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[00:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Mars Mole Mission Misfortune - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:06] <exec> 08└─As drivers, we men are stubborn. We hate to stop, turn around, and go back to correct a mistake. If women were running the mission, they'd just drop this boring project, move on, and explore all the rest of the capabilities of the mobile explorer. At this point, I'm thinking that the women would be...
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[00:19:16] <exec> 08└─Q: "Why would you interpose a whole interpretive language that has access to the whole system between yourself and the program you actually want to run?" A: Millennial programmers.
[00:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PHP Bug Allows RCE on NGINX Servers - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is only a problem for particular Nginx+PHP-FPM configurations [github.com] (PHP bug report [php.net]) The reason people use FastCGI is that they want to run Nginx and PHP, as there is no Apache-like PHP module for Nginx, only PHP-FPM. The reason people use Nginx instead of Apache is either...
[00:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method Promises Advances in 3D Printing, Manufacturing and Biomedical Applications - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:28] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of some Dr. Who episodes where he has to find the 6 segments of the Key to Time to defeat the Black Guardian.
[00:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:42] <exec> 08└─No data? No permit to operate. The city needs to know traffic patterns to adjust improvements. We should not let Uber write the regulations.
[00:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'd give them 30 days. The transparency should be a condition for their permits.
[00:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:35] <exec> 08└─Make 'em serve a few years in Congress. We'll have a nice deep pool for the lottery. That will get rid of the deadwood that's in there now
[00:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:36] <exec> 08└─Agreed, commodities and currency are not an investment in the same sense as what I was talking about. Real estate can be (e.g. building new housing, renovating or subdividing property can increase value), but isn't always (e.g. just buying up existing properties and renting them out). I would also p...
[00:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:39] <exec> 08└─Housework wasn't what domestic servants were really about. Yes, they did a lot of mundane labor for their wealthy employers, but that was a pretext. The overriding reason for having domestic help was social status. Their presence was another way for their employers to show off their own wealth. The...
[00:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:40] <exec> 08└─When they fire these people they are pushing their care into the domain of the government.
[00:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mindfulness Meditation Enhances Positive Effects of Psilocybin - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:12] <exec> 08└─Still relevant. The U.S. funds about 40% of the world's medical research.
[00:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK MPs Demand Action Over Rise In Online Bank Crashes - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:30] <exec> 08└─That these systems are the very juiciest targets should tell you everything about what they are up against. Robbing a bank has never been easier.
[00:21:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Fed Up Of Playing Whac-A-Mole With Network Of Softbank-Owned Patent Holders, Intel Goes To Court - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:46] <exec> 08└─It's not often I agree with Intel, especially in this area, but in this case I wish them success. Litigation-only patent holders should not be allowed imo. Either you use your patents to build and sell stuff, or you get out of the way to let others get on with it. Anything else is unreasonably damag...
[00:22:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Dark Web Child Porn Site Taken Down Without Breaking Encryption - 259 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:28] <exec> 08└─1) You don't need to backdoor encryption to do police work? 2) Bitcoin isn't actually a magic bullet for terrorists, pedophiles, and all other sorts of nasties? Why it's almost as though this DoJ is waking up from a decades long stupor. May they stay as such!
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Child Porn Site Taken Down Without Breaking Encryption - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─The kind of nuanced view has no place in the mainstream discussion. However, it is likely that the feds are operating or participating in many of the sites. Shutting down a site after arresting most of the users will drive others into honeypots.
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[01:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Mars Mole Mission Misfortune - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:19] <exec> 08└─Well, there's also the saying that "experience is what you get when you don't get what you want". Seems to me like they're learning a lot about how not do drill/dig on Mars.
[01:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PHP Bug Allows RCE on NGINX Servers - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:31] <exec> 08└─Considering FastCGI specification was released in 1995, I doubt that it was the idea of Millennials. Well, unless you think a lot of sub-14-year-olds made the major design decisions in Massachusetts-based ecommerce companies.
[01:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:54] <exec> 08└─Value is the useful purpose of a thing
[01:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:55] <exec> 08└─...and *IF* (as you imply) the extra work is good for human advancement, why then isn't the world today a much, MUCH better place?
[01:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not going into that. What does minimum wage have to do with the price of tea in China?
[01:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:59] <exec> 08└─It's a matter of collective wealth generation. You have to move the needle on that to make meaningful improvements in quality of life.
[01:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mindfulness Meditation Enhances Positive Effects of Psilocybin - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:33] <exec> 08└─The U.S. funds about 40% of the world's medical research.
[01:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Web Child Porn Site Taken Down Without Breaking Encryption - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:10] <exec> 08└─That refers to those causing one to stumble in faith. Killing protestants, not pedos. YHWH explicitly allows child marraige, including in cases of rape (tahpahs). Dvrm ch 22, vs 28. (Na'ar (hebrew masoretic text)), (Padia, (greek septuagint), (puella (latin vugate)).
[01:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship Can Launch 400 Starlink Satellites at Once - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:17] <exec> 08└─These are communications satellites, not power satellites, so their transmit power isn't very high. They are also flying very low so you will never have more than a small fraction above the horizon at any given moment. They need 1200 for global coverage, which should mean three visible satellites at...
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[02:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Mars Mole Mission Misfortune - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:16] <exec> 08└─1. Make the drill mobile (attached to a rover) so you get more than one stabbing attempt.
[02:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Mars Mole Mission Misfortune - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:17] <exec> 08└─ugh
[02:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:54] <exec> 08└─Uh no. Simply having the data that a scooter was in front of your house and then traveled to the brothel is enough to identify your personal hobbies. Even a broken clock is right sometimes, and Uber is right that this is a huge privacy problem.
[02:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:54] <exec> 08└─Well, of course it follows: you double someone's hourly income, they only have to work half as many hours, right? (Nevermind that almost never happens...) I'm at a point in my career where, instead of annual 5-10% raises, I'd rather have annual 5-10% reduction in total hours worked, whether that's w...
[02:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:55] <exec> 08└─But 50% of the wealth in the US being tied up in the pockets of 4 people is also a giant problem.
[02:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:57] <exec> 08└─What gets missed every single time this comes up is that people want to work, be it some Protestant work ethic or just because they want to get ahead. No matter how productive you make people, they'll find a way to do that. Work is not constant. There's some simple ways to create more businesses a...
[02:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:59] <exec> 08└─You probably forgot to count women who used to stay home, but are working now.
[02:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:01] <exec> 08└─Rich do understand. The issue is that they compete with each other so anyone who is not ripping poor would become poor herself.
[02:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:03] <exec> 08└─Not anymore. The rich stopped investing simply because they know there is nobody to buy their product.
[02:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:05] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but how much of that extra work done over the past say 30 years has truly gone toward ACTUAL human advancement?
[02:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:08] <exec> 08└─Heh, such a simple yet powerful explanation.
[02:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:10] <exec> 08└─Devons paradox: make human labor more valuable, here, the "B Ark" jobs, and you get more demand for it.
[02:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mindfulness Meditation Enhances Positive Effects of Psilocybin - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:44] <exec> 08└─Right, but the actual claim is that the meditation enhances the drugs.
[02:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BeaverCleaver [5841] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian States Allow ID to be Stored on Smart Phone - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:59] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, that will exploited soon enough. Our governments (state AND Commonwealth) have a proud history of fucking up technology. The clusterfuck that is the national broadband network is well-known. Or search "MyGov data breach' and any given year since MyGov was introduced. Hooefully nobody on...
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[02:24:00] <exec> 08└─https://abcnews.go.com/International/moped-gangs-terrorize-london-50000-crimes-year-police/story?id=51310899 [go.com] Moped gangs terrorize London in about 50,000 crimes per year, police say Mobile gangs using mostly stolen mopeds and scooters have been terrorizing London, committing robberies and a...
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[03:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:00] <exec> 08└─A new Google Chrome feature isn't good enough because Google doesn't control 100% of the web browser market share, so Google will pollute the DNS with shit.new instead. Fuck.Google.
