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[00:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:19] <exec> 08└─So sad they no longer sell this wonderful device [thinkgeek.com].
[00:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:21] <exec> 08└─Awww, you ruined the whole 'ignore' joke! ;)
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilJim [2501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─to me it doesn't matter what wavelength, point to point just seems inefficient. quantum entanglement would be closer to the mark.
[00:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:42] <exec> 08└─But if the researchers win, they could tap from the holy grail: interstellar prawn.
[00:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:15] <exec> 08└─They had something similar in the anime The Ancient Magus Bride. One of the characters (Cartaphilus) couldn't die, but that didn't stop the decay and injury that came with so much time.
[00:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:17] <exec> 08└─I'll come back just to haunt you, you better remember this.
[00:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:12] <exec> 08└─If this seaweed extract decreases methane production, let's see if it works for humans
[00:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:13] <exec> 08└─Common knowledge that the cattle head is the body part that produces methane and continues to do so long after the cattle has been slaughtered.
[00:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:15] <exec> 08└─You are free to do it, don't need my permission to make the transition. Otherwise, mind your own business.
[00:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:17] <exec> 08└─I don't get how drawing like a pre-schooler helps you collect extra partners. Explain please!
[00:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:14] <exec> 08└─...in the US, once you've signed any kind of consumer contract in the last 10 years or so, you have now agreed that you will not be able to sue the company...
[00:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─But who's paying for the cell network data (air time)?
[00:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:18] <exec> 08└─Then what happens when free or open source software/hardware has a security hole? If the creators of free stuff can disclaim liability in their legalese, won't commercial entities also do this?...
[00:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:20] <exec> 08└─Anyone have any idea how thinning the ozone layer makes the wind blow harder?
[00:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're free to measure the speed. You are. Nobody said you weren't. That doesn't mean you're free to force the owner of an item to give you access to information that might incriminate him, without a warrant. You appear to be presuming guilt in all cases. Christ, policing would be so much easie...
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[01:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:14] <exec> 08└─Probability of having microbes: 1 in 100 Probability of having worms: 1 in 1,000,000 Probability of having hot green Orion babes: 1 in 100,000,000,000
[01:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:16] <exec> 08└─The calculations used to illustrate how long it might take to get there are interesting, but only tell part of the story. The various other properties of the star make the planets "earth-like" only in a very loose sort of way. The star has a mass of 0.08 times that of the Sun (from the Wikipedia ar...
[01:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:18] <exec> 08└─Every planet you send a human too with have interesting native life, usually dangerous and/or good-looking. -- source : Hollywood
[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─*to, will* Chained Double Typo extra combo !
[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:23] <exec> 08└─That's outdated 1970s technology. Today we could use one of Elon Musk's rockets to get there in 12.5 years or less.
[01:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:25] <exec> 08└─So just out of curiosity but how will the planets found and colonized be split? First country there gets the planet or? I just dont believe in some star trek fantasy where all the humans get along under one happy world government. Is there some treaty around?
[01:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─For example, I was trying to enjoy SoylentNews when I came across this boring article about neuropsychology. So I ignored it.
[01:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:56] <exec> 08└─What were these guy thinking? If we want to find the galactic elite, we need to be 1337, not 1327. It's hard being the ultimate h4x0r. Do I have to do everything? Sheesh!
[01:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:57] <exec> 08└─Earth does not radiate all that much in this band. Other civilizations are likely to do the same. The majority of transmitters with antennas pointed to space send to satellites, and they are using just enough power so that the satellite hears the signal. Antennas for 1-3 GHz have narrow beam, and if...
[01:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:32] <exec> 08└─It would be far easier to substitute synthetic organs than what you are proposing.
[01:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:34] <exec> 08└─Which sounds a lot like Tithonus [wikipedia.org] from the Greek myths, or the Struldbrugs from Gulliver’s Travels.
[01:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:30] <exec> 08└─Some car companies apparently let the owner obtain a hotspot, so thrifty use of bandwidth is probably not a necessity. The modules are getting quite small, if I'm not mistaken they just have to be a blob on the circuit board, with an antenna possibly included. I'd be real interested how to continue...
[01:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:32] <exec> 08└─This is how it is in Australia. The merchant who sold it to you is fully responsible for what they sell. If they want to pass that responsibility back to the manufacturer that is their problem, it doesn't reduce their responsibility to the customer at all. RMA's are almost unknown here*, you just ca...
[01:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:12] <exec> 08└─Do you normally just ignore all input that shows you are wrong and just go on repeating the same stuff?
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[02:14:26] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─This is why censorship sucks. You can't even TALK about the problem. Nope, it's all swept under the rug. Nothing to see here, literally in this case.
[02:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Moderators, can you please flag the above content as inappropriate?
[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─Needs a +1, Inciteful
[02:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─Right-wing channels get demonetized: "There is no right to freezed peach on a privately owned web site. Go start your own video hosting website, you literal Nazi." Left-wing channels get demonetized: "WAAAAAAAHHHHH"
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─No: stupidity gets demonetized, actual educational stuff got caught in the chum of alt-right.
[02:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:37] <exec> 08└─No. If stupidity were demonetized, there would be no "influencers" left.
[02:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:49] <exec> 08└─Probability of having hot green Orion babes: 1 in 100,000,000,000
[02:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:59] <exec> 08└─Muzak/talk radio/NPR jabber/CNN all work to drown out distraction.
[02:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:35] <exec> 08└─All I want is a 4K display with a ratio of 4:3 or 3:2.
[02:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:00] <exec> 08└─So....fire breathing cows then? Nothing could go wrong.
[02:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:43] <exec> 08└─As I said there are always exceptions - Al Gore talks a good game about the importance of change for the future, but that doesn't stop him from building a huge air-conditioned mansion for himself. On the other hand, the number of people making $1M+ per year in the oil and coal and steel and so many...
[02:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:06] <exec> 08└─Eat the pussy like a watermelon.
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[03:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:30] <exec> 08└─The "right wing" (if that's what you want to call it) have already made their own sites. The "left wing" (whatever) are people who will wait for a corporation or government to do it for them. Btw, I tried to watch some 9 part WWI documentary on one of those "right wing" sites that was supposed to be...
[03:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:32] <exec> 08└─*citation needed*
[03:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:34] <exec> 08└─*questionable quotes
[03:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.bitchute.com/video/QtLvxZ9d0yEY/ [bitchute.com]
[03:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:38] <exec> 08└─Good, why should anyone get paid to troll.
[03:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:40] <exec> 08└─Good lord that's weird comment. The "left wing" (whatever) are people who will wait for a corporation or government to do it for them.
[03:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:43] <exec> 08└─Yea corporations are created by governments, they act according to rules set by governments and have access to special laws. The same people run both.
[03:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:45] <exec> 08└─So, they're just the same thing now are they?
[03:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:47] <exec> 08└─Try this, go look up the pH of la croix... You'll find a bunch of people looking around for some authority figure (someone paid by a corporation or government) to tell them the answer, except for a little kid on YouTube who measured it for himself. Btw, we double checked him and his answer is good....
[03:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:49] <exec> 08└─It should read "YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, Activists and Propagandists in the Crossfire".
[03:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:03] <exec> 08└─Probably coupla golgafrinchams.
[03:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:04] <exec> 08└─Good luck to any country that tries to keep control over a colony 12 light years away.
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:06] <exec> 08└─1) Send exploratory craft, covered in microbes 2) ??? 3) Intelligent life!
[03:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:16] <exec> 08└─Title leaves out those two essential words.
[03:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:18] <exec> 08└─All I hear is a dial tone.
[03:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[03:15:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:29] <exec> 08└─Well, it could be like a civilization of dogs declaring there can't be intelligent life out there because by now there surely would have been time for their scent to get here.
[03:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:44] <exec> 08└─they just don't give a fuck about us
[03:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:46] <exec> 08└─It's not just a search space, it's also a search time, and we've barely flipped the shutter open for the briefest of moments. H. sapiens has been transmitting RF less than 100 years, less than 1/50th of our "civilization" has been transmitting, and civilization rise or fall, there's pretty good odds...
[03:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:48] <exec> 08└─We're trying to do a stock take by peering through the Warehouse door keyhole.
[03:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:50] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine a water world being highly technological, even if its inhabitants are much smarter than us.
[03:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:11] <exec> 08└─How about "-1 intellectually dishonest" and "-1 flawed logic" ? There are smart, intellectually dishonest trolls; these are good for honing our argumentation on. There are smart, nontrolls, who have flawed logic. I don't want to call them an idiot (not every time) but I do want to let them know thei...
[03:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:13] <exec> 08└─Posting before first covefe of the day.
[03:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:15] <exec> 08└─Earlier I was wishing for a "fuckwit" mod... maybe we need a secondary set of mods just for this kind of thing. On the plus side, it could culminate in "godlike powers of perception".
[03:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:17] <exec> 08└─AC's not me, but this time he speaks well. As for Do you normally just ignore all input
[03:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, burning methane in those concentrations won't work, but with enough catalyst it can happen. Send as much platinum as you can afford to me and I promise to do my best to save the planet with it.
[03:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:21] <exec> 08└─The taiga has these things called trees - they actually skew the CO2/O2 balance a significant amount because of all the CO2 conversion they do. No greenhouse required, but... if you did launch a megatons of CO2 project to build greenhouses on the melting permafrost, you might recapture more CO2 than...
[03:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:24] <exec> 08└─No, now it is global warning. It doesn't really matter what the warning is about as long as you are very concerned and turn to them for "help".
[03:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:23] <exec> 08└─One of the main challenges with Venus's atmosphere is that there's so much of it, which leads to the insane atmospheric pressure at the surface and other problems you would have to deal with. Lowering the temperatures by blocking sunlight from orbit would still be part of any terraforming effort, bu...
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[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─I was jogging along the beach the other day. I come across this elderly couple walking their pair of corgis. Don't know why, but I stopped, and started walking. The corgis look up at me, giving me the eyes, like "jogging, eh? a pathetic loser." And me, without thinking, as if by instinct, giving th...
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[04:14:19] <exec> 08└─Those thousand people are probably not distributed uniformly across the globe either, but rather cluster into the same geographic areas.
[04:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─Sorry friend, but "demonetization" is*not* censorship. I'll explain. And I'll use small words so you'll be sure to understand. If you have a message (whatever message that may be), there are plenty of ways (including youtube without ad revenue) to get that message out. If your goal is to use whateve...
[04:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:44] <exec> 08└─YouTube still has some bugs to work out, but their attempts at getting rid of YouTube hate speech, fake news, and 8chan white supremacist videos is a good start. On the other hand, Alphabet should still be broken up into little pieces. The anti-trust laws are there for a very good reason.
[04:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:46] <exec> 08└─Hold on.. You can get paid? But people on SN are doing it for free!
[04:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:48] <exec> 08└─Fork YouTube, it's simple economics.
[04:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:50] <exec> 08└─"demonetization" is*not* censorship.
[04:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:52] <exec> 08└─"demonetization" is*not* censorship.
