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[00:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:29] <exec> 08└─If you want security and privacy with your computing, use microcontrollers fabbed in China. Like Arduino FTW.
[00:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:31] <exec> 08└─It's an open source project, so the code is available. I see no problems if the NSA contributes code: for once, that's open source code that will be under EXTREME scrutiny because of who and what the contributor is :)
[00:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:33] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't dismiss it so lightly. Cyber warfare is asymmetrical. Every bit of cyber warfare we shut down, even if it shuts it off from us as well, accrues to the US's benefit. And the folks doing this aren't stupid enough to think an open source project won't be dissected by the North Koreans, C...
[00:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:35] <exec> 08└─Is mental deficiency a trait that runs in your family?
[00:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─The system works.
[00:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thermal Vision Highlights Uranus's Rarely-seen Rings - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:47] <exec> 08└─Game Over. Change it to Ouranos.
[00:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thermal Vision Highlights Uranus's Rarely-seen Rings - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:49] <exec> 08└─Preferable to "Planet George" Herschel decided to name the object Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" in honour of his new patron, King George III.[39] He explained this decision in a letter to Joseph Banks:[33]
[00:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Muscles Run on Glucose and Oxygen, Just Like the Real Thing - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:00] <exec> 08└─"Soft robotics"
[00:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-24 11:30pm EDT (2019-06-25 0330 UTC) - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:16] <exec> 08└─Send 10% of your ashes on each of ten flights, so most of it gets up there.
[00:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Launched - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:15] <exec> 08└─Well, that was true of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, yesterday. Is there "much better" hardware than the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B for "not much more"?
[00:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Set to Pre-Empt San Francisco Broadband Infrastructure Sharing - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:12] <exec> 08└─Action required when executive bonuses are at steak!
[00:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Issues are Probably Upstream Connectivity Issues - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:37] <exec> 08└─As a Linux advocate, I am happy to see any countermeasures to DOS deployed widely!
[00:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Ruling Allows Property Owners to Go Directly to Federal Court Over Local Regulations - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:11] <exec> 08└─He's built 1/2 mile of fence, on private property. Do you think migrants who've traveled thousands of miles can't walk another 1/2 mile?
[00:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Polled on Attitudes Toward the Space Program - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:14] <exec> 08└─Evolution happens all the time. However, new species of polycellular organisms take longer to evolve than the capacity of humans to extinguish existing ones.
[00:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flying Taxis for Paris 2024 Olympics in the Works - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, but... I'm not saying he's outright illegal, but he's surely not lawful.
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[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─Look for "time bombs". Set your clock ahead a few years/decades (well, a little less than two), see what happens. Heh, Windows will probably freak...
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─This is true. And on top of that, the NSA, like any paranoid agency is extremely unlikely to intentionally introduce a flaw that can be discovered by a third party outside their control. It is of no benefit to the NSA, either due to bad publicity on how they botched a supposedly secure implementatio...
[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─some sort of magic number: 20380119031408
[01:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:25] <exec> 08└─Correct, we must dismiss it firmly. While the NSA could provide some excellent code, as they do recruit very high level talent, their primary mission to date has been to lessen the levels of security. Secret knowledge of these weaknesses, constructed or just discovered, we are all weaponized. All th...
[01:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:27] <exec> 08└─RandomFactor might be assuming that the NSA will act in his interests just because he lives in the US.
[01:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:29] <exec> 08└─It's fitting the 2038 unix signed 32 bit overflow just after "pi o'clock AM". But, I'm thinking of a number that has been constructed and included as part of the design, not so much a time bomb.
[01:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:32] <exec> 08└─NSA + IOS = DOA
[01:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Muscles Run on Glucose and Oxygen, Just Like the Real Thing - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:52] <exec> 08└─aka Advanced Pocket Pussy :)
[01:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Curiosity Rover Makes Surprising Methane Discovery on Mars - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:23] <exec> 08└─These are not the rocks you're looking for.
[01:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:39] <exec> 08└─More links: https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] http://nicholasvetch.crazybillionaire.org [crazybillionaire.org] https://www.thetimes.co.uk [thetimes.co.uk] https://gb.wallmine.com [wallmine.c...
[01:16:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06FCC Set to Pre-Empt San Francisco Broadband Infrastructure Sharing - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:53] <exec> 08└─Will you forget as soon as there is a democrat president?
[01:16:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06FCC Set to Pre-Empt San Francisco Broadband Infrastructure Sharing - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:54] <exec> 08└─I'd like to understand how allowing multiple comapanies' access might degrade the signal or technical standards inside buildings.
[01:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Issues are Probably Upstream Connectivity Issues [Updated] - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:31] <exec> 08└─Note, that I said "something akin to rPKI" not rPKI.
[01:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manufacturing Memory Means Scribing Silicon in a Sea of Sensors - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─This is one reason the silence of new cars unnerves me. While driving, I always have part of my hearing dedicated to listening to my engine and drivetrain components, so when driving a car that I can't hear anything from, I'm almost distraught. I'd bet that I could hear something was wrong in an eng...
[01:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Better 'Female Viagra' Approved by FDA - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:36] <exec> 08└─I would pay money for drugs that could make me want to: Do my taxesClean the houseRead all of my TPS reports at workEat my vegetables
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[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─Correct, we must dismiss it firmly. While the NSA could provide some excellent code, as they do recruit very high level talent, their primary mission to date has been to lessen the levels of security. Secret knowledge of these weaknesses, constructed or just discovered, we are all weaponized. All th...
[02:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:36] <exec> 08└─We would need a new agency who's publicly avowed mission is to increase security levels wherever or however they can... Yes. The New and Improved NSA! (NINSA)2 Since doing that would be so trivial, why not just elect politicians that will re-purpose the old one? We can keep them down to three letter...
[02:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Muscles Run on Glucose and Oxygen, Just Like the Real Thing - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:57] <exec> 08└─That's just the start. You want soft robotics for "full service" robots that can navigate the human environment. But this particular advance looks more useful for the Cyberpunk future where people are getting voluntary amputations of healthy limbs in order to replace them with superior robotic limbs...
[02:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:15] <exec> 08└─New launch time is 2:30 am EDT
[02:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Oof. That's 3 hours into a 4 hour launch window. We'll see if it holds.
[02:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:49] <exec> 08└─Looking through the reading materials, a lot have the participation of Matthew Robertson, former China editor for the Epoch Times, a Falun Gong publication. My money is on "chinatribunal.com" being a Falun Gong front. Doesn't mean they are wrong.
[02:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:51] <exec> 08└─What has been "decided" by "foreign powers"?
[02:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Issues are Probably Upstream Connectivity Issues [Updated] - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:44] <exec> 08└─So a cluster-fuck by two ISPs who should know better, and small company that didn't and relied on the "pros" to handle things properly. Lovely.
[02:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Better 'Female Viagra' Approved by FDA - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:52] <exec> 08└─- Adderall - Meth - Adderall - Butter
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[03:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 0613 Minutes to the Moon - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:22] <exec> 08└─See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] As I heard the story here (Buffalo, not far from the original Bell factory), Larry Bell knew that an inflight simulator was going to be needed to train pilots to land on the Moon. He started design work (and possibly co...
[03:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 0613 Minutes to the Moon - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks A/C, that's a great read. 2022 will be the 50th anniversary of the last time men stood on the Moon too, unfortunately. Opportunity lost.
[03:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:43] <exec> 08└─The new part is that any NINSA agent, or Senator involved, in weaponization of vulnerabilities can be charged with treason. However, given our current sitting president and administration is entirely above the law, I share your incredulity that such a system of trust can be established in the first...
[03:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:45] <exec> 08└─While the NSA could provide some excellent code, as they do recruit very high level talent, their primary mission to date has been to lessen the levels of security.
