:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:31] <exec> 08└─There is a link to the nurse's post on facebook, I am sure you can find the details you want from there.
[14:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:33] <exec> 08└─There may well be a genetic component, in either the family or the strain of mumps that attacked them. But assuming independence sets a lower bound on the probabilities. Assuming they did their math right, you would expect 9/10,000 groups of five exposed people to all develop mumps. Any non-independ...
[14:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:35] <exec> 08└─that most shootings, including mass-shootings, are done with handguns, not assault weapons
[14:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:37] <exec> 08└─But the medical industry is mostly owned by khazar jews. So you won't hear anyone blaming the medical industry and telling them to take responsibility. Lots of people will shout and scream and complain but it won't be heard by outsiders. One of the reasons is khazar jews own media companies. And the...
[14:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:40] <exec> 08└─The obvious question to ask then, is were Australian mass-shootings primarily committed with "assault weapons" in the first place? I would assume so for those results to be seen, and it probably illustrates some quirk of Australian psychology. In the US (last time I checked), handguns are the weapon...
[14:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:42] <exec> 08└─What happens when the measles (or mumps or...) virus mutates in such a way as to become resistant or even immune to the vaccines? That's something that's far more likely to happen when it's widespread. Look no further than the flu for evidence. Multiply your 1/270 death rate by five million cases a...
[14:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:44] <exec> 08└─It is a trivial trend to be vaguely aware of because vaccination. It is becoming more of a trend because lack of vaccination coupled with misunderstanding that vaccination is for individuals when the primary benefits accrue to the community (but letting the secondary effect of individual protection...
[14:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:46] <exec> 08└─And the outbreaks of measles show what happens because of anti-vaccination. So it is relevant.
[14:17:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:04] <exec> 08└─the US was built on the automobile and the freedom of movement it granted.
[14:17:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1723 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:06] <exec> 08└─The summary of the report made no mention of taking people's cars away. "The Government" is well aware that people are not getting enough exercise and would like to reverse this trend. Now, are they going to be standing behind us with a whip whilst we run on a treadmill? No, don't be daft. There is...
[14:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:35] <exec> 08└─It certainly sounded like you. If it wasn't then you've attracted imitators. There's your happy thought for the day: you have groupies!
[14:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:37] <exec> 08└─***Perception of motorbikers isn't very good*** The understatement of the year. I am always in awe and wonder when I see a well behaved motor cyclist in traffic. Most of them seem to be hardwired for speeding, macho behaviour and recklessly weaving in and out of lanes. Most of the aforementioned, so...
[14:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:39] <exec> 08└─OK, muzzies are all well and good, if you just need to use them for an excuse. But, predators existed long before Muslims arrived here in any numbers. Predators, sex and other types, generally prey on their own demographics. Of course, you knew that already. And, uhhhhh - how many predators are ther...
[14:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:41] <exec> 08└─Glad to hear that! We have an odd situation in one of our closer towns. The city hospital has been there for half of forever, I guess. They've had financial problems, and have been unable to compete with other hospitals in the area since before I moved here. Some corporation made an offer to buy the...
[14:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:43] <exec> 08└─I am always in awe and wonder when I see a well behaved motor cyclist in traffic. Most of them seem to be hardwired for speeding, macho behaviour and recklessly weaving in and out of lanes.
[14:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─I see only one groupie, you.
[14:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:12] <exec> 08└─Ok so for something like this a journal would provide superior results especially if the journal is also storing a hash of the resulting file to ensure integrity. The difference here is that yes you're using hashes to ensure integrity, but you don't care so much about the source, no particular node...
[14:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:06] <exec> 08└─Really? I would think that a major insurance company easily has the budget to hire a few expert security people to periodically audit their customers' security practices to get a pretty good assessment of the actual risk. It's not like incompetent security is difficult for an expert on the inside to...
[14:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:08] <exec> 08└─> About all they typically offer the consumers affected by a breach is some sort of limited-term identity protection insurance/monitoring, which just tells the bad guys to wait until the term is up before using that particular identity. Indeed. Which suggests perhaps we should re-evaluate the level...
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[15:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:06] <exec> 08└─Now with more wet dog smell than ever
[15:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:07] <exec> 08└─That's still better than Wet Moose smell.
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:09] <exec> 08└─How TF do you just leave your pets behind? They're part of your family. If they mean so little to you that you feel ok just abandoning them like an old couch, then you shouldn't have pets to begin with. It's not as if this was a fire consuming their homes and they were fleeing in wild-eyed panic. Th...
[15:14:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:21] <exec> 08└─Since he was smart enough to use the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library, I'd assume he's smart enough to use Linux or BSD.
[15:14:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─can anyone teach themselves to be Belgian?
[15:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03evk [597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─I've had my work machines go for 6+ months several times. 3-4 months would be normal between reboots. I can't see why there would be a problem to run a Windows machine for 3.5 years if it's only using a small piece of dedicated software, the power stays up and you don't care about updates.
[15:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:27] <exec> 08└─#1 Updates are now forced. #2 It's windows. You're not going to have a stable experience over 3.5 years.
[15:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:29] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to attempt it. [belgiansmaak.com]
[15:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:31] <exec> 08└─Just declare you own Congo and then run slave plantations for rubber. Worked fine for Leopold.
