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[00:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Years Later, Still no Windows Server on ARM in Microsoft Azure - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─Therefore, there must be no market.
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Mass Producing LPDDR5 DRAM (12 Gb x 8 for 12 GB Packages) - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:20] <exec> 08└─"Now, with added bullshit"
[00:22:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─No point running offices in a country that you aren't allowed to operate in...
[00:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─Are you refering to the invention of round corners? Or patenting the scrollbar?
[00:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:15] <exec> 08└─You having a gun is beside the point. A stranger with a deadly weapon entering your house is a cause for concern.
[00:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, all of them.
[00:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:18] <exec> 08└─"I don't like the man" is not an impeachable offense.
[00:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:20] <exec> 08└─I looked at some of his posts. He does seem to live on EF's side of town. Still, EF is mostly moderated honestly, rather than shot down just because he posts an unpopular opinion. We could do the same for this guy.
[00:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kyoto Animation Fire: At Least 26 Dead after Suspected Arson Attack - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:52] <exec> 08└─Employee A: "Wow! Your fire animation looks very realistic! I can almost feel the heat." Employee B: "Uh, this project script has no fire." Employee A: "Okaaay, I'm gonna take an early lunch."
[00:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:13] <exec> 08└─"Come on boys! The way you been lollygaggin' around with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was 120 degrees. Can't be more than 114!"
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[01:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[01:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:10] <exec> 08└─Paid protester.
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─Europeans [wikipedia.org] have no reasons nor money. Who then?
[01:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─This circus has been running for nearly a decade. The lawyers have jobs.
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CEO Blames "10nm" Delays on Aggressive Density Target, Promises "7nm" for 2021 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─Intel's 10nm node is on par with TSMC or Samsung's 7nm node in terms of density, so they are not that far behind in fab technology.
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CEO Blames "10nm" Delays on Aggressive Density Target, Promises "7nm" for 2021 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─The problem AFAIK is that Intel has optimized their "14nm+++++++" node a lot, giving them the clock speed advantage (AMD has roughly the same IPC, maybe even better). Clock speeds could drop on Intel "10nm", and soon after that TSMC will release "7nm+" using EUV. Furthermore, Intel's roadmap [soylen...
[01:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:31] <exec> 08└─France did this long ago. They said they would be part of NATO as an economic and cultural presence, but they would fund and maintain their own military. The US military moved out of France. Stayed in Europe, though. I met a former American soldier once who had been stationed in France. His unit was...
[01:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:35] <exec> 08└─I had a professor in college, David Laitin [stanford.edu], who used to make a point about Africa and its politics that is relevant here: Africa's political borders are not congruent with its ethnic, tribal, cultural, or linguistic borders. In other words, identity formation there is not necessarily...
[01:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:37] <exec> 08└─ugh
[01:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:39] <exec> 08└─Not Norway, would be because socialism or Russian biological weapon or something stupid. Only a matter of time until whites have to deal with it. How many Africans need to die first? I'm hoping for it to emerge in Michigan's calvinist no-go zone for maximum irony.
[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First All-New Lotus in Years Will be a 1,971hp Electric Car - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:16] <exec> 08└─The Toyota Supra, upon which the Lotus Excel was supposedly based, was not a boring car. Neither was the Toyota MR2. They also have a fine racing pedigree. I was surprised at how crappy the Lotus Excel turned out.
[01:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First All-New Lotus in Years Will be a 1,971hp Electric Car - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:18] <exec> 08└─> You could then put it in neutral and coast... Or, you could use regenerative brake from 800 mph (if the battery isn't too hot) and recharge--then let the battery cool for awhile and perhaps you can get to 600 mph in the second high acceleration blast?
[01:27:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06DEA Tracked Every Opioid Pill Sold in the US. The Data is Out. - 480 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:46] <exec> 08└─I'll bet you didn't know this: https://jamanetwork.com [jamanetwork.com] Findings: This cross-sectional analysis of a national sample of Medicare claims data found that chronic use of prescription opioid drugs was correlated with support for the Republica...
[01:28:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06DEA Tracked Every Opioid Pill Sold in the US. The Data is Out. - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:11] <exec> 08└─The article says 1 in 5 people become long term users after a 10 day supply of opioids. Is that because they turned into junkies in those 10 days
[01:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DEA Tracked Every Opioid Pill Sold in the US. The Data is Out. - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:23] <exec> 08└─People have their family income stagnant since 80s (I am not talking about certain isolated islands where the whole country wants to move to). Meantime wives are made to work so real per person or per hour income almost halved for most. Since 2008 it has been an outright depression (again, excluding...
[01:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DEA Tracked Every Opioid Pill Sold in the US. The Data is Out. - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:24] <exec> 08└─So, now he's happy, is his girlfiend happy as well? Or is his girlfriend now depressed? Further study is required. Don't forget to take a before and after quiz. [psychcentral.com]
[01:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump’s Tax Law Threatened TurboTax’s Profits; Company Started Charging Disabled, Unemployed... - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:29] <exec> 08└─The silver lining - yes there is one - only *they* own you, not the whole corporation and zillions of *their* agencies which each fucks you in a different way.
[01:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump’s Tax Law Threatened TurboTax’s Profits; Company Started Charging Disabled, Unemployed... - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:31] <exec> 08└─Except that how do the hundred masters "fuck" you?
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[02:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:10] <exec> 08└─Galileo cannot function without ground centers that feed it the accurate time. If anything happens on the ground, the satellites have almost no way to continue on their own. On the other hand, time in ground centers is more accurate (a few racks of equipment that draw 10 kW is of no concern.)
[02:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─Your virgin mountain has already been penetrated “Since the creation of an access road in 1964, thirteen telescopes funded by eleven countries have been constructed at the summit” https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] What’s the big deal this time?
[02:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─Ah, this time leftist elements want to ensure US science falls behinder and behinder. How better than to stir up the local unemployed and uneducated.
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:38] <exec> 08└─The questions are "how?" and "how much?"
[02:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:40] <exec> 08└─Trump is simply a businessman who usually gets what he wants, period. His track record of running the US as one of his businesses is so far almost perfect in this regard. One may or may not like his goals, but the one - grows above 3% - will get him reelected. With any luck he will trigger a wage in...
[02:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:42] <exec> 08└─The reason the US went after Huawei was because Huawei beat the US by 2 years on 5G, which is considired the wholy grale of the new brave internet. Whoever controls 5G controls the world for a foreseable future the theory goes.
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─It was not necessary for the capitalist class to do business with China. They chose to do business with China, sending manufacturing jobs overseas. Cry me a fucking river.
[02:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:51] <exec> 08└─le sigh! yikes!
[02:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:44] <exec> 08└─But... but... but... Trump has shut down or kneecapped all the government bodies warning about global warming, shouldn't that have dealt with the issue?
[02:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:45] <exec> 08└─I think the main argument is that there are only 4 countries in the world that use Farenheit (the others being the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas and Liberia). By standardising on Celsius, we'd be able to eliminate all of that effort that goes into conversion - providing F and C options in software and...
[02:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:47] <exec> 08└─Yup! It's much cooler once you put your bury your head in the sand.
[02:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:49] <exec> 08└─The other 96% of the world still lives on the same planet, last I checked, so you very much should care. Whatever climate irregularities go around, will come right back around on this little planet of ours.
[02:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First All-New Lotus in Years Will be a 1,971hp Electric Car - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:36] <exec> 08└─Where you could charge it back in 6 minutes.
[02:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OneWeb’s Low-Earth Satellites Hit 400Mbps and 32ms Average Latency in New Test - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:55] <exec> 08└─DUDE What altitude were the satellites orbiting at? I don't think you get what has changed with these new constellations.
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[03:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:13] <exec> 08└─If you wanted accurate navigation you should have named it after a navigator, not a star gazer. Guys like Magellan, Vespucci. Not Columbus. Definitely not Columbus.
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─Well the good news is you can move to Cali and steal 950 bucks a day in shit from a store and they just fine you a ticket. No more jail time for you...
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─And if you're an illegal alien you also get a drivers license, healthcare, education, housing, and welfare.
[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─Shut-up little right-wing shitfuck. It's conservatards who are the biggest threat to science. It's not "leftists" who try to force schools to teach "creationism" in science class. It's not "leftists" who always claim that evolution is "just a theory", or organize delibarate misinformation campaings...
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the complimentary free Obamacare sex change.
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Two Years Later, Still no Windows Server on ARM in Microsoft Azure - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─do you really care if they are running on Xeon, I9, AMD or ARM?