[03:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Muscles Run on Glucose and Oxygen, Just Like the Real Thing - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:08] <exec> 08└─> What would you do with artificial muscles? Leap tall buildings with a single bound!
[03:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Muscles Run on Glucose and Oxygen, Just Like the Real Thing - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:10] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure most people will go for a nice pair of glutes.
[03:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Curiosity Rover Makes Surprising Methane Discovery on Mars - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:46] <exec> 08└─"Fossil" fuels being created by geological processes is so far considered a conspiracy theory https://principia-scientific.org [principia-scientific.org]
[03:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Curiosity Rover Makes Surprising Methane Discovery on Mars - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:47] <exec> 08└─On the eighth day He created Coal, on the ninth Oil. Heretics claim that He created Uranium on the tenth day, but the true believers know that is the fruit of his fallen son, the Morningstar.
[03:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:06] <exec> 08└─I am more accustomed to seeing it spelled Molex. ... hey, they come in male and female...
[03:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:07] <exec> 08└─Ok, slug girl [fandom.com].
[03:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:09] <exec> 08└─I mean, where else would I get those satisfying, slippery, fresh kidneys at such prices?
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Issues are Probably Upstream Connectivity Issues [Updated] - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:04] <exec> 08└─Wasn't playing "gotcha" but we've gone from origin to path validation. [ietf.org] Giving RIRs (or LIRs) the technical ability to revoke certs will surely make their politicization inevitable?
[03:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potent Firefox 0-Day Used to Install Undetected Backdoors on Macs - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:39] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon has been pretty reliable and I've been using it as my daily driver browser on the desktop/laptop for years (over 4 at least). Finding working extensions is a PITA but once you have them, they seem to keep working fine. I also have Waterfox as my backup just in case. I'll never use straight...
[03:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Ruling Allows Property Owners to Go Directly to Federal Court Over Local Regulations - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:42] <exec> 08└─> Seizing land for a developer's personal gain certainly doesn't qualify. You know that Trump did this (or tried to) to some low income housing that happened to be where he wanted to build high end stuff. Just one of the many reasons that I've disliked Trump for many years (long before he started in...
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[04:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:25] <exec> 08└─Buttfuckers
[04:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:27] <exec> 08└─So can we now look forward to seeing Stormy Daniels on her "FUCT TRUMP" t-shirt.
[04:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:29] <exec> 08└─Who will build us an ark?
[04:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:31] <exec> 08└─This is Liberalism, isn't it?
[04:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:33] <exec> 08└─https://noahny.com/ [noahny.com]
[04:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:35] <exec> 08└─SCOTUS 2077 [youtube.com]
[04:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:37] <exec> 08└─More like libertarianism. Maybe Aristarchus can tell us about watching Rome fall over the centuries. My take is it's time to get the permanent revolution started.
[04:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:40] <exec> 08└─There's just no foresight in government any more, no imagination. This sort of ruling about free speech vs public morality is all just a subjective value in keeping with the tastes of the population. The real problem is how annoying advertising is going to become. Non-stop vulgarity will dilute the...
[04:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0613 Minutes to the Moon - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:49] <exec> 08└─Bell also built the ascent engine that got the LEM back to lunar orbit. Worked every time, no backups.
[04:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:11] <exec> 08└─So, do not use a free and open firmware, and instead use a closed firmware from random vendor that is near guaranteed to include exploitable bugs, if not intentional back-doors (even if innocent, like some debugging back-door left in the production builds)? Yes, NSA touching the code leaves a taint,...
[04:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:12] <exec> 08└─Mostly this, I think: because then they won't be the only ones that can use their back door
[04:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:14] <exec> 08└─given our current sitting president and administration is entirely above the law
[04:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:16] <exec> 08└─My arduinos are the only later tech machines I do trust. Damn near everything else I have has back doors. I guess my fear is that when I really need the thing, it won't work, or it will hold other stuff hostage until I agree to something else.
[04:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:19] <exec> 08└─So who is going to put up serious cash to have multiple pentesting outfits check the NSA's contributions out?
[04:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:21] <exec> 08└─would be some sort of cryptography that only they can break with the massive quantum computer they have implemented under Cheyenne Mountain (wonder why NORAD moved out? Hmmm.....)
[04:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:39] <exec> 08└─You live in a country that thinks 100 years is a long time.
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[05:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:27] <exec> 08└─Fuct you, got mine (t-shirt).
[05:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:28] <exec> 08└─HuuurrrruuuuuueghhahahahahhAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!! *wheeze* *hack* gah, hah. HAHAHAHAH!!!!! Now nothing can stop me! https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] I T B E G I N S N O W
[05:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:31] <exec> 08└─If Marijuana Cola is too scandalous, then surely Coca-Cola is too? It's named after the Coca plant from which cocaine is derived, and Coca-Cola was originally a medicinal cocaine remedy.
[05:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:33] <exec> 08└─When FUCT wants to buy ads, will the censor-happy corporate media (social or otherwise) take their money? Causing all of their previous victims of censorship to raise the issue of double standards? And fueling various outrage-of-the-week boycotts? More likely, naughty brands will be relegated to adv...
[05:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:35] <exec> 08└─With FUCT like these, who needs enemies?
[05:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03woodcruft [6528] (Score: 1) 02 - 0613 Minutes to the Moon - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:46] <exec> 08└─I've been listening to these broadcasts as they have gone out. The excellent thing about them is that Kevin Fong obviously knows his stuff and thus got to talk to key participants such as Gene Kranz, Charley Duke, John Aaron, Michael Collins etc. and some who played a more minor role too. As such,...
[05:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:14] <exec> 08└─Think strategically, FOR the US (not its opponents). This may affect YOU. It is excellent that the USA is pointing its resources to this project! You cannot trust UEFI which is proprietary and baked in Microsft's offshore ovens (India, China). Having trustworthy systems is vital for the US military...
[05:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Curiosity Rover Makes Surprising Methane Discovery on Mars - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:15] <exec> 08└─"Fossil" fuels being created by geological processes
[05:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina's Blackout and the Storm-Battered Future of the Grid - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/weather-climate [epa.gov]
[05:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina's Blackout and the Storm-Battered Future of the Grid - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:53] <exec> 08└─молодец, парень. Я просто говорил Магде, что мы должны позволить тебе держать все здесь, даже если Юрий считает это глупым. Это отправит тех идиотов через край.
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[06:14:34] <exec> 08└─Trump got elected as an economic liberal. He obviously does not share the morals of all the religious conservatives that had collected in the republican party.
[06:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:53] <exec> 08└─No worries man, you have other things to worry about. I'm looking at a Level3 node with a packet loss of 93% to a particular website that doesn't happen to any other site. The only excuse is *Aliens*. :-)
[06:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:35] <exec> 08└─I note that 1) Falun Gong isn't a foreign power, 2) they had cause to sponsor the tribunal, 3) just because a group can make judgments that don't have legal relevance doesn't mean they can't call themselves a tribunal, and 3) what of the actual members [chinatribunal.com] of the tribunal? Meanwhile...
[06:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:36] <exec> 08└─In the US this kind of thing would be part of your service agreement with AT&T.
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[07:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 0613 Minutes to the Moon - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:50] <exec> 08└─Opportunity lost.
[07:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:19] <exec> 08└─One minor mistake, please don't uppercase any letter of the word 'coreboot'. https://review.coreboot.org [coreboot.org]
[07:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:03] <exec> 08└─Two side boosters landed, looks like center core hit the water near the drone ship and exploded.
[07:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:05] <exec> 08└─SpaceX set for Falcon Heavy triple booster landing, hottest center core reentry yet [teslarati.com] Based on the fact that Falcon Heavy’s STP-2 center core (B1057) is set to smash SpaceX’s current record for drone ship downrange distance, chances are good that B1057 will separate from the upper...
