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[00:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:26] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, minimum wage was $3.35 per hour, but $2.02 per hour for anybody "working for tips" with the proviso that tips, as reported on their income tax statement, must bring them up to at least $3.35 per hour. The brighter busboys who could do the math would always report tips that just bare...
[00:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:27] <exec> 08└─I worked in a Holiday Inn breakfast restaurant one summer, nice spot by the pool on a really great beach. 1984, I think, and we'd get guys in there who'd order a $2 cup of coffee and leave a $3 tip... Anyway, the hostess was a pregnant witch all summer, and she could "read" the clientele coming in t...
[00:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:29] <exec> 08└─It definitely feels like actionable fraud if they falsely indicated that they were taking money as a tip that would go straight to the driver. Any given person in unlikely to sue over a few dollars they paid for tips. But it's pretty much exactly the sort of thing that class action lawsuits were mad...
[00:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:31] <exec> 08└─This has been going on for far longer than that. It also depends on region. In the US South, during slavery it was normal that much of the waitstaff were unpaid slaves. Giving them tips was seen as a way of demonstrating how generous the patron of the restaurant was. For some perspective on that: ht...
[00:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:33] <exec> 08└─I think tipping is the norm with Amazon's same-day delivery of fresh groceries...? Whatever it is, I don't think it's the regular package delivery that's being discussed.
[00:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:35] <exec> 08└─O.K. sure, Aldi just started delivering here and they "suggest" a 5% delivery tip on their receipt... pretty reasonable considering Aldi's prices are about 30% below most of the competition around here.
[00:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:38] <exec> 08└─It's a gratuity. A little token of appreciation. It's not a purchase. To me, it seems terribly wrong to even think of taxing tips... much less consider them a wage. And, no, I am not wait staff. If I want to give somebody something, especially something of a token nature, it's between me and them. I...
[00:50:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:47] <exec> 08└─Block HTML5 canvas (or javascript), or you will suffer from HTML5 animations or Ruffle flash animations. But it's a good move for content preservation. Maybe Internet Archive will join in.
[00:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:51] <exec> 08└─I hope they will think during implementation and make it efficient. When YT dropped Flash, they should pay some environmental pollution fine as poor implementation of any possible codec made energy usage at least two times more than with Flash. Maybe proprietary, but implemented with good assumption...
[00:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:53] <exec> 08└─There was one where you were a miner and shot hooks into the ground to grab nuggets. At the time I had a 20 minute link, plus any files you had to compile (change the wrong header file and you could go home for the day, even if it was 7 AM). That game was a great time sink while waiting for code to...
[00:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:55] <exec> 08└─There may be a solid use case for businesses. I have clients who rely on SaaS websites that still use Flash quite heavily and have been painfully slow to migrate away. These are large, complex systems for which no viable alternatives currently exist.
[00:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:57] <exec> 08└─If Adobe owns the property rights to all ActionScript, couldn't they shut this down? Also, Google and Mozilla have been pushing hard to kill Flash, what's to prevent them from blocking this too? Lastly, why wouldn't Adobe have ported to Web Assembly themselves? Why retire the product/tooling if ther...
[00:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:10] <exec> 08└─const doesn't necessarily make objects immutable though. The variable can be changed elsewhere. const instead specifies access permissions to a variable.
[00:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Warns of $25,000 Fine for "Weaponizing Drones" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:55] <exec> 08└─Drones are the modern crossbow...
[00:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Warns of $25,000 Fine for "Weaponizing Drones" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:56] <exec> 08└─Or you could just throw a brick at him, it would probably do more damage AND be more accurate.... just sayin...
[00:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:25] <exec> 08└─And the guys putting on the concerts DID breath it every day. So have millions of vapers for the last 10 years or more. That we are now suddenly seeing an acute reaction suggests something was different in what they were vaping. Or even that vaping might be a red herring distracting from another com...
[00:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:26] <exec> 08└─How many non-vapers are getting these lung issues?
[00:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:28] <exec> 08└─As far as we know, none. That's why I suspect that it's something only a few people are using in their liquid rather than the PG, VG, or nicotine.
[00:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neil Young on Sound Quality - 1940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you thank you. There is SO much misinformation here it's too painful to respond to most of it. People are getting modded to +5 for complete nonsense and mental exercises. This is mostly a theory / philosophical discussion. I actually DO this work (part-time) and worked for years under a Grammy...
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[01:50:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly.
[01:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:06] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as an actually tolerant Liberal. It's a Saquatch. They're all ghouls.
[01:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:56] <exec> 08└─When the law has been in place for a while I would expect them to start ratcheting the value downwards. If you have to install the ability to do non-cash transactions it is not much of a hardship to lower the point at which transactions must be non-cash. They may claim it is for drugs, but really it...
[01:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:57] <exec> 08└─Thanks Captain Obvious, we can see that, it's happening anyway.
[01:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neil Young on Sound Quality - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:26] <exec> 08└─I'll add some numbers: average car interior is on the order of 60-70 dB SPL. That doesn't mean the music has to be above 70 to hear it, but it certainly sets a rough baseline. Yes, humans can hear 140 dB dynamic range, but it's not pleasant for most normal people. Music is pretty loud at 85 dB. So...
[01:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neil Young on Sound Quality - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:27] <exec> 08└─I buy a lot of early CDs at thrift stores. The ones before the 'loudness wars' have that old block of text somewhere on the insert 'apologizing' for the fact that "the sound material came from an Analog source and there will be inherent defects because of that." The irony is kind of rich.
[01:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neil Young on Sound Quality - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:29] <exec> 08└─To add just a bit more info, I believe Crosby Stills Nash & Young played at Woodstock.
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[02:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian PayID Platform Hacked Exposing Millions of Users on the NPP - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:14] <exec> 08└─Iocaine powder comes from Australia, since we are discussing Greenland.
[02:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian PayID Platform Hacked Exposing Millions of Users on the NPP - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:16] <exec> 08└─TFA specifically mentions that "Tens of Thousands" of customers are affected. Summary states "Millions". Not sure where the error crept in. FYI, I am an Australian, and I didn't even know that PayID was a thing. Lucky me, I guess.
[02:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:31] <exec> 08└─The Wikipedia article on tipping seems a bit more balanced. [wikipedia.org] I like this bit: Until the early 20th century, Americans viewed tipping as inconsistent with the values of an egalitarian, democratic society.
[02:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:32] <exec> 08└─To make sure the tip goes where intended (the person providing the service), I usually tip in cash. As soon as the tip is added to a credit card receipt, or any other (e)payment, there's no way of knowing where it goes.
[02:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:34] <exec> 08└─Yep. I do the same. Then the person I give the tip to can decide for themselves how much of it they want to share. If they don't want to share with the boss then I'm OK with that. Considering that this is being done with the government's blessing, then if they don't want to share with Uncle Sam I'm...
[02:51:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:54] <exec> 08└─>I use const all the time You mean, like, constantly?
[02:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:17] <exec> 08└─Another article: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] "One exam, though, picked up something unusual — evidence of abnormal immune ce...
[02:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:11] <exec> 08└─Some bible translations have the number 626 instead of 666. No doubt there's some interesting history there.
[02:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:12] <exec> 08└─Most of y'all are probably too young to remember this, but back when I was a kid, every kind of bank account cost you a certain amount per month, often significant. Naturally the bank's ideal was for everyone to have both savings and checking accounts...