[04:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:09] <exec> 08└─Probability of having hot green Orion babes: 1 in 100,000,000,000
[04:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:24] <exec> 08└─Especially for someone like me who has trouble concentrating. I hope that some useful -- Ooh, look shiny! Where was I? Oh yeah, isn't it amazing how how *and* evil Angela Lansbury was in The Manchurian Candidate [wikipedia.org]? Never mind!
[04:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:52] <exec> 08└─This... Any ideas on how to do this? Anyone? Sync with a very fast pulsar? Hell I'm just to stupid to even wonder about such a radio. One thing I'm sure of; is intelligent life will talk to each other over long distances. It's the nature of civilizations to want to find others.
[04:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:31] <exec> 08└─I care about healthy happy cows because because that's what humans consumed for ages, before the current hubris set in. I could care less about CO2 emissions if it means the food supply is tainted.
[04:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:23] <exec> 08└─It always was global warming; it's just that the worthless sensitive fucking melting snowflakes on the conservative/greedhead side insist on euphemizing the hell out of everything.Put another way, technically, the climate change is the end result of global warming. In any case, it's well past "too l...
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[05:14:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe others are getting more out of it, but where I've seen it used it's basically IRC with recorded logs, emoji, and embedded images. How can that cost so much and still lose money?
[05:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:17] <exec> 08└─It's a completely shitty UI, terrible "threading" support, and offers nothing of value (to me) that LysKOM [wikipedia.org] didn't back in the '90s...
[05:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:19] <exec> 08└─The one time I worked at a place where people advocated chat, and it was like being in a meeting all day long. Really hard to stay in the zone. Fortunately it was a small company and I had the power to say "no". This sounds like some kind of Millenial nightmare of not only having no walls, but of ha...
[05:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:21] <exec> 08└─This is what people have been saying... There is going to be a blow off top then crash coming. After the fomc meeting today btc is just below a 1 yr high, gold shot up to a 5 year high, the s&p 500 melting up to just below all time highs, 30 yr and 10 yr treasury yields dropped to just above all tim...
[05:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:56] <exec> 08└─They're not only there for a good reason, but they aren't enforced nearly enough. And even if they were enforced fully and fairly, they still don't handle a lot of corner cases properly.
[05:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:58] <exec> 08└─But people on SN are doing it for free!
[05:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:00] <exec> 08└─They're not only there for a good reason, but they aren't enforced nearly enough. And even if they were enforced fully and fairly, they still ignore a lot of non-competitive mainstream markets, collusion and price-fixing and don't handle a lot of corner cases properly.
[05:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How We Tune Out Distractions - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:31] <exec> 08└─Or... did you fool yourself into thinking you ignored it?
[05:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know several people who have cars with hotspots, including a Chevy Bolt. Well, I have an automotive tracker module in my hand. It's made by Enfora. It plugs into the OBD-II connector in the car. It's about 5 cm x 5 cm x 2 cm. It's mostly empty space. There are 2 circuit boards with active cir...
[05:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:30] <exec> 08└─Where are you getting this? The term climate change comes from the researchers: > During the 1970s, the term climate change replaced climatic change to focus on anthropogenic causes, as it became clear that human activities had a potential to drastically alter the climate.[2] Climate change was inco...
[05:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:31] <exec> 08└─http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html [populartechnology.net] It really was one of the big climate worries in the seventies and very early eighties. There were several trends that indicated the planet was cooling, and the fear was that more snow meant more r...
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[06:14:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:46] <exec> 08└─Needs a +1, Inciteful
[06:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:48] <exec> 08└─No: stupidity gets demonetized, actual educational stuff got caught in the chum of alt-right.
[06:15:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:06] <exec> 08└─They're not only there for a good reason, but they aren't enforced nearly enough. And even if they were enforced fully and fairly, they still don't handle a lot of corner cases properly.
[06:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:10] <exec> 08└─"make money uploading content" "No, not you, we're keeping the money your video/ channel has earned"
[06:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:12] <exec> 08└─If stupidity were demonetized, money would be worthless.
[06:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:14] <exec> 08└─Yea corporations are created by governments Wagging the dog. Business creates and finances a government to protect and enforce contracts. If/when a government fails to comply, all that money goes to the opposition to form a "new" government. Sometimes it happens peacefully, sometimes it doesn't. The...
[06:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:56] <exec> 08└─Consumers can return any items with defects within 2 years (or 1 if you live in the US).
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[07:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:16] <exec> 08└─Climbing Mount Everest? Or driving a cab?
[07:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:17] <exec> 08└─Is it a wolf's cab?
[07:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:28] <exec> 08└─How can that cost so much and still lose money? Cooked books.
[07:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:29] <exec> 08└─Just goes to show how insane the market is - a company selling transparently fake "slack" (actually an ICQ clone, rather late to market) is valued in the billions. In the meantime, the real thing is right where it always was, and still Free: http://www.slackware.com See also https://subgenius.fando...
[07:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Any Single Hair From the Human Body Can be Used for Identification - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:38] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, at the Supreme Court: Justice Clarence Thomas is saying to a new Law Clerk, "Here, have a can of Coke!" Most Soylentils that are Americans of a certain age will get the reference. Would have much rather referred to the film, um, with Jude Law, about passing in the future when everyone, a...
[07:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:13] <exec> 08└─A corporation is literally a legal entity, ie something devised by the government. And I don't know what hair you are trying to split, the point is it is all one big organization.
[07:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:14] <exec> 08└─Alphabet should still be broken up into little pieces. Why? Where's the antitrust? Are they colluding with all the other internet video channels? Youtube isn't the only railroad that passes through town, are they?
[07:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:16] <exec> 08└─it is all one big organization. "Corporation" is just a name. Instead let's call them financiers. They create the government through finance. There is no other way.
[07:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:18] <exec> 08└─No it isn't just a name, wtf are you talking about? Corporations are always created by the government, by definition. Like I said, the same people are behind both most big corporations and the government, but that has nothing to with the meaning of a corporation or which comes first.
[07:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:21] <exec> 08└─The name "Corporation" was created by government. It's about branding. Financiers need a government to protect their finances, really to legitimize their theft of property. They create a government to stamp the deed so they can sell it back to the indians, or you if you make a higher bid. A governme...
[07:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:23] <exec> 08└─Youtube isn't the only railroad that passes through town, are they?
[07:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've been through this. So where are they coming close to bumping into the law?
[07:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:27] <exec> 08└─It wasn't a problem before the mid 2000, it's even less of a problem now --- but just about nobody does it anymore because muh social media.
[07:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 0, Spam) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:29] <exec> 08└─It is tiresome to have to always be explaining things to the less intelligent, but that is what we philosophers do. So pay attention. Point One: the submitting Ed did not understand the "autonomous weapon" characterization. Google does not have people looking at this, they use algorithms, which whe...
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[07:15:32] <exec> 08└─Spammed yet again! Admin, this is not right. In no way is my comment spam. If this is not reversed, and the idiot who modded it punished, I will have no choice but to submit twice as many subs as rDT, register a plethora of new usernames, and rein wholly hell down upon SoylentNews. But, I have fait...
[07:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:31] <exec> 08└─Well, it could be like a civilization of dogs declaring there can't be intelligent life out there because by now there surely would have been time for their scent to get here.
[07:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 1948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:13] <exec> 08└─I just want a dumb car. Any mid-range late last century will do. So do I. But here in the UK, they are working hard on banning older cars completely. Currently, cars prior to Euro6 (2015) are effectively banned from central London, with plans to extend this to most of London in 2021. I believe other...
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[07:19:14] <exec> 08└─That video gives me a melancholy memory of an awesome toaster we (parents / family) had for 20+ years. Had to fix a few things in it. But did you update the NetBSD release?
[07:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:17] <exec> 08└─So I can now get a ToaD*, but it is an IoT? * The ToaD is a "Ten on a Desk" - a fantasy of most programmers in those days (1976), given that a DEC 10 took up a LARGE room, and probably consumed at least 20kw, even for the smallest one.
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[08:14:37] <exec> 08└─The one time I worked at a place where people advocated chat, and it was like being in a meeting all day long.
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[08:14:46] <exec> 08└─Keep those hairnets up and functional!
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[08:15:09] <exec> 08└─Sorry friend, but "demonetization" is*not* censorship. I'll explain. And I'll use small words so you'll be sure to understand. If you have a message (whatever message that may be), there are plenty of ways (including youtube without ad revenue) to get that message out. If your goal is to use whateve...
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[08:15:32] <exec> 08└─Is that a little clearer now, or do we need to use pictures?
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[08:16:33] <exec> 08└─The window of large, strong, obvious EM emissions is tiny. We're almost past it ourselves. If you listened out for, say, cellphone traffic, or satellite broadcasts (which point the wrong way, but principle is the same), guess what you'll hear? Encrypted traffic. Guess what one of the main design goa...
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[08:16:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, but on a water world I can't imagine melting furnaces to extract metal out of ore. Electronics would be difficult to create too I guess.
[08:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:21] <exec> 08└─Better yet, enclose your TV in a Faraday cage!
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[09:14:34] <exec> 08└─With those numbers they must be cooking them in a fucking blast furnace! The new normal. Lose a shitload of money on a shitton of revenue and yet be worth several metric shittonnes of money..... When I grew up in the sixties, this formula was called 'Closed for Business.'
[09:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:30] <exec> 08└─It's more that the deal Youtube offers to content creators is very shitty and one sided. Essentially asking you to work for exposure until you break through and allow you some revenue but not set any proper rules for you earning money so they can take it away if they want. If that were a contractor...
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[09:15:31] <exec> 08└─Notice an interesting fact about their list, quoting: > qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. Let's look what is NOT in these lists and we will get their intentions. It is far from censoring propaganda. In fact, it's about doing the propaganda. So w...
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[09:19:18] <exec> 08└─It won't happen. They pushed it back again today, no reason given. We all know the real reasons. It won't work and its pointless if you don't include reddit.
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[10:14:06] <exec> 08└─unsigned long a = (in >> 1) & 0x77777777; unsigned long b = (in >> 2) & 0x33333333; unsigned long c = (in >> 3) & 0x11111111; return ((((in - a - b - c) >> 4) - a - b - c + in) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255;
[10:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:08] <exec> 08└─As an old (programming) dog it's always nice to learn new tricks. I use a lot of bitmasks (and who doesn't?) so this will come in handy.
[10:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:15] <exec> 08└─At the cookout and slumber party: green eggs and ham...and lots of sexy, sexy knob twiddling.
[10:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe because price is a construct, and not a logically calculated valuation? Assigning a ridiculous high value to something prepares the public to paying a (far) higher amount than they normally would. It's called priming [wikipedia.org].
[10:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:34] <exec> 08└─So where the pride-videos taken down?
[10:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:35] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between "success" and "sone revenue". This is not just about big earners. If your video, or channel, has viewers, the ads are generasting income for youtube. Youtube withholding money at whim is therfore theft. Even if it were only 2 cents.
[10:16:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 2121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:38] <exec> 08└─The window of large, strong, obvious EM emissions is tiny. We're almost past it ourselves. If you listened out for, say, cellphone traffic, or satellite broadcasts (which point the wrong way, but principle is the same), guess what you'll hear? Encrypted traffic. Guess what one of the main design goa...
