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[00:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:23] <exec> 08└─I encountered "computer" for the first time at the turn of 80s when I was a preteen/teenager, and I doubt I'd have grokked basic if it had recursion, scoping rules, etc. On the other hand, such features wouldn't have prevented kiddy me from writing ugly programs, i.e., I still could write ugly BASIC...
[00:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:25] <exec> 08└─THINK about the implications of a hack like that. You better make damn sure the code doesn't change size so that your magic absolute jump address changes.
[00:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:27] <exec> 08└─The BASIC interpreters of the era stored code in abbreviated form, basically calllng subs in interpreter/mointor. What you are describing is a scenario for compiled c-code doing something super evil and clever. Go take your metamucil and be quiet now.
[00:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:05] <exec> 08└─The motivation wasn't there because these days tribalism requires political stands. When the alt-right declares itself under siege their tribes will follow.
[00:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:06] <exec> 08└─Alt-right means "not Marxist enough."
[00:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:08] <exec> 08└─The only claim that needs to be true is: "Thinkspot [...] will only ban or remove users if it is ordered to do so by the U.S. court of law". If this is upheld, I don't really give a crap what Jordan does in his free time. It would be refreshing to have a platform that truly allows free speech. With...
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[00:15:11] <exec> 08└─I see no difference. Show them who made communism and capitalism, they will happily deny about capitalism, but confirm about communism!. These slogans about "Marxist conspiracy" sound right like these famous "blood sucking industrialists draining proletaryat" right from early 1920s revolutionary pam...
[00:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:13] <exec> 08└─Your choice. Although, given that the Limeys didn't bust down any doors, I'm guessing zero. In any currency.
[00:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:15] <exec> 08└─With that said, I can see the platform getting mobbed into oblivion the moment something newsworthy happens: "God hating terrorists fund activities on this platform!", "This platform promotes racism, sexism, anti-diversity, etc.", "Thinkspot is a safe harbor for pedophiles!"
[00:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:17] <exec> 08└─There's a Simpsons episode [wikipedia.org] about that :)
[00:15:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06ACLU Warning About "Robot Surveillance" - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:27] <exec> 08└─Government Oversight Department?
[00:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU Warning About "Robot Surveillance" - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:35] <exec> 08└─I think I probably wrote about this at some point, but here goes. In my opinion pervasive surveillance is inevitable, although it can be delayed. We as a society are going to have to learn to leave each other alone, and the best way to do that is to make sure that the people who can't seem to leave...
[00:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Warning About "Robot Surveillance" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:37] <exec> 08└─Catch someone peeing. Then you can blackmail them for public exposure.
[00:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ACLU Warning About "Robot Surveillance" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:39] <exec> 08└─Makes for interesting reactions when the spouse sees it....
[00:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:06] <exec> 08└─That'd buy a lot of blanket trees and hambushes.
[00:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:08] <exec> 08└─Anyone?
[00:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Pet Supplies Retailer Chewy Raises $1 Billion With IPO - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:33] <exec> 08└─They are also pretty big... i.e. a bunch of sales/revenue.
[00:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JavaScript Template Attacks Expose New Browser Fingerprinting Vectors - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:25] <exec> 08└─Seems to work pretty well for these sorts of things. At least for now.
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[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─"In other words, they crafted it such that an address or offset could also be an op-code for a subroutine." Sounds a bit like http://www.catb.org [catb.org]
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─"Along with Microsoft's very similar BASIC for the Apple Macintosh, AmigaBASIC was the first BASIC interpreter to not require line numbers..." https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:06] <exec> 08└─If you have to run a "node", you're just asking for trouble. It's not really decentralized, it's more like "distributed". The system has to be absolutely positively transparent, blend in with the noise, catch the wave, hang ten...
[01:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:08] <exec> 08└─It won't matter because this will last 10 minutes. Remember when the alt-right threw a hissy-fit on Reddit and all went to Voat? That lasted about 3 months. They spent all their time attacking each other and acting like arseholes. Now there is tumbleweed because everybody left.
[01:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:10] <exec> 08└─I hope no one is putting any actual cash into this!
[01:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reference! The Coriolis effect is a bitch! :) I didn't open your link before responding, which may leave me open to a booting! :) [Please stand by] Yep. I was right. Whew! That was a big boot! "In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people."
[01:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:14] <exec> 08└─Hello fren, Thank you for clarifying. This site is infested with trans-misogynist, trans-racialist and trans-abelist, trumptardian Nazi bigots who mod me offtopic and troll for simply inviting you to expand on your original submission. Those of us on the morally superior left know [wikipedia.org] ev...
[01:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:16] <exec> 08└─Or insufficiently LGBTQ2S friendly.
[01:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:18] <exec> 08└─This sounds strangely familiar. (Perhaps because I am currently double spam modded for trying to start a discussion on vacant summaries?) As Babe Ruth said about a popular restaurant, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
[01:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:21] <exec> 08└─Anyone have a spare arrow handy? I see a NPC knee that needs one! (BTW, Benito was a Communist, before going to the dark side and ending badly, rather like how Donald used to be a New York Democrat. Ok, nothing like that, actually. )
[01:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:23] <exec> 08└─>Remember, Jordan doesn't believe in "free speech" when it comes to >people criticizing him, as you can see in his propensity for bringing >defamation lawsuits. Bzzt. That's not how free speech works, but then I suppose you know that perfectly well already, since you've probably noticed that libel l...
[01:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:25] <exec> 08└─Peterson also mentioned that Thinkspot will have a minimum word count as opposed to a maximum. "If minimum comment length is 50 words, you're gonna have to put a little thought into it," Peterson said to the right-wing outlet NewsBusters. "Even if you're being a troll, you'll be a quasi-witty troll....
[01:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:27] <exec> 08└─8chan
[01:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:29] <exec> 08└─Let me show you what "conservatism" looks like online when you allow anything that doesn't violate the law. This experiment is currently being run on a website called Voat [voat.co]. I encourage you to check it out for yourself. The comment sections are especially illuminating. It was established as...
[01:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Warning About "Robot Surveillance" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:48] <exec> 08└─Submitter (captain normal) had an evil grandmother.
[01:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:17] <exec> 08└─Depends how much you like Tang.
[01:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology to Easily Deorbit Satellites in Development - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:08] <exec> 08└─Obviously I was being sarcastic. Although, not as sarcastic as you might think. Look at Summary. Did you even look at Summary? They say, tether is "attracted to Earth's magnetic field." Another way of saying, Earth is a HUGE MAGNET. And, it attracts Tether (Aluminum). Sounds like a lie, right? Youre...
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[02:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:24] <exec> 08└─banned non-medical exemptions based on religious beliefs
[02:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─Even if the religious holdouts had very powerful lobbying, New York City is densely populated enough that the mayor is probably visualizing staring down the barrel [sic] of an epidemic with most of the population surrounding him in those tight building-flanked canyons. If the area was any more sprea...
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[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Religious exemptions from the law are just another 1st Amendment violation. And in this case, very dangerous.
[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─Most states (that I am familiar with, at least) called them philosophical exemptions, no religion required.
[02:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:43] <exec> 08└─Without line numbers, how could I create the spaghetti logic I want through excessive GO TO ### commands?
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[02:14:44] <exec> 08└─20 goto 10
[02:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:42] <exec> 08└─It is completely a smear. Not only has he not described himself as alt-right, he has repeatedly distanced himself from the alt-right and laid out their issues when questioned as to why people call him that. How can you be a "guru" of something you want nothing to do with? The Daily Dot is an opinion...
[02:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:44] <exec> 08└─In seemingly every post they have about the man, they call him alt-right with a hyperlink to make you assume they have proof of it, but all it links to is another instance of them name-calling or their piece about the term in general. What a repugnant excuse for a publication. Everyone involved shou...
[02:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:46] <exec> 08└─Ha ha ha. If people hear what they want to hear they won't filter it. It will only reinforce their belief. Like what you just said........
[02:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Pet Supplies Retailer Chewy Raises $1 Billion With IPO - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:00] <exec> 08└─orealy? Then why are sales at Amazon still going up? Their prices (in many cases) are not very good anymore. Most people (imo) aren't very good comparison shoppers (or aren't willing to take the time), even when it's easy on the internet.
[02:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Residue Found in Ancient Chinese Tomb - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:15] <exec> 08└─There are other articles, this is just one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Cannabis oil also seems to have antifungal properties and seems to make warts go into remission. Most heavy marijuana smokers I know seem to have very young looking skin; go figure. I haven't...
[02:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology to Easily Deorbit Satellites in Development - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:31] <exec> 08└─Where is the Woosh mod?
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[03:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:39] <exec> 08└─a nationwide resurgence of measles, with active outbreaks that have sickened hundreds
[03:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:41] <exec> 08└─Just something to keep in mind. Today they are forcing people to take medicine to prevent a serious contagious illness, in the name of public safety. Tomorrow it may be happy-fun-zombie-conformance medicine, also in the name of public safety. It's a slippery slope. Of course, these idiot's religions...
[03:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:43] <exec> 08└─It just warms my heart when innumerate, corrupt, bride by pharma corp, and unaccountable bureaucrats get to decide to inject me and my children with whatever they want. Hint: go look at vaccination rates at the schools where those ceos send their kids
[03:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:45] <exec> 08└─philosophical exemptions, no religion required
[03:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:47] <exec> 08└─I'm very happy to see that the legislature and the Governor took the appropriate steps to head off this idiocy. Hitting these morons with a clue stick didn't work, so we did what we had to do. Now, if the state senate can get its act together to pass cannabis legalization [amny.com] before they adjo...