[02:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Sued for Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns to Get Address for Swatting - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:35] <exec> 08└─Part of the effect of this lawsuit is that it will put to official court record exactly what the defendant did, including his fraudulent 911 call. So this actually aids the effort to put this jerk in prison.
[02:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Sued for Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns to Get Address for Swatting - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:36] <exec> 08└─Counterpoint: Some of the people who don't gaf, do things for the lulz, and are all about making money appear at least to be extremely religious. There are and have always been completely selfish jerks out there. We should take steps as a society to prevent these folks from doing too much harm to ev...
[02:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deadly Superbug Outbreak in Humans Linked to Antibiotic Spike in Cows - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:35] <exec> 08└─The reason why they hit coop dairies is that they have a propensity to sell raw milk. Raw milk is linked to around 13% of all food-borne illness outbreaks every year and the vast majority of dairy outbreaks (since they started tracking the number is almost 97% vs a little over 3% where it was pasteu...
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[03:50:28] <exec> 08└─Like all real men do.
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[03:50:29] <exec> 08└─My HP Jornada 620 is stuck with IE4. No Java, no flash.
[03:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian PayID Platform Hacked Exposing Millions of Users on the NPP - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:40] <exec> 08└─The news will reach you when your hand delivered Internet connection catches up next year.
[03:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:59] <exec> 08└─Indeed, which is why I clarified it with regards to region. Of course it varies by occupation as well. The link I included came from that very same Wikipedia article. Though, perhaps a little more context would be helpful regarding timelines: https://www.fordfoundation.org
[03:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:00] <exec> 08└─"I've already paid tax on this money." You don't understand how taxation works, do you?
[03:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:03] <exec> 08└─The law techically *DOES* require taxes paid on all those 'gifts' you mentioned. It just happens that the majority of them are so priced that the paperwork to do so has never been feasible, and if nobody tells, the tax men don't know. Expect to see it go the way of automated speed ticketing in the n...
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[03:51:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks.
[03:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there were some security bugs, yeah it didn't integrate with the rest of the page, but it gave you 20 yrs ago what we are desperately trying to create today and still don't usually achieve despite countless man-hours and complexity. The modern web is stupid. Give me a rewrite for those SPAs.
[03:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:21] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to Gnash, the GNU replacement for Flash? I never did get Gnash to work on much, but improvements were supposedly coming soon.
[03:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:23] <exec> 08└─Back in the days of java and activex plugins, when the browser was immature and didn't have sufficient features baked in. One it surpassed a certain subset of features it made more financial sense for Adobe to produce a product that generates HTML5+CSS+JS rather than attempting to keep Flash competi...
[03:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:36] <exec> 08└─They're my constant companions.
[03:54:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:24] <exec> 08└─Alternatively: Australia degrades to a barter economy
[03:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:47] <exec> 08└─I expect it will eventually be something even simpler -- amateur coin minting. Real-value coins would be very small and easily concealed. And then everything old is new again, as we reinvent 'money'.
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[04:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:31] <exec> 08└─One riot, one Ranger, remember? Mess with Texas, and they'll send a Ranger after you! What, you thought Robocop and the Terminator were bad? Boy, you in some deeeeep SHIT when that Ranger comes in your door!
[04:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:41] <exec> 08└─No Java, no flash.
[04:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian PayID Platform Hacked Exposing Millions of Users on the NPP - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:53] <exec> 08└─IP over snail? On topic, this is what happens when banks collaborate (well, this or rate fixing)
[04:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:16] <exec> 08└─Tipping has a longer history [wikipedia.org] than the times of Medieval Europe.
[04:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Warns of $25,000 Fine for "Weaponizing Drones" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:36] <exec> 08└─Flying a drone is not equivalent to bearing an arm. To bear means to carry. Learn to read.
[04:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Warns of $25,000 Fine for "Weaponizing Drones" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:37] <exec> 08└─"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
[04:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:06] <exec> 08└─Pepperidge Farm remembers....
[04:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:08] <exec> 08└─616, not 626, IIRC, and nothing very interesting: nun ("n") is valued at 50, so 616 is just "Nero Qaisar."
[04:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Sued for Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns to Get Address for Swatting - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:32] <exec> 08└─These laws are being used to stifle speech ...
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[04:56:30] <exec> 08└─"Remember, the Catholic Church burned Galileo at the stake... Pope Francis had to apologize for that blunder." Galileo was threatened with this if he did not recant. Galileo was 68 years old and sick. Threatened with torture, he publicly confessed that he had been wrong to have said that the Earth m...
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[05:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:42] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the North Koreans, who are possibly behind this attack.
[05:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:44] <exec> 08└─Wanna bet it'll be the Chinese this time? 'Cause the trade war needs supported by a populace that didn't see the big butiful wall and you ain't gonna convince them that more expensive gizmos are good for them. (incidentally, Texas is the blue state with the highest population, moving party preferenc...
[05:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian PayID Platform Hacked Exposing Millions of Users on the NPP - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:06] <exec> 08└─FYI, I am an Australian, and I didn't even know that PayID was a thing.
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[05:51:49] <exec> 08└─I've seen a couple of web archivers murmur about getting involved. One reason they like it is that the official flash player has broken old files in the past, so something like this could allow all flash content to be played, even the broken ones. Another is that, as open source, they won't have to...
[05:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:50] <exec> 08└─"the classics (which stopped working when the plugin was banned from his system)." That's just wrong. Forget the plugin. Get a standalone player. Flash was never such a bad thing, what made it suck was their insistence it needed to be installed as a plugin to the browser where it didn't belong.
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[05:51:52] <exec> 08└─Gnash is currently not being actively maintained, as most of the internet has moved to using HTML5. There are literally millions of flash files that Gnash can play, as well as YouTube videos. As Adobe is letting their flash player die on most platforms, Gnash will be critical in the future for anyon...
[05:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:54] <exec> 08└─For anyone who is concerned about Flash's reputation for security - this project is entirely open source and any security issues would be issues with the web browser itself
[05:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:56] <exec> 08└─If I'm reading it right, it doesn't require a "plugin". Instead it uses an extension to throw in some JavaScript in place of where the embedded flash would be in HTML pages. Any security issue would be a vulnerability affecting the entire javascript implementation and/or sandbox model of the web bro...
[05:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:59] <exec> 08└─Sure, but that's the same as the 360 assembly language argument, you can write buggy, insecure code in Javascript as well as any other language. In fact there's entire industries that churn out buggy, unsafe Javascript, and endless CVEs to accompany their work.
[05:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TCL Roadmap Leak Shows Off 5G, Foldable Phones for 2020 - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:19] <exec> 08└─I also don't get it.. will the OS be written in Tcl? Is the 5G modem code implemented in Tcl? And why would your choice of scripting language dictate whether the phone is foldable? Should also probably point out, just as a general aside, that every phone is foldable at least once.
[05:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Warns of $25,000 Fine for "Weaponizing Drones" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:05] <exec> 08└─How about a tow cable attached to a drone to fly you around while you carry a bazooka (the anti-tank weapon)?
[05:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:39] <exec> 08└─Sprinkling scary statistics into the article is not for perspective my friend.
[05:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:38] <exec> 08└─Damn, but that is an unclear emoji. 🎶 I had to look it up as it doesn't look like musical notes to me, maybe a purple squirrel...but not notes even close up.