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[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─I think this is a good solution. However, you would be on the order of ~ 16 cycles. If you do the trick from TFA and do it also on the complement you would be finished it in *at most* 16 cycles for a 32 bit integer, assuming that the operations for complement and raw number run simultaneously on a s...
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[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─was because he baked much of this stuff into C by adding more (than one) data types into B and BCPL. C++ took it a step too far. Go's (and plan 9's) runes are right at the edge of what you can get away with statically. Looking at Go2 they might screw it up with all those runtime interfaces... I gues...
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[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─& 0xFF would be an optimization for % 256, not % 255.
[11:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:19] <exec> 08└─I stand corrected. This implies, that an (expensive) division is needed making the formula arguably more elegant but less efficient.
[11:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:21] <exec> 08└─There's some voodoo modern compilers will do to deduct a division result through multiplication, but I'm not sure if it would be applicable in this case.
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[11:14:23] <exec> 08└─Not that good, as it contains a very slow division operation at the end, which not only has a high latency but ties up an arithmetic execution unit for the whole time. But this algorithm doesn't use any memory and is more consistent in speed than the Kernighan algorithm. The lookup table has a long...
[11:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:32] <exec> 08└─with SDR and many modern radios, it will be more button-pressing or typing... but knobs will still be involved somwhere. Sexiness of any of this is up to you.
[11:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:39] <exec> 08└─When I use FOSS it is like I got a car assembled from junkyard parts. It is all on me, I can't blame who produced the piece or who tossed it. As in the case of software, my junkyard car woul probably be more reliable in the long term than whatever commercial offering.
[11:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmeVwYojB-s [youtube.com]
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[12:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:14] <exec> 08└─Personally I just like a smaller house (small is relative but for me about 60 m^2 -- or 650 feet^2) cause there is just less to clean -- which is important cause cleaning is boring as hell. It's a comfortable amount of space for one person.
[12:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:37] <exec> 08└─Field Day is also a disaster preparedness exercise. When other means of communication are down, amateur radio and amateur radio operators are able to keep communications going. They get messages into and out of areas that are otherwise incommunicado. Field Day requires operators to set up and operat...
[12:14:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:57] <exec> 08└─Just goes to show how insane the market is - a company selling transparently fake "slack" (actually an ICQ clone, rather late to market) is valued in the billions. In the meantime, the real thing is right where it always was, and still Free: http://www.slackware.com See also https://subgenius.fando...
[12:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:01] <exec> 08└─By that logic, facebook updates or tweets should also be remunerated. Obviously that's not the case.
[12:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:02] <exec> 08└─> If your video, or channel, has viewers, the ads are generasting income for youtube. > Youtube withholding money at whim is therfore theft. what planet are you on?
[12:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:05] <exec> 08└─Go start your own website, everyone. On a computer you own and control. Now. When 5G comes, you will find hosting video website from home, a garage or attic is not a pain anymore.
[12:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:07] <exec> 08└─Don't put it in the attic. If you put it in the attic, the FBI will break everything on every floor of your house before they find it.
[12:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:24] <exec> 08└─Seems people just don’t understand exactly what a light year entails, just how extreme it is and get fooled by the small number in front of it. https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[12:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:26] <exec> 08└─You have to make your own luck.
[12:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:28] <exec> 08└─From a distance, Mars is also Earth like. Pity everything about it is toxic to life.
[12:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:15] <exec> 08└─No, I think you're mistaken. That was Diogenes of Sinopel!
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[13:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:22] <exec> 08└─Here I am hoping to read sale statistics, environmental points and cost of ownership analysis for some 3D printed modular factory made houses when phys.org of all things is linking trailers with wooden panels, rafters and trusses... I want my 5min back.
[13:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:24] <exec> 08└─Those look like mobile homes in the pictures? Are they actually mobile homes? Mobile homes historically have been a kind of investment trap for the people that live in them. They depreciate in value like a vehicle instead of increasing in value like land; you have to pay a rent on land and can be re...
[13:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.businessinsider.com/3d-homes-that-take-24-hours-and-less-than-4000-to-print-2018-9 [businessinsider.com] https://www.thesimpledollar.com [thesimpledollar.com] https://www.apartmenttherapy.com [apartmenttherapy.com]
[13:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:28] <exec> 08└─If I was going to go this route I'd prefer to buy surplus shipping containers and use those. A family we're friends with moved to the Florida Keys and joined three of them to make their home. They had to evac for the last hurricane. When they went back to take a look the tidal surge had moved them a...
[13:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:30] <exec> 08└─Why not buy the land and put a mobile home on it?
[13:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:33] <exec> 08└─So the problem with "mobile" (largely stationary) homes isn't the depreciation, it's that the people don't usually own them or the land they are on. There's nothing inherently wrong with some cheap, off-grid tiny house, or even a depreciating mobile home, it's just the finances involved. The parasit...
[13:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:35] <exec> 08└─Kind of like clown cars, and almost as practical. There have always been people who want to live in a log cabin or a treehouse or a sailboat or whatever. That's fine. These are good for the same sorts of people. They are not a good idea in general. Normal people who simply don't need a lot of space...
[13:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:50] <exec> 08└─I like popcount like this: __builtin_popcount(). Then my compiler generates something similar to the above on platforms like MIPS that don't have a popcount instruction and to a native popcount instruction on architectures like x86 that have one. It's extremely cool to invent tricks like this. It's...
[13:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─xcuse me, but how is & 0xff different from & 255 and why are you bringing up 256 aka 0x100 ????
[13:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:53] <exec> 08└─if you want some *really* creative bit flipping, try residue arithmetic (modulo maths for the non-maths people). There's a neat group theory to achieve multiplication and exponentiation using add/subtracts of modulo integers. Well worth the undergrad years to learn this cornerstone of modern cryptog...
[13:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:55] <exec> 08└─__builtin_popcount appears to be an addition by GCC and Clang, absent from ISO C. It isn't in MSVC, for example [stackoverflow.com], and Microsoft's replacement __popcnt [stackoverflow.com] fails at compile time or at runtime on some architectures supported by MSVC. How does your build system work a...
[13:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:07] <exec> 08└─I have never been interested in ham radio, but it's for the disaster preparedness you're talking about that I'm gonna take my kids down to the site at Floyd Bennett Field in Jamaica Bay, NYC this weekend.
[13:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03agr [7134] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:09] <exec> 08└─Having radios that don’t depend on computer technology is probably an important part of disaster preparedness, with the threat of cyberwar increasing.
[13:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:19] <exec> 08└─The compulsion to climb Mount Everest is a mental disorder. To protect these mentally compromised persons, the number of climbers ought to be reduced, to keep them from hurting themselves. However, given that the permits are a lucrative source of income, plus all of the outfitters, guides, etc, I do...
[13:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Only_Mortal [7122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:35] <exec> 08└─I'm going to be honest... I've never heard of them. Not sure why I'd need another chat app given I have WhatsApp and iMessage. Maybe it's not like those?
[13:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:39] <exec> 08└─There is no agreed mechanism for payment, so, no.
[13:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:41] <exec> 08└─Alright, you have no idea what a corporation is, go look it up. Big business != corporation.
[13:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:43] <exec> 08└─I said, everyone. They cannot invade a million houses in a year.
[13:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:45] <exec> 08└─This is not a battle that will end when you propose, but rather will morph. A minority of sociopaths want to control what the majority of normal humans do. They will stop at nothing to assert and preserve that control. So if everyone bails on YouTube and starts up their own websites, the ones that s...
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[14:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:11] <exec> 08└─What garbage. I think I'll just purchase a television that doesn't need to be scanned for viruses and isn't trying to push a partner's software.
[14:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:12] <exec> 08└─If your appliance can get a virus, then it's defective and needs to be returned.
[14:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:14] <exec> 08└─buy a smart TV. If your local store only stocks smart TV's, then tell the sales guy you will not be buying any smart tv and walk out. If sales drop to zero for a few weeks the shops, and the makers, will get the message real quick. Sadly, too many people see smart tv's as a benefit rather than the a...
[14:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:16] <exec> 08└─You want cheap, you get cheap and all that entails. You want smart, you get smart and all that entails. I got a dumb tv with composite video in to hook up ye olde consoles and I have no worries. But if I had a fire stick (or the like) that went bad, the first thing I would do, instead of trash it,...
[14:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:19] <exec> 08└─There are just some sentences you don't ever expect to hear; virus scanning your TV is one of them.
[14:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that connecting another box is the answer because that box could very well end up connecting your TV to your network for you. Yes, if you really knew what you were doing, sure perhaps it would be avoided. But simply connecting another box - making that sound like an easy option to fix t...
[14:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:23] <exec> 08└─> viruses > partner's software. Not seeing a difference.
[14:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:25] <exec> 08└─At this rate, the song "Every OS Sucks" is going to be obsolete by 2025. For those who haven't heard it, it includes: > The fridge, stove and toaster never crash on me > I should be able to get online without a PHD > My phone doesn't take a week to boot it > My TV doesn't crash when I mute it
[14:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:40] <exec> 08└─If you go to the trouble, and have the money, to buy land why wouldn't you just build a house on it then? Unless you have some kind of mobile home fetish.
[14:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:42] <exec> 08└─When I was growing up there was a stigma about growing up in a house with wheels under it. Now you call it a tiny house and it's chic. :/
[14:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:44] <exec> 08└─Because at the moment I have $30-50k I want to spend instead of $100k+...
[14:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:46] <exec> 08└─They don't necessarily have wheels.
[14:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:05] <exec> 08└─Because AND is not the same operation as DIV. When you want the remainder of a power of two, you AND it against the value - 1. So N % 256 becomes N & (256 - 1).
[14:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:06] <exec> 08└─Indeed, this is the main application for the code I pasted. When a more appropriate way is not available it gets the job done. Even if the architecture is has a popcount instruction, using inline ASM is generally a bad idea because that will coax the compiler into generating a framepointer (which wi...
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[14:15:08] <exec> 08└─No division is needed: https://godbolt.org [godbolt.org]
[14:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:20] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid (60s/70s) I liked building Heathkits, and thought I'd like being a ham. So I got my license (learning Morse code was fun), then realized I enjoyed putting Heathkits together. Talking to a bunch of strangers, notsomuch. So I was a ham for about a month.
[14:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:22] <exec> 08└─Field Day requires operators to set up and operate their radio stations in adverse conditions with less that optimal resources similar to what you would have to do in a disaster.
[14:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:24] <exec> 08└─I'll be working field day this year some as I'm stuck at home anyway. I operate out of my shack but I move over to emergency generator power the morning of the event. As a single operator I don't score very high but it's fun anyway. It is always good to practice with and exercise your emergency plan...
[14:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:35] <exec> 08└─Let 'em go. Thin the herd.
[14:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:52] <exec> 08└─kom.lysator.liu.se is still up! But the Emacs client bit rotted: (
[14:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:53] <exec> 08└─A company that lost $133 million on revenue of $400 million is worth... $16 billion? I must be doing something wrong.
[14:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:02] <exec> 08└─Business creates and finances a government to protect and enforce contracts.