[07:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:48] <exec> 08└─It means precisely they are wrong, even if they are right on the facts.
[07:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina's Blackout and the Storm-Battered Future of the Grid - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:04] <exec> 08└─The Jews will always talk about RATES, it doesn't mean it's not a scam.
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[07:19:05] <exec> 08└─e d g y
[07:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hman [2656] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DC Comics Shuts Down "Vertigo" and Other Labels - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:35] <exec> 08└─How old the comic is doesn't say anything about the target age group it is aimed at. Still, I'm out of touch with the comic world, so intentionally I just skimmed the wikipedia page. Old old , mostly wonderful but old, some new 2018 series based on old. No new "currently running series" chapter with...
[07:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Polled on Attitudes Toward the Space Program - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:31] <exec> 08└─Hmm, a Modest Spaceflight Program by RamiK does have a certain ring to it... But what if it turns up to be a Nobel Peace Prize? I doubt it's worth the risk.
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[08:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:45] <exec> 08└─SCOITUS
[08:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe Aristarchus can tell us about watching Rome fall over the centuries.
[08:15:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:06] <exec> 08└─It's an open source project, so the code is available. I see no problems if the NSA contributes code: for once, that's open source code that will be under EXTREME scrutiny because of who and what the contributor is :)
[08:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:28] <exec> 08└─I guess my fear is that when I really need the thing, it won't work, or it will hold other stuff hostage until I agree to something else.
[08:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:30] <exec> 08└─You overstate the usefulness and effectiveness of the NSA in keeping US citizens safe. The other non-covert and non-military agencies have done far more to keep US citizens safe. Heck I think the US citizens might be safer if the CIA was shutdown and many of them thrown into prison. There are lots o...
[08:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:16] <exec> 08└─They managed to catch half of the fairing in a boat net for the first time. Other half is in the water.
[08:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Issues are Probably Upstream Connectivity Issues [Updated] - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:55] <exec> 08└─So is this suspicious or it isn't because Russia or China aren't involved? ;) https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
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[09:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:13] <exec> 08└─... was obviously high in the chain of command, but who the hell thought that slapping customers with a wet fish was a good marketing strategy. By which I mean selling you products with crap software, and then refusing to provide updates with bug fixes. The reason Apple succeeded in dominating the m...
[09:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:15] <exec> 08└─The simple truth that escapes mr. Gates is that microsoft was the most handicapped one in the race for the mobile. Because the very thought of having whatever version of windows in your pocket at all times, should be classified as a form of torture. Google could get away with putting a fragmented OS...
[09:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:44] <exec> 08└─Believe me, 'FUCT by Trump' will be a more popular brand. Would Trump have business sense, he would register the trademark now and make more money than any "fragrance by Dior" or whatever exclusive fashion brand. (large grin)
[09:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:45] <exec> 08└─Trump got elected as an economic liberal.
[09:15:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:18] <exec> 08└─While the NSA could provide some excellent code, as they do recruit very high level talent, their primary mission to date has been to lessen the levels of security.
[09:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Muscles Run on Glucose and Oxygen, Just Like the Real Thing - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:53] <exec> 08└─Worst use of a muscle that I ever heard. Have you no respect for your own body?
[09:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Muscles Run on Glucose and Oxygen, Just Like the Real Thing - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:55] <exec> 08└─The small print footnote on the "leap easy" packaging will read 'no warranties offered for landing'.
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[10:14:27] <exec> 08└─M$ could not gain more than a peak of just under 3% market share [blogs.com] because of two reasons. First, the obvious, is that their phone software was as bad as everything else they make. People may be inured to that on the desktop but on phones they still had a choice of better options. Second,...
[10:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:58] <exec> 08└─It's all in the context, and by context we mean someone getting offended. A concept that has no place in legislation since offense is defined by the victim, not the perpetrator. But it's funnier when it ends up treating citizens like children.
[10:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Muscles Run on Glucose and Oxygen, Just Like the Real Thing - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:08] <exec> 08└─Advanced Pocket Pussy Please supply link to crowd funding
[10:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:14] <exec> 08└─While I would normally agree to put the organs to good use, we are talking about China here. The people in prison are more likely to be political prisoners than murderers. The prisoners may have done nothing wrong except to be the wrong ethnicity or wrong religion. They may have just spoken out agai...
[10:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Potent Firefox 0-Day Used to Install Undetected Backdoors on Macs - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:50] <exec> 08└─There are zero days in all of them. Firefox 38-ESR would have been the last of the real 'old' ones, followed by 45 and 52, but both of the latter had already started breaking addons. I am not sure about Palemoon now, but FF38 or so was also the last cross-compatible release for the two, at least at...
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[11:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much this affects commercial long-haul pilots. Spoke to a pilot yesterday and he mentioned the lack of specific shielding on big planes.
[11:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:30] <exec> 08└─The all-too frequent articles about his blatherings are quite uninteresting, uninformative, and irrelevant to anything happening in the industry today. That article, and he many others like it, was a poor choice for the main page. We got trolled again by aristarchus. The only interesting take on Bi...
[11:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Judge Frees Swedish Programmer Close to Assange; Probe Continues - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:37] <exec> 08└─He's free at last ... so he can be spied on and lead the Ecuadorian government to more evidence against him and Assange.
[11:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2) 02 - 0613 Minutes to the Moon - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:15] <exec> 08└─Kevin Fong used to work at NASA - from his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] He was a NESTA Fellow between 2003 and 2008. During this time he took part in a diving expedition for Coral Cay and worked regularly with NASA as a visiting researcher with the Human...
[11:15:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:35] <exec> 08└─The new part is that any NINSA agent, or Senator involved, in weaponization of vulnerabilities can be charged with treason. However, given our current sitting president and administration is entirely above the law, I share your incredulity that such a system of trust can be established in the first...
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[11:15:47] <exec> 08└─Has anyone wondered if Osama bin Laden's inspiration was actually John Carpenter's 1981 'Escape from New York'? It has Air Force One crashing into the penal colony of Manhattan, showing a computerized projection of the plane(or escape pod) entering and then tumbling down through a building. It also...
[11:15:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Thermal Vision Highlights Uranus's Rarely-seen Rings - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:57] <exec> 08└─Preferable to "Planet George" Herschel decided to name the object Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" in honour of his new patron, King George III.[39] He explained this decision in a letter to Joseph Banks:[33]
[11:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Launched - 2179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:41] <exec> 08└─But the Rock64 has been shipping for 2 years now, fits the original Pi cases (with a hole for the 4th USB port.) It has support for eMMC using the ODROID v1 connector, native 1GBit Ethernet, 1-4GB of LPDDR3, Mali-450 GPU (liability now, but was good enough compared to other boards when released.), 1...
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[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─And here is where we see all the climate models that assume a constant sun go away.
[12:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─A grand solar minimum is russian propaganda, the sun has negligible effect on the climate according to the IPCC models. It's obvious if you hear the accent in that YouTube video.
[12:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:43] <exec> 08└─And it turns out Windows isn't a great mobile OS. Apple and Google both realized early on that the killer app for phones was the web. Microsoft never really got the hang of that, and in the mid-2000s was still trying to force the web to follow Microsoft rules rather than just develop new ways to tak...
[12:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:45] <exec> 08└─Looking back at the success of all those billion dollar companies of today, I must conclude that they all got their users hooked on their product first. Just like with drugs. It's the only reason why they grew so big. Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google and all the rest. That's why Microsoft lost the...
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[12:14:47] <exec> 08└─Back in the days of PDAs, pushing the Windows brand onto them mis-managed customers' expectations. The hardware wasn't anywhere near as capable as desktop machines were, so anyone who expected the same Windows interface and all their existing programs available on their new pocket device were bound...
