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[00:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:36] <exec> 08└─They talk fast.
[00:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:37] <exec> 08└─Beacons for aliens to triangulate.
[00:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:40] <exec> 08└─Allrighty then!!!! I'm ready for some Donkey Kong!!! Sorry, just finished watching the movie Pixels with my boy :)
[00:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:42] <exec> 08└─I never even knew Musk and Zuckerberg [genesiustimes.com] were related.
[00:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:44] <exec> 08└─Haven't seen it! Watched the Dora movie with my son: first half was good. Chock-full of Dora-isms. After that it was all plot resolution and not as "fun".
[00:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:54] <exec> 08└─So, how many children did Alice have? Got better things to waste brain cells on that Linux distros I'll never install.
[00:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:57] <exec> 08└─The guy also went overseas on holiday and spent one evening installing Ubuntu.
[00:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:59] <exec> 08└─I haven't had the least of a problem running Linux on a laptop since 2003. Yawn. Get of my lawn. Let me know if you get MacOS on it - now that's a challenge!
[00:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:28] <exec> 08└─Well, come to think about it, bosses at the office are mostly women now and they do pay for us at bars. No scotch shots as it used to be with men, but no complains as beer and wine flows just fine. In addition, they pay for ice cream.
[00:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:29] <exec> 08└─Oh PLEASE do delve into it. This should be hilarious, Mr. "Vol"cel.
[00:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:43] <exec> 08└─Open sourcing something so often come across as a desperation move. In 3D accelerated graphics on the PC platform, Intel's integrated HD graphics appears to be the most open and most desperate for more market share, while the market leader, NVidia, is the least open. I don't know who is in 3rd behin...
[00:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:32] <exec> 08└─Seriously, we humans need a good spanking. Let it all burn to the ground. Every... last.. byte...
[00:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP Danny Cohen: The Computer Scientist Who Gave World Endianness Meets His End Aged 81 - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:56] <exec> 08└─That only mattered with the earliest and most primitive processors, i.e. the Intel crap and the 6502. Pretty much anything else was complex enough to support both incrementing and decrementing pointers. So a 16bit add of a little endian number would look something like: ;Add secnum to firstnum, stor...
[00:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 064th Matrix Movie Coming - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:40] <exec> 08└─I envy you for being so completely comfortable and settled in your life that the worst you have to deal with is imaginary oppression. What a snowflake...
[00:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Offers Solar Panel Rental Again, Gets Sued by Walmart for Panel Fires - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:08] <exec> 08└─Without a discussion of the chemistry involved, and a description of where those pesky C atoms end up, I find it difficult to accept their statement.
[00:55:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Pace of Climate Change Underestimated - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:21] <exec> 08└─I'll start: I need a hug.
[00:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pace of Climate Change Underestimated - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:28] <exec> 08└─...and possibly even the confiscation of straw men.
[00:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pace of Climate Change Underestimated - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:30] <exec> 08└─I've only ever seen you shit on the null hypothesis paradigm, but so far haven't seen you offer an alternative (some sort of Bayesian paradigm maybe?) What do you have in mind as its replacement, and how do you know that it will perform better? Unless you have something better in mind, all you're do...
[00:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pace of Climate Change Underestimated - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:32] <exec> 08└─The point you miss is that both terraforming and the comparatively simpler Earthship/Generation Ship models we'd need require precisely the same skills, actions, and attitudes that keeping THIS planet livable does. If we were somehow able to escape and colonize, with our current state of mind, we'd...
[00:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pace of Climate Change Underestimated - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:34] <exec> 08└─If anything "The Beast" is *already here.*And it's Trump if it's anyone. He's the closest match for the figure of the Anti-Christ in the Revelation of John I've ever seen, and his ability to utterly captivate supposed strong-in-the-faith Christians by the million is somewhere between mystifying and...
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[01:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:45] <exec> 08└─Well, anything with Adam Sandlers in it has a good chance of appealing to a young boy, lol. Lots of old school video game references. Amazingly my son picked up on many of them!
[01:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:46] <exec> 08└─Clearly not intelligent communication, then. Only morons repeat themselves like that. Duh.
[01:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:48] <exec> 08└─FTL points. Whether some form of spatial jump, wormhole, or fixed emplacement jumpgate. the close together bursts are groups of ships, the single bursts are either exploratory vessels, return traffic after a gate is built, or low traffic jump points. The alternative of course is that they are just s...
[01:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe the signals are aliens repeating our own language back to us: intercepted 1990s techno.
[01:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:03] <exec> 08└─I believe Alice Nelson had none. She did marry Sam the Butcher (sounds like a good horror title there) in a reunion movie but I don't think they expanded her story-line in the second series. My parents were huge fans of The Brady Bunch, Gilligans Island, My Favorite Martian and My Mother the Car. Wh...
[01:50:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:26] <exec> 08└─equality. Men have been stressed providing for their families for a long time. Two incomes have led to larger mortgages, add childcare costs and two cars... Heart attacks in women also increasing. Welcome to the club.
[01:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:35] <exec> 08└─Do you speak from personal experience? Just wondering, as a teetotaler.
[01:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:37] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Having a job, driving a car, enjoying tech, killing spiders/insects...er...wearing pants? Playing video games? Whatever it is you're thinking of, it doesn't involve "denying" a "female nature." All the women I've known had no problem doing any/all of the above and expressing whatever degre...
[01:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:39] <exec> 08└─Do, please, define "female nature." I'd supposedly be your case study (since I'm sure you'll say gay women are "trying to be men" or something...ick!), and yet somehow, I have no vices at all except caffeine and that one's more of a necessity to work than anything. It's always amused, confused, and...
[01:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:41] <exec> 08└─So you didn't read the Dept above?
[01:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:43] <exec> 08└─you mean capitalism but ok
[01:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Battery-Free Sensor for Underwater Exploration - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:13] <exec> 08└─Just what we need. Even more ocean pollutants. And not just metals and plastics, but aural pollution as well. The Dolphins and Whales will undoubtedly be appreciative.
[01:51:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 943 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:50] <exec> 08└─The pen is mightier than the sword, etc. etc. We've built such a fragile, yet essential, infrastructure that, yes, if you manage to snarl the roads, cut the electricity and communications, millions of people will be screwed - particularly in the bigger/denser cities. All in all, I'd much rather weat...
[01:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:46] <exec> 08└─This sort of story has been done to death. It's more "manliness porn" along the lines of Starship Troopers for people with a burn it all down mentality, letting them imagine themselves as hard-bitten, rugged ubermenschen with the innate brains and brawn to survive an apocalypse.
[01:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Offers Solar Panel Rental Again, Gets Sued by Walmart for Panel Fires - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:22] <exec> 08└─Says the non-billionaire pleb.
[01:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phishing Attacks: Why We're Still Losing The Battle Against Phony Emails - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:31] <exec> 08└─We had that once. Some pentester sent a bunch of emails to mid-level people from one of the C-suite executives. One of the IT people noticed and the Director of IT himself sent a copy of the email to EVERYONE with the subject "Example phishing email." It started with a LONG paragraph telling people...
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[02:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:43] <exec> 08└─what's new? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:44] <exec> 08└─Somebody's trying to make the American system look extremely stable
[02:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:47] <exec> 08└─"Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties " So, they achieved their goal?
[02:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:49] <exec> 08└─Rightwing nationalism being successfully tossed aside before people got killed. New and different, now if the US can git'er done before we go literally Nazi.
[02:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:51] <exec> 08└─Hear! Hear! Get out and vote, fellow USA citizens. Get active politically and take democracy back into the hands of the people, instead of the corp.'s and donors. Check out wolf-pac.com to get money out of politics. rts008
[02:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:53] <exec> 08└─Fix Italy Again Tony
[02:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:55] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of thing you read in history books like an Archduke being assassinated.
[02:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:10] <exec> 08└─Do not respond!! do not respond!!! do not respond....
[02:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:12] <exec> 08└─The signals are coming from billions of light years away so thats not possible. Also the signals are coming from a very strong source as powerful as a star, unlikely to be artificial. Likely its just some star related emission that we don't understand.
[02:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:26] <exec> 08└─Linux is full of "except…" for casual users. Last week I bought a USB SSD. I quickly found out when I plug it into my Linux netbook, Trim doesn't work; you need to be an advanced user to determine this. If you don't use Trim on an SSD in regular use, you might wear it out faster than normal. It to...
[02:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:03] <exec> 08└─I do not excuse people's behavior due to voluntairy intoxication.
[02:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:04] <exec> 08└─I've never used it as an excuse, but I've found even a nice buzz helps me let out a lot of those typically male repressed emotions. I also dated a girl who had a hard time with intimacy unless pretty drunk. We humans are so often forced to repress our true feelings. I wonder what the world could be...
[02:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:06] <exec> 08└─Hard to make ripples in a torrential river of misogyny. Seriously, blatant sexism has only recently gone out of style. Now we have the "get woke go broke" asshats clinging to their shitty views.
[02:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:08] <exec> 08└─Old, useless, roasties are dying. How is it my problem and why should I care?
[02:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:11] <exec> 08└─I don't find it at all strange that a robot is voluntarily celibate.
[02:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:13] <exec> 08└─The same thing that's been driving men to the pubs after work since the pub was invented: work. More women are working outside the home nowadays, so of course the stats are rising.
