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[00:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:36] <exec> 08└─Got a colony of bees interrupting your baseball game? Kill em all and vacuum up the corpses. Fucking assholes.
[00:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on that. We should encourage wasps, butterflies, wild bees, and all the other critters that do the same jobs as bees. Of all the "global warming" alarmism being spread around, the disappearance of pollinators probably concerns me most. Few people even know where their food comes from, s...
[00:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:53] <exec> 08└─Having the best of both as a single form of storage would invite research into radical design changes to the OS. Yeah we would have to segment our memory into two spaces. Storage and usage. We could do that today if we really wanted to. 64bits is a huge memory space. I have not looked too deeply b...
[00:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:55] <exec> 08└─Don't be so negative. You might get it in 10 years : 1KB in a box the size, price, and weight of an old HP scope, with maybe microsecond access time. "Revolutionary tech" press releases is like magicians : always focus on what they're not telling/showing, and you often quickly find why.
[00:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:57] <exec> 08└─> intrinsic data storage time that is predicted to exceed the age of the Universe Well over 95% of the storage is used for redundant and asinine bullshit that should be forgotten within a week. At least another 4% is obsolete within a decade at most. Hardly anything from the rest would be worth keep...
[00:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:14] <exec> 08└─One of the articles on this mentioned that JPL has a security incident backlog of over 180 days. So, that's how. They also supposedly have a security database (inventory, etc.), but according to the NASA IG, “One system administrator told us he does not regularly enter new devices into the ITSDB a...
[00:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:16] <exec> 08└─I object to the term because I believe it originated with some high kid with too much cheeto cheese on his fingers to type correctly :) pwned really means "player owned", and I don't see how that term really applies to JPL & NASA systems. It's not really a game.
[00:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:02] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much security $600 K might have bought?
[00:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:04] <exec> 08└─Heh, well using "cracker" in the derogatory sense can rile some purists too :) When I hear cracker, I think about the people removing CD checks and whatnot from games. I like "attacker" though because it's more accurate.
[00:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:06] <exec> 08└─This ^ If you have a backup policy, and enforce it, you can always go back. Depending on just how vigorous your backups are, you may lose a couple day's work, or a week's work, but you can always go back in time, and reset. There is the issue of determining how far back in time you have to go for a...
[00:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:41] <exec> 08└─"I wonder, then, what you use your phone for?" Did you make it through my entire post? It was only a few lines; and i thought I addressed your comment. I absolutely do have a *things* on my phone that should be protected with a passphrase: A few folders. A few apps (yes including a password manager,...
[00:16:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:50] <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!
[00:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:12] <exec> 08└─Running your own router, take care configuring firewall rules, use custom iptables etc.. Ensure your wifi is running "properly" secured.. The challenge then is to find all the aerials inside the tv or other set top box, to ensure they can't connect to any other wifi or 3G/4G/5G networks.. Only to ge...
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[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─Carl's kid sure makes a good hamburger! https://www.carlsjr.com [carlsjr.com]
[01:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:21] <exec> 08└─There is a difference, isn't there?
[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilJim [2501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:23] <exec> 08└─I would trust him to manage baking soda and vinegar propulsion, but not something like this. I wonder if so few microns of thickness will have any resilience against micro-meteors? will it be torn to shreds in a few weeks?
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:26] <exec> 08└─Laugh all you want, but this isn’t his first space experiment. He also worked on the sun dial design used on the mars rovers to calibrate the cameras. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─This Wikipedia article and my own memory identify a slew of Russians and Northern Europeans whom properly deserve credit for creating and developing the light sail - which was being described in science fiction half a century ago or more, as well - back when Carl Sagan was just a college kid reading...
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:41] <exec> 08└─Clear conclusion: Replace lawns with wildflower plantings (assuming they aren't being replaced by organized gardens). Packs of seeds are cheap and easy to come by, and a quick toss of them will make things rather pretty. Plus you don't have to mow it. Unfortunately, there are lots of city ordinances...
[01:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:01] <exec> 08└─Well over 95% of the storage is used for redundant
[01:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:02] <exec> 08└─Somebody does not realize the scale of modern data creation ... https://www.domo.com [domo.com] Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single day, and it’s only going to grow from there. By 2020, it’s estimated that 1.7MB of data will be created every s...
[01:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:05] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of porn.
[01:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:07] <exec> 08└─When we worked on OS code for this type of memory/storage hybrid (though much slower) a few years back we used a "run in place" approach. Once installed the code ran in place and used dynamic RAM allocation for data. No more moving executable code into memory which made loading applications almost i...
[01:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:09] <exec> 08└─Just run the code in place. Makes a big difference.
[01:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:11] <exec> 08└─1.7 MB/s = 13.6 Mb/s per person. Everyone can have their own 1080p60 camshow.
[01:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:30] <exec> 08└─It's not really a game.
[01:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:32] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel [wikipedia.org] Heck, even https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] - anyone interested in a FTPing for file transfer,?
[01:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:56] <exec> 08└─that's NINETEEN nineties to avoid confusion
[01:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:28] <exec> 08└─but I did so with eyes open. The picture is fantastic, and the HDMI ARC connection to my sound system greatly simplifies the number of wires and devices I need in order to watch TV, Netflix etc. I'm back to one remote, and haven't yet bothered to reprogram my universal remote. I'm well aware that th...
[01:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:09] <exec> 08└─As pointed out by OP, you will therefore lose those $30-50k over the next few years. Unless you're allergic to other people, use the 30k as a downpayment on a real condo, which doesn't have have to be bigger than a tiny house, but will appreciate. Or, 50k will pay for rent in many places for many ye...
[01:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:10] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to get up from the computer and go see the world. Would you like to guess how many billions of people in this planet hopelessly dream of living in more than 900sqft ?
[01:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:12] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on that. Our primary residence is a to-me spacious 75m2 attic flat downtown, which is way more than my partner and I need (now or for ever, we're childfree). We use the previous flat as our office, that's just 42m2, and being ground floor is probably the one we'll keep for retirement. 4...
[01:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:15] <exec> 08└─Because most American cities aspire to be the slums of Mumbai? I think you've proved my point.
[01:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:17] <exec> 08└─Well I'm torn between that and $500k condo with $20k in fees and taxes per year. I'd rather just save my money and wait out the crash. I may run some goats milk experiments while I'm at it too.