[12:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:49] <exec> 08└─... the killer app for phones was the web. Microsoft never really got the hang of that ...
[12:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:21] <exec> 08└─Fuct you, got mine (t-shirt).
[12:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:23] <exec> 08└─They aren't even a mated pair.
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[13:14:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DMme2Aya_6Bc [youtube.com] will your house refuse to let you in when you're drunk? Or..refuse to let you out?
[13:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:11] <exec> 08└─Why would you need to be drunk for it to refuse to let you into your house? Didn't somebody's cloud go down recently and lock people out of their houses?
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[13:14:46] <exec> 08└─By 2008, Gates was no longer CEO And before this time Nokia was dominate with its own OS. There was simply no way to market an OS only. You had to do the phone and OS together, exactly like Apple did.
[13:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:47] <exec> 08└─There is a nice video of Ballmer commenting on this new thing Apple made "The iPhone", laughing about it not even having a keyboard and it not appealing to business people. He is not worried because they have great products coming like their own phone and the Zune...
[13:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:49] <exec> 08└─As I recall now but wasn't IE more of an after thought when MS saw the rise of Netscape and wanted to control the Internet to. They had sort of completely missed it at first thinking that people wouldn't care much. Then they just bundled IE with the OS and *bam* instant scene domination. Then came t...
[13:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─No thanks. My phone works today, and won't be force-updated into something that fails tomorrow thanks to Android. Heck iPad won't even force update me into something that fails to work tomorrow. Windows 10 speciality is to magically break your applications for an OS update you didn't want or need.
[13:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Judge Frees Swedish Programmer Close to Assange; Probe Continues - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:00] <exec> 08└─First thing he needs to do is to renew all his letsencrypt certs, because it's a pain in the ass to accept expired certs.
[13:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:28] <exec> 08└─Like that would help, if you just take two of every animal isn't that just a massive recipe for inbreeding? Not to mention that I suspect that all the carnivores will just eat most of the smaller animals. The ark becomes more of a closed buffet.
[13:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:12] <exec> 08└─doesn't possess a secret key
[13:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:14] <exec> 08└─Better to avoid coreboot
[13:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:16] <exec> 08└─Tampering with coreboot can distract from the management engine tampering.
[13:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:04] <exec> 08└─what goes up ... must come down.
[13:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:49] <exec> 08└─If AT&T believed they could get away with a binding clause to harvest your organs, I assure you they absolutely would do it. Because shareholder value.
[13:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:51] <exec> 08└─If AT&T believed they could get away with a binding clause to harvest your organs
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[14:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:28] <exec> 08└─As long as I get access to that data and cameras and can watch these CEO's and the executives and can opt-out and the opt-out is court enforced and the CEO's and executives will go to jail and give me tons of money for violating my right to privacy. Np problem. Otherwise.... problem.
[14:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:29] <exec> 08└─"Or..refuse to let you out?" That's a good excuse for kalsarikännit.
[14:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:31] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) 7. AI cameras will potentially violate the Constitution In the United States, some uses of AI analytics are likely to violate the Constitution. Certainly abusive or discriminatory uses are likely to do so. The collection of physiological measuremen...
[14:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─In my opinion augmented video is probably even easier to tamper with. It won't be long until deepfake surveillance video's are going to appear as 'proof' of whatever needs to be proven. How do you fight those?
[14:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:35] <exec> 08└─Start worrying when these robot guards reach insect size and smaller. Actually, stop worrying at that point and start drinking because it'll be far too late to care.
[14:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:13] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's primary client base was, and still is business. Suits and ties, but not as stuffy and rigid as IBM was. Their core competency was programming languages. They appealed to the home/hobbyist/enthusiast/budget market with low cost and easy to use products. They found themselves in a good pos...
[14:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:14] <exec> 08└─As much as we hate it, Windows is here for the long term to run software to get actual serious WORK done.
[14:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:52] <exec> 08└─With the ruling, I'm not sure we need to dance around the issue anymore. "Grab her in the pussy" will be the polite thing to see on a shirt, full f-bomb "FUCKED" will replace "FUCT". (shit-eating grin)
[14:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:53] <exec> 08└─Two years ago you took a psychopath, con-man, sexual predator and child molester, basically the most disgusting public figure in the entire U.S. for the last several decades, and you made him President of the United States. And you have the nerve to talk about "morality" ?! What little morality you...
[14:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:41] <exec> 08└─Unless of course they're going to somehow upset BOTH the US and China Govs?
[14:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Launched - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:36] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of getting a Pinebook Pro, and I still might at some point, but it looks like I'm going to go with Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB) first. Before we were having the Pinebook Pro [soylentnews.org] discussion, Eben Upton had fibbed [tomshardware.com] and made it sound like the Pi 4 would not be av...
[14:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─1) Falun Gong isn't a foreign power
[14:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:23] <exec> 08└─We should not even pretend to make any decisions over what does and does not happen in China. Let alone pronounce judgements. Because they can be implemented only by going to war.
[14:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:25] <exec> 08└─Also, a large portion of the "scumbag" social class have a high frequency of additional medical issues -- things like IV drug use and viral hepatitis, smoking, heavy alcohol use. There's a motivation for extended the pool of involuntary donors to the class of political prisoners, as they have relati...
[14:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:27] <exec> 08└─Followers of Falun Gong fled China after their atrocities resulted in actions from law enforcement, and the atrocities did not even stop after the escape.
[14:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:29] <exec> 08└─Because decades of laws to the contrary
[14:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:31] <exec> 08└─The value of the observation, IMO, is a statement about the value of human life at the highest levels of a corporation. Not about the present state of conditions that prohibit them from being as brazen as I suggest they would be. While not as shocking as organ harvesting, I would point out that corp...
[14:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Issues are Probably Upstream Connectivity Issues [Updated] - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:28] <exec> 08└─Why don't you ask these folks [atimetals.com]? They're a pretty suspicious looking bunch, I'd say. Alex Jones is reporting that moments after this happened, large funds transfers from both Russian and Chinese banks were made to a day-care center in Lakeland, FL. and Netcraft confirms it! Definitely...
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[15:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:31] <exec> 08└─The only way to fight it is for people stop believing video "evidence" on its own. But considering how many people believe aliens have visited earth based on a grainy photo of a dinner plate with a flashlight on it... we are fucked.
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:32] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for ED-209 coming to the streets.
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:35] <exec> 08└─The only way to fight it is for people stop believing video "evidence" on its own.
[15:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:37] <exec> 08└─If the state is determined to lock you up, they are not going to bother faking video evidence.
[15:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─In August 1972, right in between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions, a solar storm occurred sending out dangerous bursts of radiation. On Earth, we're protected by our magnetic field, but out in space, this would have been hazardous for the astronauts.
[15:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─The forecast for the last solar max was that it was going to be very intense, but it turned out to be the weakest solar max ever recorded.
[15:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:19] <exec> 08└─The inability of Microsoft leadership to recognize both the rise of the internet, and the potential of smart phones and tablets is because they were too focused on their profitable desktop monopoly. This happens to big businesses. These toy microcomputers are never going to represent a threat to the...
[15:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:21] <exec> 08└─IE and consumer internet access was an afterthought. When Windows 95 was developed and released, Microsoft was competing against information services, not the Internet. They had their own proprietary MSN service and were competing against Compuserve and AOL. TCP/IP networking was a headache to load...
[15:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:23] <exec> 08└─I'm still laughing. And today people are breaking down doors with wads of cash in hand just to get badly yellowed banged up IBM Model M, Leading Edge blue Alps slider, and Zeos/NTC/Generic White Alps slider keyboards.