[03:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:50] <exec> 08└─Don't like it? Stay out of New York. We don't want your kind here.
[03:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:52] <exec> 08└─go look at vaccination rates at the schools where those ceos send their kids
[03:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:54] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow it may be happy-fun-zombie-conformance medicine, also in the name of public safety. It's a slippery slope.
[03:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:56] <exec> 08└─It's a conscience exemption, you don't have to be religious to use those, just to have a genuine and deeply held belief.
[03:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:59] <exec> 08└─That's an apples to oranges comparison. There is a known to be safe and effective vaccine for Measles. There is no vaccine for Hep C [mayoclinic.org] and, for a variety of reasons [cdc.gov] (perhaps we need to reevaluate this too), the TB vaccine is not widely used in the US, and there is no HIV vac...
[03:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:01] <exec> 08└─It goes on - but we are all wound up about 0 deaths and a few hundred reported cases of measles.
[03:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 2309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:03] <exec> 08└─It's always a Beth Mole story. And it's always "submitted" or Approved by Cheif Editor Marty B. Or, by his Sock Puppet BytraM. Which if you spell it backwards, it's Marty B. Same person( allegedly), 2 different accounts. Just to keep us confused. And "they" wanted to make sure we saw this one -- 2 S...
[03:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:06] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow it may be happy-fun-zombie-conformance medicine, also in the name of public safety. It's a slippery slope.
[03:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:08] <exec> 08└─No it's not. That will never happen.
[03:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:23] <exec> 08└─And, another Anti U.S.A. Hate Fest. Trying to make U.S.A. look bad. And make our foe the E.U.( U.K.) look good. By saying things about Microsoft that, possibly, aren't even true. Whatever happened to, Submissions Guideline? It says, "be neutral and factual." Canopic Jug is never neutral. And many ti...
[03:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:24] <exec> 08└─Strange. The actual link did not make it into the submission. Here is what should have been there in the top after the Z80 reference: R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC Basic is now open source [cowlark.com]
[03:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:26] <exec> 08└─Only a sparrow, magister. As such, it's unladen - so no consideration of its geographical race (e.g. African vs European) [wikipedia.org] apply, which makes it even harder to swallow.
[03:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:28] <exec> 08└─I leave you with with a quote from our patron saint of social justice who knew a thing or two about deplatforming.
[03:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:30] <exec> 08└─"Alt-right means "not Marxist enough."" If the speaker is ctrl-left it just means anyone that disagrees with them on anything. They just called Bill Maher alt-right, you couldn't make this stuff up. On the other hand, the center-right "dark web" coalition against them flirted with the label for some...
[03:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:32] <exec> 08└─The chans have existed far before the current right-wing movements. 4chan goes through phases but basically exists as a counter culture. It used to be liberal under Bush, evolved libertarian by the end, and has moved to the right with Trump. As the culture became more acceptable of trannies, pedophi...
[03:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:34] <exec> 08└─Instead, they empower the individual to hold a speaker to account in cases where the speech is both defamatory and not truthful (in the US, that is; in the UK, speaking the truth is not a bulletproof defence against claims of defamation).
[03:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CheesyMoo [6853] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 1831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:37] <exec> 08└─"Conservative psychologist/alt-right guru" Right off the bat they are mischaracterizing Peterson. Dave Rubin, who has interviewed Peterson multiple times, and travels with him to his speaking engagements, characterizes Peterson as a "classical liberal"... which I suppose you could argue is a conserv...
[03:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL Injection Attacks Represent Two-Third of All Web App Attacks - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:02] <exec> 08└─This is part of the reason I asked my original question. It seems it wasn't just functions and method calls to APIs, methods, or functions that he was using. It seems he needed to know about tables as well. If he knows about tables, then he also needs to know about joins and indexes and SQL Injectio...
[03:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL Injection Attacks Represent Two-Third of All Web App Attacks - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:04] <exec> 08└─Well, for one thing, mysqli_real_escape_string doesn't fix the bad SQL statement I put (which I am kind of surprised no one pointed out, especially since it sort of proves my point in an ancillary way, since I did it on accident in haste). It is also still vulnerable, even if there were quotes there...
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[04:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:28] <exec> 08└─Is this so we can use them more than once [youtube.com]?
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:29] <exec> 08└─Like this? [wikipedia.org] Very resilient Thigh fillet feeds 60. Hard to get the eggs.
[04:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:55] <exec> 08└─Imagine there's no heaven No religion too
[04:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─HIV -- otherwise known as AIDS -- is a disaster. And it really did a number on New York. There's a pill for HIV. For not getting HIV. And, for not passing it on. And by the way, I talked to Gilead Sciences. Who make that one. And I made a magnificent deal. So 200,000 people can get that pill FOR FRE...
[04:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:58] <exec> 08└─Weirdly, CEOs seem to marry airheads, then work 100-hour weeks, making almost none of the deisions about their children. So there are pockets of high net worth with very low vaccination rates. Pretty bimbo also undereduacated, but looks good on arm at company events.
[04:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:00] <exec> 08└─Could someone explain how vaccinne's only work if everyone gets them?
[04:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:03] <exec> 08└─(cont) Those Colored tiles cost $20 million or even $30 million. Lot of money because White wasn't good enough for Andrew. Hepatitis C, there's no vaccine, that's so true. But, there are pills that cure it. 95% of the time, they cure it. It's not a sure thing but it's pretty good, right? And those p...
[04:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:05] <exec> 08└─You say it like it's a bad thing
[04:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:07] <exec> 08└─Inquiring minds want to know: if that belief is unconsciously held, is it still a conscience belief?
[04:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:09] <exec> 08└─It's a conscience exemption, you don't have to be religious to use those, just to have a genuine and deeply held belief
[04:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:11] <exec> 08└─Could someone explain how vaccinne's only work if everyone gets them?
[04:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:14] <exec> 08└─THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Seriously. For once, that statement is 100% spot on, instead of being a caricature of hysterically afraid helicopter parents. Many vaccinations are ineffective on the very young. A newborn will not develop lasting immunity. Also, can't vaccinate against everything all at once....
[04:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:16] <exec> 08└─You should focus on your funny parodies of DT. These sound too much like something he'd actually post, and doesn't contain any of the satire/humor I look for in your earlier posts. In other words, I like your old stuff better than your new stuff.
[04:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:33] <exec> 08└─Years ago, I stumbled across a book in the local library that was written by the original creators of BASIC. “Back to BASIC: The History, Corruption, and Future of the Language.” As a child who grew up with 8-bits and their embedded BASICs, it was a real eye-opener. Executive Summary: That crap-...
[04:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:34] <exec> 08└─.You poor innocents were the victims of others shoe-horning something that sorta looked like BASIC into a tiny ROM.
[04:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:42] <exec> 08└─And what's supposed to be bad about that? When people have the freedom to express ideas, they gain the freedom to express ideas that you don't like. Sure, I wouldn't want to read about that stuff either. But my take is that we already figured out how to not read the ideas we don't like.
[04:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Residue Found in Ancient Chinese Tomb - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:12] <exec> 08└─It can't possibly be useful! We have a War On Drugs you know
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[05:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:20] <exec> 08└─Comcast is an evil corporation. Don't need a judge to confirm that.
[05:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:30] <exec> 08└─While Newcastle disease is not considered a major threat in the United States currently
[05:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:07] <exec> 08└─That is one post where you have stepped over the boarder into outright lying. There is no "pill" to avoid or suppress HIV, unless you're talking about cyanide, or something similar. HIV is a virus that is wildly variable, and medicines that work on one variety are useless against some other. And it...
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[05:15:08] <exec> 08└─IIUC, lepers (i.e. Hansen's disease) can be treated sufficiently that they are (essentially) totally not-communicable. https://www.webmd.com [webmd.com] For that matter, even without treatment leprosy isn't very contagious. I...
[05:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:11] <exec> 08└─I'm rather sure I would have heard if there were an actual cure.
[05:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:29] <exec> 08└─The obvious bad was the kind of trouble you got into when you wanted to insert more lines in than you had numbers, requiring an ugly refactor or poor use of GOSUB if you had it. Perhaps the one good was that when you jumped down to assembly to get real speed, you were already familiar with the conce...
[05:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:39] <exec> 08└─to be proven by public officials
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[06:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:30] <exec> 08└─Yes. MTV will start playing music videos, and maybe bring back Beavis and Butthead. These are appropriate times for that.
[06:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:18] <exec> 08└─Good news! This case isn't setting any precedents. The precedent was set back in 1905, in a Supreme Court decision. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:39] <exec> 08└─If you think BASIC is limited, try Fanuc Macro B.
[06:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:36] <exec> 08└─zero. it's a complete waste of resources. we should be working on better ways to get oil out the ground, then we can drive our big trucks like men are supposed to!
[06:17:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06Online Pet Supplies Retailer Chewy Raises $1 Billion With IPO - 1672 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:45] <exec> 08└─Chewy.com has sent me endless postal mailings and emails, trying to entice me to buy products for pets that... are of a different species than what I have. All sorts of dogs and cat stuff, yet... they don't seem to have determined what type of pets I would actually buy stuff for. Heck, I even could...
