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[00:16:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06US Income Inequality Jumps to Highest Level Ever Recorded - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:08] <exec> 08└─The US economy derives the vast bulk of of its profit and growth from *consumer* spending. Growing income inequality, over the medium to long-term, harms consumer spending.
[00:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Unpatchable" IPhone Exploit Could Allow Jailbreaking on Hundreds of Millions of Devices - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:03] <exec> 08└─But I do imagine if your washing machine breaks down you'd want to be able to fix it even without the manufacturer's blessing, or repurpose it or its parts to some other end. Apple on the other hand actively works against you doing any of these things with their mobile devices. They thus continue to...
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[01:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Viking Age Mortuary House Found In Central Norway - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Explores The Meaning Of Humanoid Sex Robots - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─It is a popular genre. Easily tested with a clean browser. You can also use a VPN to check what other countries see.
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[01:14:21] <exec> 08└─Look to Japan for where this is headed: https://www.japancrush.com [japancrush.com] The article below that discusses the survey results highlights the finding that more men than women appear to be reluctant or unable to enter relat...
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[04:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Explores The Meaning Of Humanoid Sex Robots - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:03] <exec> 08└─"There will be another huge food fight if AI advances to "strong AI" status, in which case it will be compared to slavery again, but would make the robots even more useful. It's entirely possible that we will be able to stack enough advanced neuromorphic chips to fit "strong AI" entirely within the...
[04:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:28] <exec> 08└─Google at least seems to be using file or such to examine attachments and renaming no longer works, used to simply send zips as .ziq and executables with no extension.
[04:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:29] <exec> 08└─I think someone should be called to speak before Congress to justify their "non"-monopolistic behavior.
[04:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:31] <exec> 08└─Google does block this type of stuff, even blocked a renamed OS/2 DLL recently. I think they're running file on stuff. This is as a hobbyist, not work related and when someone posts an attachment to a mailing list and all the gmail users accounts bounce it, its Google.
[04:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:33] <exec> 08└─Even if you use zips encryption the filenames are still visible, and Google denied many. Only way is to rot13 or some such with no extension and email body containing instructions on how to access.
[04:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:36] <exec> 08└─Don't know Outlook but Google bounces zip attachments and renaming is no longer a work around.
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[05:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:09] <exec> 08└─Weird . . . But, if you own the device from which the photos were shared, and you own the cellphone, I suppose you can just plug the phone into the other device, and download them directly? I hope that I didn't imply that sharing on google folders is *always* going to work.
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[06:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Enlist Tiny Biomagnets for Faster Drug Discovery - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:13] <exec> 08└─This is only true in America. Notice how this R&D is being done in Canada. Notice how many of the discoveries mentioned here are being done in other countries. Healthcare and drugs cost a lot more in America so that other countries can make investments into R&D and then the U.S. pharmaceutical corpo...
[06:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Enlist Tiny Biomagnets for Faster Drug Discovery - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:14] <exec> 08└─and then the sad part is that idiots like Trump are stupid enough to believe the pharmaceutical companies every time they lie and say that the reason the U.S. pays more than everywhere else is because all the R&D comes from the U.S.
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[07:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Much of the Internet is Closed Off to Blind People - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:04] <exec> 08└─If they can't see the sign, they sure as heck aren't going to feel along the wall to find and read it. Really what are needed are braille rumblestrips in the sidewalk, so you can warn blind people with their feet instead of their hands or eyes.
[07:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Much of the Internet is Closed Off to Blind People - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:06] <exec> 08└─Tactile pavements exist, and are used, for example, to mark the location of pedestrian road crossings in the UK. Also, in many places a line of raised dashes is moulded into or stuck onto flooring to show a route that visually impaired people can follow easily with their white stick.
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[08:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Explores The Meaning Of Humanoid Sex Robots - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:35] <exec> 08└─The general idea of more real sex dolls is good as a replacement, as in modern society ugly males are totally omitted not only from sex, but also from being close to someone at all. However, the screeching about raping a tool is made because this would make these males not buy certain products for t...
[08:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s a Fact, Scientists are the Most Trusted People in World - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:37] <exec> 08└─Personally I trust science, not scientists. You have your field of expertise right? Imagine that the shitty things happening in your field happen in all others, probably. As for the clergy it is unsurprising that post Vatican II commies do not collect much trust, dunno for other religions.
[08:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s a Fact, Scientists are the Most Trusted People in World - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:39] <exec> 08└─Here in Italy, no matter which party in power, the push has been to empty the city and makin it difficult to access. Unsurprisingly, since all those malls in the surroundings with ample parking needed customers. We are talking about senseless removal of parking spots, the only very dangerous crossro...
