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[00:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:28] <exec> 08└─The acquisition redefines the cloud market for business. Red Hat's open hybrid cloud technologies are now paired with the unmatched scale and depth of IBM's innovation and industry expertise, and sales leadership in more than 175 countries. Together, IBM and Red Hat will accelerate innovation by off...
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─I think what they meant to say is that the new combination will synergistically parallel task cross-media adoption and objectively unleash e-business initiatives. They might also compellingly expedite client-centric storage. I am unsure of this, but they will certainly credibly productize accurate...
[00:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:32] <exec> 08└─Buzzword bingo. Come pickup your card...
[00:22:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─Pray I do not alter it further. Hissss...
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Just think, maybe some of these MS partners/resellers will start running their own business offices with free software. Wouldn't that be a hoot?
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:49] <exec> 08└─I only have to be worried about MS, as much as I'm worried about Apple, and that's just whether or not the browser support is there.
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─Pray I do not alter it further. Hissss...
[00:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researcher: Seriously, Stop Using RSA - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─Saying RSA is bad, but recommending elliptic curve? There've been widespread rumors of NSA involvement in making sure elliptic curve crypto systems are weaker than they should be, ranging from "NSA tried to make suggestions, which were rejected" to "the default curves are weak" to full-on "elliptic...
[00:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher: Seriously, Stop Using RSA - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:17] <exec> 08└─The security of elliptic curve cryptography depends on the fact that the algebraic groups used for it have a structure such that the relatively more efficient algorithms known for computing discrete logarithms don't seem to work for them, so you can get away with much smaller key sizes. Given the kn...
[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher: Seriously, Stop Using RSA - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:19] <exec> 08└─A breakthrough could rapidly scale systems from hundreds directly to millions of qubits, since decades of nanolithography research apply. Still, it would be funny to see some 8,192-bit and 16,384-bit RSA keys being used before the end.
[00:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 1999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:11] <exec> 08└─I've already tweeted this: "RIP, H. Ross Perot. It seems fitting that he'd die during this administration. He was the man who could have halted Free Trade, or the 'giant sucking sound' as he called it. That might have prevented Trump's rise." I'd like to expand on this a bit in Soylent's more gener...
[00:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:12] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that sucked, but I doubt the "IT department must control everything, even engineer's machines" mentality originated with Perot. I never actually had it happen to me, but I've been within earshot of an admin a few cubes over who was plotting this very thing, and I figured it would have cut m...
[00:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:15] <exec> 08└─Before anyone gets triggered further please remember the "first they came for the..." and think about when the extremists on the left finally get power and actually make "thought crimes." Cause given the current trend of conservatives using "buh buhbuh ILLEGAL" to justify their abuses you just might...
[00:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:17] <exec> 08└─Its ok, you are the only genius around and I thank you kind sir for showing me the light. I now know better than to mock the people who merely APPEAR to be idiots around here.
[00:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:19] <exec> 08└─I have a certain amount of sympathy for Kim Dotcom, but when said I know this because in late 2014 a person contacted me about helping me to start a branch of the Internet Party in the United States. He called himself Panda. I now know that Panda was Seth Rich.
[00:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:21] <exec> 08└─Of course they would? Power corrupts, and that's clearly a present phenomenon in the democratic party Every moral person has a duty to fight abuses of power. But why resort to hypotheticals when the scumfucks are doing blatantly evil shit right now?
[00:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Brain Region May be Why Some Robots Send Chills Down Your Spine - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:37] <exec> 08└─I heard of it first in reference to computer animation. That's why pixar animated toys for so long, plastic is easy. Its very hard to get something that looks good enough to get past the "uncanny valley" ie the range of things that aren't good enough to pass for real but are so realistic that it loo...
[00:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The California Coast is Disappearing Under the Rising Sea - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:09] <exec> 08└─You can flood all of L.A. and most will say "good riddance" (half of which don't remember that the worst of the worst live in the hills)... BUT I need the continued operation of that main portal to Hell called LAX, at least until some other airport not on the shore takes over intercontinental flight...
[00:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The California Coast is Disappearing Under the Rising Sea - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, first house I paid $77K for, but it was only 1000 square feet 2 bed, 1 bath - with the 2nd kid on the way we had to sell it and move down elevation a few feet to get a 50 year old 1600 square foot 3 bed, 2 bath. Lap of f-ing luxury that town was.
[00:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The California Coast is Disappearing Under the Rising Sea - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:12] <exec> 08└─Hey Google, what's the elevation of LAX? 125' Hey Google, what's the elevation of MIA? 9'
[00:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The California Coast is Disappearing Under the Rising Sea - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:14] <exec> 08└─The rich and powerful will protect the value of their seaside property for as long as they can, and when it's really too much to keep it up anymore, they'll write themselves a bailout so they can retain the value and acquire something more desirable somewhere else. Tom Petty: It's good to be King, w...
[00:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The California Coast is Disappearing Under the Rising Sea - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:17] <exec> 08└─careful [xkcd.com]
[00:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:39] <exec> 08└─Yup, may I suggest a cow as the mascot animal.
[00:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Seafood Shells Could Help Solve the Plastic Waste Problem - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:33] <exec> 08└─Chitin sounds a good one.
[00:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Seafood Shells Could Help Solve the Plastic Waste Problem - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:34] <exec> 08└─Has there been any research to see if Chitin-based plastics
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[01:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─Redhat's max chart is a nice one to reflect upon.
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:43] <exec> 08└─I was going to shame you for how deceptively coherent-sounding that was, but I'll leave a pointer to the musical version [youtu.be] instead.
[01:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─You mean to say this will follow the general pattern of: 1) Disruptive Company bought by monolith while shares are high. 2) Company flounders in new hands and share price tumbles while company is gutted and falls apart. 3) Formerly disruptive company is sold for cents on the dollar or just mothballe...
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─Where is the Leverage?
[01:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:04] <exec> 08└─My neighbor used to be in Microsoft sales for many years - doing "7 and 8 figure deals." He made plenty of money, but they eventually dissolved his division and let him go. Now he sells real estate, time will tell if he's got any luck at that.
[01:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─Fortunately for me I am blissfully ignorant of Microsoft's licensing models. So, what does all this really mean?
[01:23:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Researcher: Seriously, Stop Using RSA - 1290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:28] <exec> 08└─The entire premise of this article seems to be because RSA is easier to implement, more people do it and therefore there are more bad implementations. It also mentions that RSA is slow so this encourages implementors to take shortcuts, leading to yet more bad implementations. This means developers a...
[01:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 1151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:03] <exec> 08└─It's hard to get past Reagan for the doublethink becoming a necessary component of the platform. Laffer curve and supply side economics became this... obviously wrong thing they had to spend the next rest of forever inventing newer and deeper narratives to defend as always being right. The point whe...
[01:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:32] <exec> 08└─finished.
[01:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Creepy Gmail Purchase History Can't be Deleted - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:39] <exec> 08└─My only other option besides Verizon FIOS would be Comcast, and around here they are slow(er), much less reliable, and probably have the same issues with the SMTP. The setup here is really eclectic. I have domain registration with one place, DNS service with another (Zonomi - really good, recommend...
[01:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cicada-Infecting Fungus Can Produce Psilocybin or an Amphetamine (Cathinone) - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:04] <exec> 08└─Can I claim it after DUI stop?
[01:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:53] <exec> 08└─Amazing, we seem to agree that mutts are the way to go. Get rid of all these high strung purebreds.
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[02:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starhopper Prototype to Make First Untethered Hop Soon - 2140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:57] <exec> 08└─Starhopper is basically a shiny test platform for the Raptor engine. Not that much to do with the final Starship design, and the hopping will involve none of the complicated procedures necessary for it to work (like in-orbit refueling, re-entry with one shielded side facing the atmosphere in order t...
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:12] <exec> 08└─While I appreciate your scenario, I was mostly meditating on the high of 130 or so back in December 1999 and what happened after that. I vividly remember as I participated in the game.
[02:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:14] <exec> 08└─Shit!. Um, they're going to leverage a paradigm shift? Whew! I think I got away with it.
