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[00:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:28] <exec> 08└─If you type "emacs" from the command line, *emacs will run*! (Shut up, I've been an emacs user for >30 years, I can say such things.)
[00:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:30] <exec> 08└─Came here to say something similar, beaten to the frist piss! Just about 40 years since I was introduced to emacs... A few years later started using Mince on Z-80 CP/M. [Mince is not complete emacs]
[00:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:32] <exec> 08└─Do you know Passover? It's the celebration of, the Jews painted their doors in blood. So God would know which houses were the Jewish houses. And pass them by, or over. Skipped when He was killing so many baby boys. The Egyptian boys were dieing so painfully when God snatched away their lives. Althou...
[00:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:46] <exec> 08└─It's Red Hat and their systemd that will destroy Linux.
[00:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:48] <exec> 08└─Hey, Donald, I hear a real billionaire is looking for you. His name is Paul Allen. Why don't you go find him?
[00:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:50] <exec> 08└─It has the kernal. [wccftech.com]
[00:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:52] <exec> 08└─IBM bought Redhat, remember? IBM: shitting in the computing pool since 1894 (Well, sometime in the 1800s.0
[00:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:55] <exec> 08└─IBM: shitting in the computing pool since 1894 (Well, sometime in the 1800s.0
[00:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:29] <exec> 08└─We are clever monkeys
[00:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:31] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that nature has its own way, offering no warranty smart people will produce smart offspring. Seems to be related to the functional differentiation between brain and reproductive organs, can't make babies by applying only intelligence. Yet.
[00:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:33] <exec> 08└─What would I learn from having my brain electrocuted?
[00:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:04] <exec> 08└─Moreover, our current atmosphere would be highly toxic for those early life forms.
[00:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:50] <exec> 08└─...the EU is a younger government.
[00:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:51] <exec> 08└─That spiel would be funny if it wasn't so weird. Why are you so frightened of other people?
[00:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:54] <exec> 08└─Oh sorry, I just realised. Spiel is probably a Jewish word too, just to make it worse for you.
[00:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:56] <exec> 08└─Sometimes a lot of us get together and discuss thought experiments. We are not against our own people, but if you want to dominate a nation, how would you do it? What I just described is how I would do it, should I have that mentality.
[00:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder why so many of your "thought experiments" involve "The Jews" doing bad stuff?
[00:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:00] <exec> 08└─Don't ask me, ask them.
[00:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:02] <exec> 08└─It just didn't count. Yeah, well, being a less than 5% minority, I really don't expect it to. But that's because of the other 95% that vote for the same old shit every time, not some vague conspiracy theory about rigged elections. So why should congress care what the voters think? And House democrat...
[00:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:05] <exec> 08└─Ha! OK, I will phone my sister tonight. Now that she is a Jew she must be busy taking over the world and doing bad stuff and things. I will probably have to leave a message.
[00:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:47] <exec> 08└─You don't have to go around killing people. Just incentivize not procreating and in 100 years or so, the problem self-corrects. We actually do the reverse and give tax breaks to those who procreate so we are incentivizing destructive behavior. Step one -- stop that. That would help a little, but whe...
[00:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, beavers can do tremendous amounts of damage. Another good image to come to mind when dealing with someone who seems to think that all bad things are caused by people.
[00:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:09] <exec> 08└─DDG, and put unusually termed searches in quotes.
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─Version 5 - let's see: Windows 10 Chrome 75 ..the list goes on..
[00:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─> It has been known since at least the 1970's, that after version 5 ... version 2 ... ftfy Known as second system syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You can thank one of my heroes(1), Fred Brooks and The Mythical Man-Month, first published in 1975. (1) I got...
[00:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:24] <exec> 08└─The bar to opening a restaurant may be low, but the bar to staying open can be very high. In the 4 years I've lived in this flat, some places nearby are now in their 4th incarnation. There's seemingly no rhyme or reason, at least not visible to the front of the house, what enables some to survive, b...
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[01:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─Microsoft shill identified. Plonk!
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─No it won't, it's too big to load.
[01:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─I can't tell the difference between vim with all them "modern" flashes and emacs these days. At least emacs comes with a lisp interpreter, and that comes from a career-long emacs hater.
[01:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─Incredible guy, fantastic guy -- he founded Microsoft, as everybody knows. Don't worry, he did find me. Before he died, so tragically, of Windmill Cancer. Fortunately I was able to buy his beautiful Boeing 757 for only $100 million. Great price and I gave that one a TOTAL & COMPLETE make over. I cal...
[01:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:20] <exec> 08└─> I'm old enough to remember the handwringing from overpopulation, acid rain, the ozone hole, and now climate change. We'll fix it. I'm also that old and like to think that I did a little bit to try to fix these things - one example (of many) for each -- + no kids (mostly for other reasons) +...
[01:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:22] <exec> 08└─All those people would have been better off having never been born, then?
[01:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:54] <exec> 08└─Yea.. we're all just gnats on a living planet. Jupiter's coughing up a fit and Mars is dusting off its dandruff right now but we're just too non-complex to understand it.
[01:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:48] <exec> 08└─There's no "gerrymandering" in the vote for US senators, correct? And propaganda, what? You saying people can't think for themselves? I mean, just because they don't, it doesn't mean they can't, or maybe it does. Whose fault is that? The Wisconsin voters failed to vote for a supporting legislature t...
[01:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:49] <exec> 08└─No, they explicitly say not to staple the check. I guess it jams the machine.
[01:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:51] <exec> 08└─There's no "gerrymandering" in the vote for US senators, correct?
[01:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:54] <exec> 08└─How can so many voices fit inside one tiny head like that of Ethanol_funnelled? "Thought experiment"= paranoid schizophrenia.
[01:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:56] <exec> 08└─Brad is American. That means near complete ignorance of history, and geography. He only lives in the country of "Europe", which is next to the country of "Africa". https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:58] <exec> 08└─They do not! We have a process for nominating anyone we want outside the two (really one) party system, just need lots of signatures on a petition. The Wisconsin voters failed to realise that the Republicans don't want to submit to the will of the voters, and are prepared to grab power in any way th...
[01:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:00] <exec> 08└─It certainly clarifies a lot as to the source of the problem...
[01:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:02] <exec> 08└─No, you already told me that, but the opinion is damn near universal in the states also. The Republicans and the Democrats controls the electoral system completely. That was another hint that went over my head. Evidently in Europe the parties do decide who gets on the ballot. Not so in the US. Here...
[01:17:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:28] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants to address the real issue: population.
[01:17:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:38] <exec> 08└─It would have been okay until you just had to include that blaming it on the Jews at the end. Try writing a long, in-depth, insightful analysis of anything, then in the last paragraph call all your readers niggers and see how well that works out for you either.
[01:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:40] <exec> 08└─This is what is known as a mascon [wikipedia.org], or mass concentration. Others are known on the Moon and have been for decades, but this one is in a different place.
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[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Amazon making an offer in 3....2....1.... All in the name of protecting their user base, of course!
[02:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:00] <exec> 08└─no, Commodore 64 had the "kernal"
[02:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks so much for the context. Without It's written a bit tongue in cheek from Microsoft's perspective. Some material is drawn from Comes v Microsoft (aka The Iowa Case) and, as mentioned, the leaked internal memos known as the Halloween Documents.
[02:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:04] <exec> 08└─So much hasn't changed. We're a mixed development shop: Windows10 and Ubuntu, and neither is perfect, but I see the Windows devs on the same f-ing treadmill that I was running back in the 90s, it never stops. When I finish something in Ubuntu, it stays finished. And, when there's a problem in Ubuntu...
[02:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmc23 [4142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:43] <exec> 08└─The only sustainable solution to monoculture problems is permaculture.
[02:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmc23 [4142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:44] <exec> 08└─We temporarily 'fixed' the ozone hole, but the other stuff hasn't gone away. Why don't we report on acid rain anymore? Why don't we report on the constant radiation still leaking into the pacific?
[02:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:47] <exec> 08└─>All those people would have been better off having never been born, then? Correct https://aeon.co [aeon.co]
[02:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:21] <exec> 08└─but but... that would stop jokes like Uranus is actually mooning us right now, we're just too simple to understand it.
[02:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:22] <exec> 08└─Why does your "right" to hide inconvenient facts about your history override my "right" to be able to read history?
[02:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:23] <exec> 08└─My political biases are that I'm way more left-wing than most Democrats, yes. And yes, Alphabet does a basically 50-50 split party wise, but I thought Pelosi was a pretty darn good example of the quintessential entrenched congresscritter.
[02:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:25] <exec> 08└─Because after WWII, most of Europe was a smouldering crater while the U.S. wasn't. That had a lasting effect which many Americans confuse with being blessed by God as we jumped ahead technologically. Because of globalization, the gap between the U.S. and the rest of the world no longer exists. I'm q...
