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[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─It is like anything, the government is not going to be there to help you when you need it. They'll all flee to their underground bunkers and keep you in the dark.
[00:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:23] <exec> 08└─"Bad News" Isn't this sort of the opposite of bad news?
[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:25] <exec> 08└─Bad news for the Martians. Earth obstructs their view of Venus, you know.
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Take large amounts of money away from facebook and give it to the government? What have we gained? All I see is that one of the worlds biggest manipulative and evil spying organizations just transferred funds to its boss...
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─Taking large sums of money away from any person, or group of persons, is likely to discourage that conduct that was found objectionable.
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─How do you get that from what I said? I said give it to the victims instead of the government.
[00:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─There's only a handful of rational reactions to this very old news: 1. You are against "smart" devices at a philosophical level. Which is fine, but there's nothing to discuss in that case. 2. Google et al are at fault for keeping the recordings (but how are they supposed to improve their AI?). 3. Go...
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─:-) Yes, of course... Nothing to see here... Basically, I'm only against spying, on the "philosophical" level. The timid reaction, and even denial is more disturbing.
[00:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─Lol, the big bad GOP. Vote DNC instead!
[00:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:35] <exec> 08└─Vision care costs me a dollar a month and saves me $35 on an eye exam that costs $70 cash. I've been meaning to drop it, but I'm too lazy.
[00:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:37] <exec> 08└─I didn't check the others but at least MRI is wrong: Raymond Vahan Damadian (born March 16, 1936) is an American physician, medical practitioner, and Mb>inventor of the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine.
[00:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:40] <exec> 08└─It is not really wrong. Peter Mansfield had something to do with it too. [wikipedia.org] Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom took Lauterbur's initial work another step further, replacing the slow (and prone to artefacts) projection-reconstruction method used by Laut...
[00:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Nines Are Not My Nines - 2182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:27] <exec> 08└─5 9's is a marketing term. You can have a service that has hundreds of moving parts (as we called them when I did this). 1 of them is down. Is that a down situation? Does that count against the 9's? It is a method call that on guy uses once a month, and he did not call it during that time. What you...
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[01:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:22] <exec> 08└─The joke is going to be on them. We're stuffing all the soybeans, corn, etc that China isn't buying anymore into those underground bunkers.
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─This is khallow, he has no shame in pursuing his own agenda.
[01:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─Who are the victims? 87 million people have an alleged claim to the money. So does the DNC.
[01:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─I don't actually see Facebook's fine as being that out of line.
[01:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, I agree, take away the incentive, and they'll stop collecting the data.
[01:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:11] <exec> 08└─Worse, the parent might be taken to court for child abuse if he/she takes away the kid's internet.
[01:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Signs Agreement to Launch Small Satellites for the UKs Royal Air Force - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:19] <exec> 08└─They have the right idea.
[01:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:40] <exec> 08└─If minor minor tweaks count as inventing something then good luck attributing anything to one country.
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[02:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:10] <exec> 08└─Let the inane comments flow. I'm particularly interested in the arguments on the line of 'there ain't such a thing as actionable speech, blame those that listen, believe and act on any speech'.
[02:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:12] <exec> 08└─This is the end of free speech, homeopathy, and Dianetics! No more Horticulture for Americans! SJWs will now force us to use their "science/evidence-based" medicine, and ignore our own ignorant preferences!
[02:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could ask Ms. Del Castillo for nutrition advice about eating popcorn that would make you funny instead of ... well, c0lo. ^^^ The above comment is free speech. If you are offended by it it's your fault for reading it. ^^^ The above comment was requested by the OP.
[02:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:16] <exec> 08└─You know what it's not the end of? $1,140.
[02:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─The above comment was requested by the OP.
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─Well, Dianetics can go fuck itself, no worries. Dietetics on the other hand is perhaps not a bad thing. Especially given the licensing requirements.
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─Even "legit" nutrition/diet "science" is largely garbage. Let her practice her "art." It's Darwin's Law in practice.
[02:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:45] <exec> 08└─Meh, we've already been hit by Asteroid TRMP-2016, this one would be a doddle in comparison.
[02:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:19] <exec> 08└─2. Google et al are at fault for keeping the recordings (but how are they supposed to improve their AI?).
[02:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvesting Energy From The Human Knee - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:19] <exec> 08└─1.6mW isn't even enough to spark... if you know what I mean.
[02:24:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:26] <exec> 08└─a privatized health sector is Bad[tm]. I left the US for Europe 20 years ago, and I can tell you, that sort of shenanigans never happens here. And I pay less - if anything - for meds and visits to doctors and hospitals to boot... When will Uncle Sam learn... Or more to the point, when will Americans...
[02:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:06] <exec> 08└─If making the first practical MRI scanner counts as a "minor tweak" then sure, OK. Not that you're wrong though. Lots of people had a hand in that invention.
[02:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:07] <exec> 08└─While you've got a bit of a point, it's worth noting that a lot of their "improvements" are the US patent office recognizing things as improvements which are trivially better than what was being done elsewhere. It *is* a benefit, in that it acts as a screening mechanism
[02:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:10] <exec> 08└─I do not believe I would be better off dying in pain than having my stomach cancer treated. -- hendrik
[02:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Tiangong-2 Space Station is Officially No More - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─The conversion scale is quite simple, 9 US tons = 3 Americans. You're welcome.
[02:25:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Your Nines Are Not My Nines - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:36] <exec> 08└─The cloud is like a bank: you can either buy a safe and stoge your valuables in it or you can put your money in a bank account. The former is expensive upfront, and requires some planning to be a secure option. The latter seems cheap and very safe, until you realize the bank loans your money, uses i...
[02:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Nines Are Not My Nines - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:59] <exec> 08└─My Guru used to say, "When the elephant is dancing in the bedroom, the window needs a new banana". I think my Guru was a bit too heavily into the ganja at some point.
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[03:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Launch: How to Watch First Mission to the Moon's South Pole Mon 20190722 @ 0913 UTC - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:08] <exec> 08└─Prediction: in the next 5 years, SpaceX will be a significant player in the H1B pool. MAGA!
[03:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─She does have a Masters in Education . . . Lesson would be cheap at twice the price!
[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could ask Ms. Del Castillo for nutrition advice about...
[03:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─Let her practice her "art." It's Darwin's Law in practice.