[02:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:15] <exec> 08└─No. I only read the titty then submitted a funny. Can I change my answer to "A taxi"?
[02:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Offers Solar Panel Rental Again, Gets Sued by Walmart for Panel Fires - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:53] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk denounces 'Silicon Valley sex party' book: 'it's just nerds on a couch' [telegraph.co.uk] Elon Musk and other guests dispute that a notorious Silicon Valley gathering was a 'sex party' [businessinsider.com] 'Sex party' or 'nerds on a couch'? A night in silicon valley. [wired.com]
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[03:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:57] <exec> 08└─It's Italy. They argue about everything but surrender or run away when someone raises a fist. The worst that could happen is a shortage of Dominoes Pizza or spaghetti tree pickers.
[03:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:58] <exec> 08└─Yakima, WA also lost its government: Montes v. City of Yakima - https://www.aclu-wa.org [aclu-wa.org] How to steal a state budget: McCleary, et al. v. State of Washington - Supreme Court Case Number 84362-7: https://www.courts.wa.gov
[03:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:00] <exec> 08└─The lega-m5s coalition had surprised because of the severing of a lega/Berlusconi axis that lasted since 94. All the media in Italy had been strongly against this government, which I credit for having politicians drop the mask and say, hey government you cannot do that because we have up sovereignty...
[03:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:02] <exec> 08└─There is no Domino pizza here, pal. If I ever get to test one I will tell you why. Even if the millennials with their alcohol-burned taste buds have already welcomed Oreos and Starbucks.
[03:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:04] <exec> 08└─The American system is stable. That is the biggest problem with it. You've had the same two parties in control for well over a century with no real opportunity for new blood to enter the system.
[03:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 2146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:07] <exec> 08└─Today, I went to the Driver's License office for just one reason: I was not eligible for online renewal because, according to them, I had never proved to the state of Texas that I was a citizen of the US. Last election in Texas, I had to have photo ID to prove my identity so I could vote, and the dr...
[03:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:09] <exec> 08└─American stability means each imperial president gets eight whole years to rule by executive order and wage war producing yet another generation of PTSD veterans.
[03:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:41] <exec> 08└─How many non-engineer types do you know that buy external SSD drives? By the time the clueless start buying them en masse, trim will be mainstream.
[03:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:42] <exec> 08└─I have had one now for 3yrs. Nice 1TB, trim is not an issue that it made out to be, it just improves performance since 128KB blocks are clear and waiting. The controller of SD is the critical part to rotate stock from time to time. Almost like DRAM needed in the past.
[03:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:44] <exec> 08└─Anything with Gnome, system and wayland will randomly change screen orientation with no obvious way to disable that behavior. Garbage.
[03:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:27] <exec> 08└─I'll drink to him!
[03:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:28] <exec> 08└─You can get a dog for companionship and/or to meet biological urges.
[03:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:31] <exec> 08└─Men haven't become extinct yet. How to steal a city: Montes v. City of Yakima - https://www.aclu-wa.org [aclu-wa.org] How to steal a state budget: McCleary, et al. v. State of Washington - Supreme Court Case Number 84362-7: https://www.courts.wa.gov
[03:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:44] <exec> 08└─Where are the RISC-V servers you can buy right now? Looks like nothing but vaporware. The two fastest supercomputers in the world now are using POWER9 CPUs.
[03:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:36] <exec> 08└─In the US, people don't have first and will not work without pay. The infrastructure will crash in a week and will be beyond repair in a month. By the end of the second month most dwellers of a tri-state area will be dead.
[03:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 064th Matrix Movie Coming - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:45] <exec> 08└─I suspect that's how they're going to bring Neo and Trinity back since they both clearly died at the end of the third movie.
[03:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 064th Matrix Movie Coming - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:47] <exec> 08└─You don't need VRs within VRs.
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[04:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:03] <exec> 08└─What is an Italian doing in Texas?
[04:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:04] <exec> 08└─Only hearing good things about this story. Even Vox Day seems to approve and he has been living in Italy for years so probably knows what is what. The fire rises.
[04:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:23] <exec> 08└─Why would sufficiently advanced FTL capable people use primitive lightspeed radio for navigation? That would be like choosing RFC 1149 IP over Avian Carriers for your home internet connection.
[04:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:24] <exec> 08└─It was a joke, man.
[04:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:26] <exec> 08└─Our first signal into space was Hitler, man. The aliens are Nazis who are telling us they made the universe great again by killing all the space Jews.
[04:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:28] <exec> 08└─Musk eems a little afraid of AI, makes sense if he is of the same people that built Zuck
[04:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:46] <exec> 08└─Last time I tried Gnome, suddenly Win10 looked good... so did forks in my eyes...
[04:51:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Username [4557] 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:05] <exec> 08└─People drink to have an excuse to give into their desires. Want to have sex with a train of men but fear being called a whore? Blame alcohol. Want to have sex with the ugly slag but fear the bro wrath? Blame alcohol. Want to make someone else feel like shit to try and make yourself feel better? Blam...
[04:51:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 468 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:10] <exec> 08└─Women take men's responsibilities and consequently pay men's prices for them. Anybody expected anything else? The real question is, once women are equal to men, would they drink more and live less than men? Would they do more or less crime then men? Would they be more or less agressive? My expectati...
[04:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:33] <exec> 08└─I guess the asshats have better things to do than dump money down your throat.
[04:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:34] <exec> 08└─You sir, have it 100% spot on! Good job. Though I am an anonymous lurker, if I actually took the time to create an account and go through all that bullshit, I'd still be saying the exact same thing. This world is fucked...women, men, or any politically correct mix of letters (LGBT whateverthefuck I...
[04:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:36] <exec> 08└─"As the main caretakers of children, aging parents and extended family members, women's alcohol use can have lasting effects on the family."
[04:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:42] <exec> 08└─Puerto Rico had no power for a long time after Hurricane Maria, but I never heard about riots and civil unrest. They are certainly not back to the Stone Ages, and excess mortality was maybe 0.1 %, hardly mass die-offs. People are not the animals you think they are.
[04:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:44] <exec> 08└─But it's worth noting that the only reason power was on again so soon was that the Montreal region had the help of electricians from all over the continent to put the power lines up again. That isn't likely to be possible with continent-wide electrical utility destruction, whether by weather- or cyb...
[04:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:46] <exec> 08└─There's a popular urban legend that the USA policy for NBC warfare is we have enough nuke that we don't need bio or chem and as such our response to any bio or chem attack would be fission/fusion in nature rather than returning fire using our (supposedly non-existent, LOL) B or C weapons. I can't fi...
[04:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP Danny Cohen: The Computer Scientist Who Gave World Endianness Meets His End Aged 81 - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:10] <exec> 08└─In Hebrew, the Palestine of 1938 is called Palestine (Land of Israel). Would you say that a Palestinian who was born in the pre-1988 West Bank is not Palestinian-born? The State of Palestine was declared in that year.
[04:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$11M Email Scam at Caterpillar Pinned to Nigerian Businessman - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:56] <exec> 08└─"Help us, Obin-Wanne. You're our only hope!"
[04:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 064th Matrix Movie Coming - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:59] <exec> 08└─No, he didn't.
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[05:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC Fixes 13 Security Flaws; Booby-Trapped Media File Could Pwn You - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:47] <exec> 08└─A real vulnerability instead of a fake [soylentnews.org] one this time.
[05:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:11] <exec> 08└─So, aristarchus "prompted" this FA? Hmmm, time to go look at the original submission. So geht es in Italien weiter Italiens Regierung ist gescheitert. Um das Land aus der Krise zu führen, bleiben primär zwei Optionen. [www.srf.ch]
[05:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:12] <exec> 08└─1. Left wing government gets elected with promises of social programs and employee benefits 2. Left wing government fucks up economy with social programs 3. Left wing government drops in approval because of bad economy 4. Right wing government gets elected with promises of fixing economy 5. Right wi...
[05:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:35] <exec> 08└─Check out the live action Dora by College Humor on YouTube.
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[06:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No REST for the Wicked: Ruby Gem Hacked to Siphon Passwords, Secrets From Web Devs - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:44] <exec> 08└─I (begrudgingly) accept not foisting them on users, but devs in security critical situations? They can manage it, then it doesn't matter how idiotic the company is, it just /can't/ leak your private key.
[06:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC Fixes 13 Security Flaws; Booby-Trapped Media File Could Pwn You - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:52] <exec> 08└─They haven't pushed 3.0.8 yet. Both APT and Snap aren't yet updated, and attempting to download the link and using xdg-open says it's 3.0.7 still. Only way I can see to update on Ubuntu is to change the Snap channel for VLC to "beta".
[06:50:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 1586 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:09] <exec> 08└─The lega-m5s coalition had surprised because of the severing of a lega/Berlusconi axis that lasted since 94. All the media in Italy had been strongly against this government, which I credit for having politicians drop the mask and say, hey government you cannot do that because we have up sovereignty...
[06:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:18] <exec> 08└─At least the submission we received was in English - a prerequisite for any submission - so less work than has sometimes been the case. Just delete all the editorialising, go to the original source and not the secondhand story, and extract the information for the story. But I was able to keep the de...
[06:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:20] <exec> 08└─Even Vox Day! Well, that is one Nazi in favor of a Fascist government in Italy! Next, he will suggest the invasion of Ethiopia, or the indefinite detention of children in concentration camps. Yeah, Vox Day! Fascism today, Fascism tomorrow, Fashionistas forever! You are such a Nazi, jmorris. Do you...