[02:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:16] <exec> 08└─What is the chances of a whole bunch of disgruntled Red Hat people forking it off, presumably from CentOS and starting again? When IBM begin the layoffs there will be no shortage of them looking for something else to do.
[02:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─My Judoon is bad, but could it be: "Mo Fo Mo Fo Mo Fo" Or using a translator I found, "mo plo to ho flo ro sho fo tro co kno flo ro sho go plo sho to plo sho ho flo lo lo"
[02:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samba Finally Dumps Defaulting to Support Unsafe SMB1 Protocol - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:51] <exec> 08└─I used to be able to connect to my Windows 7 computers with Ubuntu 16 until a few weeks ago - ubuntu 18 never was able to connect
[02:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:05] <exec> 08└─Before anyone gets triggered further please remember the "first they came for the..." and think about when the extremists on the left finally get power and actually make "thought crimes."
[02:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Creepy Gmail Purchase History Can't be Deleted - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:13] <exec> 08└─Still waiting for the SMTP/POP bridge thing to work on Linux.
[02:26:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06The California Coast is Disappearing Under the Rising Sea - 646 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:42] <exec> 08└─Sea level rise. Sea level rise! Eleventy!!! When one finally gets to the guts of the document, here's the relevant bit: "A wide range of evidence indicates that the Cascadia Subduction Zone periodically generates great earthquakes of magnitude 8 to over 9 that cause sudden shifts...these greate eart...
[02:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:24] <exec> 08└─Probably, many of those gas stations that people use only make a slim percentage of the money from selling gas. The bulk of the station profit comes from the convenience store that's attached. If fewer people come through and buy things, it wouldn't take much to put them out of business. The bulk of...
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[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moons that Escape their Planets Could Become "Ploonets" - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─Your best bet is: "Soon** to be dead. Like Zed". Because the configuration is unstable even for simple cases [wikipedia.org] ...Moreover, the motion of three bodies is generally non-repeating, except in special cases.[5] On the other hand, in 1912 the Finnish mathematician Karl Fritiof Sundman prove...
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starhopper Prototype to Make First Untethered Hop Soon - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─Northrop should have stuck with making Lays potato chip vans.
[03:22:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─I think what they meant to say is that the new combination will synergistically parallel task cross-media adoption and objectively unleash e-business initiatives. They might also compellingly expedite client-centric storage. I am unsure of this, but they will certainly credibly productize accurate...
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:54] <exec> 08└─Aren't their business models strategies in the Linux area quite similar and compatible- make things crappier, then charge for support and services? For example, why would Lennart Poettering leave or be sacked? Has he really run out of ideas to make Linux worse?
[03:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:14] <exec> 08└─When I first started at my current company 9+ years ago, one of my assigned tasks was to renew the Action Pack subscription every year. I don't remember the specifics, but I hated it. Microsoft's site wouldn't work properly unless you used IE (but you could get by with Firefox and some page formatti...
[03:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:16] <exec> 08└─Just think, maybe some of these MS partners/resellers will start running their own business offices with free software.
[03:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher: Seriously, Stop Using RSA - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:45] <exec> 08└─Good ol' 25519. I knew that number looked familiar. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Curve25519 was first released by Daniel J. Bernstein in 2005, but interest increased considerably after 2013 when it was discovered that the NSA had potentially implemented a backdoor into Du...
[03:23:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 1273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:53] <exec> 08└─Perot was the one case where I felt the "eliminate the national debt" argument wasn't made with an intentional dishonesty and disregard for any of the proper financial mechanisms underlying government treasury process. Every single republican, not just politicians, but regular joes too, who has pose...
[03:24:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:11] <exec> 08└─It's hard to imagine how shitty you have to be to go "giving people healthcare is equally evil to" and then basically end that sentence in literally any way. Like forget "lock people in concentration camps without charge, seperating their children from their parents and making 3 year olds stand tria...
[03:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:45] <exec> 08└─The gap between us regular people and the criminally undertaxed has never been larger.
[03:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Brain Region May be Why Some Robots Send Chills Down Your Spine - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:02] <exec> 08└─It may be the best tool available at the moment, but it is still a monster pile driver, attempting to gently push in a tiny tack. Hints: It does not measure actual nerves being activated. Further the resolution is a joke, "In a typical scan, each voxel might cover 3mm^3 of tissue, a volume that woul...
[03:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Brain Region May be Why Some Robots Send Chills Down Your Spine - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:03] <exec> 08└─Even if they can pass on looks (extremely rare), as soon as they speak or move I know.
[03:25:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google's Creepy Gmail Purchase History Can't be Deleted - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:41] <exec> 08└─They're tracking the serial numbers on the damn currency? *sigh* No matter how paranoid I am, I'm never paranoid enough.
[03:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Creepy Gmail Purchase History Can't be Deleted - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:57] <exec> 08└─I hate to admit it, but it only just occurred to me that *THIS* is really why stores are pushing to self-checkouts these days. Had to stop by Home Depot for the first time in more than a year or so, and they had made EVERYTHING self checkout, even though you could still use cash. The entire place fe...
[03:26:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 791 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:58] <exec> 08└─H2 has one irritating little problem. It tends to permeate into whatever pressure container it is held within (because its mollecules are so small) and over time render the pressure container walls brittle [1]. Brittle is not a word you want to use to describe the wall of a high pressure H2 tank....
[03:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:07] <exec> 08└─Two words - series hybrid
[03:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:08] <exec> 08└─You have identified the precise reason that it won't work for cars.
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[04:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moons that Escape their Planets Could Become "Ploonets" - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─What if... A super giant planet, had a moon, that had a moon itself ? or what if the same occurred around a binary star ? Things could get more confusing than a family tree in Arkansas.
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, you are right. When Linux first got really popular in 1995, I had high hopes for it improving to become a superior technology. It unfortunately stayed at mostly the same level of mediocrity with lots of churn (from guys like Poettering) that doesn't seem to move it forward. It's still...
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[04:23:02] <exec> 08└─Never seen a cloud walk so damn slow with its tail between its legs.
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─IBM and potter-ass, together, they will clusterfuck linux in a way M$ never could.
[04:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher: Seriously, Stop Using RSA - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:56] <exec> 08└─Why is this story even here?
[04:24:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:16] <exec> 08└─According to the governments definitions we are all "rich". We all pay income tax now, which was only meant for the rich. This return shall be made by every citizen of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad, and by every person residing in the United States, though not a citizen there...
[04:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:21] <exec> 08└─Sadly using the stored energy has a host of nasty side effects, specifically pollution and excess heat.
[04:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:23] <exec> 08└─There will not be any kind of EV revolution coming soon for other reasons as well: Only 10% of the cars are new (< 3 yr). The remaining 90% - old cars. People with old cars are less likely to sit on a pile of cash to buy a new EV. There is just not enough free money on hand to spend it on a new car...
[04:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:25] <exec> 08└─If half the tenants need plugs for their EVs, apartment complexes will provide, or watch as tenants move out and their vacancy rate soars.
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[05:22:36] <exec> 08└─Don't know why they had been using USB hardware all this time, I would prefer to power them with a barrel connector.
[05:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:37] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all phones are using Micro-USB or USB-C to charge, so there are a lot of cables around and they are easy to get.
[05:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─There are some advantages like: Compatibility: Slap it on the back of a TV and just give it power from the 1 amp USB port directly from the TV. Convenience: Just use a spare phone charger to power it, even if you lose the original charger. Of course it has problems too as TFS explains. Heck back in...
[05:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moons that Escape their Planets Could Become "Ploonets" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─What if... A super giant planet, had a moon, that had a moon itself ?
[05:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:18] <exec> 08└─Interesting comment on hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com] So IBM buys Red Hat for $34B, of which $20B are borrowed monies. The debt is priced at 1.05 percentage points above Treasury yield rate [1] which would be somewhere around 3.5% which puts interest on b...