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─misogynist incels. I love the way my lady doctor gives me physicals. We need more female doctors.
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─How do you conclude the earth isn't going to be hit from this? It reminds me of losing sight of a ball in the sun then getting smacked in the head.
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─How do you conclude the earth isn't going to be hit from this? It reminds me of losing sight of a ball in the sun then getting smacked in the head.
[03:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:16] <exec> 08└─Everybody here knows your views are so narrow you qualify for medically blind disability support, no need to remind us at every occasion.
[03:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:17] <exec> 08└─Give it to 87,000 lawyers? Hell no, that only encourages them.
[03:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:19] <exec> 08└─In 2017, private insurance spending hit $1.2 trillion, according to the federal government, yet no one tracks how much is lost to fraud. Some investigators and health care experts estimate that fraud eats up 10% of all health care spending, and they know schemes abound.
[03:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Nines Are Not My Nines - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:10] <exec> 08└─[...] ... 35 years continuous industrial-grade experience and going on 4 years of unemployment.
[03:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Nines Are Not My Nines - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:11] <exec> 08└─ᚦᛖᛃ᛫ᚹᛁᛚᛚ᛫ᚾᛖᚡᛖᚱ᛫ᛞᛖᚠᛠᛏ᛫ᚢᛋ᛭
[03:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Schall Law Firm Announces it is Investigating Claims Against Netflix, Inc. - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:04] <exec> 08└─How soon people forget. Way back in the day, Netflix was on the forefront of pop-up ads on the web, and they were very aggressive about getting around various pop-up blockers. Netflix has never been the good guys - they have always been evil right from the start.
[03:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Tries to Bring Back Trees Razed by the Vikings - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:30] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, they aren't that tough. It's been how long, and they still haven't won a Superbowl? Heck, they haven't even been in one in my lifetime. You'll be perfectly safe from the Vikings if you go stand in an end zone.
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[04:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Launch: How to Watch First Mission to the Moon's South Pole Mon 20190722 @ 0913 UTC - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:13] <exec> 08└─Ffs as if hordes of them coming here wasn't bad enough
[04:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Launch: How to Watch First Mission to the Moon's South Pole Mon 20190722 @ 0913 UTC - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:15] <exec> 08└─Ohm nara shivaya. Ohm.
[04:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Launch: How to Watch First Mission to the Moon's South Pole Mon 20190722 @ 0913 UTC - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:17] <exec> 08└─The orbit-raising maneuver helps keep missions like this cheap. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─Unsourced, anonymous advice from elsewhere on the internet suggests placing your head in boiling oil solves most problems.
[04:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─Her mistake was charging straight up $$$ for the advice. It would be ok if it was a random website [livestrong.com] where they just collect ad money.
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─Yes. It's likely you'll remain with a single problem to address for all your (may be short) life.
[04:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─Well, we should blow them up cause I can't see Uranus from here
[04:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─so, no sudden orgies breaking out then? :(
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:30] <exec> 08└─Narrow compared to who?
[04:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:45] <exec> 08└─Your wife has Black men over while you work. Google recordings of your bedroom while you are not around sound like a 2 Live Crew Album.
[04:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:01] <exec> 08└─When did you stop watching pornhub with your son?
[04:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:02] <exec> 08└─Is that England, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, China, Australia or Russia?
[04:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iceland Tries to Bring Back Trees Razed by the Vikings - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:48] <exec> 08└─Twas that we traversed to that Scottish hoars To see the sites and feast on boars; The hills we found were virgin enough Their clefts soon parted with rivers rough Unspoiled vistas met our sights We roamed and reamed throughout the nights Unparalleled beauty did we behold Upon countryside not so old...
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[05:22:15] <exec> 08└─5 Rupee that it falls over on the pad.
[05:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─That's too pessimistic. To predict a large impact far in advance would be a huge achievement. The fact that no large asteroids (> 1 km) seem to be on a collision course is good news. The fact that scientists are having trouble keeping track of the asteroids with significant impact probability just m...
[05:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:28] <exec> 08└─So no relevant criticism, yet again.
[05:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:30] <exec> 08└─Foolish me, what was I expecting? Not a funny bone in this fellow's body. Say khallow, then flush and that's all that is to the matter.
[05:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:32] <exec> 08└─Foolish me
[05:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:47] <exec> 08└─How about: 5. Google at al are aiding and abetting illegal voice recordings. In many places (11 US states [dmlp.org]), it's illegal to record people without their consent, and I'm sure those Google microphones listen in on a lot of people who didn't give consent.
[05:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:49] <exec> 08└─Was watching a show the other day where a guy said "OK (something that wan't Google)". That triggered OK Google on my phone, which I thought I had disabled, but must have accidentally turned on from one of the endless nag screens that pop up, trying to convince people to enable Google Ass(istant). I...
[05:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:39] <exec> 08└─Or more to the point, when will Americans rebel against unabashed raging capitalism destroying decency and common sense in community matters?
[05:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:41] <exec> 08└─The Buzzard just want to make America Great again
[05:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Schall Law Firm Announces it is Investigating Claims Against Netflix, Inc. - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:26] <exec> 08└─I'll keep acting like infinite growth is the rational assumption
[05:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iceland Tries to Bring Back Trees Razed by the Vikings - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:54] <exec> 08└─Be ye thinking of the deadly Drop Bear from Australia?
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[06:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:05] <exec> 08└─So when will Mozilla implement this feature in Firefox? I do not like using Chrome due to its being a gigantic piece of spyware.
[06:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:36] <exec> 08└─I've seen Saturday morning cartoons with better dialogue than you've been cranking out.
[06:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:10] <exec> 08└─Isn't it nice to have such a simplistic view of politics! We don't have to do anything because it is all hopeless, and as an added bonus by not solving problems we get to enjoy whinging about them forever.
[06:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't it nice to have such a simplistic view of politics! We don't have to do anything because it is all hopeless
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[07:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:17] <exec> 08└─So when will Mozilla implement this feature in Firefox?
[07:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:19] <exec> 08└─Please login for incognito mode...
[07:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:56] <exec> 08└─It is speech, speech is free, it is free speech. Free speech is not 'free from consequences' speech.
[07:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:11] <exec> 08└─2. Recordings are used for training the backend AI.
[07:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Signs Agreement to Launch Small Satellites for the UKs Royal Air Force - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:38] <exec> 08└─I suppose you ladies are tired of incels, who won't defile you?