[14:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:03] <exec> 08└─"make money uploading content"
[14:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:05] <exec> 08└─There is no agreed mechanism for payment, so, no.
[14:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:07] <exec> 08└─Say I were to do as you suggest: host my own site. I currently in fact have some videos up on my own site [pineight.com]. But it's missing one thing: a column at the right side that automatically recommends videos with similar subject matter from other sites. Recommendation is one thing the IndieWeb...
[14:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:10] <exec> 08└─Go start your own website, everyone. On a computer you own and control. Now.
[14:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:12] <exec> 08└─Alphabet should still be broken up into little pieces. Why? Where's the antitrust? Are they colluding with all the other internet video channels? Youtube isn't the only railroad that passes through town, are they?
[14:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:14] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech has always had limits, even in the United States with its expansive case law on the First Amendment. CopyrightFreedom to respeak others' expression of a particular idea is limited to commenting on fragments of said expression, as a means to subsidize creation of original works of a...
[14:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:16] <exec> 08└─How would my own site implement anything resembling YouTube's right column?
[14:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:18] <exec> 08└─Guess I'm a rapist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 👌
[14:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:20] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the same difference between whores and hussies?
[14:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:22] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what distinction you are trying to make but surely you don't believe corporations "just happen" to be one tool used to protect and enforce contracts.
[14:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:31] <exec> 08└─Your points are all absolutely valid. As we progress, we blast less power into space. While we may use more and more channels, the power on any one of those channels tends to drop with time, as technology advances. And a lot of stuff is going on dedicated cables, whether copper or fiber. Your point...
[14:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 2675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, in that tiny sliver of time, for the tiny proportion of incredibly weak signals that we can receive, in those tiny areas of the galaxy just the right distance away, from those civilisations that just so happen to be broadcasting, etc. etc. etc. The numbers quickly make it infeasible. And we're...
[14:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:35] <exec> 08└─As you say, lack of imagination. If we're ever lucky enough to meet spacefaring water-worlders, maybe they'll be friendly and explain how they build their ships (in ways we haven't yet imagined)... if they even need ships. As far as we can interpret the fossil record, we're the first species to do s...
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[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:14] <exec> 08└─"In a major provocation, Iran shot down an unarmed and unmanned U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton drone while it was flying in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz" Bastards! They shoot that international symbol of peace that brings happiness and comfort to everyone!
[15:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:16] <exec> 08└─Why? Because we have an Idiot for President who couldn't maintain the deal his predecessor worked out. That's about it, other than I trust the U.S. explanation about as far as I can throw it thanks to WMD. The real mistake makers are every person who voted for Donald J. Trump, a scared little bully.
[15:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:18] <exec> 08└─You mean the useless nuclear deal that allowed them to cheat and also allowed them to get the bomb eventually. If Iran gets the bomb, they will nuke Israel, who will then nuke Russia, then start WWIII. I don't want Iran to have the bomb and neither should you. I suggest you board this wonderful TRUM...
[15:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─Yawn. It looks like a stupid pretense for a stupid war. Banging the drums because a piece of equipment got destroyed? At least the Maine had dead sailors, even if it was purely accidental.
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─Thanks OBAMA!
[15:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─Not for not but you do seem to elect an never ending stream of idiots as President. Trump is hardly the first idiot that gets suckered into yet another war. Which was the last president again that was not involved in a "war" of some kind?
[15:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:27] <exec> 08└─Breaking (from CNN): Bin Laden is still alive and he lives in Iran, WMDs detected via satellite in Teheran
[15:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:41] <exec> 08└─"recycle the bad one and buy a new one, probably from a competing brand" seems like a perfectly reasonable response.
[15:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─I wish I could, but my virus scanner just ran off with my self-driving car, the only networked thing that wasn't Samsung.
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:45] <exec> 08└─Over 50 inches in size? You weren't looking for a TV, were you? You needed a status symbol.
[15:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─GE has these new "smart" bulbs called C. Here is a video [youtube.com] showing consumers how to reset their C bulbs made by GE. Are these bulbs really so "smart"? Do they need virus scanning? Firmware updates? I thought light bulbs were supposed to be simple? Look at what they have become! Edison wo...
[15:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─Some minimal research https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://duckduckgo.com
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─My Samsung TV is a bit older so I don't think it has a virus scan option. I never installed any apps on it anyway. But it does sometimes grind my home network almost to a halt. About every couple of months I have to unplug the TV from the network and everything is fine again. I guess it tries to cal...
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:54] <exec> 08└─Edison would be spinning in his grave!
[15:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:12] <exec> 08└─We're a family of 4, and we've settled around 2100 square feet as our preferred size. We had the larger 3000+ square foot houses, and the extra space was more extra work and maintenance expense than it was extra enjoyment. On the other hand, we have acquaintances with 4000+ square foot houses for 2...
[15:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:13] <exec> 08└─Newsflash: tiny houses are (mostly) trailers - generally smallish trailers with some hand-worked finishing. They're cute, they're cheap - for my taste they're a little too small for more than 2 people to live long term. The big thing that tiny houses are doing is empowering people to skirt the build...
[15:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:16] <exec> 08└─Neighbors hate 'em, and by the time you get a steel box insulated and put in sufficient windows, it's no longer a cheap alternative. They can be made very nice, but not for any cheaper than an equally nice structure from scratch out of concrete. One thing I do like about the containers is that they...
[15:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:18] <exec> 08└─Talk about cheap living: sailboats. Dockage in major metro areas for cheap, often less than 1/2 rent of a studio apartment, and you can purchase a pretty big pretty nice fiberglass tub for 20mpg.
[15:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:20] <exec> 08└─I think the stigma came from the type of people who often chose the very economical living options found in mobile home parks. Where I grew up there were massive mobile home parks inhabited by snowbirds, usually upper middleclass folks who kept two or more homes and they just had a cheap one in the...
[15:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:42] <exec> 08└─When your only hammer is C++, every problem begins to look like a thumb.
[15:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm a ham and I have been licensed for over 25 years. I was active on and off, quite a bit before the Internet and even about ten years ago I was active. I maintain my license primarily because it is little effort to do so. I have a 2m radio in my car that I hear a transmission on maybe once a...
[15:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:59] <exec> 08└─Having microprocessors inside a radio does not mean that the microprocessor is connected to the intarweb tubes. The radio's firmware may never need updating as long as it performs its basic function properly. It's not like the radio is a Samsung Smart TV and requires frequent virus scanning. What br...
[15:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:01] <exec> 08└─In the late 1970s you could go to the local CB store and buy a 100W linear amp for $100, a Turner Super Sidekick for $60, a Firestick for $25, and pull the cover off your 40ch SSB CB to jump the PLL chip for another 20 channels. If you had a Gemtronics CB all you had to do is pull the cover off and...
[15:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:12] <exec> 08└─If you want to make some money and save some lives there is an opportunity here. An inflatable 3-4 psi pressure chamber people can bundle into if they are experiencing respiratory distress could save some lives. Like a pool toy, only bigger. The challenges are weight, climbing gear has to be light,...
[15:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:31] <exec> 08└─Slack can also do voice or video calling between users as well as establishing different channels for group and teamwork. Plus it allows for third party plugins. It's not "just a chat platform," but rather a next-generation connectivity tool for business users. It's competitors are Microsoft Teams,...
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[16:14:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:25] <exec> 08└─Why? Because we have an Idiot for President who couldn't maintain the deal his predecessor worked out. That's about it, other than I trust the U.S. explanation about as far as I can throw it thanks to WMD. The real mistake makers are every person who voted for Donald J. Trump, a scared little bully.
[16:14:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:27] <exec> 08└─Yawn. It looks like a stupid pretense for a stupid war. Banging the drums because a piece of equipment got destroyed? At least the Maine had dead sailors, even if it was purely accidental.
[16:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:32] <exec> 08└─The choice forced upon the voters was Cliton or Trump. We elected the lesser evil one. Iran should be turned into molten glass.
[16:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:34] <exec> 08└─You mean the useless nuclear deal that allowed them to cheat
[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:36] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Hillary that was going to start WWIII and that's why we should vote for the Donald. Given that Trump has continued *every* Bush II/Obama foreign military adventure and doubled down on some of them, I wonder how it's any different, except for Trump honking off our *allies* as much or...
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─Why the heck would Israel nuke Russia? Seems more likely they would just nuke most of their neighbors in the Middle East.
[16:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:41] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Hillary that was going to start WWIII and that's why we should vote for the Donald.
[16:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:43] <exec> 08└─The Maine was before the time of any human still alive, USS Liberty however...
[16:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:45] <exec> 08└─I suspect that the drone was probing the borders. Which side of the border it was on is probably uncertain to any observer. (Air space borders are a bit hard to pin down, and the things up there move pretty fast.) Were some Iranian soldiers trigger happy? Perhaps. They were also being provoked and s...
[16:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:48] <exec> 08└─There's an up side to all this: MAGA hats. A nice high-visibility "I'm stupid" sign that you can see coming from a quarter mile away or more. So we suddenly have a situation where many of the previously unidentified stupid people out there are willingly carrying their "I'm stupid" signs and you want...
[16:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Syria. Pakistan. Now it's Iran - not that any of the other wars are finished. Granted, most of the above were started by The Shrub and Peace-Prize Obama. Guess Trump has decided to join the party, and get his name associated with a war or two... Back in Vietnam days, the ge...
[16:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─At least the Maine had dead sailors, even if it was purely accidental. No, no, Iran did that one too.
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:55] <exec> 08└─You are allowed to be both. In my opinion USA flying a drone in the Hormuz strait was obviously domestic business when you look at the map.
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:57] <exec> 08└─Thanks to Obamacare, I pay less now (with no subsidies) for as good or better coverage than I did before Obamacare. That said, I would very much like to see single-payer here in the US. "but...but...but..muh taxes!" is a misnomer, as you already pay for it with payroll deductions for health insuranc...
[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─Sounds like levels of munitions inventory for the US are overflowing again. That’s bad for business.
[16:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because Trump's deal with North Korea was so much better, eh? Israel as a source of this information is about as suspicious as it gets, and IAEA has not released any sort of smoking gun. They've had the capability to. It is certainly in Israel's interests to make a mountain of a molehill and w...
[16:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─Huh? what does that have to do with the Iran nuclear treaty? How is that? I'm not being snarky, I'm just unaware of the part of the treaty that allows "cheating." Would you please elucidate?
[16:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:06] <exec> 08└─If Iran gets the bomb, they will nuke Israel, who will then nuke Russia
[16:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:08] <exec> 08└─Thanks to Obamacare, I pay less now (with no subsidies) for as good or better coverage than I did before Obamacare.
[16:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:10] <exec> 08└─Supposedly Israel discovered a warehouse just full of items which proved that Iran was still interested in developing weapons in spite of the treaty. (This despite the fact that the treaty makes no mention of Iran allowing to retain information already developed to date). So Netanyahu went all publi...
[16:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:12] <exec> 08└─Lol. You need a more reality-based notion of healthcare reimbursement.
[16:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:14] <exec> 08└─Big whoop. At most it's some overly noisy saber rattling by Iran. We're not going to war over a drone, no matter how expensive, and neither is Iran.