[05:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:19] <exec> 08└─I'm told Red Hat is a good employer, but as a Linux user, I despise Red Hat. I won't shed a tear if Red Hat gets extinguished. Ok, I will throw a keg party if Red Hat is extinguished.
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[06:22:27] <exec> 08└─They're just patenting it so they can collect tolls if someone else actually implements it and it somehow becomes popular enough. Patent tolling? ;) To me augmented reality glasses would eliminate the need for such watches (and reduce the need for physically large screens) and the watches you'd wear...
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─AR glasses are a good idea. We could even have hybrid AR/VR glasses (retinal projection, cover to block light). But a smartwatch might be nice if it could project a hologram (movie style).
[06:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─"Barrel connector"?? Do you mean one of the too many types and sizes of little power connectors on most small electronics? You could cobble one on. I'd probably solder wires to the Pi and the connector to them- make a little dongle.
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's not just that, the Pi's have been full of hardware design flaws since the very first one (no real power protection circuitry, no proper USB protection circuitry, backpowering the Pi by plugging in a USB device, ethernet-over-USB, the list goes on and on, and some of it is the most basic stuff,...
[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:43] <exec> 08└─Do you mean one of the too many types and sizes of little power connectors on most small electronics?
[06:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:23] <exec> 08└─Wow! That's brilliant! Great "ideation!"
[06:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:15] <exec> 08└─No need to be a total asshole. What you call "extreme and inhumane punishment of children" is the result of our border being overrun and overwhelmed. Short of standing at the border and waving the checkered flag for every illegal who manages to sneak in, what would you propose? Are you willing to ta...
[06:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:17] <exec> 08└─After reading all of these boring, tangential, Stockholm Syndrome comments, I can't believe nobody here had brought up that... Perot was the first outside investor in NeXT, which we all know (besides burning though millions and millions of dollars) eventually begat OSX/macOSPerot had the chance way...
[06:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:19] <exec> 08└─AH, I forgot to add that during his campaign, he specifically mentioned the creation of an "electronic town-hall", the first mention I can recall of an internet-type plan from a candidate or any politico.
[06:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The California Coast is Disappearing Under the Rising Sea - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─Dogeland: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org]
[06:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:46] <exec> 08└─Go buy an electric car now, so your friends can laugh at you for years to come. Even if electric cars will mostly replace gasoline cars in next ten years, there is no reason to buy them before gasoline cars amount drops below 10-20 percents. Because as with any new technology, electric cars will bec...
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[07:22:24] <exec> 08└─To me augmented reality glasses would eliminate the need for such watches (and reduce the need for physically large screens) and the watches you'd wear would be for decorative/fashion purposes or
[07:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samba Finally Dumps Defaulting to Support Unsafe SMB1 Protocol - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:53] <exec> 08└─I tend to use Samba and SMBv1 with retro hardware since it can handle the old-style LANMAN authentication so I can simply plot MS NET on a machine and NET USE the share and still be able to poke it with a modern editor (and tools) from Linux. That being said, maybe I should see if I can get the old...
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[08:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:43] <exec> 08└─How about a full powered exoskeleton suit, with a display covering the entire body, allowing it to display texts, video, optical camouflage, etc.
[08:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:44] <exec> 08└─How about a full powered exoskeleton suit, with a display covering the entire body, allowing it to display texts, video, optical camouflage, etc.
[08:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:46] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm? You want that suit. Cuff things have been around: https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] https://www.flexenable.com
[08:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:49] <exec> 08└─‘futures’ patents where a patent is taken out on something that no one actually knows how to do are a scourge. The idea is to patent something that would be obvious to anyone that actually developed/invented techniques to achieve something, but don’t exist yet. This blocks new inventions from...
[08:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:51] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm? You want that suit.
[08:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Brain Region May be Why Some Robots Send Chills Down Your Spine - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:55] <exec> 08└─Or possibly explains why there are no other human species? i.e. that our reaction to the similar, but "not us" others is such that it can lead to violence? Maybe we did kill off all the other human species, but due to this "uncanny valley" effect / reaction?
[08:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Brain Region May be Why Some Robots Send Chills Down Your Spine - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:56] <exec> 08└─I find this very plausible. Any species that did not develop this ability was probably set upon and wiped out. And of course any species that loses abiltiy to detect danger will be wiped out eventually. So this is probably a way to sense danger.
[08:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Seafood Shells Could Help Solve the Plastic Waste Problem - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:59] <exec> 08└─My guess is plastic would still win over metal even if you include the energy to create the plastic from solar energy _today_ rather than use plastic from the petroleum "aquifers" accumulated from years ago (that aren't getting replenished as fast as we're pumping from them).
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[09:22:19] <exec> 08└─I'll wait for Facebook to verify this story :)
[09:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:21] <exec> 08└─Damn straight, Facebook is always a reliable source of investor information!
[09:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:36] <exec> 08└─That thing is going to cause a lot of cases of RSI, because people will twist their wrist until the battery dies.
[09:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:49] <exec> 08└─It's surprising this didn't show up in our (quite extensive) field testing program.
[09:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:51] <exec> 08└─Extensive field test... that's where they got people to test it but didn't pay them, right?
[09:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:32] <exec> 08└─Be careful what you wish for. While Red Hat is by no means an angel, if they fall by the way side, there aren't many to fill that void. I would dread the situation of Canonical swooping in to fill that void and "start leading" in the Linux world. At least Red Hat has consistency and follow through,...
[09:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:33] <exec> 08└─Are you sure Microsoft hasn't been paying for the ass-raping Redhat has inflicted across the main distros in the last few years? Minimum input, maximum damage.
[09:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 2342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:56] <exec> 08└─> So, what does all this really mean? It is just a continuation of a trend they started probably a decade ago, maybe more, of squeezing out the free or low-cost licensing options. Their dev subscription service MSDN stopped offering "permanent" licences a long time ago, I still have piles of old DVD...
[09:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher: Seriously, Stop Using RSA - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:29] <exec> 08└─I did a little bit of research on what exactly seems to be the skinny with the RSA and elliptic curve cryptography, and came across a very interesting article [iacr.org] by other than Neal Koblitz and Alfred J. Menezes, Koblitz being one of the two people credited with inventing elliptic curve crypt...
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[09:29:55] <exec> 08└─a) Burn it for energy - especially for countries that are already burning fossil fuels for energy. b) Sort them then stick them in their corresponding landfills and future generations will mine them for materials. We already mine coal deposits which are mostly dead plants that didn't biodegrade full...
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[09:29:57] <exec> 08└─One of plastics *MOST DESIRABLE* properties is that it doesn't degrade in weeks, months or even years.
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[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─What?!? A modern operating system without an init system with its fingers in every pie?!? Where are my binary logs? Where are the hard dependencies into software packages forcing me to ditch an entire window manager? I miss the tight integration between the process booting the system and core networ...
[10:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:34] <exec> 08└─fake news (we would like to see happen) - FB usage falls to under 100,000 idiots remaining and Zuckenscheizer and his investors go to jail for 235 years each.
[10:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:36] <exec> 08└─Corporate predation, is Mark Zuckerberg a dangerous individual? [summit.news]
[10:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:52] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for the P-5000 power loader for ages and it should be simpler than what you describe.
[10:23:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:34] <exec> 08└─You mean to say this will follow the general pattern of: 1) Disruptive Company bought by monolith while shares are high. 2) Company flounders in new hands and share price tumbles while company is gutted and falls apart. 3) Formerly disruptive company is sold for cents on the dollar or just mothballe...
[10:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:11] <exec> 08└─Free software licenses means something entirely different.
[10:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, why is the solution never "make the government 10% more efficient"? This would free up $400 billion dollars a year for new projects... But that possibility is *never* mentioned.
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[11:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:31] <exec> 08└─...sounds like a missed opportunity to make the data squeak: do you hear that sound of compression?
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[11:22:50] <exec> 08└─Don't blame the investors. Firstly, they are just out to make a buck. Secondly, they have recently tried to kick the zuck out. Don't hate them. Cheer them. Cheer them on.