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:34] <exec> 08└─I was going to do this, but I'm already waffling...
[15:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:36] <exec> 08└─Updates are not forced if you keep it offline.
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─Hoisted on his own pitot?
[15:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:50] <exec> 08└─Not just a genetic component, they probably got vaccinated at the same place, etc.
[15:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:51] <exec> 08└─Mumps vaccine is only 88% effective: https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov]
[15:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:53] <exec> 08└─If you are in favor of government mandated medical procedures you are not at all libertarian. Please come up with a new term for your political leanings. The science is quite easily understandable even by laymen
[15:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:56] <exec> 08└─These outbreaks of measles are proximately triggered by exposure to sick immigrants. More generally though, this outbreak is nothing compared to what is coming. There is a giant measles epidemic on the way among adults who escaped exposure (vaccine failure, etc) and whose immunity has waned due to w...
[15:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:58] <exec> 08└─I don't see why it matters who owns these organizations. Either way they are corrupt and should be avoided.
[15:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:00] <exec> 08└─But if actual test shows that you're immune then what is exact mechanism of actually catching the disease? Is it some other strain that this immunity doesn't work against? After all nature doesn't work like this, nothing happens at strictly set random ratios for unknowable reasons.
[15:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─Right off the bat, take a gallon of festering lab grown measles and inject that into any inoculated person and they'll die.
[15:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:05] <exec> 08└─29 cases hospitalized in New York and one coma for something as "innocent" as measles
[15:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:07] <exec> 08└─The pathogens that cause these diseases and the vaccines used to produce immunological memory for them are continually monitored for mutation and efficacy. A single anecdote is worth looking into, especially since sequencing is cheap nowadays, but it is far from conclusive evidence of a vaccine-resi...
[15:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:09] <exec> 08└─Another analogy: 1963, the year before the Measles vaccine was released, death by measles in the US was running 400 to 500 per year.
[15:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:11] <exec> 08└─Don't know about mumps, but for measles the different types of blood tests don't even correlate with each other: Our data demonstrate that regression analysis shows only limited correlation between NT results and the ELISA values. This is in agreement with other reports [4]. Similar limitations in t...
[15:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:13] <exec> 08└─Those numbers are BS without a timeframe and description of how "effective" was determined. Antibodies wane over time, and positive blood tests do not necessarily mean protection from illness. Eg, this nurse said she recently got tested and was supposed to be "immune" according to the results. A use...
[15:16:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 453 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:56] <exec> 08└─Public transport to places I want to go. 2+ hours each way, for a 30 minute drive in rush hour, 15 minutes otherwise. Ride my bike to my health club. 2.5 miles each way, 1.5 miles on 45 MPH roads with no bike lanes giving a life expectancy of 6 months before getting creamed by some dipshit eating a...
[15:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 3399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:08] <exec> 08└─Ok, let me address some of those points. First point - that roads used to be private. I spend a fair amount of time in Colorado and I can tell you that the 470 here is privately owned. This is a major highway loop around Denver, all of it privately owned and well maintained. So it's not like that s...
[15:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:10] <exec> 08└─And yet California in general and LA in particular are heavily radical left when it comes to policy. They are the first to lay down bike paths and sidewalks and to tax people to death for infrastructure that never gets built. It's a shining example of what happens when a state is left under blue con...
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:12] <exec> 08└─There has always been an understanding, at least in the US, that common infrastructure is necessary to make capitalism work at it's best. This is one of the valid reasons for governments to exist - to "grease the wheels" of industry. And it does that by maintaining roads and sewage and other infrast...
[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─The West was settled by rail, the industrial powerhouse of the US was built on the interstate highway system and the automobile. If you think the US was anywhere near the industrial giant it is today without roads you are sadly mistaken. The car allowed the people to move freely and easily to wherev...
[15:18:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 951 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:25] <exec> 08└─It also allows for non company specific "Your package is here" type information to be easily and publicly available. Currently, the only way for an customer wo track their package from end to end is if the parcelo is picked up and delivered by the same company - and that limits things GREATLY for mo...
[15:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:42] <exec> 08└─Does blockchain by its method of ensuring security inherently cause what is popularly perceived as ineffciency of energy as competing factions all use arrays of machines to do the proof of work to sign and authenticate? Or is this something that is strictly caused by the race to profit in cryptomini...
[15:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:52] <exec> 08└─What is weird is how mild winters in that part of the world have generally become.
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[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─"oh noes, where are my pet piranhas? I forgot them in the tub."
[16:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:15] <exec> 08└─A dike was breached, so the water likely rose very quickly - it is quite possible they were fleeing in wild-eyed panic. If it was an outdoor cat or a dog that got panicky and couldn't be put into a vehicle they might have been faced with save my family or die with my pet. I'm not trying to justify a...
[16:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─They must have had a baby boom while we weren't watching. Now we need a wall on that border too!
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─It matters that crypto experts, who are called on to give forward security estimates (statements of the form "an X-bit EC signing key will remain unforgeable by serious attacks from adversaries that can fab custom ASICs for Y years, so should only be used in lower security contexts, and not for more...
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─start here. [stripinfo.be]
[16:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:41] <exec> 08└─They're working on an algorithm for that.