[01:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:19] <exec> 08└─Mine was that stating a house was only viable above 900 square feet is absolutely and demonstrably stupid.
[01:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:21] <exec> 08└─Why will the land be worth zero?
[01:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:54] <exec> 08└─For real? "Abusing" IC circuit compartment? Fnord666. I appreciate that you are trying to contribute, but post editing is not your thing.
[01:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Earth-Like Worlds that Could Support Life Found Hiding Near our Solar System - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:55] <exec> 08└─Never tell me the odds!
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[02:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:16] <exec> 08└─Got slapped in the nuts, because while more efficient, NOx limits were exceeded. How do these fare?
[02:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Solar wind is God farting. Photons are his sharts.
[02:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─Jack Vance wrote Sail 25 in 1962. If you ever read it, you won't forget Henry Belt.
[02:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─The research at Ars Technica is impeccable [boingboing.net].
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sfm [675] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia: "The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun"
[02:14:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:43] <exec> 08└─Last time I visited the grocery store, honey was as cheap as it always has been.
[02:14:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 987 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:46] <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...
[02:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:15] <exec> 08└─Call me picky or jaded, but I wouldn't want to watch 99.9% of them, even the naked parts. Comcast would also like to remind you that any "channel" has to fit in 5MB/s, even HD.
[02:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:01] <exec> 08└─First of all, I got a laugh out off this being posted as AC, thanks. Second, that is exactly my point. Modern skimmers at a gas station are completely hidden, nothing visible no matter how close you look. Coupled with breaches like home depot or target actual being secure is a virtual impossibility...
[02:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:02] <exec> 08└─If you don't have illusions about it being secure, why use it at all? I'm guessing because it provides a minor impediment as a security feature, so it does provide some security, kinda like using a weak password rather than no password at all. Which is of course a preference. It's your device, so le...
[02:19:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 1590 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:09] <exec> 08└─Some minimal research https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://duckduckgo.com
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[02:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting a Price on Chat: Slack is Going Public at $16 Billion Value - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:57] <exec> 08└─or POTUS
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[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─When you are so efficient, that by burning lean, you burn the friking air itself ... Kudos or jail. Look up the history of the Haber process [wikipedia.org] Bastard had to off himself, after his wife did out of shame for him, producing chemical weapons for the Kaiser, and extermination gasses for t...
[03:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:22] <exec> 08└─My 12 valve 4 cylinder 1345cc Honda Civic wants its rich pre-combustion chamber back. It used a 3 barrel carburetor, 2 normal plus one rich to feed the little valves that fed the pre-combustion chamber around the spark plug. Back then, it was one of the last engines to require catalytic converters t...
[03:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:24] <exec> 08└─there is still need for further research, due to the lean combustion process.
[03:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilJim [2501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:39] <exec> 08└─+1 informative to you from me. I'm still going to chuckle like an ass whenever I see his name though.
[03:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:40] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that he's an engineer, so he's more qualified to work on this than much of what he does.
[03:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:55] <exec> 08└─I've done the wild yard thing, and it's not very nice to go for a walk in, but a mix of cleared field and wild area is a very nice thing, particularly if you don't like looking at your neighbors - a 6' unmowed strip will grow up to block the view pretty well. I'm seriously considering widening the p...
[03:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:57] <exec> 08└─Good luck doing anything with HOAs - you're dealing with a very small groups of generally very small minds, no amount of rational discourse will ever change an HOA's course.
[03:15:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 2341 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:09] <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...
[03:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:24] <exec> 08└─The article quotes someone saying "exceed the age of the universe", yet the actual paper says "Non-volatile data retention of at least 10^4 s", with no reports of tests lasting more than around an hour. Unless I'm experiencing an incredible amount of time dilation, there's a big difference between...
[03:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:26] <exec> 08└─With this alien tech, can Windows update run in less than an hour?
[03:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:28] <exec> 08└─And the first releases will require cryogenic cooling.
[03:15:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:39] <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.
[03:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sfm [675] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:36] <exec> 08└─Ransomware generally encrypts data on the disk. If regular backups were made (and stored offline) the damage should be limited to changes since the last backup. $600k is a LOT to pay for an "oops" that should have been be SOP
[03:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:16] <exec> 08└─Same AC here. There is some logic to your point. Sure, there are always risks to using electronic payment systems (which is what credit/debit cards are these days). I had my card data skimmed/stolen once too. And there is merit in preparing for that possibility. I'm with you so far. However, *recomm...
[03:17:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06Iran "Ready for War" Following Shoot Down of U.S. Drone - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds like levels of munitions inventory for the US are overflowing again. That’s bad for business.
[03:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:50] <exec> 08└─Running your own router, take care configuring firewall rules, use custom iptables etc.. Ensure your wifi is running "properly" secured.. The challenge then is to find all the aerials inside the tv or other set top box, to ensure they can't connect to any other wifi or 3G/4G/5G networks.. Only to ge...
[03:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:51] <exec> 08└─Edison would be spinning in his grave! (but would the spinning generate an AC current?)
[03:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:54] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/463/ [xkcd.com] Why does the TV need a virus scanner? Why does anything made in the last few decades, minus Windows, need a virus scanner?
[03:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:41] <exec> 08└─Beg to differ. Lived in a travel trailer for 24 years. Mold was not a problem. Roof maintenance was a nuisance (needs to be resealed at least every other year, or you will have leaks) but otherwise... depends on the trailer. An old Airstream or Rollohome can stay in very good shape for decades, with...
[03:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:42] <exec> 08└─I just did some real estate hunting for a friend in southern Ohio. Found numerous nice lots for sale for $10k or so. Lots of decent houses (mostly modulars or doublewides, but in good shape) under $50k. This isn't so unusual all across the farming midwest. Yeah, you can't get the 6 figure tech job t...
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[03:21:17] <exec> 08└─(modulo maths for the non-maths people).
[03:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:19] <exec> 08└─> Looking at Go2 they might screw it up with all those runtime interfaces I have no idea what this is referring to. Go 1 already has "runtime interfaces" (?), it's one of the key features of the language and to simplify is basically a way of getting duck typing in a static type system. The main sell...
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[03:23:57] <exec> 08└─No, you didn't agree to watch ads.