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Mass Producing LPDDR5 DRAM (12 Gb x 8 for 12 GB Packages) - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─Not gonna upgrade until they port rowhammer.
[03:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:02] <exec> 08└─It's a guilty conscience. He knows what whites have done to the rest of the world, and now he's afraid of it happening to him to the point refugees the US itself is responsible for creating become an "invasion" by "military age males."
[03:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:04] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree [wikipedia.org]
[03:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:06] <exec> 08└─race is a right-wing ideological construct
[03:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:08] <exec> 08└─The problem with your argument is that the approach has worked before. We can't let the possibility of being called racist to allow Ebola to spread to the rest of the world. The healthcare costs will be extreme if it gets out. We don't have enough isolation rooms of sufficient rating in our hospita...
[03:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kyoto Animation Fire: At Least 26 Dead after Suspected Arson Attack - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:40] <exec> 08└─The price of physical copies of content is really getting to people these days?
[03:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:05] <exec> 08└─Yup. http://www.doomgold.com [doomgold.com] A pleasant summer day in the SoCal desert, July 2008. (And that day peaked at 122F.) But I forgot to take another picture... cuz I was busy working outside all day. And lived!! Meanwhile back here in Montana, we're finally getting summ...
[03:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:07] <exec> 08└─How do you get quieter than zero sunspots??
[03:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:09] <exec> 08└─Why have two different models? nowadays it should just be a switch on the controller, or in the software as the case may be.
[03:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:11] <exec> 08└─I am reminded why for my Southern Sabbatical, I moved to the SoCal desert and not to Tennessee. (Apparently I only live in extreme climates.) And those of us who have lived in real heat without air conditioning are just croggled by how easily some folks melt. Can't wait to hear the equally dire warn...
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[03:27:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'd like to know the physics of this.. only experienced it on a hot day in Reno, where the wind was blowing like a bitch, but it FELT significantly cooler OUT of the wind. Kinda like your leather jacket when biking at 122F.
[03:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:15] <exec> 08└─I experienced a night in Billings Montana in 1976 when the overnight low, according one of the radio stations, never got below 103F. (And it sure felt like it, too.) Yet when I checked the records, I found highest lows nowhere near that... but the records are from up at the airport, 418 feet higher...
[03:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:17] <exec> 08└─Quench the reaction.
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[03:27:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Some sanity in these unit discussions. They all have merit, and frankly, I can and do use any / all. The one measurement system I really like but rarely gets used is inches with decimal. 2.34" for example. But most tape measures are in fractions, which can be tedious.
[03:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OneWeb’s Low-Earth Satellites Hit 400Mbps and 32ms Average Latency in New Test - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:25] <exec> 08└─Not sure, but if memory serves horizon to horizon was something like 15 minutes. Definitely not Geo-synchronous.
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[04:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:09] <exec> 08└─monitors contextual data such as what article a person is reading or watching, what position they have scrolled to on a page, what URL they have used to arrive there and what they’re clicking on.
[04:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:10] <exec> 08└─Though the article does not mention Javascript by name, the description of the new behavior of knowing the position which the marks have scrolled to on a page implies that this new system will be afflicted with Javascript. One can only hope that the page degrades gracefully and still provides someth...
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[04:22:13] <exec> 08└─pssst... The red ones are better.
[04:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:15] <exec> 08└─I was freaked out by "action cookieless".
[04:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:17] <exec> 08└─Remember, the Washington Post really cares about YOU the humble everyday citizen. They are filled with righetous outrage over those terrible non-Democrats in government spying on people or frighteningly keeping track of them with evil census questions like "Are you a criminal? Y / N". How dare the g...
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[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─Great job, guys! That's really putting you on a track to rival GPS. Any stats on the reliability of GLONASS?
[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─I used GLONASS to drive to Minsk, ended up in Florida.
[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:47] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe 121 years after the US annexed their country because 5 massively wealthy families wanted slaves to work on their plantations, the Hawaiian people are still angry. Who knows, maybe they're just over-reacting.
[04:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:48] <exec> 08└─It is the weirdo who makes everything about penetration again. Not sure what your fixation on that word is but you should see a shrink about it. I imagine you think that word will have an effect like yelling moist repeatedly. Mostly it looks like you are trying poorly to use the word of the day but...
[04:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:23] <exec> 08└─The problem with calling this flamebait outright is the kernel of truth. It's expressed here in a revolting way, but the problem is nonetheless there: how to deliver aid to persons who are not receptive? Their being nonreceptive is understandable, historically when persons have done as authority com...
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[04:27:30] <exec> 08└─I'm near a Microcenter. Love that store. Serious nerd, I know. It must be a good place to work because the employees seem to stay a fairly long time. I think my only gripe is stuff is a bit scattered. There are at least 5 different places to find tools. Well, 3 major ones, 2 minor. But I've found so...
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[04:27:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like workers need some kind of vital sign / motion monitoring system that would alert other employees if someone seems overtemp, tachycardic, hyperventilating, low O2 sat, disabled, etc. Interesting about the xfer switch. Somehow the big-picture got ignored in the thinking there. Keeping powe...
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[04:27:33] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see you're going for the genuine energy apocalypse.
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[05:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:23] <exec> 08└─There are four lights.
[05:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:24] <exec> 08└─The irony here is that if they would use responsible ads, they probably wouldn't need to go to all this trouble. Targeting ads to the page they're placed on tends to target to the things the viewer is actually interested in. At the end of the day, nobody looked at the ads in the print edition, so wh...
[05:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:26] <exec> 08└─There are four lights. One of them is blinking, slowly.
[05:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:29] <exec> 08└─Can we outlaw advertising industry completely, please? Just like coal or plastic straws. It is polluting our planetary information space too much for long time already.
[05:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:31] <exec> 08└─Small secret - that monitoring can only happen if you allow them to run arbitrary program code on your machine. Block their javascript, and there is no monitoring possible.
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[05:22:33] <exec> 08└─Only a russian oligark would say something like that. How is exile?8
[05:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─Hawaii never had slavery. But if there's one thing these professional agitators are consistent about, it's complete disregard for the actual history of Hawaii.
[05:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─But evolution is only a theory..... BOOM! The thing is that any discussion instantly turns into a slinging match that makes the American Chopper meme look tame. There have in the past been several fraud cases where the fame of discovery drove the hype wagon on evolution. (early 20th century especial...
[05:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:39] <exec> 08└─So ebola is like a bad case of food poisoning. Then it sucks but isn't that bad unless you are in the middle of nowhere without proper access to sanitation and climate control and fluids.
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[05:27:48] <exec> 08└─I know how all that stuff (oasis effect, heat islands, reservoirs, etc.) works. I also know how the models work, and imputation and interpolation work, and the mesonets. I also know that many random yahoos don't measure meteorological and climatological effects properly, like a radio station or bank...
[05:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:50] <exec> 08└─In my experience, above about 110 or so the heat gain from all the hot air going past your body is more than the cooling you get from sweat evaporation. Not quite the same in still air, but quite noticeable at 45 mph. Putting on the jacket vastly reduces the amount of hot air interacting with your s...
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[06:22:09] <exec> 08└─*Kicks smartphone user into their own Facebook app*
[06:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:33] <exec> 08└─One can only hope that the page degrades gracefully and still provides something readable without it.
[06:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─I think that the entire management team should be replaced. ASAP. It's plausible that they're still in a '"we're only rolling out!" mental state, but even so, this pre-rollout should be used to ensure everything is running smoothly. Including, all important thought into how to manage downtime, outag...
[06:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Years Later, Still no Windows Server on ARM in Microsoft Azure - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe there are no decent server class machines they can put in their machine rooms?
[06:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:56] <exec> 08└─It's begging consideration.
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[06:27:57] <exec> 08└─Also, that is almost 30 degrees warmer than the record temp (76) that BYZ posted here [weather.gov]. Even unadjusted that is far beyond most major microclimate considerations that I have a hard time believe it was anywhere close to that in actuality. Heat index, maybe; but not air temp.
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[07:22:09] <exec> 08└─Is all this outrage passed through the first world media because faceapp was developed by a Russian company?
[07:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:11] <exec> 08└─So, it just proves 150 million people need some extra braincells, or to actually engage the few they have in their skulls.
[07:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:13] <exec> 08└─Quick gargle search for "deepfake aristarchus" produced this result: The Horror! [i.gzn.jp]
[07:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:37] <exec> 08└─Yes we can. https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[07:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:38] <exec> 08└─But until we create a mirror content stream that aggregates only javascript hostile websites, this situation isn't going to get any better for us. Even then we might be missing out on some subset of popular culture or key news unavailable anywhere else. Honestly though, any garbage behind a javascri...