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:54] <exec> 08└─Every time this topic comes up I have to wonder why MCAS didn't simply tie into the stall warning system with a stick shaker. I don't understand the logic behind deciding that this system must completely override and even fight against the pilot at all. Any pilot worth his salt can properly evaluate...
[16:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:55] <exec> 08└─The denial and massive spin to make it sound like Boeng did everything possible to make the plan safe. Next up: Finger pointing at the sensor manufacture and some scapegoat(s) at Boeing will be fired or otherwise sacrificed..
[16:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:06] <exec> 08└─We should have seen it coming when the civil engineering curriculum expanded into urban planning and planned obsoleteness strategies such as planting seasonal trees instead of evergreens became an accepted practice.
[16:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:10] <exec> 08└─I was also thinking this. If her whole family got it I wonder if there is some gene they carry that causes the immune response to not work as well for mumps. Perhaps a different structure to a cellular surface protein. It says they had antibodies for the virus so at least their immune system respond...
[16:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:11] <exec> 08└─This doesn't make any sense considering most nations just didn't have enough doctors and drugs of any kind while the high fatalities were relatively universal. The Wikipedia entry even says as much if you read past the first paragraph: They questioned the universal applicability of the aspirin theor...
[16:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:13] <exec> 08└─Most life insurance won't pay out if you crash in a car without a seat belt. Another reason to always belt up.
[16:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:16] <exec> 08└─personal protection is not why the 2a exists, though. that's just been touted as a good reason by some people. it's largely irrelevant to our rights. the 2a was written to explain that free people have the right to overthrow tyrannical governments and in order to do that they would need weapons "of...
[16:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:18] <exec> 08└─Just because someone "questions" some detail does not mean you can dismiss an idea. In fact, if you read it you can see they have no data, just wild speculation. The little data that does exist indicates that aspirin was used in India as far as was possible: In 1905, a British court struck down Baye...
[16:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:20] <exec> 08└─bs, motherfucker. nature and diseases are not in my direct control. i don't cause you to get sick just b/c i don't get shot up with a bioweapon from an wholly untrustworthy industry and government.
[16:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:33] <exec> 08└─Learn to code killer robots and DOD will beat a path to your door.
[16:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia Adds an Internal Fan to a "Gaming Smartphone" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:56] <exec> 08└─Guess you've never asked to open up and look at The Football [wikipedia.org]? Thank God for small favors. Wait, my God, what have I done?
[16:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:21] <exec> 08└─That's why your little angel should be carrying an AK-47.
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:22] <exec> 08└─Sidewalks jammed with obese people puttering along in electric wheelchairs. The road becomes the new sidewalk for pedestrians.
[16:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:24] <exec> 08└─You are correct, surveillance wasn't specifically mentioned I just assumed that was what was meant. There would be little to zero reduction in freedom of travel with public transit because it isn't like that would be the only option. Such a view was so ridiculous that in my haste I did not seriously...
[16:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 6763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:53] <exec> 08└─This is an excellent question and goes to the heart of something we call "consensus". In a nutshell, consensus is the degree to which different parties agree or disagree about the current state of the chain. To answer the question in the simplest form, the answer is "no", you do not need "proof of w...
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[17:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─Google is the love child of the movies, "Blow" and "The Wolf of Wall Street
[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─We are letting people die because of lack of resources to save them.
[17:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:53] <exec> 08└─No need to leave off line. Mine has been on line for years and still does not have the updates. Turn on METERED SERVICE for connection. MS was yelled at for consuming bandwidth and costing people real MONEY and/or takes all the DSL pipe of a country in Africa. Plus you can take out all of M$ schedul...
[17:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:55] <exec> 08└─#1 Updates are now forced.
[17:15:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─previous code was only for making the aircraft safer going backwards. The value of safety while the aircraft was travelling sideways is handled by a third-party.
[17:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:11] <exec> 08└─I need some of these: https://www.inkace.com [inkace.com]
[17:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:13] <exec> 08└─from what i've heard some planes had one sensor and some had two. the safety dealie makes it dive when the sensor lies. the big problem to me is that they would allow it to be triggered with the data from only one sensor. also, nobody bothered to train (some of) the pilots properly to disable the st...
[17:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:16] <exec> 08└─will make the aircraft safer ...
[17:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:18] <exec> 08└─Just do not fly on any BOEING plane, they ar designed for planned-opalescence, and take themselves out of the airto inforce it. Yup that is the plan, to crash the plane to sell more planes. You need those extra safety items added, and a new plane. That will be 200 million dollars, please. Cash or Cr...
[17:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:20] <exec> 08└─The accidents both happened with relatively unskilled pilots so that's what they will use to limit their liability, and it will work too. For example, the Lion Air flight had a 29 year old "Captain" (the youngest and least experienced in their fleet) and a co pilot with only 200 hours of experience,...
[17:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:23] <exec> 08└─The source isn't entirely clean but apparently MCAS did tie into the stick shaker [beasleyallen.com]. If I get it right (and I am only a simulator pilot) the concern was that a vertical stall of the type the MCAS was trying to prevent would be an unrecoverable event (because of the forward COG of th...
[17:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:42] <exec> 08└─and a good portion of the people spreading and catching measles in these "anti vaxxer" outbreaks are the bootlickers who got vaccinated. high 90's my ass. they deserve it for sucking up to big pharma and the government and trying to force their stupidity on other people.