[15:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:25] <exec> 08└─But how long will it be before you are forced to replace your smartphone because the non-removable battery dies or the carrier service or apps require a newer one? While Windows 10 has turned to utter shit, smart phones are not exactly a panacea.
[15:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:28] <exec> 08└─Honestly i think most people could not care squat about updates. The big selling point of iPhone was that it was a drop in upgrade for an iPod, but now you didn't have to carry a phone alongside it.
[15:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:30] <exec> 08└─The web on mobile sucked back then, no matter what Apple and Google did. The SoCs were just not capable of handling desktop grade web sites. Notice how quickly the focus moved to service specific apps once given the opportunity (after all, the original iPhone didn't have any semblance of apps at lau...
[15:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:09] <exec> 08└─Rome fell over the centuries? I thought it fell over the centurions.
[15:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:10] <exec> 08└─Child molester? I enjoy kicking the old douchebag around now and then, but child molester? Citations needed. Unlike Bill Clinton, he wasn't documented as taking sex vacations where children are on offer.
[15:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:12] <exec> 08└─I think the Supreme's point is, it doesn't matter who is offended. Old saying from my youth, whenever I was upset with mother or grandmother, or whoever. "You mad? You've got the same clothes to get glad in!" You just can't GIVE A DAMN who might be offended. If it is your intention to cause offense,...
[15:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:01] <exec> 08└─I don't trust the NSA either, but maybe, just maybe, they have decided that leaving security holes at the lowest levels makes THEIR job harder too (because if there's an opening for NSA, there's an opening for an opponent). Maybe they really have decided to do the defensive part of their job (protec...
[15:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thermal Vision Highlights Uranus's Rarely-seen Rings - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:12] <exec> 08└─pls donates far teh FIGHT OF MAH LIFF GAINST GUYS [news.com.au] can u halp meee?
[15:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Launched - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:58] <exec> 08└─I just went with the 30" 4K monitor when they came down out of the stratosphere
[15:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─Then where's the evidence of these "atrocities"? Let us keep in mind that quoting Chinese propaganda doesn't count. They wouldn't ever permit a defense of Falun Gong against whatever accusations you list.
[15:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:51] <exec> 08└─The value of the observation, IMO, is a statement about the value of human life at the highest levels of a corporation.
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[16:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:22] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu has sold itself to many, MANY people based on the premise that it would run on hardware that Microsoft just murders. Abandoning 32-bit machines would be like cutting off their noses, to spite their faces. No, Ubuntu isn't the lightest weight distro out there, not by any stretch. (DSL, or Pupp...
[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:24] <exec> 08└─The disagreement of the featured article is not about abandoning 32-bit machines. It's about abandoning 32-bit applications on 64-bit machines. Many of these applications were published by companies that are long out of business.
[16:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:26] <exec> 08└─I think someone did not realize how important 32 bit executables remain, even on 64 bit hardware. Even if the OS only supports 64 bit hardware. I wonder how long 32 bit executables will remain important.
[16:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:49] <exec> 08└─As the drones lost mass, they added capability. The 2013 DelFly Explorer gained autonomous navigation, thanks to a stereovision camera and hardware for processing obstacle detection—no mean feat for a system that could only weigh a few grams. Self-driving cars make complete 3D maps of their enviro...
[16:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:51] <exec> 08└─The fake video evidence is to not only lock you up, but to assassinate your character so they can also discredit any ideas or causes you happened to support, and also prevent pesky Amnesty International campaigns for your release and such.
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:53] <exec> 08└─I *specifically* got at least *one* digital lock with physical key to avoid that. It does seem *really* stupid to have access to one's house be remotely disabled...
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:55] <exec> 08└─> Or..refuse to let you out? You say that like its a bad thing.
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:57] <exec> 08└─At least nobody thought of assigning ED-209 as a TSA groper. Oh wait. Drat! Now they know of that application and will use ED-209 in that role.
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─> Start worrying when these robot guards reach insect size and smaller. At insect size, assuming they cannot overwhelm you with quantity, you can at least impose costs by squishing those tiny pests. Or spray Krylon on them or something. Super glue traps. > or smaller That might be worrying. But then...
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[16:15:18] <exec> 08└─Global solar flairing is fake news, believe me! CNN rigged the telescopes with cotton candy to make the sun look flairy. Leave the hot orange belching ball alone! I have an affinity for hot orange belching masses for some reason. They are really terrific people. When your sun is a star, you can grab...
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calibration Method Improves Scientific Research Performed With Smartphone Cameras - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:25] <exec> 08└─I skimmed the article, but couldn't find any technical detail. Does anybody who knows more about photography or optics help out? I've had a long-standing desire to try to custom-calibrate my TV and computer monitor gamut, but not enough to spend the money to buy real equipment. If there was a cheap...
[16:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:52] <exec> 08└─it turns out Windows isn't a great mobile OS. Windows Mobile/WinCE is in fact, an utterly appalling OS. There is no part of the steaming pile of shite, from the drivers to the GUI that are fit for anything, let alone purpose, and "locked downfullness" is just more piss on the shit. The hardware may...
[16:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:54] <exec> 08└─They found themselves in a good position when IBM were a) fooled into believing Billyboy had an OS (what he had was a BASIC interpreter) b) persuaded to sign the world's worst contract. If this happened in Africa, people would blame it on voodoo - it is so far beyond the average scale of corruption...
[16:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:56] <exec> 08└─Err, MS had been working on "tablets" since the 90s at least. MS introduced the UMPC at least a year before Apple unveiled their iPhone: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:58] <exec> 08└─because doing so, and acting on it, building products, would cannibalize their existing super profitable business. No - its because people at the top recognise their power base is threatened and put themselves before the company. Its not "stupid" its "greed" (but, as we know MBA's believe "greed is...
[16:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:00] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's vision of a Tablet was that it would run Desktop Windows. Modified to try to work in a tablet form factor. And it wasn't a bad attempt. If there had been no iPad to compare to, it might have succeeded. The point is that Microsoft's focus was Windows everywhere. Rather than the Steve Jobs...
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[16:16:02] <exec> 08└─Other than Microsoft's BASIC (1st product) they ALWAYS played catch up and missed almost everything. He didn't see DOS coming and even played catch up MS-DOS (bought the CP/M OS at the last second.) Once they had a monopoly Gates was good at ruthlessly and anti-competitively maintaining that; which...
[16:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:44] <exec> 08└─Just ask Miss Teen USA pagent ex-contestants about when Trump used to barge in backstage when they were changing to harrass them... Unlike Bill Clinton, he wasn't documented as taking sex vacations where children are on offer.
[16:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:45] <exec> 08└─Trump did the boat thing? Didn't know that either. Miss Teen USA will qualify Trump as a pervert, but you must realize that doesn't qualify as pedo. Most, if not all, teens are post-puberty. That puts a man within the realm of humanity.
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:25] <exec> 08└─If it was me (it wouldn't because if I'm dead I won't care) I wouldn't mind having my remains get dispersed by a rocket having an RUD. Boom!
[16:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:23] <exec> 08└─As further elaboration on my remarks on the Love Canal scandal, consider this phrase from the Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org]. After its sale to the local school district in 1953, which occurred using the threat of eminent domain, Love Canal attracted national attention for the public health probl...
[16:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:25] <exec> 08└─A perhaps more relevant example of corporations valuing shareholder value far above human life is Big Pharma raising prices of some very old drugs to insanely high prices. In China, it is government that does involuntary organ harvesting of non persons. In America, it will be corporations that do it...
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[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:19] <exec> 08└─I would say Tiny Core Linux is as small as you could feasibly get and still have a real OS. It's by no means user-friendly in my opinion, though. Whereas, Puppy Linux is generally designed to "Just Work" and is much easier for a newb / Windows or Apple Refugee to get into.
[17:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─For as long as desktop's use X86 compatible processors.