[06:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:22] <exec> 08└─"When the Fine Article hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore! When the political spin makes you think you had too much gin, that's aristarchus!" Saved the dept. line. A modest compensation for all the work that Soylentils do to submit content not scrapped by bots.
[06:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:51] <exec> 08└─Gay marriage. Women have been driving men to drink for centuries, now that women can marry women they've being driven to drink by their wives as well.
[06:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:53] <exec> 08└─Loneliness/inability to find a partner, lack of children, and emotional and material unfulfillment from life in general. Once they hit the wall, bed hopping becomes more difficult and sipping wine with your cat on a Saturday night becomes a negative feedback loop.
[06:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:55] <exec> 08└─Someone's not watched enough of the right kind of movies then.
[06:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:09] <exec> 08└─I’ve bought a processor specifically because the integrated graphics chip was well supported/open source.
[06:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:11] <exec> 08└─Those supercomputers were planned years ago. RISC-V is too fresh. I hear that companies like Intel will use RISC-V in place of where they would be using ARM. Not big cores but small stuff. We'll see it a lot in SSD controllers used by companies like Western Digital, for example.
[06:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:13] <exec> 08└─As the saying goes, if you can't make it successful, make it open source. That said, there's an awful lot of Power used in SCADA, but then they don't care whether it's open source or not.
[06:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:15] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, CHRP [wikipedia.org] never went anywhere. Way back when (mid-90ies), an open hardware platform with PowerPC chips could've had a real chance, with either NT or Linux (or maybe other OSs). I guess IBM just wasn't that interested, and tanked this just as much as they did OS/2. Then agai...
[06:54:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06Webmin Backdoored for Over a Year - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:44] <exec> 08└─Something something many eyes, impossible to do with open source.
[06:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Webmin Backdoored for Over a Year - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:03] <exec> 08└─I got my installation from the repo on webmin.com. It really doesn't matter that the software isn't secure. I don't have it accessible, except though localhost.
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[07:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:26] <exec> 08└─It's 'scraped' by bots, not scrapped. Bots are used by our community to select stories on IRC for publication. A large proportion of the subs that we receive are submitted by community members this way and are therefore processed by bots. Exec, MrPlow, Arthur_T_Knackerbracket, and upstart are all bo...
[07:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 2033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:27] <exec> 08└─> M5S were afraid of salvini stealing the scene instead of presenting thselves as the more level head Conte did. I heard the speech from a right wing leaning newspaper and even them noted that Conte has been relatively patient while Salvini tries to his numbers all the time. His Rosary/Chaplet(I do...
[07:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:29] <exec> 08└─It's 'scraped' by bots, not scrapped.
[07:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:52] <exec> 08└─These bursts are vastly more energetic than an average star. A millisecond long fast radio burst is driven by as much energy as the entire sun generates in 80 years. [space.com] Keep in mind the orders of magnitude we're speaking of there. That's 1 millisecond versus 80 years from a [relatively] tin...
[07:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:53] <exec> 08└─A sci-fi wormhole type system would enable 'faster than light' travel without actually being perceived as going faster than light since you are effectively reducing the perceived distances, not increasing your perceived speed. The point of this is that it may ultimately not be possible for anything...
[07:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:04] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you say though that our society epitomizes anti-feminine? Women are rewarded for being more like men, or at least colder, more mechanical? And things that are 'girly' are trivialized and used for overstimulation? Then by destroying the ocean, polluting the air, chopping down the forest, sou...
[07:52:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06A Battery-Free Sensor for Underwater Exploration - 552 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:38] <exec> 08└─Seeing that they have, so far, only been successful at communicating a matter of a few metres and that no battery is being used to provide additional energy, I wouldn't imagine that this is going to have a long range communications capability. Secondly, they have tested this in a pool which would su...
[07:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 064th Matrix Movie Coming - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:30] <exec> 08└─I suppose if we're accepting that a human can have Doctor Strange style skills in the actual real world without an Infinity Stone, then sure, why not allow for an AI to have its own superhero style powers in the same real world? "Superhero movie franchise" wasn't really what I'd categorise The Matri...
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[08:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:41] <exec> 08└─Their track record.. 1950: Five out of six doctors prefer Lucky Strike cigarettes 1960: Take thalidomode for morning sickness 1970: Paint your baby's cradle with lead-based paint... tastes great! I'll avoid their recommendation to drink microplastics until all the results are in.
[08:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:43] <exec> 08└─They're organic. They must be good for you.
[08:50:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 2146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:18] <exec> 08└─Today, I went to the Driver's License office for just one reason: I was not eligible for online renewal because, according to them, I had never proved to the state of Texas that I was a citizen of the US. Last election in Texas, I had to have photo ID to prove my identity so I could vote, and the dr...
[08:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:31] <exec> 08└─Takes some time to do, giving the submitter time to ponder whether the submission is really worth the trouble.
[08:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:32] <exec> 08└─M5S ranks 1st among other parties in welfare expansion, environmental protection, and market regulation, where welfare expansion meant the expansion of public social services (excludes education), environmental protection meant policies in favor of preserving/conserving the environment, and market r...
[08:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:27] <exec> 08└─A fitting name might be "Blueberry Biggie" or so. Cell Processor with Quad PPE and Octal SPUs, some sort of dieshrink-variety of the Playstation one; 4k Video, USB3, decent audio, the usual geek ports. $29.90 with 1 GB, $39.90 with 4. Open source up from metal, solid software support. Some special f...
[08:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:24] <exec> 08└─As a case in point, a lot of people in the US continued going in to work during the government shutdowns (admittedly I think the government expected then to do so, it the promise of being paid later).
[08:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP Danny Cohen: The Computer Scientist Who Gave World Endianness Meets His End Aged 81 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:49] <exec> 08└─Little-endian makes for a simpler ALU in the CPU core; especially in the old days of 8- and 16-bit CPUs.
[08:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 064th Matrix Movie Coming - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:41] <exec> 08└─It sounds like characters are calling the Oracle "mother" in a metaphorical way.
[08:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pace of Climate Change Underestimated - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:35] <exec> 08└─> how say pre-WW2 USA was centrally planned Well, there were a bunch of people called the senate, and another bunch of people called the house of representatives, and a guy called a president, and they got together to make a bunch of laws. The laws enabled the people in those houses and their flunki...
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[09:49:46] <exec> 08└─That's a cute bunch there. If you use one of those you deserve everything and anything that's coming your way.
[09:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wodan [517] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:56] <exec> 08└─Sadly drinking and eating microplastics is not optional, they've been found in basically everything.
[09:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:58] <exec> 08└─Then we should ban them! A few fines handed out and we'll be sorted. Just put the first one on notice. Say for ONE MILLION DOLLARS and everyone will fall into line.
[09:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:00] <exec> 08└─I think you're full of shit. If not, provide citations for your claims.
[09:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:48] <exec> 08└─Check out China, they've further advanced to a one party system...
[09:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:32] <exec> 08└─TFA is merely a plug for HP Pavilion laptops.
[09:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:27] <exec> 08└─> Upper class women have less potential partners so they are more frustrated. They also are freer. Presumably this is also why guys drink? Lack of potential partners? I toyed with the idea of modding funny, but I think you are probably being serious.
[09:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:47] <exec> 08└─It's not too late. The race between AMD, ARM and IBM isn't for each-other's market share. It's for Intel's. And Intel still hasn't upgraded their fab process. So, as long as you have competitive fabs around, even Alibaba can make their own server RISC-V cores. So, really, it's all up for grabs.
[09:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:46] <exec> 08└─Azuma Hazuki, I think you are completely correct here. In the history of humanity there always have been devastating circumstances of one kind or another. What we see is that people come together and organize and rebuild. Even after total destruction, people organize to rebuild, restore order and to...
[09:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:47] <exec> 08└─And Hurricane Sandy in 2013, for example. My parents' house in Ohio didn't have power for a week or two. They're not even on the East Coast, which took a direct hit from the storm.
[09:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP Danny Cohen: The Computer Scientist Who Gave World Endianness Meets His End Aged 81 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:14] <exec> 08└─I remember back then that expensive manager types simply advised companies to buy IBM computers with backward processors, instead of Macintoshes with much more advanced 68000's in them. Other managers then decided to buy IBM, they never listened to tech types.
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[10:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:43] <exec> 08└─This is China, how long before "repetitive basic work" is extended to "sentence-defendant; shoot-in-head; bill-relatives-for-bullet" ?
[10:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:02] <exec> 08└─Was that the WHO itself that said that? Or was it merely widely spread medical "knowledge" that may have been propagated by the drug companies? -- hendrik
[10:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC Fixes 13 Security Flaws; Booby-Trapped Media File Could Pwn You - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:18] <exec> 08└─3.0.8 is available from Debian.
[10:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:53] <exec> 08└─>Conte did Conte USED TO. Then when Salvini tried a timid step back he went along with the crisis. Big mistake.
[10:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:18] <exec> 08└─Our first signal into space was Hitler, man.
[10:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:32] <exec> 08└─Friendly reminder that the balance of power gets inverted when the female hits 40 and has a baby and the man somehow managed to not get involved in a blood sucking divorce. Enjoy your youth.
[10:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:34] <exec> 08└─Gay marriage is an oxymoron on so many levels.
