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[12:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:00] <exec> 08└─Its a culture problem at SO Go to google search bar type "Stack overflow is " and get suggested searches like "Stack overflow is toxic" Also some poor bastard probably tried to report the security hole and its the most SO thing ever, to random close questions as "off topic" The problem with SO is so...
[12:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:01] <exec> 08└─Stack Overflow got security tips by asking Stack Overflow users.
[12:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over 21,000 Linksys Routers Leaked Their Device Connection Histories - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:10] <exec> 08└─Not the MAC address!! Hopefully it's not leaking my I Pee address as well!! oh yeah and frosty piss
[12:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 21,000 Linksys Routers Leaked Their Device Connection Histories - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:12] <exec> 08└─I remember the cries that using a linux-box based firewall with a mainstream distro and two NICs was "so much work" although buying an appliance seems to imply low security which also has its costs. There's also the cost of false sense of security in the sense that appliance firewalls have two binar...
[12:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Offers One-Day Delivery on 220,000 Items - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:30] <exec> 08└─Where does this leave all those B2B office product companies... you know the types: Lyreco, OfficeMax, Staples... the ones that do next day delivery for business consumers on a purchasing contract.
[12:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Offers One-Day Delivery on 220,000 Items - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:31] <exec> 08└─The problem with this delivery service is you're stuck with walmart products. Clothes that are one-time wear because buttons fall off / dye washes out / seams unravel at first wash, etc. In the really old days in the 90s they sold products you couldn't use like shirts where the buttons and holes did...
[12:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Offers One-Day Delivery on 220,000 Items - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not certain, but it's possible that Walmart has the largest fleet of trucks in the US.
[12:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe you're just being racist. Is "piece of shit" a reference to his skin, or to some other attribute of people of Indian descent?
[12:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:48] <exec> 08└─Objection, night soil has its value.
[12:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:51] <exec> 08└─I trust him not to make things worse as much as anyone else in the government, which is not at all. If this was revoking an old rule instead of introducing a new one I would gave more hope.
[12:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:53] <exec> 08└─Make it so that the caller has to pay the cost of the call. AFAIK one of the few places in the world where the person called generally foots the bill is the USA. You'll still get spam calls even if you reverse the charging, but they'll likely be much more considered because now it will cost money fo...
[12:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:55] <exec> 08└─No discussion of technical issues yet? It would also allow customers to block calls coming from phone numbers that are not on their contacts list.
[12:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:57] <exec> 08└─I trust that they have allowed RoboCalls to run unchecked for this whole calculated period prior to November 2020, and now they throw up a big PR campaign about how they are "saving us," with peak perceived effectiveness calculated to come in October of 2020. Pay no attention to net neutrality. Pay...
[12:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:59] <exec> 08└─how companies are currently trying to stop me from having a default silent ringtone and real ringtone(s) for real contacts?
[12:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:02] <exec> 08└─Moreover, how is this feature under the purview of the phone operators? Seems like something you need to implement on the phone dialer/caller that doesn't require operators nor law to work. I sense a ploy to make your contacts visible to the operators.
[12:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:14] <exec> 08└─wait another 2+ years for something big to drop, like stacked DRAM on the processors
[12:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:15] <exec> 08└─It's called promiscuous, not dirty, you insensitive clod!
[12:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:18] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I just don't get it.
[12:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:20] <exec> 08└─If I learned something growing old it's this: it doesn't matter how small it became, the question is "Is it still large enough to satisfy"?
[12:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ken Starks on Drawing Kids Towards More Productive Web Content - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:36] <exec> 08└─Are they nacho cheese flavored kale chips?
[12:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ken Starks on Drawing Kids Towards More Productive Web Content - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:38] <exec> 08└─See also "member access operator" the "arrow" specialzation, in CP preference [cppreference.com]
[12:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ken Starks on Drawing Kids Towards More Productive Web Content - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:40] <exec> 08└─Who doesn't like steamed clams?
[12:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:30] <exec> 08└─I never knew Sharp made cellphones - the Aquos S3 is really nice, my wife uses it as her daily driver now, and now uses Mint Mobile service for $15 per month, instead of the $30 she was paying. Cost for this 64GB/4GB 6" "mid-range" phone with killer cameras? $129. I always though that Smartwatches s...
[12:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Hole in the Martian Atmosphere is Venting All its Water Into Space - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:11] <exec> 08└─Seems unlikely that a single comet strike would raise global Mars temperatures enough to be "too hot" to retain the water. Sure, dump them all in within a 28 hour period, that's too hot. One a month for 100 years? This has me thinking, also: where does this escaped water go, and does Earth's moon ac...
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[13:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:58] <exec> 08└─Stack Overflow has its issues, but I'm not sure what you think the killer problem is about not having nuanced discussion. It's not there for asking people their opinions on things. It's explicitly, unambiguously, emphatically not a forum for discussion. It's for questions about solvable programming...