[02:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:28] <exec> 08└─As you point out, the GDPR is far from perfect, but (in my opinion) that isn't the discussion. The discussion is if something GDPR-like for the U.S. is worth the trouble... after we make sure there aren't any exploitable loop holes. And whether we can prevent ourselves from making an impotent GDPR-l...
[02:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:30] <exec> 08└─Republicans don't want to submit to the will of the voters, and are prepared to grab power in any way they can.
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[03:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:14] <exec> 08└─The engineering firm selected for the bridge (FIGG) made an error in calculation for a critical member at the end of the span.
[03:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:15] <exec> 08└─That doesn't go over well.
[03:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:17] <exec> 08└─They say they did. But this was a multi-stage construction, and the first crack appeared after the supports were removed from the span after it had been made on the side of the road. The span did not want to stay in one piece in the stages 2 and 3. Transportation made cracks worse; placing it across...
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[03:14:19] <exec> 08└─They should keep in mind that an NTSB report is expected later this year. Can't imagine it clearing Figg. The company is done for.
[03:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:39] <exec> 08└─The difference is carpel tunnel
[03:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:03] <exec> 08└─ZOMG, it's the Protocols of the Elders of Redmond!
[03:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:45] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that the super-high-yield grains are a Russian inwention [youtube.com].
[03:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:47] <exec> 08└─acid rain -- https://www.nationalgeographic.com [nationalgeographic.com] Clipping from the end of the article, In the U.S., the Clean Air Act of 1990 targeted acid rain, putting in place pollution limits that helped cut sulfur dioxide emissions 88 percent betwee...
[03:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:49] <exec> 08└─That depends on how you look at things, there are more people in poverty (living on less than $2.50 per day) today than were alive, total, in 1960.
[03:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:23] <exec> 08└─The sun used to be dimmer. It has been slowly brightening for billions of years.
[03:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:25] <exec> 08└─'Extremophiles' are not a single data point. It is a generic descriptive class whose only qualification is that the condition be considered extreme. It covers organisms that live in high pressure, low pressure, weird chemicals, elemental deficiencies, extreme dryness, extreme wetness, high heat, low...
[03:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:31] <exec> 08└─USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸!
[03:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:53] <exec> 08└─Why? Is there anything special about the launch, rockets or anything?
[03:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:28] <exec> 08└─The energy released by these earthquakes does not come from the water, it comes from the gravitational and inertial pressure exerted by the Earth's crust, both from above and from below. The injection appears to act as a catalyst, triggering and guiding the buildup of energy along existing (but dorm...
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[03:20:16] <exec> 08└─I am an American, and when I went to first grade on a California air force base in 1965, I was taught the vowels are A, E, I, O, U, sometimes Y and sometimes W. Yes. W. Cwm, Cwrth. ... (Cwm is used in one of the chapter names of Darwin's Origin of the Species.) I know, other than Darwin, it's genera...
[03:20:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:46] <exec> 08└─While I do think that this sounds like a fabulous project, it is still as far as I can see, explicitly discriminatory.
[03:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:54] <exec> 08└─Top competitors: - Panera Cares: [wikipedia.org] A socialism inspired restaurant. This launch was driven by a public company that opened numerous locations operating on a 'pay-what-you-can' pricing, with little more than "recommendations" for prices. Shockingly, many people chose to pay - nothin...
[03:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:57] <exec> 08└─Reductio ad absurdum would say that all jobs should then go to the lowest qualified (but *qualified*) applicant for every job, leaving those most qualified out of a job. Hmm. Would such a scenario lead to advancement in society because "the best" would be free to to focus on advancement? It's an int...
[03:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:59] <exec> 08└─This restaurant is in Spain. Spain currently has a current unemployment rate of 15%. This is a company actively exploiting disabled people in a nation where millions of perfectly able people, who would not qualify for disability compensation, are desperately looking for work. The goal of this is to...
[03:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─Reductio ad absurdum would say that all jobs should then go to the lowest qualified (but *qualified*) applicant for every job, leaving those most qualified out of a job. Hmm.
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[04:14:36] <exec> 08└─Great summary, thank you. I'm just stunned that there were not more inspectors involved- 3rd, 4th-party, etc. I know several civil engineers. I'll ask their take on the whole thing. I'd love to know the stress margins used. Again, I would think a CAD model would have shown how weak the thing was. Of...
[04:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:37] <exec> 08└─That company hasen't been the same since their partner Newton discovered gravity and moved on to greener pastures.
[04:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:40] <exec> 08└─Think what you want about CAD, if it isn't used by someone with basic engineering training _and_ engineering common sense, it is just as easy to get wrong answers as right answers. It's a tool, you have to know how to use it. Besides, what you probably mean is called CAE, computer aided engineering,...
[04:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─I watched the youtube video. All I can say is that the structurally sound bridge that was rejected for "visual appeal" must have looked like a dog's breakfast and a shit sandwich all in one.
[04:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:50] <exec> 08└─organization that will be as good a steward of the information
[04:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:52] <exec> 08└─I'm less worried about the majors buying the site, and more worried about organisations like some eastern European tech company with ties to organised crime. Or any Chinese company. Or any middle-eastern country. Or anyone who might have an incentive to not report on some breaches (yes, this include...
[04:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:06] <exec> 08└─The vi command is available on the BSD oes, and can be used instead of derivatives. vi on OpenBSD is a 374K executable. I'm not sure why it needs to be that big. Actually, top says it's resident in 2,432K of memory. Yikes. Isn't that the sort of thing emacs used to be accused of? Does anybody know w...
[04:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:32] <exec> 08└─What do you mean? I LOVE the uniform blocks of light gray that replaced what the GUI used to be. The lines, so clean! All those functions you used to use only once or twice a day - GONE! Sooo clean.
[04:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:18] <exec> 08└─Right. Lies, damn' lies and statistics. Why would one expect anything else from khallow?
[04:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:20] <exec> 08└─Because when the host dies, well, you know what happens to the cancer..
[04:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:22] <exec> 08└─Eventually,everything fails. https://epdf.pub [epdf.pub]
[04:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:57] <exec> 08└─Heck, we can't even give all that great a definition for "life". We've got some general rules in biology classes but it only really fits for the kinds of life we've seen. It's a bit like that old saw about pornography: "I can't define it but I know it when I see it." On the other hand, I'm not at al...
[04:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:05] <exec> 08└─The people who run your country don't give a toss what you or any other voter wants, because you don't pay them extra.
[04:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:06] <exec> 08└─No message there, right?
[04:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:09] <exec> 08└─RIP MDC, de mortuis nil nisi bene.
[04:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the democrats' complaints about gerrymandering are bullshit. They refuse to see why they lose elections.
[04:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 2145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:33] <exec> 08└─It was apparently SpaceX's most expensive (known) payload launched. There may have been a more expensive payload launched for the U.S. government. Canada was antsy about the F9 used, wanting a new or "gently" used booster. Once the three RCM satellites were effectively complete, a series of unfortun...
[04:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Offers Legislation to Respond to Admissions Scandal - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:08] <exec> 08└─You're right - let's round them all up instead and put them in camps. Better?
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[05:14:23] <exec> 08└─Dogs are better than humans. So are some machines. Rest in peace, my dear '84 accord hatchback.
[05:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:38] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you wrote. Yes, I know the term CAE but I haven't heard it used in a long time. Many CAD and CAE tools get lumped together, or the CAD tool calls up a CAE tool, and the lines are blurred, and most in my world (EE) just call it CAD. Actually the big ones like Altium are being...
[05:15:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 796 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe so, but it gave me a good flashback back to the SCO days when Microsoft got BTFO and Linux was actually on the rise and becoming more usable as a desktop OS. Ubuntu from around 2007 to 2010 appeared to be unstoppable and every day it looked like it was going to crush Windows as a dominant desk...
[05:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:28] <exec> 08└─I haven't read it, but just thinking about it reminds me of why I prefer the GPL license, but in appropriate circumstances the AGPL is even better. And I still believe that Microsoft, or someone associated with them, financed the SCO trial.
[05:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:17] <exec> 08└─Ha ha those ignorant fools dreaming of shelter and food! lol The iShiny X on the other hand is going to ABSOLUTELY be the shit.
[05:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:18] <exec> 08└─What we actually got: https://insh.world [insh.world]
[05:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:07] <exec> 08└─The mask looks good on him, doesn't it? Too bad he's just a democrat sheepdog and not a real candidate.
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[06:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, how do they get away with that? Ah well, just another avoidable tragedy caused by corruption... SNAFU
[06:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:07] <exec> 08└─Well, the quickest way to get to Flughafen Dortmund from where you are might be to fly from Stansted (grin) On the other hand, doing the same search from my home in France gives me 7 links all to the correct place as the top links. Perhaps the problem is a geographic one?
[06:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:30] <exec> 08└─Oh god, how did I not see this when I wrote my comment?! I want a new civilization now.
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[07:14:24] <exec> 08└─Opportunity was just saying, Repent! SoylentNews! Repent! More science, less right wing nutjob racist dog-whistles! That is Opportunities last request from the planet Mars. Respect it, Soylent Eds, or face the consequences!