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[07:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:24] <exec> 08└─So is the Russian infra using Huawei or not? ;)
[07:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:26] <exec> 08└─Well, fair's fair. The US injecting malware into Russian infrastructure is only payback for them injecting Trump into the White House. Good for the goose, you know? The fat, degenerate goose.
[07:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:28] <exec> 08└─What Orwellian doublespeak. And isn't attacking another sovereign nation's infrastructure an act of war?
[07:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:37] <exec> 08└─Nothing will happen, because they are too big to be taken down.
[07:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:26] <exec> 08└─Yyyyyeah, you don't get to complain about sockpuppetting, asshole. You're a worthless space-wasting blight on this forum and we'd be better off without you and your alts, plural. Fuck off and go bother some other site.
[07:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:47] <exec> 08└─Recursion was absolutely possible in BASIC. You did not have any local variables or function arguments, but nothing did prevent you from writing something like 10 LET n=1 20 GOSUB 100 30 PRINT "Finished!" 40 END 100 PRINT n 110 LET n=n+1 120 IF n<5 THEN GOSUB 100 130 LET n=n-1 140 RETURN
[07:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, cuz nowadays the epithet "conservative" is shorthand for "literally Hitler". Anyone who thinks Dr.Peterson is conservative, let alone alt-right, has been listening to his critics, but has not been listening to him. He's basically a centrist with classical-liberal beliefs, tempered by a pretty...
[07:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:46] <exec> 08└─That is comparatively inexpensive. And given the SLS, the analogy to Apollo is quite apt [youtube.com]. Let's do it! For Buzz, Neil and Mike!
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[07:21:27] <exec> 08└─>Yep as soon as you learn about a tech you know 100% how that thing works. You do not need anyone telling you any better at that point. I don't know what the point of this statement is. It sounds like you're implying that I said you need 100% knowledge to be competent. I said no such thing. It also...
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[08:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:39] <exec> 08└─Minor point -- since the US has been doing it since 2012, Russia would seem to be paying the US back. I can't help but be reminded of the different skills wielded by Asimov's First and Second Foundations.
[08:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:40] <exec> 08└─Presumably the injection of malware isn't considered hostile, but activating it is?
[08:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:42] <exec> 08└─It also destroys any ability for the US to get pouty when another nation injects malware into US systems. It's now a free-for-all.
[08:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:45] <exec> 08└─It was an accident. They aimed for Russia, and knocked out the lights in South America [dpa-international.com]. The project needs work.
[08:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:03] <exec> 08└─I get the 3x more expensive chicken and it is like eating an entirely different species than whatever these people are coming up with.
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[08:15:24] <exec> 08└─That's an apples to oranges comparison. There is a known to be safe and effective vaccine for Measles. There is no vaccine for Hep C [mayoclinic.org] and, for a variety of reasons [cdc.gov] (perhaps we need to reevaluate this too), the TB vaccine is not widely used in the US, and there is no HIV vac...
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[08:15:45] <exec> 08└─Let's say one infected person can infect 20 other people (typically whilst infected but not quarantined), for the sake of illustration. If 19 of those are immune, then only one new person gets the disease. If more than 19 are immune, each infected person infects less than one other person, and the d...
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[08:15:47] <exec> 08└─You're still making his point. Smallpox was deadly, so everyone got vaccinated against it. Measles and chickenpox, isnt deadly just annoying, so people decided no to vaccinate. Let us continue down this slope. Having glasses is annoying. Should we jail parents who do not give their child contacts or...
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[08:15:49] <exec> 08└─My understanding of the "married to the CEO life" women are so attracted to, is that they don't have to do anything but go on vacation. Their nannys and maids take care of the children. And since nannys take care of the ceo's children that makes them also the ceos wives, and he gets to have sex with...
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[08:16:11] <exec> 08└─Corrected - thank you. The problem appeared to be nested URL links.
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[08:16:13] <exec> 08└─The way the BBC Micro dealt with the lack of precious memory space was to have the BASIC ROM swap out with other ROMs, in a system called Sideways ROM. The original models chopped the 64K of address space into 16K for the OS, up to sixteen 16K Sideways ROM slots, and up to 32K of RAM. (Later models...
[08:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:24] <exec> 08└─Wellit's pretty easy to filter out word padding with an algorythm. An order of magnitude easier and more accurate than filtering out copyright infringement or hate speech (whatever that is). But if they promised to not remove anything unless it's against US law... well they painted themselves into a...
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[09:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Infect Businesses with CryptoMiners Using NSA Leaked Tools - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:18] <exec> 08└─The cryptominer binary is always dropped in the infected system's system32 or SysWOW64 folders
[09:14:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:27] <exec> 08└─Minor point -- since the US has been doing it since 2012, Russia would seem to be paying the US back. I can't help but be reminded of the different skills wielded by Asimov's First and Second Foundations.
[09:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:33] <exec> 08└─What Orwellian doublespeak. And isn't attacking another sovereign nation's infrastructure an act of war?
[09:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:35] <exec> 08└─Presumably the injection of malware isn't considered hostile
[09:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:37] <exec> 08└─Not to diminish your conclusions, but the US - and other countries - have been committing acts of sabotage against other countries for a long time. This, and Stuxnet, et al, are just adding "... with a computer" onto those types of acts.
[09:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:39] <exec> 08└─What Orwellian doublespeak.
[09:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:41] <exec> 08└─I'm getting more and more a sense that the US government has run out of control of the electorate.
[09:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:43] <exec> 08└─According to this story [apnews.com] Trump called the reporting by The NY Times "treason" (via tweets): "This is a virtual act of Treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our Country"
[09:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:54] <exec> 08└─MTV will start playing music videos, and maybe bring back Beavis and Butthead.
[09:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:57] <exec> 08└─Of course not. You'll only get change if the perps go to prison for it. Normal person: steal or defraud one person go to prison. Comcast: Steal or defraud 50,000 people, pay a fine and walk...
[09:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:08] <exec> 08└─Throws away plate mail. Straps on chicken.
[09:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:53] <exec> 08└─Compulsory mass vaccines for "everyone" should be those that: 1) have decent protection for years or even decades 2) side effects and risks are low. 3) the risk/impact to the unvaccinated is high 4) the benefit/cost of the vaccine overall is good 5) are paid for by the State/taxpayers (e.g. "free" t...
[09:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fennec [7053] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:54] <exec> 08└─You're getting vaccinated to protect the ones that can't, too young, have a pathology or the vaccine didn't work.
[09:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks.
[09:17:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pbnjoe [313] 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 874 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:18] <exec> 08└─It is completely a smear. Not only has he not described himself as alt-right, he has repeatedly distanced himself from the alt-right and laid out their issues when questioned as to why people call him that. How can you be a "guru" of something you want nothing to do with? The Daily Dot is an opinion...
[09:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:31] <exec> 08└─That is a good question. I think what stopped most neonazi platforms is the fact they would have to go through payment process companies from black and brown countries they hate. I don't think Jordan has this problem. He probably likes the idea of supporting chinese business at the expense of white...
[09:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:32] <exec> 08└─Wonder how many pot smoking hippies will sign up thinking about pot. Expert sex change syndrome.
[09:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:35] <exec> 08└─no-longer academic
[09:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.subscribestar.com/ [subscribestar.com] https://newproject2.com [newproject2.com] invitation only AFAIK
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[10:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Infect Businesses with CryptoMiners Using NSA Leaked Tools - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:23] <exec> 08└─Of course, this is a Windows infection.
[10:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:43] <exec> 08└─If Russia shot down a U.S. spy plane, would we have a nuclear war over it? Probably not. If a country is cyberattacked but can't 100% attribute it to any particular country, do they start a nuclear war over it? ... There is only one clear example, from last month, of a country with no chill respondi...
[10:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:45] <exec> 08└─Did the White House said that they will treat cyber-attacks as tactical attacks and answer with military force? Mr Putin, I wait for the fireworks :).
[10:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:57] <exec> 08└─Let's do the math. The fine fine is $9.1 million. A large amount to be sure. Comcast profits in 2018 were $11.731 billion, an astronomical figure. (9 vs. 12731) So definitely no change. Expect many more sham products.
[10:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:54] <exec> 08└─Measles and chickenpox, isnt deadly just annoying, so people decided no to vaccinate.
[10:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:19] <exec> 08└─Basically, the target of a GOTO was a label GOTO target blah-blah target: PRINT "GOTO target reached"
[10:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:36] <exec> 08└─Babe Ruth? Nah... That's a Yogi Berra-ism.
[10:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:37] <exec> 08└─Mussolini was a fascist. The word fascist comes from the organizations he was involved with. He was never a communist and always opposed them.
[10:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:39] <exec> 08└─Nach Anfängen bei der sozialistischen Presse stieg Mussolini 1912 zum Chefredakteur von Avanti! auf, dem Zentralorgan des Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI).
[10:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Pet Supplies Retailer Chewy Raises $1 Billion With IPO - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:56] <exec> 08└─orealy? Then why are sales at Amazon still going up? Their prices (in many cases) are not very good anymore.