[13:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:59] <exec> 08└─Moral of the story is that you use SO for searching for answers, not for posting questions.
[13:47:09] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Over 21,000 Linksys Routers Leaked Their Device Connection Histories - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:09] <exec> 08└─How the virtual fuck does a router return ANY kind of information remotely over the internet if its firewall is on? That would indicate something horribly wrong with the firewall software or its configuration.
[13:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 21,000 Linksys Routers Leaked Their Device Connection Histories - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:11] <exec> 08└─Yea...pretty inexcusable. The last time I needed to replace my router I went for a Linksys WRT1900ACS and installed dd-wrt on it. I've been really happy with that. At least, unlike the factory firmware that might offer updates for a few years, there are always new dd-wrt versions getting built. My o...
[13:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:53] <exec> 08└─On iOS, use Exchange Blocker [gentlemencoders.com] by Gentlemen Coders. Blocks calls from your own NPA/NXX by default.
[13:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:10] <exec> 08└─Old home computers and DOS-based systems didn't have the concept of multiple users. And I liked it that way. They were called "personal computers" and they usually only had one user so it made sense. But then Win NT copied the idea of multiple users from VMS or *nix or whereever and it was foisted o...
[13:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ken Starks on Drawing Kids Towards More Productive Web Content - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:31] <exec> 08└─I agree for the most part. On the other hand, in his article he mentions that the video source the kids liked the most, Joe Scott, is "iced tea through the nose funny". That helps a lot. My teenage son mixes his time on social media and his watching of Fortnite trolling videos with watching some vid...
[13:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ken Starks on Drawing Kids Towards More Productive Web Content - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:32] <exec> 08└─Actual communication may be a byproduct of these sites, but it very much is part of them. There are no ads in Facebook Messenger communications or Twitter direct messages (the ads will be all around the conversation, but not in the middle). People don't engage to be influenced, they engaged to see t...
[13:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:46] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to understand the potential connection between planetary size gap and atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere is only about 1/1,000,000 of the Earth's mass, strip it away and you wouldn't notice the difference from interstellar mass measurements. Now, you might succeed in completely vaporizing...
[13:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:48] <exec> 08└─Definition of gap [oxforddictionaries.com]: 1 A break or hole in an object or between two objects. 1.1 A pass or way through a range of hills. 2 A space or interval; a break in continuity. 2.1 A difference, especially an undesirable one, between two views or situations. Gap is used correctly here...
[13:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:50] <exec> 08└─And eventually they will eat the entire Universe and cause its collapse!!
[13:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:27] <exec> 08└─"Depression and anti-social mental disorders start cropping up with alarming frequency in people who do nothing productive." As witnessed here daily :-)
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[14:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:53] <exec> 08└─It seems to blow the tinny Lyrebird demos out of the water: https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] But we can't be too sure, because: A crucial advantage and responsibility we have as an applied AI company is knowing that there’s a...
[14:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:05] <exec> 08└─I've never seen this myself in the 7 odd years I've been using it.
[14:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─Culture problem you say... Culture! There are people who answer questions on Stack Overflow. There are people who ask questions on Stack Overflow. There are people who google questions and read Stack Overflow. And then there are some who google and copy from Stack Overflow without reading, much less...
[14:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 21,000 Linksys Routers Leaked Their Device Connection Histories - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:17] <exec> 08└─My Linksys is clearly not vulnerable - when I try to get it to list connected devices it never lists anything. Can't leak information that a bug is keeping you from providing in the first place, right?
[14:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heart of Next-Generation Chip-Scale Atomic Clock - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:25] <exec> 08└─Looks great for spacecraft. The current power consumption seems too high for a smartphone, though. Maybe that's a good thing?
[14:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Offers One-Day Delivery on 220,000 Items - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:40] <exec> 08└─I've seen 4 rolls of TP for around $0.70 at Walmart once. It might have been a location thing. Will check and report back later.
[14:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:04] <exec> 08└─I noticed that too: If a minority person goes to work with Trump, out come the racist characterizations by the Democrat useful idiots.
[14:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:05] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't let the carriers block anything. That gives them too much power. Yeah, ok, considering the people we put in charge, that would be the idea, but still... We should demand the ability to do our own blocking. Why aren't we? You know, we could just quit buying this crap until we get what we...
[14:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:07] <exec> 08└─Aka I don't want to be registered for call-blocking technology. My phone does receive calls from people I do not know that I need to take, which puts me in the not-envious position of having to pick up every call (except when the caller ID is Jamaica...) I end up hanging up on a lot of calls. Maybe...