[07:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:42] <exec> 08└─The tl;dr seems to be that FIGG basically failed at every level, starting with a botched design, failing to get the required external design reviews, and finally failing to notice that collapse was imminent when inspecting the bridge hours before its failure. Then a bunch of other players failed to...
[07:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 2051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:44] <exec> 08└─The idea was a hybrid of a truss and cable stay. The truss was done in concrete and was expected to handle most of the load, including being self-supporting during installation. The cable stay portion was needed to handle resonance caused by the motion of humans and wind. At the time of the failure...
[07:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:08] <exec> 08└─Are you sure the vi on BSD isn't nvi? At least it used to be on FreeBSD.
[07:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my first emacs experience was not the real thing, it was uEmacs on the Atari ST, which would push me up to ~35 years. I've not headr of Mince. Many of the lightweight editors I use nowadays (mostly zile, but occasionally jed and qemacs) are emacs-alikes. I'm perfectly happy in vi, but I've fou...
[07:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:12] <exec> 08└─"Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" was the joke, so vim's not there yet - you need to load some more modules... Of course, busybox has a minimal vi, you could try that if you want compact.
[07:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:39] <exec> 08└─Facts don't require "belief". M$ paid from the beginning. Groklaw used to have a lot of coverage of SCO, including how M$ was bankrolling the lawsuit. However, Groklaw.net seems delisted from the search engines, so here is crappy old ZDNet article for you on how M$ used BayStar Capital to shunt mone...
[07:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:40] <exec> 08└─When lennart poettering ends up at M$ or Apple or some tivoizing corp, your comment will seem even funnier, pal.
[07:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:42] <exec> 08└─Its IBM now They were bought out.
[07:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:33] <exec> 08└─I thought they heated spoons to press against the eyes.
[07:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:35] <exec> 08└─Yet we have so many muslims their numbers growing every year. How long until what you think does not matter?
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[08:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:20] <exec> 08└─Does Starcraft [cnet.com] count?
[08:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:21] <exec> 08└─Diablo II counts. For example, go to the desert, kill a locust of flies with a spear and it drops a sword. Gain XP from that, level up and get +20 health points. So it is clear that repeated stabbing with a spear improves the health. Now let me tell you about Fus Ro Dah...
[08:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:55] <exec> 08└─I cannot remember from where was this quote, and it is surely not the exact one: You can appoint incompetent but loyal to you people as judges to rule the false is true in your favour. You can assign incompetent but loyal historians to write a glorified version about your achievements. You can have...
[08:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:06] <exec> 08└─###Welcome to HIBP### Please enter the password to be checked: >Yhuteyu6re2ggd Searching... Yes you have been owned, right now at least. Have a nice day.
[08:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should finally upgrade your machine to more than 8 megabytes. (Emacs = Eight Megabytes And Continuously Swapping)
[08:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:56] <exec> 08└─Have you tried Ubuntu 18.04 Mate?
[08:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:37] <exec> 08└─Could it be, that in its emphasis on guns, religion, a slave-based racisim, America is just stupider than most other nations? That is my experience, and I have a lot of experience, but then, America is a young nation. A young, still stupid, nation.
[08:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:38] <exec> 08└─USA citizens don't like regulations, they suspect of government and think that it should step aside and let citizens regulate by themselves and only interfere in the worst cases. Europe citizens like regulations, they suspect of stronger or richer citizens (or companies) and think that government ha...
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[08:20:03] <exec> 08└─I missed the multiple cam feed high quality youtube streams of it, all I can find is a crappy vertical video which looks like a mobile phone recording a monitor, can't see much, hardly popcorn material.
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[09:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:26] <exec> 08└─Can 'brain games' really help you improve the way your brain functions?
[09:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:27] <exec> 08└─non brain games might be better for analysis ability as long as you play them as a problem to be solved optimally.
[09:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:29] <exec> 08└─TFA interesting quotes: Based on these experiences, my optimistic answer to the question of whether brain training is worth it would be "we just don't know." But the actual answer may very well be "no."
[09:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:03] <exec> 08└─There have been, at the time of my writing, 3 or 4 informative and intelligent comments made by ACs in this thread. I have moderated them appropriately. Thank you to you all.
[09:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:14] <exec> 08└─You were never supposed to submit the password but its hash. Still a risk, that's why in HIBP version 2 you do not submit your password hash but only the first 4 characters instead. The HIBP gives you the full list of all pwned password hashes starting with your 4 characters. Then you search your ex...
[09:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:15] <exec> 08└─If the password hash is properly salted, how am I supposed to know the hash of my password? If the hash has been lifted, how does this imply my password has been pwnd?
[09:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:17] <exec> 08└─If the sale goes through, the buyer will have a very easy time maintaining the site going forward. Once Troy passes the site and all its data to the new owners, the new owners just need to redirect all traffic for haveibeenpwned.com to yes.com.
[09:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:33] <exec> 08└─What's wrong about extrapolating from a single data point? Everybody does it—at least, I do.
[09:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:54] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants to address the real issue: population.
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[10:14:40] <exec> 08└─"The scientific *consensus* is ...". Every time I hear that, I know that there'll be another side to the argument, and quite often one with well-trained and educated scientific supporters, often ones who are made underdogs in the field because of their non-mainstream conclusions. Climate skeptics ar...
[10:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:42] <exec> 08└─calling Betteridge..
[10:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:50] <exec> 08└─Good job, even if it does not affect me.
[10:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:18] <exec> 08└─I read TFReport. The design was peer-reviwed and considered bad, but workable. The lack of redundancy was mentioned in the review. The intermediate stages of construction were not peer-reviewed (they had to be). The bridge could be built, but not the way they tried - the pass was clearly not stable...
[10:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:20] <exec> 08└─Great example of US engineering! Trollish comment - but the point is for all of those soylentils who insult Chinese/Elbonian engineering; US has bad examples too.
[10:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/73nar3/picture208745869/alternates/FREE_1140/fiu%20bridge%20ntsb%20investigators.jpg [miamiherald.com] not that i have seen a lot of broken building material, but this looks more like crushed rock, than brorken conrete... /zug
[10:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:36] <exec> 08└─Awesome FB could use it to check for people of hasn't created shadow accounts for yet. Much invasion, such profit.
[10:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:37] <exec> 08└─This would be a good buy for respectable security company like certain antivirus companies (one of which starts with an "F" would be my preferred choice)
[10:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:39] <exec> 08└─I think HIBP generates and publishes unsalted hashes from the plain-text passwords that have been pwned. You can read more here: https://www.troyhunt.com [troyhunt.com]
[10:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:42] <exec> 08└─SN has over $400 in the stretch goal....think it'll be enough?
[10:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:00] <exec> 08└─Which one gives you carpet tunnel syndrome?
[10:19:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:36] <exec> 08└─Reduced biodiversity in agriculture was a necessary condition for the Irish Potato Famine. Modern agricultural practices may already have ways of reducing the risk of these types of disasters, but I’m not aware of them.
[10:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:00] <exec> 08└─when dealing with someone who seems to think that all bad things are caused by people
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[11:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:08] <exec> 08└─I am looking forward for Huawei devices not using Android.
[11:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Quicksilver [1821] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:10] <exec> 08└─Then this attack works out to "If you have physical access then all bets are off."
[11:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:30] <exec> 08└─If it's real science, then the argument should be "The *experiments prove* ..."
[11:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─No.
[11:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:34] <exec> 08└─Crawl out through the fallout, baby When they drop that bomb Crawl out through the fallout With the greatest of aplomb When your rad count's getting higher Hurry, don't delay I'll hold you close and kiss those Radiation burns away Crawl out through the fallout, baby To my loving arms Through the rai...
[11:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:36] <exec> 08└─"The scientific *consensus* is ...". Every time I hear that, I know that there'll be another side to the argument, ..., often ones who are made underdogs in the field because of their non-mainstream conclusions
[11:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:38] <exec> 08└─In order for your question to be relevant, you'd have to find a group of scientist banding together to push the principle of least action narative and begin said push with the words "The scientific consensus is ...".
[11:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:40] <exec> 08└─The astrophysicists I know, when they know they are in a scientific environment, often reword their statements in terms of being models, and accept that they are not just unproven, but even have a non-zero probability of being wrong. E.g. see what Sean Carroll says about inflationary theory - I thin...
[11:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S. - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:49] <exec> 08└─Hmmm...an opt-in solution to the systematic invasion of privacy of Bellows' constituents vs the telcos multi-billion-dollar stockpile plus the present political climate of the FCC. Wonder who'll win? I'd almost put money on it but a scene from a certain Brando/Sinatra movie involving cheesecake come...
[11:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:51] <exec> 08└─I'd almost put money on it but a scene from a certain Brando/Sinatra movie involving cheesecake comes to mind.