[05:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:39] <exec> 08└─So called Nazis? They we in power for 25 years. Their shitty philosophy persists to this very day. You diminish the point of your post with this assertion.
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[06:50:56] <exec> 08└─The paper is paywalled. Since we can't read it, what's left? Appeal to authority is not a valid argument.
[06:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:57] <exec> 08└─In 2100, none of the current politicians will still be in office. So they won't care about the GDP in 2100.
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[06:51:09] <exec> 08└─incidentally, Texas is the blue state with the highest population
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[06:51:10] <exec> 08└─IDK - Jan 2017 showed a 21 point approval for Trump. It reduced to 6 points only now. https://morningconsult.com [morningconsult.com]
[06:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:21] <exec> 08└─Eventually this will be the default version of Edge in Windows – meaning you won't be able to uninstall it. Microsoft has effectively handed Google their very own telemetry feed...
[06:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, in order to make this an example, it would need to have been an extern that the compiler couldn't know the value of at runtime. Except then all it would do would be a test of avoiding reloads of const externs, not of opcode substututions. And in the absence of a volatile, the const would give t...
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[06:53:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a 'restrict' would have made the example better. Rather than saying "const didn't help the compiler optimise maximally, so don't bother using const", the article should have been "why doesn't the compiler do the optimisation I wanted?". This is an article about how useless cars are for getting...
[06:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:39] <exec> 08└─By your logic putting two lines of code in a function and calling the function 2k times is the real rea processing power waste. Calling functions is expenssive.
[06:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:01] <exec> 08└─That is a reasonable place to look. One absolute rule for formulating e-juice is NEVER use an oil. Just don't. It's too bad not everyone knows that. The problem was self-limiting when vape businesses were almost exclusively Mom'N'Pop operations made up of people who mixed their own and decided to go...
[06:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:01] <exec> 08└─There is absolutely nothing that prevents a bank from charging you a fee as is. This is totally different.
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[07:50:53] <exec> 08└─If you really really want to know... There was a site, something with sci and some axle, or center or about a point from where the spokes radiate. In Russia It also had an .onion presence and a page on wikipedia. And a twitter account, with the domain names where you can access the service spelled o...
[07:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:55] <exec> 08└─I try to avoid using such terms, but none other fit. Not only trying to predict the GDP in 80 years, but to predict a specific percent impact of a specific event, down to a tenth of a percent, and definitively declare as such? When we can't even predict such things to anywhere near that precision on...
[07:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:57] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately pretty much this. However they get a great reception at symposiums and conferences, and are easy to get published.. so... They basically take the output of a bunch of iterative unproven models (and if you dont know why iterative models are high risk, then you should find out.. hint: er...
[07:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:59] <exec> 08└─No need to be so snarky, not everybody knows about such things. [wikipedia.org]
[07:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:02] <exec> 08└─Are you sure about that? Don't tell Nancy Pelosi, or Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Both have been profesionally preserved, with guarantees for 250 years.
[07:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:04] <exec> 08└─Modded up for visibility. Not only do these climate people claim to be experts on weather and climate and such. They are trying to dislodge all the psychics and other nutjobs who make meaningless predictions based on nothing. How many Gypsy women with crystal balls have been put out of work with thi...
[07:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:06] <exec> 08└─They're just going to have their way with it until the world agrees to their agendas.
[07:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:08] <exec> 08└─I try to avoid using such terms, but none other fit. Not only trying to predict the GDP in 80 years, but to predict a specific percent impact of a specific event,
[07:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:32] <exec> 08└─Ford is rebranding Chevrolet vehicles for sale at Ford dealerships. Ford and General Motors will share tracking information, to some degree, though details of the agreement are not available. BMW says it is openening negotiations with Nissan for a similar arrangement.
[07:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:54] <exec> 08└─Not that you can't create counter-examples without, perhaps we should also be teaching programmers the evils of global variables, so that when the simplest counter-examples such as yours (yet, apparently, too complex for the AC to understand - what is the correct moderation for such a useless post?)...
[07:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was thinking specifically CBD oil, what with it being all the rage lately. (That adding it to your vape might be completely nonsensical and useless... well, that never stopped anyone.) But it could be any oil, including accidental micro-contamination from tag ends of the packaging process, o...
[07:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Sued for Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns to Get Address for Swatting - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe there should be a three-strikes rule for takedown requests: If you do three false takedown requests, you lose the copyright on whatever work you falsely claimed was infringed upon.
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[08:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-on-a-Chip Drives Search for New Drugs to Prevent Blood Clots - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:59] <exec> 08└─Always wanted a "lab on a chip", particularly with a Hot Blonde CEO, adept in the "Art of the Deal" and Oral sex. The romance is gone, biotech boys! Back to the old buggery until something actually works.
[08:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:18] <exec> 08└─climate people claim to be experts on weather and climate
[08:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:19] <exec> 08└─I have the Theoretical Degree in Physics!
[08:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:21] <exec> 08└─2019 (current year) minus 80 = 1939. Hey, isn't that like, sometime real close to the Second World War? And, like, Hitler, and Mussolini, and stuff like Pearl Harbor, and the Invasion of Poland?
[08:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:23] <exec> 08└─You know, it's rather dumb to comment on things you don't understand.
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[08:51:36] <exec> 08└─IDK - Jan 2017 showed a 21 point approval for Trump. It reduced to 6 points only now.
[08:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:25] <exec> 08└─Geez, some "loved one" could get me all snared up with the feds by gifting me something I didn't want that much anyway. Maybe if the Government brings it up, maybe it will put a damper on all this holiday spending, where someone buys a bunch of crap for me, then I feel I have to reciprocate in kind....
[08:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:11] <exec> 08└─Good to know <;->
[08:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:13] <exec> 08└─One of the nice features of Go is that it has real constants.
[08:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Sued for Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns to Get Address for Swatting - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of religion either, because it's a surrogate for logical moral behavior. I have no problem with decline of religion, but I believe that possible side effects should be considered. Of course you will always have ruthless people and I agree that you have to prevent them from hurting othe...
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[09:51:07] <exec> 08└─they're talking about trends and averages. these can be predicted with good confidence. climate predictions are fairly accurate, and you're welcome to investigate them in detail. and climate does control GDP: how much energy do you have; how much energy do you need to produce things, move things aro...
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[09:51:09] <exec> 08└─1939 was 80 years ago. What percent of the GDP do you reckon they thought would be driven by internet based companies? How about manufacturing? I'm sure you see the point. Relative or absolute is no less absurd my boorish friend. Similarly the issue I mentioned is one that climatologists are well aw...
[09:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:09] <exec> 08└─Any ceo of any company who steals tips in any way should go to prison, that's theft. In every single way mr. bozos has used the asymetrical advantages of the internet like a sociopath, all for him, let everyone else rot. Ban him from space, send him to jail, we need ceos who use the internet and com...
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[09:53:55] <exec> 08└─> can be made slightly faster because the compiler knows that *x is constant The compiler knows *x is constant only if you use constexpr [1], and optimizes for that. You will want to repeat all your benchmarks with this small fix. Remember that this works only if the value is known at compile time....
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[10:53:47] <exec> 08└─If you are coding in one of the modern and incredibly complex dialects of C++. C programmers know what they are doing,
[10:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's scary. She may get promoted and asked to supervise snowflake's blackbox gay code, and that sucks.