[11:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:20] <exec> 08└─I know you refer to them as flaws, but from their perspective I'm sure they were tradeoffs. When they announced they were going to make a whole computer for $25 people said it couldn't be done, not at that price at least. They got it made at the promised cost and achieved far more than many expected...
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[11:23:22] <exec> 08└─Extensive field test... that's where they got people to test it but didn't pay them, right?
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[11:23:32] <exec> 08└─Mathematical difficulty does not necessarily translate into physical instability. Even so, the general three-body problem is not necessary to determine the stability of orbits. Our solar system is not just a three-body problem, but a couple of hundred body problem (much more if you count asteroids a...
[11:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:50] <exec> 08└─I was going to shame you for how deceptively coherent-sounding that was, but I'll leave a pointer to the musical version [youtu.be] instead.
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[11:29:33] <exec> 08└─Solar power is entirely the wrong source for such things. Too low power, far too concentrated and intense a peak load to supply locally (your employer putting panels on all their buildings won't be enough to charge the cars in the car park significantly). Batteries haven't changed in decades. The li...
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[12:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:45] <exec> 08└─What's a "normal" .mp3 data rate, like 128Kbps? Side channel and you're done: 128.4Kbps. Unless we're trying to be clever and chirp the data out in the actual audio (which is what this "sounds like.") In that case this is sort of the opposite of MP3 research which tried to store only those things im...
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[12:22:53] <exec> 08└─Devuan [dev1galaxy.org] presumably will be out soon enough on the heels of this latest Debian release for those preferring init freedom in a Debian environment AND supporting GPL2/3 (I'm a Free Software guy... you can keep your Open Source).
[12:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and Debian 10 "buster" Released - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:56] <exec> 08└─For putting out a solid and uncluttered operating system year after year. The handbook is always spot on as well. Keep up the great work!
[12:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:24] <exec> 08└─A thing I promised myself I'll tackle when I get to retirement.
[12:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:42] <exec> 08└─They probably found the issues and figured it was a quirky pre-release unit and just worked around it and didn't bother reporting the problem since getting reliable power over USB for a Raspberry Pi is already a "known issue."
[12:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moons that Escape their Planets Could Become "Ploonets" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:53] <exec> 08└─Mathematical difficulty does not necessarily translate into physical instability.
[12:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:27] <exec> 08└─And a fair number of people are amply rewarded for creating said Disruptive Company, encouraging the creation of many more Disruptive Companies.
[12:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:28] <exec> 08└─I get that there's limits to how efficient you can make a government. But when we're routinely seeing government do things for an order of magnitude more cost than a private entity would (for example, SpaceX development of its line of rockets), then there's plenty of room in trying to make things a...
[12:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roo_Boy [1762] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Tagged a Bluntnose Sixgill Shark (Finally!) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:05] <exec> 08└─So, they tagged the shark... does that make it, er, it?
[12:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Creepy Gmail Purchase History Can't be Deleted - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we're stuck here with "choice" of Comcast and AT&T, and Comcast is the lesser evil - but, we only use them for access and DNS. My full web host is FAR more expensive than I need, I've got the same provider since 1997 and it's easy to be lazy, they've only cost me about 2 hours of un-necessa...
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[13:22:30] <exec> 08└─I use Windows(tm)
[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, so you opt for front-dooring instead! :D
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─Manuel Eichelberger and Simon Tanner, two ETH doctoral students, store data in music. This means, for example, that background music can contain the access data for the local Wi-Fi network, and a mobile phone’s built-in microphone can receive this data. “That would be handy in a hotel room,” T...
[13:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:03] <exec> 08└─Didn't anyone tell them that Farcebook own Instagram yet? Would've been nice if TFA had bothered to mention that, but I guess they'd have had to dig out some Instagram usage stats for that too. Hard work for one article.
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─Given their butterfly keyboard, I'd think IBM is likely closer to implementing this than their competitors.
[13:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:40] <exec> 08└─I'd cut the Pi a bit of slack because there's no secret that its aggressively built down to a price - and good testing costs money. The major point of the Pi is that it is sufficiently cheap that you can tinker with it and not cry into your beer if you let the magic smoke out. Its not as if premium-...
[13:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:41] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. True there's no voltage regulation onboard, but there's an overvolt protector SMBJ5.0A-TR https://www.st.com [st.com] that might save it unless a person is really determined to be stupid, in which case they'll learn a very basic electronics lesson, and hope...
[13:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starhopper Prototype to Make First Untethered Hop Soon - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─Conscious of this, SpaceX has managed to sway NASA to launch the small IXPE spacecraft on a flight-proven Falcon 9 at a cost of just $50.3 million, easily the lowest Falcon 9 launch contract cost ever publicized.
[13:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:53] <exec> 08└─The one great heir has provided two children to be The Future of the great quest for Money err TruErrrrrr umm sometology!
[13:25:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Samba Finally Dumps Defaulting to Support Unsafe SMB1 Protocol - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:06] <exec> 08└─You already considered an SMTP proxy, so why not a SMBv1 proxy? Use IPTables to only allow connections between the printers, the proxy, and wherever you have network share(s), which will presumably be accessed over a protocol that's more secure than SMBv1, plus SSH for admin. Drop/log everything els...
[13:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samba Finally Dumps Defaulting to Support Unsafe SMB1 Protocol - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:11] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting idea, but actually part of the reason to use the SMTP proxy was I already had it from another project (so it was a major time savings). Still good thinking, I can't believe that SMB proxy didn't occur to me.
[13:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Brain Region May be Why Some Robots Send Chills Down Your Spine - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:57] <exec> 08└─Is that the difference between "ooh, ahh" and "eww, err"?
[13:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Brutal" Wake-Up Call Is Coming for Automakers in 2025 - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:10] <exec> 08└─In a series hybrid you *don't* have two forms of propulsion you just have an electric motor, the generator only converts chemical power to electrical. Perhaps they discovered their existing engine designs were a poor fit for generators? A constant-load generator is a *very* different beast than a ca...
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[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerve Transfer Surgery Restores Hand and Elbow Function in 13 Young Adults With Complete Paralysis - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─I suggest: From the Christopher-Reeve-would-approve dept. https://www.christopherreeve.org [christopherreeve.org]
[14:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─You can try to look in my Windows, but my front door is locked (tape over the laptop camera).
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─A third party was inviting me to use zoom for a videoconference in a couple of days. we'll use something else instead. I would not have known otherwise, so thanks SN :)
[14:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Just don't install it on a pc with built in mic and camera. Mine are unplugged unless in use. The malware would have to do something fancy with using the speakers as a mic to work.
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─I just got this email from a dude who said I've been haxxored and he filmed me watching videos and I'm supposed to know the kind he means... I've got Zoom on my system so now I guess I have to pay him 1 BTC so that my dirty little secret won't be exposed!!!!! Who knew that a Taylor Swift and Meghan...
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─Comrade Hellary uses it to send spy messages to Putin. Every third note is morse code.
[14:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─There are some kinds of *music* that would improve with increasing number of audio artifacts.
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I call major BS on that claim of "no audible effect on the music." Did anyone actually listen to the sample recordings in TFA? They have a comparison of the original (listen to that first) and the modified version. Okay, the claim of "no effect" is softened later in TFA. As it says in the...
[14:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:25] <exec> 08└─This is a rehash of the "digital watermarking" kerfuffle back in early mp3.com days... Some people will notice, most won't. If it bothers you, don't pay for it. Plenty of options out there today.
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─You are spot-on, IMHO. I'm often stunned by how bad some circuit designs are, when the manufacturers give free design guide circuits. Just copy the circuit, maybe tweak some values assuming you know what you're doing. It's the original open-source. Transistor and IC spec. books always did / do this...
[14:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─I would prefer to power them with a barrel connector.
[14:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:31] <exec> 08└─the Pi's have been full of hardware design flaws since the very first one (no real power protection circuitry, no proper USB protection circuitry, backpowering the Pi by plugging in a USB device, ethernet-over-USB, the list goes on and on
[14:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:33] <exec> 08└─It DID show up in their field testing program. Their field testing program consists of selling the devices to the public for testing porpoises. What? You didn't expect their field testing program to actually test fields before release did you?