[07:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:40] <exec> 08└─Years ago, I mentioned to a "webpage developer" that I blocked cookies. He was shocked! "We use them for so many things!", he said. "Not on me, you don't", I replied. These days, I mostly bake my own cookies, just like the Oracle in the Matrix, because cookies are made of love!
[07:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:12] <exec> 08└─And you know, Native Hawaiians, much like Native Americans, never made very good slaves. They would rather die than be enslaved. So like in the "new world", the whiteys had to import labor. In the (Ed) Case of Hawaii, it first was Portuguese. Then Chinese. After that, Japanese. And then Philipinos,...
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[07:23:14] <exec> 08└─The Hawaiian word is "piko", meaning navel, belly-button. There is a lake on Mauna Kea, one of only two natural freshwater lakes in the Islands, both on the Big Island, and it is where the parents of newborns used to deposit the umbilical cords of their babies. Navel-gazing: star-gazing. Whateva, b...
[07:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CEO Blames "10nm" Delays on Aggressive Density Target, Promises "7nm" for 2021 - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:51] <exec> 08└─And yet they are unable to scale it beyond tiny laptop chips. Their clocks are bad, their power efficiency is worse than 22nm-class chips. Those 2 released 10nm models were just to calm down investors. AMD has used a brilliant strategy in the chiplet design allowing them to have products from deskto...
[07:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:52] <exec> 08└─How stupid you are? Trump level stupid. Have you any idea how big DRC is? How big the border is? You do realise a large part of the boarder is impassable jungle? If you put a guard every 100M, how many guards would you need? with a supervisor to every 12 guards, and a manager to each 12 supervisors,...
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[07:25:53] <exec> 08└─They don't want our help. We should just shoot down any planes flying out or sink any ships trying to leave until Ebola Trumpism burns itself out.
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[08:22:19] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid I don't. I loaded the Android app from the Google Play Store. I gave no explicit consent. I didn't have to sign up for any account or agree to any terms and conditions. I'm inside the EU. Thus if my personal data (image or name that I typed in) appear *anywhere* or are used for *anything*...
[08:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:21] <exec> 08└─I would have thought it was because Company X now has a database of circa 150 MILLION FACES, regardless of the flag-waving. But what do I know?
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[08:22:23] <exec> 08└─Every time I think to myself, "the future wasn't supposed to be like this," I read articles like this, do a facepalm, add the latest breach of privacy/trust to the neverending list and say "ah, yeah...now I remember why it is like this." "Jane, stop this crazy thing!"
[08:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:00] <exec> 08└─Yes: Reliability since the day of official launch: Unknown because it hasn't launched yet. This is literally still a prototype system that they say is *not* going to be ready for another year at least and *shouldn't* be used. And they were saying that long before this problem.
[08:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:05] <exec> 08└─Emoluments Clause by itself is enough. Perjury, a la Clinton, is good too. Sex Trafficking of minors? Higher Education fraud. Obstruction of justice. Collusion with foreign powers. Tax evasion. Small hands. Nepotism. Defamation of sitting members of Congress. Putting armor on the Washington Ma...
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[08:26:06] <exec> 08└─Africa's political borders are not congruent with its ethnic, tribal, cultural, or linguistic borders. In other words, identity formation there is not necessarily bounded by nation-state constructs.
[08:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:08] <exec> 08└─even if all flights and ships from Africa were blocked. A large part of the population is completely disconnected from urbanised life. For thousands of years, they have travelled in small boats by river or sea, or by camel over land, for weeks, with no concern for governments, which mostly lack skil...
[08:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:11] <exec> 08└─Tell me how stupid I am
[08:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:23] <exec> 08└─I'd also thought it must have something to do with evaporation rate vs heat. But I never experienced this weird phenomenon at all in the SoCal desert (lived there 28 years), which gets considerably hotter than Reno, and if anything is more windy, but may not be quite as dry.
[08:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:25] <exec> 08└─Oh good -- I've just found a volunteer to shovel out my driveway! :D
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[08:28:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's the page I was looking at. And yeah, who knows how accurate a private station was. But I've become a little suspicious of some official records, too. When I lived near Belgrade during the hard winters of the 1970s, me and my neighbors would often note dawn readings around -60F, even tho...
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[08:29:14] <exec> 08└─You looking for this? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ;)
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[09:22:10] <exec> 08└─Please enter the name of invasive pest or select one from the most recent inputs: - Islamic longbeards - Jews - Italians - LGBTAJBBQ
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[09:22:11] <exec> 08└─"simplified modelling for managers" OR, for smarter managers: "quickly decide if you need to provide management from a different state"
[09:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:14] <exec> 08└─TFS doesn't say if the tool gives the right answer. > making sure that a model is well-matched to the data feeding it Why would anyone want to do that? > For managers who need answers quickly, without being expert coders "Data analyst" is very different to "coder". A "data analyst" may write code to...
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[09:22:27] <exec> 08└─How is my nginx doing BTW? And the made in China router that can potentially mitm a lot of your traffic to your made in China phone tablet or pc?
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[09:22:29] <exec> 08└─You miss the point. The "outrage" in the western media does seem disproportionate. For example compare the number of articles for this: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] vs just the number of articles playing up the russia faceapp p...
[09:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:57] <exec> 08└─Zeus meets noscript, blank page is their lovechild, traffic dies.
[09:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:11] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer a system that works despite hour-long lunches and people going home at 17:00, or 16:00, or 15:00. if your system is reliant on 'emergency overtime', you can guarantee that emergency overtime will be required to keep it working. Emergency overtime is a huge red flashing sign of process fai...
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[09:23:12] <exec> 08└─"6 days. A lack of responsiveness. An almost causal response to repair it. I suspect people just went home at the end of the day, still went to hour lunches, while this outage was ongoing." Yep. This is just typical of the EU projects I've seen. It's all about making sure everybody gets their partic...
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[09:26:20] <exec> 08└─Umm, she was responding to you, Runaway. We repeat the question, "Are you THAT fucking dumb. ...are you?" Think before you answer, Runaway! Oh, crap, who am I fooling? How would that make any difference?
[09:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:22] <exec> 08└─Your POV about the issue hasn't taken into account the parallel code/ socioeconomic system. Interdependencies Have Been Deliberately Introduced. Really systemd is a good metaphor.
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[10:22:31] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the GDPR stuff only take effect if those involved ever stepped foot in the EU or tried to do business in the EU? Would an Interpol Red Notice be issued for such stuff or would the EU do extraordinary renditions for GDPR and similar violations? If these are unlikely then they can use your pho...
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[10:23:13] <exec> 08└─Or not had it run in Italy. Hey, you come back domani, molto time then.
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[10:24:25] <exec> 08└─Perhaps one day it will be hollowed out and set spinning, and a city built inside to serve trade and transport between the habitats of Venus and Mercury.
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[11:22:24] <exec> 08└─- Humans CYA
[11:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scrubbed Chandrayaan 2 Mission to Moon's South Pole to Launch on Mon July 22 0913 UTC - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:47] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2 [wikipedia.org] The primary objectives of Chandrayaan-2 are to demonstrate the ability to soft-land on the lunar surface and operate a robotic rover on the surface. Scientific goals include studies of lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, the...
[11:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:11] <exec> 08└─Zeus meets noscript, blank page is their lovechild, traffic dies.
[11:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:12] <exec> 08└─A few years ago I started to reverse engineer obfuscated JS code in the biggest news websites, just for fun. Usually I do it with file formats, now with code. Generally what I saw there was enough to install NoScript and use a strict whitelist. If a webpage wants to run its malicious code on my comp...
[11:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Mass Producing LPDDR5 DRAM (12 Gb x 8 for 12 GB Packages) - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:13] <exec> 08└─LPDDR5? I think we're getting closer and closer to being able to buy LMNOPRAM [lamerkatz.com] once again...
[11:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:18] <exec> 08└─Whoever controls 5G controls the world for a foreseable future the theory goes.
[11:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:41] <exec> 08└─Get out of my profession, you racist, misogynist shitstain.
[11:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:59] <exec> 08└─The exact reason my classmate moved back from Boston after 18 months working there...
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[12:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:14] <exec> 08└─Slashdot: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear For $100 On Prime Day [slashdot.org] Posted by BeauHD on Thursday July 18, 2019 @09:00AM Amazon discounted a wide range of camera gear for Prime Day this week, but some photographers scored what may be the best deals of their lives. Thanks to a...