[07:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvesting Energy From The Human Knee - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:17] <exec> 08└─AFAIK penguins have the most energy efficient walk, they wobble around. Just not going to catch any prey or escape a predator that way. But they do it because their enemy is the winter cold at Antarctica and they catch fish while swimming, not walking.
[07:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvesting Energy From The Human Knee - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─A reader of 'the green site' is a dupe.
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[08:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:15] <exec> 08└─What the fuck have you been smoking?
[08:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:17] <exec> 08└─"The content I serve is for paying customers. If you can't prove you are paying, I'm not serving you"
[08:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:19] <exec> 08└─Does incognito mode in Chrome stop Google from spying on you?
[08:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:56] <exec> 08└─Actually it wasn't free speech. She did charge for it after all.
[08:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:58] <exec> 08└─Wait, not a MA or an MS, but a MEd? A med degree? Whoa! Where's exaeta? The court got the whole thing wrong!
[08:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:09] <exec> 08└─Our current system of corporatism is nothing like the capitalism as laid out in the Wealth of Nations. The only difference between the US and the Soviet Union is that instead of being run by corrupt alcoholic Russians we were ruled by corrupt Episcopalians and Irishmen that we traded for Jews as the...
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[09:22:08] <exec> 08└─N/T
[09:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two More Free Decryptors of Ransomware Released - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:15] <exec> 08└─What's with this continued use of weak encryption? Properly done, with a long enough and random enough key that is not stored on the victim's equipment, it should be utterly impractical to brute force or guess the key within the next 1000 years at the least. Instead, this is yet another entry in the...
[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, maybe. But those newspapers think it makes business sense. Why should the browsers contradict them? Should the doorman at a movie theatre allow the potential customers walk in for a "preview" with no ticket?
[09:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:29] <exec> 08└─https://rightwingnews.com/john-hawkins/20-of-the-most-embarrassing-moments-in-the-history-of-the-democrat-party/ [rightwingnews.com]
[09:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:31] <exec> 08└─Google says so.
[09:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:34] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. It's amazing how many people, including supposedly technically literate people, don't understand what incognito does. All it does it wipe any client data at the end of the session, basically. That means no browsing history or cookies are saved after the session. This does not prevent web...
[09:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Launch: How to Watch First Mission to the Moon's South Pole Mon 20190722 @ 0913 UTC - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:50] <exec> 08└─And long. Have time to spare?:You need less powerful propulsion. Less powerful propulsion means less heat to deal with and maybe this means less complicated and lighter systems. On the other side, longer missions mean more time in which the things can go wrong. Think on the line of butterfly wing fl...
[09:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:14] <exec> 08└─AC college may not be real, but DC colleges are. [wikipedia.org]. As long as he keeps current in his field, we should respect him.
[09:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:29] <exec> 08└─That's the responsibility of the device owner. Should microphone manufacturers be liable if someone uses a purchased microphone to record voices illegally? The owner is responsible for informing any affected parties of the recording device. It's the same with security cameras in many places. The own...
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[10:22:33] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. It's amazing how many people, including supposedly technically literate people, don't understand what incognito does. All it does it wipe any client data at the end of the session, basically. That means no browsing history or cookies are saved after the session. This does not prevent web...
[10:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:34] <exec> 08└─From what I understand, this is about the sites that do let you access a small number of articles for free before paywalling refusing to show anything in incognito mode. Not entirely paywalled sites. You can still manually remove the cookies and browse in normal mode. A better analogy would be "We h...
[10:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei's Android Alternative Lives on... for IoT - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:42] <exec> 08└─Catherine also says that smartphone operating systems feature millions of lines of code, while HongMeng OS doesn't.
[10:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei's Android Alternative Lives on... for IoT - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:44] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing they have two projects running concurrently with one being an in-house non-posix microkernel and minimal user land for IoT and the other being yet-another android spin.
[10:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Launch: How to Watch First Mission to the Moon's South Pole Mon 20190722 @ 0913 UTC - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/world/asia/chandrayaan-india-moon-launch.html [nytimes.com] Too bad.
[10:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Launch: How to Watch First Mission to the Moon's South Pole Mon 20190722 @ 0913 UTC - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.livemint.com/news/india/chandrayaan-2-launch-live-updates-1563783772956.html [livemint.com]
[10:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Two Out Of Three Babies Are Cradled On The Left - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:55] <exec> 08└─I had the same thought as about half the posters here: That it's because most people are right handed. But someone else suggested that it's so that the baby's head is near the adult's heart. IIRC, nobody really knows for sure why right-handedness is so dominant in humans, or why we have dominant han...
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[11:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gate For Quantum Information Processing -- With Qudits - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-12-26 [schlockmercenary.com]
[11:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gate For Quantum Information Processing -- With Qudits - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:07] <exec> 08└─Next, the team wants to use the gate in quantum communications tasks such as high-dimensional quantum teleportation as well as for performing quantum algorithms in applications such as quantum machine learning or simulating molecules.
[11:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:16] <exec> 08└─Just another application of pentaphenyl trimethyl trisiloxane, the miracle chemical. Sarcasm aside, this was probably a difficult find. I remember reading about the propulsion choice a few years ago, and there was no obvious choice. Noble gasses like Xe are often used, but difficult to store. At the...
[11:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:18] <exec> 08└─With a melting point of -25C, this stuff will have to be kept warm to stay liquid in space.
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two More Free Decryptors of Ransomware Released - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:27] <exec> 08└─If the software is built to support 4096 bit keys, why would you ever want to use anything shorter, unless you want the encryption to be more breakable?
[11:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:45] <exec> 08└─The browser doesn't need to make it easy for the provider site to determine incognito status. Most sites probably care more about ad blockers than the incognito mode, and news sites should be able to determine "remaining article" status for people who are using their own IP with incognito mode.
[11:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's Android Alternative Lives on... for IoT - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:54] <exec> 08└─No way are they going to stop development. If they can get kicked out of the Android club once, it can happen again.
[11:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:07] <exec> 08└─will mean the death of Google and Facebook businesses.
[11:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvesting Energy From The Human Knee - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:57] <exec> 08└─Antifa will be crushed. They were going to start ironically goose-stepping next week. Wile missing the irony that they really are fascists, of course.