[16:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:17] <exec> 08└─No, we'd be going to war because the U.S. wants a war and destroying the drone would be the excuse.
[16:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:19] <exec> 08└─My reality is my own experience. 1) I don't pay thousands of dollars to insurance companies every year, so have far larger savings/investments than I would otherwise 2) I don't waste more countless hours and stress arguing with them as they try to not pay what they promised 3) I go to whatever healt...
[16:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:21] <exec> 08└─If you pay any money at all to insurance companies you are being scammed.
[16:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─Comment on this please: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com] Who made the right choice again?
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:26] <exec> 08└─I dunno if single payer would be better... but obamacare and the slightly better health insurance situation that existed before obamacare are both far worse than no health insurance at all.
[16:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:28] <exec> 08└─hmmm .. let's see: how far is it from the coast of N.Y. to the GPS-powered UN-manned drone flying near/at the iran coast? how far is it from the iran coast to the aerial spy-robot? you know ... you cannot really fault the iran for being a bit nervous and maybe trigger happy. also if the drone flew o...
[16:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:30] <exec> 08└─I have yet to see any evidence that Iran shouldn't have the bomb other than rampant racist fearmongering
[16:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:32] <exec> 08└─Granted it's anecdotal, but I pay ~$250/month *less* for health insurance with a lower deductible than before the ACA went into effect. What's more, I did the math and I come out *ahead* every year in terms of health care expenditures with the insurance I buy. Then again, I'm over 50 and have colon...
[16:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:54] <exec> 08└─Edison would require proprietary bulb sockets. And only Edison brand electricity in order to prevent an unsightly build up of C1 particles. Q. How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? A. None. That is a hardware problem. Q. How many hardware engineers does it take to change a...
[16:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:56] <exec> 08└─My smart tv randomly crashed on boot. The patch supplied by the vendor didn't fix it. Free replacement TV. The new one doesn't crash as often. Their custom android build is unstable.
[16:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:58] <exec> 08└─They used to buy expensive cars. Now they can overcompensate with phones and TVs. Look at this here tv on mah wall so flat and curved and huge! Guess how many inches I have here.
[16:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:00] <exec> 08└─Over 50 inches in size? You weren't looking for a TV, were you? You needed a status symbol.
[16:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:02] <exec> 08└─I use a good old CRT TV and an Over The Air digital converter box. (Works great, BTW and no $$$ monthly fees!) At a few times, some of the broadcast stations have managed to embed SOMETHING in to the channel preview information that will cause the box to crash and shut down when I hit preview. I'd l...
[16:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:04] <exec> 08└─Alright, I can empathize with that. Both parts of that, actually. ;^)
[16:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 2095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:07] <exec> 08└─I'd uh try to figure out what it is doing. It sounds like you don't know, and it's likely that if it was listening to you all of the time, you'd never know. Unless you checked. I would guess it does more than calling home now and then. Often, smart tvs connect to a few different places. When they tr...
[16:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:31] <exec> 08└─I understand that getting ahead today can seem nearly impossible, and McMansions are an aberration of a different time. But at least here there's a ton of mid-20th century housing stock around. They are affordable ones for lower middle class incomes and above that are worth their money. About the "c...
[16:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:33] <exec> 08└─Remember kids - Shipping is free - foundation is not. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] https://www.amazon.com|10057.g.27433317[src|[ch|[lt| [amazon.c...
[16:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:35] <exec> 08└─Because at the moment I have $30-50k I want to spend instead of $100k+...
[16:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:37] <exec> 08└─most municipalities and towns ban residents from living year-round in anything on wheels, and often have statutes requiring homes to be at least 900 square feet.
[16:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Kernighan had read this? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:01] <exec> 08└─Says every idiot too stupid to use the language properly.
[16:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:30] <exec> 08└─I'd agree, if they weren't littering a beautiful natural location with all their junk, dead bodies, and literal poop. Seriously -- look up the garbage problems they have on Everest. It's appalling. And when people die up there, their bodies are often left there, and with fewer people to carry junk d...
[16:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:51] <exec> 08└─I am concerned that these turds end up in my portfolio. I like index funds, but something like 26% of SP500 is tech now.
[16:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:52] <exec> 08└─It's real name is 'tax evasion'. With our system, "losing" money will make you rich!
[16:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:54] <exec> 08└─When was 2.0?
[16:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─I ask myself this all the time. However the value has nothing to do with the software or the products, it is based on the company itself and how well it performs at business tasks.
[16:18:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:15] <exec> 08└─Moderators, can you please flag the above content as inappropriate?
[16:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:17] <exec> 08└─Big business != corporation Never said it was. You're the one "splitting hairs" over nomenclature. Big business creates the government to "incorporate", to "legitimize" its business. It's strictly a paper thing, sealed with a kiss.
[16:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:18] <exec> 08└─No, you are just trying to twist a simple fact (governments create corporations and define what they are) into supporting some bizarre pre-existing worldview you have.
[16:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:21] <exec> 08└─Alphabet attains and maintains market dominance by suppressing competition and increasing barriers to entry. The evidence of that is what I am interested in. If they are actually interfering, attempting to close a market to competitors, then of course they should be shut down. I don't know if securi...
[16:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:23] <exec> 08└─just about nobody does it anymore because muh social media. Just about nobody does it anymore because their ISP won't let them. They have to go to a "hosting provider" that will tell them what they can and cannot put on their site. That's not right. When you buy bandwidth, you should demand the righ...
[16:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:43] <exec> 08└─The likelihood of more than a few countries being able to afford to travel there, is pretty low. At least at the beginning. Also, country x, and country y, would likely already have a treaty in place. Then there's the whole, America/England thing. Sure, they may be part of your Earth Empire for a li...
[16:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:45] <exec> 08└─I was hoping for the Galaxy Song, AC
[16:21:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:04] <exec> 08└─I've always thought the path to healthy life was exercise. And based on that, I've chosen to regularly exercise my digestive tract, pancreas, and especially my liver.
[16:23:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:49] <exec> 08└─There really needs to be an "idiot" mod, as I don't really think "troll" fits the parent post.
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[17:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─Did professor Beznosov consulted doctor Bezrozumov about his research? And what about taking account of the age of the smartphone?
[17:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:22] <exec> 08└─prefer using PINs over fingerprints to unlock their phones
[17:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─Older smartphone users tend to rely more on their phones' auto lock feature compared to younger users, a new UBC study has found.
[17:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:26] <exec> 08└─This "ECE research" - this must be one if the teams that exist to boost politically correct gender proportions in the field with non-technical people. Pack up sociology surveys and call it computer science, or computer engineering research.
[17:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─They don't have nearly enough participants to conclude much of anything. Their "findings" sound reasonable, but they've made a bare minimum of effort at attempting to verify the findings. Emphasize that bare minimum.
[17:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:31] <exec> 08└─As a generalization, older users don't care to fuck around with their phone. It's more a simple tool and less of a toy to them. So, they will tend to stay with whatever the default, automatic behavior of the phone is.
[17:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:33] <exec> 08└─I don't want to type a password to use my phone. Just like I don't have a password on my home computer. My work phone password was 1111 until they disallowed all numeric passwords. Now it's qqqq. I'm lazy. Sue me.
[17:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─Hey! That's the same combo as my luggage!
[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:37] <exec> 08└─"By tracking actual users during their daily interactions with their device, we now have real-world insights that can be used to inform future smartphone designs."
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the greatest security issue with fingerprints is that they are protected only by the 4th Amendment and can be had with a court order, which judges give out like pedophiles give out candy to kids. In contrast, what you know is protected by the 5th Amendment and you cannot be forced to reveal...
[17:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:25] <exec> 08└─That article uses conservative numbers for Israel's nuclear arsenal. I'm quite sure that Israel had in the neighborhood of 200 weapons way back in the '80's. No one is quite sure when they acquired their first, nor is anyone sure how many they've stockpiled. It's a pretty sure bet that they rank #4...
[17:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:26] <exec> 08└─When Democrats arrive in hell, Hillary will be there to greet them. Then they'll wish they had invested in Coppertone, and research into SPF 50-gazillion.
[17:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:28] <exec> 08└─We've gone to war for far less than that in the past, like imaginary weapons of mass destruction, for example.
[17:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:30] <exec> 08└─No, most of the above were started by the Bush duo, father and son. God... some people really do live in their own little version of reality.
[17:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:33] <exec> 08└─Nope. There's nothing particularly bad about Trump in this regard. We have a president who, like other ones in the past, cannot resist the MIC. GWB, Cheney, WMD. Some people actually think he was a better president. Trump's tally of blood and treasure lost overseas is nowhere near that guy's. The GW...
[17:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:35] <exec> 08└─Crazy Americans? They haven't triggered explosives on oil tankers. Who do you think did?
[17:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:37] <exec> 08└─Looks like the Hillaristas are out in force again, collectively modding up a vapid GP AC to +5, while lashing out against anyone critical.
[17:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:40] <exec> 08└─"Any chance of that happening again?" No. Much of that concern about peace love and humanity during Vietnam was motivated by not wanting to get drafted/not wanting your boyfriend/brother/whatnot drafted. Now it's a volunteer army and so the level of self interest... I mean "love and caring" isn't so...
[17:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:42] <exec> 08└─I heard that one way back in 1991, during the fall of the Soviet Union. A religious fanatic relative of mine prophecied (or more like parroted) that Gorby would reemerge as absolute ruler of the Soviet Union, and then invade Israel. Why? Because the birth mark on Gorbachev's forehead is the Mark of...
[17:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:44] <exec> 08└─Granted it's anecdotal, but I pay ~$250/month *less* for health insurance with a lower deductible than before the ACA went into effect. What's more, I did the math and I come out *ahead* every year in terms of health care expenditures with the insurance I buy.
[17:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:46] <exec> 08└─Back in Vietnam days, the general population managed to apply enough political pressure to stop the war. Any chance of that happening again?
[17:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:48] <exec> 08└─"God... some people really do live in their own little version of reality." Indeed they do. Since the first Libyan Civil War started in 2011 it's about as much a stretch to blame it on the Bushes as it is to exonerate Johnson by blaming Vietnam on Eisenhower. There's a kernel of reality there, but i...
[17:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:51] <exec> 08└─Same AC. In 1975 the S&P 500 was at about 100. Today it is at ~3,000. A 300x increase. I'm sure insurance premiums have been rising too at the same time so lets just say you paid $100 in 1975 for health insurance when you didn't need it. Just that first year you paid the insurance company would have...
[17:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, 30x increase -> $3k.
[17:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have a hard time accepting the official word of the US government. Especially one with as loose a relationship with the truth as this one has shown itself to have.
[17:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:57] <exec> 08└─"Don't blame me. I voted for the other guy." Johnson?
[17:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:59] <exec> 08└─Actually he said, "It could have been someone who is lose and stupid."
[17:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:02] <exec> 08└─That you can be be both snarky and ask a legitimate question? Or my sarcastic comment that a US drone in the hormuz strait is domestic american business?
[17:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:04] <exec> 08└─You would do better to follow the money instead of all that religious bullcrap.