[14:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─basically you're telling me that these microsoft shops sell software they're unwilling to pay for
[14:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:46] <exec> 08└─yeah...well, they are *entitled* to free sh*t, aren't they?
[14:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samba Finally Dumps Defaulting to Support Unsafe SMB1 Protocol - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:05] <exec> 08└─I never could get samba and windows to play nice with Linux filenames having a : in them. Even with catia mapping Windows could see the files but not open or copy them. Finally changed my bash script to use a custom date/time format instead of the default.
[14:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:27] <exec> 08└─No, that's the problem, there is a need to be a total asshole. Crimes against humanity don't stop because you sit quietly and ignore everything. The right has become a blight on humanity that needs to be fucking stopped, and literally the least you can do is make it clear to them where the fuck they...
[14:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:29] <exec> 08└─I can finish that for you... "At first they came for the... immigrants. And locked them and their children up in concentration camps with little to no medical care or human rights."
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[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─Not support hardware that hasn't been seriously manufactured for 15 years! My god!
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─It's not only that Canonical wanted to stop shipping a 32-bit kernel. Canonical also wanted to stop shipping the 32-bit system libraries that allow a 32-bit user application to run on a 64-bit kernel. This would have broken 32-bit applications in Wine and 32-bit games downloaded through Steam. When...
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerve Transfer Surgery Restores Hand and Elbow Function in 13 Young Adults With Complete Paralysis - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:52] <exec> 08└─When you suffer a spinal injury, try to get treated with this Brilliant Blue G (BBG) dye [cnn.com] as soon as possible. The article is from 2009 but I haven't seen any evidence of this stuff being used medically. I wonder why nobody seems to have picked up on this research.
[15:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─Macs get video and audio spying, Windows -- only audio. Both are vulnerable. Another misunderstanding: If you don't click on Zoom links you are fine. That's not true, as demonstrated by the security researcher, any website can add a hidden iframe to a Zoom "meeting" and the users will "auto-join".
[15:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─Agree with your comments, and would add that the average listener today is probably using earbuds, and as such, I would not put a lot of credence in their assessment.
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─There’s this thing called Time Division Multiplexing that’s been used to carry large numbers of phone calls over a single digital trunk for about half a century. What ever is the point of trying mess with the overtones of recorded program material to send a low speed data stream when you can jus...
[15:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:23] <exec> 08└─Not sure what is supposed to be novel here... steganography has been around for decades. Heck even mp3 stego goes back 20+ years. Here's an example: https://www.petitcolas.net [petitcolas.net]
[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─Transient voltage suppressors like that are designed to suppress, well, transients. They are not designed to continually dump power from an out-of-spec power supply. If you did connect such a supply the TVS device is likely to fail very quickly, probably quite spectacularly too.
[15:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:28] <exec> 08└─Which is why I said I would design in a series resistor and self-resetting fuse.
[15:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:30] <exec> 08└─I have great respect and admiration for you and your posts, however I'm baffled by this one. The Pi circuits need regulated 5 V and they're asking for 3 A minimum. You could connect a 5 V 1,000 A power supply and the Pi will only draw (take) the amps it needs. I'm not sure how "charger" comes into p...
[15:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:18] <exec> 08└─IBM's execs have a history of initiating layoffs solely to boost share price-- to the point that long-term viability of those areas of the company were severely damaged. There might be a blood bath at the former Redhat. Especially if IBM is only interested in Redhat's cloud business.
[15:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:19] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be BigBlueHat?
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat Officially Acquired By IBM - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:21] <exec> 08└─I believe RedHat has significant business with DOD. That and the cloud are most likely the reasons for IBM's interest.
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─It used to be the case that a company could become a Microsoft 'partner' and get a bunch software licenses for peanuts. e.g. I once worked for an ISP that did this. Now those folks will have to buy software licenses instead. They still have access to licenses for dev/test, but production use will ne...
[15:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 1848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:33] <exec> 08└─What I would propose is that the Commander in Chief starts using the military properly to start helping people instead of killing them. I guarantee you emergency shelters (which aren't supposed to be jail detention, BTW) are cheaper than his wall. Providing real and meaningful medical care to those...
[15:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:35] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it... But the real question is, "Now what will Dana Carvey do???"
[15:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:37] <exec> 08└─The right has become a blight on humanity that needs to be fucking stopped, and literally the least you can do is make it clear to them where the fuck they're at
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[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─IIRC graphics cards are mostly 32 bit? Is that Valve's beef?
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─32 bit is going to the graveyard.
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─Presumably Valve's beef is that they put a "Linux compatible" sticker on some games in their store, and they'd have to review and update that sticker for games built on 32 bit technology. And valve is super allergic to doing any kind of actual work to actually maintain or support their multibillion...
[16:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─Won't you notice when zoom starts running?
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:27] <exec> 08└─Point of curiosity, if MP3 and this really achieve their respective goals, then MP3 encoding should pretty much destroy this data stream, since it's unimportant to human perception of the audio.
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─Miranda https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, how long ago was all that bruhaha about watermarking on audio files? Seems like almost 20 years now.
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─Just another hit piece by the TDS press.
[16:24:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimios [201] 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─There are some advantages like: Compatibility: Slap it on the back of a TV and just give it power from the 1 amp USB port directly from the TV. Convenience: Just use a spare phone charger to power it, even if you lose the original charger. Of course it has problems too as TFS explains. Heck back in...
[16:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:45] <exec> 08└─...but that's the point it started becoming republicans on the emphatically and materially wrong side, and democrats on the right side.
[16:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:46] <exec> 08└─You don't get it. This isn't some argument you can win through pedantry. You've proven you're okay with crimes against humanity, so you're trash. There's no room for polite disagreement with you. What you believe and do is unforgivable.
[16:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:49] <exec> 08└─Posse Comitatus, genius. The military can't assist in law enforcement. Don't you remember how the left stamped their feet and beat their chests when Trump wanted to send the military to the border? They can certainly stop an invasion though and it's starting to look like a fifth column invasion. I'v...
[16:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:51] <exec> 08└─Ad hominem. Typical. There is no polite disagreement because you offer no reasoning except anyone who disagrees with your preconceived opinion is "trash." This is the heart of TDS.
[16:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:53] <exec> 08└─"Your honor this whole trial is an ad hominem you refuse to refute my arguments about my very correct gun cleaning ettiequette and insist on focusing on my personal character" Again, it doesn't matter what hypotheticals you pose, while you're defending concentration camps. There's no negotiation wit...
[16:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:55] <exec> 08└─Yet it's all about sticking it to the criminally undertaxed - despite the fact that the alleged crime is quite legal and everyone down to the poorest is trying to minimize, legally, the tax they pay.
[16:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:57] <exec> 08└─You've got every byte down pat - and it all bites ass because it's all false.
[16:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:59] <exec> 08└─Defense of the border in the face of invaders is not "law enforcement". It's exactly what the military was intended for.
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[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─I don't want to give places like Dominos my card information. If you want to limit my options I will vote with my (cash filled) wallet. This isn't just about saving Dominos money (CC payments cost more than depositing cash), it's about tracking any tips the drivers get. They may want to use the Grub...
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─Seriously, this "cashless" bullshit needs to stop and stop now. It is already in the US too. Recently the Georgia "Mercedes-Benz" Stadium, announced that all vendors inside would go cashless, as if that was some kind of good thing. As another story brought to light the other day, the main reason sto...
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─Because without it, like it or not, we are going cashless. Oh well, definitely good for the black hats. They won't have to go through all that "ransomware" nonsense and interacting with the victim any more. This will be a straight up siphon.
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─This isn't just about saving Dominos money (CC payments cost more than depositing cash), it's about tracking any tips the drivers get.
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─And they still offer nothing more than the quiet, stable, and long lasting ones [slackware.com] do :-)
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─So much for Ubuntu, I mean, really, what do they offer? But is this a real problem [pkgs.org]? Just asking for a friend...