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[11:50:32] <exec> 08└─... but some are less shallow than others.
[11:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-on-a-Chip Drives Search for New Drugs to Prevent Blood Clots - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:45] <exec> 08└─Back to the old buggery until something actually works.
[11:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:09] <exec> 08└─It's just more fake government statistics at this point. Just like all the economic "data" they fudge for political reasons all the time, multiple times each.
[11:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:11] <exec> 08└─I have half an idea on how to fight pollution which is the elephant in the room climate change is trying to distract us from. Whatever is yours, I guess you can browse the Paris docs and find nothing Concrete about it. Economy is dead, anyway. All is finance and finance is fraud.
[11:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:24] <exec> 08└─Get them Norks to pay for a wall round Texas - all problems solved.
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[11:51:36] <exec> 08└─Chromium is an open source project, so anyone can customize it and be aware of its code base, and it can be built from the source code. Google Chrome is just Google's own binary distribution, but anyone can modify or compile Chromium. Its not like Microsoft is taking a binary blob from google and ad...
[11:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:01] <exec> 08└─C:/>
[11:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:03] <exec> 08└─Still mining Monero on other people's computers? Tse, tse.
[11:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neil Young on Sound Quality - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:06] <exec> 08└─Old man, take a look at your life; I'm a lot like you were.
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[12:50:34] <exec> 08└─Relying on a bug bounty program as the entirety of your security strategy is terrible risk management. Using a bug bounty program as part of your risk management strategy can be a good idea - provided you already have other, better pieces of the strategy in place. Things like static analysis of your...
[12:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:15] <exec> 08└─I have half an idea on how to ...
[12:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:17] <exec> 08└─So why can't TFS link to that site instead?
[12:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:18] <exec> 08└─Trump does not age: https://www.washingtontimes.com [washingtontimes.com]
[12:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:20] <exec> 08└─And weep or laugh, whichever is your preference.
[12:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:22] <exec> 08└─The GDP will fall when you all die, unless you move this money around with carbon credits while doing nothing about the developing countries. Just think about how much we'll accomplish with those new taxes: we could start programs to harass individuals while letting the major polluters buy their way...
[12:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:25] <exec> 08└─I have heard that. Funny thing about being president, or senator, or congressman - when you're a politician, you're always on the make. Lying, swindling, wheeling and dealing, trying to make some money on everything. Trump? Let's remember, he's not a politician, he's a real estate shyster. He has bi...
[12:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:27] <exec> 08└─then whichever shit happens with the climate, will be the very least of problems afflicting the luckless wretches ill-fated to be alive at the time.
[12:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:54] <exec> 08└─Why would anybody who gives a wet slap about telemetry be using Windows (without extensive precautions) in the first place? Plus, as noted by others, Chromium is open source, so Microsoft have had plenty of choice to s/slurp.google.com/snoop.microsoft.com/...
[12:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:56] <exec> 08└─This seems like a very strange thing for Microsoft to do. Back in the late 90s they would have moved the earth before placing third party software as a centerpiece on their OS. On the other hand, this probably means that Microsoft is taking more control of the Chrome code base. Either way, they are...
[12:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Last Single-Stick Delta Rocket Launched Thursday, and It Put on a Show - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:33] <exec> 08└─another rocket test where the complete rocket was succesfully obliterated in the ocean whilst ejecting some stuff mounted on the top during flight ...
[12:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:58] <exec> 08└─That looks like another one. Interesting. My mother-in-law, and Anglican priest (priestess?), pointed out the 626 to me in her copy of the bible. I no longer have access to it, so I can't check it any more.
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[13:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:50] <exec> 08└─But but, it is IoT! IoT is new! IoT is AI. IoT is! It must be better. It must be secure. Because it has the word Safe in its product name. But but! My IoT religion disallows this device to be worse than just leaving the door open! But but but!
[13:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:51] <exec> 08└─There's no security on the InTernet. You know, the Information Superhighway.
[13:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:49] <exec> 08└─We need tremor credits to pay for people who benefit from fracking, which is all of us.
[13:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:50] <exec> 08└─Not saying the predictions are wrong, but these are the kinds of conclusions that are amplified by certain interest groups: CALL TO ARMS, WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!! Since all the predictions are basically more noise than signal, the ones that get promoted and circulated are the ones that line up...
[13:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:52] <exec> 08└─Possibly related: I just read in a youtube live chat that if Trump wins the next election he is going to rock the world.
[13:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:07] <exec> 08└─When will people learn about backups? The first ransom attack I heard of was in the 70's, carried out by a Shell Oil employee. He walked out of the Rotterdam computer centre with the operational hard drive and the backup, left the country, and demanded a million in ransom. (I forget which currency....
[13:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:01] <exec> 08└─No it's not reasonable. The whole practice of tipping is insane and the sooner it ends the better.
[13:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:26] <exec> 08└─I don't get all the evil flash ads again and it doesn't activate until I tell it to.
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[14:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:45] <exec> 08└─What is "smart" about these speakers? Oh, they trigger when you talk to them. That's not smart, that's interactive. Do the speakers analyze your command and do what you ask? Oh, they mostly relay that info to some other system that processes the query? That's not smart, that's a remote terminal. Doe...
[14:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:46] <exec> 08└─You don't understand. With all these things the smart part is always in the cloud. At home stays the dumb part, you.
[14:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:56] <exec> 08└─When you are detecting the bad, then you are jammed. What should have happened is the lock should be detecting the good (closed position) and fail if it can no longer detect that. Then you get alarm in case of no batteries, jammed, malfunction, whatever. Like with all alarm systems, what can you liv...
[14:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:58] <exec> 08└─Always. How expensive are these easy to crack systems? Are you willing to have that level of vulnerability / are you willing to pay for a higher level of security? Are you willing to pay for bars on your windows and 9/11-airplane-door-quality framing and locking systems that are difficult to pick an...
[14:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relying on Bug Bounties 'Not Appropriate Risk Management': Katie Moussouris - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:09] <exec> 08└─They provide an incentive not to take the other bug bounty paid in stolen bitcoins.
[14:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relying on Bug Bounties 'Not Appropriate Risk Management': Katie Moussouris - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:11] <exec> 08└─Some statements on security are quite shallow too.
[14:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:03] <exec> 08└─Cool! He's going to start a band? Greatful Deaf?
[14:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:04] <exec> 08└─everything on the left side is always fried, i reckon.
[14:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:06] <exec> 08└─Will not bother all economies however, only the richest. So if you want fewer refugees, fix the climate.
[14:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:08] <exec> 08└─He is going to Make America Grateful Again: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:10] <exec> 08└─Interesting logic. Turn your country into a poor shithole, so economic migrants look elsewhere.
[14:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:26] <exec> 08└─Most of this ransomware comes from former soviet states. He'll I'd be doing it too if I lived there. No real chance of being caught and those countries don't extradite.
[14:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:27] <exec> 08└─To pay a ransom, you have to buy bitcoin. Who is selling?
[14:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:43] <exec> 08└─I'll bet that maintaining their own complete browser codebase does not provide enough revenue under their current business model to justify the cost. It is unfortunate; I was trying to save some capacitor characteristic curves from AVX's online tool using print to PDF, and chrome kept screwing up th...
[14:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:44] <exec> 08└─"Chrom...Edge ... I've never prayed to you before, I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. What we coded, or why it crashed. All that matters is that many stood against one. That's what's important! Skill pleases you, Chrom...Edge, so grant me one req...