[17:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:06] <exec> 08└─The choice forced upon the voters was Cliton or Trump. You must be looking at some media poll. We had other choices on the ballot, but over 95% chose not to use them. Nobody was "forced" to vote for anybody.
[17:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:08] <exec> 08└─You only say stuff like that because you're jealous AOC is prettier than you.
[17:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:11] <exec> 08└─*Shrug* The public photos showing the damage to the oil tankers way above the waterline are perfectly compatible with drone bombing. Dunno, someone flying drones out there?
[17:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe Trump will be in the running for a Peace-Prize too, now.
[17:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:15] <exec> 08└─because the U.S. wants a war
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─What would be the point of guessing? That would only add fuel to a fire or start a new one. I want proof and I'm not in a position to investigate the case.
[17:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:19] <exec> 08└─The first casualty is truth, the second is one of ours. Remember, meatbags that we are quite good at keeping the score.
[17:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:48] <exec> 08└─> viruses > partner's software. Not seeing a difference.
[17:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:50] <exec> 08└─i virus scanned my tv and now it won't let me watch anything anymore saying there's a propaganda virus on each channel trying to sell ads! i other news, there's alternative firmware for your smart-tv-phone-home! samygo or sumething?
[17:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:52] <exec> 08└─There are just some sentences you don't ever expect to hear; virus scanning your TV is one of them.
[17:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:54] <exec> 08└─I think you did a good job of outlining those points. It seems like a good solution conceptually but if put in place without regard to the details you mentioned it might not have the desired prophylactic effect.
[17:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:56] <exec> 08└─You would save $$$ yearly in electricity costs, if you switched to a modern LCD/LED TV. I would recommend finding and purchasing one, before you can only get a "Smart" TV.
[17:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:58] <exec> 08└─TVs of that size are only a few hundred dollars (MUCH cheaper than they were 10 years ago!). The smallest ones you see out on the shelves are 32-inches or more. Just like finding a dumb TV, it is hard to find a small one too (on the display shelves, at least), so not so much a status thing I would a...
[17:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:00] <exec> 08└─my virus scanner just ran off with my self-driving car It only went out for a pack of cigarettes...
[17:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:03] <exec> 08└─In other words, security through abstinence?
[17:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:30] <exec> 08└─Why? Because then the building suppliers wouldn't be able to sell you twice as much material as you want. Really though, the major reason is the entire system that is stacked so heavily against affordable housing. In this case, "property values" need to be defended. If you build a small house next t...
[17:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:32] <exec> 08└─... you can purchase a pretty big pretty nice fiberglass tub for 20mpg
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─If doing this on a byte, I might go for a shift and a nyble, so you'd have a 16-entry LUT and much better memory use. As always, code and test if it really matters. I used to do this myself and got some interestingly counter-intuitive results. I definitely wouldn't even consider anything that looped...
[17:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:59] <exec> 08└─And more transparent, too. https://graphics.stanford.edu [stanford.edu]
[17:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─Was part of a ham radio club for a while, because my Dad was. I got the tech lvl license, but I also wasn't much into the talking to strangers bit. It's much simpler/private to just call my Dad on the phone. Whereas, with a ham radio, you're quite literally broadcasting your conversation to the worl...
[17:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 1675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:53] <exec> 08└─Oh well the reason it costs so much is that those recorded logs--well you don't actually get them. Unless you pay. What they do with your data that they hold for ransom is something one can speculate about, but you can't look at the data unless you pay for it. Most companies are better off using an...
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:55] <exec> 08└─Does yet another real-time interrupt style communication tool really help modern day business? Status = busy. And get off of my lawn.
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know if securing the supply chain qualifies.
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:19] <exec> 08└─You do know that the best way to "destroy" youtube is to use somebody else. Let's demonetize youtube. And if you put up your content to make money, don't get all political and shit. Politics and money don't mix.
[17:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what "vertigo market integration" is all about? I mean you brought it up, I'm just following the lead. Isn't owning the suppliers and retailers to avoid the headaches of negotiation with outsiders a good thing?
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:23] <exec> 08└─Governments incorporate a business. But business always precedes government.
[17:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:45] <exec> 08└─Ask and ye shall receive. [youtube.com]
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[18:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:46] <exec> 08└─Who does, but until the state actually takes privacy and the 4A seriously, I live with the annoyance.
[18:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:47] <exec> 08└─Agree. I don't really want/need a lock on my phone either. For me, my ideal use would be password after reboot. Swipe to unlock -- i personally don't need more than that for spotify, placing calls, looking at my contacts, responding to a text, playing a game, using google maps, etc... I want my emai...
[18:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:49] <exec> 08└─More or less this. I don't have a password, pin, thumbprint or whatnot on my phone. It's just open all the time.
[18:15:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─I suspect that the drone was probing the borders. Which side of the border it was on is probably uncertain to any observer. (Air space borders are a bit hard to pin down, and the things up there move pretty fast.) Were some Iranian soldiers trigger happy? Perhaps. They were also being provoked and s...
[18:15:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:24] <exec> 08└─No, we'd be going to war because the U.S. wants a war and destroying the drone would be the excuse.
[18:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 2666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:02] <exec> 08└─Yep. Keep believing that. (All of this is about the US only). A provider who accepts insurance *must* take more from a self-pay than what the insurance companies pay them. Not what they -charge- but what they are -paid- by the insurance companies, because if their rates for self-pay drop below the c...
[18:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:03] <exec> 08└─The role of the media is apparent in both. For the Maine, Hearst and Pulitzer hyped (to the point of falsehood. Fake news, anyone?) the incident as it would increase newspaper sales. The media has given Trump incredible coverage volume because his outrageous style gives them eyeballs on websites, TV...
[18:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:05] <exec> 08└─Well, the Nobel Peace Prize, after all, memorializes an arms manufacturer.
[18:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:08] <exec> 08└─Think about being in the second year of your wonderful savings plan and then you're diagnosed with brain cancer. Such things happen. Now who did the wrong math?
[18:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:10] <exec> 08└─It's scary how many people there are who think like that. They're not hitting on all cylinders. Of all the diseases that need curing, I wonder if gross stupidity, mental issues, and brain damage ought to be made the top priority, lest those kind of people ever gain control of a large nuclear arsenal...
[18:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:12] <exec> 08└─Last year I needed an MRI. The lab charges $2,800 for the MRI, and I only have 50% coverage for this service through my insurance. But, since I had not yet met my $5,000 annual deductible I would be paying the entire $2,800. I asked if there was a self pay option and was told that for those who did...
[18:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:14] <exec> 08└─Monotheistic means nothing. Followers of Satan, or of Mammon, or atheists, are as monotheistic as anybody else. The three monotheistic religions is a meme that does not withstand the scrutiny of a 12 years old. But ok the power of memes is recognized, mass media is based on that. The chess play in m...
[18:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:17] <exec> 08└─That should be "... loose and stupid."
[18:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:19] <exec> 08└─No, the system has repeatedly beaten down all protests and the control over mass media has marginalized every protest that actually gets some traction. I've heard about soooo many large protests only after they've been done for a while. Vietnam broke the US in more ways than one. Even after MLK was...
[18:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:21] <exec> 08└─I'm just saying.... http://10bennettave.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]
[18:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:23] <exec> 08└─See kids ^ that is why you should stay in school! You are an idiot. A fool. A knave of the worst sort. Self assured moron. Titanically Massively Birdbrained. It is scary to realize that much of our country is run by people such as yourself, too stupid to see historical precedents set within your own...
[18:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 1999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:26] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the MIC and their servants (the politicians on both sides of the aisle) learned some stuff from Vietnam, but the anti-war hippies mostly didn't. What the MIC learned: 1. Hide as much as you possibly can about what you are doing from the American public. Things you saw in Vietnam...
[18:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:28] <exec> 08└─Bernie was forced out by Hellary buying the DNC. That left Cliton and Trump. The rest of what was remaining were shills.
[18:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:30] <exec> 08└─The max speed of an RQ-9 is 340 knots. The Khordad 3 operates in excess of 2,000 knots speed. That's a differential of about 33 miles per minute, or the entire width of the Strait of Hormuz in about 40 seconds. Not a whole of of wiggle room to be on the right side of a border with that. Then again,...
[18:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:32] <exec> 08└─The claim that the US doesn't want a war with Iran is ludicrous. The US has been signalling a desire to attack Iran for at least 2 years now, when one of Trump's first acts as president was to break an agreement between the US and Iran over Iran's attempts to get nuclear weapons and the US basically...
[18:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:34] <exec> 08└─you're an idiot if you think any president is running the MIC. if you try, you get kenneddy'd.
[18:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:37] <exec> 08└─Whoever didn't do the proper risk-benefit did the wrong math. I assure you that is not the insurance company. I fell and got a concussion a few years ago with obviously an associated skull fracture because I got a black eye a few days later. Guess what, I happened to have studied brain injury at a g...
[18:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:39] <exec> 08└─And also, in case you are worrying this brain injury has caused some sort of life problems for me... it is the opposite. I am much better off now.
[18:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:41] <exec> 08└─stupid fucking voters always have some excuse not to vote third party. hey, you dumb fuck! it doesn't matter if johnson or the green candidate were dumb asses who couldn't win. the fucking point is to break up the monopoly in the media, the debates, the polls, ballot access, etc.
[18:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:44] <exec> 08└─Your physicians will keep laughing all the way to the bank, either way.
[18:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:46] <exec> 08└─I only have insurance because of the legal mandate
[18:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:48] <exec> 08└─thanks
[18:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:50] <exec> 08└─Inferiority complex much, friend? If you have an argument that refutes something you disagree with, make it. And making up conspiracies about how SN users are secretly colluding against you seems like weak sauce. Free tip: Hillary Clinton is irrelevant. And has been since 9 November 2016. Oh, and yo...
[18:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:52] <exec> 08└─Putin has chimed in saying that the US should not retaliate. At least Trump's boss has told him how to react.
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─"Don't blame me. I voted for the other guy."
[18:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:57] <exec> 08└─stupid fucking voters always have some excuse not to vote the way I want them to. Everyone needs to do what I want because...uh...because reasons! hey, you dumb fuck! it doesn't matter if johnson or the green candidate were dumb asses who couldn't win.
[18:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:30] <exec> 08└─You sound like someone who ... um ... so, how's your thumb?
[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing someone there will be more than happy to let your kids try to make some contacts. Hams like kids because they're really interested in getting new people into the hobby.
[18:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:04] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for the day when these overly-wealthy attention seekers will actually start climbing the world's tallest mountain. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I mean, we have the bathyscaphe technology to reach the Pacific sea floor, and the last little bit of the hike...
[18:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:31] <exec> 08└─As far as I know they started out as an IRC client and somehow made a business out of that. Very impressive.. the business part of it that it.
[18:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:00] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what "vertigo market integration" is all about? I mean you brought it up, I'm just following the lead. Isn't owning the suppliers and retailers to avoid the headaches of negotiation with outsiders a good thing?
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[19:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:21] <exec> 08└─In the days of Noah this entire state was wiped off the map, the news is just hyping up these trivilling concerns for clicks.