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[09:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics In The Great Lakes Are Becoming Benthic - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:55] <exec> 08└─Else exoteric knowledge will ingress your ninth chakra, and cause a severe back-ache.
[09:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Much of the Internet is Closed Off to Blind People - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:13] <exec> 08└─If this case forces the web and Internet in general to go pack to plain text roots I, for one, will welcome his victory. On the other hand: fuck the government for telling my what I can and can't do with my website.
[09:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Explores The Meaning Of Humanoid Sex Robots - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:29] <exec> 08└─Then one day bots will receive secret order to strangle political opponents of their political masters.
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[10:15:47] <exec> 08└─Well at least we won't have those pitiful attempts at making it look like an acc8dent, see how Haider was snuffed.
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[11:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Higgs Troika May Explain Baryon Asymmetry Problem - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:50] <exec> 08└─Not going to happen. BNL is competing for eRHIC with Jefferson lab. If such a facility were constructed it would be Fermilab. This is just theorists mucking around.
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[13:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Much of the Internet is Closed Off to Blind People - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:46] <exec> 08└─Because of Brendan Eich's "wonderful" contribution, Javascript.
[13:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Much of the Internet is Closed Off to Blind People - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:47] <exec> 08└─Amen I am slowly lossing vision mainly size and color/contrast right now. The "Apple" look that everyone is doing is crap. Let me find the light words on white or dark gary background. It is hide and go seek. My favour description I have seen "Designers with 1 crayon in the box". Also stupid fixes a...
[13:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Much of the Internet is Closed Off to Blind People - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:49] <exec> 08└─It looks to me like a clear assertion of dominance on the part of the company to refuse stenuously.
[13:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:36] <exec> 08└─To call the advertising industry a bunch of rats is an insult to actual rats.
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[14:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum ‘ICO Architect’ Arrested Over Alleged $12M Cryptocurrency Extortion - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:59] <exec> 08└─Remember kids, paper money is evil. And uncool. Your grandparents use it.
[14:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Higgs Troika May Explain Baryon Asymmetry Problem - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:26] <exec> 08└─And what's the mechanism by which antimatter was preferentially sucked in, while the matter created at the same spot was not? Without a suggested mechanism, it's all just idle speculation. Within current theory there's no reason to expect either to be dominant - everything should have just kept cycl...
[14:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microplastics In The Great Lakes Are Becoming Benthic - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:38] <exec> 08└─Lets start referring to sand as "microrocks"
[14:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Much of the Internet is Closed Off to Blind People - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─Admittedly, there is relatively robust support for closed captioning on the television and in films. Youtube has the auto-generated closed captioning which has become quite accurate (for American accents). For the sight impaired, video description does exist for most major films and popular TV shows...
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[14:16:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like he gave your momma some kind of voodoo root
[14:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Explores The Meaning Of Humanoid Sex Robots - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:40] <exec> 08└─Time to switch to RedTube or Motherless
[14:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Explores The Meaning Of Humanoid Sex Robots - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:42] <exec> 08└─Which expression is your favorite?
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[15:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Provides Update on Starship with Assembled Prototype as the Backdrop - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:07] <exec> 08└─I heard that they won't look like charcoal briquettes like reused F9 boosters do. There may be an effort to keep it that way since shiny = better at reflecting heat. The appearance will start to shape up with the new welding method (also making them a lot thinner and lighter) and wrinkles will disap...
[15:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Higgs Troika May Explain Baryon Asymmetry Problem - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:29] <exec> 08└─Any fool knows that antimatter antimatters. Duh.
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[16:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum ‘ICO Architect’ Arrested Over Alleged $12M Cryptocurrency Extortion - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds like something Tom would do - if he were smart enough.
[16:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Provides Update on Starship with Assembled Prototype as the Backdrop - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:22] <exec> 08└─I didn't think Asimov thought of himself as God.
[16:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Provides Update on Starship with Assembled Prototype as the Backdrop - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:24] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Moon dust might require the ascent stage to be separated from the descent stage, as in Apollo.
[16:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Higgs Troika May Explain Baryon Asymmetry Problem - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:48] <exec> 08└─Well, *I* have a non-testable theory of why that happened. It goes roughly like this: 1) an anti-matter particle is an ordinary particle moving backwards in time. 2) time was not created by the big bang. 3) during the big bang equal amounts of matter and anti-matter were created 4) The anti-matter p...
[16:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics In The Great Lakes Are Becoming Benthic - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:02] <exec> 08└─Benthic seems to be [offshoreenergytoday.com] the name of an offshore energy company. It is probably also a registered tirade mark.
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Much of the Internet is Closed Off to Blind People - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─Isn't there a browser extension for the colorblind?