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[04:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niantic Sues Group of Alleged 'PokéMon Go' Cheaters - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─Pokemon Go to the Courts
[04:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder if so few microns of thickness will have any resilience against micro-meteors?
[04:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:53] <exec> 08└─This Wikipedia article and my own memory identify a slew of Russians and Northern Europeans
[04:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:39] <exec> 08└─Linux has supported a form of this for a very long time. XIP support was added in 2005: https://lwn.net [lwn.net] Executables are executed directly from flash and not copied to RAM.
[04:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:01] <exec> 08└─One of the nicer things that have come from Google and the Snowden/PRISM leaks is that Google didn't take too kindly with their internal networks being tapped and so implemented BeyondCorp. Basically, BeyondCorp means no networks are trusted and all clients are authenticated based on both hardware a...
[04:19:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:57] <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.
[04:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:07] <exec> 08└─"Most folks" just don't care. Cf. articles on SN over the last year and more about inseure IoT devices, spyware on phones, etc, etc.. Worse, they see people who do care as loonies.
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[05:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:14] <exec> 08└─Just had an update today to 67.0.3 aaaaaannnnd never mind, I'm covered. Too many beers. It's a hazard of being retired early/not employed. I can't even get a credit card at this point.
[05:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niantic Sues Group of Alleged 'PokéMon Go' Cheaters - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:21] <exec> 08└─It's like millions of necks were yanked away from their phones towards the Supreme Court and then they were silenced. LOL!
[05:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:52] <exec> 08└─A little more research before posting, please. ~childo
[05:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:10] <exec> 08└─It was a guy in a Buddhist t-short going round introducing the mites deliberately as part of a plot to lure an Arab Sheikh to the US to kidnap him. I know it sounds like a plot from some TV detective series, but I saw it on TV so it must be true.
[05:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:08] <exec> 08└─Worse, they see people who do care as loonies.
[05:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:09] <exec> 08└─Here is a three minute video about how to reset your GE lightbulbs if they don't respond to WiFi commands: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] When I first saw it, I thought it was a parody.
[05:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:11] <exec> 08└─The best response I have had is "so what?" Humans are crap at risk assessment, if it isn't about immediate threat of being eaten. Evolution hasn't caught up with the last 200 years of technology (yet?)
[05:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:13] <exec> 08└─Execution by the electric chair was invented by Edison. It was the result of his attempts to show how much more dangerous AC was compared to DC. You can find the demonstrations he used to do on YouTube, most famously with elephants.
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[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─One up-front payment vs bleed your wallet all night long?
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[06:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:19] <exec> 08└─lol, except you're not: there a 67.0.4 now ... another critical security hole in javascript.
[06:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niantic Sues Group of Alleged 'PokéMon Go' Cheaters - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:28] <exec> 08└─Perhaps Niantic can sway the jury by offering a MewTwo inside the courtroom during the course of the trial?
[06:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Niantic Sues Group of Alleged 'PokéMon Go' Cheaters - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:30] <exec> 08└─Is there a Pokemon Barn, or whatever they are called, appearing in the courtroom?
[06:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 2662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:40] <exec> 08└─Devil's in the details -- I would not be surprised to find out existing engine designs could hit that 45% efficiency already, IF you don't have to worry about emissions. MANY engine projects since the 1980s have shown amazing efficiency gains, which then dwindle to being no gains once you have to c...
[06:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:42] <exec> 08└─Responding to myself... oh, "gas" as in methane. Well, I think a lot of what I wrote still applies -- I suspect even with a methane engine, many problems of the past regarding emissions can be solved with newer engine management techniques.
[06:15:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:33] <exec> 08└─Booting could be nearly instantaneous
[06:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:38] <exec> 08└─You're not very bright. ECE is "electrical and computer engineering" as TFA says. This (admittedly bad) research is not sociology at all, no more than a study of frequency distribution of characters in passwords is sociology (zomg people use "1" and "0" over 10x more often than "6" in passwords! Soc...
[06:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:09] <exec> 08└─My first home was 550 square feet. It was more than enough for my parents, siblings, and myself. It also had normal sized furniture and all the rooms you mentioned. Just because you can't imagine a house like that being functional, doesn't mean they aren't. I, personally, don't understand how famili...
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[06:21:46] <exec> 08└─That was my immediate response as well, the HAKMEM method is loop-free and far more efficient.
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[07:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers, Farmers, and Doctors Unite! Support for Right to Repair Laws Slowly Grows - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:15] <exec> 08└─When we buy our washer, dryer, blender, or pressure cookers, we have bought them. Nonsense to say that we've only rented, leased, or licensed them. If that be the case, then a factory representative should arrive promptly on my doorstep when the refrigerator starts gasping, with a replacement refrig...
[07:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers, Farmers, and Doctors Unite! Support for Right to Repair Laws Slowly Grows - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:16] <exec> 08└─When we buy our washer, dryer, blender, or pressure cookers, we have bought them.
[07:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:26] <exec> 08└─This is a Cyber that's changing faster than our "wonderful" Soylent News Submitters & Editors -- and many of the Submitters, that actually get their Message through are Editors -- can keep up. They're changing it because of "security." While my military is working with 1970s Cyber. For ICBMs, for ma...
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[07:14:29] <exec> 08└─(cont) By the way, the Link. foxnews.com/tech/americas-nuke-program-runs-on-floppy-disks [foxnews.com]
[07:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:31] <exec> 08└─So I'm not really that concerned. I suppose I'll allow FF update my ESR at some point. But not today.
[07:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:31] <exec> 08└─The Sacramento Bee covered that one. For obvious reasons? https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[07:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:32] <exec> 08└─There was a segment on the news last night about pesticides. I had no idea that your average non-bio farmer sprays his crops with pesticides "just in case". Not if there's a problem, but always. Ok, maybe I'm naive, but I would have assumed simply cost cutting would prevent this. Anyway. Given the m...
[07:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:12] <exec> 08└─Police dramas seem to be good for only one thing these days...
[07:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:25] <exec> 08└─I saw that the United States, when they host a dignitary, such as the head of China, head of India, they put up a cheap tent by the White House and I thought that was inappropriate. And I called David Axelrod at the White House. The purpose of the call was to offer the United States, free of charge,...