[14:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:23] <exec> 08└─The tip system is the server does well and the customer rewards. The goal is a feedback system to cause things to be done well. The feedback system requires the server to see which customer tips for which service. If Amazon is preventing this visibility, they are taking money they shouldn't (the tip...
[14:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, heaven forfend you show someone real gratitude by offering them some of your extra cash to say you appreciated what they personally did for you over and above what their job requires them. (And, contrariwise, when down on my luck many times I have most apologetically said 'I'm sorry that I don'...
[14:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, the tax men have the *entire database of what everyone pays* and can easily run searches for outliers. I know many bartenders whose operative practice is report everything normal lest one shows up as a blip on the audit radar. A bartender who says "0 tips!" is begging for an audit *** unle...
[14:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:52] <exec> 08└─It was indeed an SWF ad for Splunk on the green site that first led me to consider blocking Flash ads, first at the /etc/hosts level and later with click-to-play add-ons. I did so with a clear conscience: any advertiser wanting to reach me could still do so by using a medium other than SWF. But even...
[14:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 1712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:22] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Const is a valuable modifier that should be applied to any function interface where you're accepting parameters by reference, unless you explicitly intend to modify those parameters. Not because it makes code faster. Not even because it guarantees that the parameters won't be changed (it...
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[15:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:34] <exec> 08└─On the bright side, maybe it will dilute the lead somewhat.
[15:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:35] <exec> 08└─Flint is still under the thumb of the unelected rule of an "Emergency Manager" appointed by Snyder and the attached "Advisory council" who refuse to let them spend money on necessities like... you know keeping infrastructure functioning. The block grant from the federal government for fixing the lea...
[15:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:46] <exec> 08└─Thin Client, Voice Interface - same thing that's been in the phones for years, but with a different package. 89 yuan explains a lot, I paid $25 for my TCVI connected to the evil overlords, and have never seen it for less but often for $49 - pretty clear choice for the Chinese speaking population whe...
[15:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:47] <exec> 08└─Aww, man. You countered my snark with truth. No fair! :) And someone wants to use it (knowing it isn't smart but a TCVI), great! I might decide to catch up with the technology sometime in the next 50 years. But first, I just installed this thing at home that lets me have water actually run into my h...
[15:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relying on Bug Bounties 'Not Appropriate Risk Management': Katie Moussouris - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:10] <exec> 08└─They also get your name on a list of 'interesting people' who can be rounded up and disposed of once the police state is ready for the next step. Do you really buy the whole "we're the good guys hoax" ?
[15:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:07] <exec> 08└─Hm, interesting logic. Electric generators running on free sunbeams on every rooftop = poor shithole. I guess only rich countries can afford to mine, transport, burn, and clean up after centralized industrial power like coal.
[15:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:23] <exec> 08└─"If Amazon is preventing this visibility, they are taking money they shouldn't (the tip) and using it for another purpose (not sure what?) even if the server ends up with all of it." My understanding is that the boss is pocketing the money. "What are they thinking? Is there some customer advantage t...
[15:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:52] <exec> 08└─If Adobe owns the property rights to all ActionScript, couldn't they shut this down?
[15:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:53] <exec> 08└─The difference is that should an escape be discovered in JavaScript or WebAssembly, the browser publisher has power to fix it in an update. If I recall correctly, the major browser publishers have a better record on sandboxing hygiene than Adobe ever did.
[15:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:55] <exec> 08└─Yikes. Sounds like that commenter needs a hot meal.
[15:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:57] <exec> 08└─[As long as] I don't get all the evil flash ads again
[15:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:00] <exec> 08└─The difference is that with this solution, there aren't any more browser exploits than there were without it. Since everything is JS/HTML5, any exploits could be done just as well without this tool as with it (by simply using the proper HTML5/JS directly.
[15:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:29] <exec> 08└─More like the owners and managers who recognize harassment and gay bashing don't hire people who create hostile work environments, and intelligent open source projects don't give a shit about your mad skillz until you learn to be a human being who doesn't hold people's sexual orientations or physiol...
[15:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:31] <exec> 08└─Finding opportunities to expand a function inline as if it were a macro is why compiler developers invented link-time optimization (LTO). SQLite uses a related technique called "amalgamation," where the entire library is compiled as a single translation unit.
[15:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Warns of $25,000 Fine for "Weaponizing Drones" - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe the not stupid fucking thing to write is that it's OK that the United States can issue an execution order on foreigners and have that remotely delivered by drone like Amazon wants to bring your new undies to you. No, it is not completely unrelated. At all. If gun control advocates can suggest...
[15:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Warns of $25,000 Fine for "Weaponizing Drones" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:24] <exec> 08└─Which was the result of your neighbor drinking his beer often and not drinking Dos Equis? Stay homicidal, my friend.
[15:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Sued for Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns to Get Address for Swatting - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:30] <exec> 08└─I like it, but it should be your ability to claim infringement for a time. Part of the issue is that there are multiple ways a fraudulent claim may be submitted: For each: actual infringement, not infringement by fair use but not recognized by claimant, not infringement because the piece use doesn't...
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[16:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:33] <exec> 08└─Bright? More like the brown side... *farts*
[16:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:44] <exec> 08└─I've literally got to do this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] so the kids will start taking showers again... But, so much easier to buy a $25 widget at Lowes and marvel at how well it can hear and understand you even while it's playing music (self-echo-cancellation algorit...
[16:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:46] <exec> 08└─“Smart” means it’s got a microphone inside.
[16:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:57] <exec> 08└─It's not an Iot hack. It's jamming the signal from the sensor to the base with RF. Many years ago CB radios with (now illegal) linear amplifiers would set off burglar alarms too.
[16:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:58] <exec> 08└─The trifecta of price vs. convenience vs utility is difficult. People often want a cheap, convenient system that works just right, which, unfortunately, is rarely achievable in real life. Many modern-day alarm systems are not well designed and only (barely?) do the job they say on the box. Since all...
[16:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:23] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know the breakdown of compromised operating systems.
[16:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:42] <exec> 08└─but how many web developers will support it when almost everyone is using a chromium based browser?
[16:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:43] <exec> 08└─Please try to understand the difference between a browser and a renderer before posting nonsense like this.
[16:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:30] <exec> 08└─Completely untrue. In this case, const and constexpr will be equivalent.
[16:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah but that's why God had to invent const_cast to override the excessive use of const by others to protect us.
[16:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:33] <exec> 08└─Defining arguments as const is like soldering the RAM on the motherboard. 640k enough for everybody. Pats self on back.
[16:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:35] <exec> 08└─How exactly is promising not to modify the string you asked me to analyze even remotely similar to hard(ware)-limiting resource constraints? You expect that a function that has no need to modify its parameters is going to suddenly reach a point where it needs to do so? And more to the point, that yo...
[16:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:05] <exec> 08└─Try taking out 10K right now in cash. First, you may not even be able to do it. Second, they demand to know the reason why, what you intend on doing with it, what you will buy with it or give it to.
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[17:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:35] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that the testing of their voting system was a success? (American voting system vendors take note.)
[17:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:36] <exec> 08└─as impregnating 9 nine women to produce a baby one month? Say it with me, electronic voting is a fraud.