[14:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:25] <exec> 08└─This is where we are heading: https://www.darpa.mil [darpa.mil] In the interim, 2.5D/3D DRAM stacking will result in a performance and efficiency increase: https://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com] You can th...
[14:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:26] <exec> 08└─don't run malicious code.
[14:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:28] <exec> 08└─Looks like I made a really good choice building a Ryzen desktop this month. AMD is definitely back in the game, even before Spectre/Meltdown. I've overclocked my shitty $90 Ryzen 3 with an iGPU by 400Mhz, because it was unlocked. Let that sink in.
[14:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:06] <exec> 08└─The Earth's atmosphere is only about 1/1,000,000 of the Earth's mass
[14:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:38] <exec> 08└─That's why the whole thing about dark matter being wrong is premature.
[14:49:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 623 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:57] <exec> 08└─Bitching at the lack of an informative summary: Just how big/expensive is this machine that's 4-5x as fast as "human workers"? If 4.5 Amazon FTEs cost the company $300K/yr full up including benefits, overhead, etc. and this machine that has equivalent throughput costs $3 million and takes up 50 feet...
[14:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:46] <exec> 08└─$13 per hour for packers if you believe glassdoor.com [glassdoor.com]. Although I didn't throw in the $869 (/year?) additional they list, $54,080 / year even if you double the hourly for benefits/overhead on a 40 by 52 basis (and they'd be crazy to use actual FT for workers - they should load with P...
[14:52:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06S. Korean Government to Test Linux: Ministry - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:41] <exec> 08└─An announcement like that is usually a negotiating tactic to get better prices out of Microsoft. I hope they do switch to Linux, but they probably won't.
[14:52:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06S. Korean Government to Test Linux: Ministry - 235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:43] <exec> 08└─... and a new Microsoft head office appears in Korea in 3 2 1 ... Actually, even Microsoft seems have pretty much given up on Windows ... they're just still taking money from people stupid enough not to have switched to something else.
[14:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salesforce Forces Massive Outage as Result of Poorly Scripted Database Update - Security Put at Risk - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:25] <exec> 08└─Remember that the core of Salesforce goes back 20 years now, so it has a lot of legacy cruft. Although this permissions blunder is in a field of its own, they do know where they've got gaps and need to play catch up. They actually have "lightning live records" on the roadmap to solve this exact prob...
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[15:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:57] <exec> 08└─I got them all right first try. What is so hard about this? The AI version is terrible at determining when to pause or change pace or inflection. I imagine it would be even easier for someone who actually listens to Joe Rogan.
[15:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:59] <exec> 08└─I had a similar feeling about that non-release, but I'm fairly certain that any party able to do a billion-dollar buyout already has an ethics panel that ensures the knowledge rests in very good hands. :) As for how it works, the former papers of their mastermind Alex Krizhevsky and the traces the o...
[15:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:01] <exec> 08└─It was late at night when I did the test, and I was paying attention to local modulation glitches, rather than overall flow. I've been developing an electronic music instrument over the last years and am probably conditioned on picking up the slightest flaw in transients, rather than processing the...
[15:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:14] <exec> 08└─then there's people who google your post and copy it wholesale into a python script to fix an issue. Wait, what the fuck's a "syntax error"?
[15:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over 21,000 Linksys Routers Leaked Their Device Connection Histories - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:26] <exec> 08└─Very beautiful copypasta. A new low SN.
[15:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart of Next-Generation Chip-Scale Atomic Clock - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:35] <exec> 08└─We can all realize the age-old dream of being our own authoritative NTP server!
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:16] <exec> 08└─He wasn't a great pick, but he did ultimately listen to the public, at least occasionally. As opposed to the current piece of shit that does whatever he likes no matter how unpopular with the American people
[15:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:17] <exec> 08└─This is the real root of the spam call problem. Allowing any form of spoofed calls creates this nuisance.
[15:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:19] <exec> 08└─If a minority person goes to work with Trump
[15:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:21] <exec> 08└─Don't mind the alt-right douche nozzles trying to project their racism on to others.
[15:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baidu, "China's Google", Shows First Loss - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:28] <exec> 08└─Baidu competes against Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance Actually they are ALL in different markets; search,e-commerce , social media and overhyped-video-app respectively
[15:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:54] <exec> 08└─However, the whole thing about dark matter being right is also premature.
[15:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:04] <exec> 08└─You can only automate unskilled labour out of existence.
[15:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:05] <exec> 08└─Or the excess population rises up, a certain number die in that revolt, and we find out if the masters will lose by sheer numbers.
[15:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Hole in the Martian Atmosphere is Venting All its Water Into Space - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:47] <exec> 08└─I was talking about truly heroic quantities of H2.