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[08:14:40] <exec> 08└─Well, that's it: licenses are being used because they defeat property rights. Mandatory arbitration contracts are also being used to deprive you of your legal rights. When does the corporate takeover of power against individual people end?
[08:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers, Farmers, and Doctors Unite! Support for Right to Repair Laws Slowly Grows - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:42] <exec> 08└─When does the corporate takeover of power against individual people end?
[08:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:25] <exec> 08└─"What would a reboot do?" Same as a reboot now - zero the appropriate working memory but not the long term storage so that first-time initialisations occur and no assumptions are made about the state of the machine. You'd likely end up with a memory split (maybe a moving one) between working RAM and...
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[09:14:35] <exec> 08└─That is why I make the blank statement, now. As soon as you concede any right, it is gone forever. Assert your rights now, not 50 years from now.
[09:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:08] <exec> 08└─It used a 3 barrel carburetor,
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[10:14:39] <exec> 08└─Anyone who really cares about randomness should use their own random numbers. And if you can't for some reason(s), then all this collaborative generation stuff is probably useless to you too for similar reasons. The lottery can say they're using those random numbers as a seed but how can you be sure...
[10:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:25] <exec> 08└─Old people often have these problems: 1) No usable fingerprints 2) Can barely remember their bank PINs much less their phone passwords. https://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] the elasticity of skin decreases with age, so a lot of senior citizens h...
[10:20:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:24] <exec> 08└─If your appliance can get a virus, then it's defective and needs to be returned.
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[11:14:44] <exec> 08└─That is why I make the blank statement, now.
[11:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:56] <exec> 08└─another zero day fix yesterday: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com [bleepingcomputer.com]
[11:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:58] <exec> 08└─I saw RoboCop, I mean that was just a city goverment and they had robots to do the policing. Now we find out that federal government's ICBMs can't even afford up-to-date computers. Crazy!
[11:16:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 783 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:13] <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...
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[11:16:34] <exec> 08└─Haven't we all heard of "If it's too good to be true, then it probably is."
[11:17:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:53] <exec> 08└─prefer using PINs over fingerprints to unlock their phones
[11:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:27] <exec> 08└─You are insufficiently confusable. OP could be 104 years old and talking about his 90's.
[11:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:29] <exec> 08└─I tried using sticky notes to hold my username/password but after a few months they lose their sticky and fall off. Now I just write on the silver bezel with a sharpie.
[11:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:15] <exec> 08└─Climbing Mount Everest is more dangerous. 1-2% death rate. http://www.adventurestats.com [adventurestats.com] https://www.cbsnews.com [cbsnews.com] FWIW one of the most dangerous jobs is President of the USA: https://en....
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[11:23:16] <exec> 08└─I'd say it's fine to let them climb if they're legally adults and they haven't had children yet (including unborn ones). Part of natural selection.
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[12:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:45] <exec> 08└─Send the offenders to a reeducation gulag? It's never a good idea to silence opinions, even bad ones. Imagine that these people will stay by their sentiments, but cannot express them any longer in the open.
[12:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:46] <exec> 08└─Send the offenders to a reeducation gulag? It's never a good idea to silence opinions, even bad ones. Imagine that these people will stay by their sentiments, but cannot express them any longer in the open.
[12:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:48] <exec> 08└─Imagine that these people will stay by their sentiments, but cannot express them any longer in the open.
[12:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:50] <exec> 08└─The real reason officers' addresses are not public (in my jurisdiction, at least) is to make it more difficult for the bleeding hearts to find their shed full of sheets, crosses and gasoline.
[12:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the us but here, cops an military personnel are by contract forbidden to express political affiliation in public (it's fine in private).
[12:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:55] <exec> 08└─Imagine that these people will stay by their sentiments, but cannot express them any longer in the open.
[12:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Article: Random Uniform Experiment for the Masses - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:04] <exec> 08└─maybe soon we will all fatigue of green?
[12:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:34] <exec> 08└─I called them "homeowners juntas", with the implication of petty dictatorships, for a reason.
[12:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:07] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, they tested this at room temp. Oh wait, I was going to find a quote from the paper but it's in the paper title. Room-temperature Operation of Low-voltage, Non-volatile, Compound-semiconductor Memory Cells The extremely low energy needed to read, write, and erase bodes well for i...
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[13:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:26] <exec> 08└─1) Revenue is generated from the activities. 2) Operating costs (including salaries) are substracted. 3) Now you have profit before tax. 4) Taxes are paid. 5) Now we have profit after tax. 6) Profit after tax is given to the shareholders. It goes always in that order. Now, cut out point 4... where d...
[13:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:46] <exec> 08└─He said "The evidence been falsified. It's impossible. I never broke the law. I AM the Law!". Btw, 2070s onward the Judges overthrow the government and do become the law: https://judgedredd.fandom.com [fandom.com]
[13:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Article: Random Uniform Experiment for the Masses - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:55] <exec> 08└─maybe soon we will all fatigue of green?
[13:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Article: Random Uniform Experiment for the Masses - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:57] <exec> 08└─Get 'Uncrackable' Quantum Keys [soylentnews.org]
[13:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers, Farmers, and Doctors Unite! Support for Right to Repair Laws Slowly Grows - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:10] <exec> 08└─If they don't sell the "smart things" they should lease the thing for a monthly or yearly fee and put some SLA to appropriately respond in time for any repairment and maintenance, that way the customer will face the real cost of "having but not owning" one of the "smart things" and not falsely belie...
[13:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niantic Sues Group of Alleged 'PokéMon Go' Cheaters - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:34] <exec> 08└─Playing these games requires physically moving the device over distances of hundreds or thousands of metres. Players with a mobility impairment often have serious trouble doing so. When players with disabilities have used tools to simulate movement of the device, Niantic has banned these players [vi...
[13:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:49] <exec> 08└─methinks it is silly to connect a ice to the wheels "directly". it should rather be a device that most efficiently EXTRACTS the energy in the fuel and converts it to something easy to handle: electricty. also the idea of a piston mass having to REVERSE direction is just plain stupid. the reason prob...
[13:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sensei_moreh [4698] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:03] <exec> 08└─When I saw the 10^4 sec, I thought, "hmm... about 3 hours." Low-volatility but definitely not non-volatile.
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[14:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:25] <exec> 08└─That's capitalism for you: Privatize the profits, socialize the spendings.