[17:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:44] <exec> 08└─No, it was never innocent. There were just diseases to tackle with higher rates of worse complications. Some education about complications of measles pre-vaccine [cdc.gov]. Your statement is kind of like saying that a .22 is better to get shot with than a .45 because less people die from it.
[17:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:46] <exec> 08└─On second thought, it's more like saying getting shot with a .22 is better than getting shot with a .45 and because mommies dressed their kids up in Kevlar it was OK.
[17:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:48] <exec> 08└─I posted a much better source elsewhere. The CDC doesnt even say where their numbers came from, or who wrote that page, but I will gladly use that data if you can find out. As I posted elsewhere: Rates of complications: Ear Infections Measles_1963 = 0.025 MMR_20...
[17:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:50] <exec> 08└─It would be informative to get a list of organizations that are corrupt but khazar jews have nothing to do with them. Is there such a list? Can't think of a single corrupt company not owned by jews in one way or another. - - When you start to see a pattern of a specific racial group owning and infil...
[17:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:53] <exec> 08└─FUCK BRAIN DEAD NITWIT! IF you band all guns, fuck ban all cars FIRST! Thee are more deaths there period. JUSST YOU ARE TOO STUPID to llok at all facts, just the ones make your scraed. GET REAL AND LEARN
[17:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:55] <exec> 08└─a good portion of the people spreading and catching measles in these "anti vaxxer" outbreaks are the bootlickers who got vaccinated
[17:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:57] <exec> 08└─FALSE FACTS, until you prove anti-vac and pro-vac failures. Learn science that take policy.
[17:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:00] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that most shootings, including mass-shootings, are done with handguns, not assault weapons.
[17:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:02] <exec> 08└─Please take few to GOOGLE before you type. If you really want to slow down the "FLU", get the fucking ducks off the farms in China / "Far East", where there is near equal population sizes living in same space. That is were they get the idea from to plan next year's "FLU" shot. That because "FLU" is...
[17:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:04] <exec> 08└─These outbreaks of measles are proximately triggered by exposure to sick immigrants.
[17:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Buckyballs in the Interstellar Medium - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:25] <exec> 08└─Ok so they found his balls, I knew Bucky was brought back during Endgame. Must be embarrassing but maybe he can ask Captain Marvel if she can fly up there and get them back for him.
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─Well I grope only one AC, so there!
[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─more phys.org BS Have the Kiwis gone bat shit crazy?
[17:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─Over the last 30 years among the dozen or so places I have worked at there was only one that had such facilities, it was at the other end of the campus from the building I worked in, and in the summer heat you would need another shower by the time you got from there to my office.
[17:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:42] <exec> 08└─yes, do it. thanks
[17:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks so much for both the in depth and TLDR explanations. And responding to your below, an explanatory website would indeed be of interest although I'd assume would take a huge chunk of skull sweat from you. (Especially if it carried both TLDR and detail explanations as nice as your above post). T...
[17:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikon Will Help Build Velodyne's Lidar Sensors for Future Self-Driving Cars - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:56] <exec> 08└─What's missing — so far — are inexpensive, high resolution, deep-IR cameras. In order to see some road hazards in time to react to them, particularly live ones with decent camouflage adaptation, a normal-light camera won't do. A high-IR camera doesn't do the same job, requiring an illuminator, w...
[17:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikon Will Help Build Velodyne's Lidar Sensors for Future Self-Driving Cars - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:58] <exec> 08└─I think the problem with that is that IR does poorly in weather - rain, fog, snow. If you illuminate the area with IR you end up with a whiteout condition on your camera. Radar does a much better job in such conditions. That being said, I would be curious to see how any self driving system operates...
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[18:14:16] <exec> 08└─Good
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─We are letting people die because of lack of resources to save them.
[18:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:58] <exec> 08└─Only if you're attempting to win awards for writing serious screenplays.
[18:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:20] <exec> 08└─Presumably you have also read the full article (yeah, I know, nobody reads the full article....), but this quote jumped out at me... Also Tuesday, Boeing responded in a statement to an April 29 Wall Street Journal Report report that said a safety feature designed to alert flight crews to a faulty se...
[18:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:33] <exec> 08└─Your sig makes this *really* funny...
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─Come on people, did any of you RTFA? Health Impact News is an anti-vac rag. It is full of articles on the evils of vaccination. As another poster pointed out thee is no mention of where or when this supposedly took place. The only link is to a Facebook video. There is an article espousing Fecal Tran...
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:55] <exec> 08└─One would think that Soylent would be a place where numbers have sway: https://ucr.fbi.gov [fbi.gov] Homicides by ALL rifles (this includes the evil AR15 but also your grandpa's...
[18:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:57] <exec> 08└─Vaccination requirements don't count for illegal immigrants ("travelers"): These outbreaks are linked to travelers who brought measles back from other countries such as Israel, Ukraine, and the Philippines, where large measles outbreaks are occurring
[18:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:00] <exec> 08└─A correction, the "hands and feet" category does not include strangulation. Add approximately 90/yr for that cause in addition to hands/feet. Rifles are even less of a threat.
[18:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:02] <exec> 08└─Sure, blackwater or whatever it is called now.
[18:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:04] <exec> 08└─The only link is to a Facebook video.