[10:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Pet Supplies Retailer Chewy Raises $1 Billion With IPO - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:58] <exec> 08└─Hey, don't knock it 'til you've tried it ... at least until you declare bankruptcy. ;-)
[10:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Pet Supplies Retailer Chewy Raises $1 Billion With IPO - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:00] <exec> 08└─I hope you write that from prison, otherwise you're a hypocrite. (in addition to being a slave driver)
[10:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD’s Lisa Su and Other Change Agents on Our List of the World’s Best CEOs - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm much, more more educated than you think (and older too). But you always think you are smarter than anyone else. In fact, by telling yourself that lie on a consistent basis you have even convinced yourself that it's true (like the white supremacy version of George Con...
[10:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD’s Lisa Su and Other Change Agents on Our List of the World’s Best CEOs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:31] <exec> 08└─.. he said, as he left the Engadine Maccas, that fateful evening in 1997 ....
[10:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD’s Lisa Su and Other Change Agents on Our List of the World’s Best CEOs - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:33] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. There's no denial needed. You see the world in one way, I see the world in another. History proves my way to be correct. No matter how much you wish it so, all the people in the world are not going to sit around the campfire, and sing Kumbayah with you. You see my posts, but you can't unders...
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[11:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:22] <exec> 08└─Does any other country have such an open extradition policy?
[11:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:24] <exec> 08└─Hong Kong will be made to heel just like Tibet. The world cares little for their suffering.
[11:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:26] <exec> 08└─The difference is that HK has money.
[11:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:28] <exec> 08└─"to their home country" Which in this case would be arqued by China, that every citizen of HK is a citizen of China and as such, can be taken from HK to be judged in China.
[11:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:30] <exec> 08└─How does this prove Trump is an antisemetic nazi?
[11:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:32] <exec> 08└─In the united states the rule of thumb is to increase the official figure by an order of magnitude. that would mean every person in hong kong hit the streets and the whole city stopped.
[11:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:34] <exec> 08└─Came for the rubber chicken joke. Went away disappointed. -- Forget world peace. Visualize using your damned turn signal.
[11:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:26] <exec> 08└─They're not that much of a culinary challenge: You have the omega 3 additives giving the chicken this really easy to notice fishy aftertaste. Then you have the soft texture from being caged up all the time so you can't fillet them cleanly. So, right off the bat you're left with all the variants of s...
[11:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:28] <exec> 08└─Are they trying to get us into a jurassic park situation? Chickens are dinosaurs!
[11:16:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:01] <exec> 08└─Could someone explain how vaccinne's only work if everyone gets them?
[11:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:00] <exec> 08└─Again, do try to keep up, with things like actual facts instead of Party of Dumb prejudices! Jordan was not fired, he just found out he could make more money on YouTube than teaching. Usually those types go into administration, or cooking Meth. So aristarchus knows exactly how a professor can be fir...
[11:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:01] <exec> 08└─Wow! Can I spam mod this, like happened to aristarchus? Can I?
[11:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:54] <exec> 08└─Infinite, it is the best possible use of resources. The benefits of the possible discoveries and technologies developed are unimaginable.
[11:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:55] <exec> 08└─https://spinoff.nasa.gov/ [nasa.gov] https://spacenews.com [spacenews.com] https://www.computerworld.com [computerworld.com] "The integrated circuit and [the emergence of] Sil...
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[12:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:41] <exec> 08└─Which in this case would be arqued by China, that every citizen of HK is a citizen of China and as such, can be taken from HK to be judged in China.
[12:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:43] <exec> 08└─Millions march in Hong Kong against extradition law [wsws.org] (ICFI/SEP) Hong Kong’s One Million March – Political Strike is the Way Forward [socialistalternative.org] (CWI)
[12:14:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:59] <exec> 08└─Well, fair's fair. The US injecting malware into Russian infrastructure is only payback for them injecting Trump into the White House. Good for the goose, you know? The fat, degenerate goose.
[12:15:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:00] <exec> 08└─What Orwellian doublespeak. And isn't attacking another sovereign nation's infrastructure an act of war?
[12:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:25] <exec> 08└─Just because you have a genuine and deeply held belief, doesn't mean that we have to kowtow to it.
[12:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:27] <exec> 08└─Each one of these diseases lasts at least a week, and some can last a lot longer. Like, 10 weeks for whooping cough. Someone, usually a parent, should to stay close almost the entire time, and cut back on other work.
[12:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:29] <exec> 08└─happy-fun-zombie-conformance medicine, also in the name of public safety.
[12:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:31] <exec> 08└─There's also the factor that in the rare circumstance that anybody does get sick, they can afford the finest care to recover. IMO this is a big factor in western anti-vax thinking: vaccines are economical disease control, for poor countries who need to take the up-front hit from side effects because...
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[12:16:33] <exec> 08└─You eat the food they could eat instead. You drink water they could drink. You breathe, exhaling dangerous greenhouse gas CO2. You fart even more dangerous greenhouse gas methane. You shit opportunistically pathogenic bacteria. Etc. etc. etc. Before you support more and more inventive redefinitions...
[12:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:35] <exec> 08└─Measles cases in the US [cdc.gov]: 1,022. Cause: dwindling herd immunity due to reduced vaccination levels.
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[12:19:13] <exec> 08└─GPS; Satellite comms; Weather forecasts; Various military assets.
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[13:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:23] <exec> 08└─It's within living memory that we used paper maps. Most people working out there today started off that way, and would remember how to do it in the event of a GPS outage. Professional drivers tend to remember the routes they drive. Farmers tend to remember the fields they tend every day. If GPS goes...
[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─I must confess I had not visited their site in years. What has your experience with them been like?
[13:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:33] <exec> 08└─Kinda like moving into a currently burning apartment building.
[13:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:35] <exec> 08└─I must confess I had not visited their site in years. What has your experience with them been like?
[13:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─BBC [bbc.co.uk] reports 'unverified' 2 million Al Jazeera [aljazeera.com] also report 2 million, quoting 'organisers' How many really? How many not on the streets were doing anything useful?
[13:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:53] <exec> 08└─IMO, official figures tend to downplay protest numbers, not increase them. That was definitely the case with these Hong Kong protests. https://www.reuters.com [reuters.com] (June 9)...
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[13:15:24] <exec> 08└─Yes it is, and unfortunately that's become so routine it doesn't raise an eyebrow on the Potomac. We're committing acts of war against a dozen or more countries every day of the week. And when, occasionally, some of that karma comes home to roost, we're stunned, astonished. Why do they hate us?
[13:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:37] <exec> 08└─It'll change things but in a very minor temporary way. They'll probably remove the "service protection plan" or whatever they were calling it. A few years (or perhaps, months) from now when there's a new marketing VP and everyone (probably even them) have forgotten this, they'll deploy a somewhat si...
[13:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:38] <exec> 08└─Expect an email from concast about a 10% price increase for basic cable.
[13:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:46] <exec> 08└─Measles cases in the US [cdc.gov]: 1,022 from 1 January to 3 June 2019. Cause: dwindling herd immunity due to reduced vaccination levels. Gotta nip this thing in the bud, before it gets outta hand!
[13:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:47] <exec> 08└─This article, for instance, has a LOT of substantiating links to scientific publications. Dismiss it wholesale as "anti-vaxxer propaganda" at your peril. https://articles.mercola.com [mercola.com] By contrast, Tamiflu (oseltamivir)...
[13:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 3247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:15] <exec> 08└─I would argue that those who think unannotated, indechiperable Z80 assembly language is the language in which to distribute software, are significantly more worthy of ridicule than people who wrote things in BASIC. Never got the BASIC-hate. There's nothing wrong with it (line numbers? Fortran has li...
[13:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:16] <exec> 08└─In this age of machine learning getting cheaper every day, we are more likely to see a ML based explanation of assembler code. Kinda recursive ; the biological wet ware made the original machines and now are building machines to understand what was previously written by the wet ware!!
[13:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:18] <exec> 08└─In general that kind of trick was only used with conditional jumps, where the condition is always false. Let's say you want to program the C-like expression "A = Z ? 3 : 4" in Z80 assembly, the obvious version would look like this: JR Z,SKIP LD A,3 JR CONTINUE SKIP: LD A,4 C...
[13:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:20] <exec> 08└─Eh, make that "A = Z ? 4 : 3". I broke the example when I tried to make it more clear.
[13:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology to Easily Deorbit Satellites in Development - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:36] <exec> 08└─I'm just guessing here, but since they're claiming that it'll generate a negative charge on it's surface form sunlight, those electrons will repel each other and push the tape into a linear shape (as you said, only if it's very limp).
[13:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD’s Lisa Su and Other Change Agents on Our List of the World’s Best CEOs - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:40] <exec> 08└─I just stopped eating almost 40 years ago because it was nasty.
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[14:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:45] <exec> 08└─We have Glonass, with much better coverage to all the planet than GPS, (works above and below polar circles, for one example), so with any decent device, a complete GPS down outage would be hardly noticed.
[14:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:47] <exec> 08└─GPS is more than car navigation systems. FTFA: To assess the effect of an outage, the study looked at several different variables. Among them was "precision timing" that enables a number of wireless services, including the synchronization of traffic between carrier networks, wireless handoff between...
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.gsa.europa.eu/newsroom/news/test-your-android-device-s-satellite-navigation-performance [europa.eu]
[14:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:51] <exec> 08└─Any Huawei device on European market supports Glonass...
[14:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:53] <exec> 08└─The article mentions telecommunications timing. Most long-haul communications use time division technologies, ie sonet. They require a stable frequency reference, called a "clock" signal, so that the sender and receiver can correctly break up the bit stream at the right intervals. The best reference...
