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[00:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:54] <exec> 08└─Google Maps logs everywhere you go, the route you take to get there, when you arrive and what time you leave -- even if you never open the app.
[00:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:55] <exec> 08└─Ditto the navigation. The old explorers were able to walk across this contintent, while squinting into the sun, and that's good enough for me. Well, me and Rand McNally. The few times I've been with someone navigating via GPS, I really, really, REALLY wanted to throw that thing out the window. I wou...
[00:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:57] <exec> 08└─Better option: just don't use Google Duckduckgo mostly gives useful responses, and using your brain to differentiate "good" and "bad" sites shouldn't be optional. If you must get help navigating, buy a gps unit with lifetime map subscription. Fdroid for apps. Banking on your phone? Convenient, but r...
[00:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:14] <exec> 08└─This is one of Barbara Hudson's "friends". Hudson probably gave him the apple.
[00:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah - Home Depot, disposable blades, I think there were ten in the package. About seven bucks. Just plain single edge utility razors, but disposable shaving blades don't cost much more unless they have some macho-sounding name and however many blades is fashionable this year. When Hudson said "stra...
[00:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:18] <exec> 08└─Children need to get used to the real world. Nobody gives you free candy in the real world. Especially Reese’s Not sorry
[00:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:20] <exec> 08└─Nobody likes a floater.
[00:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of LED Street Lights on Autistic Son Led Damien McNamara on Dark Sky Campaign - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:09] <exec> 08└─it took a full year of being intensively gluten free
[00:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:37] <exec> 08└─Your restaurants and retail stores are already open at almost all hours. But the big administrative building next door is 8-5 and will never change because they don't give a crap if their employees never see daylight. DST works around that. It is not about making sunlight, it is about making shopper...
[00:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:38] <exec> 08└─It's just that after much soul searching I have realized that I identify with the pacific time zone.
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614-Year-Old Genius Solves Blind Spots in Cars - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─I was pretty disappointed to see that the vast bulk of comments here were along the lines of "Not really an invention", "Done before [poorly]", or "Just a kid". Suck it up - this girl implemented something that you didn't. Most inventions are obvious after the fact. Full points to her, and no points...
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[01:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:12] <exec> 08└─WTF?! When I went to the original CNET article I get a bloody popup "Do more with Google Assistant... sign me up" . Pervasive or what!
[01:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:13] <exec> 08└─These days, girls ( and guys too! ) are far more apt to be a liability than an asset!
[01:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:15] <exec> 08└─What if I have never had a Google account?
[01:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03warsen [7321] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:17] <exec> 08└─- Android: remove the google account. (I know some phones don't let you do that; my Samsung does). The only app I have from the playstore is "Ola" (which is like Uber in India). Everything else comes from f-droid or apkmirror.com. I.e., I only need to make my playstore app log in to google if I nee...
[01:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:20] <exec> 08└─They hang out on the interwebs...
[01:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:22] <exec> 08└─if they did find a "girl", how would they know it was a "girl"? isn't "girl" a social construct?
[01:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:44] <exec> 08└─If they can read the wrapper that tells them to plug it in, they are old enough that a wise parent might have taught them some internet/computer basics. Like never plug in a USB thing that you find or someone gives you. It's on the same order as don't click on things emails you weren't expecting. An...
[01:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:45] <exec> 08└─It's a teachable moment on the principle of taxation. The kid does all the work, walking around and getting bagfuls of candy. Then they get home and someone bigger and meaner than them takes all the best bits off the top.
[01:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:47] <exec> 08└─A Wilkonson razor and blades is cheap and EPIC: far cheaper than the "new and improved 12ty blade, vibrating, toothbrushing Gillette-Schick razor-fridges. I use it everyday
[01:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:49] <exec> 08└─Windows problem?
[01:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of LED Street Lights on Autistic Son Led Damien McNamara on Dark Sky Campaign - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks for reminding me, I've got a headlight out and I've been meaning to upgrade to these: https://www.superbrightleds.com
[01:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:36] <exec> 08└─that settles it once and for all. Good job! /sarcasm
[01:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:37] <exec> 08└─Those racist views would not exist if...
[01:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:13] <exec> 08└─Due to following the lead of our neighbours to the south as that is where a lot of our trade happens.
[01:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614-Year-Old Genius Solves Blind Spots in Cars - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:27] <exec> 08└─It's not a major problem but a minor contributor to decreased vision. Having increased vision translates into greater situational awareness. This increase in vision means nothing when people drive so close behind other vehicles. It is common in America that people do not believe in maintaining a cra...