[14:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:27] <exec> 08└─There are still people who are surprised at this sort of corporate conduct! Shocking!
[14:14:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:40] <exec> 08└─Send the offenders to a reeducation gulag? It's never a good idea to silence opinions, even bad ones. Imagine that these people will stay by their sentiments, but cannot express them any longer in the open.
[14:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:46] <exec> 08└─Don't censor them. Allow them to post their true feelings. The only adjustment that need be made, is for them to post as CIVILIANS. Dude's a rabid nigger-hater, and he patrols six days a week in a black neighborhood? There's nothing "wrong" with his opinions. The only thing really wrong here, is tha...
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:48] <exec> 08└─Don't use fucking Facebook. This applies to everyone.
[14:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:51] <exec> 08└─Of course you don't want racists in your police force. But I looked at the 'evidence' website and a lot of it doesn't look very racist to me. A lot looks more like a culture thing among police, sort of as an outlet for the stress that they experience during work. Similar to military or first respond...
[14:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Article: Random Uniform Experiment for the Masses - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:01] <exec> 08└─I just finished reading the proposal. 1.) Though the intended audience is sure to know what it stands for, as the intent is to persuade the less-knowledgeable general public, too, I would suggest expanding *all* acronyms on first use. For example: PRNG and RUNE. 2.) I see the use of symmetric keys a...
[14:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers, Farmers, and Doctors Unite! Support for Right to Repair Laws Slowly Grows - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:15] <exec> 08└─Sadly Richard Stallman didn't wrote "The right to plow".
[14:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─Don't fix it, if it ain't broke. Sure, that saying can get you in trouble sometimes, but so many times it's too true. At this point, I'd be afraid someone would have the bright idea to put the ICBM control computer on the internet. IoTs are so secure!
[14:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:14] <exec> 08└─For those interested, was basically test everything but light propulsion ( orbit to low) http://www.planetary.org [planetary.org]
[14:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:08] <exec> 08└─It was my attempt at sardonic humor. Many do that- you know, the obviously wrong comment that some might find humorous because there might be truth in it? The point being based on the so many civilization-changing technologies that news media, even science community, like to sensationalize, such as...
[14:18:20] <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 - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:21] <exec> 08└─OK, gotcha now. I can understand that and we do get stupid about things (like hatred of 'cyber' for myself). But sometimes the question might be, "Is it needful to make any such reference or just note the specific type of crime and not need to specify that it's an Internet crime?" Especially when co...
[14:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:47] <exec> 08└─More than a few cents, but probably less than $100. Here's a random electricity calculator I found on the interwebs. https://energyusecalculator.com [energyusecalculator.com] Pretty interesting.
[14:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I wonder if that's an issue with my sample size (n=2) or a real difference in travel trailers and RVs?
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everest Summits Smash Records Amid Deadly Bottlenecks - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:56] <exec> 08└─True, and many guide contracts are specifically written that way that if the expedition leader makes the call for no go then the climber is supposed to submit, and that the company is not guaranteeing the climber will reach the summit. At the same time the company will be judged by how many people i...
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[15:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:36] <exec> 08└─But for some reason I expect near-sourcing or call centers in Mexico and Canada to fill the gaps created.
[15:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─about why all the data about all the people of the world should be stored in the lower half of north America. are they the only one's who can keep things private? i really have no idea what possible good this would do for the people of the world. and i'm not trying to be sarcastic.
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─Thank god we decided to put a businessman in the White House.
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:50] <exec> 08└─no matter what, idiots will CONTINUE to vote R, which goes against the little guy even though the little guy is totally convinced by the R's that 'his time will soon come'. they are stupid beyond belief. and they have more votes than the smarter sides of the country so we all suffer due to their ign...
[15:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:52] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhh, let me get this straight. You're saying that AT&T has never made any donations to a D candidate? AT&T has never lobbied a D congress critter? And, no D ever voted to give AT&T money by the truckload? It's only R's who do this? If that were true, I might consider becoming a D. Unfortunatel...
[15:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:55] <exec> 08└─Good profit is where you find it, or, more completely [fandom.com].
[15:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:57] <exec> 08└─no matter what, idiots will CONTINUE to vote R
[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:59] <exec> 08└─every billion dollars AT&T invests
[15:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─Investors and management like to portray themselves as "job creators". They like to explain why the government is doing them favors as "because it will create or save jobs in the area". They like to claim that tax cuts and loosening legal rules will boost profits, sure, but it will also create or sa...
[15:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:24] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't care about racist cops, can you imagine the liability to the department if one of these racists goes out an shoots a black kid? The department knew the cop was racist and let him go out anyhow. Granted, most police departments probably already know which of their employees are raci...
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:26] <exec> 08└─Social media platforms literally exist for the surveillance of their users. Use means of communication with some privacy, people, not this creepy shit where your utterances are tied to your identity and stored forever for any crackpot to use against you. (Reminds me of the Don't Talk to the Police a...
[15:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:28] <exec> 08└─I scrolled down for awhile. Some of that shit is over the edge. As much as I despise George Soros - government agents at any level shouldn't be doxxing Soros, and advocating his assassination. For you, or me, or any other private citizen to do so would expose us to terroristic threats charges. These...
[15:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:30] <exec> 08└─I don't like where this is headed. We're crowd-sourcing character assassination. If you have a moment when you're tired and cranky and something messed up just happened, the best of us can say things out of context in an unguarded moment. That utterance can then be cherry-picked by self-appointed pu...
[15:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:58] <exec> 08└─OK. More research... From The Planetary Society [planetary.org] The idea of solar sailing dates back to the 1600s, but the story of LightSail begins in the late 1970s, when NASA considered flying a giant solar sail to Halley's comet, and Planetary Society co-founder Carl Sagan promoted the concept d...
[15:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:20] <exec> 08└─As statistics go, having seen three bees/wasp dead or very weak this season, vs 1 last season, vs none in the preceding four decades, means very little. But if I form my opinion based on my experience, and everyone else does the same with theirs, we will be statically right. As for me the suggestion...
[15:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:52] <exec> 08└─Security and functionality are usually a trade off. You're willing to give up more functionality than most. I think that if you ask too much people will ignore all of what you say. Most security people advice is too far for the average person. Personally I think compliance on the basics would get so...