[11:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:51] <exec> 08└─Only works if one side of the competition doesn't get to use its bottomless pockets to put the others out of business by eating a loss longer than they can. That's got to be dealt with any time the government is allowed to compete in the private sector or there is no more private sector very soon.
[11:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:52] <exec> 08└─Those are three good ones, yes. Three. Out of a whole lot more than three. Also, it's a nit-pick but you don't get to claim all antibiotics by inventing the first.
[11:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:54] <exec> 08└─Ed Zackery.
[11:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:57] <exec> 08└─Blah, blah, and also blah. You're seeing what you want to see instead of what's there so you don't have to be wrong again. Money's not on a higher footing than humanity in capitalism any more than the engine in your car is on higher footing than the occupants. You're just talking out of your ass aga...
[11:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:59] <exec> 08└─There's some, just not enough.
[11:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Two Out Of Three Babies Are Cradled On The Left - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:15] <exec> 08└─It's not the Texan bit of a new father that you need to fear, it's the sleep-deprived bit. Believe it or not, that has an even more adverse effect on the cognitive process than being a Californian (though not worse than being European).
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[12:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:06] <exec> 08└─Seven years in prison and a big loss of cash won't be helpful to his social media presence [usatoday.com]. Of course, he could take pointers from O.J. Simpson [twitter.com], who is killing it on Twitter rn.
[12:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gate For Quantum Information Processing -- With Qudits - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:14] <exec> 08└─It's Purdue University. They are working on neuromorphic chips [soylentnews.org], 3D chips [soylentnews.org], and universal memory [soylentnews.org]. So I doubt they'll have trouble getting more money for the quantum.
[12:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:25] <exec> 08└─It poisons the space guppies, which in turn, poison all the space fish that feed on space guppies.
[12:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:27] <exec> 08└─Isn't that a fairly easy task? Everything is in a vacuum, so no conduction, or convection. Radiation isn't a huge problem. Everything I've read says that overheating is a bigger problem in space, than getting too cold. Getting too much sunlight is the greater danger, if I've got it right. Of course,...
[12:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:53] <exec> 08└─If a site wants to limit its content to paying customers only, fine. But don't offer a 'free loophole' to work around the paywall. Either go 100% paywall (and watch your subscriptions and add revenue plummet) or quit trying to 'meter' usage and just let everyone view (and see your ad revenue increas...
[12:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Launch: How to Watch First Mission to the Moon's South Pole Mon 20190722 @ 0913 UTC - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:16] <exec> 08└─Nobody's gonna send meatbags up there yet. Apparently the USA had sent the guys to a suicide mission 50 years ago, because not the Indians nor the Chinese (you know, the guys who keep soldiers near the targets other soldiers practice on with their rifles) are willing to risk lives. Say what? a bot,...
[12:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:42] <exec> 08└─You could say: he's so twisted the more current he keeps, the more magnetically attractive he is.
[12:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Only_Mortal [7122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:11] <exec> 08└─It's supposed to be humour from El Reg. I've lost interest in the site as it's become the slashdot of the UK.
[12:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:12] <exec> 08└─And why should we trust simulations of the orbital mechanics that didn't let them find the asteroid?
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[13:22:07] <exec> 08└─where "it" is his ex wife.
[13:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:08] <exec> 08└─Double jeopardy, bro.
[13:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:29] <exec> 08└─Passive thermal control is pretty old stuff now. In the 80s it was easy for any ham radio guy with standard HF gear to listen to the Russian RS-10 and RS-12 satellites which transmitted on HF bands in morse code, the transmissions were like "register name space value" format continuously (well, when...
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Two More Free Decryptors of Ransomware Released - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─Speed over quality. Encrypt as much as fast as you can.
[13:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:58] <exec> 08└─people who are using their own IP
[13:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:59] <exec> 08└─To be clear, I don't care if it doesn't work. They can just lock it up tight like Washington Post if they want to lose eyeballs. At home and not on a phone, I have the same IP every day unless I make it not so. That may be the case for many Globe/NYT/LATimes readers.
[13:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:01] <exec> 08└─The difference between a single news article and a movie ticket is that the latter has a greater total price. Each electronic payment incurs a cost that the payment processor bills to the merchant. Some of this cost depends on the total; some does not. For credit cards in the United States, it might...
[13:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:04] <exec> 08└─At home and not on a phone, I have the same IP every day unless I make it not so.
[13:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:06] <exec> 08└─On the flip side, this Incognito Mode detection loophole has exposed which sites are complete scummy evil nazi bastards. One should avoid using the web sites that exploited this "loophole" because you can not trust that they will not do other scummy things, like infecting your computer with malware.
[13:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─Lol, looks like FSB hired a new guy. Probably kept track of runaway's posts and realized they could dial down the effort on soylentnews.
[13:23:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:49] <exec> 08└─Her mistake was charging straight up $$$ for the advice. It would be ok if it was a random website [livestrong.com] where they just collect ad money.
[13:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:57] <exec> 08└─That's an unfair comparison, homeopathy and dianetics have much bigger lobbying budgets than backyard "health experts" or the concept of free speech. They're still safe.
[13:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:27] <exec> 08└─Wait a sec. Every asteroid/meteor/whatever from space disaster movie is JUST LIKE THIS. "There's nothing to worry about". Why? Because the powers that be, can't afford to have chaos prior to the hit! They're stocking supplies, expanding underground bunkers, all of this blather. I mean, they "lost" i...
[13:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:29] <exec> 08└─I see many statements to the similar above. But really, truly, if it was going to hit.. can you imagine them saying "We're all fucked!" I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to not spend the next 2 months with insanity ruling the land. Many people can take this sort of thing calmly, but there is a...
[13:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:59] <exec> 08└─When the state demands surveillance and companies do it, and then the companies pay the state, it isn't a fine. It's a dividend. Of course congress will complain. That is how they conceal the fact that the entire thing is a fucking put on.
[13:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:00] <exec> 08└─You can fine me 5 billion dollars any time. That is when you at the same time give me 5.01 billion dollars. That's how it works, dear.
[13:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:40] <exec> 08└─Unless you or I have a direct business relationship with a company, possession of any of our data by that company should be against the law - period.
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[14:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:05] <exec> 08└─There's one (or more - they all look alike) in our yard that comes to eat leftover cat food. This morning I saw a scary giant trail across the driveway that, if made by a leech, would have been one over two inches wide... I'm assuming it was something else, never seen one that size in the yard and t...