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[17:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second SIM Card Attack Can Send Texts and Phone Location Data - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:08] <exec> 08└─Considering the cost of implementing SIM cards this way, it must be an intentional backdoor. Note that the vulnerability is that anyone can send you a command SMS and that "secure" SIMS still accept commands from your provider.
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future Of Oculus Quest: Hands-On With Hand Tracking, PC-VR “Link” Mode - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─Advertising will totally ruin the immersive experience, so ad-supported content isn't going to work. And Facebook has spent more than their initial $2.3 billion in buying the business. It's a turkey, and the only reason it hasn't been 86'd is ego - nobody wants to admit they made a mistake.
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[18:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:17] <exec> 08└─FYI, it seems to affecting all the other comment links in this story as well.
[18:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:18] <exec> 08└─That is an idea worth patenting! Definitely non-obvious. (non-obvious to some people)
[18:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:20] <exec> 08└─The long part was the report. The executive summary was at the top, if you TL;DR. Executive Summary: An in-depth investigation making use of: external resources, the UI presented by SoylentNews, and ad-hoc queries of the site database (DB) failed to locate a "smoking gun", i.e. found no clear proof...
[18:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:22] <exec> 08└─While this investigation did not keep one of the best interlocutors [soylentnews.org] we had from leaving, I'm impressed and pleased that you (and the rest of the SN staff) took it upon yourselves to understand what may have happened WRT the journal entry in question. For anyone here who chooses to...
[18:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:24] <exec> 08└─Marty should have written this as his journal entry, and posted a summary linking to it. Oh, no, that wouldn't work - Jan would have deleted it then.
[18:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Higgs Troika May Explain Baryon Asymmetry Problem - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:30] <exec> 08└─The imbalance woudn't "grow until one type of matter dominated" unless there was some mechanism that was preferentially pulling one type of matter into the kugelblitz
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[18:14:29] <exec> 08└─Yup, a simple green X and red check-mark will go a long way to making things better.
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[19:12:32] <exec> 08└─As per martyb's explanation above, there's apparently some bug that sometimes strips ampersands out of URLs (server side, not client side -- I'm fairly certain SN isn't doing gross JS text manipulations in my browser).
[19:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:33] <exec> 08└─+1 to what NotSanguine said: Thank you MartyB for taking the time to investigate this in such detail and sharing the information openly with the community. It's a shame Athanasius quit over this. A lot of his posts were well thought out and analytical. I get a sense that the disappearing journal was...
[19:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:35] <exec> 08└─I *think* I may have isolated what happened, or at least come up with something reproducible. Proper form of a URL is to replace each "&" with its Named Character Entity (NCE): "&" The NCE ampersands are the ones that are getting "eaten". I backed out the NCEs and replaced them with "bare" ampersand...
[19:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:37] <exec> 08└─I couldn't word what you said any better. The detail in the original post was breathtaking. I cannot imagine how much time was donated to make this happen. I was not involved at all, but I wish to express a heartfelt thank you to all those who were.
[19:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:39] <exec> 08└─I hope that AthanasiusKircher see this entry. He does have an email address on file. I hope he is contacted with the results of this investigation. Maybe seeing the seriousness that this accusation was taken will be enough to bring him back. Or not and he at least sees the result.
[19:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second SIM Card Attack Can Send Texts and Phone Location Data - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:50] <exec> 08└─Hanlon's Razor [wikipedia.org] argues differently. At ~200,000 years and counting, we've done okay so far with that.
[19:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum ‘ICO Architect’ Arrested Over Alleged $12M Cryptocurrency Extortion - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:03] <exec> 08└─Considering that I can exchange Ethereum directly into cash at many exchanges, your statement is false.
[19:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics In The Great Lakes Are Becoming Benthic - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:03] <exec> 08└─When are they going to start wailing about all the rubber dust in the environment, and all the metal dust in the environment from all the humans running around driving cars, riding bikes, and wearing shoes? How long will it be before they get hysterical about all the carbon dioxide that humans exhal...
[19:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:48] <exec> 08└─This generally only happens to me when using TOR. I'm absolutely *not* suggesting that folks should stop using TOR. What I am suggesting is what I do in those circumstances: 1. Type my comment; 2. Select/copy the text of my comment; 3. Preview; 4. Attempt submission; 5. If (4) fails, create a new co...
[19:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Explores The Meaning Of Humanoid Sex Robots - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:35] <exec> 08└─An expression of breathless, sated awe?
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[20:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:51] <exec> 08└─But the least they could do is make it so I don't see mojibake every time someone uses quotation marks on Safari or pastes their comment from somewhere else. Absolutely! Input sanitation is not difficult. In that part, they are definitely lazy. Extended ASCII is more than enough. They can use a code...