[14:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:56] <exec> 08└─GPS or no, it's best not to enter the state of New Jersey regardless.
[14:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:58] <exec> 08└─This is true. But if we rely on it, whether or not it's "essential", then there is a cost involved in it not working, or not being reliable. A loss of investment, slower ways to do things, less accuracy, etc. etc. It's not that all of a sudden a $1bn bill lands on our doorstep if we turn it off... b...
[14:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:00] <exec> 08└─and subject to a lot of regulations.
[14:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:11] <exec> 08└─Same here. They don't have any of the stuff I used to be interested in. My guess is they brought in an MBA who had the brilliant idea to sell merchandise licensed from Hollywood because they could negotiate "graaate dealz." Except they alienated their audience segment with recycled, uninspired crap....
[14:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:12] <exec> 08└─Or a new high rise with cracking [abc.net.au] beams [abc.net.au].
[14:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:15] <exec> 08└─I've ordered once or twice a year for ages. They have great little novel things. Over the years I've had to contact their support twice. Both times things got resolved quickly and the support people were very entertaining (they call them support monkeys). In the days of one or two day shipping I can...
[14:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:17] <exec> 08└─(Visits.) Oh, looks like they replaced whoever grokked geeks with someone who's seen every episode of The Big Bang Theory.
[14:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:19] <exec> 08└─"Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products."
[14:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:21] <exec> 08└─Anyone have any suggestions for other places to get good stuff? I know of Maths Gear [mathsgear.co.uk] for some pretty cool stuff (very math-heavy, which is my interest, and not so much unix-oriented). Love the Hyberbola Clock [mathsgear.co.uk], for instance. This used to be the great promise of the...
[14:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:11] <exec> 08└─This seems relevant to your interests: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens [cambridge.org].
[14:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:27] <exec> 08└─Comcast led customers to believe that they needed to buy a Service Protection Plan (SPP) to get services that were actually covered for free by the company's "Customer Guarantee."
[14:17:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:28] <exec> 08└─Measles and chickenpox, isnt deadly just annoying, so people decided no to vaccinate.
[14:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:38] <exec> 08└─Indeed, we live in a society, everything we do can affect one another. That is why we have a government of the people to collectively make decisions and craft laws that protect our rights on our behalf. We live in a world full of societies of people, and many of their governments meet to come to agr...
[14:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:08] <exec> 08└─"Along with Microsoft's very similar BASIC for the Apple Macintosh, AmigaBASIC was the first BASIC interpreter to not require line numbers..."
[14:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:30] <exec> 08└─Then tell me how "centrists with classical-liberal beliefs, tempered with a pretty good dose of realism" managed to get what is basically the most disgusting public figure in the entire U.S. sitting in the oval office ? Talk is cheap. Actions are what matters. When conservatives talk, they are poor...
[14:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Pet Supplies Retailer Chewy Raises $1 Billion With IPO - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:55] <exec> 08└─Just the same old bullshit business math I'm sure... You know: any profit you expected but didn't make is treated as a tangible loss, and so any profit you DID make doesn't count, whether or not it takes your bank accounts into the red. So if you spend $50M a year on R&D, marketing, etc. and make $2...
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[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:39] <exec> 08└─Why haven't the telcos contracted to preinstall these beacons on the phones, before they sell/rent/lease the phones to consumers? No need to worry about which apps might be installed then. Want to bet that it's already under negotiation?
[15:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:41] <exec> 08└─"So a hidden industry of third-party location-marketing firms has proliferated in response." Time for a third-party industry of bluetooth jammers.
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─Will soon be (is already?) illegal.
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:45] <exec> 08└─Not if it plays the same game as the beacon, just sends poisoned location data.
[15:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─We had Aruba come by the office and show off this tech. We were interested in using it with an app for fuel sales. We'd have an app and when a customer enters the property, the app would wake up, sense what is the nearest fuel pump, and then ask if they want to activate it. There was other things to...
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:50] <exec> 08└─That's being polite. You don't bother TELLING the customer is happening to them, do you? Will you also 'tune' the price or force other shit down their throats based on guessing how much money they have?
[15:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─I bet the EPA and security theatre infrastructure would be pissed if I cracked a Ce oscilator open and threw it into a body of water, sodium explosion style (or maybe there's not enough Ce in there to make a bang)
[15:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:07] <exec> 08└─But that would mean accepting factual information from Rrrussia, and the MSM is saying I should be outraged about that.
[15:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:09] <exec> 08└─SONET is mostly replaced by OTN for long haul nowadays, partly because of the problems you describe. Every piece of SONET gear on the network had to be frequency locked to single frequency reference. Differences in phase that could move around over time (low frequency jitter) could be absorbed by th...
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:25] <exec> 08└─They don't have much of anything I like anymore, well not at those inflated prices. Went to a few thinkgeek stores and noped out because of the prices. However I did stop buying new pizza cutters after I got the USS Enterprise one. It is rather stout and has been going for like a decade it feels.
[15:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:45] <exec> 08└─The obvious one is that it allows for extradition of people for activities that aren't crimes in Hong Kong. The US could after all extradite Assange from Hong Kong for the same reasons it could extradite him from the UK - the alleged crime of assisting another in penetrating computer networks which...
[15:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:47] <exec> 08└─To get a protest of the same scale in the United States, you would need almost 43 million people:
[15:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:49] <exec> 08└─Which in this case would be arqued by China, that every citizen of HK is a citizen of China and as such, can be taken from HK to be judged in China.
[15:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:51] <exec> 08└─This is in response to the extradition of Huawei's CFO to the US for bank fraud and conspiracy to defraud the US government. China looked around and saw they couldn't yank people from Hong Kong in a similar manner and so they pushed this law. The protests are not something that bothers them, if anyt...
[15:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:24] <exec> 08└─And isn't attacking another sovereign nation's infrastructure an act of war?
[15:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:40] <exec> 08└─Why did Washington let comcast off with so little money for this Comcast scam? Can the decision be appealed? Was someone paid off to accept the lower judgment?
[15:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:51] <exec> 08└─You do like it? Go to New York. We don't want your kind here.
[15:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:53] <exec> 08└─Actually I get vaccinated for my own interests. That being *I* don't want to get sick and die. that is the primary benefit. If you gain a side benefit of me no being an infection vector then lucky you. As a responsible parent, I would vaccinate my kids to protect them. Once again if your kids get a...
[15:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:24] <exec> 08└─Never got the BASIC-hate.
[15:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:47] <exec> 08└─>> Sure, I wouldn't want to read about that stuff either. Do you mind if I ask why? Just by reading, it doesn't mean you agree with it. I was under the impression that by exposing oneself to various ideas, one can avoid echo chambers and confirmation bias. No?
[15:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─Then tell me how "centrists with classical-liberal beliefs, tempered with a pretty good dose of realism" managed to get what is basically the most disgusting public figure in the entire U.S. sitting in the oval office ?
[15:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:51] <exec> 08└─Can we use reddit.com/r/chapotraphouse as an avatar for the left and "everything they stand for?" That is essentially what you are doing by simply citing voat.co. That is but one outlet. There many, many more places where people congregate and share ideas.
[15:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:53] <exec> 08└─You are mischaracterizing Peterson. I had the misfortune of watching and analyzing a two hour segment of his. Philosophers are in three camps: the mathematicians who rule logically, the insightfuls who can deal with subjectives usefully, and the armchair who make bad claims to stir shit up. I figure...
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[16:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Tool Detects If Faces Were Edited Using Photoshop's "Face Aware Liquify" Feature - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:31] <exec> 08└─How long until a GAN is trained with this tool to learn how to create faces that evade this type of detection ?
[16:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:45] <exec> 08└─To disable GPS, Bluetooth, Wifi (when in public) and (if you have Android) Google Location Services (GLS). I get that if you can't find your way around (if traveling, for instance), you might want to use your phone's GPS, but leaving Bluetooth or even Wifi enabled (let alone GLS) while out and about...
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:46] <exec> 08└─Look at me! I'm walking around like I'm invisible! No tracking, no coupons spewed at me, no gadgets pestering me for my attention. You can't even fathom how this is possible. "Uh, uh, hhhuuuu, he's unscanable!" [has meltdown] It is so... unthinkable... impossible... can't be... everyone MUST have on...
[16:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:48] <exec> 08└─Note in Europe the retailer needs specific permission to hold their customer's data, thanks to GDPR, and the customer can tell the retailer delete that data.
[16:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─Apple and Google want those morsells for themselves.
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:53] <exec> 08└─“Hi, I’m from security. You fit the profile of an undesireable. We’ll be tailing you during your visit.”
[16:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:11] <exec> 08└─Only thing wrong with Jersey is New Yorkers. They ruin everything.
[16:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:28] <exec> 08└─Will they be moving into the basement?
[16:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:51] <exec> 08└─The population of the USA is 327 million. 13% of that is approx 42.5 million. Of course the USA is not a small city-state, so the proper way to envision this is the picture 13% of the people from various metro areas coming into major cities. For example, The New York MSA has a population of 20.3 mil...
[16:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:25] <exec> 08└─No, nothing like that academic garbage meant to distract you. I mean elected officials and their policies are barely even relevant anymore. They are just deciding to attack other countries on their own now.
[16:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:27] <exec> 08└─News at 11
[16:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:29] <exec> 08└─You'd have to ask Melania about that one...