[12:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:15] <exec> 08└─How much would all this press coverage cost to purchase? A) you can't buy this level of coverage, B) to get anything near equivalent would cost 10s to 100s of times more than any loss they might have taken on this "mistake."
[12:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:18] <exec> 08└─Digital photography is one of those technologically imploding markets... my $150 cell phone has better (by many measures) cameras in it than were available at any price 15 years ago... Also, like life vests, the camera you have with you is infinitely more valuable than the one in a drawer at home. *...
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:34] <exec> 08└─How about "wild-eyed, drooling 'Christian' fanatics calling themselves Bot who do nothing but stir shit and waste electrons and forum space?" Because, gee golly Miss Molly, *I found one right here!*
[12:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:35] <exec> 08└─That's only one data point. According to TFS, you need three years' worth of infestation information. Better pull up those archives! Oh, and you also need to be a manager. Guess that disqualifies all of us.
[12:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:38] <exec> 08└─- managers
[12:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:40] <exec> 08└─I was included already in the Italian category, so, nope.
[12:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─all humans are meatbags. not all meatbags are humans.
[12:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:07] <exec> 08└─Well the good news is you can move to Cali and steal 950 bucks a day in shit from a store and they just fine you a ticket. No more jail time for you...
[12:25:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:49] <exec> 08└─Borders being closed are literally the time when people smuggle the most. What is wrong with your brain?
[12:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:00] <exec> 08└─I seriously hope that it emerges in the white world soon.
[12:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:01] <exec> 08└─Oh go to Hell and this time STAY there until this whole plague of humans blows over. His crimes are well-known and have been listed by, among other people, the AC directly below you. Mueller only did not go after him because precedent (not law, apparently...?) forbids prosecuting a sitting president...
[12:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:03] <exec> 08└─My guess on this one would be because the idea of nation-state borders as we think of them was largely a European construct imposed on Africa? Hell, that's one reason the Middle East is so completely fucked up; the Balfour Declaration drew arbitrary lines in the sand, almost literally, and cut right...
[12:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:05] <exec> 08└─I do believe we already know the answer. Runaway is actually a lot like a miniature Trump, in the sense that his entire schtick is to lie, deflect, and pretend to be witty. #Sad!
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[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:11] <exec> 08└─Are the rates of autism and diabetes normal or elevated for some reason? It seems like there are far more news stories the last few years about these diseases than usual.
[13:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─Autism rising: https://www.livescience.com [livescience.com] Diabetes rising: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com [medicalnewstoday.com] Drug poisoning rising: https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] Yea, how abo...
[13:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:14] <exec> 08└─Some say the diagnosis for autism traits has changed over the years. I say it's because children are glued to screens wherever they go. They don't interact with people they just follow their parents around with peripheral vision. Take the screen away and watch the tantrum and crocodile tears flow. I...
[13:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─Health of mom's gut a key contributor to autism risk, study suggests. [sciencedaily.com] Since countries with the highest consumption of highly-processed foods are seeing the most impact from autism, there is at least a correlation. Possibly the dietary changes are impacting oxytocin, which is also...
[13:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03WeekendMonkey [5209] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:28] <exec> 08└─This is not the first time items have been advertised at prices well below the intended sale price. Did the buyers get their goods? Often the retailer will cancel the orders once the error has been spotted, saying there was no contract at the displayed price until they accept the order.
[13:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:30] <exec> 08└─You can buy adapters to use fancy lenses with cell phones.
[13:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─Excellent point. Notably absent from the coverage is how much the “pricing error” costed Amazon.
[13:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:41] <exec> 08└─One can only hope that the page degrades gracefully and still provides something readable without it. Otherwise they risk their site becoming dead.
[13:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:43] <exec> 08└─The irony here is that if they would use responsible ads, they probably wouldn't need to go to all this trouble. Targeting ads to the page they're placed on tends to target to the things the viewer is actually interested in.
[13:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:45] <exec> 08└─I can understand your point for websites that neither require a login nor offer a shopping cart. But among sites using a login, I don't see a lot of them falling back to HTTP Basic authentication. I imagine this is because HTTP Basic authentication sends the name and password with every request inst...
[13:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:47] <exec> 08└─Without advertising, how would you learn that new products are available in the first place? And without ad revenue, you'd probably see a lot... Still reading? This premium comment is available to subscribers to comments by Pino P [ Subscriber Log In | Become a Subscriber ]
[13:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─Which EU projects have you seen?
[13:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:28] <exec> 08└─If the protesters want to make a difference, they need to get the political backing to not renew the lease. The current lease includes planning for this event. UH would have to move out and clean off the mountain top. That is a pretty drastic, but possible outcome. Seems like more that just a few pr...
[13:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:25] <exec> 08└─> No localism, no modularity, no reuse. The advantage is that there is lots of redundancy. If you want a metaphor, think "the internet"; lots of redundancy, but hard to control an infection.
[13:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:26] <exec> 08└─Not to mention people who are infected, travel, and then exhibit symptoms and become infectious. "There is ebola in my village, I'm getting out of here"
[13:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kyoto Animation Fire: At Least 26 Dead after Suspected Arson Attack - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:00] <exec> 08└─Initial reports are that he obstructed most exits from the outside in some fashion to force people to use a specific exit that he set up to ambush them at, by throwing gasoline at anyone using it and setting them on fire. I am curious why so many people were stuck on the stairs to the roof though. W...
[13:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kyoto Animation Fire: At Least 26 Dead after Suspected Arson Attack - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:02] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, "Life should be fair", the battle cry of the people who sit on the long tail of the ambition and talent curves. Explain to me again why my hard work and risk taking should be stripped from me and given to those who make no effort themselves? Life ISN'T fair and never will be. If you think yo...
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[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:22] <exec> 08└─But do my son's engineered superpowers make him more human, or less? It has nothing to do with humanity, but it does make him more complex and dependent on technology only the author knows. I don't know what that will do with the kid's chance of survival, but I think hacking your kid is a bit of a b...
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:24] <exec> 08└─But then I read the article and it didn't explain it either. I'm sure she's doing something interesting for her son, but this article is a very long and disorganized ramble.
[14:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─I say its the sheer number of parents and children on prescription medication. I saw a commercial the other day where they made it seem normal to be filling 5 prescriptions for yourself and 4 for your five year old child.
[14:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:28] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of "I did, I did I did..." in this article (I actually RTFA). It reads like the ruminations of someone who is arguably very good at what she does but I don't think it's that innovative to be honest... I mean augmented intelligence and other concepts are fairly close to what she describ...
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─Autism is underlying regardless of practice. Practice does make the difference between functioning autists and non-functioning ones.
[14:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:33] <exec> 08└─There is a major question about autism and whether rates have risen or if it has just become more important to notice autism and increased screening tools are finding more cases. Bear in mind that autism is a spectrum disorder - high functioning or mild symptomology might not have been recognized as...
[14:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─TFA did explain it, granted it wasn't very clear: "our system could recognize the expression of a face and write the emotion on Glass’s little heads-up screen" I assume she gave a system like this to her son, for him to try out. If I understood it correctly, this is based on Google Glass, together...
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─First, note this: "Earlier versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) ... listed autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome and [two other conditions] as separate diagnoses. In the latest edition of the DSM, however, experts combined these conditions into one group called...
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─Sure, cell phones have gotten better, to the point of replacing the simpler cameras for "good enough" point-and-click pictures. Yet, cellphones, even helped by digital filters, cannot come close to what decent higher-end gear can deliver. If you're even somewhat into photography, it's worth it. Even...
[14:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:51] <exec> 08└─Except in this case: Other members spoke to Amazon customer service about their order and were told that the order would indeed ship.
[14:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─s/repeat/receipt/
[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─Amazon also send a confirmatory email stating that the order has been accepted so the contract is valid from your repeat of that email.
[14:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─1. Yes, it does. If a page looks funny or elements are missing, the first thing I often do is unblock the first party domain. If that doesn't fix it, I add the third-nth parties in descending order of apparent respectability; e.g. anything with "cdn" in the name goes first, and anything with "facebo...
[14:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:10] <exec> 08└─Very creepy! How did you know what my 2009 Toyota Matrix is doing? > There are four lights. > One of them is blinking, slowly. This is exactly the symptom. Check engine light, ABS, Stability Control and one other I've forgotten. Three are steady on, one blinks (all are yellow warnings). If I drive i...