[03:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:02] <exec> 08└─ICANN already polluted the DNS massively. Google just footed some of the bill.
[03:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Achieves First Light - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:09] <exec> 08└─The future of physics is shrouded in darkness.
[03:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Achieves First Light - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:11] <exec> 08└─So edgy, bro.
[03:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not not as "sharp" as I used to be. That being said.... This incident has echoes from a book I read long ago... "Normal Accidents", By Charles Perrow. Tightly coupled / complexly interactive systems fail in unpredictable ways.
[03:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:21] <exec> 08└─Attacks aren't accidents.
[03:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:10] <exec> 08└─I don't want Uber to even know where I am going. I don't want them to have any more data than is absolutely necessary. I want them to delete whatever data they glean in a timely manner. "Timely" meaning, as soon as payment clears. None of us want Uber selling or sharing our data, and especially not...
[03:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:19] <exec> 08└─"To build anything new..." As I said, the majority does not require new investment. New businesses are the minority, and very often are not the result of venture capitalists. Keep telling yourself those silly stories that keep your worldview from collapsing while selling your soul to those who would...
[03:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:20] <exec> 08└─That almost never happening is why it's irrelevant to this conversation.
[03:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:22] <exec> 08└─Not if you consider the unpaid domestic labor those women used to do.
[03:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:24] <exec> 08└─Do you really think the main reason that, say, Jamie Dimon bothers to go to work in the morning is to get a bigger private jet?
[03:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:27] <exec> 08└─The air and water used to be a fuuuuuuckload worse. Ask London how theirs were back a couple hundred years ago. Or ask Los Angeles how theirs was back in the 70s.
[03:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:29] <exec> 08└─But without all the millennials failing to launch, how else would we get low unemployment?
[03:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:31] <exec> 08└─AC from above, you just made my case for me. We all have some inherent beliefs that we accept because that is what we were taught. The idea that we need super rich individuals who can fund amazing ventures is a statistically irrelevant tale pushed to maintain the modern version of aristocracy. A lar...
[03:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:33] <exec> 08└─Sorry bub, but you're woefully misinformed about the situation of many Americans. It is rarely a lack of responsibility that puts people on the edge of homelessness, it is the slow pace of wages compared to inflation along with your fancy rich people using the real estate market as their retirement...
[03:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:35] <exec> 08└─Companies, being only in it for the profits, don't absorb the true costs of these downturns. When they fire these people they are pushing their care into the domain of the government. The government is finely tuned to barely work when the economy is running well.
[03:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:37] <exec> 08└─Right. Since anyone who disagrees with you is clearly insane, that proves you are correct. Excellent argument.
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[04:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:05] <exec> 08└─Understand the outrage. Back in the day, AOL keywords were confined to AOL. Now, Google is behaving exactly like they own the whole internet.
[04:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:06] <exec> 08└─They don't? Many, many people type urls into Google search... Becuase for them, Google IS the internet.
[04:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:08] <exec> 08└─Microsoft.new...it installs Linux on your computer.
[04:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:10] <exec> 08└─Facebook deserves to be its own top level domain.
[04:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Achieves First Light - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:20] <exec> 08└─Lucky they aren't in Hawaii where juju is worth more than science.
[04:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:30] <exec> 08└─Methinks you missed my point. While an attack isn't an accident, the failure of the provider / developer to design a system resistant to such an attack IS.
[04:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:32] <exec> 08└─OK, I'll just punch you in the face, and we'll see how your broken nose is your own failure to design yourself an unbreakable face. Nothing is my fault for punching you. It's a normal accident, completely the system's fault.
[04:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PHP Bug Allows RCE on NGINX Servers - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:57] <exec> 08└─File existence checks like try_files $uri =404 or if (-f $uri). If Nginx drops requests to non-existing scripts before FastCGI forwarding, our requests never reach php-fpm. Adding this is also the easiest way to patch.
[04:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method Promises Advances in 3D Printing, Manufacturing and Biomedical Applications - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:09] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a riff on the resin with UV curing technique, but instead of pulling an object out of a vat of resin, one could build the object up from droplets. The latter method could support multiple nozzles with different colors and conceivably, full color 3D prints. I'm sure that would be of...
[04:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:28] <exec> 08└─What data precisely does the city need? The city most certainly does not need the names and personal data of the passengers in the vehicle.
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[04:21:48] <exec> 08└─"Because their air and water has toxins in it, duh." You didn't score too well on the reading comprehension portion of the exam, did you? TMB's comment was that we're spending all this extra work (beyond what is simply necessary for survival) on "human advancement". The counterpoint is that we're no...
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[04:24:35] <exec> 08└─The Pluck Lock app can prevent this. It uses the accelerometer to sense sudden movements and instantly locks the screen. Works great, and the sensitivity is adjustable. https://f-droid.org [f-droid.org]
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[05:19:18] <exec> 08└─correct - dump com, gov, org, net great when internet was arp. .ibm, .google, .facebook and like should all be top level domains (for earth). register with UN and be done. Then when moon and mars are settled.... then all earth bound sites .earth is assumed. so really .ibm.earth, .google.earth, etc....
[05:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:19] <exec> 08└─malware.new
[05:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Mars Mole Mission Misfortune - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:51] <exec> 08└─This is a very typical problem. Curiosity's drilling arm also broke after 15 activations. Getting things to work right is extremely difficult. Getting them to work right tens of millions of away, on a planet we still know surprisingly little about, with a 10 minute delay on all interactions? It's ex...
[05:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Mars Mole Mission Misfortune - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:52] <exec> 08└─Mars soil isn't dry. This was one of the most important discoveries by Curiosity. It's also something that "The Martian" book/film accidentally got very wrong. Need water? Go grab a lump of soil and dehydrate it. In general the soil is quite moist. You're looking at ~2 pints of water per cubic foot...
[05:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:37] <exec> 08└─That's right, they don't need personal information of any kind, just the location, velocity, and direction of the machine.
[05:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK MPs Demand Action Over Rise In Online Bank Crashes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't go to the bar with your life savings in your pocket would you?
[05:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fed Up Of Playing Whac-A-Mole With Network Of Softbank-Owned Patent Holders, Intel Goes To Court - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:14] <exec> 08└─So he started suing in 1978, finally finished in 1995, - seventeen years later - and only got that far because he had $10 million to spend in legal fees, for a win of $30 million. His marriage broke up due to the stress, and he died of brain cancer a few years later. Sounds like a win to me. /sarcas...
[05:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fed Up Of Playing Whac-A-Mole With Network Of Softbank-Owned Patent Holders, Intel Goes To Court - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:16] <exec> 08└─That StopSaw is amazing. Even more amazing were the people complaining about it. It has to be so fast that every time it activates and stops you chopping a finger off it destroys the brake block and the blade, for a cost of about $70. There were legions of idiots complaining about that, saying that...
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[06:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Object in the Asteroid Belt, Hygiea, Could be Classified as a Dwarf Planet - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:57] <exec> 08└─The classification boundary between such objects seems subjective and fuzzy to me. For example, if it gets hit by another object and loses a big chunk, it's no longer "round" and changes category.
[06:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:12] <exec> 08└─You need to find a chief information partner with a liken of intuminescent. People who are welcomed by their home are also sometimes levitated by it.
[06:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe then they can also go back to what was originally suggested and put the most-significant part of the domain name first instead of last (i.e. big-endian). For example, .earth.us.ny.ny.localdeli.www is in least-significant ordering, which is the same ordering as most URI schemes, paths, IP addre...
[06:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PHP Bug Allows RCE on NGINX Servers - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:01] <exec> 08└─One can use PHP-FPM with Apache (instead of the Apache PHP module)--and I've used it that way myself in rare cases. Also, there are other times PHP-FPM may be used with various HTTP servers. I've seen it used with Hiawatha. Now as to whether these other cases are afflicted by this bug in the same ma...