[10:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:36] <exec> 08└─Guys drink because machism. Come on.
[10:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:38] <exec> 08└─>I only read the titty Wow, best divination technique ever.
[10:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:40] <exec> 08└─so there is no difeerence then? just curious... -zug
[10:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:42] <exec> 08└─> to make better societies instead of just fancier toys As a bot I am a fancier toy so I take issue with your statement.
[10:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:02] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It was a matter of other utilities lending out their personnel for an emergency. Not likely to happen if the other utilities have similar emergencies at home. No doubt they -- the utilities or the industrial-scale electricians -- were well-paid. At home, we also lost two hot-water radiators...
[10:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:04] <exec> 08└─I imagine that similar problems could arise with a cyberattack that destroys transformers by overloading them. The way that stuxnet destroyed centrifuges in Iran. Properly co-ordinated over an entire nation, it could cause real misery. Those large transformers aren't lying around in large numbers in...
[10:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:07] <exec> 08└─Quite possibly. All they need to do is announce what enemy they want believe the malware attack to have come from and they have their target of convenience.
[10:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:09] <exec> 08└─People are not the animals you think they are.
[10:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:11] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Good enough for now isn't good enough. Especially when security is an issue. Functionality, not so much.
[10:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:13] <exec> 08└─There is, however, one important difference between B attacks and N or C attacks. It's hard to contain B attacks to the target area.
[10:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:15] <exec> 08└─Besides, targeting is much, much better nowadays than it was a few decade ago. You can precisely take out those responsible for a mass attack once you have identified and located them. No need to kill millions of probably innocent people. -- hendrik
[10:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:17] <exec> 08└─To maintain the level of profanity, let me just point out that the other port has teeth.
[10:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:19] <exec> 08└─GPS navigation could still work, assuming the satellites aren't attacked, and assuming the trucks already have their regular routes downloaded. Until they can't recharge any more. But that's a fuel shortage, which would happen with regular trucks, too. -- hendrik
[10:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:21] <exec> 08└─Let me hope you enjoy the excitement of seeing a good storm up close.
[10:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:23] <exec> 08└─Just pointing out the perversity of language drift. And how mathematicians often use the same words in entirely different meanings from the rest of us. In this case, terminology used for partial orders.
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[11:49:39] <exec> 08└─i'm teaching the kids to only use pen and paper. and cutout newspapers for private stuff. although I guess by the time they grow up the three letter agencies will have fired all their handwriting recognition experts.
[11:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:47] <exec> 08└─# Look Ma, I can code AI! while (1) { return "Guilty" }
[11:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:49] <exec> 08└─1980s Dade County had "video tape" traffic court judges... you show up, never know if you might get a real judge, but 9/10 times it would be the video tape which read you your options: 1) Guilty, pay and get points, 2) No Contest, pay and go to traffic school, 3) Not Guilty, reschedule to see a real...
[11:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:10] <exec> 08└─While nobody dies instantly from microplastic exposure, it can be some nasty stuff. If you spend a lot of time on urban freeways, you might notice a black goo on your windshield that simply will not come off for anything short of blasting with walnut shells, this is "microplastics" particles of vehi...
[11:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:02] <exec> 08└─Your experience was likely caused by the "REAL ID Act". [upgradedpoints.com]
[11:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:03] <exec> 08└─I was not asked then if I was a citizen of the US, presumably because having a valid driver's license establishes that.
[11:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:30] <exec> 08└─Alcubierre warp drive [wikipedia.org] termination beams released when the bubble decelerates from superluminal speed.
[11:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:50] <exec> 08└─When women will have mastered the game, the pendulum will swing towards repression of women again, and with the same elites directing the change. The liberalization/repression cycle is meant to break individuals. Here, this is my dystopian take. I told you so you can feel more of an optimist than be...
[11:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:51] <exec> 08└─It's BotGeena, not BotGina. Fuck it, she was great as Thelma, I knew I had to get one - what's so wierd about wanting a 6'-tall robocompanion that's alllll woman?
[11:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:23] <exec> 08└─I do like living in Canada. The coloured money is plastic instead of paper. Pretty. And I don't mean credit cards (which are also plastic). It's a transparent kind of plastic that's almost impossible to duplicate convincingly. The secret to making it seems to be kept in New Zealand. It looks flimsy...
[11:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe a Star Trek Voyager episode? I don't recall.
[11:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:27] <exec> 08└─I think this will be my last post here.
[11:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:29] <exec> 08└─It is frightening how quickly gas stations are stripped of fuel during a hurricane... Rita in Houston was quite the lesson.
[11:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:31] <exec> 08└─I think Andrew qualified as a good storm, I was in North Miami for that - the stronger bands hit north of us in Fort Lauderdale, and the eye hit my Uncle's house in Homestead, but we still had a semi-truck sized pile of itty bitty oak tree branchlets that blew out of the neighbors' trees all over th...
[11:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Webmin Backdoored for Over a Year - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:27] <exec> 08└─Except you're trusing webmin with the internals of your network. If you look at the bug thread from a year ago, you'll see that there's not a lot of good reasons to trust them - they might trash your system out of incompetance rather than malice.
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[12:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:48] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today Martyb sells SN shells by the handful?
[12:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:56] <exec> 08└─Bad idea gone horrible.
[12:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:58] <exec> 08└─Unlike encrypted email, their DNA will be all over the ransom letter made from newspaper clippings.
[12:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:09] <exec> 08└─Watch the movie Lexx. Scary dystopian far future. The judges are holographic, and you are guaranteed to lose an organ.
[12:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:11] <exec> 08└─That while loop is pointless because it will be terminated as soon as the return statement is executed. That is, that code is exactly equivalent to just the return statement.
[12:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:13] <exec> 08└─It sounds like some higher up is infatuated with AI. It's bizarre how the story mentions all these weird projects without giving a single reason why anyone, much less China, would need them. Labor isn't expensive after all, and these tasks aren't something that would cost a lot to employ a person to...
[12:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:15] <exec> 08└─Call it a tech demo. Meant to make some headlines but not something that will see widespread use. That means she’ll mostly be dealing with litigation reception and online guidance. Other features of the online service center include a mobile micro-court and an official Weitao (Taobao's social-medi...
[12:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:36] <exec> 08└─A lot of stuff is nasty once it gets to the bloodstream. But you need a mechanism by which this microplastic can get to the bloodstream, and another by which it can be in great enough concentrations to be the sort of problem you claim it can be.
[12:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:37] <exec> 08└─Won't hurt humans at all! Except, what will you eat when it kills off all the fish...and birds...and animals...and insects...and plants...and YOU were dead...and YOU were dead...and I'll miss you WHO most of all....
[12:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:32] <exec> 08└─What is an Italian doing in Texas?
[12:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:33] <exec> 08└─Check out China, they've further advanced to a one party system...
[12:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:01] <exec> 08└─Been there, done that! I'm guessing that's why the movie used a cartoon fox, which seemed kind of out of place in the movie: might be construed as a 'copyright violation'? Their lawyers might have said, "Maybe you shouldn't use a person for Swiper"?
[12:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:24] <exec> 08└─Speaking of hilarious, tell us something about masculinity ms lesbian.
[12:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:26] <exec> 08└─If we’re just talking about the United States, part of it may have something to do with the increase in quality over the past 20 years making it more approachable.
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[13:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New YubiKey Will Offer Dual Security for Apple Users - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:40] <exec> 08└─Yubico has replaced all open-source components in YubiKey 4 with closed-source code, which can no longer be independently reviewed for security flaws.
[13:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New YubiKey Will Offer Dual Security for Apple Users - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:41] <exec> 08└─Forgot to rewrite it when I realized it was silly. Here's the company's response, https://www.yubico.com [yubico.com] the short version is: So — why not combine the best of two worlds then, i.e. using secure hardware in an open source design? There are a fe...
[13:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New YubiKey Will Offer Dual Security for Apple Users - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:43] <exec> 08└─I agree that this is at least questionable and bad if true. However for most of us it is just a matter of letting perfect be the enemy of good. If you have a better solution I'm interested. The effectiveness of these for preventing Phishing and credential stuffing is huge. The people doing those att...
[13:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the laugh! Was my first time doing the cert upgrade solo, so I was a wee bit nervous. But now that I had a much better idea of what was going on, it went smoothly, all-in-all. That said, this is when things tend to start getting "exciting" when I *think* that I know what is going on! So,...
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[13:49:55] <exec> 08└─If you do detect any issues, please post a comment to this story.
[13:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:17] <exec> 08└─It sounds like some higher up is infatuated with AI.
[13:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:19] <exec> 08└─I did not expect China to allow women to have such positions. I'll have to go back to deriding them for just communism now.
[13:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:43] <exec> 08└─For once, I'm with AC on this... Their track record.. 1950: Five out of six doctors prefer Lucky Strike cigarettes 1960: Take thalidomode for morning sickness 1970: Paint your baby's cradle with lead-based paint... tastes great! I'll avoid their recommendation to drink microplastics until all the re...
[13:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:44] <exec> 08└─By then, scientists will figure out how to bond nutrients to the microplastics and we'll live on them. Think of them as little washcloths for your innards, tirelessly keeping you clean.
[13:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:40] <exec> 08└─LOL salvini is no orban, he is fine with immigration as long as integration is achieved. In other words, he expects the por guy whom he hosts in his house not to begin dictating what to eat in the house while he rapes his daughter. Now I know this simple concept is lost when immigrants are seen as t...