[11:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:22] <exec> 08└─Agreed. And they seem to know it. I'm particularly put off by these comments (emphasis mine): construction documents prepared by FIGG did not specify that the construction joints be “intentionally roughened” with an amplitude of ¼” to provide higher value of shear friction at the junction of...
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[11:15:40] <exec> 08└─What kind of human organization could ensure that this key service for internet function will not be used to further the security breaches that make it necessary? corporation - no corrupt government - no TLA - no non-profit controlled by corporations - no rotary club infiltrated by all of the above...
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[12:15:06] <exec> 08└─when they know they are in a scientific environment,
[12:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:07] <exec> 08└─you'd have to find a group of scientist banding together to push the principle of least action narative
[12:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:09] <exec> 08└─I have to show no such thing. My move is a response to what I have asked you for. Part of the problem is the combined dumbing down and mangling of science by intermediaries, journos included. One thing that's essential to teach people is that when you hear a dumbed-down version of science that you u...
[12:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:51] <exec> 08└─Florida Man thought he could build complex long term structure by cutting every possible corner. End result demonstrates Late State Capitalism to a T. How many of the engineers involved had their wealthy parents help get them into college and afford Tiger Exams for their tests? How many accountants...
[12:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:50] <exec> 08└─I wouldnt take a number like that at face value... it comes from people who have made a career out of publishing doom porn after all. Itd be like believing the stock market is about to crash because you read it on zerohedge.
[12:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:52] <exec> 08└─The Paris Agreement wouldn't have fixed climate change.
[12:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:54] <exec> 08└─Someone has to clean up this shit. Might as well be me, right? Point is when our population is much greater than it is in 1960, and mostly poor, then there will always be a low number for wages and such associated with the poorest number of people who happen to match the population of the Earth in...
[12:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:56] <exec> 08└─and like to think that I did a little bit to try to fix these things
[12:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:58] <exec> 08└─We temporarily 'fixed' the ozone hole
[12:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 1852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:49] <exec> 08└─the tiger showed its stripes a while back, the c*ck pentagon and israel are taking over the united states and so they know very well that they have to convince 300 million people to do a lot of things they would rather not do. For this end, no one who could explain the functioning of a transistor is...
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[13:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:50] <exec> 08└─From your quote: Based on these experiences, my optimistic answer to the question of whether brain training is worth it would be "we just don't know." But the actual answer may very well be "no."
[13:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─Climate skeptics
[13:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:54] <exec> 08└─If it's real science, then the argument should be "The *experiments prove* ..." instead (where "proof" doesn't mean absolute unerring knowledge, merely that that it the most probably correct, and parsimoniously so, interpretation of these results that we have at the time).
[13:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S. - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:04] <exec> 08└─They’ll just throw the consent clause into the contract language at sign up. Literally no one other than lawyers will ever see anything different from the way it is today.
[13:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:14] <exec> 08└─What is with the repeating link back to the title. Then the first para begins by repeating back to the title. Then later para paraphrases this title repeat back. Most difficult to read article today.
[13:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:39] <exec> 08└─From the written descriptions, I think my elementary stress analysis course (taken from an architecture department) would have been good enough to determine that this structure was inadequate -- by hand or spreadsheet approximate calculations.
[13:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:41] <exec> 08└─Stop with that leftist bullshit. This was gross negligence and aesthetic design over proper engineering.
[13:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:43] <exec> 08└─I cannot stop but see a parallel to the mind boggling stupidity at Boeing: bad design & implementation + self certification == dead people
[13:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:45] <exec> 08└─The problem in both cases seems to be the same, namely that the bridge was mandated by a bunch of non-engineers to look a certain way, cost a certain amount, and be built in a certain amount of time. I think that anyone who actually builds things -- bridges, computer software, or Lego kits -- can se...
[13:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:48] <exec> 08└─As judges - the people judge your actions. In history - the descendants will judge your actions. In engineering - your actions are judged by the physics of the universe. The universe doesn't have a side, cannot be swayed with argument, and cannot be ignored.
[13:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/4k36fx/picture212961624/alternates/FREE_1140/FIU%20bridge%20diagram%20(Dave%20Beck).jpg [miamiherald.com] While that bridge is beautiful, I have to admit that it gives me nightmares about my statics homework. 21 Independent trusses of differing size and differ...
[13:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:52] <exec> 08└─The article about the engineers who did an independent analysis explains that these things are always modeled in a computer program but that it is important to do some manual sanity checks in case the inputs are in error. It was a garbage in, garbage out situation.
[13:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:10] <exec> 08└─Unrelated to the security of the service I find the following information interesting: The largest [number of stored password hashes with a given prefix] is 584 (hash prefixes "00000" and "4A4E8")
[13:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:59] <exec> 08└─I thought it would have been about that red button [nationalreview.com] snuff ad where certain Greens fantasize about killing off the people who disagree with them.
[13:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:00] <exec> 08└─If you were a homeless child on the streets of India taken in by a street thug to pour hot metal into your eyes to blind you so you can make more money for them begging, then yes they are better off dead (IMO).
[13:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:02] <exec> 08└─reported "happiness"
[13:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:04] <exec> 08└─A slightly lower poverty threshold ($1.90 per day)
[13:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:43] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Looking for conditions that created humans on other planets is a good idea if you're looking for humans... The actual fuckers roaming the void might not even be carbon based. Hell they might even be some mystic swirls of pure energy. Shame on these UCR 'scientists' for their very myopic app...
[13:19:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 799 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:15] <exec> 08└─You are so right. Look at those horrible excuses for trains in Europe. We have them beat badly there. And look at all those Mac IIs and PC XTs over there. They don't even have iPhones. Barbarians! And they have no aircraft manufacturers, either. Or any space capabilities. Hell, they can't even launc...
[13:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe they could find out how their data was used (though I doubt it) before by reading the fine print, but now tracking is in the face of every regular Joe and Jane. As a general rule, before you can enter a site, the site will show you a message announcing they use cookies to gather information....
[13:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:00] <exec> 08└─Oh man, you totally nailed it!
[13:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:47] <exec> 08└─In fact the actual problem is consumption. Yes, increasing population will increase the lower limit of consumption but that is really not the problem. If all humans consumed on average what an Indian currently consumes on average, there would be no ecological problems at all. The earth can easily sa...
[13:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:49] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we have found another Mars colonist volunteer. Please do report back how you feel about biodiversity after 10 years on the alien planet, if you still are alive.
[13:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:51] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of people who use birth control do so to merely limit their fecundity rather than choose to not procreate.
[13:21:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Faces Big Test as Nine States Sue to Block It - 270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:40] <exec> 08└─Be more cynical. Now AT&T and Verizon are big enough to prevent a #3 from arising. So they prevent the merger and the marginal and struggling #3 and #4 both go bankrupt instead of becoming big enough to compete. Then AT&T and Verizon buy the corpses and get even bigger.
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[14:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:26] <exec> 08└─We recently had this story [soylentnews.org] about the Quest Diagnostics breach.
[14:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:27] <exec> 08└─added
[14:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:29] <exec> 08└─As a software architect who mostly work directly for public services and for their suppliers, I find it very difficult to get developers to take security seriously beyond token measures to cover the bare minimum. Trying to get people higher up in the hierarchy to take action is probably even more di...
[14:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─This is click bait. When you have nothing more than vague suspicions and wishy washy theories it's not science. Just because it's an astronomer making the vague statements doesn't give it any more wieght, in fact it gives it LESS weight because a scientist who says they "suspect" is one who has all...
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:39] <exec> 08└─I looked up the Taurid [wikipedia.org] swarm (apparently there are two), but those aren't in June. This story happens to be about the Beta Taurids [wikipedia.org]. I also checked if the Chelyabinsk meteor could be related, but that one came down on 15 February 2013.
[14:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─Who does that? Do people actually lay their phones on a table to use them? If I'm tapping on my screen, the phone is in my hand. If my phone is on a table, it's because I've very temporarily laid it down. If I'm eating in a restaurant or doing something else where I won't be holding my phone for a l...
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:52] <exec> 08└─Phones and car keys on the table or bar = status signaling. I signal status by wearing these items either in my pocket protector, or on my belt. ;)
[14:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:54] <exec> 08└─I would rather have Tap Ghosts than Ghost Taps.
[14:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly-Launched Russian Telecom Satellite Relying on Backup Thrusters - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:01] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, I've performed similar operations in KSP (typically the primary thrusters are disabled through a more exciting rapid disassembly). Backup thrusters can get you to the moon and back.
[14:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:28] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid you'll have to lower your expectations to "consistently manages to provide non-contradictory predictions that are validated by observations of the reality"
[14:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Betteridge [7289] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:30] <exec> 08└─You called? Oh... umm... I'll get to the point: "No." (And ignore poor AC imitations. Always ask for the true 100% certified Betteridge opinion!)
[14:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:32] <exec> 08└─You have missed my point. I have no problem with a concrete scientific concensus. I object to the reliance on references to an abstract scientific consensus as a line of argumentation. It's at least 2 logical fallacies. Do you not see the words "when one side claims" in the subject line. It's the *c...