[14:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:06] <exec> 08└─Should say: slugs in the yard - as opposed to bloodsucking leeches (again: remarkably similar appearances). First real experience with bloodsucking leeches was when we took the kids to swim in a waterfall in Alabama (summertime)... they got 3 or 4 each inside their swimsuits, little tiny things less...
[14:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:08] <exec> 08└─So that hobbie is like keeping a politician in your house. Not nice.
[14:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't this a 4chan meme like supporters of illegal invasion for the purposes of demographic replacement are supporters of leach keeping as a hobby? Yeah yeah I'm well aware the political arguments for and against the above portrayal but I'm not trying to discuss the root issue of virtue signalling s...
[14:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:13] <exec> 08└─they all look alike
[14:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:15] <exec> 08└─Hadn't considered getting blood from the butcher. You'd think I would have as many times as I've watched Buffy and Angel. May get in on some of that, because what TFA doesn't tell you is they're also pretty badass fish bait that cats, bass, and good sized crappie will hit but sunfish usually won't.
[14:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:17] <exec> 08└─Nah, leeches only want your blood. They got no use for your money.
[14:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe a condition of his release is not to have any social media. Getting released at all could be premised on the condition that the "soul detection meter" have at least some bit of needle movement from the zero position.
[14:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─Hey, I'm not saying we should convict him of that crime he did.
[14:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:33] <exec> 08└─Who is the most prominent and widely followed user of social media whom SN readers actually trust? Just wondering...
[14:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:36] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/NickRekieta [twitter.com]
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─used the igniter for upwards of 1.5 million flashover events
[14:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─Well, mercury was a propellant for ion thrusters, but I see no mention of usage in plasma thrusters. And it was largely replaced by Xenon over concern of the toxicity of ground testing and concerns about condensation on the spacecraft during long operations - mercury doesn't play that nicely with......
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─Depends where you use it. Earth's effective temperature (i.e. the excepted temperature based solely on its albedo and sun exposure, before atmospheric effects, etc are taken into account) is 255K (-18C). A true blackbody in our orbit would be 279K (6C). And that's before you consider the additional...
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─> Air/Liq tight That's just it though - liquid tight is a LOT easier to achieve than air tight. Even more so when the liquid is a molecule composed of 73 atoms - that stuff is a LOT bigger than water, and probably has fairly high surface tension as well what with all the hydrogen polar bonds between...
[14:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:38] <exec> 08└─Then it must be true.
[14:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─IMO: if they merely detect ad blockers they automatically qualify. Cannot be trusted. Would sell you to advertisers in exchange for malware in less than a heartbeat.
[14:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─A better analogy would be "We have free samples. A hippie had to be ousted after trying to eat the whole platter. Now we won't allow you in the store unless you have a fresh haircut." Except to the media site, their whole stock is free samples because they don't understand how the tech works and pre...
[14:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:32] <exec> 08└─It's pretty bad, the research basis is garbage and when I've sought specific dietary advice, none of it was actionable. Unfortunately getting unlicensed advice is even worse.
[14:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:33] <exec> 08└─Free Speech is about being able to criticize the Orange Clown (or any other party's president), without government reprisals. Free Speech is not about setting up a business to sell people bad advice or poisons that could harm or kill them. (unless it is tobacco)
[14:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:35] <exec> 08└─Would it be Free Speech to tell people to use genuine IBM equipment instead?
[14:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:38] <exec> 08└─People love state controlled authoritarian religions. In most civilized countries that is a traditional church; it historically and pragmatically seems to work better than any alternative. The American Experiment is making our state religion stuff like dogmatic nutrition, worship of academia and con...
[14:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:10] <exec> 08└─It's pretty clear at this point that humanity is not going to be wiped out by a large asteroid within the next century or three. We may see a worse-than-Chelyabinsk incident that could kill thousands, but within the next decade or two we will be able to detect that kind of event in advance, possibly...
[14:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─Then pray for both to annihilate each other.
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:14] <exec> 08└─planet-threatening 100-foot-(30-metre)-diameter space rock
[14:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─I don't like Facebook any more than I like Microsoft. I find it amusing that Republicans were all upset about breaking up Microsoft. This was a company that clearly had become far too powerful and needed to be broken up. Further the court process had already happened. The judge could have kept his m...
[14:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FTC Looks to Change Children's Privacy Law Following Complaints about YouTube - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:26] <exec> 08└─Nope - no direct business relationship with any of those. Legitimate interests? Let them request, then PAY ME for the data they need. Fraud risk assessment? Phht. Shipper waits for the payment to clear, then ships. Short answer, far too many people are involved in shipping an item that I order onlin...
[14:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Nines Are Not My Nines - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:07] <exec> 08└─No. The cloud is a Thousand Points of Failure. All shining brightly. I prefer a cloud provider that can guarantee three sixes of reliability.
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[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─here are some pictures of leech lures: https://tinyurl.com [tinyurl.com] https://tinyurl.com [tinyurl.com] ^_^ (yes, yes, DANGEROUS links, but they're mEOR "funny" this way)
[15:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─Mike Rowe did a segment on the show Dirty jobs about trapping leeches for bait. It was interesting.
[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─#403:"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it."
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump [twitter.com]
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─The poor Shkreli* offered $5000 for a hair from Hillary Clinton. He also spoke about the disease Hillary has on his Youtube channel. He is another victim of the clinton lizards. Being more high profile spared him a quick death by the clintons, but he will have to spend many years behind bars. Why do...
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean O.J.'s ///\\\\\\\\\\\\\./// website?
[15:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─The summary misses a key disadvantage of gas thrusters. Cubesat launchers don't like compressed gasses (or other energetics) on their payloads. It can be done, but it is much easier to get somebody to tote your secondary payload if it doesn't have compressed gasses or volatile materials (e.g. fuel/o...
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─Mercury isn't great for another reason. It's heavy. Exhaust velocity factors heavily into Specific Impulse and it takes more oomf to accelerate Mercury (atomic weight 200) vs. PTFE (atomic weight 100). Oomf is expensive in all the metrics that matter; dollars, mass, and volume.