[17:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─This is a rehash of the "digital watermarking" kerfuffle back in early mp3.com days...
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─MS buys FB.
[17:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03boltronics [580] 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 1208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─When I first started at my current company 9+ years ago, one of my assigned tasks was to renew the Action Pack subscription every year. I don't remember the specifics, but I hated it. Microsoft's site wouldn't work properly unless you used IE (but you could get by with Firefox and some page formatti...
[17:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher: Seriously, Stop Using RSA - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:39] <exec> 08└─Curve25519 is not the same as the NSA-pwned Dual_EC_DRBG
[17:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:58] <exec> 08└─Do you really believe that 49% of people who care enough to vote are irredeemably stupid racist deplorables?
[17:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:00] <exec> 08└─Again, it doesn't matter what hypotheticals you pose, while you're defending concentration camps.
[17:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:02] <exec> 08└─So you want the criminally undertaxed to give more money to their bought and paid for politicians?
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[18:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:39] <exec> 08└─This can only benefit the United States (and non-EU countries). Large companies will be forced to move their servers stateside (or at the very least, out of Europe) so they can avoid theft of their assets by the government for non-compliance. If a company like Google were external to Europe projecti...
[18:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, a French-owned military contractor wants to force it down the world's throats. https://www.change.org [change.org]
[18:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 907 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─Seriously, this "cashless" bullshit needs to stop and stop now. It is already in the US too. Recently the Georgia "Mercedes-Benz" Stadium, announced that all vendors inside would go cashless, as if that was some kind of good thing. As another story brought to light the other day, the main reason sto...
[18:22:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─Also... people still eat Domino's roadkill?
[18:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─any tips the drivers get
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─Don't they have a Vegemite Pizza?
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─They discontinued it due to its effects on the c0lon.
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not musically trained like you, but I do have a somewhat eclectic taste in music and prefer CDs to MP3s. Putting on headphones and with a desktop computer's fans humming close to my head, I listened to the two samples, thinking incorrectly that the first one was the original sample. My reaction...
[18:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:58] <exec> 08└─I just put all my secret messages in the notes/comments field of the ID3 tags and boom no audible difference
[18:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:00] <exec> 08└─They should disguise the stenography data as vinyl hiss.
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─Ooh, ooohh, extinguish, EXTINGUISH!!!
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─Wait until they put out a fixed up 8 GB version: https://hackaday.com [hackaday.com] We can look forward to an 8 GB Pi 4 then at some point in the future. We’d put our money on next year, since 2020 is a leap year and 2020-02-29 will be the Pi’...
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moons that Escape their Planets Could Become "Ploonets" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─How could this article not have been submitted by the "that's-no-moon" department? I feel bad now.
[18:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starhopper Prototype to Make First Untethered Hop Soon - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─Someone page Arianespace. We need a hot take, stat.
[18:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:31] <exec> 08└─Idiots like people who went through such camps? Historians pointing out the similarities? News flash you evil fuck, concentration camps do not require gas chambers to be concentration camps. Mass genocide is not required. Inhumane concentration camps are still inhumane. You accept the excuses given...
[18:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:32] <exec> 08└─Clueless Runaway at it again! I get the feeling that even if they started gassing immigrants you idiots still would find some rationale to hand-wave it away. Yes they are "concentration camps" and yes it is inhumane. There is no need to separate families, that is just the extra ICEing on the cake of...
[18:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:34] <exec> 08└─Off your rocker, like waaaaay off. You need meds, for a military man (so you say) you are apparently beyond out of touch, budding little fascist that you are.
[18:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe you've heard of Sun Tzu. The bestest and fastest and easiest way to defeat yourself is to lose the will to win. That is almost half of America today, and half or more of Europe.
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[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─the only recourse by the authoritarians would be to shut off traffic from Google from coming into the EU if Google chose not to comply.
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─It seems more like half of Europe. It's not like the old days, when each country in Europe was an independent nation. Whatever nonsense you hear today from any of the countries, there is a whole block of EU nations backing it up.
[19:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:40] <exec> 08└─I'm somewhat less sure of that. If say Google or Facebook wants to enjoy profits in/from Europe they kind of have to follow the Europeans rules. Moving back to America and then desire to have their services used but not following any rules or regulations will probably not fly. I'm sure Europe could...
[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─Google/Facebook and the government are both threats to free speech. I say: let them fight each other. Politicians make unreasonable demands for the snooping/advertising corps to police user-submitted and algorithmically generated material. The corps resist because of financial reasons and also fail...
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─i haven't travelled europe enough to have an opinion. however, it seems there are forces with enough clout and influence to be heard in the chambers of power to get laws passed. so instead of "europe this" and "france that", find the real live people that are proposing and supporting these laws AND...
[19:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─Macron and his government are attempting to unilaterally scrub out the internet of hateful thoughts.
[19:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:02] <exec> 08└─There was a time that "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private" meant something. I believe, technically, if you want to sue a corner store for not accepting $100 bills after dark, you could win that case, though the damages paid out might be rather small. You can also pay for a ne...
[19:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dominos Australia trials going cashless - 6724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:03] <exec> 08└─Why? Why are you concerned that a store knows what serial number note you gave them? Where else do you think they are correlating that information? At which point does that note go back into circulation and tie itself back to you, where the shop can watch that whole trail happen? P.S. You gave them...
[19:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:40] <exec> 08└─[...] According to Zoom, they will have a fix shipped by midnight tonight pacific time removing the hidden web server; hopefully this patches the most glaring parts of this vulnerability. The Zoom CEO has also assured us that they will be updating their application to further protect users privacy.
[19:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─Comrade Trumplestilskin uses it to send spy messages to Putin. Every third note is morse code.
[19:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:49] <exec> 08└─Now there's your use case right there... [youtube.com]
[19:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:18] <exec> 08└─I don't now the precise details of USB-C charging. What I think happens is that there is a maximum amount of current, but voltage is increased up to about 18 V after negotiation with the device being charged. Doing some googling . . . two sources said: "up to 100 watts" One source said: With up to 1...
[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─You could connect a 5 V 1,000 A power supply and the Pi will only draw (take) the amps it needs.
[19:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─If I'm going to save my money to buy a 4 GB Pi 4 right now, I wonder how long I should set up that savings plan for? Once I save up the required amount, will the Raspberry Pi foundation have come out with a revised board that corrects the USB C port problems?
[19:26:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] 02 - 06Microsoft Middlemen Rebel Against Removal of Free Software Licences - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:22] <exec> 08└─Holy SHIT!! I used/supported MS crap for twenty years as a sysadmin, but I am SOOOOOOOOOOO damn glad I quit using their garbage when I retired. Now its 100% Linux.. MS can go fuck itself....
[19:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:44] <exec> 08└─*yawn* WTF is going to gas the immigrants? Is that what you progressives have in mind if/when you win the White House again? I know you people don't like facts, but Obama deported more immigrants than Trump. Obama separated more families than Trump. Obama told us there was a crisis at the border, lo...
[19:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:45] <exec> 08└─(Spoiler I don't think the democrats are right all the time. They're shit. I just think the republicans have become ideologically committed to impossibly stupid things, and very evil things that are sadly very possible)
[19:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:48] <exec> 08└─Idiots like people who went through such camps? Historians pointing out the similarities?
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[20:23:00] <exec> 08└─If a company like Google were external to Europe projecting in the only recourse by the authoritarians would be to shut off traffic from Google from coming into the EU if Google chose not to comply.
[20:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:01] <exec> 08└─Large companies LOVE this. In fact, they're the ones feeding lies to the french parliament so they can grab more data. After digital rights movements (that have successfully attacked french law in the past for being unconstitutional or breaking european law) have pointed out to lawmakers that: >even...
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:03] <exec> 08└─As much as I consider Macron a puppet that would be overturned after 10 minutes, had he been leading whatever banana republic, we must admit to ourselves that censoring the internet was in the plans from the beginning. There is NO FUCKING WAY that the incumbents did not see the revolutionary potenti...
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Betteridge [7289] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:05] <exec> 08└─Well, as usual, I say... "No." Er... well, umm... "maybe"?