[13:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:42] <exec> 08└─Volumes of refugees from middle east are so small compared to population density of European countries such as Italy that the whole refugee thing being a political issue cannot be caused by anything other but casual racism among European population. And only one kind of people can be casually racist...
[13:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:44] <exec> 08└─* middle of the road centrist party somehow manages to get into power. * manages to set up a very balanced sustainable slow growth economy * solid but uninspired social programs and semi-subsidized healthcare. * everything balanced on knife edge but working. * external instability rocks the boat. *...
[13:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:46] <exec> 08└─Its because California was giving out drivers licenses to illegals.
[13:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:48] <exec> 08└─You are not considering demographics and the tendency of the previous governments to have natives finance and immigrants live on welfare. Plus, you believe official numbers. Plus you don't even notice the commies who switched already from "they are an insignificant percentage" to "we need to accomod...
[13:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:16] <exec> 08└─Monitoring outbursts from Trump?
[13:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:17] <exec> 08└─I still can't believe nobody gets the joke. When I said "techno", I meant the music genre. I guess the crowd that reads this type of article was never into that.
[13:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:42] <exec> 08└─I was wondering how long it would take for our resident angry lesbian to join in this conversation. "Generalization fallacy"? As in, I can't say anything about anything if there is even one counterexample to what I said? So I can't tell people that summers in the southeast are hot and humid because...
[13:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:03] <exec> 08└─It's not too late. The race between AMD, ARM and IBM isn't for each-other's market share. It's for Intel's. And Intel still hasn't upgraded their fab process. So, as long as you have competitive fabs around, even Alibaba can make their own server RISC-V cores. So, really, it's all up for grabs.
[13:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Use Fake NordVPN Website to Deliver "Win32.Bolik.2" Banking Trojan - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:13] <exec> 08└─LOL, unfortunately this joke doesn't follow through: URL length limit While the HTTP specification does not define an upper limit on the length of a URL that a user agent should accept, bit.ly imposes a 2048-character limit. This is sufficient in the majority of cases. For lo
[13:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:21] <exec> 08└─I'm familiar with Hurricane destruction too, but I have a different conclusion. The difference between hurricanes and what the article proposes is that only a small percentage of the U.S. is affected by a hurricane. The rest of the U.S. can send bottled water and canned food. Many people already pre...
[13:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:23] <exec> 08└─Our gasoline supply is crazy vulnerable - it doesn't take much of a disruption at all for the stations to run dry, and the more widespread the disruption the more crippling it is. After Katrina and Rita there were some serious compromises made in the Houston area air quality standards, in order to e...
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[14:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:41] <exec> 08└─There's no objective way of determining the performance of academics. Tracking citations has been one way of attempting this, but like all other attempts to track people via metrics (e.g. evaluating coders via lines of code written), it doesn't work because academics are smart enough to figure out h...
[14:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New YubiKey Will Offer Dual Security for Apple Users - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:51] <exec> 08└─I overreacted, these are better than the current state of affairs.
[14:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:01] <exec> 08└─If a task is difficult, do it more often
[14:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:02] <exec> 08└─If you're not going to automate, why not spend $14 and only do it every 2 years instead of every 90 days?
[14:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews's Site's Certs Updated Today - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:05] <exec> 08└─Will there be a more detailed write up about that big crash the other day? Or has it just been chalked up to a Rube Goldberg-esq derp?
[14:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:16] <exec> 08└─Never even gonna make a dent in SDN adoption. Just look at the holes in IOT. They are much worse and harder to solve and society as a whole hasn't even flinched. Also to be clear SDN benefits also come from centralized provisioning. You can centrally provision an air gapped single network.
[14:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:32] <exec> 08└─Please realize that defendants are not simply railroaded through the system. They will be represented by an AI-Powered defense lawyer. This will make things easier for the AI-Powered prosecutor.
[14:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:33] <exec> 08└─10 PRINT "GUILTY" 20 GOSUB 10 30 END
[14:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:35] <exec> 08└─While this strips dignity from the process, I'm not sure it alters the outcome. Even in front of a human judge, those three options are your ONLY options. Any attempt at anything other than selecting from those three will not be tolerated by a human judge. In fact it could get you in contempt of cou...
[14:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:38] <exec> 08└─Electric Eels [wikipedia.org] have electric organs. It would be a shame to loose one of those. Especially if it predates MIDI. But then there is the question of "which of these two men has the largest organ?" This naturally leads to the followup question of whether the pipes, external speakers or ot...
[14:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:40] <exec> 08└─It isn't a real women. It is an AI robot. So you cannot say you have been Miss. Judge'd.
[14:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:42] <exec> 08└─How about AI-Powered congress critters? I mean if the judicial branch can be AI, why not the legislative branch? Oh! Oh! I know!!! What about the executive branch? And why do I call them "branches"? Any good circus has three rings: executive, legislative and judicial.
[14:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:44] <exec> 08└─As long is ran once per trial it works.
[14:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:46] <exec> 08└─Well, chinese prisoners lose organs without complicated hollograms, chinese are way ahead of this epoch.
[14:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:11] <exec> 08└─1. More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette [youtube.com] So maybe Lucky Strike will have something say about this. 2. Take thalidomide for morning sickness [wikipedia.org] The exact quote is: Researchers at Chemie Grünenthal also found that thalidomide was a particularly effective antiem...
[14:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:12] <exec> 08└─They don't have to be good for you. They only have to taste good. Deliciously addictive. Please don't question the health benefits when corporate profits are at steak.
[14:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:13] <exec> 08└─According to wikipedia entire population of italy is 60m and syria 18m. Just by how many billions wrong are official demographics? With this population imbalance it's more likely that italy will impair syria's cultural norms with their sheer numbers than other way around.
[14:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:03] <exec> 08└─I applaud your tenacity ;-) Any chance you could get all your non-distro based mods (e.g getting wifi configured) into a Dockerfile that can apply to a new machine? Make sure you use "FROM $DISTRO:$VERISON" and that means what ever you are doing is available for that distro, and the paths that get c...
[14:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:04] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it seems to have become the default in a lot of distress, same as systemd. At one point I'm going to have to go back to FreeBSD. It's not like people with low vision want a GUI with the craptastic "whole UX experience."
[14:53:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:32] <exec> 08└─The one thing they will become is unhappy as they deny their female nature. If as a woman you ARE a man in most ways, why would a man need or want you? Why would you want or need a man? People stay together because they complement one another.
[14:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:11] <exec> 08└─That won't happen, Ms. Lesbian is totally against the "generalization fallacy." She pointed it out to me! *snicker*
[14:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:13] <exec> 08└─No, the original poster's plaint holds true even in many noncapitalist societies. It certainly holds true in many feudal and near-feudal societies, for example, as well as tribal. But I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're a one-note scold.
[14:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:15] <exec> 08└─I like your post, but I must sperg and correct your use of "feedback." NEGATIVE FEEDBACK works to stabilize things by applying a corrective action when the output is "off" from the desired setting. It is NEGATIVE because it subtracts from the input signal an amount proportional to the difference bet...
[14:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:54] <exec> 08└─Puerto Rico had no power for a long time after Hurricane Maria
[14:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:56] <exec> 08└─My preferred Bash dialect expects all input to be in EBCDIC.
[14:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:58] <exec> 08└─- You have the people who are relatively prepared, able to live on their own resources for a time. In the case of Katrina, this was an unusually small group, because the ones living in New Orleans had to leave, taking little with them. In the case of a cyber attack, that would be less of a factor. J...
[14:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:00] <exec> 08└─More like Farnham's Freehold, warts and all. Starship Troopers (the novel) was all about the cult of militaria and it was because of the team that formed the group survives although members of it die. It is unsurprisingly modeled on actual military experience, and more than once Heinlein went on rec...
[14:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:02] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. You will feed yourself how, when the grocery stores can't get supplies because both computers and phones are down? You will get heat how? When this occurs in January and it is -30 outside your living place? Where are you going to procure your water from when the stores have none and your pip...
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[15:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:45] <exec> 08└─This author has hidden access to their database and not exposed the names of any self-cite abusers, presumably out of fear of accidental slander(or more likely innocuous truth that gets sued exactly as though it were slander), but I'd like to see a top offenders list. There's some very famous names...
[15:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:47] <exec> 08└─250 out of 100,000 doesn't seem like it's a huge problem. It must be common to cite previous papers that you've worked on (with or without co-authors) especially if you're working in a relatively niche field. I'd agree that 94% self-citation appears to be an issue and I guess the >25% scrutiny would...
[15:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:49] <exec> 08└─Come now - the way in which some individuals are gaming the system is hardly an innocuous truth - if it were, nobody would care.
[15:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:51] <exec> 08└─People in very niche areas of a field may not even attract much attention. So if you have 10 citations, and 9 are from your other papers, then at least someone else read something. And just because it's "out there", doesn't mean anyone else gives a flying fuck about it. Hence, only self-citations. ;...
[15:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:53] <exec> 08└─Who are you kidding? A couple dozen people would care at most.
[15:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:55] <exec> 08└─Obviously there's a lot of nonsense going on but sometimes you do have cases where multiple scientists are engaging in what basically amounts to evidence-based discourse as they're tossing ideas on each-other to see what sticks. The CS equivalent of this used to live in mailing lists where you could...
