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[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Snotnose is an asshole.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─That's only $67,842.61 per passenger (100e6/(737*2)).
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─346*3 years consecutive sentences for the board, officers, and project management sounds about right to me.
[00:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─Containers like snap / Docker are very lightweight, they just carry the filesystem (that they need, which can be seriously pared down) and use the host's kernel. On the other hand, running a Windows 10 guest OS in a VM is MUCH heavier.
[00:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:30] <exec> 08└─I've never tried - my use case pretty much demands full desktop access, but I believe VNC protocol would allow you to just share a single window if that's how you want to configure the server, and the client would be none-the-wiser.
[00:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:56] <exec> 08└─You are outnumbered 4:1 without counting GP.
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[01:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─Nothing 'breaking', not notable enough for 'news', WTF?
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─What? Like they won't make it back in 3 months of weapons sales to the Saudis?
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─$100M is just the cost of doing business for the MBA's. Let me know when they start putting the fuckers in jail. Then, and only then, will justice be done.
[01:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:49] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of money for the family of a goatfucker in Jihadistan.
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─How much additional would it have cost to write, thoroughly test, and correctly deploy the software the first time? Or even now, for that matter?
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─289,017.34 per passenger killed due to what appears to be negligence and skimping to save costs is going to be a light entree. I would be very surprised if even adding a zero to the end of that figure would be considered enough by the court system. It will be interesting to watch this case to see ho...
[01:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─I think you're a bot, or are using an automatic responder. You don't sound human at all. Too many old cliches.
[01:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:23] <exec> 08└─Lasers in orbit! This is pretty sweet, for those of us that stroke white cats and dab pinkies on our lips. For low cost solutions, affix a giant manifying glass on it that you can rotate remotely - so as to be able to focus the sun rays when the position in orbit is optimal...
[01:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:25] <exec> 08└─Space Force was mentioned at the Salute to America event earlier.
[01:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 2107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:44] <exec> 08└─Many things are just not present in Wayland and should be present in some form or it will end like an application launcher. And GUI forwarding is not the only thing, more, this is fixable, when we will finally have a fiber network in every house and terabyte per second wireless connectivity in LAN (...
[01:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:46] <exec> 08└─I thought...Israeli/NSA spy operation
[01:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:48] <exec> 08└─End result, graphical logins on DEs are now dependent on systemd.
[01:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, thanks, I've played with them but didn't pay so much attention to those details, like RAM overhead. Seem awesome and easy to set up. It's all very interesting to me- the various architectures, divisions, etc. Last year I came up to speed on VMWare (seemed pretty easy) thinking I would be getti...
[01:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:52] <exec> 08└─The article should have been talking about how wayland is dying
[01:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:54] <exec> 08└─And do not blame tools for your idiocy when you do. Same as you do not try and "secure" your arse from your left or right hand, and instead just refrain from improper use of root vegetables, household tools, lighting implements, small animals and the like: http://www.well.com [we...
[01:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:49] <exec> 08└─Exactly, digital assistant Alex is probably more useful to house chores than beer slugging hubby!
[01:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canon Crowdfunds a Small, Clippable Camera - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:39] <exec> 08└─Heh you must be new here. Storage goes to the cloud, either directly, via your devices, or piggybacked via other devices or any available network. It then gets sold to various data consumers to profile you, your family and the family dog and its chums. This is awesome though, the different types of...
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[02:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─The quake, estimated to have been felt by some 15 million people, was the largest with an epicenter in Southern California since the magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine quake struck the Mojave Desert in 1999
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─The war to end all wars, wasn't: but it's over. Trump is President! Hot girls don't want to go with you to your parents basement.
[02:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:01] <exec> 08└─Standards for the value of a human life, for example from various parts of the UN, always take into account the potential earnings and expected lifespan and similar things. Somalians have an expected lifetime of 56 years. Somalia has a per-person GDP of about $500 per year, give or take 5%. For a ne...
[02:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't pay $28k for a Somali unless the contract let me return it if it turned out to be Moslem.
[02:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:36] <exec> 08└─I need at least one by two meters to be able to stand up.
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:38] <exec> 08└─That's what SHE said... "no one can hear your big stick thumping against your head" (oh...just read that. Gross.)
[02:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:40] <exec> 08└─No 'mwahahaha' in that speech? Then, how can one take it seriously?
[02:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:04] <exec> 08└─That is a single person's vanity project, iirc.
[02:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:31] <exec> 08└─Restaurants around here offer delivery directly--either phone in your order, or submit with a web form on the restaurant website. No need to get any 3rd parties like Grubhub involved. Note that the delivery service may be a different kind of 3rd party, there is a local outfit with drivers that serve...
[02:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:33] <exec> 08└─...and...in case anyone needs a car analogy: Before that BMW drivers were synonymous with assholes.
[02:25:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:56] <exec> 08└─My wife asked me if I wanted one of these things.. I sat her down and edu-macated her right then and there.. Like so many others, she had NO idea how intrusive these were. I asked her had she read the novel "1984" in school? and if so, did she recall the "telescreen" that was in everyone's house? I...
[02:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:21] <exec> 08└─That's what I thought too, but the other night a Google search was returning lots of unwanted hits that included an unusual name (some pop star). So I tried Google with: my search string -popstar_name and sure enough the minus (-) got rid of the hits about "popstar'.
[02:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:23] <exec> 08└─I replied to all inquiries that I have a long and sordid history, complete with enemies who wanted to see me dead. Not true, but they couldn't prove or disprove it.
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[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─Thanks Mad, you added some fun to my sometimes painful adolescence. And, in case anyone was worried, we'll always have Spy vs. Spy -- https://archive.org [archive.org]
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─Trump is President!
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:47] <exec> 08└─Hot girls don't want to go with you to your parents basement.
[03:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─True dat.
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─The press release announced boeing delivered.
[03:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should read some Santayana instead of Bannon.
[03:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:24] <exec> 08└─It's more specific than that, it's an attack on GPG, not on OpenPGP in general. So anyone not using GPG is also not affected.
[03:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 1783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:27] <exec> 08└─This is a legitimate application of blockchain technology. Remember a blockchain is nothing more than a cryptographically secure, time stamped ledger. Consensus and spam control are vital aspects of that design in order to keep the chain from growing out of control, which is exactly what is happenin...
[03:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:29] <exec> 08└─Well that formula didn't come through at all, so let me try again. Solve x <=t where x = f(d+n++)
[03:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:50] <exec> 08└─All the helicopters, planes, and tanks make it srs. At a future event, they will have the Space Marines with jet packs.
[03:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:17] <exec> 08└─Where I work, VNC and RDC have been banned as security problems. However, ssh is still the preferred access mechanism; so X forwarding through ssh is still useful to some degree. As it turns out, though, I haven't needed to run a graphical program through ssh for a number of years.
[03:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:18] <exec> 08└─If you negotiate the minefield in the drive And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes And if you make it past the shotguns in the hall Dial the combination, open the priesthole And if I'm in I'll tell you where to stick your hardware.
[03:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:20] <exec> 08└─Somebody else linked this the other day. Sorry, can't remember who. Nineteen years old and still pretty relevant to your desires. https://www.joelonsoftware.com [joelonsoftware.com] I don't think he's correct that it is always a bad idea - some things n...
[03:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 2218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:49] <exec> 08└─That's what Grubhub/Seamless are. When the first started out, they focused on the business community, allowing companies to provide food for catered meetings, employees working late and the like. This worked well, as employees who did not have signature authority could have food delivered without bo...