[18:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photoacoustic Endoscopy Could Improve Crohn's Disease Treatment - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:22] <exec> 08└─changing diet doesn't cure it Perhaps, but this might be a better than suppressing the immune system. https://www.thepaleomom.com [thepaleomom.com]
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[19:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:13] <exec> 08└─The article freely mixes backdoors and vulnerabilities. While the former are intentional, designed for access to someone's systems, vulnerabilities are common in software and present virtually in every product on the market. Vulnerabilities are fixed once discovered; sometimes it takes several relea...
[19:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─"The 'backdoor' that Bloomberg refers to is Telnet, which is a protocol that is commonly used by many vendors in the industry for performing diagnostic functions. It would not have been accessible from the internet.
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:17] <exec> 08└─Nope. [axios.com] Nope. [bbc.com] Bloomberg thinks that telnet is a backdoor. Apparently "OMG! The sky is falling! The Chinese can spy on telecom traffic!" will draw more clicks than "another hardware vendor ships with telnet open by default".
[19:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:27] <exec> 08└─can't go bankrupt soon enough. and take youtube with you on the way down.
[19:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─The Canadians are taking care of their own. Shouldn't the Mozambicans do the same?
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─We're just going to put up signs saying "Canada is behind you: turn around and keep going." and you Americans wont be able to find us. And we'll drink our beer and look at all our ladies and smile. ;)
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:10] <exec> 08└─Umm.. does it matter? or change anything? or is this just another nerd 'hey, this is cool' type of thing
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:12] <exec> 08└─What, the answer wasn't 42? Oh Belgium!!
[19:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:14] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter. Nothing matters. We're all going to die.
[19:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:16] <exec> 08└─Network connections using power outlets should solve this. Hopefully his battery backup will support assimilation telemetry forwarding.
[19:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:38] <exec> 08└─"Also, I don't understand why MCAS didn't take ground proximity into account." I am shocked that more people aren't asking this question. IMHO, altitude should be the number one determining factor as to what an aircraft should do AUTOMATICALLY. At the very least, the systems should never allow a jet...
[19:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:40] <exec> 08└─I'll board the one with updated code that makes it safe going down. I'm afraid of grounds.
[19:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:42] <exec> 08└─The lack of input redundancy was a criminal oversight, especially when there are two sensors available ... But the override can be explained easily: The plane was supposed to silently hide the dynamic flight characteristics changes caused by putting the bigger, more forward, engines. "The pilot shou...
[19:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:54] <exec> 08└─Denial, lobbying, attacking scientific reports, and kicking the problem down the road, while extracting maximum profit from the status quo. It's a 2050 problem, why bother to address it now ? Free advice, courtesy of your American friends.
[19:16:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:31] <exec> 08└─Vaccines are like seat-belts. Having them doesn't mean that I'll never die in a car accident. But not having them GREATLY increases the chance that not only will I die in an "outbreak", but also that I'll injure or kill someone else (60kg of human hitting the rear of the driver seat at 70mph, smashi...
[19:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─The level of brainwashing is amazing, some people are at the point where they will not allow information to affect their worldview if it does not come from the government or corporate source, as if they didn't have a long history of lying about everything.
[19:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─On "buy backs": http://freakoutery.com [freakoutery.com] Australia is a gun free utopia: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] The murder rate in Britain has risen consiste...
[19:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, the broadest interpretation of 2a says that those with the means should be allowed to control and bring to bear nuclear warheads, because how else would we overthrow a government that controls Cheyenne Mountain? Meanwhile, there's the practical usage of the 2nd Amendment since the civil war, wh...
[19:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:26] <exec> 08└─If you're truly interested, I suggest you research what went down, down under, wrt gun ownership laws and subsequent results. I briefly considered making myself an independent armed state after Hurricane Andrew demonstrated the dysfunctional potential of the "just dial 911" system. On balance, even...
[19:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:28] <exec> 08└─The cops don't need seat belt laws to go fishing. They have plenty such laws already, all of which are far broader than any seat belt law I've ever heard of, that they can (and do) use for that purpose.
[19:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:31] <exec> 08└─mutates in such a way as to become resistant or even immune to the vaccines? That's something that's far more likely to happen when it's widespread.
[19:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:33] <exec> 08└─4% of 12,000 (~the annual count of US homicides by guns) is 480, which is, coincidentally, about the peak number of annual US deaths attributable to the measles when there was no vaccine available at all. I'm not saying "ban rifles," I am saying: if you did ban rifles, it would have a bigger impact...
[19:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:36] <exec> 08└─I already read the reply before posting and wasn't impressed as it only accounted for the specific nations and regions that had manufacturing capabilities or the resources to import from overseas. There were hundreds of dirt poor countries and regions that just didn't have access to any of it. Even...
[19:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:38] <exec> 08└─Ok, well... that isn't stopping them from using that as an excuse.
[19:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:40] <exec> 08└─For someone so hellbent on distinguishing one "flu" from the next, you sure are quick to generalize about the different inoculations or their effectiveness. Try googling it yourself next time: https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov]
[19:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:42] <exec> 08└─For their part, where they had sufficient resources, governments acted in accordance with the advice of their experts in such matters, their medical officers. They distributed leaflets containing hints on prevention and treatment of “Spanish” flu, opened emergency hospitals, supplied hastily-con...