[14:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:34] <exec> 08└─Don't be a dumbarse. Just because you can't tell the difference between climate skeptics and climate change deniars doesn't mean there isn't a clear distinction between them. The climate skeptics who have adopted the moniker "Lukewarmers" are undeniably skeptics, and yet they clearly state that not...
[14:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:36] <exec> 08└─Playing brain games is scientifically proven, in multiple tests, to increase your ability to avoid working.
[14:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:38] <exec> 08└─Nothing is better than debugging PHP for training the brain. So, like all good academics, on balance ... I would recommend ... "Nothing".
[14:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:32] <exec> 08└─As has already been pointed out, CAD systems only work well when you set up the model correctly, know how to interpret the results, and then compare them to the physical system they are modeling. When you have early evidence that the CAD result isn't matching the physical result (cracks in the concr...
[14:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:33] <exec> 08└─Also, in the case of Boeing, bad specification that didn't properly provide safety, and failure to document and train end users. So much dysfunction. Any heads roll over there yet? Why is the CEO yet to be fired?
[14:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:35] <exec> 08└─This is why nuclear energy is the worst possible idea. Everytime Chernobyl or Fukushima is mentionned, nuclear apologists climb on their soapboxes and shout "Yeah but that was because blah blah blah, and technology today is completely different and blah blah blah, and we learned from those events bl...
[14:17:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:02] <exec> 08└─If you type "emacs" from the command line, *emacs will run*! (Shut up, I've been an emacs user for >30 years, I can say such things.)
[14:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:15] <exec> 08└─Think worst case scenario. An exploit on Vim that is so unthinkably awful, I almost dare not mention it. Something that could bring about world destruction on a scale that could only be matched by the release of Windows 11. Imagine a Vim exploit that caused Vim to have every key bound to a lisp func...
[14:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:16] <exec> 08└─Vim is not part of the Linux project and runs on many platforms (including some odd ones, like Amiga, OS/2 and classic MacOS). macOS ships with it. This vulnerability is not really news. It is in a specific feature of Vim, not enabled by default, which is intended to configure the editor to match th...
[14:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:48] <exec> 08└─*omg* when in heavens name is the "patent" on "remembering a previous location of a window(frame)" going to expire or be deemed non-patent able. on xfce (w/com!z) if i open some window, say a directory listing, size it and move it then reboot the computer i have to redo the whole thing again. i thou...
[14:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:50] <exec> 08└─Our father, who art in Redmond Microsoft be thy name Thy monopoly come Thy will be done Throughout the earth as it is in the US Give us this day Our daily license activation key And forgive us our bug reports As we forgive our system crashes And lead us not into competition But deliver us from innov...
[14:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:52] <exec> 08└─It is not merely enough to succeed spectacularly. EVERYONE ELSE MUST FAIL !!!!
[14:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:54] <exec> 08└─There is a book by that name. I first heard of it in about 1985 or thereabout on NPR. Later I bought the book and read it. It was quite interesting. It starts with the very beginnings of IBM up to the present. All of the dirty tricks. How to build and maintain monopolies. Make sure that a secondhand...
[14:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:56] <exec> 08└─We'll fix it.
[14:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:53] <exec> 08└─The truth is, you should always be suspicious of those who have power. In the past, that basically was the government. Today, big corporations have almost the same, and in some cases even more power as governments. But unlike the government, the corporations are not controlled at all by the citizens...
[14:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:42] <exec> 08└─Where there are tax incentives to promote having children, the birth rate is generally below replacement levels already. Removing those incentives and adding aggressive new taxes on procreating would essentially be a voluntary extinction of our culture.
[14:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:43] <exec> 08└─There's a very large correlation between wealth (the lack thereof) and population growth.
[14:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:45] <exec> 08└─In other words, to have less children. Which is exactly the point of birth control. Or do you think the goal has to be extinction of the human species?
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[15:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─Of all the presidential candidates, Warren has been most consistent about holding corporate feet to the fire. She recently proposed a bill [theverge.com] that would hold executives responsible for data breaches.
[15:16:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:10] <exec> 08└─As judges - the people judge your actions. In history - the descendants will judge your actions. In engineering - your actions are judged by the physics of the universe. The universe doesn't have a side, cannot be swayed with argument, and cannot be ignored.
[15:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:17] <exec> 08└─The only solution is to choose technologies that have very little consequences when they eventually fail.
[15:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:37] <exec> 08└─No. Not because there aren't organizations that aren't trustworthy, but because the systems supporting them is that broken at this point. If one can't trust the support system then it doesn't matter if the organization is trustworthy. (And I was thinking more of computer security here, but it applie...
[15:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:00] <exec> 08└─Emacs is a nice operating system, but it could use a better text editor.
[15:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:36] <exec> 08└─Dear Citizen, It appears that you are opposed to promoting the progress of science and useful arts. Please sign up for one of our free reeducation programs on the importance of intellectual property law for increasing corporate profits.
[15:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:37] <exec> 08└─That was exactly my point above, that it isn't that way any longer but something a bit more disturbing. But everyone is so focused on the way that they used to do things and citing that instead of current behaviors that we lose sight of the way it is working today much more insidiously.
[15:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 3423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:39] <exec> 08└─The techrights article is describing something known as 'infiltration' and 'subversion' of an organization. Besides the halloween articles and mountains of evidence that there is an actual conspiracy(plot, secret plan) to destroy any forms of software that provide actual privacy, freedom and free sp...
[15:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:42] <exec> 08└─It's helped a great deal: - Acid rain: A reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions has made a huge improvement to the forests in the Eastern US. It's also saved huge sums of money in reduced building and infrastructure damage. As an added bonus, it's a lot easier to breath in the areas where the emissio...
[15:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:44] <exec> 08└─Climate change will have to be a multi-faceted thing. Trump's (and the Right in general) denial of there being a problem certainly isn't helping though...
[15:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:46] <exec> 08└─That movie is a documentary from the future. It's startlingly accurate.
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[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:19] <exec> 08└─Wait, let me get this straight: actual people designed, wrote, and implemented an actual mathematical model program that they could understand and audit? Derrr, why didn't they just use AI? AI is the solution to all problems! And you don't have to do all that messy work of actually understanding any...
[16:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─Skynet doesn't predict the weather. It makes it.
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─What the scientist said and what the media said the scientist said may not be remotely the same.
[16:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:31] <exec> 08└─Can you think of any issue where the strongest argument put forward by one side begins "The scientific consensus is..." where there isn't a group of scientists who are vehemently on the other side?
[16:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:33] <exec> 08└─I'm certain that playing Agarest, Into the Breach, and Sunrider makes one better at routing PCBs.
[16:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S. - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:44] <exec> 08└─If that's all it comes down to, why are the "tech" (adware/spyware) companies even bothering to speak against it? They are just that eager to remind everyone of what giant d-bags they are?
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S. - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:45] <exec> 08└─Need to be at a national level. ( id almost say global, but i dont want to follow EU rules, they are morons out there ) While i do agree states have rights, laws like this make "interstate" commerce confusing and hard to manage when everywhere you want to do business has different rules.
[16:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:56] <exec> 08└─We'll be back soon.
[16:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:34] <exec> 08└─But the design was formally reviewed by a different engineering company. If there was a basic design flaw, the reviewers should also be held responsible. Overall, this fiasco would make me stay away from FIU as an engineering student or professor, and avoid hiring FIU graduates as an employer. It mi...
[16:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:35] <exec> 08└─Regardless of the financial influences, this needs to be on the responsible engineer who signed off. Will his wealthy parents keep him out of prison?
[16:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:37] <exec> 08└─I can't argue about how wrong people can be, but the tsunami that caused the Fukushima meltdown killed over 15000 people. The nuclear meltdown caused at most a few cases of cancer, killed some robots, and created a big cleanup job. In fact, good engineering can beat human errors. That's why, despite...
[16:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrbrtsn [6338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:40] <exec> 08└─When the workers saw big cracks appear and grow, that should have been the end of that design right then and there. There was plenty of advanced warning that this design is unsafe, and those in charge chose to ignore all of it. I'm sorry, but some people need to go to prison for this.
[16:20:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 453 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you keep saying that, but the weight of propaganda, gerrymandering and outright bribery prevents the voters from having enough influence to matter. Look at what the Republicans did when they lost control of Wisconsin to the Democrats. [nytimes.com] Now imagine what they would do if they lost...
[16:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:59] <exec> 08└─And yet I have a sneaking suspicion you voted for Trump.
[16:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 2640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:00] <exec> 08└─I disagree with the third point, but it may be due to my internal cynic. People that value privacy will have to buy politicians just to even the playfield. Unless there is some initiative to make lobbying forbidden, which is not likely. Otherwise, I think it is a fantasy to believe that someone with...