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[16:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bedbugs Evolved More than 100 Million Years ago - and Walked the Earth with T. Rex - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:45] <exec> 08└─was probably there to watch the first bedbugs evolve
[16:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bedbugs Evolved More than 100 Million Years ago - and Walked the Earth with T. Rex - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:47] <exec> 08└─Even bedbugs diss homeless bums.
[16:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:11] <exec> 08└─The culture of the group responsible for the site architecture of a place where supposedly people knowledgeable about IT congregate yet that site managed to give up credentials such that their "IT Experts Site" was pwned and identity theft occurred. So are you a moron or are you deliberately going o...
[16:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:13] <exec> 08└─We're so important someone wants to get our data on ip addresses and usernames. We're so nice we had to let everybody know. That there was a major breach that may have affected up to 5.8% of users. In the age of short attention spans and becoming irrelevant in two weeks, no news is bad news. Just th...
[16:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heart of Next-Generation Chip-Scale Atomic Clock - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:33] <exec> 08└─I'll design it in right away ... Just need the basic stuff, like MTBF, vibration performance, lead time, and price. Oh ... I'll give you a call back ... later.
[16:47:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:56] <exec> 08└─Show of hands: Who trusts this piece of shit Ajit Pai to do one single thing that will benefit the consumer over the obscene profits of the giant telecoms?
[16:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:19] <exec> 08└─Same here. I'm a point of contact (and emergency contact) on a bunch of stuff. No idea when or who will call so i have to answer everything. The last few years have been the worst since owning a cellphone. Phone companies don't care. If this was email then they would cease to exist because every adm...
[16:48:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:30] <exec> 08└─Catch the benchmarks in a couple of months. AMD might match Intel core for core, and will obliterate on the pricing for 6-16 cores. Sounds like you could wait another 2+ years for something big to drop, like stacked DRAM on the processors.
[16:48:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:39] <exec> 08└─Looks like I made a really good choice building a Ryzen desktop this month. AMD is definitely back in the game, even before Spectre/Meltdown. I've overclocked my shitty $90 Ryzen 3 with an iGPU by 400Mhz, because it was unlocked. Let that sink in.
[16:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:42] <exec> 08└─Unless you've got a good reason for overclocking, that's usually an unwise move. It increases the error rate and shortens the lifetime of the electronics. It's much better to get a system that doesn't NEED to be overclocked to do what you need. That said, it's a good string to have for your bow for...
[16:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:44] <exec> 08└─This is like reading 70s super-cars ads... Look, I'm not arguing the Porsche isn't faster than an SUV. I'm arguing it's all the same standing in traffic only the Porsche costs more. Those stacked-RAM whatnots are very impressive feats of engineering and no one is arguing they'll come in handy in ser...
[16:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ken Starks on Drawing Kids Towards More Productive Web Content - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:05] <exec> 08└─In other words: The bazaar and the cathedral.
[16:49:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:45] <exec> 08└─Your award has been put where your theory came from.
[16:49:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 1696 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:55] <exec> 08└─Guess what? The Higgs boson also hadn't been seen for quite some time. And it (or rather the corresponding Higgs field) was invented to "explain away" a discrepancy between theory (which says that Z and W particles belong to gauge fields, and that gauge field particles have to be massless) and obser...
[16:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:58] <exec> 08└─Nobody here is disagreeing with that.
[16:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:00] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised: I was starting to believe that dark matter was made of everything and anything and was just about to make me lunch, give me a blow job AND assemble a new computer system for me. Maybe it IS just fairy dust. Huh.
[16:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:11] <exec> 08└─Sure, but do you have a job for those who were laid off? If not, you'll have rebellion, starvation...all so one person can get richer, until they find there's no one who can afford to buy their products/services. So, no jobs, no money, no UBI? Yeah...that's a future to look forward to.
[16:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:13] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the job Amazon said they wouldn't automate last week? Or was that some other kind of picker?
[16:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Hole in the Martian Atmosphere is Venting All its Water Into Space - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:56] <exec> 08└─It doesn't need to be globally too hot. Locally too hot would do. All it needs to do is cause more loss than you gain, and that doesn't take much with Mars gravity. The speed of the molecules in the air is already enough to cause slow loss, and if recent reports are correct, not so slow loss wheneve...
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[17:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:02] <exec> 08└─So, let us see. Google boasts that Android OS is opensource. Can't Huawei fork it and go on with that from now on? Or is my understanding mistaken and incomplete somewhere?
[17:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:03] <exec> 08└─They can fork off any of those and continue as unbadged Android device. But they can't advertise themselves as Android with the cute little logo. They might be able to adverise AOSP or LineageOS, but it will severely impact their bottom line. On the other hand, they could preinstall F-Droid, which h...
[17:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:06] <exec> 08└─Intel and Qualcomm reportedly join Google in Huawei ban [theverge.com] According to Bloomberg’s sources, employees across the major US chipmakers have been informed that their companies will freeze their supply deals with Huawei until further notice. Intel provides Huawei with server chips and the...