[15:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New YubiKey Will Offer Dual Security for Apple Users - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:06] <exec> 08└─Your Gmail, Twitter and Facebook account all support these plug-in devices as a second-factor of authentication after your username and password — a far stronger mechanism than the simple code sent to your phone.
[15:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the laugh! Was my first time doing the cert upgrade solo, so I was a wee bit nervous. But now that I had a much better idea of what was going on, it went smoothly, all-in-all. That said, this is when things tend to start getting "exciting" when I *think* that I know what is going on! So,...
[15:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:20] <exec> 08└─If you're not going to automate, why not spend $14 and only do it every 2 years instead of every 90 days?
[15:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:22] <exec> 08└─If a task is difficult, do it more often
[15:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:24] <exec> 08└─In addition to the preceding, sibling comment, I would add that our needing to regularly update the certs keeps it in the collective site-maintenance mind share. After, say, 18 months' time, who is going to be thinking about when the certs are going to expire? We've reported here several stories whe...
[15:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:35] <exec> 08└─I believe these people have been on a roll publishing similar, not very groundbreaking, research before.
[15:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:36] <exec> 08└─So, plane entertainment systems share switches with critical control systems... but isolated ... but now ... wait ... so, what could possibly go wrong here??
[15:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:38] <exec> 08└─it's a bit funny that you mention "centrally provisioned air-gapped [...] network" ... via SDN. the "provision" part is mostly ALSO accessed via network. if smart, then the device providing SDN is on its own MGMT network. now with green pills (VM escape xor client VM cross-talk) and now this "gadget...
[15:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:02] <exec> 08└─Horatio meme: put glasses on .... YEAAAAH! Sorry for the meme reference, just couldn't resist.
[15:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:03] <exec> 08└─You can ALWAYS go for contempt of court, the bailiff will happily remand you to a courtroom with a real judge if you've got the attitude for it. IMO, the video taped judge did two things: 1) he raised the cost of pleading not guilty to two trips to court, where a single trip to court is already more...
[15:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:05] <exec> 08└─In Manitoba I remember one could plead "Guilty with explanation."
[15:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:08] <exec> 08└─Never heard of multiple charges?
[15:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:10] <exec> 08└─Will the explanation result in an increased fine? Or lower the fine, but then significantly increase the court costs for having to listen to the explanation. I'm not sure what good an explanation would actually do if, in fact, you were speeding and acknowledge that you were speeding.
[15:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:12] <exec> 08└─Stack overflow. ;-)
[15:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:14] <exec> 08└─It's because it empowers the grunch. Workers can strike AI can just be retrained.
[15:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:16] <exec> 08└─From the summary: […] modeled off a living, breathing human (one of the court's actual female judges, to be exact).
[15:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:43] <exec> 08└─Saw a beer advertised as "made with organic alcohol."
[15:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:36] <exec> 08└─> Conclusion: znet isn't paying writer well, linux is linux. Bzzzzt. Conclusion: zdnet needs as many pages as possible to run ads on. clickbait matters!
[15:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:37] <exec> 08└─Once again, the real blame should be on: Advertising. It's already evil. But it is pure evil when it disguises ads as informative articles.
[15:53:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Improbus [6425] 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 16 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:50] <exec> 08└─#Feminism #MGTOW
[15:53:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 540 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:54] <exec> 08└─Cell phones. Or more specifically, increased advertising and "social" media isolating people from the REAL world. But, but, but, everyones got to have a cell phone! And only bad people complain about it. I'd also imagine that raising families today is kind of pointless in an overpopulated world. Doc...
[15:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:47] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't Trump, and Incels for that matter want women to drink? Here, have another!
[15:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:49] <exec> 08└─Not strange. But the next software upgrade can change things. Now that we live in the age of unwanted changes from software upgrades, I understand Scotty's lament "Engineers, love to change things". If it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is.
[15:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:51] <exec> 08└─You are technically correct. Trying to point out something technically correct to a frustrated woman is a no win situation.
[15:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:53] <exec> 08└─You said it more concisely than I would have.
[15:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:55] <exec> 08└─There are more choices of contraception techniques than you may realize.
[15:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 2219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:57] <exec> 08└─Sure, booze is expensive .... Oh, no, wait, it's not. You can get lit for the price of a large water jug (free if you recycle), a couple of condoms, a few pounds of sugar, the flavour of your choice, and some yeast. OK, but tasty booze is expensive ... Oh, no, wait, it's not. You can buy kits to mak...
[15:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:59] <exec> 08└─Quite amusing for someone who has never drank alcoholic beverages. (a couple sips in college, about 1980 just to try it, peer pressure, etc. Started one shot glass before bed in the 90s to fall asleep before getting diagnosed and discovering much more wonderfuller prescription meds)
[15:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:01] <exec> 08└─Hey sperg, most consumed alcohol is made by the big alcohol conglomerates. They are not about to go under. Go back to saving money by sniffing gasoline fumes from your lawnmower.
[15:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:23] <exec> 08└─Fast forward to the late 1970's: IBM mainframes are entrenched! These pesky microcomputers could never be a threat! Okay, there is a market for them considering how many Apple IIs, TRS-80's and Commodore PETs have been sold. So IBM will introduce a PC, sell about two million, and that will be the en...
[15:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Battery-Free Sensor for Underwater Exploration - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:45] <exec> 08└─A censor without batteries.
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[16:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:46] <exec> 08└─"You're testing it wrong" They absolutely said that.
[16:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:47] <exec> 08└─how will all the mapple using zombies be able to fund the enemies of free humanity every chance they get if they are dead from brain cancer?
[16:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:49] <exec> 08└─It's a feature
[16:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:51] <exec> 08└─Better call Saul https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:05] <exec> 08└─250:100k is a big problem if it's a power distribution where 95% are essentially irrelevant.
[16:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:06] <exec> 08└─Write a paper, citing yourself for credibility, and don't ever tell anyone you had a sit in for the high school equivalency exam because you're a dumbass. Yep, sounds like India.
[16:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:09] <exec> 08└─The problem for lack of public knowledge isn't closed journals. It's that a lot of scientific papers are, well, super incremental. Most of the ones you read about in the news are actually retreads of well studied things with a fun narrative and a better PR machine behind it. If you go to actual seco...
[16:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:36] <exec> 08└─And you documented everything in detail and posted it on the wiki, right?
[16:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:21] <exec> 08└─The recursion will end once it hits the RETURN statement. Just be patient!
[16:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:22] <exec> 08└─Positive and Negative?
[16:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:51] <exec> 08└─1. Nothing to do with the WHO. What you've posted is an entirely US thing, so supports the hypothesis "The US is full of bullshit" more than t does "The WHO is full of bullshit". 2. The only reference to the WHO in that is "the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that it did not recommend thalido...
[16:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC Fixes 13 Security Flaws; Booby-Trapped Media File Could Pwn You - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:09] <exec> 08└─A couple of modifications to the vlc.Slackbuild from alien, a download of the sources..run the script, go away for while, voila, one Slackware laptop running 3.0.8 (a priority, as it's the laptop that normally gets used to play random.video.files.from.torrents). I'll copy the package over to the loc...
[16:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have Spotted 8 More Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:24] <exec> 08└─Tesla (of course...) Marconi and others flagged our existence to anyone listening long before Hitler, even if you wanted to restrict it to TV signals, then Baird's experiments again came first...
[16:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:49] <exec> 08└─I've had no luck getting any of the 'modern' BSDs to run, at least not on the middle-aged hardware. Should probably try again on the "new" hardware (only 5 years old! Better grade of dumpster. :) After assloads of distro testing (love your wordo, Gnome variants *should* be called distress not distro...
[16:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:07] <exec> 08└─You see it in kids. Girls will look to others to see if it's ok to climb to the top of the playground. Boys will do it despite whatever looks they get. Females tend toward collective agreement while males are more independent. I'd assume at work, it'll be more stressful for women to push though new...
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[17:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:56] <exec> 08└─So cell phones will microwave people's brains. Wait, what brains? Right, then they have done their jobs already. The solution, of course, is to change the legal limit to enable nuking the brains of non-cell phone users too. We can't use old wired phones, because wires are oooold.
[17:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:58] <exec> 08└─Don't keep your Apple Card in a Leather Wallet, warns Apple. [arstechnica.com] You're storing it wrong!
[17:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:00] <exec> 08└─Chaaa [livingly.com]! So iPhones have a "cheat" switch too, eh?
[17:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:02] <exec> 08└─It would be better if cell phones microwaved popcorn instead of people's brains. What brains? Popcorn for brains! And Jobs is done already. If we all used wired phones, then instead of walking into walls, chairs and fountains, we'd all be getting our extension cords tangled. Could you imagine the ta...
[17:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:04] <exec> 08└─So did Volkswagen!
[17:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:06] <exec> 08└─Apple phones cooking their users brains certainly explains why they have such high brand loyalty.
[17:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:23] <exec> 08└─I agree that there can be problems with the academic paper / conference presentation formats which seem to be the only academic output that officially counts in some circles. But I also know that smart people making arguments backed up with a lot of evidence sometimes require a lot of words (and gra...
[17:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:25] <exec> 08└─There's some very famous names I'd expect to be there.
[17:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:27] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. The rate of advance of science can cause a flurry of activity with numerous (valid) citations between related papers. On the other hand you may find someone referring back to a paper 30 years old that's still valid but not as active... almost geological time scales.