[17:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:23] <exec> 08└─How many people are running from 32 bit machines now? Your hardware is over a decade old at this point. Drive around on trash night and find something better already. The last 32 bit machine I recall using was a P4 HT and it was slow as hell with Windows 7.
[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:25] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder that Windows 10 32-bit still exists (and even runs DOS and Windows 3.1 binaries!), and likely users of Windows 7 32-bit (which was the most common the first couple years 7 was out) got automatically "upgraded" to this version. Also Windows 10 64-bit does a surprisingly good job of ru...
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[17:14:27] <exec> 08└─Running 32 bit apps on amd64 isn't hard? So if the software is open source, compile it to 64 bit, otherwise let the user run what he wants outside the control of the distro.
[17:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─I have embedded platforms inside buildings that are 32 bit only. They could be replaced with raspberry pis, and it would be a win for power consumption, but that would take much installation work.
[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:32] <exec> 08└─"Important" begs definitions of what that means. Important to whom? Important how much? Obviously Canonical didn't think it important initially. If we didn't have Wine or Steam, would this have gone through?
[17:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:59] <exec> 08└─They only have had 2 monopolies. Windows and Office (which they got illegally using Windows.) The phone was an accessory; at best it was a THREAT to their desktop monopoly product. They NEVER EVER would have undermined their Desktop OS so any other product could not risk it! Ironically, their streng...
[17:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:44] <exec> 08└─Is there anything holier than getting a golden shower from a Miss Teen USA contestant? After fucking her right in her bald pussy and tight asshole?
[17:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:35] <exec> 08└─I've added an extra layer to my tinfoil hat this morning. Look, you apply resources to make the BIOS firmware open source and make the code clear to read and strictly without any backdoors. Why? because you are hiding the backdoors hidden in the hardware. As the attacker, any system you've compromis...
[17:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:27] <exec> 08└─China already admits it harvested organs from prisoners at till recently. That's a huge piece of evidence missing from your post. And given the continuing secretive nature of China's prison system (and suppression of anything related to the organ harvesting scandal), there isn't counterevidence.
[17:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:29] <exec> 08└─Again confusing organ transplantation from prisoners (banned since 2015) / organ black market (target of law enforcement) with systematic and forced organ organ transplantation from FLG followers, especially to the extent they claim?
[17:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:31] <exec> 08└─A perhaps more relevant example of corporations valuing shareholder value far above human life is Big Pharma raising prices of some very old drugs to insanely high prices.
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[18:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another BGP Outage Thanks to Verizon and a BGP Optimizer - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:15] <exec> 08└─Verizon definitely screwed the pooch here, in that they apparently hadn't implemented appropriate route filters on a new link that had just gone live. As much as we (and myself included, Verizon/Bell Atlantic/NYNEX/NY Telephone have sucked for *decades*) love to pile on Verizon, they made a mistake....
[18:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:32] <exec> 08└─I have a lovely 32-bit netbook. It's smaller and lighter than my high-end 64-bit laptop. It's my preferred machine to carry around for writing in cafes and such. Of course, I use a Linux distro (Devuan) on it. It's reliable. I see no reason to toss it out.
[18:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:21] <exec> 08└─I heard about it from a meteorologist speaking at a farmer conference about climate change and the future of the weather forecasting industry we rely on. Grain market pricing is largely based on 3-6-12 month global weather forecasts.
[18:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calibration Method Improves Scientific Research Performed With Smartphone Cameras - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:29] <exec> 08└─This is timely. I need a way to measure light levels for some plant growth experiments and this shows up in my solyenbox.
[18:15:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:50] <exec> 08└─As much as we hate it, Windows is here for the long term to run software to get actual serious WORK done.
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─Minesweeper is good at preventing actual work
[18:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:06] <exec> 08└─I used the iPod Touch to browse the web and watch videos back in the day. I think it was 1st or 2nd gen. The experience was often bad but it was still epic.
[18:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:08] <exec> 08└─You need to read Gates' book, "The Road with a Head", where he totally missed the importance of networking, let alone on the scale of the internet.
[18:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:53] <exec> 08└─if you just take two of every animal isn't that just a massive recipe for inbreeding? Don't be ridiculous! There's not nearly enough space in the fridge to take every animal. Where will I keep the foie gras and chocolate mousse? As for the inbreeding, well, to each his own, I guess. I'm not sure how...
[18:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy to Launch STP-2; 4-Hour Window Opens @ 2019-06-25 2:30am EDT (2019-06-25 0630 UTC) - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:38] <exec> 08└─Obligatory Perry Bible Fellowship comic https://pbfcomics.com [pbfcomics.com]
[18:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Launched - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:45] <exec> 08└─Lots of RK3399 boards out there. Yes, some are quite a bit more, others not much more. Tons better hardware. But yes i do agree if you get too much power in one of these, it sort of blurs the real intent of this stuff. embedded projects.
[18:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:43] <exec> 08└─Now we're just talking about rules that corporate america can buy and sell just as they buy and sell politicians, which is a well known fact. The current prohibitions you are talking about are simply a matter of degree. It would be too big a shock to suddenly allow corporate organ harvesting. But th...
[18:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─Politicians are vastly cheaper. It's not like I can wave a twenty and get one of your kidneys. Even in a corporate republic there's only so much you can afford.
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[19:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:04] <exec> 08└─'and smaller.' Nanobot tracking. Lookup the countries and companies into nanotech, some of them have a history of very dirty tricks. What if they put them in food or water? What if they could track you down like a tick from a mile away? A permanent bug in your body at all times. There will not be a...
[19:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:05] <exec> 08└─Hair spray works very well on tiny robots.
[19:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:27] <exec> 08└─Every even six years: Solar minimum coming up, prepare to have climate change disproved. Every odd six years: Solar maximum coming up, prepare to have climate change disproved. Don't worry deniers, I'm sure THIS TIME a 12-year cycle will totally have an affect on climate change!
[19:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:28] <exec> 08└─Hey now, don't jump to conclusions. We have plenty of domestic Republican propaganda that could explain this!
[19:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:30] <exec> 08└─The story has always been we are heading for a grand solar minimum (which in the past has been associated with colder climate) in a couple cycles. Every next cycle seems to confirm this trend. You just fail to comprehend the argument or perhaps read something from others who failed to comprehend it....
[19:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:32] <exec> 08└─So the cycles have have been getting weaker since 1980. Meanwhile, global average temperatures have been increasing over that same timeframe. (And, the rate of the increase has been increasing.) And you think this supports your hypothesis?
[19:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calibration Method Improves Scientific Research Performed With Smartphone Cameras - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:43] <exec> 08└─Imagine what this thread would look like for an article with this title: Calibration Method Improves Scientific Research into Climate Change
[19:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:19] <exec> 08└─When Windows 95 was developed and released, Microsoft was competing against information services, not the Internet./quote> A case in point (from the consumer market): Microsoft Encarta.
[19:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:21] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd much rather use a Surface, which is a real computer, than an iPad, which is a glorified phone but without the phone. And I'm not the only one - Surface sales are growing 21% [techradar.com] per year, while iPad sales are, well, not (although they have recovered somewhat from the huge...
[19:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:23] <exec> 08└─Alternatively: The tablet computer concept was thought up by Douglas Adams and published in 1979. Google "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". (Bonus obligatory xkcd link [xkcd.com])
[19:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:08] <exec> 08└─Someone choosing to not endorse your product is not censorship,
[19:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:09] <exec> 08└─If Marijuana Cola is too scandalous...
[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:59] <exec> 08└─Again confusing organ transplantation from prisoners (banned since 2015) / organ black market (target of law enforcement) with systematic and forced organ organ transplantation from FLG followers, especially to the extent they claim?