[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Found of Buckyballs in the Interstellar Medium - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─How much did they find, enough to match the need for dark matter?
[19:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─Legally, the kid had not left the school yet. Therefore, our duty of care still applied. In addition, our state does not let a parent or guardian waive negligence claims in a release without consideration to the child directly, approval by a court of competent jurisdiction, or color of law, neither...
[19:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:54] <exec> 08└─In the past couple decades, Arkansas has worked steadily to eliminate smaller school districts. Little villages that had their own schools and school districts have been closed down. Meaning, where almost every child in the school walked to school every morning, is now bused miles away to a more "ac...
[19:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:56] <exec> 08└─> IF you don't have your bike stolen. I'll bet you have some trips that are a bit too far for comfortable walking, say a bit over a mile? You could consider a small wheel/folding bike for that length of trip, and keep it with you instead of leaving the bike outside with theft risk. I've been using a...
[19:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:58] <exec> 08└─Can you back up enough from your legal training and experience to see how wastefull and frankly, silly, this has all become? Can you suggest any way to get back to something more sane? Or, is "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" the only way forward??
[19:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:30] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews has become an ANTI-Science and ANTI-technology discussion forum.
[19:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks and yeah it will take some brain power. I don't have a lot of freetime, but I can probably do a chapter a week and post some links in my journal here. Most likely it won't be its own site, but a github pages site. I just don't have time to admin yet another server, especially one for explaini...
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[20:14:17] <exec> 08└─3...2...1... Trump is an impending investigation again.
[20:14:18] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:18] <exec> 08└─Techdirt [techdirt.com] has more on this BS story. Yes, telnet. Unfortunately, Bloomberg doesn't understand tech. As with other companies, Huawei has had some vulnerabilities, but they have mostly been fixed.
[20:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:20] <exec> 08└─I don't understand the point to this statement: Only the Five Eyes, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are allowed to spy. He bitches all the time about the evil, unscrupulous and ever-present NSA boogeyman, but when it turns out to be the Chinese or Russians, it's the "well, everyone else is doing it!" d...
[20:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─And this is Bloomberg, that not to long ago made a big ruckus about infiltrated spying devices on Chinese made server hardware. Except that so far nobody has actually found said devices in the while and even the initial security expect claimed Bloomberg was misquoting him.
[20:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:25] <exec> 08└─The real problem is 'cried wolf'. If this sort of crap keeps up, and gets worse, we're going to end up with apathy, and reluctance to act, if anything real DOES happen. What's a Prime Minster, a President, a Newspaper or whatever it may be, going to say?? "No, really! REALLY! I'm REALLY serious this...
[20:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:27] <exec> 08└─Telnet certainly can be used FOR a backdoor, and arguably nobody should be using telnet in the 21st century, but yes, it certainly looks like Bloomberg tried to turn yet another security flaw (that is already patched) into OMG SPIES! Of course this is the same media outlet that slandered Supermicro...
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─Bloomberg thinks that telnet is a backdoor.
[20:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:41] <exec> 08└─This is specifically what you get for putting all your eggs in the spy on everyone and think you can control them basket. I won't say all advertisers should be shot. But no advertisers should not be shot.
[20:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:43] <exec> 08└─Revenue increased about 17%. Not exactly a failing company, despite an Adpocalypse or two. It would be funny if they make more revenue off of Waymo than ads one day.
[20:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─Sales came in at $29.5 billion, excluding payments to distribution partners, Alphabet said in a statement on Monday. Wall Street was looking for $30.04 billion.
[20:14:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:57] <exec> 08└─A dike was breached, so the water likely rose very quickly - it is quite possible they were fleeing in wild-eyed panic. If it was an outdoor cat or a dog that got panicky and couldn't be put into a vehicle they might have been faced with save my family or die with my pet. I'm not trying to justify a...
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─And we'll drink our beer and look at all our ladies and smile.
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:06] <exec> 08└─We are letting people die because of lack of resources to save them.
[20:15:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:43] <exec> 08└─"We've confirmed that it was designed for our standards, certified for our standards and we're confident in that process," he said. "It operated according to those design and certification standards. We haven't seen a technical slip or gap." Oh, well that explains it. I didn't realize it was SUPPOSE...
[20:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:01] <exec> 08└─If those certified pilots are not good enough to fly the Max then they'll need to recertify all pilots to fly the Max
[20:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:03] <exec> 08└─I guess my point was that Boeing already knows they're boned on this one, they're just pitching limits to their own liability. They will point out that previous pilots encountered this bad sensor and handled it without trouble, but the inexperienced guy did not. They will then say this shows that e...
[20:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:53] <exec> 08└─So yes, it is important news
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─saying that a .22 is better to get shot with than a .45 because less people die from it.
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─Someone brought up the increased mortality rate of measles today as compared to 1963, and I think that's A) very true, and B) probably attributable to infants not receiving protection from their mothers today, whereas in 1963 maternal Measles antibody titers were far superior to today.
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─Vaccination requirements don't count for illegal immigrants ("travelers"):
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─> True enough, but the "personal protection" angle of gun ownership just doesn't fly with assault weapons. You, your farm or your factory, 3 or four bad guys breaking in, maybe armed themselves. What do you pick? - the phone to call 911 - a cal 22 - a fucking UZI
[20:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─Rabid folk on the pro-vaccine side do forget that . . .