[03:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:41] <exec> 08└─People put all sorts of places in the robots.txt because they don't want robots firing off various scripts that they either won't care about the results of or can't fill out properly. For example, SoylentNews has Disallow: /search.pl in their robots.txt because going to that page causes a script to...
[03:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linode Reboots of our Servers Completed [Updated] - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:57] <exec> 08└─I like the SN VT100 mode -- green text on black. Easy on the eyes.
[03:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:43] <exec> 08└─TireRack has a lot of tires, but I've had crap luck with their site -- much better to telephone them and talk to someone. I wanted to find out the smallest rim diameter that would fit my car (which came with tires that had stupid-short-sidewalls, and rim damage on potholes). Guy on the phone had the...
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[04:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:50] <exec> 08└─Some time last year they apparently moved the entire operation from New York to Lala land, making a big deal about resetting their issue number to 1.
[04:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:52] <exec> 08└─Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall
[04:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:54] <exec> 08└─The Dept. lines you see here (inherited from the other side) seem to have been inspired by the Dept. lines from Mad Magazine, e.g. "Joke and Dagger Dept." for Spy vs. Spy, "Berg's Eye View Dept." for Dave Berg's "Lighter Side Of", and "Tales From The Duck Side Dept." for Duck Ewing's articles. Yet a...
[04:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─Reruns. B.o.ring. yawn. What me worry.
[04:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:09] <exec> 08└─Right?
[04:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─one million dollars!
[04:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:48] <exec> 08└─i.e. a browser that runs on the confusingly named X server
[04:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:42] <exec> 08└─Ironically enough, our corporate network also bans VNC as a security risk, but several products we sell have it baked in as our remote support tool... When I started they didn't have a desk for me so I continued to work from home as I had been doing at my previous job, installed VNC, started using t...
[04:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:44] <exec> 08└─So they are doing something now that is going to cut down on the amount of choice available, by their own admission.
[04:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:46] <exec> 08└─I think this is akin to Fox news commentary on North Korean visits by recent US presidents... it's not about the actual merits of the actions, it's all about which team you cheer for.
[04:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:14] <exec> 08└─Food is one thing, but don't you dare download a car!
[04:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:16] <exec> 08└─With stuff like this as the norm (please don't try to pretend everyone doesn't do this to some degree), who cares if AI is gaming google, as reported in a separate post. I've been feeling it for over a year now. Pretty much everything on the web is crap, fiction, opinion, clickbait, exploitation, se...
[04:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes RTX 2000-Series GPUs With "Super" Branding - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:20] <exec> 08└─In the last year I have had a couple of occasions to know what a good video card would be for upgrading or a new machine. I gave up. Sure those comparison sites help but the naming and numbering is just whacked. Minimum card specs? Comparison across ranges? MX? Super? Do I really need card x? Will a...
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[05:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─We will purge ourselves of the Jewish fifth-columnists, Antifa poseur globalist useful idiots, leeching Latinos and other migrant hordes. So be it! AMEN.
[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─I'm terminally ill. Hint hint...
[05:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:43] <exec> 08└─by the time I reached the end, I had trouble seeing too.
[05:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:45] <exec> 08└─I wish I knew what this shit is about. Back in the late 90's, I was a hip computer programmer. Now... what was I saying?
[05:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:57] <exec> 08└─I think they went out of business couple decades ago. I thought they were "charming" - you know us Americans think the British are quirky cute and all that shit. Magazine is dead. All hail the new ... Actually, if vinyl records can make a comeback, why not magazines? Maybe because magazines don't ha...
[05:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:11] <exec> 08└─Not part of the United States, based on their lack of interest in the Constitution. So no cares given.
[05:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:12] <exec> 08└─I guarantee you no one in Chico felt this. Unless they were in Searles Valley at the time of the quake.
[05:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I kinda remember a quake in japan that was strong enough to break a nuclear reactor.
[05:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:55] <exec> 08└─Those darn things are old! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] A good custom AR-15 would work much better ;-) Did anyone else hear a loud whooshing sound?
[05:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:21] <exec> 08└─Who gives a shit what the DoD wants? They've sucked up enough of the wealth of this country.
[05:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:53] <exec> 08└─I have a use-case: remove visualisation of large data sets. The only reasonable use-case for a remote window system involves a use-case where you can't transfer the required data (in which case you can use local tools). For me that's only true when I want to make a movie from terabyte-sized datasets...
[05:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:54] <exec> 08└─Interesting read, thanks. Another way I've heard it put is, "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good". And yet, the concept of "bit rot" is basically analogous to the aging that nearly all living organisms suffer. If not throwing away all that experience is so great, why do so many organisms...
[05:27:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 1267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:41] <exec> 08└─In 1984 I was engaged in a local BBS hacking contest, and the most effective weapon against the "open" board was a bot that logged in at all hours of the night and day and pretended to post stories. It actually did post stuff, and within a few days the 88K floppy disk would be full and the board wou...
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[06:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 How PINE64 is Creating a Device-Design Community to Compete with Raspberry Pi - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:40] <exec> 08└─Call me when this is green: linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort Not even cpufreq is working in mainline, that's not an ecosystem, it's the standard swamp of shitty SoCs you only want to use in a phone you never update the kernel in and throw away in 2 years, or something you buy now and dig out...
[06:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:56] <exec> 08└─I'm terminally ill.
[06:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:58] <exec> 08└─Now... what was I saying?
[06:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:00] <exec> 08└─What about hips?
[06:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:02] <exec> 08└─I don' know, what about them? Anyway, who cares about late '90-ies hits?
[06:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:04] <exec> 08└─dang good rave parties, crazy tunes, good drugs, and ... yeah. them girls are crazy.
[06:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:06] <exec> 08└─Anyway, who cares about late '90-ies hits?
[06:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:09] <exec> 08└─Naaah, that was happening in the '60-'70ies, man. Those were the times.
[06:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:23] <exec> 08└─That was crazy, tho, not mad (grin)
[06:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:24] <exec> 08└─Sadly things like this that were around when I was growing up can only last so long. Not only did they have to adjust to new generations after me, but they also had to adjust to the internet as a medium instead of book/magazine publishing. And for the record, there is one person running for presiden...
[06:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:29] <exec> 08└─Did you ever need to get a file on the server that is blocked as a direct download, so that even using wget with all the session data and cookies and certs fails? the only way is to run the browser on the server, get to the download and save. Last time i tried a curses browser for some web2.0 sites,...
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[07:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:32] <exec> 08└─I always had my suspicions about the elite. Good to know they are a dangerous community that rallies around terminally ill teenagers.
[07:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:33] <exec> 08└─We all are, of course. Living is dying, and you have been dying since the day you were conceived. Some of us are just slower than others.
[07:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:50] <exec> 08└─MAD magazine had been reusing content for quite awhile, but in the issues they did, they always had some new content to go along with it. Now it seems that they will follow the model of Tupac and dinosaur rock band re-releases and greatest-hits albums. As a MAD magazine fan, whose read some of the o...
[07:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:51] <exec> 08└─MAD magazine probably folded because truth became stranger than satire or fiction, so there was no longer any point in reading it. AKA we're in Clown World.
[07:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:53] <exec> 08└─My friends and I, in grade school, used to try to draw our own fully-functional versions of Mad Fold-Ins when we were supposed to be paying attention in class.