[14:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:12] <exec> 08└─Include the session id as a parameter in all links.
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CEO Blames "10nm" Delays on Aggressive Density Target, Promises "7nm" for 2021 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:32] <exec> 08└─Before they act publicly they have to mobilize the lobbyists. Not that I would buy one but I kinda hope that Apple does do a desktop non-iOS non-x86 machine (could be ARM but might not) at least to show that you can break from intel.
[14:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:50] <exec> 08└─Based on what high crime or misdemeanor?
[14:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:52] <exec> 08└─Retarded analogy. Better analogy: Idiot anti-vaxxer does not get their kid vaccinated. Measles outbreak occurs. Local school refuses to allow said kid to come back to school until outbreak is declared over.
[14:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:54] <exec> 08└─Not a great analogy, because food poisioning is usually bacterial although 1/3rd of cases are indeed viral. But true only if the food poisoning has a 50%-90% fatality rate that induces clotting all over the vascular system which can cause systemic hemorrhage. It's not like botulism where if you get...
[14:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:56] <exec> 08└─What I missed saying but implied was that just because one has climate control and fluids does not equal recovery, as it does with many types of food poisoning.
[14:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm confused, but it seems to me that the US is the country that DOES NOT CARE about climate change. The other countries, at least a number of major countries, do seem to realize that this is going to become a problem.
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[15:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─Many other parents wish they had had human children.
[15:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 1961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:30] <exec> 08└─I read a web comic called Last Resort and one of the characters in it wears an "autie lens". It's the same idea of an emotion reading ai that then signals the user what emotions are being presented and suggests possible responses to the wearer. This is interesting to me, as when I was a young kid I...
[15:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─I can tell you that being a parent to a kid with ASD can be a real trial and end up with the parent being pretty desperate for something to help. (I was the kid, not the parent) Though, my mild suspicion is the kid may come by it honestly as trying to hack your kid to tweak their behavior is just th...
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─my $150 cell phone has better (by many measures) cameras in it than were available at any price 15 years ago
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─to get anything near equivalent
[15:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:11] <exec> 08└─-bots
[15:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scrubbed Chandrayaan 2 Mission to Moon's South Pole to Launch on Mon July 22 0913 UTC - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─The launch, which has suffered several delays was originally scheduled for July 14, but the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) postponed Chandrayaan 2's departure less than an hour before launch due to a "technical snag."
[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:08] <exec> 08└─Shhhhhhhh! We wouldn't want people to know that! uMatrix is great.
[15:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:10] <exec> 08└─If you're a bit geeky, and use uMatrix, you can selectively enable / disable JavaScript. This makes most sites continue to work, but blocks almost all ads.
[15:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:12] <exec> 08└─I keep saying it. Advertising has ruined every medium it has ever touched. It may start out acceptable. But it can never stay that way.
[15:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─These days, I mostly bake my own cookies
[15:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:16] <exec> 08└─Simply allow "session" cookies. The kind that only exist for the duration of your interactive session, and then are deleted by the browser so there can be no tracking beyond your current interactive session.
[15:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:18] <exec> 08└─I gave up on NoScript back when NoScript betrayed our trust. uMatrix all the way. Never looked back. uMatrix has much finer grain control than NoScript ever did. (I can't speak about what NoScript might look like today, because I'll never use it.)
[15:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:21] <exec> 08└─If the page says "Something prevented this page from loading" the first thing I do is DISABLE first party JavaScript, and that usually fixes it.
[15:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:37] <exec> 08└─If you wanted accurate navigation you should have named it after a navigator
[15:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:39] <exec> 08└─GLONASS can reliably help you fined you're way to Siberia.
[15:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:06] <exec> 08└─They could be given jobs keeping protesters out.
[15:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:07] <exec> 08└─But gravity is only a theory! (and a movie)
[15:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:09] <exec> 08└─Huewei probably does have slavery.
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Years Later, Still no Windows Server on ARM in Microsoft Azure - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:20] <exec> 08└─when has MS refused to sell something, even if it sucks?
[15:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Years Later, Still no Windows Server on ARM in Microsoft Azure - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe there are, but nobody wants Windows on a server. Have you even seen Windows Server 2016? I used Windows Server 2008r2. Then Windows Server 2012, which was noticeably slower. Then Windows Server 2016 which is much more noticeably slower. And does almost constant updates. And those updates take...
[15:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Mass Producing LPDDR5 DRAM (12 Gb x 8 for 12 GB Packages) - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:37] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for Windows XP to finish installing. Then I can install the service packs, up to SP3. The hardware, upgraded to 256 MB memory, may be hopelessly obsolete now, but it's still spinning, and I anticipate the installation will complete any time now.
[15:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:17] <exec> 08└─The Partition of India, as well.
[15:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:18] <exec> 08└─You gotta remember something though. Before being convicted, you'll have to PROVE one or more of those charges.
[15:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:20] <exec> 08└─I seriously hope that it emerges in the white world soon.
[15:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:22] <exec> 08└─EVD? Do you mean Ebola? I looked up EVD and all I found was External ventricular drain, which is probably not what you meant.
[15:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:25] <exec> 08└─By all means, hold him to the strict standards that I would hold a Democrat to. Teflon Bill, for instance? I never gave the smallest of damns whether he got a blow job in the White House, or not. Nor did I care that he may have lied about getting a blowjob. I didn't even care that he doubled down on...
[15:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:46] <exec> 08└─Hah, that's just baby blizzards. If you want to see REAL blizzards, where you're digging out of 12 foot drifts, come to the Great Plains! Wyoming's "Storm of the Century" documentary, suitable for frightening southerners: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I found weather maps...
[15:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:47] <exec> 08└─Eh, HIPPA stuff... Yeah I donno the innards of xfer switches but I do know that in a civilized area far away from coasts where we don't have brownouts and blackouts, buried service is essentially uninterruptible and xfer switches are in practice vastly less reliable than outlet power. Yet if there i...
[15:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:50] <exec> 08└─Come back in January, when the story is about the 'unprecedented' cold wave and folks freezing to death.... say, got any surplus nuclear fuel we could send to the sun??
[15:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:52] <exec> 08└─Right, no problem, just send in some excited neutrons. The surplus fuel would work great. Problem is, it will really suck for people in the southern hemisphere, so we kind of have to keep it under wraps. They're used to extra heat anyway.
[15:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect. - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:54] <exec> 08└─I've been familiar with both all my life, yet which gets used for what seems to automatically happen in my brain. Frex, temperature outdoors is in F but inside my PC is in C. Body temp can go either way (exact temp in C, fever in F). They're both useful, depending. Conversely, forced change is just...
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[15:30:57] <exec> 08└─> Eh, HIPPA stuff... Break-ins / leaks are only a matter of time.
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[16:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:14] <exec> 08└─But not in the same way that the people who put people on the moon were "no bullshit". Lets see how they do when the bubble bursts.
[16:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:15] <exec> 08└─Well put. I think there is a difference between being a toxic employee (which can come in any flavor, not just "white men"), and not being a social butterfly.
[16:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─My CEO just bragged on the annual report that we invited more female future graduates for practice than male ones. Yep, more than 50%. I guess the next time there will be specific goals. Let's say 55% females, 35% Jews, 25% rainbows. And the rest... hold on a sec...
[16:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─Autists are going to start foaming.
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:22] <exec> 08└─Why are you so uncomfortable around women?
[16:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:24] <exec> 08└─I've been using bitbucket and have noticed they keep revising the interface and other tell-tale signs that the company is going to shit.
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:27] <exec> 08└─That female-rainbow-big-nose will be a much covetted trophy for your CEO, So what if they can't do shit! They complete his Venn diagram!
[16:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─Aye that is always a fucking tell-tale sign. When you have to look under 10 different hidden menus for the option/button you used to have right up front you know it's fucked! "But too many options scare the novice users!" Novice users? WTF? It's a fucking version control software, not turbo-tax.
[16:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:31] <exec> 08└─I think these people do not know many millenials. Millenials are actually very competence driven and feel bad in a culture that is fake. I find it fake that a company does not worry about delivering their products. I think what these people think are millenials, are in fact Feminazis and other loud...
[16:22:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─Some say the diagnosis for autism traits has changed over the years. I say it's because children are glued to screens wherever they go. They don't interact with people they just follow their parents around with peripheral vision. Take the screen away and watch the tantrum and crocodile tears flow. I...
[16:22:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─But do my son's engineered superpowers make him more human, or less? It has nothing to do with humanity, but it does make him more complex and dependent on technology only the author knows. I don't know what that will do with the kid's chance of survival, but I think hacking your kid is a bit of a b...