[15:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two More Free Decryptors of Ransomware Released - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:16] <exec> 08└─For those who aren't ignorant it'll be OBVIOUS that the public 4096 bit key is for encrypting the 256 bit AES key which then should only be able to be decrypted by the perp.
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─Then they can give a login that requires a credit card. Seems fair. Instead, their "payment" is demanding to go through your purse of wallet and making copies of your identification, and collecting a detailed history of every other store and restaurant you have visited and your purchase history. Fuc...
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how this is my problem. If a site has a "5 free articles a month" policy, I probably don't visit it on purpose anyhow.
[15:24:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:16] <exec> 08└─Let the inane comments flow. I'm particularly interested in the arguments on the line of 'there ain't such a thing as actionable speech, blame those that listen, believe and act on any speech'.
[15:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:41] <exec> 08└─The problem is that these quacks cause a ripple effect that hurts people who arn't directly involved. Look at the anti-vaxxers for example. If these idiots got themselves killed off for their stupidity, I wouldn't bat an eye. But no. It's their children who don't have a choice in the matter who suff...
[15:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─There probably wouldn't be any with you anyway.
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─While for a normal person that's an astounding amount of money, for Facebook it's nothing. When a company plans for a fine like this, it's no longer a fine. It's not punative... It's just an expense. It's just a cost of doing business and won't do anything to alter their operations at all.
[15:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:09] <exec> 08└─someday soon someone is going to invent the "ok google programming" language where ~5 "ok google enabled" smart phones with the right "names" in the address book are going to talk to themselfs ... maybe forming the nexus of the true A.I. that will metdown the internet because all the "assistances" a...
[15:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:18] <exec> 08└─You're such an idiot, guess that explains 2016. Bunch of morons too angry to deal with reality.
[15:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:19] <exec> 08└─You don't even know what the word capitalism means and you're trying to argue with me?
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[16:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Graphene Superconductor that Plays More Than One Tune - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:06] <exec> 08└─Running the article through the Reasearcher-to-English translator, [xkcd.com] it sounds like we're about 10-25 years out from a new type of transistor based on this technology. From the fine article: Chen explained that the boron nitride moiré superlattice somehow increases the electron-electron in...
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gate For Quantum Information Processing -- With Qudits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─Great link! Coming up with an unoffensive acronym for trinary digits may be this author's greatest contribution to the field of computing...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gate For Quantum Information Processing -- With Qudits - 1814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─As a Quantum Computing Skeptic, I'm hardly an expert in the field, but this is simply bad tech journalism that, for one thing, severely misrepresents classical computing concepts I actually do understand. Let's start with transistors and gates. A gate (I presume the author here means a logic gate) i...
[16:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─Isn't that a fairly easy task?
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─While particle weight is important for thermal exhausts it doesn't really factor into ion thrusters apart from tuning the electric field to match it. Hg takes twice as much energy to accelerate it, but it provides twice the thrust also.
[16:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─Do we really have to name things that are softball sized with a nano- prefix? If real satellites were roughly 10^9 times bigger, I’d be OK with it, though. Who the hell comes up with these names?
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two More Free Decryptors of Ransomware Released - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:23] <exec> 08└─4096 bit (or even 8192 bit ) public crypto won't slow things down significantly if you're doing things right, since it'll only be used to encrypt a tiny amount of data not very many times. Not posting details because it's not like we need more unbreakable ransomware around ;).
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─First of all, I'm pretty sure they "understand how the tech works." They just implemented a solution that will work with 98% of people browsing their site, because PEOPLE (in general) don't understand how tech works.
[16:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:37] <exec> 08└─...they should scale with wealth and assets. The whole idea of equally punishing people for equal offenses goes right out the window with flat fines, for the same reason a flat tax is regressive barbarism. A $50 speeding ticket is less than nothing to a rich man, but can set off a chain of events le...
[16:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:20] <exec> 08└─2a. This is covered in the ToS (but who reads those?)
[16:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─And what if the device malfunctions and triggers, even though nobody said the keyword? If a law is violated due to a device's design flaw, the manufacturer will be on the hook.
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[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/DevinCow [twitter.com]
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:49] <exec> 08└─After his sentencing in March 2018, Shkreli was held in a minimum-security prison. But in March of this year, Shkreli was moved to a more secure facility after The Wall Street Journal reported that he was still running Turing (now known as Phoenixus AG) from behind bars with the use of a contraband...
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─You wanna trigger the local MAGAs? Cause any mention of the name "Clinton" gets them more riled up than Hitler youth finding a gay teen.
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─Woops, that reply was meant for the "Shkreli and the Clintons" shitpost. Those Russians sure know how to play stupid Americans !
[17:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─Not a single pseudonym among the Anonymous Cowards, I note.
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:28] <exec> 08└─Who? Microcephalics maybe, even though their heads aren't 1/1000 the size of regular heads. Oh, and don't get me started on Micronesia or Mega Millions.
[17:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:05] <exec> 08└─of course you support authoritarianism as long as it's the good/partisan kind.
[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─This situation and the state socialist authoritarian partisans in the comments are disgusting. Fraud prosecution is a legitimate responsibility of government in the US, but that is not the same thing as having to beg permission from the government (a license) to be able to earn a living as a consult...
[17:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:44] <exec> 08└─30-metre is now planet-threatening?
[17:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 1528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:18] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain to me why this is not a criminal case? How is spying on millions of people and then selling the details secretly off the back of a truck not a criminal offense? Surely this money was earned illegally, but how can 5+++++ billion in damages have been done and yet no one has commited...
[17:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─I think prison time for those at the top who are responsible will get their attention more than fining the company. Billionaire CEOs may live longer than the poor but not 100 times more for now. And even if they could live 100x longer, a few years in prison is likely to still be more a deterrent a $...
[17:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Listens to User Recordings - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:43] <exec> 08└─Should microphone manufacturers be liable if someone uses a purchased microphone to record voices illegally?
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[18:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:07] <exec> 08└─Anyone who keeps their kernel up to date is not affected. Anyone who lets their servers languish unpatched can't be helped.
[18:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Graphene Superconductor that Plays More Than One Tune - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, don’t know what scales of gate density are achievable relative to present day CMOS, but the opportunity to dramatically reduce power consumption seems huge.
[18:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Graphene Superconductor that Plays More Than One Tune - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─The researcher to translator should also apply to the jargon and mathematics elegance that squeezes huge leaps of logic into a few mathematical statements. After that, the papers show the results and compare with previous studies. Like x+y = z; Then moves on to show that their algorithm is able to c...