[07:24:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dltaylor [4693] 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:22] <exec> 08└─346*3 years consecutive sentences for the board, officers, and project management sounds about right to me.
[07:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Rain Forces Evacuation Order for 1.1 Million People in Southwestern Japan - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:34] <exec> 08└─I thought that was part of what wetlands are for -- to absorb and filter (?) water. I always wondered why "draining the swamp" was used as a metaphor for a good thing -- it sounds like "clearcutting the forest".
[07:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes RTX 2000-Series GPUs With "Super" Branding - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:36] <exec> 08└─It's not really that hard. https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] https://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com] https://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com] Last link has a megalist of GPU tiers go...
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[08:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:58] <exec> 08└─There really is nothing more to say. Salutes to some fine human beings for doing their best to alleviate suffering when they find it.
[08:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:00] <exec> 08└─Feb 2018 Elite: Dangerous Players Band Together To Save Cancer Patient's Expedition From Griefers [kotaku.com.au] Since January 13, a group of Elite: Dangerous players has been journeying across the galaxy to reach Dove Enigma station, named for a member of the expedition, Brandon "DoveEnigma13" Kei...
[08:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:19] <exec> 08└─A rare moment of lucidity for EF. Mark the date in your calendar, nobody knows if there'll be another.
[08:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:21] <exec> 08└─No, Everybody knows that MAD Magazine has to fold in order for us to see the secret answer to the ultimate question.
[08:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:23] <exec> 08└─Suck my dick, you goddamn sacksuck.
[08:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:03] <exec> 08└─As the crash victims cannot be brought back to life, $100 million sounds about right ... for each victim, of course!
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[09:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:46] <exec> 08└─If this is the beginning of the end of the retro-vinyl obsession then I'm all for it. Now's the time to start trawling the charity shops for old cassettes. Reckon I could pick them up for pennies, but in a year I'll be selling them to idiot hipsters for £20 each. Maybe VHS will also make a comeback...
[09:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:03] <exec> 08└─No. The Richter scale is obsolete, it was an earthquake of magnitude 6.4.
[09:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:53] <exec> 08└─Speaking of NTP... Notice how NTP's timeservers are all DNS based? To be clear, what's really happening is people are donating timeserver services, and they're using the NTP.org domain to do it. Now notice how ntp.org is now DNSSEC based? What happens if the time is too far off, with DNSSEC based re...
[09:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:55] <exec> 08└─The real problem here, is how poorly redhat does things. Many people hate systemd. Others stand by it, but that's all irrelevant. What IS an issue is the roll out. First, it was forced. Redhat = Gnome = Systemd. A chain of 'must use'. Second, it was very, very buggy and not ready for prime time. Thi...
[09:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:57] <exec> 08└─You could take something simple like phantomjs, or chromes rendering/test engine, and headlessly render the html -> pdf. An email message shouldn't have any complex HTML in it. https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com]
[09:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:59] <exec> 08└─I don't know what that new butt page is all about, except that I'm not going to go there.
[09:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:02] <exec> 08└─Just to add to my above blather... The thing here is, 'edge cases' are what makes/made Linux great. Awesome. It's what made for insane stability, compared to other platforms. It's what makes it so *usable*. Think ; corporate culture has a budget, has limits on should be developed. Obscure features t...
[09:28:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 2218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:30] <exec> 08└─That's what Grubhub/Seamless are. When the first started out, they focused on the business community, allowing companies to provide food for catered meetings, employees working late and the like. This worked well, as employees who did not have signature authority could have food delivered without bo...
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[10:24:04] <exec> 08└─OK, this story throws me for a loop. Maybe the Sony Walkman didn't happen until 1979, but I distinctly remember having a small, portable cassette player, while I was still in high school. I graduated high school in 1974 - so, what's the deal here? Searching for history, I stumbled across this video,...
[10:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:05] <exec> 08└─A little more idle searching, and I found another video worth looking at. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] In 1958 RCA Victor was offering a consumer quality cassette player. Note how freaking HUGE that cassette is.
[10:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the Walkman was far from the first tape player, and Sony were far from the first company to make things like that. https://lowendmac.com [lowendmac.com] The Pressman used microcartridges and was years before the Walkman, but was aimed at journalists. "...
[10:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:10] <exec> 08└─In fact, the walkman is not an invention. Just like the smartphone isn't. It is something that would have come out one way or the other, eventually. Portable music players were common for 45 rpm vinyl singles. headphones were also known. Combining is not inventing. Not to detract from the engineerin...
[10:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 How PINE64 is Creating a Device-Design Community to Compete with Raspberry Pi - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:26] <exec> 08└─The people at PINE64 may be well intentioned but they are simply impossible to deal with. They rarely answer emails, when they do the response in incomplete or simply off base, any information is lacking, etc. I've tried to pre-order a Pinebook Pro, and even a 14" Pinebook, but can never get in thei...
[10:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Heavy Rain Forces Evacuation Order for 1.1 Million People in Southwestern Japan - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:03] <exec> 08└─Swamps are also associated with disease, particularly malaria, in the US. Washington, DC at one time had lots of swamps and lots of such problems from those swamps.
[10:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:26] <exec> 08└─Plan B would be disabling it all and then acting totally mystified over the few decades why all this fancy tech just doesn't work in your house. At least, till some meddling kid fixes your fixes for the third or fourth time. Then you might have to pretend to like it.
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[11:24:27] <exec> 08└─https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/056/667/madagascar.gif [kym-cdn.com]
[11:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:39] <exec> 08└─Such device is an obvious necessity in age when corporate control freaks are removing audio connectors from all devices.
[11:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:41] <exec> 08└─Likewise, the Iphone was far from the first smartphone, but the popular brand names often swamp their predecessors.
[11:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Combine Light and Matter - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:51] <exec> 08└─From TFS: Shaken atoms could also cause a stir in other areas
[11:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 How PINE64 is Creating a Device-Design Community to Compete with Raspberry Pi - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:05] <exec> 08└─I've tried to pre-order a Pinebook Pro, and even a 14" Pinebook, but can never get in their BTO queue (because it's not available when I've tried), and ETA's - if I can get a response - are "we'll let you know" or "we'll get back to you", but they never do.
[11:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:57] <exec> 08└─Not only did they have to adjust to new generations after me
[11:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:17] <exec> 08└─How can bits rot in the cloud? I mean, I understand bitrot on disk where sectors die. The cloud is redundant raid almighty copies forever, right?
[11:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:18] <exec> 08└─I only just found Ubuntu 18 mate which is awesome. Literally everything I need on a desktop. Now it is what, going away?
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[12:24:48] <exec> 08└─I can’t tell if this BS or just bad science journalism. Copies of what? Electrons? Orbitals? How is that a copy if they say just made an entirely new thing they call a polariton? Where do polaritons fit into the Standard Model? Let me guess: they are going to need a new multi billion dollar partic...
[12:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:49] <exec> 08└─I read MAD back when I was an impressionable 13-something year old. I grew up in an ultra-strict religious family, and MAD somehow made it under the radar as "just a funny comic", nevermind the often risque artwork and concepts. It was my first unfiltered glimpse into the wider world outside of chur...
[12:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:50] <exec> 08└─Here's the scoop from Mark Evanier, quoting Joe Raiola: https://www.newsfromme.com [newsfromme.com]
[12:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:35] <exec> 08└─Better described as Indian software skills. https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] Not that other companies are better - they just did not kill people - not yet anyways.