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─That depends on whom you ask. My parents more or less believe that the Google is the Interwebz and I have grown tired of trying to correct them so I'm just rolling with that now. I tried to sneakily redirect their browser to DDG but they noticed that the logo wasn't the same and there was much lamen...
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dominos Australia Trials Going Cashless - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─You are basically cashless, good for you. Your whole mentality isn't better than "nothing to hide nothing to fear". Only the guy choosing cash gets to decide if it's worth it to not let your bank have your payment history. But because you are like this and worse, have a strong opinion about this ins...
[20:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:09] <exec> 08└─I just want to know how many times the image in that article has been printed out, faxed, scanned in, processed on a 386 with monochrome graphics, then printed again. The dithering looks like it is from the late 80's or early 90's.
[20:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Patents Smartwatch that Transforms into Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:10] <exec> 08└─It has a lot to do with being a screenshot of a patent, I'm sure. https://nl.letsgodigital.org [letsgodigital.org]
[20:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:43] <exec> 08└─Also Europe requires standardisation of charging ports. True RPi did not have meet that standard, but you are right there are a lot of micro-b usb-c charges now, becuase of Europe's requirement. IE: Less waste.
[20:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:44] <exec> 08└─The way I hear it, you already want a heat sink or FLIRC case [flirc.tv] if you are running this thing.
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:46] <exec> 08└─IDK. Does "future board revision" mean they can push out the change to all newly manufactured units without introducing a new model? If so, it could happen sooner. But the word "future" there does not bode well for how much they care about this.
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[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Recommends HPV Vaccine to Boys to Prevent Thousands of Cancers - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─i'd rather have a DIY home kit for screening. you can have it on the blockchain and only release +/- details to prospective partners. no need to shoot people up with your untrustworthy shit.
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Reveals "Switch Lite", a Smaller and Cheaper Version of its Popular Gaming Device - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Without any TV capability, it's just a 2DS replacement. A very good choice if you already have a Switch, but have user conflicts and/or young users.
[21:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Reveals "Switch Lite", a Smaller and Cheaper Version of its Popular Gaming Device - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─They could reveal a Switch 2 or Pro next year, around the time that new Xbox and PS5 debut.
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Reveals "Switch Lite", a Smaller and Cheaper Version of its Popular Gaming Device - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─https://www.anandtech.com/show/14629/nintendo-reveals-handheldonly-switch-lite-with-a-new-nvidia-soc [anandtech.com] The longer battery life of the Switch Lite despite its smaller dimensions and presumably a lower-capacity battery may indicate that the Switch Lite is based on a new NVIDIA Tegra SoC...
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Reveals "Switch Lite", a Smaller and Cheaper Version of its Popular Gaming Device - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─My kids have a Switch, and will often prefer to use it in handheld mode, even when they're right in front of the TV. For them, I suspect this would be a good deal. Personally, I prefer the flexibility to switch to big-screen when available, and I love the options provided when you can detach joycons...
[21:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─That actually an easy one : Government employees are too lazy to go after any but the worst offenses. add a judiciary that goes at tectonic speed, and you end up with something only the most blatant nazi sympathizers could worry about. > Macron and his government are attempting to unilaterally scrub...
[21:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:02] <exec> 08└─Nah, "No" is right. Has anybody been killed for criticizing Emmanuel Macron? How about imprisoned? Has anybody been arrested for publishing true information that important people in the French government would like to not get out? Because those sorts of things have happened around the world, and whi...
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:04] <exec> 08└─Have we forgotten so soon how the US government extends it's laws into everyone else's jurisdictions? Do a quick search about the Microsoft Ireland case. Your government is as authoritarian as any other.
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:06] <exec> 08└─"a proposal that resulted in rapturous applause from our clueless politicians." if you really think they are clueless and not malicious maybe it is you who is clueless.
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─"Macron and his government are attempting to unilaterally scrub out the internet of hateful thoughts." No, they are seeing to criminalize opposition to their seditious and treasonous invasion/white genocide. It's very obvious.
[21:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Dominos Australia Trials Going Cashless - 753 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─There was a time that "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private" meant something. I believe, technically, if you want to sue a corner store for not accepting $100 bills after dark, you could win that case, though the damages paid out might be rather small. You can also pay for a ne...
[21:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dominos Australia Trials Going Cashless - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:27] <exec> 08└─There are vanishingly few places that won't take card
[21:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:42] <exec> 08└─It's not only that Valve is allergic to doing work. It's also that developers publishing through Valve's Steam platform are allergic to doing work. Some aren't even in business anymore.
[21:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:43] <exec> 08└─I am not saying you are wrong about anything, but.... FUCK NONFREE GAMES OMG, ДОКОЛЕ???? Is this really what is holding up teh progress... SAD.
[21:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:45] <exec> 08└─It's a real problem if a proprietary application's developer either A. is no longer in business or B. considers a 64-bit build to be an upsell in order to get customers to re-buy its product.
[21:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:47] <exec> 08└─Let me know when there's a viable business model for producing a video game with AAA production values with the intent of distributing it under a free software license from day one.
[21:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:50] <exec> 08└─As a (deblobbed) Slackware user, I can testify that the OS is in fact better than Ubuntu in virtually every way that I care about, however, there are things Ubuntu does that Salckware simply doesn't, and that serves a horde of users. My family & friends run Ubuntu & Debian (cuz that's what I install...
[21:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─Historically, one major advantage of Ubuntu and other distributions based on it was better hardware autodetection and more defaults that "just work" during install for common classes of desktop and laptop computing tasks. About when did Slackware catch up in that respect?
[21:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:54] <exec> 08└─Hardware detection is in the kernel now, but what you are saying is still an issue when it comes to user-friendliness. You can't really compare Ubuntu to Slackware in this area: I mean, for x-sake, Slackware still boots into command line on install, AND THAT'S TEH WAY WE LIKE IT, tyvm. Ubuntu, otoh,...
[21:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─I am SERIOUSLY don't even know what you are talking about. I played games since Paratrooper [wikipedia.org], and so I would like to think I have some perspective as well as taste, and these days I play Xonotic & Minetest mostly, because they are absolutely amazing in terms of gameplay, and I get to...
[21:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:59] <exec> 08└─A big use for 32 bit images is in a VM on CPUs made as little as 3 years ago. Some recent CPUs lack hardware assisted VM support. On these CPUs, you can only run a 32 bit OS as a guest under a VM. There is also nothing really wrong with using 32 bit 15 year old hardware. In some developing country i...
[21:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's pretty obvious that Zoom has launched. This exploit ('feature') is pretty bad, but it's not really at 'spyware' level.
[21:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, forgot to add: But the thing I find most disturbing out of all of this is the webserver that is left behind after an uninstall, WITHOUT INFORMING THE USER. That's just poor form, and I would hope that Apple would be having a 'little chat' about the developer's license and access to the App St...
[21:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:50] <exec> 08└─Doing it with a composed track means you need to isolate specific instrument sounds and manipulate them
[21:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:11] <exec> 08└─I'd have put a barrel plug (much more robust than these awful USB cables), as well as two heavy PCB holes one could actually solder wires into, followed by a bridge rectifier so power supply polarity was irrelevant, and then popped 1, 2 or 3 five volt linear regulators on there, depending on the cur...
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[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Recommends HPV Vaccine to Boys to Prevent Thousands of Cancers - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─Take your anti-vaxxer crap and shove it directly up your ass. Christ. People like you are SCUM, you SUCK, you have no idea what you're talking about, FUCK OFF FOREVER AND PLEASE, PLEASE DIE! I mean it! Please DIE, so others won't.
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Recommends HPV Vaccine to Boys to Prevent Thousands of Cancers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─2019: "Da blockchain more relible then vaxine."
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06UK Recommends HPV Vaccine to Boys to Prevent Thousands of Cancers - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:41] <exec> 08└─with proper screening people could avoid getting sick, but you don't really care about public health this is really about forced collectivism and you won't be satisfied unless others are treated like cattle. good luck with that. I'll take no mercy on you when the time comes.