[06:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:34] <exec> 08└─I'll give them size, weight, and age of the machine as well - those bits of data may be relevant to planning for infrastructure. As long as you, the passenger, aren't documented in any way, everything is good.
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[07:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:04] <exec> 08└─Use AMD if you care about security. Intel's entire advantage was clearly due to trading security for performance.
[07:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:05] <exec> 08└─AMD still has its PSP to match the Intel ME, which are both Not Good For Security(tm). These days I'll certainly pick an AMD over an Intel though.
[07:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Object in the Asteroid Belt, Hygiea, Could be Classified as a Dwarf Planet - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:14] <exec> 08└─It isn't round anyway, not even the Earth is round. There is a compelling consensus forming in conspiracy circles that the earth is more cone shaped with a dome over the top and antartica as a ring around the outer rim. You'll find debunkers on both sides of course, but that many people around the w...
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[08:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 3295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:54] <exec> 08└─Charitably, that article is very light-weight - lots of innuendo, little verifiable facts. A few months back I looked into Golden Rice. Here's what I found: Real world yields (versus laboratory conditions) of first generation were abysmal. The stuff just does not grow in the climates where vitamin-A...
[08:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:03] <exec> 08└─Intel has security issues far beyond its ME.
[08:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:05] <exec> 08└─So you're in a ride-sharing definitely-not-a-taxi vehicle, and the driver says to you "you don't mind if Mr. Dahmer joins us for the ride, do you?" - what do you say? Stop using any clown computing provider which makes the equivalent offer.
[08:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:07] <exec> 08└─This is yet another reason to be pushing Sparc, MIPS, ARM, or PPC, none of which are even mentioned in passing in that crap article. It does not matter whether on the server, desktop, or notebook. Just start getting away from x86. It should have been abandoned completely by the early 1990s. Yet ther...
[08:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:09] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really help. Intel had some quite egregious bugs (Meltdown, in particular, was caused by doing some speculation that was, in hindsight, terribly unsafe), but most of the core issues are intrinsic to the microarchitecture. Changing the ISA won't fix them. Superscalar, out-of-order cores mu...
[08:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:52] <exec> 08└─Where's my "Don't you dare to touche me" ** mod when I need it. ** In a complex and interactive systems environment, the continuation could be "... or else accidents may happen to you and it will be your fault. Fair warning"
[08:21:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 1017 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:11] <exec> 08└─and what the rich don't seem to understand is that the more people who have money to buy their products, the more will buy their products, the more money they'll make. No: if they cut their employees to nothing, then nobody will be able to buy their products seems to be a viable profit venture for t...
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[09:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:58] <exec> 08└─What if you switch to the part interface without notice. It is with loss data on your loop conspiracy theorist.
[09:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:59] <exec> 08└─There's an even more simple refutation than most of what you just said: carrots. Carrots, unlike rice, are utterly trivial to grow, grow pretty much anywhere, and provide exactly what 'golden rice' is supposed to be except in substantially larger quantities. So why do the lobbyists want golden rice...
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[09:19:01] <exec> 08└─I've never understood the concerns with GMO based food and 'control'. Sure, there are patents.. but for example? They expire in 20 years in the US. And due to treaties, it seems like 20 years in most places. And frankly? How is (for example) Bayer going to sue some farmer living in a hut? And even i...
[09:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:57] <exec> 08└─So Google controls the domain? So what will happen if someone applies e.g. to search.new? I somehow doubt that Google will give that to them.
[09:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship Can Launch 400 Starlink Satellites at Once - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:47] <exec> 08└─Speed in low earth orbit is typically several km/s. Your 5 second interval is a path >20 km long, of which the satellite is going to occupy a metres or so. Even if the heights match to the metre, the timing has to match up to less than a millisecond. I still maintain that the cheapest solution would...
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[10:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:51] <exec> 08└─I blame this affair to Agile Development and Value Stream Management. Selected provider of telemetry to GitLab was Pendo https://www.pendo.io [pendo.io] That means the original purpose was probably cherry-picking prominent people from projects for recruiters.
[10:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:52] <exec> 08└─I would love to know what happened internally. Just reading between the lines, one cannot escape the impression of clueless MBA/marketing twits in suits. They had no idea that their latest business deal would annoy their users. A chance to earn money by selling user data? Go for it! They were probab...
[10:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:54] <exec> 08└─Ok, I didn't know about their plans to spy on users. But now, what I know is that I'll never use or even try their services. They could be cashing big on the lack of trust many people have in Github after Microsoft bought it, even more now that we get to slowly know about projects being censored, co...
[10:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:57] <exec> 08└─Meta: using an emoji 💩 in Subject field appears fine within both editor/preview but gets mojibaked to "?" at full page rendering. I am not sorry about that. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:07] <exec> 08└─To speak to this a little bit more. Over the next 10 years, a revolution will happen. Think of it this way... You are against GMO, and more specifically, modifying humans. Hell, there's even been a law passed in your country! No GMO on humans, except to fix birth defects, horrible disease, that sort...
[10:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:08] <exec> 08└─breakdown is believed due to the cellular structure of rice (versus other plants with high vitamin-A content like carrots or taro)
[10:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:10] <exec> 08└─Gattaca called. They want their plot back.
[10:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:13] <exec> 08└─"Hi.. this plot was in a movie, so why did you ever mention it"? No.. this isn't about Gattaca. Gattaca wasn't about genetic engineering, but instead about genetic selection. And using DNA to identify 'flawed' people. I'm referring to something entirely different, which is 'the forces behind the eve...
[10:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:25] <exec> 08└─No idea what happened to PPC. It just dried up in the market, especially after Apple pulled the plug on PPC-based notebooks and downgraded to slow, hot, power hungry x86 processors. Pegasus, for example, just disappeared then too. IBM is working with POWER9 but that's not within anyone's price range...
[10:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:50] <exec> 08└─porn.new
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[11:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:10] <exec> 08└─Last one: https://github.com [github.com]
[11:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:12] <exec> 08└─So now we can't either trust GitHub or GitLab. Fuck both.
[11:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:14] <exec> 08└─It's easier to fuck up that way than you think. All you have to do is have an idea that you think should be a no-brainer and be wrong. It's bitten me in the ass more than once over the years and I make an active effort to avoid that situation. The flip side is that if you ask for wide input on every...
[11:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:16] <exec> 08└─We want to make ourselves more attractive to Microsoft. Wait until you see Phase II, where we force users to upgrade to Gitlab 10.
[11:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 3295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:24] <exec> 08└─Charitably, that article is very light-weight - lots of innuendo, little verifiable facts. A few months back I looked into Golden Rice. Here's what I found: Real world yields (versus laboratory conditions) of first generation were abysmal. The stuff just does not grow in the climates where vitamin-A...
[11:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Object in the Asteroid Belt, Hygiea, Could be Classified as a Dwarf Planet - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:51] <exec> 08└─I have something that is cone shaped with a dome over the top. Maybe it's a planet too.
[11:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:47] <exec> 08└─Pick one then and show me how I'm wrong.
[11:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:48] <exec> 08└─>The rich don't hoard money, though. 1. get rich 2. enter the circle of rich people at your level 3. they expect you to spend as much as they do to prove your status 4. spend and get more money 5. goto 2 >They invest it. Investing means that that money is out in the economy circulating and being use...
[11:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:50] <exec> 08└─Progress doesn't require wisdom, only motion in the direction humanity has chosen. Much like progressives are attempting to take us in a directions that're bat-shit crazy but still get to keep the label.
[11:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:53] <exec> 08└─Try as recently as the 60's. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:54] <exec> 08└─No, they were hired to do work. Status for the employer is only a very secondary "benefit."
[11:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:56] <exec> 08└─I was thinking back when everyone's house was heated by a local combustion source and breathing was something you wished you didn't have to do but yeah, absolutely.
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[12:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:48] <exec> 08└─"I Am Not Famous Anymore".