[12:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder, what if folks take money and then violate the agreement by trashing the company. Sure, it's perhaps illegal, but would the Boeing able to go after them?
[12:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:00] <exec> 08└─The cost to the spammer is too high to make that little bit of thrill he/she gets from being a douche worth their while.
[12:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:11] <exec> 08└─Anybody serious about keylogging will use a hardware keylogger, intercepting hardware in transit is more likely than you think.
[12:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:12] <exec> 08└─I meant bit rot in the context of unmaintained software. Changes are always breaking old software.
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[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─... is possible even in underdeveloped countries. See the recent Ebola outbreaks in Africa. Australia will hardly blink, putting people in isolation after contact tracing. Poor Papu New Guniea might suffer though depending on how well islolation/treatment can be implemented.
[13:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Raging TB Epidemic in Papua New Guinea Threatens to Destabilize the Entire Asia Pacific - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─I've read the summary, and had to go through a good part of this piece to know what TB stands for. So I will settle for a terabyte epidemic instead.
[13:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:28] <exec> 08└─It just goes to show that any device can be profitable as long as it includes spying, telemetry, usage metrics, and some way to play advertising. That said, are they actually manufacturing these new or just retrofitting some old stock? Typically once manufacture stops on something, all manufacturing...
[13:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:29] <exec> 08└─In fact, the walkman is not an invention. Just like the smartphone isn't. It is something that would have come out one way or the other, eventually. Portable music players were common for 45 rpm vinyl singles. headphones were also known. Combining is not inventing.
[13:24:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:28] <exec> 08└─MAD magazine probably folded because truth became stranger than satire or fiction, so there was no longer any point in reading it. AKA we're in Clown World.
[13:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:53] <exec> 08└─Nothing 'breaking', not notable enough for 'news', WTF?
[13:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:55] <exec> 08└─It's logarithmic.
[13:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:24] <exec> 08└─A major airplane provider needs to have their act together. That includes engineering and production. This all flows from the culture set by management. Which in turn works for Wall Street. It takes a long time to change a good company's culture, but above chain appears to have managed to do this fo...
[13:26:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:37] <exec> 08└─A much bigger problem is that there's no support for window managers. Unlike remote display, everyone uses those. Wayland will give everyone the same amount of user interface flexibility as Windows does.
[13:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:32] <exec> 08└─I thought...Israeli/NSA spy operation
[13:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm mistaken. Are there distributions using it by default? I didn't think there were many (or any?). The sentiment I see most everywhere seems to be that most want no part of it.
[13:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:58] <exec> 08└─I probably would have expected some of the major distros to see sense and go back to SysVinit after the systemd backlash.
[13:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like one of us doesn't know what X server is...
[13:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:02] <exec> 08└─There's been a few times I had to make an xorg.conf file to get a particular hardware / driver configuration working.
[13:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:04] <exec> 08└─Today's Linux is hot garbage and it resembles nothing of old distros. Move to BSD where you have real working documentation (the FreeBSD handbook) and a more conservative way of releasing. On Linux if something manages to compile then it ships. Things work the way they always did, no rewrites of dec...
[13:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:37] <exec> 08└─Instead of committing seppuku, may I point you to free software and free culture? Install a GNU/Linux system and then proceed onto Project Gutenberg to find a treasure trove to read. Besides that I agree that 98% of everything is shit. On and off line.
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[14:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:43] <exec> 08└─Running a Nuclear Reactor was never really a problem. Its is the Nuclear Waste you retard that is the not solvable problem.
[14:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:44] <exec> 08└─Trouble is, if the zirconium overheats, it can react with water and produce hydrogen, which can explode.
[14:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Raging TB Epidemic in Papua New Guinea Threatens to Destabilize the Entire Asia Pacific - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─There is apparently a working vaccine https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] Article mentions AUstralia funded last round of vaccines and that money is about to dry up. What say you Australia, are you going to fund the next round or not?
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Raging TB Epidemic in Papua New Guinea Threatens to Destabilize the Entire Asia Pacific - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:04] <exec> 08└─That's a testament to how much things have changed in much of the world. During my father's generation (born 1922) using TB as shorthand for tuberculosis was nearly universal and very widely known. Most people would know someone who had caught TB. I can still remember the TB sanitorium that was in a...
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Raging TB Epidemic in Papua New Guinea Threatens to Destabilize the Entire Asia Pacific - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:07] <exec> 08└─Things sometimes change back again, too. In this area, 30 years ago, TB was all but unknown. The prison population was most familiar with it. Today, thanks to immigration, discussion of TB is pretty common. We've returned to "Most people would know someone who had caught TB." or very near to it.
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─In summary, 1979 was not the advent of portable, personal music listening. The Walkman was something special, in a way, but it wasn't as world changing as TFS might suggest.
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─I had a Norelco Carry-Corder. The carrying case had a long strap on it designed to go over your head to the opposite shoulder. When worn this way, it resembled a Star Trek tricorder.
[14:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:30] <exec> 08└─We had that Norelco Carry-Corder. It was so much more convenient than any tape unit we had before (all reel-to-reel). The Walkman's radical change was shrinking the unit into a vertical brick with footprint barely bigger than the compact cassette itself, rather than stretched out, and it partly did...
[14:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:32] <exec> 08└─Nobody buys old cassettes. All the new vaporwave releases are on cassette. Vinyl was always around, it never went away. I bought Ten from Pearl Jam on vinyl when it was brand new.
[14:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:24] <exec> 08└─It probably would have cost far more if they had done more testing and had to adhere to higher standards than a $100m payout, if that's what you are getting at. The reason for the abbreviated testing in the first place was to get to market sooner to compete with Airbus more effectively. They managed...
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[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing [wikipedia.org]
[15:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─I think the issue is the reactors buildings and containment vessels are huge and people need to go into them for maintenance purposes. Maybe if we can have a fully robotically operated reactor, we could fill it with helium.
[15:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:30] <exec> 08└─August 1990, I interviewed with the NRC in Atlanta for the position of plant inspector, when I asked about the future of nuclear power after TMI, he said: "there's a whole new generation of safer plant designs ready to go, they'll be starting construction any day now." Just remember: the NRC plant i...
[15:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:32] <exec> 08└─While the OP didn't use the nicest possible language, his comment is spot on. It's not some sudden surprising event that is the problem with nuclear but the everyday operation, including nuclear waste produced and the sourcing of uranium. Whether nuclear waste is unsolvable or not it and uranium sou...
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[15:23:50] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? Containment is way harder in developed countries. One guy coughing in an airport has most of the US and EU shutting schools and public transportation in most reponse protocols. If someone is sick in some village you just shoot their donkey and quarantine them, their famil...
[15:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─I too had troubles understanding the word groups in the title. Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager Perhaps quotes would help? "Elite: Dangerous" Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager Not sure about the English syntax. In Wikipedia they do it in italics: Elite...
[15:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you, GreatAuntAnesthesia and c0lo for sharing these stories.
[15:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:17] <exec> 08└─A good friend from a very strict religious family (he was a teenager in the 1950s) said that the breakthrough for him was reading this Mark Twain collection https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I got the impression that Mad Magazine was not allowed by his parents.
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[15:26:04] <exec> 08└─If the payment is broken into 20 annual instalments, yes.
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[15:26:06] <exec> 08└─You're not going to get rid of the price on human lives. There will always be MBAs and C*Os calculating whether it is cheaper to do it right or to kill people and pay the penalties. The only thing you can do is make the penalty so high that it is never the rational choice. Corporate death penalty. A...