[16:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:58] <exec> 08└─Ninja Chickens
[16:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:58] <exec> 08└─This is political posturing, grandstanding for particular crowds, and shaping public behavior. What this is NOT is addressing a real crisis with real potential for impactful positive outcome. It's yelling BOO! there's a bogeyman out there and I'm going to protect you - pay no attention to the litera...
[16:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but two cases isn't very remarkable. There were at least two cases that went into remission without any treatment at all. (Of course, that was out of a much larger sample size, but...) I'm also a bit skeptical about how long those "sustained remission" cases will remain so. IIUC what they are...
[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─not to mention (cont) is not what the real con don uses, just dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot
[16:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:34] <exec> 08└─The fun thing about the paged / sideways ROMs was that there were spare ROM slots (3?) on the mother board and you could buy software on ROM. Before floppy disks became common a lot of more "serious" BBC micro software actually came that way. You _could_ copy it, but it was more expensive to buy 16K...
[16:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC BASIC Is Now Free Software - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:36] <exec> 08└─BBC BASIC, and many that emulated it, was a perfect bridge language from literally-never-written-code-people to people directly manipulating CPUs, memory and hardware.
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[16:20:03] <exec> 08└─A community interested in having a rational discourse and engaging with ideas of the enlightenment
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[17:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Adobe Tool Detects If Faces Were Edited Using Photoshop's "Face Aware Liquify" Feature - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:18] <exec> 08└─What if I used Corel or Microsoft Paint?
[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Tool Detects If Faces Were Edited Using Photoshop's "Face Aware Liquify" Feature - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:19] <exec> 08└─or excessive makeup?
[17:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:38] <exec> 08└─"Hi, security. I'm from Face Recognition Corp. Your job will be obsolete in a few minutes. And we'll fix that tracking glitch too."
[17:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:40] <exec> 08└─"Our 4G/5G nanocells will eventually pierce through your cloak of invisibility. You can't opt out of those unless you turn off your phone, and that's really inconvenient, isn't it ?" I'd say something about face tracking, but that still requires more quality HW than most stores are willing to invest...
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:42] <exec> 08└─I see. But, you haven't turned your phone off, have you? The Telco knows where you are, right? Or, did you drop the phone into a Faraday cage when you got in the car? That would work well enough. 'Course, you might as well turn it off and save the battery.
[17:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/faraday-bag-phone/s?k=faraday+bag+for+phone [amazon.com]
[17:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is also used to help the electricity grid stay in sync? maybe for loooong countries or wiiiide countries?
[17:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:22] <exec> 08└─Decades ago? Wow! Hadn't been aware they'd been in business that long! But modded insightful because that is my same experience, just on a timeframe of years. Then again, as geek culture becomes (became?) appropriated by the mainstream very little has been the same about it. One has to go farther an...
[17:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:46] <exec> 08└─Everyone thinks the protesters won, that China backed down. Nah. They now have vast troves of data to sift, phone tracks, social media, etc. They will crunch the numbers, find the key nodes in the network of opposition, the 'troublemakers' and organizers. Then they will begin to vanish, deplatform,...
[17:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:48] <exec> 08└─i understand that if a crime is commited in country A and "flees" to country B (home country) but is a crime there too, then country A should be able to get the person. however, i think a "crime" against (?) another person (or corporation) is not the same as a crime against a "nation"? so i would be...
[17:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:50] <exec> 08└─I had the idea that China made the mistake of not using a distraction event (like everybody does these days) to take away attention before passing the law, but the above is also a good explanation.
[17:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:40] <exec> 08└─Concast has a mole... Ashit Pie
[17:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:57] <exec> 08└─Well, I gotta say I'm not a fan of forcing people to have injections. I am all for vaccinations, but mandated injections feels like a very creepy step towards authoritarianism. I guess as long as they allow people to get their own vaccinations and not use a government mandated doctor it isn't quite...
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─I'm also a bit skeptical about how long those "sustained remission" cases will remain so. IIUC what they are saying is not that they've cleared the virus, but rather that it's currently hiding. And in any case that's no "just a pill", so he's a fucking liar.
[17:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:00] <exec> 08└─Mandatory child restraint car seats are this, IMO. Sure, they're better than adult seat-belts, but what are we really accomplishing with the law?
[17:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:02] <exec> 08└─Nope. Please do not visit Joe Mercola's site. The man is a public menace who hawks BS cures and BS products, and seemingly will endorse any quackery to put money in his own pocket. I'll admit that probably 50-70% of info his site is legit, so I don't know what the linked article says. But a signific...
[17:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:05] <exec> 08└─The new law doesn't *force* people to vaccinate their kids, all it does is get rid of so-called "religious exemptions." And let me clarify a bit more. It has been the law in New York for at least 45 years (it was the law when I started school) that parents *must* provide either proof of vaccination...
[17:18:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:50] <exec> 08└─Sadly I'm on the waiting list atm, but thanks! As a side note - Peterson isn't alt-right politically, or even particularly conservative as such things go. A similarly oft-mislabeled example in my view is the liberal Tim Pool, who conservatives would disagree with strongly on a variety of polic...
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[18:15:00] <exec> 08└─faraday burka
[18:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:01] <exec> 08└─I see. But, you haven't turned your phone off, have you? The Telco knows where you are, right? Or, did you drop the phone into a Faraday cage when you got in the car? That would work well enough. 'Course, you might as well turn it off and save the battery.
[18:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:03] <exec> 08└─You can't even fathom how this is possible.
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:06] <exec> 08└─butbutbut socialism! butbutbut cookie notifications! butbutbut imma firewallin the EU!
[18:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:08] <exec> 08└─You can't send poisoned data, it is just triangulation of the signal.
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─Every business wants me to install an app. I'm not going to. These apps offer little value, do unknown things, there there is a scaleability problem if every local business wants me to install one. Wouldn't it be easier if cameras were used and everyone were required to have a square barcode on thei...
[18:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:49] <exec> 08└─Of course - they hid Milton's stapler down there.
[18:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:16] <exec> 08└─Which treaties are being broken by the proposal? Maybe the Lisbon treaty among others as I presume human rights is covered by more than one treaty between various blocks of countries and HK. Thus where are all these other countries that signed treaties to protect HK's citizens? I've not read anythin...
[18:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:51] <exec> 08└─It's our FREEDOM they hate. Even GW knew that.
[18:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:53] <exec> 08└─It might not be an Act of War according to US legalese, but it is an Act of Agression according to the United Nations [un.org] (UN General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX), 14 December 1974). Any of the following acts, regardless of a declaration of war, shall, subject to and in accordance with the p...
[18:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 3946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:11] <exec> 08└─I once posted this on the "other site." It's what I think of whenever I see yet another story about customers being screwed over by Comcast: This reminds me of a conversation I had with a Comcast supervisor who called me one Sunday over a decade ago. The background to this call is that I had moved b...
[18:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Genes that Could Help Create More Resilient Chickens - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:27] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump's the most resilient chicken I'm aware of.
[18:18:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:00] <exec> 08└─It's a conscience exemption, you don't have to be religious to use those, just to have a genuine and deeply held belief
[18:18:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 1309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Seriously. For once, that statement is 100% spot on, instead of being a caricature of hysterically afraid helicopter parents. Many vaccinations are ineffective on the very young. A newborn will not develop lasting immunity. Also, can't vaccinate against everything all at once....
[18:18:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 948 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:10] <exec> 08└─Let's say one infected person can infect 20 other people (typically whilst infected but not quarantined), for the sake of illustration. If 19 of those are immune, then only one new person gets the disease. If more than 19 are immune, each infected person infects less than one other person, and the d...
[18:18:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:17] <exec> 08└─Just because you have a genuine and deeply held belief, doesn't mean that we have to kowtow to it.
[18:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:36] <exec> 08└─There's nothing political about the truth. Measles is highly contagious and can cause brain inflammation (potentially with permanent brain damage) and death. Without the measles vaccine, thousands would die from it every year, and even more would end up with brain inflammation and other serious issu...
[18:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:37] <exec> 08└─Today they are forcing people to take medicine to prevent a serious contagious illness, in the name of public safety.
[18:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:39] <exec> 08└─Already here and happy to be so. And nobody is forcing anyone to do anything here. The change in the law just invalidates so-called "religious exemptions." This means that (as the law has been for half a century) if you want your child to attend school, they must either be vaccinated or have a valid...
[18:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:42] <exec> 08└─There's no truth worth hearing from a parrot.
[18:21:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 529 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:24] <exec> 08└─Mission Control Houston, is built on Lyndon B. Johnson's family ranch land. They hire from all over, and kids that went to tech school can come out a little liberalized, but once they're on campus there's not much to eat besides BBQ, and off campus there's not much politics you can talk without gett...
[18:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Pet Supplies Retailer Chewy Raises $1 Billion With IPO - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:07] <exec> 08└─They make it up in volume?
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[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─So we're just supposed to "trust" them.
[19:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:17] <exec> 08└─Can I join the "League of Entropy"? Do we get to wear capes and stuff? Here we go! $ cat /dev/urandom |nc -l 7337 Boo Yah!
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[19:14:19] <exec> 08└─https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 [dilbert.com]
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why I always turn off Bluetooth as well as WiFi on my phone. Since this may not be enough to keep me anonymous, I also activate Flight Mode, turn off the phone, wrap it up in alu-foil and put it in a lead-lined briefcase. To further ensure that my phone does not leak any data, I put...