[18:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Graphene Superconductor that Plays More Than One Tune - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:25] <exec> 08└─It just cannot be produced in a scale that can benefit humanity at large. I had enough of qualities for graphene. They are already so many that I would be happy that it would just be boring from now on. What would be massive, is mass market production. Unfortunately it seems the worse ability of gra...
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─Those Russians sure know how to play stupid Americans !
[18:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:39] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Micro- is entirely too colloquial and lacks the high tech sheen of nano-.
[18:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─I don't think you have to be a tech genius to notice that all news sites carry 99% the exact same content and that reading about the latest story on different sites is an exercise in experiencing redundancy.
[18:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:21] <exec> 08└─Implying that livestrong.com has bad medical advice. I know Lance Armstrong has been exposed, but I thought the website itself still had good information. Admittedly not as good as talking to your own doctor, but better than homepathic.example.com. Can anybody who knows more about this comment on th...
[18:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─I would say, they're a much safer driver than the average person on the road. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709180#c11 [redhat.com]
[19:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:11] <exec> 08└─There could come a day when anyone who keeps their kernel up to date could be the only one affected. It's not an impossible dream. It could be a dream come true. Given the right circumstances.
[19:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:13] <exec> 08└─But don't unload the module if the module is already loaded as it is exploitable only on during the unload
[19:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:15] <exec> 08└─It's not an impossible dream.
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:11] <exec> 08└─I've heard Trump speeches that were more coherent than that.
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:12] <exec> 08└─So #403 is like the French? They understand our language, but refuse to speak to us in it.
[19:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:31] <exec> 08└─Any site with $X free articles per month, where $X is less than positive infinity, is a site I do not wish to visit. Thank you site. Good bye buy.
[19:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:32] <exec> 08└─I believe it is absorbed under the tongue rather than smoked.
[19:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:30] <exec> 08└─On the one hand I agree with you. On the other hand, what if the medical advice was valid? How do you allow that speech but block this speech? As an example, currently cannabis/marijuana is officially a Schedule 1 [dea.gov], so by definition has "no currently accepted medical use and a high potentia...
[19:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─free as in freedom not as in beer, jeez
[19:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:10] <exec> 08└─In the solar system the typical relative velocity of these objects with Earth is around 20km/s and up to 60km/s for front collisions of objects at perihelion falling from the Oort cloud. Sungrazers could go up to 570 km/s. So, no, impact velocity is not a significant factor to upgrade a 30 meter obj...
[19:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You. - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:20] <exec> 08└─It's our pockets, we can use them however we want. That's what voting is about, to determine how our tax dollars are spent. The government is our voice, and wallet. So if we want to compete, we have that right. And it won't put honest people out of business, only the scammers will feel the pressure.
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[20:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most Consumers Still Don't Know How Brands are Using their Data - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:09] <exec> 08└─That would be the first mistake. And unless there is a leak, you will never know what they have or how they use it. Just go with Miranda, *Any info you give will be used against you*. So play it safe, and don't give up anything.
[20:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Consumers Still Don't Know How Brands are Using their Data - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:10] <exec> 08└─This means that businesses have only one chance to make sure their customers know that their personal information, and their privacy, is in safe hands.
[20:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Consumers Still Don't Know How Brands are Using their Data - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:12] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's not a minefield of "innocuous" spying to get through something simple having a phone number of sending an email.
[20:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:23] <exec> 08└─It totally has, no need to look it up. But that's the exception to the rule - it's really rare. And you can manually reverse out a patch like that very quickly. The difference of course is your exposure time is vastly reduced when you maintain a regular patch schedule. Debian for example is very fas...
[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─I keep kernels up to date as much as I can. But remember, bugs are introduced into the code, so you might happen to have an older but bug-free kernel.
[20:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:27] <exec> 08└─Most of the time it's a bug that has been in the code for a very long time. Bug free kernels sadly don't exist. I just sleep better at night with continuous automatic patching. But I get that some companies won't allow it and instead require significant validation before any patches are released to...
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:23] <exec> 08└─Seven years in prison and a big loss of cash...
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─He has had a ton of practice with slashes and back-slashes.
[20:23:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─The summary misses a key disadvantage of gas thrusters. Cubesat launchers don't like compressed gasses (or other energetics) on their payloads. It can be done, but it is much easier to get somebody to tote your secondary payload if it doesn't have compressed gasses or volatile materials (e.g. fuel/o...
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[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─Isn't that a fairly easy task?
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─Would sell you to advertisers in exchange for malware in less than a heartbeat.
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:46] <exec> 08└─My point was that you don't need to be a computer genius to avoid a paywall -- most ordinary users will be able to do that. As for NYT and WaPo -- if I want war starting propaganda or Bernie hatred, then yeah, I'd go there. But I have them in /etc/hosts because I view them as far more dangerous and...
[20:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 982 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:42] <exec> 08└─The problem is that these quacks cause a ripple effect that hurts people who arn't directly involved. Look at the anti-vaxxers for example. If these idiots got themselves killed off for their stupidity, I wouldn't bat an eye. But no. It's their children who don't have a choice in the matter who suff...
[20:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:49] <exec> 08└─No thank you. I will take advice from licensed physicans and medical professionals and appreciate the state's efforts to ensure that those who dispense medical advice, practice engineering, dispense legal advice, certified to teach in public schools, and operate motor vehicles on public roadways hav...
[20:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:51] <exec> 08└─Simple. They don't care about the content of the speech except that it falls into the domain of a licensed professional. What they care about is that the individual rendering the advice was not licensed to do so. There may well be licensed dieticians who give exactly the same advice as the person pr...
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[20:27:05] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain to me why this is not a criminal case? How is spying on millions of people and then selling the details secretly off the back of a truck not a criminal offense? Happy to help out. The reason this is not a criminal case, and is being settled "on the cheap" with Facebook facing litt...
[20:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:07] <exec> 08└─You have $100.00 in a rather heavy bag of change. You lose 87 cents. That would get your attention? Facebook's market capitalization is $577 Billion dollars. $5 Billion is 0.87% of that. They have already recovered their capitalization shock from the news of it. Their net income adding up every quar...
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[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, piles and piles of garbage and wasted money are the solution.