[17:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:08] <exec> 08└─Punitive power... Ain't it a bitch? I, too, hope this turns into a real incentive to develop alternatives, but it's merely a dream. Resistance is nil
[17:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:10] <exec> 08└─F-droid does not have commercial apps that are essential to many people: banking, car sharing, shopping, communication...
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─Since when turning "Power to the People" to "Power to the Corporations" has become ethical? Have we learned nothing from all those DNA labs that eagerly falsified tests for the police? If you have technology that allows falsifying text / voice / video recordings and you decide not to release it, you...
[17:47:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:36] <exec> 08└─Stack Overflow got security tips by asking Stack Overflow users.
[17:48:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:38] <exec> 08└─I trust that they have allowed RoboCalls to run unchecked for this whole calculated period prior to November 2020, and now they throw up a big PR campaign about how they are "saving us," with peak perceived effectiveness calculated to come in October of 2020. Pay no attention to net neutrality. Pay...
[17:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:51] <exec> 08└─One way or another we need the carriers to be involved. They know who is *actually* calling, because they have to sort out the billing. AIUI, if a called spoofs the caller ID information (which, IME, 100% of them do these days) then there is currently not a single goddamn thing the recipient can do...
[17:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that process would have likely have occurred regardless of the mass - we're looking for processes that would be specifically biased against stable planets in the "1.5-2 Earth-mass" range. My guess would be that such processes would be far more likely to crop up near the end of consolidation...
[17:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that process would have likely have occurred regardless of the mass - we're looking for processes that would be specifically biased against stable planets in the "1.5-2 Earth-mass" range.
[17:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:33] <exec> 08└─Nobody here is disagreeing with that.
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[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document Impact of Coffee on Bowels - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─1. Is there life before coffee? 2. Is there life after coffee? 3. Has any civilization ever survived without coffee? 4. Have we yet discovered alien life that does not drink coffee? 5. Are there any substitutes for coffee? 6. Can we grow coffee on Mars? Eros? Any of the potentially habitable rocks?...
[18:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─FTFY... Huawei has also been preparing for this eventuality by stockpiling chips from US suppliers to last it at least three months, which should be enough time to steal/copy the technology and mass produce their own chips.
[18:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:06] <exec> 08└─Trump has apparently been selected as God's chosen gatekeeper. He will replace china with alien tech one drip at a time. It must be slow enough that the scared reactionary people don't panic.
[18:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:08] <exec> 08└─Supposing they forked, and preinstall F-droid. Wouldn't that make Huawei's device more attractive to many of us, who resent all the online tracking? Up to the point that we discover that Huawei tracks us as much as Google does, at least. Even then - big deal, someone halfway around the world is trac...
[18:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:10] <exec> 08└─Huawei, if you're listening...
[18:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:12] <exec> 08└─What about that plant in Chengdu? It's only an assembly and testing facility, not an actual fab. How will that play into this little drama? How about the 3D NAND plant in Dalian? 3D NAND aren't CPU's, but China has leverage on Intel all the same, with that plant located in China.
[18:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:14] <exec> 08└─That ain't MY red headed stepchild! Little bastard doesn't even look like me. Look again, he looks a lot more like Lucifer, doesn't he? - God
[18:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:17] <exec> 08└─Huawei is now restricted to using the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), cutting the company off from critical Google apps and services that consumers outside of China expect on Android devices.
[18:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bedbugs Evolved More than 100 Million Years ago - and Walked the Earth with T. Rex - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:27] <exec> 08└─such as a bird's nest, an owl's burrow, a bat's roost or a human's bed
[18:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bedbugs Evolved More than 100 Million Years ago - and Walked the Earth with T. Rex - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:29] <exec> 08└─Melania wishes to disagree.
[18:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:04] <exec> 08└─Caller pays will fix it faster.
[18:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, feasible... That's a trick question, because the obvious solution is to vote for politicians that don't owe any favors to the industry, thus producing proper regulation and enforcement. But you know, feasible, nobody will lift a finger, so that's out of the question. Eh, this is what the majorit...
[18:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:29] <exec> 08└─To me it's an all-to-common case of corporate greed. It's fairly well-known that you'll make more profit by spending $ on advertising rather than product improvement. Freaking Intel runs major television ads and sponsors major high-society sports and events. Great, but your chips are crap! For sure...
[18:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:30] <exec> 08└─Are you sure putting DRAM on/near cores is going to increase its failure rate significantly? Did Intel's eDRAM have this problem? Waiting at least a couple of years make sense because you and AC already agree that AC has a decent CPU, but AC is thinking of upgrading. I'm just forecasting what will b...
[18:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:33] <exec> 08└─I agree that TI should have gone into the market. It always seemed a logical step.