[19:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:58] <exec> 08└─Yo, man, just shut up buy an iPhone and be a good little girly nigger like the rest of us.
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:00] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be easier if cameras were used and everyone were required to have a square barcode on their forehead?
[19:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:21] <exec> 08└─Nearly every fixed transmitter, e.g. all cell towers, use a GPS disciplined oscillator (GPSDO) to make sure they stay on frequency. Few broadcasters use primary standards (Cesium), as they are so expensive and have a short limited life. The higher the frequency, the more important accurate frequency...
[19:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:22] <exec> 08└─All GPS satellites transmit on the same frequency, unlike GLONASS and others. Different frequencies propagate differently through the atmosphere (velocity, adsorption, refraction, reflection, etc.). An error of 1 billionth of a second is about ±3.33 meters of error.
[19:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:24] <exec> 08└─The best thing you can see from New Jersey is the Pennsylvania side of the Deleware Water gap.
[19:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:44] <exec> 08└─I just visited for the only item I bought from there: Bawls. No longer sold. No need to visit thinkgeek anymore.
[19:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:48] <exec> 08└─"We will impose costs on you until you get the point."
[19:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:32] <exec> 08└─While you have your fingers in your ears, you might want to cover your eyes too. Then no one will be able to see you either. Have fun!
[19:19:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 702 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:21] <exec> 08└─If anyone wants to put money down on soft-boy weasel Jordan Peterson's new "free speech" platform being a success, I will happily take your action. Remember, Jordan doesn't believe in "free speech" when it comes to people criticizing him, as you can see in his propensity for bringing defamation laws...
[19:19:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 570 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:48] <exec> 08└─The only claim that needs to be true is: "Thinkspot [...] will only ban or remove users if it is ordered to do so by the U.S. court of law". If this is upheld, I don't really give a crap what Jordan does in his free time. It would be refreshing to have a platform that truly allows free speech. With...
[19:20:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:14] <exec> 08└─And what's supposed to be bad about that? When people have the freedom to express ideas, they gain the freedom to express ideas that you don't like. Sure, I wouldn't want to read about that stuff either. But my take is that we already figured out how to not read the ideas we don't like.
[19:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:35] <exec> 08└─Doesn't SoylentNews have a pretty similar policy, though? I'd rather just deal with speech I think is bad than ridiculous, open-ended censorship rules created by mega-corporations.
[19:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:36] <exec> 08└─The US has obscenity laws, free speech zones, national security letters, draconian copyright laws such as the DMCA, FCC censorship, and so on. Not to mention, the US government constantly forces through similarly unconstitutional garbage such as FOSTA, which then takes massive amounts of effort to g...
[19:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nsa [206] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ACLU Warning About "Robot Surveillance" - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:56] <exec> 08└─[...] "The ability to constantly analyze and learn from a video feed could help self-driving cars understand their surroundings, retail stores track their products and health professionals monitor their patients, he said. It can also be used to scrutinize the routines and actions of individuals on a...
[19:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Warning About "Robot Surveillance" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:58] <exec> 08└─In my opinion pervasive surveillance is inevitable
[19:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:33] <exec> 08└─Considerable [wikipedia.org].
[19:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:35] <exec> 08└─Make America Seem Huge Under Great And Nebulous Aims.
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[20:14:31] <exec> 08└─Ah, the old Contractor Defense -- "We didn't steal anything! The independent contractors we hired to be thieves did! The actions of those we employ are totally independent from our company."
[20:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─Funny how when you get caught with stolen goods it's a trafficking charge even if you didn't steal it but when a corporation does it they're not liable.
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[20:14:43] <exec> 08└─NO CAPES!
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[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─It's worse than that. Usually, you collect randomness (or entropy) from the world directly around you. The source of randomness is as important as its entropy. In order to predict the random numbers being sourced from your environment, they would need a very accurate model of your environment. With...
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[20:14:47] <exec> 08└─I really wish they’d stop using the word “entropy” to represent the idea of randomness. Randomness is a concept that’s closer to “noise” or “uncertainty”, especially in terms of implementation. How hard it is to produce randomness is a matter of degree. If you are trying to create a...
[20:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─Can I join the "League of Entropy"? I'll flip. You call heads or tails.
[20:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─A decent quality, not lab grade, is actually pretty easy. Just take the float time, divide by 111.1, interpret that float as an integer, an then take that value mod whatever modulus you need. It's sure not technically perfect, but it's random enough for nearly everything I need it for. (For most thi...
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:53] <exec> 08└─So the argument is "what good is a secret if the world knows it?" Except this effort is not pointless. Randomness has the weird behavior that you can only increase it, not decrease it. You can take any two pieces of random data, xor them together, and at worst the result is "only as random as one of...
[20:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:35] <exec> 08└─I'm just a cog in the machine. Legal stuff isn't my problem(TM). I'm sure it will be buried in some super long and illegible EULA. As for the pricing, customers do get preferential pricing depending on how much fuel they buy. Maybe credit rating factors in. I have no idea. I don't deal with the mone...
[20:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:36] <exec> 08└─Nah. It doesn't bother me at all to turn off my phone completely, or place it in a Faraday Bag (they sell them on Amazon apparently) when I get a few miles from home. My phone is a burner anyways, and my main point of contact is actually in a data center. It forwards SIP packets, or creates a VoIP c...
[20:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:02] <exec> 08└─Ce is cerium. Caesium is Cs.
[20:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:04] <exec> 08└─A billion dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days.
[20:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:06] <exec> 08└─Oh no! The government's tracking devices will stop giving people their circuses leading to fewer people carrying them. I can only hope that a GPS outage comes sooner rather than later.
[20:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:27] <exec> 08└─Fuck Beta!
[20:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:56] <exec> 08└─Not sure what you're asking here - I made no mention of any treatise. However, the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC had a stipulation: In accordance with the "One country, two systems" principle agreed between the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China, the socialist system of the People...
[20:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:57] <exec> 08└─I suspect this is what Lam is really apologizing for - that she allowed this law to get too much attention. She's apologizing to Xi, not the citizens of HK.
[20:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:59] <exec> 08└─An example would be Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million and an estimated turnout at the first two Women's marches at 250,000 the first year (2017) and over 300,000 the second year (2018)[1]. This doesn't really mean 10% of Chicago turned out (9.25% and 11.11% respectively), because a bunch of...
[20:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:01] <exec> 08└─Western style freedoms of speech, protest, etc. Interestingly this seems to be their first major 'young people' protest. The protest back in 1997 was primarily old people I was lead to believe by people who were living in Hong Kong at the time.
[20:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:41] <exec> 08└─But this doesn't qualify as an invasion, military occupation, or even use of weapons.
[20:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:28] <exec> 08└─It wasn't directed at you. Sorry if you read it that way. (Did I post under the wrong parent?)
[20:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:29] <exec> 08└─No worries. It's all good.
[20:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:31] <exec> 08└─Are you familiar with the term Anecdotal Evidence? Here, I'll link you to the definition just in case: https://www.merriam-webster.com [merriam-webster.com] Your personal experience does not invalidate the fact that people do die from the measles, they do get complica...
[20:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:35] <exec> 08└─I can tell when such is a waste of time. Just look at the titles: Conference currently being held in Manhattan to discuss ways to defeat white opposition to the advancement of Jewish interests. Imagine if whites held conference in opposition of Jews.
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─And When you're done being Mashugana, We'll make your dreams come true! [youtube.com]
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Project Artemis: Return to the Moon to Cost Another $20-30 Billion - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─The taint is strong in NASA funding. Overall, Hubbard added, $7 or $8 in goods and services are produced for every $1 that the government invests in NASA.
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[21:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, for some definitions of "funny."
[21:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─Genius owns the copyright on all of these songs?
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─That will be quickly dropped, either because Google settles for an "undisclosed sum" or, more likely, just buys Genius. They can still pretend, even if it was removed as their motto last year [gizmodo.com]. Then again, if your lawyers (or your "contractors") do it, is it still evil?
[21:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 1813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─The idea is that you can trust a superposition of many independent contributions, because as long as just 1 contributor is honest, robust, and secure, you get your randomness. Their explanation [cloudflare.com] is waaaay complicated, and I think their process is as well. I actually have a little pa...
[21:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:53] <exec> 08└─How can you know that the NSA isn't behind this idea? Keeping the random numbers secret is almost as bad as keeping your private keys a secret. Therefore, do away with private keys and use new keyless entry from the NSA. People will like the sound of that. As for entropy, if these random number gene...
[21:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:56] <exec> 08└─Or you could always go down to the local bar, get a cold one, and start writing down Keno numbers. Scale and format as desired, perhaps with a smartphone app someone could write. You know those lottery guys have too much money at stake to mess it up.
[21:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:58] <exec> 08└─Except this effort is not pointless. Randomness has the weird behavior that you can only increase it, not decrease it. You can take any two pieces of random data, xor them together, and at worst the result is "only as random as one of them." It is never less random as a result.
[21:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:00] <exec> 08└─Dilbert "Tour of accounting" [dilbert.com], and Xkcd's "Random Number" [xkcd.com].
[21:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:42] <exec> 08└─If turn it off or put it in a faraday cage, I can't receive telephone calls. I mean, it's not like it's a telephone, right?
[21:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:43] <exec> 08└─You really just can't call someone back later?
[21:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:46] <exec> 08└─You really just can't call someone back later?