[22:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Recommends HPV Vaccine to Boys to Prevent Thousands of Cancers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:43] <exec> 08└─The UK is catching up [cancer.org.au]
[22:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Recommends HPV Vaccine to Boys to Prevent Thousands of Cancers - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:46] <exec> 08└─What? "Screening" to find those who are already sick, rather than preventing them from getting sick in the first place?
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Recommends HPV Vaccine to Boys to Prevent Thousands of Cancers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:49] <exec> 08└─That a literal vaccine against (one particular source of) cancer would be controversial in the first place, we are truly fucked.
[22:23:26] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 2596 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─I know everyone is going, "Yeah! Free speech! Rah rah rah!", but here's one that people arn't talking about: With great power comes great responsibility. There isn't one single right you can be granted where you can say "This right is unlimited!". Everything requires a balance. A perfect example is...
[22:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:28] <exec> 08└─It's not just France, though it takes the lead: an EU wide tax is in the works: maybe non-EU governments will get ideas too, then.
[22:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:30] <exec> 08└─A perfect example is on Slashdot right now talking about the DeepPorn takedown. People are screaming censorship, and how terrible Microsoft is for blocking open source. Everyone is going absolutely out of their way to ignore or outright deny that DeepPorn is a tool whose exclusive purpose is to sexu...
[22:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:32] <exec> 08└─The nazis didn't come to power because they were some wonderfully reasonable people who'd sensibly discuss why they thought it necessary to murder x million of people. The clue is in their party name: the National Socialist Democratic Workers Party. In short, they came to power through lies, blatant...
[22:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:34] <exec> 08└─If you don't want your photos or videos to be "deep-porned", you should avoid publishing images of yourself online.
[22:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:37] <exec> 08└─If they were targeting protected speech this way, that would be a much bigger story involving constitutional rights. They neglected to link a primary source, and the language is childish. Under the assumption this only targets illegal speech, I'm for it.
[22:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─I'm going to sub the story now, and we'll see how long you keep coming here.
[22:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:41] <exec> 08└─Racist and "tribalistic" speech helped trigger the worst war ever, and Europe took the brunt of it. Of course they are going to be heavily against such. Speech that claims a given culture or race is inferior rarely does any good anyhow. I've never seen any good come out of such, have you? If you hav...
[22:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dominos Australia Trials Going Cashless - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:00] <exec> 08└─as long as i can use monero. otherwise fuck off.
[22:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dominos Australia Trials Going Cashless - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:01] <exec> 08└─You should ask yourself why you care so much about everyone doing things your One True Way that you just wrote several pages of text promoting it. It is quite eloquent text and more than 140 characters, so kudos there, but it does not say one thing about WHY anyone should give up the freedom of cash...
[22:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:26] <exec> 08└─What, specifically, are these unnamed "things"? Kernel panics and app SIGSEGVs I know, but they're not a positive feature. :)
[22:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:27] <exec> 08└─reimagine wine so that it works completely transparently. in many cases the apps people depend on to get their work done are unmaintained, shitty, proprietary windows-only apps from 10+ years ago. make a hidden layer to allow those to runs flawlessly and many companies will switch and even pay to us...
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview With Will Cooke, Canonical Desktop Engineering Director, on Future of Ubuntu - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─Huh. Well, I'll bite in AC mode. The question is: How will people make money at game development without copyright law. Your predicted answer: WHAT? Why should they? Why can't games just be developed for FREE? Reply: Because the economy, stupid. The same reason copyright came into being in the first...
[22:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Conferencing Application Zoom Allows Remote Activation of Your Mic and Cam Without Questions - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:55] <exec> 08└─if you're using closed sourced software for critical business functions you deserve to be compromised and have all your enemy funds taken.
[22:25:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Storing Data in Music - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:09] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I call major BS on that claim of "no audible effect on the music." Did anyone actually listen to the sample recordings in TFA? They have a comparison of the original (listen to that first) and the modified version. Okay, the claim of "no effect" is softened later in TFA. As it says in the...
[22:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and Debian 10 "buster" Released - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:33] <exec> 08└─You know what, I don't use the stuff, but a shout out to them too. I vastly prefer quality choice, to nothing. I think of BSD as my little nuclear/plague bunker. :P
[22:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:46] <exec> 08└─Well, here's the thing. None of your concerns are my concerns. 😊 -- Every once in a while declare peace. It confuses your enemies.
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[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epson Announces the Perfect Business Notebook, but Good Luck Trying to Buy One in USA - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─Sigh. I remember when the first VAIOs came out in Japan. Half the weight of NA laptops at the time, blazingly fast for the time - faster than my work desktop which was only about a year old. Then 3ish years later NA got them with the same component specs but a thicker heavier case. :/
[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Recommends HPV Vaccine to Boys to Prevent Thousands of Cancers - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─with proper screening people could avoid getting sick, but you don't really care about public health this is really about forced collectivism and you won't be satisfied unless others are treated like cattle. good luck with that. I'll take no mercy on you when the time comes.
[23:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:42] <exec> 08└─If getting fake porn made of you is all it takes to be a "victim", pretty soon everyone will be a victim.
[23:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:43] <exec> 08└─There is principle, and there's defending a principle: if you're going to bludgeon a soylentil to death with your inescapable logic, please do it in a polite manner. Your post was out of line -- adding "and we'll see how long you keep coming here." Not stylish, takyon. Not what we're used from you....
[23:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:45] <exec> 08└─Google almost actually "is" the Internet because they have a near monopoly on search and videos. Most people use one of 4 sites: Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Google, and Youtube. Thus, to the majority of people, those four are the de-facto Internet.
[23:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:48] <exec> 08└─It was disgusting and disturbing to the point where for the first time I am seriously considering outright closing my slashdot account and walking away.
[23:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:50] <exec> 08└─illegal speech
[23:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:52] <exec> 08└─Racist and "tribalistic" speech helped trigger the worst war ever
[23:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:54] <exec> 08└─Free speech has to be as close to unlimited as practical or there isn't a point to declaring it a value at all. If you aren't defending speech you find abhorrent, that you totally disagree with, you aren't defending free speech at all; You are just defending your side. So yes, Communists and Nazis b...
[23:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:56] <exec> 08└─Bbbbut patents and copyrights are the cornerstone of the free market!!
[23:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:59] <exec> 08└─If getting fake porn made of you is all it takes to be a "victim", pretty soon everyone will be a victim.
[23:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:01] <exec> 08└─I worry far more about those who would outlaw speech, than those who engage in outlawed speech.
[23:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:03] <exec> 08└─This development is good news. It means the death of big social media is closer. As governments lose their fear of regulating the Internet small and non-transnational become advantages. Consider Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, etc. They have legal presence in, derive income from and generally oper...
[23:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:05] <exec> 08└─Have we forgotten so soon how the US government extends it's laws into everyone else's jurisdictions?
[23:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:08] <exec> 08└─so instead of "europe this" and "france that", find the real live people that are proposing and supporting these laws AND let us hear their arguments.
[23:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:10] <exec> 08└─No, they are seeing to criminalize opposition to their seditious and treasonous invasion/white genocide. It's very obvious.
[23:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Has France Turned into one of the Worldwide Threats to Free Speech? - 1867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─My intent is not to defend any country restricting freedom of speech, however some of us grow tired of people trying to get people to fight because of gender, race, color, ethnicity and religion. That's not what we should be ready to fight over. A civil war should be about corruption of people in po...
[23:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:16] <exec> 08└─Here I am, senior citizen... And I never got around to setting up an account. Too many damned personal questions.
[23:26:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Non-Compliant USB-C Charging Port - 1022 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:53] <exec> 08└─I know you refer to them as flaws, but from their perspective I'm sure they were tradeoffs. When they announced they were going to make a whole computer for $25 people said it couldn't be done, not at that price at least. They got it made at the promised cost and achieved far more than many expected...
[23:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, Has Died at Age 89 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:41] <exec> 08└─The national debt is never actually going to be paid down besides via hyperinflation. It never was going to either.
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