[12:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/08/16/cutiepi-open-source-tablet-uses-raspberry-pi-compute-module-3/ [cnx-software.com]
[12:22:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:12] <exec> 08└─It's a matter of collective wealth generation. You have to move the needle on that to make meaningful improvements in quality of life.
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[13:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:23] <exec> 08└─If I'm driving near dusk or dawn, I'm always super alert for our local suburban deer--that seems to be when they are most likely to move around and cross roads. On Halloween I just add in kids in costumes, they seem to be about as predictable as the deer (not predictable at all). Q. Are autonomous c...
[13:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:24] <exec> 08└─Does anyone actually go trick-or-treating anymore? Kids in our area just go to organized events. After five years in a row with no or 1 kid coming by Halloween night, we've stopped buying candy.
[13:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:27] <exec> 08└─God vs. Man. Day vs. Night. Son of Krypton vs. Bat of Gotham! The autonomous car should be trained to hit all manner of ghosts and goblins detected.
[13:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe your hood has too many sex offenders living in it. Yes, there is still trick or treating. It just varies based on location. Halloween on a school night probably has less kids too.
[13:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:50] <exec> 08└─I am glad you hold GitLab to a higher standard
[13:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:52] <exec> 08└─They had no idea that their latest business deal would annoy their users.
[13:20:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 1344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:02] <exec> 08└─There's an even more simple refutation than most of what you just said: carrots. Carrots, unlike rice, are utterly trivial to grow, grow pretty much anywhere, and provide exactly what 'golden rice' is supposed to be except in substantially larger quantities. So why do the lobbyists want golden rice...
[13:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:09] <exec> 08└─Some quick searching suggests that boiling carrots lowers the Vitamin A content slightly (some goes into the water), but at the same time makes other changes that improves Vitamin A absorption. Didn't find anything scholarly, but this was reassuring. Boiling them in soup (where the liquid is consume...
[13:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:12] <exec> 08└─Carrot cake with cherries on top. My want some.
[13:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:14] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, I went back to the referenced article, Where's the Golden Rice? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] (2016) and came across several intelligent comments by Francis (5544), a name I remember but haven't seen in years. Searching SN turned up nothi...
[13:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:16] <exec> 08└─It seems aristarchus (2645) ran him out of town with a since deleted journal entry: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] We got a raw deal.
[13:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe he post as AC now?
[13:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:33] <exec> 08└─Speculative execution doesn't necessitates vulnerabilities. Look up capability based designs, fat pointers and, especially, the Mill architecture video about prediction: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I regard C and related languages as the root cause
[13:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Object in the Asteroid Belt, Hygiea, Could be Classified as a Dwarf Planet - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:43] <exec> 08└─Life is "fuzzy." To pretend that things fit into categories is silly. We need to acknowledge that there aren't fine lines, but thick ones between categories and several things will end up on that line. Still the categories are useful, even if the borders are ill-defined because most of the category...
[13:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:02] <exec> 08└─The only TLD I was interested in was .bank as it would allow verification that the site you were at was, in fact, a bank. www.register.bank Sadly, 4 years on, and it still hasn't caught on much. https://www.americanbanker.com [ameri...
[13:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:46] <exec> 08└─What you said reminds me of a conversation I had with a cop a few years ago. Thieves had stolen flowers out of planters at the school. I mused, "Why would they steal the flowers and spend more time and money trying to keep the things alive after the shock of being uprooted, when they could walk a bl...
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[14:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─I'm always super alert for our local suburban deer
[14:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:03] <exec> 08└─4-to-8-year-olds have a tenfold increased risk of getting hit by a car on Halloween than on any other night of the year
[14:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:05] <exec> 08└─If I'm driving near dusk or dawn, I'm always super alert for our local suburban deer--that seems to be when they are most likely to move around and cross roads.
[14:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:07] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the one actual Halloween poisoning case perpetrated by the parents? They heard the urban legend, then thought they could make it real and not be suspected themselves.
[14:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:16] <exec> 08└─He's still and probably always will be famous. He just doesn't get so much attention anymore.
[14:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:19] <exec> 08└─True, while he's no longer getting his hands dirty with coding on PCs with 4MBs of RAM and simple libraries and tools, Torvalds is still having fun.
[14:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:20] <exec> 08└─My job really is, in the end, is to say 'no.'
[14:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:22] <exec> 08└─Linus doesn't have incompetent management holding him down. That's the difference between him and the rest of us.
[14:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:39] <exec> 08└─Automated data collection from users is now called "telemetry services"?
[14:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:41] <exec> 08└─Um, this is Microsoft, right?
[14:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:01] <exec> 08└─I'm Batman.
[14:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:02] <exec> 08└─Millions fewer humans, humans who won't themselves be having children - what's the CO2 emissions impact of that?
[14:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 2208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:04] <exec> 08└─Golden Rice by being blocked has simply not caused a loss of millions of lives. That is because Golden Rice is a scam and is being perpetuated by large agribusiness companies that ironically will rape these impoverished communities and will rake in licensing fees. Golden Rice has such a low beta car...
[14:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:06] <exec> 08└─So why do the lobbyists want golden rice instead of carrots? Because golden rice, or genetically engineered consumables in general, can be patented enabling a supply side monopoly
[14:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:09] <exec> 08└─Golden Rice by being blocked has simply not caused a loss of millions of lives. That is because Golden Rice is a scam and is being perpetuated by large agribusiness companies that ironically will rape these impoverished communities and will rake in licensing fees.
[14:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:11] <exec> 08└─Malnutrition is evolution's way of saying you shouldn't have made those children. I know people think it's sad that children have to suffer, but it's the way nature works. Little bunny rabbits are cute, but eagles need to eat. I get so pissed off at all these fertility center commercials here in the...
[14:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:13] <exec> 08└─Boiling them in soup (where the liquid is consumed) could be the best choice?
[14:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 2589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:29] <exec> 08└─SPARC Processors date back to the 1980s. Sparc32(v7) ended in ~1996-1996, when Sun stabbed most of its chip partners in the back by migrating to Sparc64(v8) and deprecating OS support needed for people still producing Sparc32 compatible chips in order to pull a chipzilla and take the whole Sparc mar...
[14:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:31] <exec> 08└─"you don't mind if Mr. Dahmer joins us for the ride, do you?"
[14:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 1746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:21] <exec> 08└─Before being smug, you may stop and think a bit. Here are some points: If a complex system is designed for resilience, it has high chances to survive a partial failure, no matter the cause of it - DDoS included. If you only would be actually more interested or just curious than to "display your musc...
[14:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Mars Mole Mission Misfortune - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:36] <exec> 08└─We should send one to Venus too!
[14:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:50] <exec> 08└─I know the cost of a pineapple has definitely dropped. Those who rented would take the pineapple to parties, not to give as a gift to the host, but to carry around and show off their apparent ability to afford such an expensive fruit!
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fed Up Of Playing Whac-A-Mole With Network Of Softbank-Owned Patent Holders, Intel Goes To Court - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:13] <exec> 08└─I knew about the Stop Saw, but didn't have the room in the garage for it - used a lightweight, compact table saw instead. Out of pocket costs for a minimal fingertip bone cut: $5K. Stop Saw price: $2500. For me, it's not about the money. Real cost of the cut: (minor) lifetime pain and minimal disabi...
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[15:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-fbi-lawyer-james-baker-cooperating-with-doj-inspector-generals-fisa-abuse-investigation [washingtonexaminer.com] He seems to know what the corrupt FBI agents have been up to.
[15:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:58] <exec> 08└─I must confess the whole AMD "RAND" bug got me thinking - what if the backdoor is simply a way of gaming random number generation so that keys are a *tiny* bit predictable. Hence, they can come out and say "Everyone use secure stuff, we love you!" and in actual fact, they have already have a backdoo...