[15:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:53] <exec> 08└─I play games on my phone. What smudges? :)
[15:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:55] <exec> 08└─I concur; if you value your privacy and the related security often tied to privacy, then never protect with biometrics what you want to keep private. Maybe use biometrics in a form of multi-factor authentication that provides something you have (a biometric value) with something you know (that 5th a...
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[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─So they can spend a billion bozo bux on housing.
[16:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:00] <exec> 08└─Probably (although you don't need H1Bs for call centers, just people working inside the US borders). Companies like Softtek already source their guys from Latin America.
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─More likely because the US intelligence agencies have far easier access to data stored in the US. I see this as the US government saying "Either give us all the supposedly private data your people share with US-based companies, or we'll cut off the flow of money your H-1B's are sending home."
[16:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:20] <exec> 08└─No. How about they pay taxes like everyone else. No more tax breaks! We are broke! Pay the debt and fix the infrastructure.
[16:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:21] <exec> 08└─More telemarketer jobs in India.
[16:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─When you cut out point number 4, you substantially increase point number 2, but only at the top executive level.
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:26] <exec> 08└─Also don't forget ATT's (and Verizon and Comcast etc.} plant (the poles, conduit, cable, optic cables, switching centers, transmission towers, etc.) are granted monopoly by local and state governments.
[16:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:28] <exec> 08└─Corporations (who are people too!) have been known to make donations to both (or all) political sides. They want to be in favor with whoever ends up in power. They don't care about ideology, except for one ideology: money is god, and we want our executives to have all the money they can possibly get...
[16:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:30] <exec> 08└─A "businessman" who self described as "the king of bankruptcy".
[16:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:38] <exec> 08└─I can see the promo video. Cue music by Richard Wagner ... Hope it doesn't end in an apocalypse.
[16:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─The current lap record of 6:44.97 is held by the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ and was set over a year ago.
[16:15:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:51] <exec> 08└─Imagine that these people will stay by their sentiments, but cannot express them any longer in the open.
[16:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:01] <exec> 08└─...or just don't be a fucking racist.
[16:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─A lot looks more like a culture thing among police, sort of as an outlet for the stress that they experience during work.
[16:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:05] <exec> 08└─It's all good as long as it's not your ox getting gored. Hint: there are all sorts of things that people will come after you for, and the list changes over time.
[16:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:07] <exec> 08└─I don't like where this is headed.
[16:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Article: Random Uniform Experiment for the Masses - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks, these are great suggestions :D
[16:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers, Farmers, and Doctors Unite! Support for Right to Repair Laws Slowly Grows - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:35] <exec> 08└─As soon as you concede any right, it is gone forever. Assert your rights now, not 50 years from now.
[16:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:51] <exec> 08└─A zero-day is a bug that doesn't have a website, logo, or theme song yet?
[16:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─The pathname would be: /home/honey
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not thinking it magically has unlimited space. I'm thinking that some things can be done more efficiently and differently. Maybe to state it a bit differently, I'm thinking that "files" are the in-memory representation of things as they are used by the applications that work on them once loa...
[16:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:38] <exec> 08└─That is part of what I'm thinking of. But also that "files" are the in-memory data structures as an application would use them after "loading" them from disk.
[16:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Riviera Beach, Florida Paid $600,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Cyber Attackers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:53] <exec> 08└─Other people are paying.
[16:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How You Lock Your Smartphone can Reveal Your Age: UBC Study - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:42] <exec> 08└─As you say, it is a minor security feature. But not real security. The reason: because I want the phone to actually lock in a way that it won't be getting button presses and taking actions when it is in my pocket. I want to either have to fingerprint it, or swipe an unlock pattern. Convenience, not...
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:27] <exec> 08└─Good luck, then -- I'd go mad if I had servers go down because the TV had to be unplugged to get things working again, despite the network segmentation/isolation! Makes me think of that bastard operator from hell story; he had unplugged the lotus notes server to run his coffee maker at work, or let...
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[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Abandoning Pixel Slate 2 and Other Tablets - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─Larry: Sergey, what project are we going to kill this month? Sergey: Can we just give it a rest, Larry? Larry: Throw the dart, Sergey. Throw the dart! [Sergey throws a dart] Larry: Did that land in Newborn Data Tracking? Sergey: Almost. Looks like it just caught the edge of ChromeOS Tablets. Larry:...
[17:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:36] <exec> 08└─But for some reason I expect near-sourcing or call centers in Mexico and Canada to fill the gaps created.
[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:37] <exec> 08└─Easy : more money for Americans is best for the world. Duh!
[17:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 1474 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:55] <exec> 08└─Investors and management like to portray themselves as "job creators". They like to explain why the government is doing them favors as "because it will create or save jobs in the area". They like to claim that tax cuts and loosening legal rules will boost profits, sure, but it will also create or sa...
[17:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:02] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I'd love to know the political history- like, in light of anti-monopoly / antitrust legislation, why they allowed it to happen. I know, because even the company reps. sing the song, that they (Verizon and AT&T anyway) are heavily regulated by the govt. But did the govt. pass legislation...
[17:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:12] <exec> 08└─Actually it was designed for the next James Bond movie. :-)
[17:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:15] <exec> 08└─Or, it was designed for Apocalypse II (can there be a sequel to the Vietnam war...) Editors -- more to the point, I think this becomes news when the lap record is broken. So far all that is running at Aston Martin is their hype machine.
[17:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─If it does not beat it, will still have the best ever https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[17:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:19] <exec> 08└─I believe combustion in automobiles is nearly done. Kaput. It's a rolling corpse that hasn't been decently buried yet, still stinking up the world. I mean, what's next, make an advanced steam engine, like this South American fellow I heard about who died recently?
[17:15:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:41] <exec> 08└─A lot looks more like a culture thing among police, sort of as an outlet for the stress that they experience during work.
[17:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:44] <exec> 08└─Someone read the original submission? This will go down in your record!
[17:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:47] <exec> 08└─That's great and all and the saying can be expanded to all kinds of nonsense, but what benefits to society is there in nurturing hate? That needs to be defined to justify society wanting to protect such a thing. What's the purpose, why do we want hate?
[17:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:49] <exec> 08└─I would rather punish actions than opinions. it's the lack of punishment for cops that break the law that is the problem, not the fact that they're dicks. If we do otherwise, we'll quickly be in a race to the bottom of the purity cycle, wherein nobody can be found to do the job, any job, because the...