[21:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most Consumers Still Don't Know How Brands are Using their Data - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:16] <exec> 08└─The accounts are free. Let them waste their money. You're not going to stop them from collecting, so give them garbage.
[21:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Consumers Still Don't Know How Brands are Using their Data - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:18] <exec> 08└─Whatever they damn well please. They'll swear up and down they aren't, but when push comes to shove, they will do what they want with the information they have. And if they do get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they'll make a very solemn promise to never do it again, and go right back to...
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Good policy. Also, don't give local access to all and sundry: ...an attacker with local access to read /proc/ioports...
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─Like this one ("privilege escalation" through running rmmod of all things? are they for real?) or the previous sound and fury about vulnerable RDS (a protocol that no one uses, compiled into module that never gets loaded). While bleeding-edge kernels get data loss bugs. I would MUCH rather deal with...
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Graphene Superconductor that Plays More Than One Tune - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─A lot can happen in 10 years, and there are several technologies that could replace today's transistors. They will gain more attention as we get closer to the "end" of the road.
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:08] <exec> 08└─they all look alike
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:10] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of lures that imitate leeches, some better than others. I would think the hassle of catching, raising and handling them is hardly worth it.
[21:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─Can you at least log in and remove the up mod you gave your AC comment, since you posted it to the wrong thread?
[21:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:41] <exec> 08└─We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Would you like to proceed to legacy Twitter? [yes] WFM.
[21:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:04] <exec> 08└─Simple. They don't care about the content of the speech except that it falls into the domain of a licensed professional. What they care about is that the individual rendering the advice was not licensed to do so. There may well be licensed dieticians who give exactly the same advice as the person pr...
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[22:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Consumers Still Don't Know How Brands are Using their Data - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─Facebook for example has fucked its dumb users time and again and it has not lead to an exodus. Ditto all other large tech companies, most banks and insurance agencies, probably utilities ...
[22:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:09] <exec> 08└─How dare you criticize my little honeybun Toothy! You're Leechist! But seriously, A Mirror story from 2015 about someone who kept a leech. [mirror.co.uk] And A Wikihow [wikihow.com] I didn't click on but apparently from 2010? And fictionally don't forget Into the Wild Green Yonder [theinfosphere.org...
[22:24:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 624 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─> Air/Liq tight That's just it though - liquid tight is a LOT easier to achieve than air tight. Even more so when the liquid is a molecule composed of 73 atoms - that stuff is a LOT bigger than water, and probably has fairly high surface tension as well what with all the hydrogen polar bonds between...
[22:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:13] <exec> 08└─The previous poster mentioned specific impulse. The faster the propellant exits, the less propellant mass is needed to get the same delta-v though the trade off is weaker thrust-weight ratio. High specific impulse is useful for satellite station keeping since one can usually do without high thrust f...
[22:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:01] <exec> 08└─It's almost as if there is a positive correlation coefficient between tracking and popularity. Who knew?
[22:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:05] <exec> 08└─It's pretty bad, the research basis is garbage and when I've sought specific dietary advice, none of it was actionable.
[22:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:06] <exec> 08└─I do support reasonable regulations where they are necessary. Too bad if you define that as authoritarianism because you think anarchy would be better.
[22:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:08] <exec> 08└─Florida, at the state, county and municipal levels, invariably tries to force you to buy a permit to do something. It has nothing to do with consumer protection, other than that is how they try to sell it. It is really about revenue streams for government.
[22:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unlicensed "Health Coach" Claims Health Advice is Free Speech - Court Disagrees - 3586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:11] <exec> 08└─Professions are different. The work of Talcott Parsons [wikipedia.org] in the sociology of professions set out a lot of the reasons why. The basic thing is that professions are granted a monopoly on a particular practice, based on expertise and providing a social good. The secondary thing is that pr...
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[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Agrees to Pay $650 Million Settlement for Data Breach - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─I'm going to spend mine on hookers and blow.
[23:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Equifax Agrees to Pay $650 Million Settlement for Data Breach - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:11] <exec> 08└─Anyone placing bets on whether the breach is still running?
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algae-Killing Viruses Spur Nutrient Recycling In Oceans - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─Would increasing the levels of dissolved silicon increase diatom growth and subsequent carbon sequestration? Clarifying the question, is it a strategy that could impact the big number, Average Global CO2 ppm, in a meaningful way?
[23:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Consumers Still Don't Know How Brands are Using their Data - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─Whatever they damn well please.
[23:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Hole Reported: CVE-2019-11811 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, this bug is unlikely to be triggered and unlikely to be exploited. Looking at the actual kernel patch, it could only happen iof the module failed to init when loaded, and when the bug is triggered, the kernel oopses.
[23:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Underappreciated World of Pet Leeches - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:27] <exec> 08└─You're confusing clitellata (worms) with mollusca (most other squidgy things[*]): https://en.wikipedia.org We're all just bilaterally symmetrical pipes! https://www.youtube.com (episodes 5 & 6 probably) [* These are the high...
[23:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:32] <exec> 08└─That really only matters for thermal exhausts. Isp inversely correlates with molecular weight for a given gas temperature. If you are accelerating it electrically to a velocity of 100km/s, ion size doesn't change your Isp, you just need to design the thruster to match the ion size. At those exhaust...
[23:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving Plasma Thrusters for Nanosats - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:34] <exec> 08└─Well the Moon masses 7.4x1022 Kg so these are really somewhere between a zepto-satellite and a yocto-satellite.
[23:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Card-Skimming Hacker Group Hit 17K Domains—and Counting - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:36] <exec> 08└─Real estate agents, body corporates, shops, businesses, everyone is so enamoured by The Cloud. They are putting it all up there. Not realising that it is just making their data more accessible. Idiots.
[23:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News: Earth is Not Going to be Walloped by Asteroid 2006 QV89 ... - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:10] <exec> 08└─https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SeekingAFriendForTheEndOfTheWorld [tvtropes.org] When the world is going to end in a few weeks anyone starts looking good.
[23:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC 'Failed Miserably' in Punishing Facebook With $5 Billion Fine, Democrats Say - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─They are "officially" taught how to speed, so it makes them safer drivers to speed all the time? There are many cops out there who never seem to do the speed limit, whether they are in patrol cars, or private vehicles. My sister was one of those, and they get away with it, because fellow officers ar...
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