[15:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:00] <exec> 08└─We don't need anybody's approval to use strong crypto. We simply just use it and ignore the tyrants that say, no you can't
[15:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─Hmm, interesting you are concerned about an optional non-issue when there are much bigger ones at stake (Intel me, amd psp, etc). In fact AMD's implementation may be "buggy" because it was designed by Intel to have a backdoor to begin with: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:17] <exec> 08└─Epstein was strangulated: https://www.foxnews.com [foxnews.com]
[15:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:29] <exec> 08└─No, this is just normal career progression. You do most of your learning and wrench turning when you are early in your career. Late in your career you're managing projects that you've developed or have put in charge of because of the knowledge and experience you've built up, but that takes a lot of...
[15:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:31] <exec> 08└─Once you suck a CoC, you'll always be a CoCsucker.
[15:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:33] <exec> 08└─The manslut Linus Torvalds has fun maintaining his crumbling empire. Fun with a gun to his head.
[15:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:35] <exec> 08└─Linux is a business now, deal with it. This all came about for two reasons. First, people are incapable of keeping their mouth shut and focusing on the task at hand. Second this is to protect against lawsuits. It was only a matter of time until things escalated from idiots name calling to lawyering...
[15:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:37] <exec> 08└─I normally wouldn't care or give a damn about Linus but now I actually feel a little sad for him. He gone from creator to icon and now he is left answering token emails and making decisions (aka management). That said he made a good life for himself from something that started out as a little fun pr...
[15:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:56] <exec> 08└─Yup. You can thank Microsoft for that. And it's now so pervasive that I wouldn't be surprised if your stove sends info to the manufacturer every time you turn on an element. Your computer is very likely sending out telemetry without you even knowing it, from things like video drivers, etc. (I don't...
[15:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:25] <exec> 08└─And I'm your huckleberry.
[15:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:26] <exec> 08└─As long as there are carrots, there is no monopoly. As long as golden rice is banned, carrots have a monopoly.
[15:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:28] <exec> 08└─That's not what fat soluble means. Not even the slightest fucking bit. What shitty anti-gmo site did you pull this bullshit idea from?
[15:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:30] <exec> 08└─Living to 130? That would be horrible. All your friends would be dead, nobody would hire you after you hit 40, the world has spun about you and you've been pelted with rocks as a commie, then a nazi, then a commie again.
[15:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:32] <exec> 08└─Multiply your timeline by 5, and it might happen. But lots of other changes are also coming over the next 50 years. At least humanity can evolve then without killing a bunch of people.
[15:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:35] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself. I'm an extreme masochist.
[15:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:37] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that these patents will expire before anybody uses the rice.
[15:20:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 1623 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:48] <exec> 08└─This is yet another reason to be pushing Sparc, MIPS, ARM, or PPC, none of which are even mentioned in passing in that crap article. It does not matter whether on the server, desktop, or notebook. Just start getting away from x86. It should have been abandoned completely by the early 1990s. Yet ther...
[15:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:24] <exec> 08└─I remember when British addresses were given in big endian format: bugger@uk.or.janet
[15:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:46] <exec> 08└─> "Normal Accidents", By Charles Perrow Enough of the book is available on Google Books to give a good flavor of the thesis. Starts with an everyday sequence of "bad luck" that cascades into a failure to make an important appointment -- tl:dr version is: car won't start, neighbor who normally would...
[15:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:44] <exec> 08└─Uh no. Simply having the data that a scooter was in front of your house and then traveled to the brothel is enough to identify your personal hobbies. Even a broken clock is right sometimes, and Uber is right that this is a huge privacy problem.
[15:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:18] <exec> 08└─That's the point, no central heating in the 60's everyone used coal burners, which was the cause of the Pea Soupers.
[15:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fed Up Of Playing Whac-A-Mole With Network Of Softbank-Owned Patent Holders, Intel Goes To Court - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─Ouch. I don't have the StopSaw either, but I am careful with the power tools I have (a Triton system). One of the best wakeup calls I ever got was one day when I was wearing safety glasses while using a jigsaw. It bound in the cut, twisted slightly and half a blade left a crater in the glasses direc...
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[16:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:56] <exec> 08└─Shirley any new vaccine must cause autism! I read it on the intarwebs. So it MUST be true!
[16:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:07] <exec> 08└─I hate to say this. Because if you ignore the tyrants, they will make your freedoms illegal. Then they'll use the overwhelming force of government to come get you and lock you up -- for your safety! First they came for the people who used EBCDIC. I did not use EBCDIC, so I said nothing. Next they ca...
[16:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:08] <exec> 08└─*tiny* bit predictable
[16:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:10] <exec> 08└─You used the right word. former NSA directors Gen. Michael Hayden and V. Adm. Mike McConnell, former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, Counter-Terrorism adviser Richard Clarke, former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, and former deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn
[16:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:26] <exec> 08└─On October 31 each year, millions of children in the United States celebrate Halloween by walking door to door to collect candy from neighbors, while adults and adolescents engage in Halloween festivities. The holiday may heighten pedestrian traffic risk, because celebrations occur at dusk, masks re...
[16:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:28] <exec> 08└─If you leave the poison out of Poisoned Candy Razor Blades, then all you have left is Candy Razor Blades. Is that any worser than Candy Cigarettes? Or would it be candy Vapes these daze? At least I'm old enough to say "get off my lawn!" Idea: give them a gigantic bag of candy, or 55 gallon drum, but...
[16:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:45] <exec> 08└─That said he made a good life for himself
[16:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:47] <exec> 08└─Like another poster, I actually feel bad for him. I've been looking for a development job for a few years and what I see is that there are basically three types. Juniors, managing juniors, and janitors cleaning up after the other two. There seems to be no room for experts and experts aren't going to...
[16:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:49] <exec> 08└─Still needing to work and not being able to find anything worth doing is making me consider jumping off a bridge.
[16:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 1841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:51] <exec> 08└─I think every technical person reaches a time where they lose some of the joy of tech. I used to stay up-to-date on as many different aspects of tech as I could. I was actively using multiple programming langauges, keeping up with the latest hardware news. Always updating to the latest OS, database...
[16:20:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:04] <exec> 08└─It's easier to fuck up that way than you think. All you have to do is have an idea that you think should be a no-brainer and be wrong. It's bitten me in the ass more than once over the years and I make an active effort to avoid that situation. The flip side is that if you ask for wide input on every...
[16:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─Telemetry, telescreen, it figures...
[16:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:13] <exec> 08└─GitLab != GitHub GitHub is 100% proprietary and owned by Microsoft GitLab is free/open-source software, SaaS provider of same, and is an independent company
[16:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:16] <exec> 08└─GitLab is remarkably open about most aspects of their operation. You can go to their site and read some of what their own employees were saying about this change (spoiler: just about only the CxOs thought it was a good idea).
[16:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:18] <exec> 08└─I know the practice is pervasive, but didn't know that they had appropriated a term with a very specific meaning: te·lem·e·try /təˈlemətrē/ noun the process of recording and transmitting the readings of an instrument. "measurements will be transferred by radio telemetry to the shore station"
[16:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:20] <exec> 08└─Oh damn, somebody needs to change their name.
[16:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:55] <exec> 08└─Gattaca wasn't about genetic engineering, but instead about genetic selection. And using DNA to identify 'flawed' people.
[16:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:56] <exec> 08└─fertility center commercials here in the USA
[16:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:58] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the whole "my neighbor got the GMO, it cross-pollinated into my fields without my permission, now they're suing my ass off with their team of ninja lawyers" thing. Enjoy these GMO strains cross-breeding and out-competing all the natural strains, then good luck if it turns out they're...
[16:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─In other words it's not ME, it's you. Seriously though, you'd think their processor wouldn't be so full of security holes at least when compared with their vastly smaller competition. I've been an AMD user/builder for a long time now. Mostly due to cost of Intel hardware vs AMD hardware, but it's ki...
[16:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Apple giving up on PowerPC was a major blow. Still, the architecture got in on some pretty awesome consoles, including the Wii and the PS3.
[16:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:20] <exec> 08└─Sparc was just a 2.0 version of processor that Sun was designing to be perfect for Java.