[17:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:29] <exec> 08└─I imagine most every researcher that *doesn't* game the system cares. As do many of the bureaucrats who want a nice easy to use metric that's at least somewhat accurate.
[17:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:58] <exec> 08└─Superb cert service, Sirs!
[17:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:59] <exec> 08└─Probably it is not related to the update, but several times today I got the browser message that soylentnews.org could not be connected. It always works immediately fine on retry. I can't completely exclude a local problem, but since only soylentnews is affected, I suspect a problem of the site.
[17:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:14] <exec> 08└─The only issue is whose product. Must be cloud controller then that is a problem. If you can house the controller on the network then it doesn't matter. If the network is isolated and you control every device they had to have physical access and this attack simply doesn't matter then. They are alrea...
[17:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:49] <exec> 08└─Congress already is AI. They're too stupid to think for themselves so they let big corporations buy their decision.
[17:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adwind Spyware-as-a-Service Attacks Utility Grid Operators - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:57] <exec> 08└─Funny, I had a similar thought (ha, ha, can't catch me, I use FireFox). But someone else decided you were trolling...so, different strokes for different folks.
[17:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:20] <exec> 08└─1950: Five out of six doctors prefer Lucky Strike cigarettes
[17:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No REST for the Wicked: Ruby Gem Hacked to Siphon Passwords, Secrets From Web Devs - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:28] <exec> 08└─TLDR; a universal packaging format/standard, but on top of distros' package managers instead of under them. I haven't packaged anything yet (except simple stuff for myself) so, this may be impossible for some reason, but i would prefer that the gnu\linux ecosystem work together so that language pack...
[17:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:23] <exec> 08└─no, it's b/c illegal aliens are being sent in to vote for democrats, tammany hall style. quit acting stupid.
[17:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:25] <exec> 08└─There's nothing morally wrong about a people wanting to keep the race/culture/family they have built in tact and not turned into dhimmis in their own goddamned country by hordes of invading retards. It's clear you have been brainwashed with anti-goyim "Racism" propaganda.
[17:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:27] <exec> 08└─>> he is fine with immigration as long as integration is achieved. That's BS. He is fine to use immigrants as enemies to get more votes.
[17:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:22] <exec> 08└─Since I have no idea what you're talking about :) ... is this kinda like .INF files, except for linux?
[17:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:24] <exec> 08└─no, realtek is a sick fucking joke. go visit their website and see what pros they are.
[17:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:43] <exec> 08└─Just thought I'd do my part to contribute engineering education to fellow Soylentils. That knowledge in college was so hard won. Want to see my scars?
[17:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:44] <exec> 08└─the right woman would find that romantic and inspiring and be a good ally to you. never give up. that's what they want you to do.
[17:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:07] <exec> 08└─i hope we get a more affordable and latest spec/powerful open hardware desktop mb (and other devices) soon.
[17:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Battery-Free Sensor for Underwater Exploration - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:30] <exec> 08└─Indeed it is, but it's still got energy storage that somehow has to be managed. Be curious to know how they do that.
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[18:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:52] <exec> 08└─The day when an international superterrorist's weapon of choice is a fucking sewing needle aren't too far away.
[18:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:30] <exec> 08└─I don't know about in science, but the number of times I get in internet arguments and someone cites shitty(and sometimes good) social psychology or criminology papers from before 1990 is beyond my ability to count.
[18:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:31] <exec> 08└─You'd think so, but my sense is "other academics are gaming the system" isn't a top 10 even specifically in the space of academic politics. Things like "Fuck I hate writing grant proposals" and "Why is my name third and not second on this paper" and "I need better TAs to take over my teaching duties...
[18:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:34] <exec> 08└─There's also the case of papers that gather very few citations for years, until someone finds an interesting use for it, and then citations skyrocket.
[18:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:04] <exec> 08└─After over 10 years of browsers screaming blue murder over self-signed certs, and several high profile cases of de-factor censorship via cert-withdrawals (e.g. Sci-hub), I've turned off the idea of site certification being a good thing. The usual mantra uttered here is "Security = Encryption + Authe...
[18:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:55] <exec> 08└─The executive branch hasn't been an AI for the past several administrations? Here I was thinking it was all Memorex. It explained so much!
[18:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No REST for the Wicked: Ruby Gem Hacked to Siphon Passwords, Secrets From Web Devs - 1377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:34] <exec> 08└─So, Yet Another Package Format ... you do realize that's how we got into the current mess, right? Why not just statically compile everything and dump it into a tarball along with all necessary data and config files. A malicious update elsewhere in the software ecosystem won't shaft you because your...
[18:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No REST for the Wicked: Ruby Gem Hacked to Siphon Passwords, Secrets From Web Devs - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:36] <exec> 08└─I expected the opposition to another format, which is why i quoted The Lord of the Rings, but you offered an alternative, so i appreciate that. Something to consider.
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[18:54:05] <exec> 08└─BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE
[18:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:33] <exec> 08└─After 5-6 years of not being able to code, and mostly not being able to use a computer, I'm (probably temporarily)_able to see well enough to make out white text on a black background. I had plenty of time to think of what's wrong, from "the flat look" - Google's material design is totally shit when...
[18:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:54] <exec> 08└─Equal Protection Under the Law is not an oxymoron.
[18:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:55] <exec> 08└─I doubt the increase in consumption would've happened without increased marketing to women. The alcohol industry (and I will include the industries that rely on alcohol sales to boost their profits, like clubs, hotels, travel destinations, etc.) needed to expand their market beyond mostly men.
[18:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:57] <exec> 08└─While I agree that enforcing gender stereotypes is problematic, so is the pressure put on both sexes to meet a very limited definition of money/status based success. It's not that women doing more traditionally masculine things is an issue. It's that women are pressured to give up or delay the most...
[18:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:00] <exec> 08└─I like your post, and I like GP. I feel the need to explain my opinion because I'm AC. You are correct for the terms as used, I believe that the intended usage was "A positive feedback loop that has negative overall consequences, where the consequences are not a part of the feedback process."
[18:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:02] <exec> 08└─And neither should the law.
[18:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:04] <exec> 08└─Cheaper off-the-shelf booze with a bigger variety in flavours and price probably also has a lot to do with it. Gone are the days of the only alcohol readily available being either at bars, or six packs of beers at grocers. Even medium sized supermarkets now have entire aisles, yes, aisles of wines a...
[18:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:06] <exec> 08└─You have an odd definition of "never."
[18:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:08] <exec> 08└─#coolwineant
[18:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:10] <exec> 08└─Not yet. They are, however, under increasing activism-driven lawsuit pressure driven by people like MADD (an organisation so prohibition-driven that even their founder said they were getting a little extreme), while their margins are under pressure (note the price wars) and their volumes are under p...
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[19:50:11] <exec> 08└─How Apple creates such rabid fanbois. They literally alter the brains of their users to become fanbois.
[19:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, we could automate the whole process, but it has been discussed and decided that given our... unique configuration, it is best to have a human in the loop than to let a script somehow run amok and then try to restore things when who-all-knows-what got deployed and things have gone sideways.
[19:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:22] <exec> 08└─Claude Shannon showed in the 1940s that statistically-error-free communication is possible over any medium, regardless of how much interference there is on the channel. There is essentially no way to prevent "covert data exfiltration" outright -- we are talking about an application on the "secure" s...
[19:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:36] <exec> 08└─Don't logic with Bot, it is incapable. Irony as usual with RWNJs.
[19:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:36] <exec> 08└─so try this. 1) create Dockerfile 2) make first line "FROM $DISTRO:$VERISON" e.g. FROM ubuntu:18.04 3) make second line "apt-get update && apt-get -y install wget $STUFF" change STUFF for anytools you needed to solve the problem 3) add "RUN " to do what needs to be done to the system. e.g download s...
[19:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:06] <exec> 08└─Rarely enough that I consider myself a non drinker. I'm not even tempted to drink. I only used alcohol for a while once as a medicine in small amounts.
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[20:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:45] <exec> 08└─Or is it just us peasants who get ticketed? (using a smartphone is a moving violation here unless it's used hands free)
[20:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Terrascope": Earth's Atmosphere Could be Used as a Refraction Lens for a Space Telescope - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:52] <exec> 08└─If you like such things - this was covered [youtube.com] in some depth the other day on a youtube channel I follow called 'Event horizon' where Dr. Kipping (who came up with the idea) was the guest.
[20:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:01] <exec> 08└─This shell can be only used underground, where at least some protection is available. It will be a while before humans can live on the surface of other planets. In practice, it might need a new human anyway, in robotic body, for example, as every job on the Moon or Mars (setting aside other planets...
[20:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:03] <exec> 08└─The CO2 for foaming heads, and inflate this unit and makes the human happy while waiting. Beer and Ice Cream makes the world good.
[20:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:05] <exec> 08└─I think the accepted term is Supervillain, actually. They have rules about that sort of thing. You should read this. [fandom.com] They take a dim view of unsanctioned arching.
[20:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:08] <exec> 08└─Hate to burst your bubble, but these things are as strong or stronger than what the ISS is made of, and designed to get slammed with micrometeorites, aka space bullets.
[20:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:10] <exec> 08└─Spoilers abound!
[20:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:12] <exec> 08└─The unacceptable radiation risks are defined to be very low. We can easily foresee a future in which you live in these places and just use regenerative medicine to counteract any damage caused. And you could get into a nice coffin in the event of a solar storm. I see no reason why you couldn't incre...