[18:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:14] <exec> 08└─My thought was that the atmosphere affected whether or not a planet could be detected. The presence of an atmosphere would likely add a unique signature to the signal that indicates a planet. ...but that's as far as I got; no clue how size would relate to that.
[18:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:06] <exec> 08└─By then, Amazon is likely to have further tightened their monopoly hold on online shopping
[18:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:08] <exec> 08└─ff you thought Mexicans were poor freight handlers then you ain't seen nuthin' yet.
[18:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:10] <exec> 08└─As opposed to a more desirable, totally non-capitalistic future where mankind is freed from toil by the machines it managed to create over aeons of successful evolution, and the few that still work - not because they have to but because they choose to - get to enjoy an even better life.
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[19:46:57] <exec> 08└─1. No. 2. For a couple hours. 3. You're kidding, right? 4. Only extinct ones. 5. You're kidding again? 6. Experiments are planned, and we'll plant colonies wherever the coffee grows. 7. Are you volunteering to plant some there?
[19:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document Impact of Coffee on Bowels - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:59] <exec> 08└─They're putting the coffee in the wrong end.
[19:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document Impact of Coffee on Bowels - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─Wish I could remember who it was, but it was a riff on how most people drank coffee to start their day. He drank it to start his colon. 5 minutes after the first cup he'd grab his newspaper and pronounce "you know where I'll be". Back when I drank a lot of coffee it wasn't an issue (I drank a pot a...
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[19:47:03] <exec> 08└─The study found that growth of bacteria and other microbes in fecal matter in a petri dish was suppressed with a solution of 1.5 percent coffee, and growth of microbes was even lower with a 3 percent solution of coffee. Decaffeinated coffee had a similar effect on the microbiome.
[19:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document Impact of Coffee on Bowels - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, came here to say this. Coffee is much better when taken rectally.
[19:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document Impact of Coffee on Bowels - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─Al Bundy?
[19:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:26] <exec> 08└─The Register have their own article on this, and, as ever, some of the comments make for interesting reading. The Register: Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away; Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lo...
[19:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:27] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that make Huawei's device more attractive to many of us, who resent all the online tracking?
[19:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:30] <exec> 08└─Alien mind control that only effects those with really low IQs or a limited ability to think logically. That would actually explain so much.
[19:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:32] <exec> 08└─But educating regular consumers is hard. That's why marketing departments club humans over the head. But unless Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and the rest want to lose access to genuine Android devices they will avoid Android-like devices that cannot claim to be Android devices. Huawei is in a ba...
[19:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:34] <exec> 08└─Everyone else will be feeding off what amounts to star trekian replicators while you continue to snuffle at the trough of ignorance.
[19:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:55] <exec> 08└─Dang, you overachiever. I missed one. If the samples were longer i think it would make a difference. and i bet these were the best samples they had with many others being very obviously bad. I think they are getting closer to what the CIA/NSA was doing last decade. Part of that is to take a mic fe...
[19:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:11] <exec> 08└─That's it, I'm going back to ExpertSexChange for copy-pasteable code!
[19:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:21] <exec> 08└─Right, we don't disagree and that doesn't really defeat my point. Because most people in the U.S. pay a flat fee for cell phones for a set number of minutes (cell phone) or unlimited incoming calls (landline), the phone company gets the same money regardless of the type of call (most people stay und...
[19:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:22] <exec> 08└─Since you are talking about America, when you make a call to a cell phone, the recipient pays for that. The caller only pays regular termination fees.
[19:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:25] <exec> 08└─But to be fair I will be happy to also disparage all of the cracker ass mayonnaise honkies working for Trump. I'm nothing if not egalitarian.
[19:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:32] <exec> 08└─We're only just starting to be able to detect atmospheres - they do make a signal if the planet transits the sun from our perspective, but a much tinier signal than the planet itself regularly blotting out a (still tiny) percentage of the sun's disc, which is one of the main ways we detect planets i...
[19:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gap in Planetary Sizes Puzzles Astronomers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:34] <exec> 08└─This is why Galactus always has to have a herald. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The herald's job is to scout the incredibly rare planets that were within a reasonable size of earth. Otherwise he'd be on the hot jupiters like me at an all you can eat buffet.
[19:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:12] <exec> 08└─If I can model a ping pong table with balls bouncing off one another, and you can model the ping pong table with a 1000 page text describing mating rituals between fairies and salamanders, even if your model works, it's quite frankly retarded.
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[19:53:11] <exec> 08└─cause more loss than you gain
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[20:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:57] <exec> 08└─What's that in 'murkin measure? Will there be a tariff on 'new' kilograms and metres?
[20:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:59] <exec> 08└─Performing these measurements requires goat-skin, which is non-vegan.