[16:22:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 1331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:55] <exec> 08└─First, note this: "Earlier versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) ... listed autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome and [two other conditions] as separate diagnoses. In the latest edition of the DSM, however, experts combined these conditions into one group called...
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Hacking your kid is also a stupid idea unless you are qualified to do so. It places an undue level of faith in her judgment of making changes to code that could kill her son. Of the many reasons that medical stuff is expensive are notions of testing and an awareness that great harm can result from a...
[16:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─Are the rates of autism and diabetes normal or elevated for some reason?
[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─I understand there's a portion of the open source movement set to do this, and the things the process does are automate a portion of the calculation and data entry, plus add logging that's not normally accessible. More like "Because I'm a pilot, I can set a better 3d gps course than altitude/heading...
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:07] <exec> 08└─You oversimplify. There are degrees of autism. For mild degrees of autism you are probably correct, for severe autism practice doesn't suffice, and as it gets worse, becomes essentially impossible. N.B.: I may also be oversimplifying. It's quite possible that autism is a syndrome rather than a singl...
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─I am a pilot and off course I have a right to modify my experimental airplane any way I am pleased. Passenger's lives? I have a required place-card displayed warning them. What you imply should affect only commercial use and only a large one at that.
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─AI sometimes does unpredictable things.... I sure wouldn't hook up my kid to an AI controlled insulin pump that I created. The chances that something will screw up and deliver a lethal dose is too high for me to stomach. Unless, maybe that is the ultimate plan. Have an AI accidentally kill her son s...
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─Shh don't admit that online. People might hold it against you.
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:54] <exec> 08└─How would they track insects like white ants, bird mites, etcetera that are not easily discoverable?
[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:56] <exec> 08└─Scum of the earth! The position of manager should be a test to find contestants to be sent to populate other planets elsewhere in the galaxy
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─150 MILLION FACES
[16:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Washington Post is Preparing for Post-Cookie Ad Targeting - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does...
[16:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:20] <exec> 08└─Like the Berlin airport? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[16:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:21] <exec> 08└─Lost? Have you tried Rev. Harry Krishna?
[16:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:51] <exec> 08└─It used to be that the right wing were the knuckle draggers, but damn, the radical left is giving them a real run for the title right now but for different reasons.
[16:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:52] <exec> 08└─Right, because science should be subject to a public vote.
[16:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:54] <exec> 08└─Funny how creationists like you (and let's make one thing clear: you ARE a creationist; you're not fooling anyone) always try to instill uncertainty and doubt about the scientific method by trying to sound all rational and sciency themselves, making ample use of false dichotomies and logical falacie...
[16:27:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip - 1254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:14] <exec> 08└─I don't think Trump is bright enough to have formulated the anti-Huawei thing all by himself. I've pointed this out but it bears repeating: it is profoundly dangerous to ascribe to stupidity what is in fact malice. Whether it was Trump personally, or one of his "advisers" doesn't really matter, the...
[16:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:05] <exec> 08└─Ebola Virus Disease [who.int], the 'official' name of Ebola now instead of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. Ebola is a river near where the first cases were identified in 1976.
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[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─Ironically, someone already did a much more thorough youtube video [youtube.com] on youtube video urls.
[17:22:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1956 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─I think these people do not know many millenials. Millenials are actually very competence driven and feel bad in a culture that is fake. I find it fake that a company does not worry about delivering their products. I think what these people think are millenials, are in fact Feminazis and other loud...
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─I've noticed the most evil and polluting people are farmers, not foamers. So most likely these people will join "their kind" and take up farming. It really is time to start ostracizing the farmers who are responsible for so much that is wrong with the world. Just go to the store and see how much the...
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─Millenials are actually very competence driven
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─A black, a woman, two jews and a cripple.
[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─I was not! They are competitive and have the impostor syndrome more often then older generations. Believe me I work with very old engineers and very young, and most of the older engineers should just move out of the way and say they are not interested in doing their jobs. Actually they abuse the age...
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─That's a really odd response. I mean you didn't respond to the post at all. You responded to the person, who in this case is AC? How would you know that AC is uncomfortable around women? You have no idea who that particular AC is, unless... did you just respond to your own AC post?
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Wow you have be anonymous to write your opinion. So you claim women, non-white or handicapped persons underperforms ...do you have stats to prove that statement or is that a gut feeling ?
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─He seems uncomfortable his company inviting more women than men for some reason. There is nothing wrong with that given the tech industry is mostly men. Now had the company hired people only on the basis of them being female than I would have a problem. Like the gaming community being a boys club an...
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─> outright disobey direct orders Maybe wise enough to know what is the best course of action regardless of what senior people say.
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:49] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but man this sounds like a load of crap. A performance review where 2/3rds of it is not performance? Living company values? "de-bias the performance system by taking into account the employees entire contribution?" That sounds horrible. I know the "brilliant jerk" can be a problem, but a syst...
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─"He seems uncomfortable his company inviting more women than men for some reason." Again, you're not addressing the post, you're telling me about the person who made it. And I don't see how you could know anything at all about the person who made it, unless you are that person. Again, did you post t...
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─There is a book called The No Asshole Rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule) which, among other things, argues that asshole employees end up costing the company money even if they are very productive: they individualy can make the company earn money directly, but this is usually no...
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Well, he does seem uncomfortable around women. We could be dealing with an incel, or a serial rapist/murderer. Can't be too careful with ACs, you see.
[17:23:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 509 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─TFA did explain it, granted it wasn't very clear: "our system could recognize the expression of a face and write the emotion on Glass’s little heads-up screen" I assume she gave a system like this to her son, for him to try out. If I understood it correctly, this is based on Google Glass, together...
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─I do not understand how non consented tampering with the medical device of another person is legal. The father can be a genius but the procedures to approve an insulin pump exist because a bug could cause death or disability (amputation, blindness more?). Just because a child is under his responsibi...
[17:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:30] <exec> 08└─Assuming technology continues to develop exponentially, what will definitely happen... the difference between any humans will be exponential. Let me translate it. Every superhuman will be alone. The rest of the population will either be super super humans as compared to her or total idiots. P.S. Thi...
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─Right, I was oversimplifying. I just wanted to point out that practice wouldn't change anything about autism prevalence.
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─The parent is the owner of the pump. They can modify or even destroy it as they wish.
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─Whether or not it's helpful for the kid is up to what parents do with that information. As long as autism is mild enough that the kid is not language impaired, you can teach emotion reading explicitly instead of letting the kid pick it up on their own. Even neurotypicals sometimes have a quirk that...
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─Fully acknowledged, as the new telescope in Hawaii confirms: there's no replacement for aperture. However... the things that they are doing with digital sensors today with the tiny little apertures on cellphones would have been deemed impossible in 1999, even with the best chemical films available....
[17:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:47] <exec> 08└─Or the new Finnish Nuclear Reactor (Olkiluoto Unit 3 [wikipedia.org]) Or the direct railway line between Oslo and Hønefoss [wikipedia.org]. Or the bridge-tunnel between Rødby and Puttgarten [wikipedia.org] I can't think of a Swedish example. Perhaps they have worked out how to project manage large...
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[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─Things get even more interesting if you are using Windows. Under NTFS, file names default to be case-preserving, but case-insensitive. Say I create a file called "Foo.txt" and then get a directory listing. Sure enough, I see: "Foo.txt" displayed. The fun comes if I do "DIR foo.txt" or "DIR FOO.TXT"...
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. I want my filesystem to know the difference between differently cased characters.
[18:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─Case is just formatting
[18:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:21] <exec> 08└─Hear [youtube.com] Har is a YouTube video with an image of the characters of the video's actual URL.
[18:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─Whatever, at least in linux you can name a file "aux.dat" and not have the filesystem not melt down.
[18:22:51] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─Please, take people seriously, shield the brilliant jerks from the general work force, so they can provide their value in the best possible way.
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─Atlanta office crew. He was possibly going to jump ship to them, but he's a notorious asshole and got his last job on a combination of that fact and his skills. So there goes any chance of him joining them. Good thing he hated the humidity down there to begin with.
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─Don't compare people with autism to the trolls lurking in the dark corners of the net.
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─You didn't read it very well. The "this guy" you reference is Ms Bek Chee. Female and asian, and obviously cannot be either racist or sexist. Please report for re-education.