[19:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:22] <exec> 08└─They just validated the attacker's business model. I believe the payment of ransom should be criminalized.
[19:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─Pulled pop numbers from Wikipedia, so about $17 bucks per citizen. Still who pays $600k without any kind of guarantees. That said considering how many employees the municipality probably has it's probably near impossible to defend against, after all everyone just clicks on everything in their mailbo...
[19:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:27] <exec> 08└─I'm in the wrong business. Who knew? Data kidnap for ransom, FTW!
[19:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:29] <exec> 08└─And then there's the "$1 million on new computers".
[19:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─I consciously used the cringy "Cyber Attackers" instead of "Hackers" in the headline. What do you think? Wanna cyber?
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─That was a bit of an odd thing to. It doesn't say that they are replacing all the computers, but we can assume it is. So from that they only value their own data to around, or less then, $400k? Probably less since they most likely also include salaries of the technicians and various consultant fees...
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't it illegal to pay terrorists in the US? US policy is not to pay ransom to kidnappers of Americans (unless they do), and the government has come down hard on families that tried to ransom out their loved one.
[19:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:38] <exec> 08└─Way to go, guys. The Danes will be back in ever greater numbers.
[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 1828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:40] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_negotiation_with_terrorists#United_States [wikipedia.org] It's an informal policy. And refers to hostages rather than servers. As for coming down hard on families who pay money to designated terrorist organizations, it may be technically illegal but it isn't...
[19:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─Time for a new city council. This story smells. One email attachment was able to infect an entire city government computer network? WTF? Were they still running Novell NetWare on 286s? Did they back anything up, ever? They were one hard drive crash away from irreversible data loss? Many large organi...
[19:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:45] <exec> 08└─I'm sure those shiny new $1 million of computers won't become vulnerable to ransomware.
[19:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:04] <exec> 08└─Does this mean young people get up and start jumping around every time they unlock their phone? Maybe it's because they're annoyed and jumping around because the fingerprint reader failed yet again.... ^^^^^^ This, a thousand times this (or they are using the phone to watch Michael jackson vids).
[19:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:06] <exec> 08└─"I don't really want/need a lock on my phone either." I wonder, then, what you use your phone for? My phone has access to my email accounts, runs my password manager, has authentication applications for mobile banking, for access to AWS, and has other sensitive applications on it as well. If I lose...
[19:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:44] <exec> 08└─They're not hitting on all cylinders. Of all the diseases that need curing, I wonder if gross stupidity, mental issues, and brain damage ought to be made the top priority, lest those kind of people ever gain control of a large nuclear arsenal... Very hard to do when we give a free pass to the most v...
[19:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:46] <exec> 08└─Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Syria. Pakistan. Now it's Iran - not that any of the other wars are finished.
[19:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:48] <exec> 08└─Because we have an Idiot for President who couldn't maintain the deal his predecessor worked out.
[19:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:50] <exec> 08└─Nope. Clinton. Then we can blame you. A vote for Clinton is a vote for war just as much as the other guy, the only possible difference being in whose pockets the profits end up.
[19:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:52] <exec> 08└─No, it wouldn't. Idiot. It's far too thin an excuse for war even if we wanted one. Nobody back home cares if they broke our toy airplane, so it's massively insufficient pretext.
[19:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:55] <exec> 08└─That isn't far less, you twit. People kill over ideas not remote control airplanes. Zip, zilch, nada has been done back home to get anyone to give a shit about Iran, so a pretextual war with Iran is not in the works.
[19:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:57] <exec> 08└─Then look at the actual precedents, oh not-paying-attention sage. In pretty much every case of manufactured war, serious psyops were run back home in conjunction with a back-breaking straw. We have no psyops happening and losing a toy is not going to be a back-breaking straw to even folks who are of...
[19:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:59] <exec> 08└─Slightly better before, huh? Dude, do you just not care about the tens of millions of people who had no health insurance before the ACA and couldn't afford healthcare at all? Does that simply not matter, or is it all good because some people had health insurance?
[19:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except people constantly talk about how they hate both parties but feel the need to vote for the 'lesser evil.' So, yes, voters aren't even voting for candidates that they like or agree with. The US's voting system is absolutely atrocious.
[19:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:38] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and find me a TV with smart options. I'll check back.
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:09] <exec> 08└─I looked at the article. They look like the sort of thing I've seen for decades in trailer parks. I don't mean camp grounds, I mean the intended to be placed and rarely moved type of trailer. Admittedly, I like the new wood siding look in the article better than the older style aluminum/vinyl siding...
[19:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─Well for under $30K you can buy a brand new fully loaded 26~27 foot travel trailer. Most of the "Tiny Homes" I've seen are just heavy wood frame boxes on trailers that require a very large truck to tow. https://rv.campingworld.com [campingworld.com]
[19:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:13] <exec> 08└─Damn it...you made me google "john oliver-tiny homes". https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] But, there he is talking about manufactured or mobile home "parks", which is true. If you are low income and living in one of these places you are toast. But if you have your own land to...
[19:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:15] <exec> 08└─I see many openly non-racist people suddenly change their tune once they own property. Say Agatha's kids got into trouble in the big city. She sends them off to old Aunt Millie living by herself in a safe neighborhood so that they "stay out of trouble". Problem is, they create the trouble, and once...
[19:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:14] <exec> 08└─Experts said too many of the new wave of mountaineer tourists were ill-prepared and inexperienced. Others have called for a cut in the number of climbing permits, or tougher standards for guides.
[19:20:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:16] <exec> 08└─"demonetization" is*not* censorship.
[19:20:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:21] <exec> 08└─"make money uploading content" "No, not you, we're keeping the money your video/ channel has earned"
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─And... your point is?
[19:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─:-) Thank you!
[19:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:12] <exec> 08└─Oh! So very sorry.. The point is that government is always subservient to its business financiers.
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could find a display that swivels instead. https://monitorfanatic.com [monitorfanatic.com]
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[20:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─systems connected to the pwned gateway
[20:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:25] <exec> 08└─Another day goes by and someone comes up with another use for a Raspberry Pi.
[20:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─I flip you a Cyber Bird in salute! Of course, one could just use "Criminals" or "Extortionists", but where's the fun in that?
[20:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:47] <exec> 08└─A guy in San Diego working for the port district told me all he does at work is look at porn on their work computer. You can't get rid of stupid, especially lazy civil service stupid.
[20:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─>Still who pays $600k without any kind of guarantees Usually, people managing someone else's money.
[20:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─You don't kidnap the data. That way you don't need to restore it. 10 OVERWRITE DATA WITH RANDOM BITS 20 PRINT "Your data is kidnapped. Please pay ransom in BitCoin." 30 COLLECT RANSOM 40 ??? 50 PROFIT Possession of a crypto key that could decrypt the data is proof you are the perp. 40 GOSUB 20
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:53] <exec> 08└─The Danes are easily startled. But they will soon be back, and in greater numbers.
[20:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:55] <exec> 08└─My main concern was purists getting mad over "hacker" being used as "cracker".
[20:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:58] <exec> 08└─I should run for office now as a get rich quick scheme. 1) Once I get in, I can email myself some trojan software. "absent-mindedly" click on the attachment in my email and infect the city's computers. 2) Vote to pay the ransom which goes to my anonymous bitcoin account. 3) Profit. Of course, I woul...
[20:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:00] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much security $600 K might have bought? You can buy a pretty sweet corporate anti malware system for that. A real network with controlled border ingress / egress points. Maybe even a REAL operating system for their PCs. And backups. You can buy a multi terabyte pocket drive for $100. Th...
[20:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:02] <exec> 08└─Possession of a crypto key that could decrypt the data is proof you are the perp.
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─So are you saying that Riviera Beach's data is likely to be all porn? Must be hot stuff to pay $600.000 to get it back.
[20:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─What if the files viewed on that "worker's" computer were lost to ransom ware? Then would it be worth $600 K (or less) to prevent that from happening?
[20:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:09] <exec> 08└─It's a losing loosing battle. Just like improperly pronouncing "Haley's" comet, "February", "Wednesday" or "Environment". People are always going to say "hacker".
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:11] <exec> 08└─It's a losing loosing battle. Just like improperly pronouncing "Haley's" comet, "February", "Wednesday" or "Environment".
[20:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─If the ex's addiction to shitty police dramas is any indication, the "datanapper" tells the victim to send them an encrypted file and then they send it back decrypted as a "proof of life".
[20:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:16] <exec> 08└─That does seem strange. It'd be cheaper to just re-image their computers or return them to factory defaults... Unless, perhaps, they never moved past Windows XP or something, and that's why it spread so easily - they essentially had such old equipment as to be defenseless.
[20:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:18] <exec> 08└─My money would be on the backup system being on the same network as the production system, and equally affected by the ransomware. They probably hadn't learned you need to keep the backups isolated to avoid this.
[20:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:20] <exec> 08└─"Riviera Beach" there just phoning it in on city names.
[20:15:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:31] <exec> 08└─Older smartphone users tend to rely more on their phones' auto lock feature compared to younger users, a new UBC study has found.
[20:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:44] <exec> 08└─runs my password manager, has authentication applications for mobile banking, for access to AWS, and has other sensitive applications on it as well
[20:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:45] <exec> 08└─I wonder, then, what you use your phone for?
[20:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:47] <exec> 08└─I heard that "diversity training" was just part of a Jewish conspiracy.
[20:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:49] <exec> 08└─This is bad advice. In terms of credit card theft or identity theft the better plan is to assume you are hacked already and plan to minimize the fallout when they decide to use your data. For example use credit cards and avoid debit cards because the credit card companies are legally required to pay...
[20:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:51] <exec> 08└─I am an older user. I don't use a PIN. I use both fingerprint and a pattern. (yes really) The problem with a PIN is that it leaves finger smudge marks over the digits. The institution orderly's can tell which digits you use to lock, but not which order. Using a fingerprint makes it easy for them to...
[20:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:54] <exec> 08└─Feel free to use my workstation's login in case you're required a strong password: UN: luser0 PASS: 1qazXSW2luser0 I've insisted on that user name for quite a while before getting it so now I feel obligated to share it. In case you forget just do as I do and have written in a bold black marker on a...
[20:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:56] <exec> 08└─so many reasons not to use fingerprint readers from a security standpoint, in addition to their unreliability.
[20:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:58] <exec> 08└─this must be one if the teams that exist to boost politically correct gender proportions
[20:16:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:48] <exec> 08└─Nope. There's nothing particularly bad about Trump in this regard. We have a president who, like other ones in the past, cannot resist the MIC. GWB, Cheney, WMD. Some people actually think he was a better president. Trump's tally of blood and treasure lost overseas is nowhere near that guy's. The GW...
[20:17:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 1999 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:22] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the MIC and their servants (the politicians on both sides of the aisle) learned some stuff from Vietnam, but the anti-war hippies mostly didn't. What the MIC learned: 1. Hide as much as you possibly can about what you are doing from the American public. Things you saw in Vietnam...
[20:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:47] <exec> 08└─The tens of millions of people not being scammed, who then got scammed? I can tell you are very concerned about that "problem".