[17:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:33] <exec> 08└─My default uMatrix rules are: * * * block * 1st-party css allow * 1st-party image allow
[17:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Houses Entice Budget-Conscious Americans - 2318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─Don't know...I've lived in two different travel trailers (always in harsh conditions), and used two others for long term storage, all very different makes and quality. Still own one of 'em, and it's a 1974 model. Might be partly differences in quality of workmanship (eg. Airstream), but I suspect mo...
[17:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:36] <exec> 08└─I think there are more people who know how to use C++ properly who say that. I'm one of the people who modded it funny and I use C++. It also made me think of the old Stroustrup joke about shooting your leg off. I thought us C++ programmers had an abundance of self-irony? Not like those annoying Lis...
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[18:14:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Abandoning Pixel Slate 2 and Other Tablets - 410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─Larry: Sergey, what project are we going to kill this month? Sergey: Can we just give it a rest, Larry? Larry: Throw the dart, Sergey. Throw the dart! [Sergey throws a dart] Larry: Did that land in Newborn Data Tracking? Sergey: Almost. Looks like it just caught the edge of ChromeOS Tablets. Larry:...
[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Abandoning Pixel Slate 2 and Other Tablets - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:34] <exec> 08└─I've been looking for a good Android tablet for a long time, and reluctant to pay $1000 for it. The new 6+" phones (sub $300) are better tablets than anything I've ever seen on the tablet market. I suppose if you just have to have a 10" screen, they don't get it, but at 6.2", I think I'm just fine w...
[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Abandoning Pixel Slate 2 and Other Tablets - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─(Not that it affects me so much now that I have a sweet pixelbook . . .) Google please bring back the Nexus 7. When my Nexus 7 finally broke, I would have replaced it without even a 2nd thought if I could have.
[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Abandoning Pixel Slate 2 and Other Tablets - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─So they can spend a billion bozo bux on housing.
[18:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:53] <exec> 08└─you don't need H1Bs for call centers, just people working inside the US borders
[18:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:30] <exec> 08└─First rule of thesaurus club: You don't talk, discuss, converse, speak, chat, confer, deliberate, gab, or gossip about thesaurus club.
[18:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:01] <exec> 08└─Really? It wouldn't be to keep criminals from intimidating THEM and their families? You do know there are for reals criminals, don't you, or is everyone innocent and the crimes commit themselves?
[18:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:03] <exec> 08└─tl;dr - you are free to hate but you cannot not be in any public position of authority.
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:05] <exec> 08└─It's trivial to figure out where cops live. I have managed to dig up the name and address of every cop who has so much as given me a ticket within minutes of getting home. I file the information away with the ticket, photos of what's outside my immediate window, the weather report, etc and usually...
[18:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:07] <exec> 08└─On one hand we have character assassination and mob rule. On the other hand we have actual assassination and we depend on mobsters for rule of law. I think you need to get choked out by a cop.
[18:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:40] <exec> 08└─I too cannot hear his name without thinking "the science guy", but it does seem like he does do some serious science.
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Asks Users to Please Virus-Scan Their TVs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:26] <exec> 08└─The rate at which Edison would spin in his grave would be directly related to how magnetic a personality he had. Which from what I can tell, isn't much. And also a patent troll before the term was even coined.
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[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Abandoning Pixel Slate 2 and Other Tablets - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:40] <exec> 08└─Google please bring back the Nexus 7. When my Nexus 7 finally broke, I would have replaced it without even a 2nd thought if I could have.
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─I really have no idea why you think this would do any good for the "people of the world," when the concern of President Trump would over the supremacy and profits of the United States. This President has never even given the first clue he gives a shit about any people who do not vote for him, and he...
[19:15:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 567 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:48] <exec> 08└─Don't censor them. Allow them to post their true feelings. The only adjustment that need be made, is for them to post as CIVILIANS. Dude's a rabid nigger-hater, and he patrols six days a week in a black neighborhood? There's nothing "wrong" with his opinions. The only thing really wrong here, is tha...
[19:15:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:58] <exec> 08└─I don't like where this is headed.
[19:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:08] <exec> 08└─I would rather punish actions than opinions. it's the lack of punishment for cops that break the law that is the problem, not the fact that they're dicks.
[19:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:10] <exec> 08└─I think you need to get choked out by a cop.
[19:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Article: Random Uniform Experiment for the Masses - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:25] <exec> 08└─A web cam of a fire is a good source of random numbers. I used to advise an over amplified receiver with no antenna, but these days those are harder to connect...and transistors don't produce as high a quality of noise as vacuum tubes did.
[19:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Niantic Sues Group of Alleged 'PokéMon Go' Cheaters - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:08] <exec> 08└─So shouldn't it be the other way around, with players countersuing Niantic for interfering with assistive devices used by users with disabilities?
[19:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03einar [494] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Hacked Using Unauthorized Raspberry Pi - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:05] <exec> 08└─JPL is no stranger to security. JPL offers facilities to test new jet engines. This is used by various companies competing with each other. So, it is key that data is secured and that they have no access on each others test data. We speak about aircraft engines, this is expensive research. Security...
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[20:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─The Libra Classic was announced yesterday by Mikko Ohtamaa, CTO at TokenMarket, Europe leading investment platform.
[20:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─Strictly speaking, this is not a true "Hard Fork" because the two chains do not share a common history. In reality, this is more of a marketing stunt.
[20:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:41] <exec> 08└─Libra Classic: 2019 Vintage
[20:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:43] <exec> 08└─I can guarantee that exactly 0 investment bankers are invested in Libra Classic.
[20:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:46] <exec> 08└─In reality, this is more of a marketing stunt.
[20:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:48] <exec> 08└─Heh, aren't they all? Anybody that promises security and privacy on the internet is a liar.
[20:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Accuses Chinese Company of Copying Trade Secrets - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:57] <exec> 08└─I understand completely why Magic Leap is angry. But I find it ironic that they hired a Chinese person, and are surprised they had their IP stolen. Also, the fact they have almost three billion dollars and have a product available (pre-orders) after seven years and the Chinese have what sounds like...
[20:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:26] <exec> 08└─That's ok. A lot more people speak Spanish than Hindi. And the Canadians' English is damn near as good as ours.