[21:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:48] <exec> 08└─What if you artificially attenuate the signals headed in a certain direction? Maybe wrap half the phone in foil or something? Or...how fast could you alter the strength of a bluetooth transmission in software? Perhaps if you sent the same signal on repeat, but rapidly modulating so that different re...
[21:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:16] <exec> 08└─$1B per day is $2.85 per person per day in the US, is it because people can't find Starbucks without their GPS?
[21:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:17] <exec> 08└─Dude, that really is serious hobby purposes. In my ham radio days I used to use WWV for setting the shack timepiece. You’ve taken that to a whole new dimension!
[21:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:39] <exec> 08└─A USS Enterprise pizza cutter sounds like an item with a lot of gravitas, to say nothing of the fact that it’s functional. The giant foam rubber Minecraft pickaxes I saw the last time I popped in to GameStop are another matter entirely.
[21:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Million People Protest a Proposed Extradition Law in Hong Kong; Gov't Acquiesces, for Now - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:11] <exec> 08└─It is possible to bring that many people together as evidenced by India's Kumbh Mela. [wikipedia.org], but they plan for it and there are still deaths due to problems associated with crowding: disease transmission and even stampeding. IIRC, Randall of XKCD fame did a "what if" that involved bringing...
[21:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Infect Businesses with CryptoMiners Using NSA Leaked Tools - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:21] <exec> 08└─I use Windows AND Facebook coz i love being tracked and compromised and fucked OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and -- OH, WAIT! No! I'm smart and use Linux. Nightmare over.
[21:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:53] <exec> 08└─You don't inject him: you make edibles out of him...this IS SN!
[21:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:55] <exec> 08└─Moooo....
[21:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:57] <exec> 08└─I see Bolton's getting his instructions from the criminals infesting the hills of Palestine ...
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─The fine fine
[21:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:47] <exec> 08└─I'd say that if you can articulate it enough to cite that belief as a reason to opt out of vaccination, then it is a conscious belief. If you can't, then you get the vaccination, but feel uneasy about it.
[21:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:48] <exec> 08└─The Australian experiment is slightly different. Instead of banning religious exemption, they are including requirements to access certain services. Want your kids to go to a public or private school (vs homeschool)? Need to be vaccinated.
[21:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:51] <exec> 08└─Saving lives? Preventing serious injuries??
[21:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:53] <exec> 08└─Make realDonaldTrump Great Again?
[21:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:57] <exec> 08└─Well, since FOSTA was never actually passed by Congress, your post indicates that you have no idea about what's really happening and can be safely ignored.
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[22:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hampshire Installs First Historical Marker to Honor Computer Programming - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:30] <exec> 08└─will be ancient history
[22:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hampshire Installs First Historical Marker to Honor Computer Programming - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:31] <exec> 08└─FORTRAN. On punch cards. Never run a program to completion, thus I switched to BASIC - at least on microcomputers I could correct the typos immediately.
[22:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:43] <exec> 08└─Indeed, unless Genius has a copyright interest in the lyrics themselves it seems unlikely they are entitled to any damages under the law, which means they have no case. Copyright has a creative component: while the bar is pretty low, writing down the words from an existing song does not, in general,...
[22:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─That will be quickly dropped, either because Google settles for an "undisclosed sum" or, more likely, just buys Genius.
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─I guess that's why they call it the blues ...
[22:15:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 1813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:03] <exec> 08└─The idea is that you can trust a superposition of many independent contributions, because as long as just 1 contributor is honest, robust, and secure, you get your randomness. Their explanation [cloudflare.com] is waaaay complicated, and I think their process is as well. I actually have a little pa...
[22:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:08] <exec> 08└─A picture of my office should get me in.
[22:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:11] <exec> 08└─Why keep using intrinsically deterministic machinery to come up with randomness, when you have literally billions of perfectly random sources of behavior *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) AKA women
[22:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Tool Detects If Faces Were Edited Using Photoshop's "Face Aware Liquify" Feature - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:22] <exec> 08└─Not enough to evade detection, but needs to look like a face.
[22:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Tool Detects If Faces Were Edited Using Photoshop's "Face Aware Liquify" Feature - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:24] <exec> 08└─It's fair to say that the use of enough makeup actually generates a new face without Adobe. This shall be made illegal.
[22:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:01] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! You forgot to take out the battery! It could catch fire and burn your briefcase.
[22:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:02] <exec> 08└─"Very few consider the needs of the emergency Trans national trumpet repair group." (Ars Technica comments meme, about EV range) The word outlier doesn't even start to describe you. You're so far out of the norm that V'yger is asking you for a rideshare.
[22:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High Precision In-Store Tracking Via Bluetooth Beacons - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:05] <exec> 08└─Sigh! My phone does not have a replaceable battery, so to take it out — especially with my well-known, patented ten-thumb-phone-disassembly-skills™ — would make the phone unusable, which counters the whole idea of my precautions.
[22:16:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:46] <exec> 08└─(Visits.) Oh, looks like they replaced whoever grokked geeks with someone who's seen every episode of The Big Bang Theory.
[22:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─Reminded me of this: Starts about 7 minutes in https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:12] <exec> 08└─Run McAfee on DC. Worth a try.
[22:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:09] <exec> 08└─Right. It was the jersey auction that threw me off.
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[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpjonqbOMms [youtube.com]
[23:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:20] <exec> 08└─a source of sometimes feverish public speculation.
[23:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hampshire Installs First Historical Marker to Honor Computer Programming - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:31] <exec> 08└─The Information Superhighway wasn't a literal thing, OK? Next up... we mount a historical marker inside your latest model Apple Computer saying, "Steve Jobs was born here."
[23:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Hampshire Installs First Historical Marker to Honor Computer Programming - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:33] <exec> 08└─It reminds me when I first had the opportunity to try out BASIC at the local library, one of my classmates wanted me to construct a list of all locomotive serial numbers of the country, so he could tick them off after his trainspotting. There was, apparently, a system to the serial numbers, which he...
[23:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Hampshire Installs First Historical Marker to Honor Computer Programming - 1909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─When I was in middle school, I was amazed and entrance the first time I saw a computer running "Lemonade Stand." It was a commodore pet computer at the time and I saw some older students stop it while it was running and generate a program listing. I knew that I wanted to program from that point on....
[23:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:50] <exec> 08└─i think you're subtly yet dangerously wrong here as, in the us at least, you can publish public domain works and get copyright on the page-headers and footers -- both far less creative than the morse-code message woven into the works that found their way into the song-panels.
[23:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─No, and they don't need to. They may or may not have licensing deals with the MAFIAA that covers the actual lyric content, but the aggregation, rendering and typesetting can be independently copyrighted by Genius. Some civilized parts of the world also have the more generic database copyright [wikip...
[23:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─I would guess the main point of this is to shame google into playing fair.
[23:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:17] <exec> 08└─.. there are wilder examples .. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:18] <exec> 08└─Always nice to see the community spirit spread into the tech sector with random acts of goodness.
[23:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06League of Entropy: Cloudflare and Pals are Streaming Random Numbers Live On-Line - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:20] <exec> 08└─Essentially, if it's known when the number was fetched then the seed value is also known. This reduces the complexity of determining the key that seed was used to generate. You cannot increase entropy by providing known seed values. And if you're trying to generate large numbers of keys, then all th...
[23:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Adobe Tool Detects If Faces Were Edited Using Photoshop's "Face Aware Liquify" Feature - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:32] <exec> 08└─Eh? Don't you mean GIMP! Actually it _may_ make a difference, from what I read in the paper . As far as I could tell the only tool they used to generate the test 'fakes' was Photoshop. Although I've no specific knowledge of Photoshop I expect it will have its own particular way of doing things that...
[23:16:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:27] <exec> 08└─and subject to a lot of regulations.
[23:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:42] <exec> 08└─I hate tv screens in cars -- too distracting for the knuckleheads that crash into my vehicles
[23:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:06] <exec> 08└─Also bought a bunch of their shirts back in the early aughts. I wore my "Hey you, why aren't you coding" shirt until it fell apart. I actually came in here hoping to lazy web a link to a new independent site that sold things like the old TG. Left disappointed.
[23:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Site thinkgeek.com Moving in with Parent Company GameStop - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:08] <exec> 08└─I suspect you're right about the MBA. Their homepage has a list of mainstream pop culture franchise logos on it, none of which have much to do with anything geeky to me. Harry Potter is one of them, which just seems very dated.
[23:18:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quietus [6328] 02 - 06US Injected Malware in Russian Infrastructure - 788 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─It might not be an Act of War according to US legalese, but it is an Act of Agression according to the United Nations [un.org] (UN General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX), 14 December 1974). Any of the following acts, regardless of a declaration of war, shall, subject to and in accordance with the p...
[23:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Broke Law 445,000 Times in Scheme to Inflate Bills, Judge Finds - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:45] <exec> 08└─They should be shut down for this amount of flagrant abuse. Any one of us that did the same thing would be in prison for a sentence well beyond our lifetimes. Comcast should have been broken up years ago.
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─Hello fren, Why you object to social justice? [campusreform.org]
[23:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jordan Peterson is Releasing a ‘Free Speech’ Alternative to Patreon Called Thinkspot - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed. Sther's creator noted that there were plenty of funding communities that already dealt with giving more platforms to people who already have societal protection from harassment, and wanted to create a community that gave voices to people who were frequently ignored or silenced.
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