[18:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:59] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the myth of the wise neverwrong old engineer. Bleh
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:01] <exec> 08└─Ye ye, disobeying a direct order to provide a review of a given piece of code sounds like a fully reasonable professional choice...right. Furthermore the fact the he did not provide the review led to a situation where there was an outage and the owner of the code was not available, meaning when requ...
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─I think some of the examples you gave go way beyond being a jerk and straight into criminal behavior. I think for that cases the law will apply and the firm will follow the law first and foremost. Regarding the other aspects of your reasoning, I think you do not quite grasp the difficulty of finding...
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─Inviting more women than men on purpose is a pretty clear violation of federal law. You cannot discriminate on the basis of gender period. It doesn't matter whether it's men over women or the other way around, doing so is illegal. It would be unconstitutional to have a law that just makes it illegal...
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─Before switching to the shit that is the ribbon, MS Office had smart menus. They would hide things you weren't regularly using, but you could easily disable it in the settings if you didn't want it and IIRC, you could still see the remaining items on a time by time basis if you needed to. The proble...
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─The problem though is that in the case of these types of geniuses that you might not ever be able to get the results that they're bringing. Which is why they were tolerated for so long, hist personality might be toxic, but you can't argue that Steve Jobs didn't get astonishing results even after Woz...
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─Sure there are some positions where the person's knowledge is almost irreplaceable, but those are few and far between. I think the general no-asshole rule is a solid plan that will hopefully help some of them get over themselves. I would imagine that a semi-competent manager would not fire an employ...
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─Taking into account an employees total contribution is something that makes a lot of sense. There's often times things that don't show up directly in an employees list of achievements that make or break a company. Things like ability to smooth over conflicts are important. The best companies rely up...
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─Cases like that, you've allowed the bus factor to drop too low anyways. What happens if this individual is hit by a bus? Jerk or not, if they're truly irreplaceable, then you've got a massive problem. People who aren't jerks prematurely keel over from a heart attack every day. If they're the true en...
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I don't have to participate. The challenge is on deciding what constitutes being a "jerk", and whether or not it's costing the company money. Guy who insists you follow procedure? People think he's a jerk, but then when your support staff wastes 50 hours because somebody didn't follow the p...
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─Don't mind my comment my brain farted apparently.
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─In either Confluence or Jira, Atlassian has code that forcibly replaces "Jira" into "JIRA". That's a sign that the marketeers have taken over.
[18:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:02] <exec> 08└─Just wear hard contact lenses and you'll be blinking in no time! Now if only I could master the "I'm listening; I'm interested" facial expression to go with it
[18:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─Indeed, use it modified on a person which cannot legally consent to it is another matter though.
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:24] <exec> 08└─As an Internet company, how can Amazon not lose money per sale if they want to become a trillion dollar company.
[18:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Stop Insect Pests in their Tracks - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:50] <exec> 08└─Italy was a fascist member of the Axis Powers, therefore, Trump supporters like them now.
[18:25:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names - 599 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:02] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid I don't. I loaded the Android app from the Google Play Store. I gave no explicit consent. I didn't have to sign up for any account or agree to any terms and conditions. I'm inside the EU. Thus if my personal data (image or name that I typed in) appear *anywhere* or are used for *anything*...
[18:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:59] <exec> 08└─Who's "Bill"? Why are you talking about him?
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[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─I have argued previously that the liability should be squarely on the manufacturer. (Or vendor if manufacturer cannot be found, such as buying from fly-by-night manufacturer on Amazon.) People would then argue that I was advocating: * government standard code implementations * government certificati...
[19:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:11] <exec> 08└─"Even if you buy a secure system, that doesn't mean you will operate it in a secure manner." Even assuming your manor is secured your hardware is still vulnerable to online attacks! Anyway, you nailed it with the last sentence. The burden has to start with the origin and work its way back up the cha...
[19:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:13] <exec> 08└─Let's hope they go after the really big companies, banks, credit agencies, etc. Will they feel the 4%? Or just skim the dividends and raise ATM fees? Are their corporate charters up for grabs?
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─The filename behavior described first appeared in Classic Mac OS (1984). It was sane and made sense to normal people -- not autism touched people such as myself. Even as a geek I don't want a Jillion (which is less than a Bazillion) filenames that only differ in the case of their characters. But I u...
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─˙dn ǝpıs ʇɥƃıɹ ɹo uʍop ǝpısdn sı ʇı ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ oslɐ sı ƃuıpoɔuǝ ʇxǝʇ text encoding is also whether it is upside down or right side up.
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─Windows has skrew ball file names. 10. Create a new folder. 20. Rename the folder to "God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}". 30. Folder becomes a new control panel shortcut. One that you didn't have before. 40. Profit! (or cause havoc)
[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─I like to fuck with people by saying "uppercase 2, capital 3, lowercase 4" and so on. They pause trying to figure out how to write what I'm saying.
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─Well, to be technical, the file system does know the difference between cased characters. It is the default API that doesn't care (which is a backwards compatibility thing back to the FAT16 days). If you use a different OS, different or lower-level API, or set the case-sensitivity attribute, you get...
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─If they are somewhat competent, I can say, all letters are lowercase unless I specify otherwise. X, Z, uppercase W, 2, 5, Y, uppercase C
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─I have a website on a low-cost shared hosting service. I noticed something rather dumb about it. If a link/image/whatever in the page (which I most likely typed in myself in all lower case) doesn't match the case of the filename to which it refers (which I uploaded over FTP and could be anything) th...
[19:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:41] <exec> 08└─I use EBCDIC you insensitive clod!
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─I knew this was going to be Tom Scott :)
[19:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─They are toxic. I understand why they are valued, but I consider that to be the job of managers. You know, manage the employees? We are creating a machine society by relying on spreadsheets and metrics, and this constant push for productivity and efficiency is truly orthogonal to the human experienc...
[19:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:31] <exec> 08└─They aren't always toxic. But when your cycle is 6 months but your company takes 3 or 4 months to deliver them, you suck. Looking at you, non-Amazon furniture site.
[19:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:33] <exec> 08└─If he gives you stats will you stfu or claim the stats are "racist"?
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:35] <exec> 08└─Atlassian quietly hires brilliant jerks back, with more pay
[19:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:37] <exec> 08└─Isnt isolating well performing assholes to maximize their performance and minimize their damage what "management" is all about? Or have they gotten to a point where they hire underperforming managers who can't cut doing actual management? I know lot of shitheads who think management is easy streak a...
[19:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:40] <exec> 08└─They keep redesigning the UI of BitBucket, Jira, and Confluence, and each revision is slower than the last. It's intolerable to use in Chrome on an overloaded remote desktop server.
[19:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 421 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─I can tell you that being a parent to a kid with ASD can be a real trial and end up with the parent being pretty desperate for something to help. (I was the kid, not the parent) Though, my mild suspicion is the kid may come by it honestly as trying to hack your kid to tweak their behavior is just th...
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[19:24:20] <exec> 08└─The author is deluded. I realize it is not popular to say such a thing, but it is a fact. Far from creating a "superman", she's merely making it possible for him to function more closely to normal. Yes, I said it. Normal. I'm what she would call "neurotypical" (what is that, some sort of insult?). G...
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─Are you autistic or just dense? If the parent modifies their child's pump then that child dies from incorrect insulin dosing, that is manslaughter vs murder.
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─No it isn't. Murder means there was intent. But now you're going purely by conjecture on events that did not occur.
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─The person in the article: 1. Saw problems 2. Did something about them That's good behavior.
[19:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─Gee, your experimental airplane is a 737-Max? Maybe there was a reason I used that specific example? But since you opened the door..... Sure. You can modify your experimental plane. It's experimental. Right up to the moment you obtain your type II special airworthiness certificate and where your mod...
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[19:26:20] <exec> 08└─webpage developer
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─But God is only a fiction: a boogeyman to scare kids into doing right and scam money from people... and molest children if you are so inclined. Are you a molester?
[19:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Beats Shortest Orbital Period Record Set Months Ago - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:10] <exec> 08└─If it is tidally locked (I have no idea if it is), maybe it could be used to hold some telescopes, with the rock acting as a heat shield.
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[19:31:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/19/kyoto-animation-studio-fire-suspect-named-police-shinji-aoba [theguardian.com] It is looking increasingly likely that an anime studio was attacked over a light novel. Wow.
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[20:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:19] <exec> 08└─Should have used a 0 m/s lunar surface orbit. https://www.teslarati.com [teslarati.com]
[20:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:29] <exec> 08└─i have no sympathy for most companies in the world, but i don't want the government deciding the market by second guessing everything and penalizing based on their likely wrong assumptions. this won't end well. before long they will be saying you get a fine b/c you didn't use brandX cloudware. brand...