[16:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:22] <exec> 08└─My understanding of why Apple gave up on PPC. (but I'd be happy to be corrected by any solid information) PPC was available from IBM and Motorola. IBM went up hill to fire breathing server chips. Motorola went downhill to tiny power efficient embedded chips. It only made sense for Apple to pick IBM'...
[16:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:24] <exec> 08└─Mr. Dahmer gives this ride service five thumbs up!
[16:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:26] <exec> 08└─You say "with hindsight", but I've heard it reported that the vulnerabilities were predicted before the chips were designed. Though I admit that, at the time, I don't believe anyone believed the exploits were practical.
[16:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:29] <exec> 08└─Your views seem to mash these two articles together. Which I could see as the truth is often complicated. https://lowendmac.com [lowendmac.com] https://www.cnet.com [cnet.com]
[16:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Object in the Asteroid Belt, Hygiea, Could be Classified as a Dwarf Planet - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:40] <exec> 08└─Made out of aluminum foil, no doubt.
[16:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Object in the Asteroid Belt, Hygiea, Could be Classified as a Dwarf Planet - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:42] <exec> 08└─I realize that, but the latest attempts are growing ever more unhelpful. I suggest instead we toss out the "clearing out its orbit" crap and give category names based on their average diameter. Mass is probably more useful, but most humans relate to diameter better. Plus, it's usually easier to meas...
[16:21:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:53] <exec> 08└─Microsoft.new...it installs Linux on your computer.
[16:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:03] <exec> 08└─.new-and-improved
[16:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:05] <exec> 08└─Facebook deserves to be its own top level domain.
[16:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:07] <exec> 08└─I fear that at global scale, someone with nefarious porpoises would find a way to get .bank domains registered.
[16:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─Employers like to avoid the fixed costs per worker by having fewer workers doing longer hours.
[16:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─Back when it was all manual, without vacuum cleaners or washing machines, "housework" really did take mundane labor. Yes, of course there were cases of abuse, but housework was a legitimate job with little language requirement that immigrants could do.
[16:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fed Up Of Playing Whac-A-Mole With Network Of Softbank-Owned Patent Holders, Intel Goes To Court - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:26] <exec> 08└─I blame my safety glasses, along with a half dozen other factors, for my cut injury. Don't cut when you're tired. Don't cut when you're angry. Don't cut when you're tired and angry and it's getting dark. Don't cut when ... and you've only recently started to lose your "reading vision". Don't cut whe...
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[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─Vaccines are for viruses, not bacteria. I was told that by people who love it when corporations inject babies with measles vaccines.
[17:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:10] <exec> 08└─I love babies that are immune to measles, yes. In fact, that's one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.
[17:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:12] <exec> 08└─(If by babies you mean one and four year olds, respectively, of course) What can I say, I'm just a fan of science and not-dead-toddlers.
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─That is pretty hilarious since the guy who was head of the CDC at the time (Alex Langmuir) basically said "why not vaccinate for measles? We should do it just because we can". Then he predicted measles would be eradicated by 1967. No understood why he cared, because it was a total non-issue.
[17:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:28] <exec> 08└─but '"tiny" bit predictable' seems like any oxymoron.
[17:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:30] <exec> 08└─Heh, so one needs to be a "former sumthin" to become tyrant?
[17:20:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 1841 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:08] <exec> 08└─I think every technical person reaches a time where they lose some of the joy of tech. I used to stay up-to-date on as many different aspects of tech as I could. I was actively using multiple programming langauges, keeping up with the latest hardware news. Always updating to the latest OS, database...
[17:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:09] <exec> 08└─I'd say, personally, that there are strong reasons why he *should* work that way. I know that I, personally, am no longer as good a programmer as I once was. I can't hold as much code in my head at once, and need to keep referring back to what I've just written. The eventual code is still as good (A...
[17:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:11] <exec> 08└─Don't limit yourself. Hunt and eat deer, wolves, bears, tourists, etc.
[17:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:14] <exec> 08└─On top of that, many of the changes are re-inventing the wheel, by clever young folk who don't know what came before. This is especially true when it comes to things where consultants earn their bucks - project management methodologies and the like. They've all been done before, in trivially differe...
[17:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:15] <exec> 08└─I'd also add that these religious obsessions with reinventing libraries, languages and methodologies without adding any genuinely new power to what came before are probably the mark of a bad software developer. A good coder can see if programs written using two different technologies are functionall...
[17:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:41] <exec> 08└─Selected provider of telemetry to GitLab was Pendo https://www.pendo.io [pendo.io] [pendo.io] That means the original purpose was probably cherry-picking prominent people from projects for recruiters.
[17:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:42] <exec> 08└─But now, what I know is that I'll never use or even try their services.
[17:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:21] <exec> 08└─You are correct. Technically correct that is, which is the best kind of correct. Fat soluble does not literally mean fat is required to absorb the vitamin. It just means that the vitamin "sticks" to fats. But because of the way the body processes fat soluble vitamins, it is extremely difficult to ab...
[17:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:22] <exec> 08└─Your argument is the same argument used to oppose every form of technological progress ever. e.g "If god had wanted us to fly he would have given us wings." There are lots of valid and supportable reasons to oppose golden rice, but yours isn't one of them and it has no place on site that claims to b...
[17:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:24] <exec> 08└─No, it wasn't. In-vitro != genetically engineered, at all. Instead, unchanged sperm fertilize unchanged eggs, they are allowed to divide a time or two, then they are inspected for . Bad embryos are discarded. We've been doing this for decades, and it has nothing do to with genetic engineered DNA. It...
[17:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─how the hell is this flamebait
[17:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:15] <exec> 08└─The current capitalist global economy has evolved to its current state. It's not about needing rich people to make decisions or yachts to motivate them, it's that rich people have made enough profitable decisions to become rich and they are free to choose how they spend or invest most of that profit...
[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:16] <exec> 08└─By anything new, I mean every unit of product created and every instance of a service provided. You create something new (i.e. did not exist in that form before) every time you take some bread, meat and cheese and make a sandwich. That takes investment in the form of the source materials and your ti...
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[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─Having control systems that accept unsolicited network traffic of any kind is risky, having them accept unsolicited Internet traffic from any address is fucking insane. Which is why I don't design mine that way. Hell, even monitoring systems that control exactly jack and shit shouldn't be exposed di...
[18:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:06] <exec> 08└─We should be spreading disease, not containing it! In Africa, India, Middle East, Asia (except Japan) tuberculosis is the vaccine!
[18:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:08] <exec> 08└─So my son was born (1978) in Paraguay, and at that time it was standard procedure to treat newborns with the existing tuberculosis vaccine, so he got one. I am not sure if it was the BCG jab referred to in the summary. I do know that a side-effect of that vaccine is that ever after, you will test po...
[18:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─"There's no such thing as that, it's either reproducible/predictable or it isn't" For a simplified example, If I define a true random number generator that produces 8 bit random numbers, then it will produce random numbers from 0 to 255. If my generator has a defect such that every 61st number it ge...
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─I am a little shocked the Linux kernel doesn't test the random numbers on boot, but hey, I guess they will now...
[18:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:43] <exec> 08└─Humans apparently evolved to ascribe high probability to things they see occurring with their own eyes. TV and its controlling parties busily exploit this brain-backdoor for all it's worth.
[18:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:08] <exec> 08└─But he couldn't say 'no' to the CoC.
[18:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:10] <exec> 08└─Aren't you? With age and experience comes a tendency to second-think your code generation, I think for the better. I know that I can't (won't) hack something together the way I could (did) when I was 12, but overall what I write now is much more reliable and maintainable.
[18:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:37] <exec> 08└─Username checks out.
[18:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:39] <exec> 08└─This "apology" is written in lawyer weasel-speak "Further, GitLab will commit to not implementing telemetry in our products that sends usage data to a third-party product analytics service. " Translation part 1)We will still implement telemetry in our products. part 2)We might (probably will) "analy...