[17:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:39] <exec> 08└─In the worst case scenario, the votes of all the voters using this system would be revealed to anyone as soon as they cast their vote
[17:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:41] <exec> 08└─Layering it on an open blockchain is what provides the 'openness' and immutability. Ethereum, being the leading smart contract blockchain, is a good choice for that. It's too bad their implementation was poor. Although, given the questions about how legitimate Russian elections are, I have to wonder...
[17:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:43] <exec> 08└─As I recall, 256 bits is a perfectly secure keylength - if you're using elliptical keys...
[17:50:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 580 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:52] <exec> 08└─Flint is still under the thumb of the unelected rule of an "Emergency Manager" appointed by Snyder and the attached "Advisory council" who refuse to let them spend money on necessities like... you know keeping infrastructure functioning. The block grant from the federal government for fixing the lea...
[17:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:55] <exec> 08└─Look at it from a politician's point of view: Thousands per year comes out of my budget. making my district poorer. Millions per decades comes out of big emergency grants from the federal government, enriching my district.
[17:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:57] <exec> 08└─And only in areas where politicians and their children live. Their families should get equal treatment. Maybe all decisions that politicians make should affect their own families just as negatively or positively as others.
[17:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:59] <exec> 08└─it's a lesson that we're apparently not gonna learn
[17:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:01] <exec> 08└─How was it discovered? Did the water in the river get any dirtier, or did someone making their rounds just realize that a couple million gallons of shit was missing? Coulda been thieves, you know.
[17:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:15] <exec> 08└─That does it.... I just swallowed ten microphones just now. I can already feel my IQ rising! Or is that my stomach acidity and the oncoming ER bill?
[17:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:16] <exec> 08└─But as you know with these cloud connected cameras unless you register your pornhub account won't get your cash share only the votes.
[17:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relying on Bug Bounties 'Not Appropriate Risk Management': Katie Moussouris - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:42] <exec> 08└─How many people on here have tried for a bug bounty? I've reported bugs on a lot of different projects, such as Firefox and the Linux kernel, but I have never gone for or received a bounty. It just never felt like a good idea. Among other things, like that I'm not much interested in the projects tha...
[17:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, that about sums it up. Conservatives are opposed to all expertise now.
[17:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:42] <exec> 08└─Build the moat! Build the moat! Build the moat!
[17:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:44] <exec> 08└─I think many people -- left, right, and center -- are often skeptical about experts because time has shown that a not insignificant amount of expertise is ideologically driven. One of the risks of making everything political (like ejecting people of certain political affiliations from restaurants as...
[17:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:22] <exec> 08└─They already share some components, like the 10 speed auto transmissions. Most of the parts aren't even made in the USA anymore.
[17:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian PayID Platform Hacked Exposing Millions of Users on the NPP - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:36] <exec> 08└─What is this, a Trump speech about jobs?
[17:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will No Longer Use Drivers' Tips to Cover Their Base Pay - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:07] <exec> 08└─Exactly! I'm not mad on the worker's behalf here. I'm mad because they stole MY money.
[17:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:40] <exec> 08└─This is what i thought. Not only gnash, there was at least one other attempt at this. It not simple so neither came close, a lot of work here and I doubt this project will get anywhere near completion.
[17:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:17] <exec> 08└─Say what?!? They're getting rid of volatile? I hadn't heard that, and it's madness. Not that I've used it very often, maybe once every few years, but when it's needed.... What's the alternative? Especially in a world where multi-threading has become compulsory if you want decent performance. Just as...
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[18:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:58] <exec> 08└─I'd really like to see it work, too. Which is why, in part, I believe that attaching it to any proof of work blockchain is wrongheaded, full stop. Ethereum is the logical choice, for anyone neck deep in the blockchain scene, which maybe a lot of Moscovites are, but I have a hard time believing that...
[18:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:59] <exec> 08└─Security does nothing about built in fraud, flipping votes and whatnot... If a human can't read the ballot every step of the way, it's no damn good.
[18:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:02] <exec> 08└─To make sure Putlin gets another term. This election is just a test.
[18:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:04] <exec> 08└─I would really like to see this work though. Something like this would enable secure voting from your smartphone -- making the voting process much easier and more accessible.
[18:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:06] <exec> 08└─> However, if they already hold the private keys, then making them easily crackable doesn't really offer them any advantage Two words - plausible deniability. Rig the election and don't get caught? No problem. Rig the election and get caught? Must have been those damned foreigners trying to cast dou...
[18:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:08] <exec> 08└─This is why we need to be able to mod stories. This story gets a +1 Funny from me.
[18:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:10] <exec> 08└─I'd really like to see it work, too.
[18:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:12] <exec> 08└─it's pretty ridiculous to me that they would make this mistake. i'm no encryption expert but when i deploy something that uses encryption i investigate this sort of thing. i don't just pick some weird ass scheme and then guess on the key size. very strange.
[18:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:26] <exec> 08└─How was it discovered?
[18:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:28] <exec> 08└─Mmmm-hmmm. And, some people perform their jobs diligently, while others . . . I see it at my own job. Nice, impressive huge machines, rather complex, whether they are older tech or new tech. The technicians think they can "set it and forget it", then walk around talking to the women, or just fuck of...
[18:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:30] <exec> 08└─> How was it discovered? Place started to smell like Californian cities.
[18:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:32] <exec> 08└─You're allowed to say "San Francisco".
[18:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:34] <exec> 08└─My mom used to give all of us untreated sewage and it never did any harm, but surly caused us to all poop out a lot of worms.
[18:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:36] <exec> 08└─i'm no fan of big gov but with the system we have now someone needs to be held accountable. anytime something like this is allowed to happen it should trigger an automatic investigation and the fat cats on top who have been stealing for decades need to be thrown in prison for years and years.
[18:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:52] <exec> 08└─No no this is China. Here, from the product support page: Q: i hear no sound from the speakers what must i do to activate A: thank you for buying our smart speakers. As you should have guessed, being silent is the smart thing to do for any Chinese speaker. However if you put your ear very close to t...
[18:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:06] <exec> 08└─The honeymoon period may be ending for that sort of alarm system. The average crook isn't that bright. The smart ones don't break into houses and cars, they develop tools and techniques that they sell to the dumb ones. It doesn't take a high IQ to use a jammer once the knowledge is out there. Just l...
[18:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:18] <exec> 08└─Its not paywalled where I am - the full article was submitted so check the Original Submission.
[18:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:20] <exec> 08└─If he is telling the truth, he doesn't have long to live now. If he's lying, he may not live long either.
[18:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:22] <exec> 08└─Just click on the 'Original Submission link. That is the full published story.
[18:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:24] <exec> 08└─That's some grade A "both sides" bullshit. In a CLIMATE CHANGE thread you're going to claim that science denial is equally distributed?
[18:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:02] <exec> 08└─I dont know how anyone could say that its better for Microsoft to fund their own closed source browser than it is for them to use an open source browser engine.
[18:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Person Dies from Vaping Lung Illness - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:21] <exec> 08└─There could be something to that. Thus far, it has been small to medium businesses using largely manual batch production, generally done by people who use the product themselves. With large companies coming in with much more mechanized large scale production with lower skilled people who may have no...
[18:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Wants to Limit Cash Transactions to 10K or Face Jail Time - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:25] <exec> 08└─Damn, but that is an unclear emoji. 🎶 I had to look it up as it doesn't look like musical notes to me, maybe a purple squirrel...but not notes even close up.