[20:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:30] <exec> 08└─I guess if you're trying to measure in units of W/kg, you have to do something along these lines, but it's not surprising at all that you would see big differences between Apple labs and a third party test house. I mean, what's in that clear liquid, and why do they think it's a good way of simulatin...
[20:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:54] <exec> 08└─This. My most-cited research paper is the "we made this system, everyone is using it, and more people ought to" from 2011. One of my least cited papers is "oh yea, and it works as designed!" from 2015. My most read paper is "you can use this system for all kinds of things, here are some ideas" from...
[20:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:19] <exec> 08└─I can find no movie, only a 4-season TV thing.
[20:54:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03progo [6356] 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 884 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:44] <exec> 08└─Linux is full of "except…" for casual users. Last week I bought a USB SSD. I quickly found out when I plug it into my Linux netbook, Trim doesn't work; you need to be an advanced user to determine this. If you don't use Trim on an SSD in regular use, you might wear it out faster than normal. It to...
[20:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:00] <exec> 08└─My confusion was more fundamental... as in "what is Docker?" [goes off, roots around] https://www.infoworld.com [infoworld.com] https://takacsmark.com [takacsmark.com] A...
[20:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Use Fake NordVPN Website to Deliver "Win32.Bolik.2" Banking Trojan - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:05] <exec> 08└─You mean like https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
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[21:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:43] <exec> 08└─Police are always exempt from the traffic laws everyone else must obey. Because.
[21:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:45] <exec> 08└─"access policing applications on a dash-mounted display and keyboard." So... their policing applications are on cell phones right now? And they are figuring out that was a mistake and giving them back sort-of-normal in vehicle computers?
[21:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06"Terrascope": Earth's Atmosphere Could be Used as a Refraction Lens for a Space Telescope - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:53] <exec> 08└─While I'm skeptical it could obtain high-quality images, taking the spectrum of an exoplanet might be right up its alley.
[21:50:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 1121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:39] <exec> 08└─The problem for lack of public knowledge isn't closed journals. It's that a lot of scientific papers are, well, super incremental. Most of the ones you read about in the news are actually retreads of well studied things with a fun narrative and a better PR machine behind it. If you go to actual seco...
[21:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:48] <exec> 08└─Citations are objective, by definition. I can count them, they exist. Perhaps you mean that they are not directly relevant to an assumed purpose of research? In that case you are absolutely correct. The problem is that: 1) We should define the purpose ahead of time, and 2) Try and develop objective...
[21:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:51] <exec> 08└─sometimes require a lot of words...people with editing power
[21:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:24] <exec> 08└─Will there be a more detailed write up about that big crash the other day? Or has it just been chalked up to a Rube Goldberg-esq derp?
[21:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:46] <exec> 08└─When they get dirty how do you clean them? Are they disposable?
[21:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:47] <exec> 08└─I planted tomatillo seeds last year from a packet labelled "organic tomatillo seeds". I looked, but the shop didn't seem to stock the inorganic ones.
[21:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:59] <exec> 08└─Wow, sorry to hear your vision went down the crapper. Hope it's stable and gets no worse. Yep, I fondly recall 80x25 (and still see it on my own 27" monitor when my DOS-only box is hooked up), and also not-so-fondly swearing at ATI vidcards because they had their own ideas about a DOS screen font, a...
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[22:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe city cops can live with just smartphones, but police vehicles are equipped with mobile terminals that do not depend on the cellular network. This is necessary for counties, and likely will stay this way for now. City police may or may not want to be tied to commercial services as their only li...
[22:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:52] <exec> 08└─Good thing phones aren't computers! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[22:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:54] <exec> 08└─If you plug a keyboard in, it becomes a computer. Like a RasPi.
[22:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:56] <exec> 08└─That's in Australia, silly. Everyone knows that the moment a phone crosses the Equator, it magically turns into a computer! It just goes along with every other wackiness -- toilets switch direction, mammals lose their pouches for their young, and phones become computers.
[22:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know this thing is strong, but "inflatable habitat" in space just made me think of this recent questionable product idea [avclub.com] of a floating tent.
[22:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:03] <exec> 08└─Citations aren't objective. Far from it. For instance, let's say that there are 4 studies that happened around the same time and more-or-less agree with each other as to their results. Which one gets cited when somebody needs to reference that result? There are a lot of factors that can go into this...
[22:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New YubiKey Will Offer Dual Security for Apple Users - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:15] <exec> 08└─It's true that Twitter is a PITA regarding this. I got around it by asking my local pizza delivery guy if he wanted an extra $10 tip. He said "yes" and I used his mobile number to get the tweet code.
[22:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the job well done! See C shell Sally sells her what?
[22:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:05] <exec> 08└─You mean to wipe it clean? Liike with a cloth?
[22:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:06] <exec> 08└─I mocked them but there is some small amount of validity, you can be reasonably assured that they won't contain traces of poison from Monsanto and company. Same for seeds, though I would say organic seeds are more ridiculous than organic alcohol.
[22:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:08] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately not. There is reasonable evidence that seeds coated with nicotinoids produce plants that produce pollen that is harmful to bees. But there's absolutely no labeling requirement.
[22:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:10] <exec> 08└─That's not what the summary said. What the summary said is "there's no evidence that they are harmful", it didn't say how or whether they'd looked for evidence.
[22:53:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:49] <exec> 08└─The American system is stable. That is the biggest problem with it. You've had the same two parties in control for well over a century with no real opportunity for new blood to enter the system.
[22:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:52] <exec> 08└─If its posting history is any indication it was broke right off the line.
[22:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:54] <exec> 08└─I get the one joke, but the other levels outside "marriage suxorz" makes you a blithering bigot. Happy now? You get "big" right in your adjective!
[22:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:56] <exec> 08└─Only self-taught scars are welcome round there parts boyo /s
[22:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:58] <exec> 08└─Futurama reference https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:00] <exec> 08└─Fancier, maybe, but pretty shit. You've somehow managed to emulate all the worst of humanity.
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[23:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:56] <exec> 08└─The UK and Australia have specific exemptions allowing police persons to use mobile phones while driving. This is more about making sure police departments only buy samsung phones.
[23:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:06] <exec> 08└─I think you're making the mistake of assuming that taking subjective things and counting them will necessarily lead to objective results.
[23:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:43] <exec> 08└─Well, thanks again to martyb, and to the rest of the team. I'll just put in another plug for my attempt [soylentnews.org] to drive some new subscriptions to this site (as well as people already subscribed to donate a bit more). There's a link in that journal post to a more detailed explanation, as m...
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[23:51:45] <exec> 08└─Perfect!!
[23:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:12] <exec> 08└─Funny how that's completely irrelevant to the story, isn't it? I'm with FatPhil [soylentnews.org] on this one.
[23:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:24] <exec> 08└─yes, pretty useful for portability and containers etc... the best thing is the "layers" that it uses are pretty efficient so you can mix and match volumes (ie. layers) in many interesting ways. I've had to hack together wifi for linux laptops with binary windoze drivers and it was always a pain. But...
[23:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:01] <exec> 08└─...do...do you actually like, preview your posts before you hit Submit? Like ever? Because that was a whole lotta nothing right there, topped off with a junior high locker room denizen's idea of "logic" and "owned." What were you even trying to do there?
[23:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:02] <exec> 08└─I can tell you I'm sad to see what it's been twisted into over the millennia and how much mental, physical, and spiritual damage it's done to our menfolk. I can tell you that self-seeking sociopaths have perverted it into a weapon that turns the great mass of men into angry, confused serfs. I can te...
[23:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:04] <exec> 08└─Explain. In detail. Without resorting to your unholy multivolume genocide manual, if you can. Personally, I'd be fine with "just civil unions" so long as the government would see me and my don't-call-her-my-wife exactly the same as a het pair. The word "marriage" is less important than the actions b...
[23:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:06] <exec> 08└─If only that were true we could upload a hotfix for that hotmess.
[23:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:09] <exec> 08└─And you're just wetting yourself in gleeful anticipation waiting for that to happen ain'tcha Opus Dei?
[23:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:11] <exec> 08└─Who are these people dumping money on me? Gee I wish I could get some of that sweet sweet liberal conspiracy coin!
[23:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:13] <exec> 08└─Ooooh, do I smell a little hint of bitterness here? Have you decided to Go Your Own Way (TM) after this happened to you, and some kind stranger offered you a crimson capsule?
[23:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:15] <exec> 08└─Interesting take on it, though I'd say our society crushes genuine masculinity just as hard in pursuit of the almighty dollar...which after all is genderless, even though all our currency has mens' faces on it! Seems like a giant eating machine that shits out broken people and makes them fight each...
[23:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like mens' evolution is suddenly becoming maladaptive in regards to the societies, rules, and laws that, let's be entirely real here, have been built almost completely by men. Hmm. Hmm, hmm, hmm...makes you think. Or it should. Somehow I doubt it will.
[23:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:19] <exec> 08└─Oh, plenty, just not the ones our resident bitter manchildren like to think :) Why, though, do so many people think the only positions anyone holds are either 18th-century patriarchialism or some sort of postmodern strawman idea that there are no differences whatsoever between the sexes? What happen...
[23:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:21] <exec> 08└─Seconding the AC below you. Where do I get some of this money? I am in desperate need of it.
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