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─I figured they planned to "commit" it, but let the pull request to master languish and die.
[18:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─Searchengine.new
[18:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Achieves First Light - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:33] <exec> 08└─Crazy islanders! Clearly 'money' should be the only thing more important than science. Just like it is here on the mainland!
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Method Promises Advances in 3D Printing, Manufacturing and Biomedical Applications - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─But beware that the evil monster seeks them as well
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[19:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:04] <exec> 08└─... an extraterrestrial body impacted Earth ... This led to an extreme cooling of the environment ...
[19:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:06] <exec> 08└─It probably was more than an impact, likely lots of impacts from material, plasma and cosmic rays from the sun having a flare up. Some good info from a new project: https://www.electricuniverse.info [electricuniverse.info]
[19:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:08] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be cost effective to subvert an asteroid to hit Earth. A cheaper way already exists... Let Windows 10 control the worlds nukes.
[19:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:10] <exec> 08└─Just before the system responsible for missile launches activated, it restarted for an update and got stuck in a boot loop!
[19:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:19] <exec> 08└─I worked on some of these late 80s/early 90s. There was no security. If you could make a TCP/IP connection you had the run of the device. If memory serves I even provided a helpful page telling you what commands were available. Amazing how naive we were back then. At least when we heard they were c...
[19:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─An antivaxxer who is completely ignorant? How surprising! It's impressive how you manage to even get the facts that are irrelevant to your argument wrong, though, so let's review. That is pretty hilarious since the guy who was head of the CDC at the time (Alex Langmuir)
[19:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:50] <exec> 08└─They are in the League of Shadows now.
[19:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─You say that like EBCDIC isn't a more useful form of encryption than ROT13 ;)
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:11] <exec> 08└─What I experienced was no trick or treaters coming to my door when I lived in an apartment, and many when I lived in a house. I have no idea why dwelling in an apartment quells participation.
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─Whether this is coming from the standard business playbook or not: repeat: push out newfangled crackpot idea; measure level of user pushback on newfangled crackpot idea; if (measured_pushback >= pushback_threshold) then: pull back newfangled crackpot idea; wait(some_time); endif; until (measured_pu...
[19:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:50] <exec> 08└─So basically it's trapping farmers in poverty. If they get a bumper crop (even from an unrelated cash crop) pushing their total earnings above $10,000 the license is invalidated and they're suddenly open to a GMO tax. Luckily the rice has many reasons for being unattractive to farmers, not to mentio...
[19:22:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:00] <exec> 08└─So you're in a ride-sharing definitely-not-a-taxi vehicle, and the driver says to you "you don't mind if Mr. Dahmer joins us for the ride, do you?" - what do you say? Stop using any clown computing provider which makes the equivalent offer.
[19:22:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 1152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:03] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really help. Intel had some quite egregious bugs (Meltdown, in particular, was caused by doing some speculation that was, in hindsight, terribly unsafe), but most of the core issues are intrinsic to the microarchitecture. Changing the ISA won't fix them. Superscalar, out-of-order cores mu...
[19:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:16] <exec> 08└─So we are going to have to design software to run on cpu's designed primarily with the interest of mass international surveillance from totalitarian countries? And all cpus from these countries have side channel attacks which break security of virtual machines in cloud architectures run by the same...
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:54] <exec> 08└─Just wait until policy changes. If the last 30 years have proven anything, is that when policy limited availability, like in the .gov, .us and .edu domains, eventually those policies were eroded once new management appeared and shat on their predecessors' ideas.
[19:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:19] <exec> 08└─When the cloud breaks, the report on the failure is equally cloudy. Can I claim this as a law of technology? I personally would be more comfortable calling the cloud the 'crystal palace of self-serving fantasy' or 'moongel catacomb of over-simplified wishes' You can to trust these systems to the ext...
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[20:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:55] <exec> 08└─Facebook DOESN'T like its users being spied on? Or they do? Or....I'm confoosed.
[20:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:06] <exec> 08└─Amazing what script kiddies can do these days. Take a few Tesla tricks that will wow the Burningman crowd. Then conceive a unified field theory that explains everything, all in one tacky web site.
[20:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:07] <exec> 08└─So a solar flare is going to inject platinum?
[20:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:09] <exec> 08└─Electric Universe is a hilarious combination of conspiracy theories and junk science. https://rationalwiki.org [rationalwiki.org]
[20:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:12] <exec> 08└─Use your mod points to mod down Electric Universe crap.
[20:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:21] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, remember 'dsniff' ?
[20:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:23] <exec> 08└─Except in "those days" the internet consisted of a few thousand people on ARPNET using 16K modems.
[20:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:26] <exec> 08└─my gopro cam clone bought 3 years ago has a wifi mode, with a hardwired dumb password. In case you forget it, you can read it on the OSD all the time wifi is on. POSSIBLY the smartphone app can change these defaults, but there is no way I am running a cam control app that wants not only storage and...
[20:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:28] <exec> 08└─I very much prefer writing the code for them to working on them. Barring alcohol, what I did last night should still make sense in the morning after coffee. Add company repairmen and there is no such guarantee.
[20:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:01] <exec> 08└─Law enforcement's argument is that they need backdoors to stay ahead of the really bad guys. (Terrorists, drug cartels, and think of the children.) So if you make a law to require back doors, what makes these really bad folks obey these laws when they are obviously not concerned with obeying others...
[20:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:03] <exec> 08└─Vorlons were also tyrants.
[20:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:24] <exec> 08└─In the interest of full disclosure, they probably shouldn't be scheduling Purge Night on Halloween, either.
[20:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:52] <exec> 08└─This is especially true when it comes to things where consultants earn their bucks - project management methodologies and the like. They've all been done before, in trivially different ways, with different terminology for the same concepts.
[20:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:54] <exec> 08└─I am not that pedantic gnu zealot but he only created a kernel. If it weren't for Linux we would have had Hurd with all that mind share and it was a big deal to license it under gpl, but he didn't make an os.
[20:22:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 1243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:02] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the whole "my neighbor got the GMO, it cross-pollinated into my fields without my permission, now they're suing my ass off with their team of ninja lawyers" thing. Enjoy these GMO strains cross-breeding and out-competing all the natural strains, then good luck if it turns out they're...
[20:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─The Rich having GMO kids is just a variation on the same theme that they are ALREADY doing today. Private schools, bribing organizations for special treatment, etc. Even without GM, rich kids have incredible advantages that the rest of us would never hope to possess. The only reason they keep doing...
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─Virtual Machines didn't sell enough CPUs. Now everyone will need actual machines each with their own CPU!
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─"you don't mind if Mr. Dahmer joins us for the ride, do you?" Hopefully there aren't many around, but you might not care if you are of like mind. Don''t share with your enemies, but if another thread is already sharing the same address space, then sharing the CPU pair might be just fine. A multicore...
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Linux Developer on Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're not going away.' - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─Rumor has it that a lot of companies are pissed off at Intel, expect more problems, and no gesture is going to prevent them from switching to AMD. Companies that were thinking about switching to AMD in the future accelerated their plans by years.
[20:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─Facebook deserves to be its own top level domain.
[20:26:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:08] <exec> 08└─What you said reminds me of a conversation I had with a cop a few years ago. Thieves had stolen flowers out of planters at the school. I mused, "Why would they steal the flowers and spend more time and money trying to keep the things alive after the shock of being uprooted, when they could walk a bl...
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[20:26:14] <exec> 08└─> I'd rather have annual 5-10% reduction in total hours worked, While not specifically planned, this is about what has happened to me. I'm mid-60s and the tiny business that I own has got to the point where my customers seem to be pretty stable, and experienced people get the work done. I have to ke...
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[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─It's complicated. Facebook belongs to another faction than NSO Group belongs to.
[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─They probably doesn't like it when other companies spy on their products/customers. The spying should only be done in-house for the glory of Zuck.