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[16:22:56] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 920 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─Instead of the weekly bemoaning of more insanity from Big Social, make the effort to GET THE HELL OUT. The SJW stupid has reached levels that simply aren't survivable at them. It has ended their ability to perform their original function. Anyone still even remember "Don't be Evil." or "Broadcast You...
[16:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 2131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─The "problems" all mentioned, including ones not mentioned, were solved 40 years ago in USA. Yet the general consensus remains that nuclear power is unsafe. The Three Mile Island (TMI) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] accident was caused by t...
[16:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─I'm hesitant to say too much, but I'm actually working in the nuclear world, specifically on the safety systems, that TMI did not have. I'd gladly tell you more if you're curious, but I don't know how to communicate offline. Maybe I'll ask the admins to send you my email address. In my other post he...
[16:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─If memory serves, the french Superphénix [wikipedia.org] used liquid sodium. This caused much trouble (leaks leading to fires), and was one of the reasons the plant was closed down. By the way, the French are not closing down their nuclear plants any time soon.
[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:17] <exec> 08└─> So why are reactors not build anairobic? In fact, some (most?) are- they fill the buildings with nitrogen. Trouble is, when water gets heated enough, and by neutron flux / fission, it splits apart, forming much more free O2 than can be joined with zirconium atoms. The O2 and H2 rejoin later on, wh...
[16:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:19] <exec> 08└─Running a nuclear reactor is an unsolved problem...but the problem is economic rather than technical. People in charge keep cutting corners. The nuclear waste problem is currently unsolved, but molten salt reactors look to be a solution. They just need to be proven out. They reportedly can take the...
[16:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:21] <exec> 08└─Not Helium. Nitrogen if that would work, otherwise Argon or Neon. Helium is much too expensive to use where you don't need it...and using it for party balloons is criminal waste. It's NOT a renewable resource.
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 2487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─For me it's not an issue of plant design / safety so much as politics / economics. The big lure of being an inspector for the NRC was an eventual "six figure" salary, highest paid short of high management at the time. The big downside was: max 2 year term at a given plant, then you're off to live in...
[16:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:26] <exec> 08└─On my horizon (as in, a little over 5 miles away) is an aging nuclear plant, and I'm not sure which concerns me more: 1. They get a bailout they're asking for from the state government to keep it running. It's already about 15 years past its engineered lifespan, so there's real concerns about things...
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─8 track ALLLLL the way, baby! Actually, I should maybe start hunting for the old wax cylinders in case they bring back the old phonographs.
[16:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:18] <exec> 08└─Wait they switched out the whole staff and thought they could make that work?! Worked like a champ for CNN I guess. I never really cared for its style of humor. But I was not one to get in the way of someone having fun with it either.
[16:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─Sarcastic and mean, yes. Clever, madcap and lighthearted... no. I think that sums up what I dislike about this latest generation of humor. It is not nice where we laugh at ourselves. It is mean and shallow and meant to show you which 'side' you belong to. It is humor that beats you over the head say...
[16:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:21] <exec> 08└─Phew!: I thought for a second someone had hacked your account! ;)
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[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Wait, this comes from the company who has set the stage for constant software repairs? IE, they acknowledge they ship very broken products, but, only they can fix them?
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─This doesn't make a lot of sense. The TPM chip is supposed to be, in hardware, resistant to tampering. Replacing the TPM removes the data it's protects. e.g. If I remove or turn off the TPM then the Bitlocker keys stored in it are gone. The system fails closed, not open.
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─Please do! And, while you're at it, disable Intel's management engine!
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─SPECTRE Headquarters, conference room. n.1: status of the infiltration of the whitehouse systems, number 4? n.4: some encrypted chips are being deployed, this will slow us down. n.5: can't we bypass those chips? the whole planet uses our cleaning ladies. n.4: possibly, but we have to study them firs...
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─> This doesn't make a lot of sense. as opposed to which Microsoft statement that makes sense?
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─It's the same people that brought us: https://en.wikipedia.org(security_vulnerability) [wikipedia.org]
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─I'll just take the opportunity to say "Thank You" to all the volunteers working away in the background keeping the site running and alive. I think I'm probably celebrating a year where I've never even bothered to visit the Green site (although it could be even longer). Who needs sponsored adverts ar...
[17:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─Do journals get indexed by search engines? "nofollow" on the links?
[17:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you're starting to become a victim of SEO drones using the Journal function to boost their rankings. The numbers you quote make it seem unlikely that you have been cracked by a fully automated bot, so anything you do to thwart the postings will likely meet with human level responses (i.e...
[17:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:24] <exec> 08└─So many search engines, so many algorithms, nofollow might help some of the time, but even Google changes their algorithms constantly and might start ignoring nofollow in some valuable areas when you're not paying attention. Besides, SEO drones aren't often bright enough to realize that something li...
[17:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:26] <exec> 08└─Spank you. Spank you all! Spank you over an over and over again. I spank you so much it hurts. Spanks again.
[17:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:28] <exec> 08└─5 years already? Happy birthday!
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─Don't worry Goyim, this is for your own good!
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:39] <exec> 08└─I guess "hacking" and "phishing" are bad keywords. Meanwhile you can find out how to make dangerous mulit-Watt lasers, explosives, etc.
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─The USS Seawolf (SSN-575) [wikipedia.org] started out with a liquid sodium reactor. The US Navy didn't keep that for long, either.
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─The problem with this "safer" fuel is that it a solid that you have to worry about it melting into a mass of still fissioning slag and the coolant used is still under pressure to keep it from boiling off into steam. Lose coolant flow or get a leak in the coolant system and you have a big problem. Mo...
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:03] <exec> 08└─All good points- I hear you on the moving around thing. It might be interesting, but I have friends, family, interests/hobbies that don't move so easily, so it wouldn't work for me either. I also hear you on the "pigeon holing" in careers. Sorry about all of the coal mess. I think you also get some...
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─Wow. Allan Bloom sounds like an ass. Did he also yell at clouds?
[17:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite: Dangerous Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─I never saw the need for Elite. I always used Pica. 80 characters per line are sufficient, aren't they? :-)
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─Of course it is! Now eat your bug-burger goy.
[17:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:48] <exec> 08└─I know you're trolling, but I don't think there are a lot of average Somalians on those planes. Airfare alone would about a year's worth of earnings. That's a lot of money when you can barely afford to feed yourself. The average Somalian doesn't fly a lot, and if they do it's probably on something l...
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[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─I think everyone is misunderstanding them, surely they mean nobody should be able to fix them. I assume this is the case because of conversations I have had with their techs who clearly were not better equipped to handle solving Microsoft related problems than I am.
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─Not that I agree with Microsoft, but... Assume the system was declared a loss and rebuilt from scratch. A compromised TPM is used for the rebuild. This would work, right? Since the data was already lost the user wouldn't notice the difference, until presumably some nefarious thing was done later.
[18:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─It's all clear now. Push faulty junk out the door to get maximum profit, have no useful repair system in place, tell people "oh, that's obsolete / not "supported" any more", let the lawyers clean up the mess (which means have "agreements" that absolve MS of any resulting problems), push new "better"...
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─No, thank YOU!
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─Is it still the Russian-Jewish plastic surgeons from New York City that are setting up the journal spam accounts?
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─Suggestions: 1) Only those with positive karma, say 1-5, may create Journals (doesn't stop anybody, would just raise the spammers cost). Low threshold so that users with something to say can say it. 2) Only those accounts with karma above say 20, actually have journal entries displayed to non-signed...