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[19:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:31] <exec> 08└─Agreed - I'd rather see a voting system built on "first principles" blockchain, instead of this twisted crap that's been "open source developed" for the past 10 years - so convoluted that if you haven't been living and breathing it for a couple of years you won't know what's going on. Of course it s...
[19:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:32] <exec> 08└─Not strange at all. Either intentionally corrupt, or incompetent. Not much other choice.
[19:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:34] <exec> 08└─But is this a bug or a feature? https://www.snopes.com [snopes.com]
[19:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:55] <exec> 08└─Michigan has a Democratic Governor and the City of Flint is pretty much all Democrats. Let's see if they do any better before passing judgement.
[19:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:56] <exec> 08└─I've heard of firefighters on the chemical processing plants around Houston - the places are so damn big that even though they are watching it, there are 100 places that might, and frequently do, catch fire. All kinds of fires, invisible flames, poisonous flames, etc. and these guys are on call to g...
[19:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:59] <exec> 08└─This was not an Act of God. It was an act of willful ignorance by elected and appointed officials and their employees. Exactly what is your reasoning that the rest of us should pay for the fuckups of their administration? I'd say loan them the money but make them pay it back. I didn't get to vote fo...
[19:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:01] <exec> 08└─GP's point is that despite the election, said elected officials aren't actually in control of Flint's government. So trying to place the blame on the people who lack the power to fix the problem is wrong at best, disingenuous at worst.
[19:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:03] <exec> 08└─I don't see how getting flooded with crap will change politicians' behavior when they're already full of crap.
[19:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:32] <exec> 08└─If you have a house without an existing system, and you don't want to pull cables to every window and door, you go wireless. However, wireless systems are fundamentally unreliable. If contact is lost to a sensor, the controller must make a decision: trigger the alarm, or not. If it does not, then th...
[19:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relying on Bug Bounties 'Not Appropriate Risk Management': Katie Moussouris - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:46] <exec> 08└─That's the whole point of the article. Big bounties don't fix security any more than keeping patched doors. But when used along with other measures it is effective. The other issue is that the party for the bounties isn't necessarily competitive with exploiting or selling the details. So there's mor...
[19:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, that. The poorest of nations, where people don't see $100 worth of cash money in a year, aren't going to see "economies" crashing. Their concerns are, feeding their kids, patching thatch roofs after a storm, and maybe having enough to barter for a little tobacco, and a bottle of alcohol from th...
[19:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:52] <exec> 08└─Yes. Once you go tribal you must accept the consequences which are primarily, being distrusted. I personally tend to think that at least some of the climate change we are seeing is human generated. I don't think it will be the end of the world however. If people are one thing, it is adaptable. The w...
[19:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:11] <exec> 08└─windows xp (probably, but it might not be revealed), vista (god forbid), 7, 8? governments spending extorted tax money on proprietary shitware, instead of contributing to FOSS that all govs could use deserve to be attacked (and arrested for fraud/sedition).
[19:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Chrom... Edge Hits Beta as New Browser Prepped for Biz Testing - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:33] <exec> 08└─I'm perfectly fine with Microsoft getting out of the Web Browser business. I just wish, they went with a choose your own browser option when installing. Instead of a Chrome based default.
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[20:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:58] <exec> 08└─Something like this would enable secure voting from your smartphone
[20:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but here's the thing, the horrible destruction wrought by far right budget hawkery takes decades to fully fix. It's not like putting democrats(who are far from perfect, and often pretty right wing) into office just magically fixes problems overnight. Incurring debt and raising sewer rates is t...
[20:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:25] <exec> 08└─Brown bagging it?
[20:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:27] <exec> 08└─Blame it on shithole countries.
[20:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:44] <exec> 08└─Perhaps Baidu is overtaking Google because of the way Google products are reported to spy on their users.
[20:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:46] <exec> 08└─Honest question... How is asking a speaker to turn your lights on/off better than using a switch on the wall. All these people at work have the smart lights so they can turn things on/off with their phone or whatever. To me, the switch on the wall seems more convenient. ... But these people love the...
[20:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:48] <exec> 08└─I hear nothing but stupid shit everywhere.
[20:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:03] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, it's a bit silly it's so trivial to defeat. On the other hand: "Door deadbolt lock defeated by a $10 common tool [amazon.com], nobody surprised." A lot of security in place is there just to keep honest men honest, and any criminal who really didn't care would trivially bypass it. On...
[20:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:04] <exec> 08└─A lot of that could be mitigated by having a short delay before triggering for lack of response. How long are those transient problems anyways? What's more things like cameras are mostly a privacy problem if they fire too often. I considered getting one of these systems, but it became obvious within...
[20:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:06] <exec> 08└─The point is to raise the profile of the attack and to increase the skill level required to break in. There isn't much you can do to prevent a skilled burglar from breaking in, but you can make the task not worth doing with things like security systems.
[20:52:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 933 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:48] <exec> 08└─I try to avoid using such terms, but none other fit. Not only trying to predict the GDP in 80 years, but to predict a specific percent impact of a specific event, down to a tenth of a percent, and definitively declare as such? When we can't even predict such things to anywhere near that precision on...
[20:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:28] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about the academic journal paper, which is what the press release is talking about, and links to at the bottom. Press releases for academic papers are a form of marketing that shouldn't be taken at face value.
[20:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:30] <exec> 08└─GDP lowered by 10.5% over 80 years? So a reduction in GDP growth of about 0.1% per year (e.g., 2.9% per year growth instead of 3.0% per year)? Am I not understanding what the numbers mean, or is their idea of "a substantial economic hit" kind of a joke?
[20:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:32] <exec> 08└─For your vehicle crash example, you have to know the details to know how much worse it would be without breaks. Will the airbags deploy? Are people wearing seatbelts? Is the vehicle on ice where the breaks are ineffective? Details matter if you want to predict 3x worse.
[20:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:50] <exec> 08└─The new Florida.
[20:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:51] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 100% Windows 7/8 100% Windows XP 100% Windows 95 100% Mac 100% Linux 0%
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[21:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:11] <exec> 08└─Not just if a human can read it every step of the way. WHICH humans can read it?
[21:51:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 1254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:27] <exec> 08└─Mmmm-hmmm. And, some people perform their jobs diligently, while others . . . I see it at my own job. Nice, impressive huge machines, rather complex, whether they are older tech or new tech. The technicians think they can "set it and forget it", then walk around talking to the women, or just fuck of...
[21:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:41] <exec> 08└─This would amount to interfering with commerce. Picking the whiners and losers. Government should be hands off. There should be no regulation of anything. Etc.
[21:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:42] <exec> 08└─The previous governor for 8 years (2011-2019) was Rick Snyder, a Republican, and he's the one to blame.
[21:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:44] <exec> 08└─Disgusting yanks.
[21:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:46] <exec> 08└─I don't know how stupid you need to be to blame "free markets" for government corruption. But that is you.
[21:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:49] <exec> 08└─Y'all probably don't think shit-thieves are a real thing, but how else do you explain the places that lock their bathrooms and make you ask for a key?
[21:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:51] <exec> 08└─Which then you used to fish, caught more fish from the river. Ate them. Got more worms. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. It's the cirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrcle of Life!
[21:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:53] <exec> 08└─The Flint River already played home to industrial waste for decades. Dams were apparently made to stem the industrial wastes from reaching the water supply. I wonder how this actually ranks on a disaster scale. Surely the downstream stations can purify. Surely!