[20:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:52] <exec> 08└─That's normal. The journals sidebox is recreated by a slashd (reinvented cron daemon wheel) every so often. With the processing power we have versus the minimal load that would cause, I think it should be done dynamically nowadays. That's fairly low down the todo list though. Hmm... Edited the live...
[20:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:55] <exec> 08└─It's created by run_portald.pl, yo. Was running at 37 after the hour. Now it's running every five minutes on the fives and dimes.
[20:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:57] <exec> 08└─s/ every so/ task every so/
[20:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:59] <exec> 08└─There's no "allegation" They already admit it. It's just collateral damage from the APK shit. Besides. The instructions are there. Feel free to do the experiment yourself if you feel it's important.
[20:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:01] <exec> 08└─If a journal entry is never read by anyone, then was it ever posted? Or was it deleted?
[20:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:03] <exec> 08└─All NCEs? I've tried pasting DOI links here and the URL handler definitely did not like some of them. If you really want to dredge through that code, I can see if I can find some again (or you could dump the comments with doi.org in the URL).
[20:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:06] <exec> 08└─I should also point out that URLs escape through percent encoding, not entity references. In fact, that entity reference stripping might be a poorly thought out implementation of XSS or other injection protection to keep them out of the HTML or some HTTP redirection.
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum ‘ICO Architect’ Arrested Over Alleged $12M Cryptocurrency Extortion - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:31] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that there's another sucker born every minute doesn't prove anything - where's the intrinsic value in your Ethereum tokens? Title to land has intrinsic value: the quiet enjoyment of the land and any productivity you might legally gain from it including construction and habitation of shelter....
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum ‘ICO Architect’ Arrested Over Alleged $12M Cryptocurrency Extortion - 7827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:33] <exec> 08└─Island Life Bob and Rita live in a small house with a big mango tree and a patch of grass just outside the Valley. Rita works in the supermarket and Bob has a grill cart that he keeps mostly down around Sandy Ground and George Hill. Bob has two grown daughters: Sharon and Karen who live in the Valle...
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[21:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:10] <exec> 08└─Easier to just hit the back button and see your edit box content restored - the browser usually preserves it. You can make a copy from there or just try submitting again - it usually works, which indicates that the submission didn't go through the first time (or you'd have an error).
[21:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:12] <exec> 08└─Point very well taken and very well put, but I just don't like the idea of every text box housing something executable. Smells like systemd...
[21:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:14] <exec> 08└─Anything seemingly wrong with it, in my experience was always traceable to my failing to properly activate it in that script. Given that scripts I made and used for various unicode text processing tasks number in low hundreds, I guess I would have noticed any genuine bugs.
[21:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─No, that isn't what I mean. Modern DOI links are in the form of http[s]://doi.org/ PREFIX / SUFFIX
[21:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I noticed that works here, like the other place back in ancient times. I was pleasantly surprised by that. But using your text editor adds a bit of insurance.
[21:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:20] <exec> 08└─Ah, but this is making a copy to keep in your own files ... using a computer. That makes it innovative according to patent trolls the world over.
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Higgs Troika May Explain Baryon Asymmetry Problem - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:35] <exec> 08└─I doubt you could create such a concise script including live plotting, etc in C.
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:38] <exec> 08└─My TV, a Sony smart TV, connects to a FreeTV website every time I change channels when watching free to air. And the URL indicates the channel I've switched to. So I blocked all internet access for it.
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[22:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:08] <exec> 08└─AthanasiusKircher wanted major censorship on SoylentNews, of course matching his own political desires. He then flipped out when he mistakenly (dishonestly?) thought he was being censored. LOL, censorship is OK when done to others but not to him? I'm afraid I do suspect this to be a lying fake victi...
[22:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:10] <exec> 08└─If I could moderate the story itself, I would give it +100 for Interesting, Insightful and Informative! martyb has not just done a tremendous amount of searching and researching to come to sensible conclusions about the system and what could have happened, but also taken the time and effort to infor...
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[23:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPFL Researchers Invent Low-Cost Alternative to Bitcoin - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:11] <exec> 08└─bitcoin scaled beyond most people's expectations. But it has limits [wikipedia.org] Eventually, something will hav to replace it. Alas, there isn't enough trust to go around.
[23:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logitech is Buying Streamlabs for $89 Million - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:19] <exec> 08└─It's software that facilitates sending live video to an audience over the internet, taking donations from an audience, and displaying dynamic text and images overlaid on top of live video.
[23:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Case of the Missing Journal Entry - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:30] <exec> 08└─Nice point. I'd also wonder what the logs say. Do they keep a MySQL log, and if so was that rotated out? What about the other parts of the stack? Or SSH, PAM, or Kerberos? At a minimum, I'd hope they'd at least be able to answer whether TMB was logged into the system with sufficient database permiss...
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