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─This site had so much potential, but it continues to run most stories a day later than Slashdot. Maybe that's why 5 years later the number of users has only doubled from the initial rush to get low user ID numbers.
[18:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:35] <exec> 08└─I hate inventory day(s) - and the more days it takes, the more I hate it. Just put me down for vacation.
[18:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, there still is competition to youtube, right? There is vimeo, I think, and using it is not going to get you deplatformed from "polite" society by correct-thinking SJWs.
[18:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─"Update July 3rd, 7:06PM ET: Added comment from YouTube confirming the takedown was made in error and the videos have been reinstated" From TFA at the end of the Verge story. That may well be a problem with this interwebby thing, stories can can be modified and corrected hours or days after they are...
[18:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:13] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia can be a great source of information, but there are problems with crowd sourced data. There is a banner at the head of this article in Wikipedia that states "This article has multiple issues."
[18:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:14] <exec> 08└─TMI and other designs are perfectly okay and safe
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─Most of the problems are of the 'own goal' variety. With reprocessing, the volume of waste goes down substantially. The time it needs to be stored also goes down by orders of magnitude. Coal ash isn't exactly harmless, and it doesn't actually decay, so long after the nuclear waste has become inert,...
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Raging TB Epidemic in Papua New Guinea Threatens to Destabilize the Entire Asia Pacific - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─I read the link to look for insight into why the vaccine isn't more common in the US, but came away with nothing. It's used elsewhere, and can be used here if certain risk factors are present, even with children, so the vaccine itself can't be too bad. But, instead, an exposure test is preferred. Ma...
[18:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:01] <exec> 08└─How does one choose a specific Bluetooth device without a screen to display the options? Typically, one side of the connection has a method to display detected devices and satisfy security requirements, if any. This looks like it only has the traditional pushbuttons of a cassette player. On another...
[18:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:03] <exec> 08└─VHS Collecting never left, there are quite a few obscure horror movies that got a VHS release, but never a DVD one. There's also a group that pick VHS up at yard sales and thrift shops in the hopes of scoring a lost gem that was recorded at home. Especially the old commercials.
[18:25:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Scientists Combine Light and Matter - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─From TFS: Shaken atoms could also cause a stir in other areas
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 How PINE64 is Creating a Device-Design Community to Compete with Raspberry Pi - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─But this different because a customer shouldn't have to care about that stuff if they don't want to do so. From their perspective, they reach out to the business, the business responds to a reasonable period of time with some sort of answer to their question. So, not having a B.T.O. queue or time es...
[18:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:18] <exec> 08└─Project Gutenberg is great, but fractional and dated. Fortunately, my tsundoku is large.
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[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:41] <exec> 08└─Since I've been streaming (Spotify) I've discovered so much music I like that I've not ever heard before, it's ridiculous. There are complete genres you never hear on the radio, how would you ever discover new music like that without streaming services offering it for your enjoyment? Best feature of...
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─Not me! I still listen to classic rock from the 60s and 70s. It's one of the benefits of having ~6,500 songs loaded on my computer and phone from physical CDs I purchased. There are also some good classic rock internet radio stations. But streaming? No thank you!
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─> The world's most-streamed artists are a parade of major-label household names: Ariana Grande, Post Malone, Billie Eilish. Anyone who's heard of these people is spending too much time consuming fake news.
[19:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─You sound super boring.
[19:22:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─> This doesn't make a lot of sense. as opposed to which Microsoft statement that makes sense?
[19:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:03] <exec> 08└─I guess the logical next step would be "Only buy our 'trusted' hardware provider for CPU/Motherboard/RAM"
[19:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─Shall we ban mending underwear too? That could be really dangerous, with a testicle slipping out and having circulation cut off if done improperly. Can't mess with the crown jewels! And don't even get me started on ripped currency. That's a huge security risk! And if I can't scrub my DVDs with steel...
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─Our software security sucks. Our software security has always sucked. Everyone knows this. Restricting what our customers do with their devices is the best way to cover up the unavoidable fact that our software security sucks. If people are allowed to repair their own devices, we'll be ever more out...
[19:23:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snospar [5366] 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 360 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:15] <exec> 08└─I'll just take the opportunity to say "Thank You" to all the volunteers working away in the background keeping the site running and alive. I think I'm probably celebrating a year where I've never even bothered to visit the Green site (although it could be even longer). Who needs sponsored adverts ar...
[19:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:25] <exec> 08└─quantity has a quality all its own?
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:27] <exec> 08└─So quit looking at slashdot. Problem solved.
[19:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:40] <exec> 08└─bitchute is closed source the last time i checked so i don't know why anyone would recommend that to people. just being decentralized is not good enough. youtube was nice and friendly slaveware at one point in time too. you don't free yourself by going down the road to the next plantation, ffs. use...
[19:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:07] <exec> 08└─Sadly, 'Too cheap to meter' remains well off the table.
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:09] <exec> 08└─We need residential hydrogen generators. Solar power->electrolysis->hydrogen fuel cell. With enough progress made in efficiency and cost we could all be energy independent. Screw centralized energy producers and the grid!
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─You might be able to accept/enter pairing with just a button press. No screen needed.
[19:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:55] <exec> 08└─You might be able to accept/enter pairing with just a button press. No screen needed.
[19:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Elite: Dangerous" Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─I never saw the need for Elite. I always used Pica. 80 characters per line are sufficient, aren't they? :-)
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Elite: Dangerous" Community Rallies Around Terminally Ill Teenager - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately even SN does not allow HTML in the title to an article. I have added quotes to help clarify things.
[19:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:14] <exec> 08└─Orange Alfred E. Neuman bad! [comicbook.com] The 2017 reorganization and subsequent 2018 reboot both struggled with finding an identity for MAD in an increasingly satire-saturated world. Between websites that can deliver topical comedy in real time and a fiercely divided American populace who cannot...
[19:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:16] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of when I was introduced to the work product of Andrew Dice Clay. [wikipedia.org] My thought was, "This isn't funny, this guy is just looking to tear the listener's comfort zone into shreds." You can be topical and culturally relevant while being funny: George Carlin [wikipedia.org] was a...
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[20:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─Try KFJC (kfjc.org) KZSU, or dozens of other non-commercial stations.
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I can't hear you with all this great music playing ...
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─32,000 strong here :) Trade ya?
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─spending too much time consuming fake news while trying to be snarky. Think about it. Payola could still be going strong. With streaming you could actually move people around in their moods. As most music of a similar style/tempo can be laddered into other styles/tempos. They would never really know...
[20:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─it was that big music labels have shit taste in music. Mostly I think they were just after bands that were generic enough to push, and talentless enough to stay the labels bitch. 99% of what I listen too these days I wouldn't have ever even heard if it wasn't for the Internet. Which is a good enough...
[20:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, there's plenty of good (and mediocre) music being made outside of the control of labels and the "pop" genre. No need to limit yourself to a selection of classic rock songs, unless that's what you want to listen to, which is also fine.
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:03] <exec> 08└─Not if they were recorded after the 70s. Quality over quantity when it comes to music, friends and booze ;-)
[20:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─"Once upon a time, if you had good physical [CD and record] sales, you could also tour and be a happy, middle-class career artist,"
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─Predictions from 20 years ago are coming true: https://www.investopedia.com [investopedia.com]
[20:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─> big music labels have shit taste in music. And Hollywood blockbusters are shit movies. And fast food chains produce usually shit food... The list goes on. It turns out that there is much profit to be generated in outputting shit, because so many people buy...