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[20:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Steal Call Records from Cell Providers in ‘Massive-Scale’ Espionage - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:26] <exec> 08└─They're conveniently wired to both sides of the Urals!
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:33] <exec> 08└─Georgia, next time, for a voting system that is completely reliable, stable, secure, and private; please partner with Facebook for your new voting solution. A voting system from Facebook would be in the bestest interest of the entire country. So much so that the entire country should simply switch t...
[20:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:35] <exec> 08└─To be fair, if voting were done via FB we wouldn't even need to vote because FB's AI could vote for us. "Happy Election Day, AC! Facebook would like to thank you for voting for Giant Meteor for President of United States! Would you like to share your vote? We already have, so you're welcome!"
[20:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another BGP Outage Thanks to Verizon and a BGP Optimizer - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─Pretty sad that we give one company so much power over the entire WAN. A complete redesign is in order to make the service providers into a switching network. Take away their routers.
[20:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:02] <exec> 08└─An Atom processor netbook? You must be a glutton for punishment. Those were terrible when they were new. You still using tallow candles and doing laundry down by the creek?
[20:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─Who said it was Atom? Arm 64 wasn't a thing when ARM based netbooks were (briefly) popular.
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:06] <exec> 08└─If these systems are embedded then you shouldn't be upgrading the OS anyhow.
[20:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:08] <exec> 08└─Nice try but Devuan doesn't have an ARM port.
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:10] <exec> 08└─I'm obviously missing something here, because PCLinuxOS dropped 32-bit support a year or two ago without preventing the team from providing updated Wine, Steam, etc. packages in the repository, and PCLOS users still get support if we visit those programs' help forums. The main problem that does crop...
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[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─You don't tell me what to do with my systems.
[20:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─They were cheap and ran Linux. Probably still have better performance than an Raspberry Pi. Know of anything better in that class that Google doesn't own?
[20:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8y8Ziwswe0 [youtube.com] [SFW]
[20:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:12] <exec> 08└─My memory is intact... In 2006 NASA initially expected a solar maximum in 2010 or 2011, and thought that it could be the strongest since 1958. However, the solar maximum was not declared to have occurred until 2014, and even then was ranked among the weakest on record. https://en.wikipedia.org
[20:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:14] <exec> 08└─It isn't a linear relationship of weak cycle -> lower temp. The grand minimum is it's own phenomenon that is associated with weak solar cycles, no one knows the underlying reasons or what else that state of the sun is associated with. Please, do a tiny bit of research into it before commenting furth...
[20:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:16] <exec> 08└─Always the same here. A certain type of person wants to downvote reality. Good luck.
[20:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:18] <exec> 08└─Actually I think it is more likely the DNC just disappears. Half will split off into a socialist party and the corporatist wing merges with the RHINOs.
[20:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:20] <exec> 08└─They show their prediction for solar cycle 24 made in 2008 here (at 7:35): https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] It fits well. And solar cycle 24 was somewhat weak, but hardly the weakest ever recorded: http://www.sidc.be [www.sidc.be]
[20:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calibration Method Improves Scientific Research Performed With Smartphone Cameras - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:31] <exec> 08└─Oooh, touchy! I just find it interesting that calibrating sensors is such normal science that an article about it in optics has a whole two comments. But you calibrate temperature sensors in climate science and it's evidence of a massive conspiracy.
[20:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:11] <exec> 08└─I normally wouldn't do this, but the spelling errors in my posting are really annoying me. It should have read: My experience is just the opposite: Windows is here for the long term (due to inertia) to PREVENT actual serious work from getting done. It just so happens that entire industries have crop...
[20:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─MS is known for screwing up startups to prevent new markets that develop to possibly threaten its existing cashcow business. Basically, they act like typical monopoly.
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:00] <exec> 08└─There is also the allegations alleged by two women, underage girls at the time (12-14), that were at Mr. Epstein's house. This is well documented and not unusual for Mr. Epstein. Mr. Trump visited him and according to the women, raped them. Mr. Epstein, finding out about it, punched the younger one...
[20:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:51] <exec> 08└─https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/138292/story-that-includes-asian-american-woman-being-hypnotized-into-killing-herself-w [stackexchange.com]
[20:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:50] <exec> 08└─Boeing tried to bribe a senator into saying that the 737 MAX problem is just those durned furruner pilots. Apparently there was a limit to what a bribe can buy. We are getting a new press secretary. IMO: the previous one quit because she was asked to tell a lie so big that even she wouldn't tell it....
[20:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:51] <exec> 08└─Goodness. You live in a fantasy world don't you?
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[21:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Steal Call Records from Cell Providers in ‘Massive-Scale’ Espionage - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:16] <exec> 08└─In the phone industry, the call detail log IS the data - certainly it's the data used to create bills for real money. It's also how law enforcement tracks your contacts. And if you have that information from cellphones in real time, then you can do traffic analysis and localize enough for an attack.
[21:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Steal Call Records from Cell Providers in ‘Massive-Scale’ Espionage - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:18] <exec> 08└─They only want to have what the NSA has access to. Someone else here noted that I'd much rather let a foreign intelligence agency have access to my data - I am unimportant in the global scheme of things. But NSA can share my data with any Federal agency that knows the right way to ask and has a half...
[21:14:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 758 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─Georgia, next time, for a voting system that is completely reliable, stable, secure, and private; please partner with Facebook for your new voting solution. A voting system from Facebook would be in the bestest interest of the entire country. So much so that the entire country should simply switch t...
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:28] <exec> 08└─The plaintiffs claim that evidence obtained from state and county election officials revealed that a “unique identifier” is attached to each electronic vote cast on the 17-year-old machines. Those unique identifiers could enable “election insiders or malicious intruders” to connect each ball...
[21:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:01] <exec> 08└─Speaking of looking dumb, my home machine is an AMD Phenom II x4 with 8 GB of RAM (amazing how little that spec has changed in the decade) which happens to be 10 years old, running Windows 7 64-bit. And it runs just fine, except for the odd slowdown on Firefox on occasion and the length of time it t...
[21:15:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:24] <exec> 08└─As the drones lost mass, they added capability. The 2013 DelFly Explorer gained autonomous navigation, thanks to a stereovision camera and hardware for processing obstacle detection—no mean feat for a system that could only weigh a few grams. Self-driving cars make complete 3D maps of their enviro...
[21:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:32] <exec> 08└─You have 40seconds to remove your panties...
[21:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on "Immoral", "Scandalous" Symbols and Language in Trademarks - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:42] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight. You think that when the commercial for Lucky Charms comes on, it means the TV network is endorsing Lucky Charms?
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[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─I put in one of those no-poach agreements and significantly benefited from it. Hey, I'm just that kind of guy. Karma eventually caught up with me, though. -- Steve Jobs
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:21] <exec> 08└─Is it still possible to sue Steve Jobs?
[22:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:40] <exec> 08└─state and county election officials have admitted that ballot image reports maintained in their electronic databases and memory cards—when combined with other election records—contain enough information to identify who cast every electronic vote in Georgia.
[22:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:41] <exec> 08└─Does the machine itself somehow "know" who is casting the ballot on it ("Lawn is assigned to machine #3 and we had to clear Lawn / We set up Lawn to use machine #3 now"), or is it the election staff who assure that a given machine is only accessed by a screened voter and that this voter only uses on...
[22:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:43] <exec> 08└─Sell not only the voters, and when and where they voted, but who they voted for.
[22:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─Influencing who gets elected obviously has some value or it wouldn't be so frequently be attempted throughout history.
[22:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─If Facebook's AI were to vote for us, then Facebook would miss out on the opportunity to charge us to vote. And force us to pay in Libra digital currency.
[22:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:50] <exec> 08└─Who do you think will be paying for that service? It's just as likely that people would sign-up in droves to have the FB AI automatically vote for them.