[20:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:06] <exec> 08└─Washington state epidemiologist Dr. Scott Lindquist said that so-called 'patient zero' in the ongoing outbreak was someone who was visiting the U.S. from outside the country, according to ABC News radio affiliate KOMO Radio. "There was a large group of kids that were exposed to a visitor from outsid...
[20:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─a 50% vaccination rate would be just about ideal for "viral training" against the vaccine
[20:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:10] <exec> 08└─How about not being shot with a .22 (Measles) or a .45 (Mumps) because one was vaccinated against both? Especially when the odds of receiving a vaccine-related complication are far more miniscule to that of receiving a disease related complication? That's one of the reasons (not the most important)...
[20:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:24] <exec> 08└─Actually, that sounds pretty darn cool.
[20:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:23] <exec> 08└─There would be little to zero reduction in freedom of travel with public transit
[20:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:25] <exec> 08└─I totally get that. I'm just saying that the schools are doing the best they can given what they are working with. The problem isn't even the lawyers, it is the parents who sue at every minor bump. It is the news that over-sensationalizes every little thing that happens to a kid walking home so that...
[20:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:27] <exec> 08└─bike paths are not only not necessary they are dangerous
[20:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikon Will Help Build Velodyne's Lidar Sensors for Future Self-Driving Cars - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:16] <exec> 08└─I think the problem with that is that IR does poorly in weather - rain, fog, snow. If you illuminate the area with IR you end up with a whiteout condition on your camera.
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[21:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:07] <exec> 08└─Another in your ass. Then switch. Still better than Micro$oft news.
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:08] <exec> 08└─It's the same physical box, minus the optical drive. Discount for losing the convenience is a $50 MSRP drop. Consoles with the drive have a lower usual-price. Stores will not be rushing to sell a console with no game attachments. Customers with limited internet will not rush to buy a 40GB-download-p...
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:10] <exec> 08└─This makes M$'s control over sharing and resale intuitively acceptable to many idiots. Sure they may have that already, but the real obstacle isn't getting people to check a box beneath some TOS, but people's actual acceptance of the restrictions. People will more readily accept restrictions on digi...
[21:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:28] <exec> 08└─Nobody can say for sure whether this is just 1) an undocumented craptastic "feature" much like on many other similar boxes 2) a backdoor
[21:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:29] <exec> 08└─As with other companies, Huawei has had some vulnerabilities, but they have mostly been fixed.
[21:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:31] <exec> 08└─I have drank enough Rodenbach that I must be at least some measurable % Belgian.
[21:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:58] <exec> 08└─This joke is a series of tubes.
[21:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:57] <exec> 08└─Maternal antibodies are yet more casualties of the vaccination craziness. Mothers who naturally contract Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and a host of other illnesses will pass on antibodies to their newborns through their milk. These antibodies are not passed on in mothers whose only protection against th...
[21:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:58] <exec> 08└─The numbers were obviously from a non-primary source that simplifies the science for a non-expert audience. Bot does not seem to be someone who knows what an ELISA is or how well an in vitro neutralization assay would model "wild" exposure. The main crux of Bot's argument was that the odds of 4/5 pe...
[21:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:14] <exec> 08└─I totally get that. I'm just saying that the schools are doing the best they can given what they are working with. The problem isn't even the lawyers, it is the parents who sue at every minor bump.
[21:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:15] <exec> 08└─Right, because people weren't going to third parties to mediate their disputes before lawyers came around. But even if that were true, I'd rather there be lawyers around than have angry and aggrieved people resort to self-help and vigilante "justice."
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[22:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 brings immense quality of life improvements to Linux on the desktop - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:18] <exec> 08└─About time!
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 brings immense quality of life improvements to Linux on the desktop - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─Da fuck with bootsplash image, I want to see all the log until the XServer kicks in. Last time it became handy was only one week ago, when a laptop that used to be connected by wire took ages to boot when disconnected: the eth0 iface was configured to wait for DHCP.
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 brings immense quality of life improvements to Linux on the desktop - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─Waxing very eloquent about how shiny they polished the new piece of it.
[22:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 brings immense quality of life improvements to Linux on the desktop - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:24] <exec> 08└─Hiding computer stuff from the sensitive and easily confused user? This is Linux! Give me Command Line, or give me death! And what the heck is a "Software Center"? We asked for death, and Redhat gives us systemd, a living death. "What do we want?" "Brainsssss!" "When do we want 'em?" "Brainssss!"
[22:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:34] <exec> 08└─given that many homes no longer have a standalone disc player relying on the games console for playing DVDs.
[22:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:37] <exec> 08└─MS wants me to pay $250 up front for hardware, a ~$60/yr online service fee and ~$60 for each game (plus more for the DLC) with no option to trade and resell games? No thanks.
[22:14:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─"The 'backdoor' that Bloomberg refers to is Telnet, which is a protocol that is commonly used by many vendors in the industry for performing diagnostic functions. It would not have been accessible from the internet.
[22:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:57] <exec> 08└─But who knows what else was in there, possibly placed by the Chinese government in particular, to exploit that particular vulnerability?
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Bloomberg doesn't understand tech.