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:12] <exec> 08└─I think both the summary and the story dance around the actual forces at work here. They talk about it all like it "just happens" rather than being purposeful. 1. The spotify people pay way way way more money per stream to big names than small ones, by virtue of bargaining ability. They redirect peo...
[20:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:31] <exec> 08└─“If the TPM or other hardware or software protections were compromised by a malicious or unqualified repair vendor, those security protections would be rendered ineffective and ... control of the device would be at risk,”
[20:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:33] <exec> 08└─Hasn't that been made abundantly clear by the direction they've been taking the "personal" computer for the last 25 years?
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:53] <exec> 08└─Or they could just stay at the other site and stop coming here. Oh, and before I forget: Fuck Beta
[20:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─Suppress links in journal posts for accounts with insufficient karma. That should kill the effectiveness of any SEO shenanigans.
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─Any ideas about how to thwart the efforts of sock puppets?
[20:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:59] <exec> 08└─Create more artificially intelligent Bot users.
[20:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:13] <exec> 08└─No, the problem is nobody knows what the rules actually are, not even Google, because they change by the day as $current_year marches relentlessly onward. Whenever there is a big enough scream of outrage over a banning they retreat briefly but they always return, slower, quieter.
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─Preserving and archiving the intellectual output of the nation is a task that governments are well suited to fulfill and that governments directly benefit from every time they avoid repeating research that has already been done in triplicate. Libraries have recognized that 'media' covers a lot of te...
[20:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:16] <exec> 08└─Their problem is piss poor customer service. It took an embarrassing headline for them to do anything. The second problem is exactly what you said. They think they can code their way out of a human problem. "Hey your program fucked up and locked me out". Crickets. Yeah that's a good look. You need s...
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─All it takes is imagination, and some planning. Here is an idea. Write your congressman, senator and president with your idea. Get ground support for it. Make it happen. Think they will not listen? Well WHO cares. Write more of them! There are well over 500 of them. You are bound to find someone who...
[20:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 3444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:34] <exec> 08└─Note that this is a significant digression from the topic of TFA, but since you brought it up... Oh, I don't know. The older I get, the more sympathetic I become to many of Allan Bloom's points. I meant to link something about his book [wikipedia.org] in the last comment, for those who may not be fa...
[20:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Creates a Bluetooth Cassette Player - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─And perhaps the overriding point that Bloom discussed was the lack of respect for learning that shifted from previous generations. THAT, I think, is perhaps a much broader point about culture. There were all sorts of good things the 1960s intellectual revolution did about overturning bad stuff, but...
[20:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:13] <exec> 08└─As the Earth's surface heats up it is creating an imbalance in the heat, and thus pressure, equilibrium between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere. The heating is causing increasing expansion which in turn is driving tectonic pressure and resulting in an increasing tertiary pressure which is crea...
[20:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:14] <exec> 08└─No, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and torrential rains and flooding are a sign of a grand solar minimum.
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[21:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planetary Society Receiving Data From LightSail 2 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─about the size of a boxing ring
[21:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Planetary Society Receiving Data From LightSail 2 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:22] <exec> 08└─32 m2 0.00598 American football fields. 0.00448 Association football fields.
[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planetary Society Receiving Data From LightSail 2 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─Or, the top surface area of about 4 SUV's.
[21:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:47] <exec> 08└─It's good, for artists, but maybe bad for the overall cohesion of society that we're re-fragmenting our musical world. It's not like there ever was a time where _everyone_ absolutely loved the same kind of music, but, like a B.S. degree from a major University would ensure that you at least had some...
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─The spotify people pay way way way more money per stream to big names than small ones, by virtue of bargaining ability. They redirect people to things were they pay a fraction of the normal fractions of pennies per play instead.
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─Despite the plummeting cost of entry (one person with a laptop and some peripherals can replace a music studio), an explosion of content, and free ways to upload and promote music, a lot of the money and attention goes to a small handful of artists. This is true even with services like Spotify and A...
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─JAZZ.FM (Toronto, https://jazz.fm [jazz.fm] ) -- excellent station
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 1578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─Um... I recognize about half those names, could place most of them together with their more popular music - maybe... Still, promotion is virtually everything in this world, particularly in Art, but even in medicine and science. I spent 12 years at a company that literally made the better mousetrap,...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Cheap and familiar beats out strange expensive quality, at least in the mass market.
[21:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─You assume it is all junk... :) It is basically the CD rips of a few friends and my own sets of music. Anything past 2000 is not worth snagging. They pumped the volume up too much and mash out everything. Victims of the volume wars.
[21:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:02] <exec> 08└─I was coming to post this^ The only one i've heard of is Ariana Grande, because my son watches 'Victorious' and 'Sam and Cat'. She's actually very talented, but i haven't listened to her music outside of those 2 shows.
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:23] <exec> 08└─But following that same logic, what proof does the user have that the original TPM wasn't similarly compromised?
[21:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─It makes perfect sense. This is about establishing ownership of the device. Microsoft's specifically. The Right To Repair is fundamentally about exercising rights of ownership that we all have over our property. Microsoft is arguing that we shouldn't have these rights over our property, just like Ap...
[21:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─and don't even mention wiping your harddrive: even WITH a cloth or something.
[21:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:51] <exec> 08└─And??? My life isn't all that affected by a 24 hour delay in the news. Breaking news happens fast enough around here, and there isn't anything I could do with that extra 24 hours. Perhaps the only exceptions would be security vulnerability reports, but if 24 hours makes that big of a difference, I s...
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─1) Break their hands. 2) Take scissors to their socks. 3) Become a 3rd party, infiltrate the relationship between left and right sock puppets, and sell them weapons to fight each other. Granted the last one is from watching Looney Toons, but #1 or #2 are probably the most effective.
[21:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:54] <exec> 08└─3) Allow signed in users to moderate the base article/journal entry itself
[21:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─I heartily second that. Wish this site a very very happy birthday !!!
[21:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:15] <exec> 08└─lbry, Not sure if it is any good. But they had a nice sales pitch (ironically on youtube) https://lbry.com [lbry.com] https://lbry.com [lbry.com] Bittube reminds me of the 2009 youtube. Peertube looks promising. One I was hoping would get better was ipfs. https://ipfs.io [ipfs.io]...
[21:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:45] <exec> 08└─Nuclear, fossil fuel, plastic/packaging, human, industrial -- seems like multiple areas have waste management problems [youtu.be]. This seems like more of a global perspective issue than anything sector-specific.
[21:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:46] <exec> 08└─Or maybe the plant inspectors were up against too many poorly-trained operators [youtu.be].
[21:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:49] <exec> 08└─they just fear nuclear. A lot of that is due to ongoing propaganda from its competitors, you know, those people rebranding themselves to be all environmental and stuff [youtube.com]. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of profit in safe nuclear. And solar, I mean, California is totally weird, well,...
[21:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:51] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think electricity use should be metered on a sliding scale in the opposite direction as compared to now. Right now, heavy users, such as industries, at worst, get discounts, even with demand metering. Or in some places, they pay the same rates as a light user. I think light users shoul...
[21:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Raging TB Epidemic in Papua New Guinea Threatens to Destabilize the Entire Asia Pacific - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:13] <exec> 08└─Today, thanks to immigration, discussion of TB is pretty common. Really man! Time to kick the Brits and the Dutch out of North America!