[21:52:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 1317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:02] <exec> 08└─What is "smart" about these speakers? Oh, they trigger when you talk to them. That's not smart, that's interactive. Do the speakers analyze your command and do what you ask? Oh, they mostly relay that info to some other system that processes the query? That's not smart, that's a remote terminal. Doe...
[21:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:13] <exec> 08└─Honestly: we've got three lamps in the living room, one on either side of the couch and one across the room on the piano, and it would take all of 30 seconds to walk around the room and get to the switches to switch them off - plus a pretty deep lean over the sofa to reach one of them, or... "Hey Go...
[21:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:15] <exec> 08└─Compared to the people who buy them, anything seems smart.
[21:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:17] <exec> 08└─Ahh, I never thought about lamps. That makes sense. Also, the outdoor lighting sounds cool. Maybe I'll try something similar out next spring.
[21:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:19] <exec> 08└─When the school bus arrives at 5:30AM, the outdoor lights aren't just cool...
[21:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-on-a-Chip Drives Search for New Drugs to Prevent Blood Clots - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:03] <exec> 08└─You stole her idea!
[21:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:57] <exec> 08└─My reading is GDP(2100)=0.9*GDP(2019). It probably has to do with historical trends, in the last 80 years GDP has probably increased 10 times or so.
[21:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:59] <exec> 08└─That would be catastrophic, but I don't think that's what it means. I think they mean (which is what I based my earlier post on): GPD(2100 | without Paris Agreement) = 0.9 * GDP(2100 | with Paris Agreement) I'm basing that on this sentence from the article: They then modelled the income effects unde...
[21:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:01] <exec> 08└─He said he has given the details to a general, a congressperson, the DOJ, and now is giving us these "hints".
[21:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:22] <exec> 08└─After you fill it to the top with water.
[21:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:38] <exec> 08└─You unix kids and those wrong-way slashes.
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[22:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:52] <exec> 08└─I bet someone comments on turning shit into energy within three posts.
[22:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:54] <exec> 08└─Can we turn your comment into energy?
[22:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:56] <exec> 08└─👏👏🏻👏🏿👏🏿 Bravo you did it in one post 👏👏🏻👏🏿👏🏿
[22:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:58] <exec> 08└─Too late... Already been done https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
[22:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:25] <exec> 08└─He can do anything with the cyber.
[22:51:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:34] <exec> 08└─On the bright side, maybe it will dilute the lead somewhat.
[22:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:02] <exec> 08└─Mod parent funny because it's true. FTFA: Earlier this year, the city sought a waiver from the Genesee County Health Department, requesting that it be allowed to skip testing river water for bacteria after sewage spills in cases in which the discharge comes from its retention basin. “(Sewage disch...
[22:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:03] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that poster was being sarcastic...
[22:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass Apparently Left 58,000 Customer Records Exposed on a Public Server - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:05] <exec> 08└─What are they going to do with 161 million free movie passes?
[22:53:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Climate Change To Shrink Economies Of All Countries Alike Unless Paris Agreement Holds - 1020 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:50] <exec> 08└─Not saying the predictions are wrong, but these are the kinds of conclusions that are amplified by certain interest groups: CALL TO ARMS, WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!! Since all the predictions are basically more noise than signal, the ones that get promoted and circulated are the ones that line up...
[22:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:17] <exec> 08└─Well, being in Rust it won't have many memory leaks or free-before-use bugs. And any exploits in those old games will probably be attacking old bugs, different from the ones in the *new* implementation. Now we need to figure out how to download these swf files so that they can be divorced from the w...
[22:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:18] <exec> 08└─Is there any reason to suspect the official Newgrounds Player isn't malware? Doesn't exfiltrate user data?
[22:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newgrounds is Creating a Flash Emulator - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:21] <exec> 08└─Many of those old flash games do just that.
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[23:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Capital From Jakarta to Borneo, Cost Estimated at $33 Billion - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:29] <exec> 08└─Do they want ten million Indonesians moving to their tropical paradise? Are the pygmies of Borneo going to get trampled underfoot? At least the Jakartans aren't going to fuck up Bali.
[23:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Capital From Jakarta to Borneo, Cost Estimated at $33 Billion - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:31] <exec> 08└─It cost $30B to rebuild Miami after hurricane Andrew - almost 30 years ago now. Question is: will all 260+ million Indonesians fit on Borneo, and still have space left over for the palm oil plantations and Orangutan shelter? Trivia from the past: The sultan of Brunei (on Borneo) was the richest man...
[23:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Capital From Jakarta to Borneo, Cost Estimated at $33 Billion - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:33] <exec> 08└─This explains it pretty well: "As a large nation that has been independent for 74 years, Indonesia has never chosen its own capital," Widodo said in a televised speech, AFP reported. "The burden Jakarta is holding right now is too heavy as the center of governance, business, finance, trade and servi...
[23:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starhopper 150-Meter Test - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:41] <exec> 08└─He should run for President... of the world.
[23:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starhopper 150-Meter Test - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the world known as Mars.
[23:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starhopper 150-Meter Test - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:45] <exec> 08└─I expect the next Mars mission to be building a Supercharger station. His car is already there, with 'Starman' looking for a parking spot.
[23:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:56] <exec> 08└─Compared to the traditional lithium ion batteries, the newly developed batteries from IIT are much more cost effective, and features slightly better storage capacity and stability.
[23:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:58] <exec> 08└─Much like my local Indian restaurant says their chicken vindaloo is the best in the world, a claim which cannot hold up to cursory examination. When dealing with Indians, it is best to find out if they are Gujarati. If so, take anythibg they say with a grain of salt since they are the Jews of the In...
[23:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:00] <exec> 08└─Well, this is still a lab version, so I suspect they'll develop a commercial version that can be charged more frequently. The weight problem, however, is, I also suspect, intrinsic.
[23:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:02] <exec> 08└─Low cycles is normal for a prototype. Less energy density is fine if it's cheaper. It just won't be used in phones, etc.
[23:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:04] <exec> 08└─Like in Mad Max 3?
[23:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:31] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the developers implemented what they were told to by the designers. In which case, they need to use *designers* who understand that cost(256)*3 <<= cost(768). Which is 101 stuff I notice that 768-bit seems just beyond the cusp, security-wise. It's moribund to the state-level actor threat mo...
[23:51:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River - 358 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but here's the thing, the horrible destruction wrought by far right budget hawkery takes decades to fully fix. It's not like putting democrats(who are far from perfect, and often pretty right wing) into office just magically fixes problems overnight. Incurring debt and raising sewer rates is t...
[23:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:31] <exec> 08└─You are supposed to avoid all kinds of movement, so that you build up an excuse to go see the routine of the fair sized titties blonde in the gym, duh.
[23:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:33] <exec> 08└─best trolls are subtle.
[23:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baidu Overtakes Google to Become World's Second Biggest Vendor of "Smart Speakers" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:35] <exec> 08└─Smart is the new stupid.
[23:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:42] <exec> 08└─One of them was hit. They paid up. Now the rest of them are being targeted. It's like kidnapping. As soon as it is profitable people do it. Not around here, of course, and not because the police might kill you - more like surviving prison as a pedo or napper is hard. Expect this to keep going until...
[23:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:43] <exec> 08└─Google or Microsoft would love their business.
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