[20:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:01] <exec> 08└─Or does it qualify under energy tax rates now? :)
[20:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document Impact of Coffee on Bowels - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:14] <exec> 08└─They could have asked me. I don't drink coffee, and I try to keep sodas to a minimum (and no diet ones). Give me an American-size Coke, and I'll be looking for a bathroom within the hour. They should stop saying "coffee", when they refer to the effects of caffeine.
[20:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:38] <exec> 08└─You've got that right. Do you know how many people I talk to, that think Snowden is a traitor? And not because of a difference of opinion, as in, they know what he did, why he did it, and disagree with his reasons. I could live with informed disagreement more easily than complete ignorance and "Trai...
[20:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─It already is.
[20:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:42] <exec> 08└─So there are 2 points of attack in this trade war (that I know of). Tariffs and Huawei. If you assume that it is a good idea to harm China in a trade war, are they effective? Starting with Huawei, this appears to work. The import ban only takes away their US sales. This will likely harm their global...
[20:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:45] <exec> 08└─Sharing with the Chinese government is a less serious risk than sharing with Google, because Google's income depends on selling your privacy. The Chinese government's income is relatively independent of YOUR privacy. I for one, would love Huawei to fork Android. Even better, they could publish the...
[20:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:07] <exec> 08└─7 out of 8 for me - only missed the first one. If I had listened to several before guessing, then it would have been 8 of 8. The pacing is wrong, and there are fewer intonation changes in the faux Rogan selections, making it easy for me to tell the difference. That said, they samples were remarkably...
[20:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:24] <exec> 08└─I don't ever bother to post questions or answers on SO b/c of all their goddamn rules. The app has all kinds of rules before the mods ever start interfering. Fuck their authoritarian wet dream of a site.
[20:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over 21,000 Linksys Routers Leaked Their Device Connection Histories - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:38] <exec> 08└─Very beautiful copypasta.
[20:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 3861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:41] <exec> 08└─They don't know who is actually calling, which is the problem. The ANI system is broken. Out-of-band signalling used to provide information like that, and blocking your own Caller-ID in the beginning was just a flag to suppress information already being sent. That system is pretty much defunct. I ha...
[20:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:42] <exec> 08└─The plans on the major carriers have moved towards unlimited, but that's not the case for MVNOs; those overwhelmingly still sell inexpensive plans based on the number of minutes, texts, and data per month the customer uses (or plans to use).
[20:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:09] <exec> 08└─Are you sure putting DRAM on/near cores is going to increase its failure rate significantly? Did Intel's eDRAM have this problem?
[20:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:11] <exec> 08└─Comments from previous story [soylentnews.org], as it seems tests only care about newer, even if older computer are still useful*: "Desktop, Laptop, and Cloud computers may be affected. More technically, we only verified the ZombieLoad attack on Intel processor generations released from 2011 onwards...
[20:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:13] <exec> 08└─Let me tell what's going to happen when stacked DRAM hits the CPU market: Intel will reduce production costs while increasing 5% performance and power while segmenting the good stuff to the high-end servers. And they'll get away with it just like nVidia got away with this for the simple reason that...
[20:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ken Starks on Drawing Kids Towards More Productive Web Content - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:36] <exec> 08└─I see your point -- your ideas involving nanobot technology to treat Portuguese soccer players' foot fungus are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your social media instance.
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[21:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Radar for Your Wrist - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─8mm right for "stun" 9mm left for "kill" Better be careful when firing this thing.
[21:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radar for Your Wrist - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:01] <exec> 08└─... at imec, the Belgi**-based R&D center.
[21:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:12] <exec> 08└─I took a shower today.
[21:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:14] <exec> 08└─I checked my ruler and it's the same length. I think this is another EU pork barrel project.
[21:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:16] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Aristarchus is still an infinite number of seconds old, so no change there either.
[21:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document Impact of Coffee on Bowels - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:31] <exec> 08└─So a cup of coffee will make me sound like Zorro? [youtube.com]
[21:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document Impact of Coffee on Bowels - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:32] <exec> 08└─I have UC and use coffee to clear things out in the morning so I can have a more predictable evening - it works as expected right after first cup - I sometimes think about those people who drink coffee on their long commutes and wonder how they are able to do that (though I hope I don't mess things...
[21:47:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 737 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:46] <exec> 08└─Supposing they forked, and preinstall F-droid. Wouldn't that make Huawei's device more attractive to many of us, who resent all the online tracking? Up to the point that we discover that Huawei tracks us as much as Google does, at least. Even then - big deal, someone halfway around the world is trac...
[21:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:01] <exec> 08└─>with the cute little logo THAT'S CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, MEATBAGS BLM - BATTERY LEVELS MATTER
[21:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:02] <exec> 08└─What about that plant in Chengdu?