[22:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:01] <exec> 08└─Except, if you look at the links provided in the comments, it turns out Vodafone Italy discovered that Telnet was left turned on, and was not accessible from the Internet, so the Bloomberg story is wrong. As the US has been pressuring other Western countries to ditch Huawei presumably in favour of...
[22:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 2936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:03] <exec> 08└─Your analysis doesn't pass the smell test. A backdoor is something that is hidden in the software. Not an obvious inclusion of an easily detectable and scannable protocol like Telnet. (It was probably even documented on page 1564 of a skimmed over spec that referred to revision 12 of reference docum...
[22:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:05] <exec> 08└─Keep your inscrutable oriental wiles out my network.
[22:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:07] <exec> 08└─Vodafone stated it was not exploitable from the internet.
[22:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, growth slowed. They are still growing just not quite as much as the market decided they should. The market is wrong quite often, but corrects itself eventually. Hopefully a bunch of Trustafarians lost their inheritance and your retirement fund will maker a better return as a result.
[22:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:39] <exec> 08└─Did you ever try to fit a polar bear into a family car?
[22:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not delaying escaping the waters, endangering my wife and kids (LITERAL family), to try to climb a tree to rescue the cat.
[22:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:12] <exec> 08└─You don't understand statistics. Rivest said it would take an average of 35 years to solve, which means some people will solve it in 3 years and some in 67 years. The average is 35 years. I know math is fun, but leave the crypto to experts.
[22:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:41] <exec> 08└─Our planes are 100% safe if you fly them as intended.
[22:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:42] <exec> 08└─In the air?
[22:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:57] <exec> 08└─Joko Widodo's parents were Devo fans, apparently.
[22:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:00] <exec> 08└─Cozmo had no tentacles.
[22:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:39] <exec> 08└─Well explained, but one nitpick: This means that you as a consumer of the database don't need to worry about the chain of custody of the data, you can verify each and every transaction and its corresponding signature for validity.
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[23:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:14] <exec> 08└─The new version includes some quality-of-life improvements, for which work began in previous versions. These include the new flicker-free boot process, which hides the GRUB loader/kernel select screen by default, and relies on some creative theming to incorporate the bootsplash image from your hardw...
[23:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─Totally immense. Like YUGE, but better. Immense.
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:17] <exec> 08└─So they mention of gnome 3 being better got me a bit curious, but TFA didn't have many details: Fedora 30 ships with GNOME 3.32, including all-new app icons [...] Importantly, the new version of GNOME provides more robust support for HiDPI displays, including experimental non-integer scaling, allowi...
[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:20] <exec> 08└─It is not even mentioned in the summary. Have anybody seen it working? Is it what I hope it is? Which would be an ability to buy 10x resolution monitor, tell the bloody OS to scale it 10 times, and end up with exactly the same font and icon sizes just way way more beautiful. My poor eyes are waiting...
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:22] <exec> 08└─Give me decent housing, good friends, a good job. Those improve my quality of life. An OS? Yeah, notsomuch.
[23:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─sh Here, I think you dropped this.
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─It's the same control over sharing and resale that Valve has with Steam.
[23:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:37] <exec> 08└─Yes. Your future is one where you get the absolute lowest value for the absolute highest price that can be charged. It's actually always been that way most places. But it sucks to get one's nose rubbed in it. (And countdown to realizing this is an 'extend' phase so that eventually they can extinguis...
[23:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:39] <exec> 08└─Your generation will pass. Soon all the kids will know is that in order to buy a game it must be purchased online.
[23:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─The real question is how much are you paying for the entertainment value of the platform over time versus other options. $490 per year (at 3 games per year YMMV but when I gamed heavily I usually juiced out a game over 4-6 months but that way back in the day...) isn't a wholly bad marginal cost, and...
[23:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:07] <exec> 08└─This is especially sad since Bloomberg positions itself as a software company.
[23:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:08] <exec> 08└─A backdoor is something that is hidden in the software. Not an obvious inclusion of an easily detectable and scannable protocol like Telnet.
[23:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03punnyhot [7979] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:10] <exec> 08└─You are supposed to be protected, by entities within your borders, from entities outside of them. Snooping may be considered hostile.
[23:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:12] <exec> 08└─1) an undocumented craptastic "feature" much like on many other similar boxes 2) a backdoor
[23:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:15] <exec> 08└─The issue is simple. Hawaii is at least two years ahead in 5G space while the US is considering it so important that even nationalization is on the table. https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] Even New Yorker is apparently aware https://www.newyorker.com
[23:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:49] <exec> 08└─Be careful. It is cheap and easy to adjust climate to ones tastes. It may provoke a military response, but by itself even some private citizens could afford it let alone Mozambican government. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:22] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself, sonny boy!
[23:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:24] <exec> 08└─49.7 days was actually the maximum, but I'm dating myself. Not that anyone sane ever considered trying to leave it running that long anyway back then.
[23:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:15] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the other reason to keep getting in wars in the Middle East: to take out / reduce the threats to the Jewish State known as Israel.
[23:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Balk At Paying For Some Cyber Attacks - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:50] <exec> 08└─To: Mr CEO. From: Lowly Insurance Agent Re: Insurance for Information Systems. If we spend a lot of money hiring the best cyber security experts there are, we will be able to judge how good companies' security is, and then we will be able to reduce premiums for those with good security. ... To: Secu...
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