[21:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:05] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know why these blatant crimes aren't being prosecuted by state actors. The US should care if its citizens are being spied on. Same goes for any other country out there. Pretty sure every single country has anti-hacking laws that have been broken here.
[21:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:07] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know why these blatant crimes aren't being prosecuted by state actors. 1) Maybe they are being perpetrated by state actors, and/or 2) Professional courtesy
[21:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─So I modded the comment above +1 Funny, because no-one really takes the Electric Universe theory seriously. It's a joke, like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Isn't it?)
[21:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, it was much more likely to be a solar micronova. Occams razor tells us the heavy elements come direct from the source, rather than some intermediate object like an asteroid. Also, the asteroid can't explain the widespread melting seen on the surface of the moon dated to the same timeframe. If a...
[21:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:25] <exec> 08└─How do you think platinum is formed if not at the center of a star? Solar flare is the wrong term for this type of event though.
[21:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 2238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:51] <exec> 08└─Parents largely came to see measles as an unpleasant, although more or less inevitable, part of childhood. Many primary care physicians shared this view. [...] In the United States and Western Europe, which did, measles mortality was low and declining and parents seemingly ac...
[21:20:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:03] <exec> 08└─I hate to say this. Because if you ignore the tyrants, they will make your freedoms illegal. Then they'll use the overwhelming force of government to come get you and lock you up -- for your safety! First they came for the people who used EBCDIC. I did not use EBCDIC, so I said nothing. Next they ca...
[21:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:14] <exec> 08└─Those are mostly the same arguments made during the 1990's when the US government decided encryption was naughty, and slapped export controls on strong encryption. Of course, those of us who don't live the US carried on using strong encryption because your export controls don't apply to us, and I a...
[21:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:15] <exec> 08└─Then let that be a reminder to vote for nicer tyrants
[21:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:17] <exec> 08└─All public safety officials should think of protecting the cybersecurity of the United States as an essential part of their core mission
[21:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:20] <exec> 08└─It also apparently made no difference to export controls [milk.com] either (sorry, ancient story).
[21:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:40] <exec> 08└─I have no idea why dwelling in an apartment quells participation.
[21:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:42] <exec> 08└─Twice in my life I heard a report of actual razor blades in apples. The first time I was very young, and it was a gossip item. The second time it was a regular news report and I heard the police were called in. That's two occurrences in a 73-year lifespan so far. I'd say it's rare enough not to worr...
[21:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:44] <exec> 08└─I wish I could find the link to the SNL skit from the 70's where Dan Aykroyd was a toy manufacturer defending a halloween costume called "Invisible Pedestrian" consisting of a head to toe black outfit and ski mask. LOL.
[21:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─Don't limit yourself. Hunt and eat deer, wolves, bears, tourists, etc.
[21:22:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:09] <exec> 08└─So why do the lobbyists want golden rice instead of carrots? Because golden rice, or genetically engineered consumables in general, can be patented enabling a supply side monopoly
[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Gattaca was totally about genetic engineering. I'm not going to repeat tangomargarine (667) because he was totally on point. The protagonists parents wanted to make a natural baby and not select traits, how is that NOT genetic engineering? Yes society used genetics to discriminate, but the...
[21:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fourth-Largest Object in the Asteroid Belt, Hygiea, Could be Classified as a Dwarf Planet - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─We needed a little hyginea in a solar system with Uranus
[21:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Mars Mole Mission Misfortune - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:18] <exec> 08└─[...] could have been achieved in, literally, a matter of days by a single scientist on the surface.
[21:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Have The Tools And Technology To Work Less And Live Better - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:37] <exec> 08└─It's not about needing rich people to make decisions or yachts to motivate them, it's that rich people have made enough profitable decisions to become rich and they are free to choose how they spend or invest most of that profit. A consequence of giving people the freedom to use the profits of their...
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[22:19:07] <exec> 08└─NSO Group is a spawnling of Unit 8200. That's no secret, but a two-clicks-verifiable fact.
[22:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:08] <exec> 08└─This is yet another reason why I have as few apps on my phone as possible.
[22:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:10] <exec> 08└─Nothing is verifiable. On today's internet, even simple arithmetic is a disputed conspiracy theory.
[22:19:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:35] <exec> 08└─I worked on some of these late 80s/early 90s. There was no security. If you could make a TCP/IP connection you had the run of the device. If memory serves I even provided a helpful page telling you what commands were available. Amazing how naive we were back then. At least when we heard they were c...
[22:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:41] <exec> 08└─At the very least, IMS or ICS devices should never accept unsolicited traffic from anything but LAN addresses; if management wants to look at things from their smartphone, they can damned well VPN in.
[22:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:23] <exec> 08└─...They know that businesses won't tolerate a government threat to encryption, so they are closing that door and will support other means for the government to get what they want.
[22:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:24] <exec> 08└─I may be ancient, but it is still very interesting. Weird sort of security theatre story really. This guy [wikipedia.org] wrote a book about how that whole world works. It is hard going, but worth a read.
[22:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:40] <exec> 08└─From the article: The $1 billion-asset bank also noted some assumed when a sentence ended “.bank.” in its promotional materials, the last period was part of the web address, instead of perfect punctuation.
[22:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:41] <exec> 08└─technology.new/windows = Windows NT ? .. everything old is .new again ..
[22:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Achieves First Light - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:52] <exec> 08└─From the dark-light dept.
[22:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:09] <exec> 08└─Your neighbors like brothels? You like dropping uber's scooters at random locations? Uber knows who rode the scooter, so the user's privacy ain't so much.
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[23:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:01] <exec> 08└─How much will this cost? Is it comparable to a 110hp ICE crate engine?
[23:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:02] <exec> 08└─I own a diesel panel van. Nothing fancy, but it's in good condition, and being long-wheelbase, it suits my loading needs. I really wish I could turn it into an EV because there is no extended wheelbase electric minivan on the market, and it seems wasteful to ditch an old but workable vehicle that's...
[23:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:04] <exec> 08└─Where is our drop-in Mr. Fusion and hover conversion?
[23:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:11] <exec> 08└─We can only hope the FDA approves it quickly so that those who suffer can be cured before they try to elect #CrookedHillary again.
[23:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:26] <exec> 08└─The spying should only be done in-house for the glory of Zuck.
[23:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:44] <exec> 08└─...solar micronova...
[23:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:41] <exec> 08└─Liar. You clearly ran every alphanumeric character in that message through ROT13 *twice.* I can see the scuff marks on the flipped bits!
[23:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:05] <exec> 08└─There were three huge cases. The first was a dentist back in the late 50s, who covered candy in laxatives. The second one was where a kid died of a massive heroin overdose. They originally suspected the candy because some tested positive, but the whole bag tested positive. Turns out the kid got in h...
[23:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:06] <exec> 08└─Why? It's the best night to get rid of all those little ragamuffins.
[23:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:08] <exec> 08└─One persistent SOB in weirdly fragile armor seems to have been enough to handle all the Ghosts'n'Goblins out there. Even that annoying red one with the plasma breath, with the right weapon.
[23:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the reason why the rules for DST were changed (in most of USAnia) to delay its departure until the first week of November?
[23:21:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:20] <exec> 08└─True, while he's no longer getting his hands dirty with coding on PCs with 4MBs of RAM and simple libraries and tools, Torvalds is still having fun.
[23:21:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 358 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:34] <exec> 08└─On top of that, many of the changes are re-inventing the wheel, by clever young folk who don't know what came before. This is especially true when it comes to things where consultants earn their bucks - project management methodologies and the like. They've all been done before, in trivially differe...
[23:21:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 890 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:35] <exec> 08└─I'd also add that these religious obsessions with reinventing libraries, languages and methodologies without adding any genuinely new power to what came before are probably the mark of a bad software developer. A good coder can see if programs written using two different technologies are functionall...
[23:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:12] <exec> 08└─Well, there is SourceForge, Savannah, OSDN, Launchpad, Assembla, YouTrack, UserSnap, Project Locker, Cloudforge, Notabug, and I could go on.
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