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[17:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Milestone Trial, Experimental Drug Delays Type 1 Diabetes - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:30] <exec> 08└─"On the one hand," the outcome is "pretty exciting," Bluestone says. "On the other hand, now the real hard work begins."
[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Milestone Trial, Experimental Drug Delays Type 1 Diabetes - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:32] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the "???" step. The step after that is ""Profit!".
[17:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Milestone Trial, Experimental Drug Delays Type 1 Diabetes - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:34] <exec> 08└─find the cause and stop blaming the immune system for doing it's job. just because you can't see the reason doesn't mean the immune system is crazy.
[17:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─Takyon knows what's up.
[17:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:46] <exec> 08└─Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere I remember stories about weather and climate researchers using a plane model, for years. When they finally switched over to a spherical model, lots of things looked different. Was there any truth to that, or was it just a bunch of hogwash? A couple of lazy searches on my p...
[17:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:48] <exec> 08└─It's worse : They actually did year-long extended testing against real-world data to check the validity before pushing the app update. Those software guys will never get a career anywhere else. And I won't get my tornados-and-monsoon-blizzard forecast in Socal.
[17:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─I am altering the weather. Pray I don't alter it any further. -- You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying things? I should probably get one of those.
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:53] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself, I am eating cake right now!
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:03] <exec> 08└─My doctor switched to LabCorp for drug testing. Insurance doesn't cover it. I got a $800 bill from LabCorp for the same drug test that used to cost $60 at the previous lab. If you call (their call center sounds like a telemarketer boiler room) and complain they'll give you a 90% discount.
[17:15:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 929 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:11] <exec> 08└─This is click bait. When you have nothing more than vague suspicions and wishy washy theories it's not science. Just because it's an astronomer making the vague statements doesn't give it any more wieght, in fact it gives it LESS weight because a scientist who says they "suspect" is one who has all...
[17:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:15] <exec> 08└─We can't let that overly complex concept of "probabilities" get in the way of a good story. Look! Squirrel ! No, wait, not good enough. Terrorist Chinese Muslim Latino Squirrel !
[17:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:28] <exec> 08└─If you're in a shady bar, watch that ghost, it's a trap !
[17:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:29] <exec> 08└─> Phones and car keys on the table or bar = status signaling. "My pockets are too small, I must be a fashion victim" or "I came to this place, but I can't disconnect from my 'friends' who are not here and more important" Useful signal, really. Seriously, car keys are status ? Are you from rural Zimb...
[17:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:31] <exec> 08└─Who does that? Do people actually lay their phones on a table to use them?
[17:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:13] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, we could just understand GP's statement about "The experiments *prove*..." as the standard, normal use of the word "prove" in English used in >99% of all cases.
[17:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:37] <exec> 08└─It's been a year here, maybe. Having spent so much longer there than here, it's more appropriate to celebrate Opportunity's milestones in Mars years.
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[17:17:06] <exec> 08└─The problem in both cases seems to be the same, namely that the bridge was mandated by a bunch of non-engineers to look a certain way, cost a certain amount, and be built in a certain amount of time. I think that anyone who actually builds things -- bridges, computer software, or Lego kits -- can se...
[17:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:19] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure some people will go to prison. Shame that these investigations take so so long. When the workers saw big cracks appear and grow, that should have been the end...
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─And the universe dies a heat death on a bigger timescale. So what.
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[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In Milestone Trial, Experimental Drug Delays Type 1 Diabetes - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─I don't think anybody is assigning thoughts and feelings to the immune system. And it is only as good as what's needed to keep some people alive long enough to reproduce.
[18:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Milestone Trial, Experimental Drug Delays Type 1 Diabetes - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:41] <exec> 08└─Stop anthropomorphism my immune system. It hates that!
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Milestone Trial, Experimental Drug Delays Type 1 Diabetes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─Thanks, autocorrect, you are stupid!
[18:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─Does it do "Code Red" alerts?
[18:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:58] <exec> 08└─For example, surface temperatures have been biased low in some situations, throwing off forecasts.
[18:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:01] <exec> 08└─If you only eat half of it you do get to eat your cake and have it too.
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─As a software architect who mostly work directly for public services and for their suppliers, I find it very difficult to get developers to take security seriously beyond token measures to cover the bare minimum.
[18:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:13] <exec> 08└─I wish people would stop using the words "stolen" or "loss" to describe these data breaches. Was the data deleted? Or encrypted, for ransom? No? Then it's not lost or stolen, it is only copied. Quite bad enough that a whole lot of privacy was compromised. However, the keepers of all that data still...
[18:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:16] <exec> 08└─exactly. these companies don't want to do their jobs in regards to security then try to make the "thieves" out to be some sort of masterminds. no, you sacks of shit are guilty of gross negligence.
[18:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:18] <exec> 08└─those aren't "developers" those are windows and mac users.
[18:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:20] <exec> 08└─Nothing to worry about folks! Our resident Trump supporters all assure me that hacking is all fake news.
[18:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:31] <exec> 08└─I came here looking for alien microbes hitching a ride on meteors. We need more sensationalism, not less.
[18:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:33] <exec> 08└─Sorry, next one only has killer fungi. Amazon Galaxy has been backordered on alien microbes after the Cambrian explosion. They're looking in wormholes to go back in time kill Einstein, so they can do FTL two-day droneship delivery.
[18:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:35] <exec> 08└─Well now that I know they have wormholes, I want same-day delivery.
[18:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:50] <exec> 08└─Well then, maybe you shouldn't be dumb and have NFC turned on.
[18:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:52] <exec> 08└─Haha, no, the Northeastern Megalopolis. I should have said key rings with bling. You know, a key chain with some bauble on it, emblazoned with a high end automobile logo.
[18:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, and I don't see what's optimistic about "we just don't know".
[18:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:39] <exec> 08└─I can't say I understand stellar dynamics, but it just didn't seem to pass the sniff test to me - requiring particle capture in an expanding medium.
[18:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:41] <exec> 08└─Point taken, though my comment was directed less at you alone than at the thread overall and OP's hedging at invoking the word "prove." I've seen too many comment threads taking the form, "This study proves..." followed by several comments on how "science can never 'prove' anything..." I just get ti...
[18:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:43] <exec> 08└─Apologies if this was misdirected.
[18:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S. - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:56] <exec> 08└─but i dont want to follow EU rules, they are morons out there
[18:17:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 2051 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:26] <exec> 08└─The idea was a hybrid of a truss and cable stay. The truss was done in concrete and was expected to handle most of the load, including being self-supporting during installation. The cable stay portion was needed to handle resonance caused by the motion of humans and wind. At the time of the failure...
[18:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think you're troll, but you're being a bit too absolute. It has been proven that technology can be designed and constructed to be extremely beneficial and reliable. I see the problem as being political. No, not Ds and Rs, but corporate structure politics. The very wrong people are usually in...
[18:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:52] <exec> 08└─A few hundred human lives are irrelevant. Go Thorium!
[18:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:54] <exec> 08└─If I was anywhere in the responsibility chain, and I saw the giant crack linked in TFS, I would make damn sure to not be on/under/near the bridge, and tell my boss that he would have to personally overrule me in writing if he wanted to continue the work without a thorough review by the designers. Ca...
[18:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:56] <exec> 08└─"As we used to say in my line of work, "You can't bullshit the circuit."" that's a good one. thanks
[18:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:59] <exec> 08└─Most engineers do not come from wealthy families. Wealthy families send their children to business school. The poor bastard who gets hung for this is probably still paying off his student loans.
[18:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:01] <exec> 08└─No one will keep him out of prison, as a patsy that is his job.
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─"If this struggle is lost, you should begin teaching children now NOT to think for themselves, because their very lives will depend on it." this is exactly what most "parents" (state appointed guardianship privilege) are already doing. they send their kids to state indoctrination centers during the...
[18:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:29] <exec> 08└─If you keep normalizing for total population, you have to account for the fact that the Earth is shrinking - in relative terms.
[18:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:29] <exec> 08└─i said "state socialism". what is unclear about that? why would i be in favor of tax credits/reductions for corps or the 1%? the income tax is illegitimate and un-american to begin with. the federal reserve and their control of our "money" is illegitimate. my point was that if you think the state is...
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[19:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:12] <exec> 08└─"Windows"? "Server"? Who could be so foolish?
[19:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:13] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'.
[19:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.howtogeek.com/424886/windows-10s-linux-kernel-is-now-available/ [howtogeek.com]
[19:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:17] <exec> 08└─in Windows 8 servers and above
[19:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─Two comments [wikipedia.org]. Good show! *For those of you who are members of the Ten Thousand [xkcd.com], this is a reference to Godwin's Law [wikipedia.org].
[19:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:03] <exec> 08└─How dare you support policies that might help solve these problems. Such trolling!
[19:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:05] <exec> 08└─I'm not defending them, but it wasn't Quest or LabCorp whose systems were breached. It was a third-party debt collector's systems that were ransacked. Why does that matter? There are a several reasons: 1. Debt collectors generally buy outstanding "debts" (quotes because sometimes it's not really mo...