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another BGP Outage Thanks to Verizon and a BGP Optimizer - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:00] <exec> 08└─That kind of response from Verizon is why pretty much no one likes any of the phone companies. That kind of attitude will guarantee their demise, if / when something comes up that competes for their customers. I for one sure have hopes that Starlink will be part of that answer. Since, Starlink seems...
[22:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:26] <exec> 08└─What I never understood, though the whole debate, was why someone couldn't just make a debian package with all the 32 bit libraries and install it if you want it? Like GIMP, and so many of the other "supported, but not installed by default" packages in Ubuntu? All this rage and angst over whether or...
[22:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:28] <exec> 08└─You've got a rare gem, then, and they do exist. For the most part, the 32 bit era notebooks were bigger and heavier than their modern (and 64 bit) counterparts. Keep it until it won't run anymore. I usually get frustrated with the old notebooks when the batteries die and the cost of replacing them i...
[22:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:30] <exec> 08└─and vice versa
[22:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Settling the Debate on Serotonin's Role in Sleep - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:38] <exec> 08└─more complex than a Zebrafish. Large quantities of Seratonin by itself won't put you to sleep - it will cause you to clench your jaw uncontrollably. All things in balance, and since we're all out of balance one way or another, it's going to take a very large study, in humans, to answer questions lik...
[22:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:05] <exec> 08└─Upon compliance, it doesn't recognize it and just firehoses synthetic semen at the target.
[22:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Army of Robot Surveillance Guards is Coming - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:07] <exec> 08└─Nobody is coming to kill the brave J. Michael Hudson because he had a brainfart about nanobots. I welcome the introduction of these nanobots. They hold great medical potential.
[22:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prolonged Transmission of a Resistant Bacterial Strain in a Northern California Hospital - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:15] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here [newyorker.com]. The author is now leading Amazon/Berkshire Hathaway/JP Morgan's joint health venture [npr.org].
[22:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:39] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, global average temperatures have been increasing over that same timeframe. (And, the rate of the increase has been increasing.
[22:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade is Looking Up - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:40] <exec> 08└─That's because noone knows [nature.com]. Still, cosmonauts have been in space during inclement space weather, to the extent that they could see flashes of light behind closed eyelids. While noone really knows what that did to them exactly, it probably didn't have many health benefits.
[22:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:33] <exec> 08└─Its not "stupid" its "greed" (but, as we know MBA's believe "greed is good" so its OK).
[22:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:34] <exec> 08└─The Surface and the Windows Tablet experiments of the mid 2000s are light years apart. Personally, I like a nice Pixelbook. Because Linux. I don't do Windows. (except at work) But I had to jump through a few hoops to get what I consider a good Chrome OS, Android, Linux desktop mixture setup. So even...
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:36] <exec> 08└─The history of the 80's, 90's and some of the 2000s is littered with the startup corpses left in the wake of Microsoft. Since we're talking phones, I'll mention Sendo [wikipedia.org]. Microsoft started trying to put them out of business before the ink on the agreement was even dry, in order to steal...
[22:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─Those of us who didn't do Windows had to substitute Usenet for Minesweeper.
[22:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:41] <exec> 08└─It is not "Miss" Management. Nor Mrs. Management. But Ms. Management. Because Microsoft = MS, and mismanagement is to "Miss" the next big thing. Almost twice. One was the internet which Bill Gates famously said was just "a fad". No doubt because it didn't fit in his world of desktop PCs.
[22:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:22] <exec> 08└─Don't be so quick to throw around the "TREASON!!!1!!" cry. Our Founding Fathers had good reason to be wary of over-broad accusations of treason - under the laws they had to live with, if I called Trump a fat, cheeto-faced dictator wannabe, that would be considered treason and I could be executed, as...
[22:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Contributing Low-Level Code to Coreboot UEFI BIOS Alternative - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:24] <exec> 08└─I consider what those NSA agents did to be as bad as what you describe, and wholly deserving of the term treason. They meet, or exceed, the definition. We have enemies. We have enemies operating today in U.S Cyberspace, which is the same as United States Territory. We have enemies that have caused m...
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[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:19] <exec> 08└─He was the hardest hit by wage suppression. He only made $1/year!
[23:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:20] <exec> 08└─because I’d have to have a job first.
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:22] <exec> 08└─is inherent to that decadent culture, for ages.
[23:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:25] <exec> 08└─I agree. They are capitalists after all, doing the capitalist thing suppressing wages. They'll need to be expropriated right along with the oil companies when the revolution comes.
[23:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:27] <exec> 08└─I've been to Silicon Valley, all those people are rich as hell based on spying on the rest of the world.
[23:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:29] <exec> 08└─Fair point. Maybe the correct perspective is, "You worked for the surveillance and advertising machine, fuck off." On the other hand, I consider rank and file employees of Google, Apple, Intel, etc... less evil than executives and shareholders. So if this just takes back some of the money the execs...
[23:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:31] <exec> 08└─Jobs is overrated and now he is interred.
[23:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:33] <exec> 08└─Cremated.
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Documentary Explores Wage Suppression Lawsuit in Silicon Valley - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:36] <exec> 08└─High-flying engineers still make engineer salary, not "Wall St. Asshole" salary that let you retire by 40s.
[23:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─In Georgia, you are handed a small yellow smartcard. Yeah, in theory they might hypothetically be able to match up some time stamps and figure folks out -maybe- -in off year- -at low ebb- -during a runoff- -with great effort- but this is an overblown fear when frankly what the bad guys want to do is...
[23:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─In my case, a voter comes in and authenticates himself. Two tokens are separated from his file entry. One is a receipt that the elector has been at the polls. The other is an admission ticket to the voting machine. This prevents people from voting multiple times. The voter is brought to an open mach...
[23:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:04] <exec> 08└─If I had my choice, I would prefer 3500 year old paper and stylus instead of a machine.
[23:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:06] <exec> 08└─True. I should have written "limited value" as it's is still going to be easier and cheaper to influence one elected person. That is presumably what the various legal money-making ventures the US ruling class set up once they get onto the gravy train. But yes, influencing the voters has some value...
[23:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:09] <exec> 08└─I don't consider it too prohibitive to be done. Sure, it would take work to correlate, but if you were intent on, say, arresting a bunch of people that voted for the "wrong" candidate with a possession felony (why possession? because the cop can bring the contraband to "find") that would convenientl...
[23:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It is Impossible to Cast a Secret Vote On Georgia's Electronic Voting Machines - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:11] <exec> 08└─That data has no value.
[23:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another BGP Outage Thanks to Verizon and a BGP Optimizer - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:21] <exec> 08└─They suck, slightly, less than AT&T. MAGA, baby, MAGA.
[23:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:51] <exec> 08└─"Compile as 64 bit" isn't an option. Depending on how old the code is you'll end up having to rewrite it from scratch due to bitness-specific algorithms and hackery. Blind 64-bit recompiles are a recipe for disaster.
[23:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:53] <exec> 08└─OK, so let the distro provide the ia32 libs and loader and you're set to run your special app from /usr/local/bin. Why should a distro need to allocate resources for a platform that is going away, or on software that no one is caring to maintain? We've been through this before, with ppc, alpha etc g...
[23:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Calls Losing the Smartphone Market to Android His "Greatest Mistake" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:55] <exec> 08└─M$ had no way to leverage the desktop monopoly and extend it into the phone market and prevent buyers from exercising their choices
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[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─Personally? No, i'm part of the faceless masses, they would sacrifice me in .001 seconds to give some random adversary a hangnail...for the greater good. However I do believe they will act as directed in the country's interests. And you can count on widely adopted firmware code being audited a...
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[23:19:40] <exec> 08└─However I do believe they will act as directed in the country's interests.
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