[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Raging TB Epidemic in Papua New Guinea Threatens to Destabilize the Entire Asia Pacific - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─In another 30 years, TB will be something so small only computer geeks use, while the proplaguers are making sure that everyone will know about TB, small pox, and other measles. It's a cycle
[21:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 How PINE64 is Creating a Device-Design Community to Compete with Raspberry Pi - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:02] <exec> 08└─I can't help but wonder what a Beowulf cluster of these would be like . . .
[21:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mad Magazine to Stop Publishing Issues with New Content this Fall - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, today's youngsters will get a kick about all those Spiro T. Agnew jokes.
[21:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Earthquake in Years Rattles Southern California; Damage Reported - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:24] <exec> 08└─On a Fourth of July, half of the people living in the Mojave area are probably either drunk, fucking, or both, and might not have noticed a quake until a broken window brought in the 100F heat (10:30AM, maybe only 94). I'm 140 miles away and I felt it. Chico, 360 miles away, is quite a stretch, thou...
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[22:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Officially Ask Facebook to Put Libra Cryptocurrency Project on Hold - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:05] <exec> 08└─It’s all about moving fast and breaking things. What could go wrong?
[22:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Officially Ask Facebook to Put Libra Cryptocurrency Project on Hold - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:07] <exec> 08└─They released the congressional hounds
[22:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Officially Ask Facebook to Put Libra Cryptocurrency Project on Hold - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:09] <exec> 08└─have we overlooked the obvious, that cryptocurrencies are systemically racist / sexist?
[22:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Officially Ask Facebook to Put Libra Cryptocurrency Project on Hold - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:11] <exec> 08└─Not by their fantasy coins, but by the overdue bursting of the Internet bubble.
[22:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Officially Ask Facebook to Put Libra Cryptocurrency Project on Hold - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe Facebook should talk to Trump and tell them he'd get a lot of praise and a solid mention in the history books for making good on his promise of shaking up Washington. When the Democrats are scared, it's a good thing, right?
[22:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Planetary Society Receiving Data From LightSail 2 - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─They appear to have overlooked the fact that light diminishes as you move away from the sun... so its speed will diminish every day as it moves further away. And what about the fact that the spaceship will stop moving at night when it's dark, which will double the time of any journey.
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planetary Society Receiving Data From LightSail 2 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─The spacecraft has a nightlight for when it's dark.
[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─OH, DAMN NO! Jazz? Might as well listen to modern country. FUCK DAT! Rock, old blues, old old country (the closer to blues the better). And alternative rock type stuff. But not Jazz. NEVER Jazz. No. Nope. Nuh-uh. - - - no. - - - damn no.
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─and one of the reasons i appreciate people like Trent Reznor (NIN) is because he writes, sings and plays almost all of the instruments on almost everyone of his songs (studio albums). Today, they can barely sing but couldn't write or play worth a damn, but HEY! I'M FAMOOOS!
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─http://www.toomuchjoy.com/?p=1397 [toomuchjoy.com] The labels do not care. Probably huge swaths of their catalogs are unrecouped. They have 0 interest in actually fixing that. Why should they? It is basically free money at this point. If they ever had a real audit the results would probably be shock...
[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─I, too, have refined tastes and look down on pop culture.../s There's a difference between honest criticism and pop culture bashing. It's the generalizations that give it away. Except with fast food--that stuff really is crap. When the target price range is the bottom of the market, the quality wil...
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─I have the opposite experience on Google play music. Fire it up with something truly weird and you'll be listening to something you've heard 1000 times in the radio in about 5 songs. Maybe they just play whatever they want after the first song and these people think anything that isn't currently 10...
[22:23:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 646 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:25] <exec> 08└─It makes perfect sense. This is about establishing ownership of the device. Microsoft's specifically. The Right To Repair is fundamentally about exercising rights of ownership that we all have over our property. Microsoft is arguing that we shouldn't have these rights over our property, just like Ap...
[22:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:28] <exec> 08└─"Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk" FTC Tells Microsoft their products pose a Cyber Risk"
[22:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:30] <exec> 08└─Home cooking is killing restaurants!
[22:23:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 1303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you're starting to become a victim of SEO drones using the Journal function to boost their rankings. The numbers you quote make it seem unlikely that you have been cracked by a fully automated bot, so anything you do to thwart the postings will likely meet with human level responses (i.e...
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:58] <exec> 08└─Wood or silverware?
[22:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube's ‘Instructional Hacking’ Ban Threatens Computer Security Teachers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:16] <exec> 08└─No, the problem is nobody knows what the rules actually are, not even Google
[22:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:49] <exec> 08└─It's solvable, with many solutions. There is just a group of people against the plants that will constantly deny all solutions, trying to make the situation worse, in order to claim they aren't feasible.
[22:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Raging TB Epidemic in Papua New Guinea Threatens to Destabilize the Entire Asia Pacific - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:13] <exec> 08└─Has anyone considered the option to nuke the island? It would eliminate the disease, as well as a hotbed of jihadi extremism. Win-win.
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[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Officially Ask Facebook to Put Libra Cryptocurrency Project on Hold - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─"If products and services like these are left improperly regulated and without sufficient oversight, they could pose systemic risks that endanger U.S. and global financial stability," Water writes.
[23:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Officially Ask Facebook to Put Libra Cryptocurrency Project on Hold - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:11] <exec> 08└─they aren't sure they can get bribes, er, campaign contributions that are as untraceable as the system they have now.
[23:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Officially Ask Facebook to Put Libra Cryptocurrency Project on Hold - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:13] <exec> 08└─History has shown that if you want results, you don't *ask* a company run by assholes to do something. You *demand* they do it under penalty of fines and/or incarceration.
[23:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planetary Society Receiving Data From LightSail 2 - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:25] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'...
[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planetary Society Receiving Data From LightSail 2 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─Why can't you Americans stick with the metric system we have here in Canada of ice hockey rinks? Sheesh.
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planetary Society Receiving Data From LightSail 2 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─After reading your comment, this [youtube.com] is the only thing that came to mind. Well done.
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─I have actually started to listen more and more to radio. It's usually a fair bit of a mix of music and music styles even I tune into a station that cater to a specific niche (80's, country, classic, whatever ...). While streaming appears to go for algorithmic selection and trying to play me the sam...
[23:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Streaming is Secretly Fixing Your Mainstream Taste in Garbage Music - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─Lets evaluate that statement: Gypsy jazz: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Composed jazz (a bit too long but should be fine on the first listen): https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Modern blues-rock (safe bet): https://www.youtube.com
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:31] <exec> 08└─Is the cyber risk to Microsoft? As in repairing and poking around might reveal all the system shenanigans they are up to?
[23:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Anniversary, Site Statistics, and What to do about Journal Spam - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:01] <exec> 08└─First a big thanks to everyone running this site. My suggestion: can you make a mobile view? Firefox on Android is not that great. Tolerable but some text is big, some is tiny. Always need to zoom here and there. Then entering text seems difficult. It would cap off a great site to use.
[23:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:54] <exec> 08└─Who will shut them down when we strategically bomb all major cities from the safety of our SpaceX rockets while waiting in orbit? Same reason we don't want new infrastructure being built. Why waste resources on roads when you can build more killer robots and rockets instead? There. All done.
[23:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safer Nuclear Reactors on the Horizon - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:55] <exec> 08└─It's NOT a renewable resource.
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