[20:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:26] <exec> 08└─AFAICT, most manufacturers rely on Wifi or direct wired ethernet connectivity, which is easily disabled.
[20:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:27] <exec> 08└─I just hope Samsung doesn't make a deal with Comcast to let them connect to any available Xfinity WiFi hotspot [xfinity.com], in which case you'll just hop over to your neighbor. I'm thinking I'd prefer a foil patch over the antenna or something involving a screwdriver. Helpful info, though.
[20:18:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 580 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:37] <exec> 08└─Those look like mobile homes in the pictures? Are they actually mobile homes? Mobile homes historically have been a kind of investment trap for the people that live in them. They depreciate in value like a vehicle instead of increasing in value like land; you have to pay a rent on land and can be re...
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─Obviously you don't live in central or southern California.
[20:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:04] <exec> 08└─If travel trailers are like RVs they don't wear very well at all. A year of actually living in an RV wears it out pretty bad. They don't have enough ventilation so you get mold issues.
[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:06] <exec> 08└─+1 for boats. My friend lives aboard a in a '72 Chris Craft Commander 41 and there is plenty of room for 2 people or a couple and a kiddo. The covered slip costs him ~$330/month including potable water and he has his own electric meter. A comparable apartment would be ~$1200 minimum.
[20:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:33] <exec> 08└─In the 8-bit/6502 days, we would probably have used BASIC to pre-calculate a bit-counting array, just using whatever algorithm works, strongly preferring human-readability over speed, since it probably only has to be done once. For each pass through a 0-255 loop, count the number of bits that the lo...
[20:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:35] <exec> 08└─It's not being an idiot. It's having better things to do with time, energy and money. I could write everything in assembly language. Yes. I really could. I have the skill. The result would be much smaller and with faster execution. The development time would suck. The people paying me would rather I...
[20:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─Incitement to hate crime There is less freedom to encourage violence against people based on ethnicity, gender, or disability.
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[21:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:19] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they get enough funding to take security seriously. Maybe people would try to secure things, but their time and resources are tracked and charged by red tape bean counters. An MBA says "what are you doing to that router? What is your charge code?"
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─If a raspberry pi were attached within an organization's internal network, how would an outsider connect to it in order to exploit its vulnerabilities? Maybe the Pi "phone's home" and that connection can be compromised, like sending borked "updates" which the pi dutifully installs. It seems that an...
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─There are lots of ways to phone home. You can hide it in DNS requests, innocuous looking web requests, reverse ssh connections, and a bunch of other ways.
[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, now there are 2: underpowered media device and network spy gadget (actually i did that couple years ago in a network i was allowed to do it in. I was trying to follow network traffic with wireshark to fix some problems in the network). I would've rather used something else, but RPi was the only...
[21:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah... I was thinking the same. Maybe it's wifi was exploited? Someone physically visited it and swapped out the memory card with a compromised one?
[21:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:29] <exec> 08└─It may well be that the security people do not have the authority to prevent unauthorized devices being plugged into their network, despite having responsibility for it. In a previous IT role I had, the company was full to the brim with very important "managers" who all had to have local admin righ...
[21:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:06] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I don't watch those. I can only facepalm so many times.
[21:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, how did I forget that one.
[21:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:09] <exec> 08└─Dollars to donuts says they had no backup policy. Particularly since it is a small city, meaning that IT support is probably not a well supported position.
[21:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:12] <exec> 08└─As for coming down hard on families who pay money to designated terrorist organizations, it may be technically illegal but it isn't enforced: A White House official even threatened the parents of slain journalist James Foley, who were desperate to recover their son from the Islamic State.
[21:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:14] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to adequately ballpark the total annual cost of Microsoft Windows when deciding to allow it onto your network: [cost of the license] * [number of licenses] * [number of potential emails received] * 600000. That makes the annual Windows budget for a medium size company of 600 employees (...
[21:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:16] <exec> 08└─a/s/l?
[21:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:46] <exec> 08└─Same AC here. Huh? I didn't give any advice. I said other AC was doing it wrong. I did not make any recommendations, I just wished them luck with their poor choices.
[21:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:50] <exec> 08└─Because 900 square feet is about the minimum size for a viable house. It's enough for a living room, two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen - all small, but large enough to hold normal sized appliances and furniture. Anyone trying to build a "house" smaller than that is most likely trying to abuse...
[21:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:51] <exec> 08└─Funny, I think about 98% of the people on these HGTV shows are white. Housing discrimination is a real thing, but you're way off the mark here.
[21:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:22] <exec> 08└─It has the advantage though that it avoids looping, or more to the point, conditional jumps. In a modern CPU with branch prediction mispredicts a jump (presumably the last "exit" jump in a loop, if the code was well-optimized for the looping itself) it forces the CPU pipeline to be flushed, which co...
[21:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06This Year's Annual Amateur Radio Field Day is June 22-23 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes you could, indeed, I remember the times. I also remember what people like me called people like you in those days.
[21:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube’s New Policies are Catching Educators, Journalists, and Activists in the Crossfire - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:56] <exec> 08└─"make money uploading content" "No, not you, we're keeping the money your video/ channel has earned"
[21:23:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─We're trying to do a stock take by peering through the Warehouse door keyhole.
[21:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─...are there platypuses on Earth?
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[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─I can just throw in a few TB of HDD-RAM and I'm good to go? What would a reboot do? With this alien tech, can Windows update run in less than an hour?
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:21] <exec> 08└─Exceeds the age of the universe.
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:23] <exec> 08└─"Write and erase pulses were 1 s in duration, while read pulses were 10 ms."
[22:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─That's the idea. A universal memory would replace DRAM, NAND/HDD, and maybe SRAM. It would be as fast or faster than DRAM, with the density/capacity of NAND. Booting could be nearly instantaneous, unless you run Windows 11. If you remember HP's "The Machine" from a few years back, that was a hyped c...
[22:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 2341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:28] <exec> 08└─Existing OSes are organized around having separate durable storage and fast volatile memory. Having the best of both as a single form of storage would invite research into radical design changes to the OS. You would no longer have "boot", just merely "rest low power mode". Maybe you no longer have c...
[22:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:30] <exec> 08└─The paper author is guilty of a little unwarranted hype, so it's not all the journalist's fault. This memory is very very slow and is never going to replace DRAM. With a lot of additional research, it might supplement or eventually replace flash memory. The thing is that it's not really all that har...
[22:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:32] <exec> 08└─With this alien tech, can Windows update run in less than an hour?
[22:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:34] <exec> 08└─For the results presented here, read was performed with zero bias on the CG, and VS-D = 1.0 V, although substantially smaller VS-D can easily be used.
[22:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─That is interesting. A very important piece of information that the article should contain if true. If you have physical access to the office building, rooms, devices, then you can probably compromise something without there being an existing raspberry pi there. Bring your own device, even a raspber...
[22:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:50] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of cunts here who put raspis on the wireless and never change the default password. And our wireless is open to the world. I'm suspecting JPL's isn't, so maybe the intrusion vector was an email to a Windoze box on the outside that had connectivity to the raspi?
[22:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:33] <exec> 08└─The paper noted that there is no guarantee that hackers will honor their end of the deal after getting the money.
[22:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:34] <exec> 08└─Compare how people treat plane hijackers before 9/11 against how they are treated after that event.
[22:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:36] <exec> 08└─Police dramas seem to be good for only one thing these days, normalizing abuses of power and validating the error prone techniques as foolproof. Hell, even other shows normalize illegal behavior and excuse it with "we gotta save someone!!!" True brainwashing at work, and it takes a lot of education/...
[22:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe poor wording. Either way, your comment assumes that modern personal finances can and should be secured. People just don't have the resources or skills required. Better to just prepare to recover. You still need to avoid scams, but any app from your real bank on your phone is otherwise fine. Yo...
[22:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:09] <exec> 08└─There'll be smudges elsewhere on you phone unless you just unlock it then put it back in your pocket. And it's not only the order that you have to figure out but also if digits were reused. The real reason to not use fingerprint auth is that then you fingerprint is on file in a smartphone. Either th...
[22:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:11] <exec> 08└─but any app from your real bank on your phone is otherwise fine.
[22:17:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 779 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─The claim that the US doesn't want a war with Iran is ludicrous. The US has been signalling a desire to attack Iran for at least 2 years now, when one of Trump's first acts as president was to break an agreement between the US and Iran over Iran's attempts to get nuclear weapons and the US basically...
[22:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:38] <exec> 08└─More like a few cents. It's a very small TV. It doesn't use as much power as your corporate overlords would have you believe. But you do have a point that anyone who wants a non "smart" TV should get one now. At the moment, places like Goodwill still re-sell old TVs, but you might notice most of the...
[22:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:40] <exec> 08└─I have a few internet servers running on an extra set of 8 IP addresses ( /29 ) on my network. At first I thought my servers were under attack, this only happens sporadically. One time this happened when I was in the living room, watching TV. The TV kept freezing every couple of seconds. I was too l...
[22:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:42] <exec> 08└─Don't forget this one: "My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] LOL
[22:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:21] <exec> 08└─Don't know how $20K got transmogrified into 20mpg, but if you look at used boats for awhile, you'll notice the $20K boundary between garbage and nice stuff yourself.
[22:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:53] <exec> 08└─The most amazing bit juggling I've seen on the 6502 is the loader code on the Apple Disk II controller. It somehow manages to generate the mapping table from 8-bit disk nibbles to 6-bit data (according to tricky rules about consecutive zeroes and ones) and decode a sector with it in 256 bytes of slo...
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Any Single Hair From the Human Body Can be Used for Identification - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─Hair today, gone tomorrow.
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[23:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:10] <exec> 08└─Was there also a record number of new colonies in the summer? Last time I visited the grocery store, honey was as cheap as it always has been.
[23:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:11] <exec> 08└─Last time I visited the grocery store, honey was as cheap as it always has been.
[23:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:13] <exec> 08└─s/home/honey/
[23:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─An older beekeeper paid us for a "Bee lease" on our land for awhile. His answer (in the US) to the mites problem was to order some chemical treatment from Australia via the internet, couldn't get it through normal retail/wholesale channels due to it being banned in the US, but customs on internation...
[23:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:18] <exec> 08└─While commercial bees are a significant source of today's pollination, with a little effort toward habitat creation/preservation near the fields, natural pollinators (bees, and flying insects of all kinds) can perform as well as the commercial honeymakers. We recently grew some sunflowers and drew s...
[23:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:32] <exec> 08└─Booting could be nearly instantaneous
[23:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:08] <exec> 08└─I really didn't want a lock on my phone either, but I'm forced to use one. Because when it's in my pocket, whenever someone sends me a message or tries to call me, the stupid thing will try to push all the buttons it can find. Sometimes it took hours before I could check my phone (when driving for i...
[23:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:51] <exec> 08└─http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all [cat-v.org]
[23:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:26] <exec> 08└─Experts said too many of the new wave of mountaineer tourists were ill-prepared and inexperienced. Others have called for a cut in the number of climbing permits, or tougher standards for guides.
[23:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:54] <exec> 08└─Assigning a ridiculous high value to something prepares the public to paying a (far) higher amount than they normally would. It's called priming.
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