[19:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:19] <exec> 08└─They try to implement Yesterday Delivery, but the engineers keep quitting after winning the lottery, so there's no progress.
[19:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:20] <exec> 08└─How are they employed today if they won the lottery yesterday?
[19:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:37] <exec> 08└─Who does that? Do people actually lay their phones on a table to use them? If I'm tapping on my screen, the phone is in my hand. If my phone is on a table, it's because I've very temporarily laid it down.
[19:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:26] <exec> 08└─..the bizarre attempt to restrict the word "proof" to the mathematical sense when talking about philosophy of science is an artifact of debates in the philosophy of science only in the past century or so.
[19:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:27] <exec> 08└─Nobody created their own sun, then threw a a planet at it, to see if it would orbit. Orbital mechanics are therefore not science!
[19:17:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 1326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/4k36fx/picture212961624/alternates/FREE_1140/FIU%20bridge%20diagram%20(Dave%20Beck).jpg [miamiherald.com] While that bridge is beautiful, I have to admit that it gives me nightmares about my statics homework. 21 Independent trusses of differing size and differ...
[19:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:40] <exec> 08└─I'd still take a localized catastrophe like Chernobyl over a global catastrophe like oven-earth. We have the ability to stay away from Chernobyl. Earth....not so much.
[19:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:41] <exec> 08└─I think this time it was Florida Woman not Florida Man.
[19:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:43] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the benefit is worth the risk.
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─If you already have a reason to visit the site to check if you have been pwned, why don't you just change your password instead.
[19:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─...acid rain, the ozone hole, and now climate change. We'll fix it.
[19:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:12] <exec> 08└─"In the absence of market regulation, abuse always occurs." there are more than two ways (fascism[republicans] and state socialism[democrats]) to organize society. "In this particular case, the market mechanism is distorted because of information asymmetry in that Americans do not know what PII is b...
[19:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:14] <exec> 08└─yes but b/c the title suggests that state socialism is beneficial, and therefore the US is "behind" Europe when it lacks state socialism. that is the purpose of the title. once again i think you people know this, but you lie anyways. either that or you're just fucking stupid.
[19:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:16] <exec> 08└─"And the only ones powerful enough to keep the corporations under control are the governments." but they won't. not even in the EU. they will simply bless certain big corps and they will work together to screw the little guy, since that is the business model for both already. it's just a merger with...
[19:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:09] <exec> 08└─they said "they don't care if they are jew or not", you triggered fuckhead.
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─It's not going to occur to the average person to put in that disclaimer in the first place. Because it's completely unnecessary and just draws attention to the distinction for no reason.
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[20:14:25] <exec> 08└─Welcome to Clown World, where you are charged with violating shit outside of the jurisdction. So if I take a dump in my toilet I can expect to be extradited to India because shitting in toilet is against the law there? If I help a person who was hit by a car I'm going to get extradited to China, and...
[20:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─Look, Windows Server Data Center Edition is grate! You buy very nice server hardware in the mid thousands. Then for more than the cost of the hardware you can get that OS. But why? Because it will allow you to install Hyper-V, and then install that same OS under Hyper-V as many times as you want --...
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:38] <exec> 08└─well i guess someone got famous thanks to hitler ...
[20:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─You are correct. The problem is that the world is not flat, so no matter how you try to model it in a flat plane, you end up squishing or stretching various areas (just look at the various projections with Tissot indicators). At smaller scales, that isn't a big problem because the errors introduced...
[20:16:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:26] <exec> 08└─when they know they are in a scientific environment,
[20:16:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:31] <exec> 08└─If it's real science, then the argument should be "The *experiments prove* ..." instead (where "proof" doesn't mean absolute unerring knowledge, merely that that it the most probably correct, and parsimoniously so, interpretation of these results that we have at the time).
[20:16:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:40] <exec> 08└─Can you think of any issue where the strongest argument put forward by one side begins "The scientific consensus is..." where there isn't a group of scientists who are vehemently on the other side?
[20:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─It is also the problem of placing aesthetics over function. It would be nice if people responsible for such things would read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to help them understand that function has an esthetic of its own -- that "functional" is a form of beauty.
[20:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:05] <exec> 08└─End result demonstrates Late State Capitalism to a T
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─I'd congratulate you on being both deliberately obtuse and disingenuous at the same time. However, it may be that you actually are that dumb and brainwashed. As such, I'll refrain from doing so.
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─Evidently in Europe the parties do decide who gets on the ballot
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[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─And in Saudi, they execute people for blasphemy, Goddammit!
[21:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─extradited to China, and have my organs forcefully "donated"
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─Also in Clown World, Assange will never be extradited to USA! Only conspiracy theorists believe that! Never be extradited to USA! He'll just serve some time in UK for running out on bail and maybe another year in Sweden for rape! He would be a free man by now if he'd just owned up and let himself be...
[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─Just thinking about it, I can already hear people's heads exploding. Not that that will ever happen, sadly. -- What are they even going to be charging him with, anyway? He wasn't the guy who stole the information, WikiLeaks isn't hosted in the U.S., and he's not even a U.S. citizen. So why exactly d...
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:28] <exec> 08└─Jurisdiction refers to a court's legal authority to operate, not geography. The law generally does not respect citizenship, except in cases of diplomatic immunity (and I'm happy to be corrected). The Espionage Act, 18 US 793 (c) [cornell.edu] states it is a crime to receive classified information. 1...
[21:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─See the linked comment above. 18 USC 793.
[21:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─Whether justified or not, the US Government has made claims that Assange *assisted* in "hacking" US government servers [justice.gov]. Now, you can argue (and I'm sure Assange's lawyers will do so) that he just received such information rather than assisting in "breaching" systems. Do you or I have a...
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:35] <exec> 08└─The Espionage Act, 18 US 793 (c) [cornell.edu] states it is a crime to receive classified information. 18 USC 793 (g) states that any conspiracy where one person acts in furtherance of it makes all conspirators guilty. All they need to is convince the UK that this is a crime under both British and U...
[21:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─There was no fucking hacking. The person who stole the files had access to them. I seen some loose definitions or hacking, but this one seriously takes the cake. This morning I looked outside the fucking window, and I hacked the fucking sun.
[21:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─There are: Windows 2003 Server Windows 2008 Server (and some revisions, r1, r2, etc) Windows 2012 Server Windows 2016 Server And probably a few others I haven't had the displeasure of meeting. They come in various editions: Standard, . . . , Data Center Edition, and some few editions in between. It...
[21:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Cert Vulnerability Can Bring Down Any Windows Server - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─For most purposes, these are functionally similar like so (desktop GUI, libraries, various frameworks)... Windows 2003 R2 = Windows XP server Windows 2008 = Windows Vista server Windows 2008 R2 = Windows 7 server Windows 2012 = Windows 8 server Windows 2012 R2 = Windows 8.1 server Windows 2016 = Win...
[21:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-Known Meteor Shower This Month Could Have Dangerous Stowaways - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:54] <exec> 08└─Every time they seem really close to a breakthrough on the time machine, they all win the lottery and leave. Weird coincidence, what are the odds?
[21:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilJim [2501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:12] <exec> 08└─my work supplied meizu m5c already does ghost taps without the bulky rig and expense, and it does it anywhere - I cant imagine having to put it down on a table to have this happen.
[21:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:01] <exec> 08└─Obviously brain exercise does change brain functions! This is basic. LEARNING improves brain related functions. Playing can be a natural form of learning; evolved play behaviors have practical learning benefits... all mammals do it. The devil is in the details. If you are not learning, you gain lit...
[21:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:02] <exec> 08└─"the experiment conclusively proves Hawkins radiation is real"
[21:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can 'Brain Games' Really Help You Improve the Way Your Brain Functions? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:05] <exec> 08└─Can you think of any issue where the strongest argument put forward by one side begins "The scientific consensus is..." where there isn't a group of scientists who are vehemently on the other side? That's not how you win science arguments, so it isn't how you should be presenting science arguments.
[21:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:06] <exec> 08└─EMACS == Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift
[21:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:52] <exec> 08└─How about 'arable land per capita'?
[21:22:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─“While President Trump and his fellow oligarchs attack us for our support of democratic socialism, they don’t really oppose all forms of socialism,” he said. “They may hate democratic socialism because it benefits working people, but they absolutely love corporate socialism that enriches Tru...
[21:22:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Common Joe [33] 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 490 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Because after WWII, most of Europe was a smouldering crater while the U.S. wasn't. That had a lasting effect which many Americans confuse with being blessed by God as we jumped ahead technologically. Because of globalization, the gap between the U.S. and the rest of the world no longer exists. I'm q...
[21:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:58] <exec> 08└─How often do write in candidates win? Almost never is my guess That would be correct, and for precisely the same reason the others don't win, not enough votes. Nothing to do with a "rigged" system. There's no "conspiracy". The blame remains where it always was. And despite the evidence in plain sigh...