[20:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fennec [7053] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:52] <exec> 08└─When you ask for money at the bank you get a contract, fail to pay back they take your house. In France, and probably elsewhere, you can get tax breaks to install solar panel or just better insulation. You don't give proof you don't get it. Why didn't ATT get a contract to get this tax break?
[20:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:42] <exec> 08└─It probably is a culture thing, because non of those things are likely to ever happen in my country. Cops killing or getting killed are extremely rare and over the last 50 years they changed from a macho culture to a culture of utmost restraint. While in the USA it seems to have gone the other way a...
[20:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:44] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't care about racist cops, can you imagine the liability to the department if one of these racists goes out an shoots a black kid?
[20:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:46] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't care about racist cops, can you imagine the liability to the department if one of these racists goes out an shoots a black kid? The department knew the cop was racist and let him go out anyhow.
[20:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure which country you're in, but yes, it's a serious problem in the US. How serious, we're not quite clear on, because the police departments refuse to release statistics on how many people are killed by cops and what their names are, but it's at least in the hundreds annually.
[20:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:50] <exec> 08└─I think the fact that they're advocating serious criminal acts, while at the same time holding a job that is supposedly about upholding the law, suggests that they are in the wrong line of work, and I don't object to them being forced to change careers.
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[21:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:19] <exec> 08└─Wait until it petrifies at about 25 before using any intoxicants.
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of an old StarTrek:TOS episode(s). Their illusions become like a narcotic. They couldn't live without them. Soon they forgot and could no longer repair the ancient machines built by their ancestors in the 1990's, a different millennium long ago swept away in the sands of time.
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:23] <exec> 08└─That would be the smart thing to do. Is it the /best/ thing to do though? You only get one life. Refusing any intoxicants until 25 can exclude you from a lot of fun.
[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─If I thought it would keep him off his smartphone, I’d let little Johnny blaze one at 12.
[21:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Magic Leap Accuses Chinese Company of Copying Trade Secrets - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:45] <exec> 08└─Tilt Five is getting to market in under a year. https://www.tiltfive.com [tiltfive.com]
[21:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Abandoning Pixel Slate 2 and Other Tablets - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:58] <exec> 08└─eBay You've never seen* a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. (*except perhaps Usenet, 4chan, twitter, facebook)
[21:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:16] <exec> 08└─Or, at least the part of the world covered by the so-called "World Series".
[21:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:36] <exec> 08└─That tragedy is the next wave of racist cops who will keep quiet and actually act on them. You just gave them a score to settle.
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[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:20] <exec> 08└─That would be the smart thing to do.
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:21] <exec> 08└─Seriously, now, "screen time" and instant access to a virtually unlimited library of Audio/Visual streams pushes more dopamine and makes more lasting changes to brain structure and people's behavior than exposure to cannabis. At least: stoners in my day could "pass for normal" more convincingly than...
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:23] <exec> 08└─No, that would be the conformist thing to do... No, it's the physically correct thing to do. The brain "matures" at ~25... Using intoxicants before then is not recommended for very obvious and medically sound reasons. But if you're convinced you won't live that long, the world's gonna end, etc, knoc...
[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:26] <exec> 08└─If you're under 25, you'll have to stick to Adderall, Ritalin, Paxil, Prozac, Welbutrin, opioid pain killers, etc.
[22:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think its entirely unreasonable for countries to want localized data. A company like Visa probably has a cost reduction incentive to keep their data in as few places as possible. Fewer, larger deployments that are more geographically close to each other is probably cheaper and easier to mana...
[22:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:56] <exec> 08└─The 919 Evo hybrid holds the non-series record. The Lamborghini Aventador SVJ and Valkyrie are both series vehicles. Series and non-series are the major divisions of car records, like dividing boxing by gender. Therefore, the Valkyrie is technically competing against the Lambo's record, not the 919'...
[22:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:39] <exec> 08└─It's just missing something as a quote when not accompanied by that trademark grunty, er, twang (?) [youtu.be].
[22:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:41] <exec> 08└─Exactly! You [soylentnews.org] and the other commenter [soylentnews.org] have it dead right. If you advocate breaking the law, you need to work somewhere other than law enforcement. Seriously, what are these people thinking -- that's what the legislature's for. Plus you don't even have to break laws...
[22:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:43] <exec> 08└─If you were a store owner, would you want to hire (or keep as an employee) someone who advocated coming to your store and shoplifting, vandalizing the place, and/or harassing the customers and employees? I'm sure you can come up with other scenarios which are even more apropros.
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[23:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:17] <exec> 08└─to: 1) drive slowly in the left lane? 2) keep its left blinker on at all times? 3) just sit and daydream after the light turns green? I mean, they have to blend in, right? You can do this autonomous stuff for trains and ships, but cars aren't ready for it.
[23:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:18] <exec> 08└─of a "big AV company"?
[23:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits. How come we don't see headlines like that as well? Note that I'm not advocating regular cannabis use by kids. Merely pointing out that *regular* use of *any* mind-altering substances can have deleterious effects on developing brains. That said, wh...
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─The true rebel doesn't touch this stuff. Oh, maybe they try it once or twice and never touch it again. Getting drunk or baked is for losers.
[23:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:49] <exec> 08└─They DO share a common history. Both are marketing BS.
[23:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:55] <exec> 08└─Corporations (who are people too!)...
[23:16:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:31] <exec> 08└─...or just don't be a fucking racist.
[23:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:55] <exec> 08└─You callin' me a thug? Hey, get a load of dis guy! Listen, ya mook, you keep out of my face and we won't have any trouble, you got it?
[23:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:57] <exec> 08└─That tragedy is the next wave of racist cops who will keep quiet and act on them, just like the loudmouthed ones today. You just gave them a score to settle.
[23:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:59] <exec> 08└─Social media platforms literally exist for the surveillance of their users. Use means of communication with some privacy, people, not this creepy shit where your utterances are tied to your
[23:18:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:21] <exec> 08└─Laugh all you want, but this isn’t his first space experiment. He also worked on the sun dial design used on the mars rovers to calibrate the cameras. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Potential Discovery of a "Holy Grail" With the Invention of Universal Computer Memory - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:34] <exec> 08└─Software isn't perfect and sometimes you need to reset.
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