[20:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─" But I think it puts the blame possibly on the wrong party."
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrbrtsn [6338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─"To the rest of the world, it is Unix/Linux's behavior that is unusual and needs explaining."
[20:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I don't have to participate, as well. I'm retired now. I went to work in order to get a paycheck. I didn't "live the company values". I worked. I didn't "bring my whole self to work", I worked. I didn't "work hard and play hard", I worked hard and then went the fuck home. This sounds like a...
[20:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─Regarding the other aspects of your reasoning, I think you do not quite grasp the difficulty of finding very niche and specialized developer persons.
[20:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:51] <exec> 08└─Hey look, another piece of shit obsessed with othering people just to belittle them. Do you make fun of people with other mental disabilities? Is it only mental or do you mock the physically disabled too?
[20:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:53] <exec> 08└─of course this story is coming out of australia. being a "jerk" means any brain that won't join the hive mind. no join? no job!
[20:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─A black, a woman, two jews and a cripple.
[20:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─Not really. The device was prescribed by a physician to be used according to the directions of that physician. The pump was certified by the FDA. Tampering with the device constitutes violates both the FDA certification and the orders of the physician ordering the prescription. Let's put it another...
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─Fire him from Atlassian!
[20:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/07/19/breaking-news/thirty-meter-telescope-protesters-train-for-confrontation-with-authorities-on-mauna-kea/ [staradvertiser.com]
[20:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Years Later, Still no Windows Server on ARM in Microsoft Azure - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:40] <exec> 08└─gives a shit!
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[21:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:19] <exec> 08└─For those of us who are less rich than you are, long expensive courts and juries (often corrupt) are one of the many faces of the Devil. No, it is not money that should solve this. Politely, I am of the completely opposite opinion than you. That the GDPR has more power than I was expecting, for me i...
[21:22:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. I want my filesystem to know the difference between differently cased characters.
[21:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─Are you all that young to not remember our brilliant Secretary of the Interior, James Watt?
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:28] <exec> 08└─Rising autism rates, especially in the west, are at least partially a result of people having children later and later in life. Women under 24 appear to have the lowest chances of having autistic children as per https://www.webmd.com [w...
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:30] <exec> 08└─"Neurotypical" (aka "NT") is short for "neurologically typical" -- someone who has typical neurology. The term was invented to mirror the term "neurologically atypical" which has been used to describe autistics for decades, not as an insult. "Normal" is just a mathematical description: being neuroty...
[21:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:32] <exec> 08└─I agree, you shouldn't be able to call yourself a cyborg until you can turn invisible or shoot energy beams from your hands.
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:34] <exec> 08└─I think it would just be significant* integrated electronics. * I needed a weasle word to get past pace-makers. Or are people with pace makers cyborgs?
[21:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:55] <exec> 08└─Not to be pedantic, but if we're talking telescopes then location replaces aperture. Specifically, any location outside the atmosphere is going to make up for a lot of aperture and space-based scopes are going to do things that no scope of any size on Earth can do. Of course that's out of reach for...
[21:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access to more than 150 Million People's Faces and Names - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─You should at least get a cut from the re-use of your own face. It's the whole giving your birthright away for a bowl of porridge thing. Clearly another dark pattern, exploiting vanity and the sheen of new tech to lure people into a trap. Can their face and likeness be used in an advertisement that...
[21:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mauna Kea Observatories Evacuate Amid Protests Against Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:24] <exec> 08└─Whenever I see a post that starts out by calling somebody a "shitfuck", I know it's going to be insightful, well though-out, and potentially capable of bringing the opposition closer to the poster's PoV. That was sarcasm, in case you weren't sure. How is parent modded up? Where's his data on the moo...
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[22:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─His plea agreement called for a sentence of nine years in prison.
[22:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:10] <exec> 08└─Considering he didn't disappear off the face of the Earth, I'd say he was lucky.
[22:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:12] <exec> 08└─It depends upon what he would have been charged with if he didn't take that deal. If he had been removing material for the better part of two decades, I'm thinking he got a great deal out of this because he deserves much worse.
[22:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:14] <exec> 08└─What leverage did he have? They probably had mountains of evidence to bury him in.
[22:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─ping times ~2.5 seconds...
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─LAN play
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─What more do you expect from Comcast?
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─I prefer the solution of insurance requirements rather than placing liability on a company. The difference, of course, is that with insurance you have to pay for the risks up front, whereas liability only comes into play after things have already gone terribly wrong. And it prevents the all-too-freq...
[22:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating YouTube Video IDs - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:05] <exec> 08└─How? From what I remember about uploading YouTube videos (API or not), was that you received the URL after, not before.
[22:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:03] <exec> 08└─"Jones, you can't have them. Their current manager won't let them off the SAP shoveling project, and he resents you trying to poach his employees. Train them, are you nuts? That skill is so in demand right now, they'll just take off as soon as they get the chance. Maybe you should see if you can fin...
[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 2440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─I have been in the position where the 'brilliant jerk' was removed. He was competent enough. Would not listen to anyone's opinion other than his or the ones he primed from his boss. Would regularly re-write other peoples code because it 'made him feel icky' or 'gave him a headache'. Every other engi...
[22:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:58] <exec> 08└─That was due to the lack of vaccines and fluoridated H20.
[22:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─> Give me the same set of tools and I would still be emotionally superior to her barely-functioning son Right, then you too would be superhuman, with glasses that revealed emotion like x-ray specs. Driving a car? Also reaches superhuman speed and momentum, etc. Like making art, just because you coul...
[22:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Flood Shows some Dinosaurs Nested in Colonies like Birds - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:28] <exec> 08└─Many of the eggs are partly eroded, but ten that are complete have a large opening in the upper half
[22:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe's Galileo GPS System Back after Six-Day Outage - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:15] <exec> 08└─It's only taken them 20 years to get to this point. Maybe it will be declared operational in another 20. We'll probably be operational on GPS 4 by then.
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[23:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:15] <exec> 08└─For most of my working life I saved useful docs so I could work at home. Granted, I did not do this to documents classified secret. Nor did I spend more than a year or so working with classified stuff, the risk/reward just wasn't there (anyone else in the 80s get the video of hot Russian chicks pick...
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Angelic Halo Orbit Chosen for Humankind's First Lunar Outpost - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─For a lot of applications, that could be just fine. (Assume unlimited bandwidth between Earth and Moon below.) You could open up a YouTube live stream. Navigating to it would take longer, but once you're there, you'll just be a couple seconds behind everyone else. Instant messaging / Discord, Slack,...
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─All software comes with an eula that disclaims any and all liability, and likewise that it isn't the manufacturers fault if it doesn't "work as advertised". Every single eula ever is worded in that way. The problems begin with this mindset.
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Shows Its Teeth, Goes After Breached Companies - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─...if it's security swiss-cheese the developer can show absolutely no documentation to support they did any sort of security testing or risk analysis at all...all while marketing that their device was all kinds of secure...
[23:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:07] <exec> 08└─Then on top of that. Why would you want a 'brilliant jerk'. A 'brilliant jerk' will build a moat and suddenly bemoan to anyone near them how they are indispensable. Then berate anyone around them for not following their made up rules that no one else gets a say in. You do not want jerks around. What...
[23:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:08] <exec> 08└─I don't (and can't) know if I was hired for my position because of my gender or my competence and it drives me nucking futs. I have enough issues with imposter syndrome already, I really don't need the extra help. :/
[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:11] <exec> 08└─Or we could be dealing with someone who thinks we should be hitting based on skills as a qualification rather than vaginas and tits...
[23:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─... The leaving of such persons can destroy whole grossly mismanaged businesses, because it will take years to get somebody knowledgeable about a custom SOC developed for you...
[23:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─Jones, you can't have them...
[23:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:17] <exec> 08└─... hist personality might be toxic, but you can't argue that Steve Jobs didn't get astonishing results even after Woz left the company...
[23:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atlassian Ditches ‘Brilliant Jerks’ in Performance Review Overhaul - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:19] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I don't have to participate, as well. I'm retired now. I went to work in order to get a paycheck. I didn't "live the company values". I worked. I didn't "bring my whole self to work", I worked. I didn't "work hard and play hard", I worked hard and then went the fuck home...
[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─If someone could enlighten me about her qualifications to be messing with that
[23:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Why I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─Dick Cheney was a cyborg, but he recovered his humanity through a "harvesting" procedure.
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