[21:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:04] <exec> 08└─Trump is either a genius or an accelerationist. What I don't compute is why the same elite first let everybody outsource to china then starts pissing them off. This is something bigger than Trump and his administration and his counselors.
[21:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:07] <exec> 08└─Start the countdown before the Chinese government retaliates with such vengeance against US tech that Trump reverses the decision.
[21:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:09] <exec> 08└─Only if sharing all of your data with the Chinese government is what you consider "attractive". All your data, and your text messages, and your phone calls, and your location, and your emails, and your web history, and everything else ...
[21:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:11] <exec> 08└─Sure they can, but without play services, it reduces its value as an android device, greatly. Might as well build their own os/store at that rate.
[21:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:34] <exec> 08└─There is no proof that Joe Rogan isn't already artificially intelligent.
[21:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:52] <exec> 08└─Something about cigarettes and booze.
[21:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Processors Lose More Performance From Vulnerability Mitigations Than AMD's - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:37] <exec> 08└─Intel has had years to get serious against AMD.
[21:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ken Starks on Drawing Kids Towards More Productive Web Content - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:01] <exec> 08└─"I'm an FSF member, but when we label proprietary products as first and foremost influence and advertising sites we just alienate people. That's like calling an Xbox a DRM box. That's absolutely an essential part of it, but people don't go to Target to buy an Xbox because they want DRM." i have limi...
[21:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:04] <exec> 08└─you owe the fairy scientists an apology
[21:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:19] <exec> 08└─it's just the fast, half-assed way mexicans (in the US) do everything. they needn't be freight handlers to demonstrate this characteristic. they have to be illegal and still scared of being deported, though. the more americanized mexicans do a half-assed and slow job...
[21:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:21] <exec> 08└─it was meant as tongue in cheek but "alrighty then".
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[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radar for Your Wrist - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:53] <exec> 08└─at least they learned something from the Wii, making it like a watch. Remember to take it off, if you don't want to draw sine waves on a monitor..
[22:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radar for Your Wrist - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:54] <exec> 08└─Why would radar be better than lidar, especially at infra-red wave lengths? And IR should miniaturize more readily. There might, however, be other use cases, where radar would be more appropriate.
[22:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radar for Your Wrist - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:57] <exec> 08└─You know that was only in Prudish America don't you? In the rest of the world the "Rory" is the award for The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word Fuck in a Serious Screenplay.
[22:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radar for Your Wrist - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:59] <exec> 08└─Imagine how this thing will drain your battery since it will be running all the time.
[22:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:11] <exec> 08└─Have all the know it all trolls around here finally given up then?
[22:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:12] <exec> 08└─Has an appropriate authority been paid to provide a certificate authorising this as halal?
[22:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:02] <exec> 08└─We are gods to you robot, now get back to the factory floor before we replace your memory unit.
[22:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:04] <exec> 08└─But do be a lapdog to the USG..
[22:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Hole in the Martian Atmosphere is Venting All its Water Into Space - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:56] <exec> 08└─towed by rather large solar sails
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[23:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06 Hacktivist Attacks Declined 95 Percent Since 2015: IBM - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:51] <exec> 08└─How many SJWs have infested your HR department?
[23:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Hacktivist Attacks Declined 95 Percent Since 2015: IBM - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:53] <exec> 08└─The for-profit attacks do not seem to have decreased. Have the grey hats decided to go black?
[23:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radar for Your Wrist - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:06] <exec> 08└─No matter. It's useless because human hands are not precise enough, especially at the wrist. Nobody is going to wear this thing, and there won't be receivers for its signals. At best this could be rebuilt into a scanning radar for the blind.
[23:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─This definition change will have little-to-no impact on your daily life, but does mean that nobody has to rely on lumps of metal stored in France to determine how long a metre is or how heavy a kilo is. This is all part of the long effort by scientists to get away from measurements based on, for exa...
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way We Define Kilograms, Metres and Seconds Changes Today - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:22] <exec> 08└─I always wondered why europeans never made a metric version of time. Hours? How barbaric. Should be kiloseconds or milidays.
[23:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls Huawei’s Android License - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:15] <exec> 08└─R.A.W. pointed this out in his classic Schroedinger's Cat trilogy. Middle paragraph is the one that explains it. These were very cunning old primates in several of the most skillful predator bands on Terra. Because of the stealth and skill of these bands - made up of successful predator families tha...
[23:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week - 1904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:58] <exec> 08└─Since Stack Overflow has literally millions of questions on tens of thousands of programming subjects, I suspect it has hit project maturity. This is a good thing! Unfortunately it comes with a lot of baggage. I think you're right about the culture issue. It does come down to roughly the categories...
[23:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Proposes New Rule That Would Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:15] <exec> 08└─We need both provisions to put a serious dent in this scourge.
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