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[22:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:51] <exec> 08└─That as far as I know these are *NEW* charges made up in 2019, because the original charges when he ducked into the Ecuadorian embassy wouldn't have stuck and also wouldn't have been extradictable according to the UK government of the time. Now... 7 years later both the Ecudorian's and the British a...
[22:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:52] <exec> 08└─https://gizmodo.com/assange-charges-finally-reveal-why-chelsea-manning-is-s-1833972958 [gizmodo.com] Charges made public against Assange indicate that federal prosecutors sought to question her over online discussions in which Assange allegedly aided her in attempting to crack a password that would...
[22:14:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 1182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:54] <exec> 08└─All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others. When it comes to espionage, the rule seems to be that big countries can spy on everyone (inside and outside own country) with impunity. Some countries can righteously spy on other countries, like USA spying on China, whereas other cou...
[22:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:57] <exec> 08└─I don't have any evidence, but I'm going to make unsubstantiated claims anyway! Government sometimes do unethical and bad things, therefore all laws are repressive! Wake up sheeple! If you aren't against all forms of government, you're part of the problem! But don't take up arms against the evil gub...
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─So if I want to murder you all I have to do is shoot you from international waters and it's totally not a crime! Good to know!
[22:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:01] <exec> 08└─And soon will come the troll mods, as folks aren't interested in discussing all angles, just in confirming their own beliefs and prejudices. Because anyone who doesn't believe the same way must be evildoers who want to enslave them, or puppets of those who do. It's not possible to hold contrary posi...
[22:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:03] <exec> 08└─Hmmm ... might you be interested in booking a boat rental? We may be able to accommodate your long-range "accessory" needs.
[22:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:06] <exec> 08└─If he committed a crime against the US government then indicting him and extraditing him for trial is called DUE PROCESS. Of course he was going to be extradited if charged, that's how it works! The Obama admin policy was to not indict him because they felt he was protected by the first ammendment....
[22:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:08] <exec> 08└─Assange is an Australian citizen. Why do we give a crap what the U.K. thinks about the matter?
[22:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:10] <exec> 08└─Assange is an Australian citizen. Why do we give a crap what the U.K. thinks about the matter?
[22:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:12] <exec> 08└─I seen some loose definitions or hacking, but this one seriously takes the cake.
[22:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:15] <exec> 08└─Where to being picking apart your post ... fuck you, I can't. You see, you're not defending Assange's actions. You're denouncing the oppressive and at times tyrannical "do what we say, but not what we do" imperialism practiced by the US and other world powers. People can't play on their stage, becau...
[22:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:17] <exec> 08└─Wrong god. So you are safe. Just don't go calling Muhammad a pantywaste.
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:19] <exec> 08└─Although from the Wikipedia article the Australian PM sounds like a spineless twat as well.
[22:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:21] <exec> 08└─That as far as I know these are *NEW* charges made up in 2019, because the original charges when he ducked into the Ecuadorian embassy wouldn't have stuck and also wouldn't have been extradictable according to the UK government of the time.
[22:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:23] <exec> 08└─It needs to be a crime in both nations. And, we need to have an extradition treaty with that nation. Since NONE of your or the ACs examples meet those criteria all your "what-ifs" are a bunch of nonsense.
[22:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:26] <exec> 08└─When it comes to espionage, the rule seems to be that big countries can spy do things on everyone (inside and outside own country) with impunity.
[22:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:28] <exec> 08└─Because generally in extradition law the crime a person is extradited for must be a crime in both the jurisdiction of prosecution and the jurisdiction where the individual currently is. If conspiracy to commit espionage was not a crime under UK law then the extradition might be nullified on those gr...
[22:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:30] <exec> 08└─...because dubious and very local laws are totally the same as laws that apply universally and internationally.
[22:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:32] <exec> 08└─Fairly certain that conspiracy to commit espionage is a crime in the UK. Wikipedia thinks so, anyway. [wikipedia.org] And as above, repeat after me, "Jurisdiction is not geography. Geography is not jurisdiction. Jurisdiction may be limited by geography, but does not have to be."
[22:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:36] <exec> 08└─As such, no one has clean hands here. But just heaping scorn on Quest and LabCorp isn't enough, IMHO. Special venom should be reserved for AMCA and the lack of effective regulation around "debt" collections.
[22:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse OSHA Report - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:21] <exec> 08└─He's not a patsy, he has legal responsibility. He could have withheld his approval. If the structural failure was foreseeable, his ass needs to be hung.
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[23:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─Europa's surface is full of sodium chloride -- table salt
[23:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:25] <exec> 08└─>The astronaut who catches the first Europan fish won't have to send away for seasoning. Or, Europish fish will find the astronaut lame and overpackaged.
[23:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:28] <exec> 08└─and Callisto is the pepper, Io the Sriracha sauce, and Ganymede the drink ice.
[23:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:30] <exec> 08└─Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow
[23:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:32] <exec> 08└─So Long, and Thanks for All the Astronauts.
[23:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter's Watery Moon, Europa, Is Covered in Table Salt - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─2001: A Space Odyssey and wondering if there was galactic irony in there being life actually on Europa :)
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telegram Encrypted Messaging Service Attacked Amid Hong Kong Protests - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:42] <exec> 08└─It was Islamic terrorists faking Chinese IP addresses, so the US will move all the drones from Jihadistan to China.
[23:14:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:50] <exec> 08└─Welcome to Clown World, where you are charged with violating shit outside of the jurisdction. So if I take a dump in my toilet I can expect to be extradited to India because shitting in toilet is against the law there? If I help a person who was hit by a car I'm going to get extradited to China, and...
[23:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:20] <exec> 08└─RE AU .. The former Foreign Minister and ex-PM (who was also smeared by the leaked US diplomatic cables) felt very differently about Assange ... https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[23:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe she'll assassinate Assange personally.
[23:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:23] <exec> 08└─Wrong god.
[23:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:26] <exec> 08└─Nah. She has death squads [neonnettle.com] for that.
[23:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the unpleasantaries of coming, seeing and the other thing all by herself.
[23:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:30] <exec> 08└─They could mate and have traitor babies.
[23:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:32] <exec> 08└─Never say never.
[23:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:35] <exec> 08└─Just thinking about it, I can already hear people's heads exploding.
[23:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:37] <exec> 08└─Your country is burning and you are calling firefighter a traitor. Priceless.
[23:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:39] <exec> 08└─I live on the shore, if you can shoot me from 12 miles out you deserve to walk, you would be quite possibly the best shot ever. For some reference material: https://www.dailywire.com [dailywire.com]
[23:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:41] <exec> 08└─Get back to work, Hillary.
[23:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:43] <exec> 08└─Hello fren [justice.gov], you were sayin'? [soylentnews.org]
[23:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'm sure that's what fucking happened. And they are not making shit up years after the fact. The article you link has a screenshot of a fuckign spreadsheet. That is just the level of proof that is un-fucking-contradictable! I'm surprised he hasn't been executed already!
[23:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:48] <exec> 08└─MS-13 is interested in this novel theory on jurisdiction. There's a few Americans they would like to kill and they're pretty stoked that it's legal so long as they are standing in Mexico and the victim is standing in the US.
[23:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:50] <exec> 08└─What was never going to happen was summary execution of going directly to Gitmo or whatever other conspiracy theory nonsense people around here were spouting.
[23:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extradition of Assange to US Signed Off - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:52] <exec> 08└─It's a minor technical problem. Besides, HAMAS has already solved it.
[23:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Long-Awaited Upgrade to the US Weather Forecast Model is Here - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:36] <exec> 08└─Bucky Fuller's icosahedral projection, Dymaxion Map, might be good enough for weather? Of course the separated edges need to be linked together computationally. One link is https://www.gislounge.com [gislounge.com]
[23:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:56] <exec> 08└─Backing up from this 1000 miles, I tend to reserve most all my venom for all those managing to brainwash the American public into believing that a single payer system isn't clearly the way to go. That is a sane system where there is no fucking "debt" to "collect".
[23:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Creates Ghost Taps on Modern Android Smartphones - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:31] <exec> 08└─I keep NFC turned off on my phone all the time, so I guess it really doesn't matter.
[23:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:47] <exec> 08└─It's not mutually exclusive. This way we get twice as much cake. [indra-burkart.de]
[23:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troy Hunt Looks to Sell "Have I Been Pwned" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:03] <exec> 08└─I would also add: troy hunt is quite the name for a security researcher, is his real name dimitri or wang?
[23:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:28] <exec> 08└─Not if you use evil mode. But I still prefer Neovim.
[23:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Vim and Neovim Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINCE [wikipedia.org] Note that MINCE grew into Perfect Writer (and others) and later was sold to Borland and became the Sprint word processor (with some updates). We ran MINCE on the Microsoft CP/M card that plugged into the Apple ][ bus. Then later on an S-100 bus ded...
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─Remind me again why are we trying to maximize the human population of the planet?
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