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[01:23:27] <exec> 08└─Miss Greta isn't correct about her concern regarding climate change. Her knowledge comes from people who also don't know the details of what they say about climate change. Prof. Richard Lindzen confirms that the climate alarm is based on bogus science - https://www.youtube.com [y...
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[02:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:54] <exec> 08└─Look, come on guys. I hate young people as much as anyone... ...actually that's all.
[02:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:55] <exec> 08└─Whether or not it's good or bad, linguists have been like kids at a candy store watching the changes in language that have come with the internet.
[02:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:57] <exec> 08└─637 0ff my l4wn.
[02:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:13] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering the same thing, because I have never had a google account.
[02:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe we're due for an article on "fingerprinting"--big G and many other big sites can track you by queries about your screen res, browser version, etc. If you use Google search or any of their other services, they most likely know some things about you.
[02:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:17] <exec> 08└─OK boomer
[02:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:19] <exec> 08└─Or just don't use Android. 5-year-old iPhone just got another update last week. My Android stopped getting updates in less than 2 years. No Google apps, no gmail, no YouTube, no Google maps, no Facebook, no Google search, no Twitter, they probably think I'm dead and a bot took over.
[02:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:21] <exec> 08└─So how do you keep Apple from tracking you? It's much more deeply baked in and you have far fewer options on an Applephone.
[02:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:23] <exec> 08└─"Apple: Yes, we're slowing down older iPhones" https://money.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[02:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:48] <exec> 08└─> wise parent Isn't that like cognitive dissonance like military intelligence?
[02:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:50] <exec> 08└─It seems that the "myth" will be revitalized by 2019's Halloween: https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] https://patch.com [patch.com]
[02:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:52] <exec> 08└─Let's not go too far. I'll agree that when I was 13, my father was the stupidest man on earth. But, it was amazing how much brighter he got by the time I reached my 20s.
[02:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic and Baltic Trading Halted Again by Technical Failure - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:03] <exec> 08└─It's OK, Manish from tech support has told them to clear their cache, delete their cookies, and to run sfc /scannow, they're still waiting to see if the exchanges come back up.
[02:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic and Baltic Trading Halted Again by Technical Failure - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:05] <exec> 08└─Gotta love those things, a "security" mechanism with a built-in denial-of-service attack.
[02:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Finally Let a Reporter Ride in a Fully Driverless Car - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:23] <exec> 08└─Ed Niedermeyer reports on his own experience riding in a fully driverless car.
[02:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Finally Let a Reporter Ride in a Fully Driverless Car - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:25] <exec> 08└─The full story from the journalist is at https://techcrunch.com [techcrunch.com] It's pretty interesting, pointing out that in addition to self-driving, the steps to removing the safety driver (human) also included negotiations with fire/cops to m...
[02:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of LED Street Lights on Autistic Son Led Damien McNamara on Dark Sky Campaign - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:51] <exec> 08└─My sons public school bought into the diet 100%: when he hit high school... Yeah...e wasn't watched well enough and would help himself to his classmates lunches, etc. "But we don't think it was very much" became a common thing until that teacher was transferred because of parent complaints. His last...
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[02:20:53] <exec> 08└─Yes: moving house seems the last thing we'd do. The disruption and not knowing the new neighborhood and neighbors, and them not knowing him...... Blackout curtains would have been our first step, but HEY! Let's move! Sounds dumb.
[02:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:51] <exec> 08└─Make the liberals heads explode. Start refering to that demographic as pockers.
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─Fall? There ain't no such season.
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[03:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:13] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews ...is old people!
[03:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:14] <exec> 08└─The COBOL has done good things to the English language. But those good deeds are mostly forgotten now. The same will happen with the Internet.
[03:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:37] <exec> 08└─Sooner!
[03:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:38] <exec> 08└─As much as I hate the tracking, Google gives results that are a couple orders of magnitude better than DDG. But so does Bing and MS doesn't have near the data on me to abuse that Google does.
[03:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:40] <exec> 08└─Old news and no longer true. Guess you missed the announcement in response to the uproar. It works just fine, still gets regular updates, unlike Android. And unlike android, it was easy to remove all the google apps. I guess what I'm saying is that I trust Apple more than an advertising company. Be...
[03:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:42] <exec> 08└─Unless you tell your browser to lie randomly about those things, sure.
[03:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:45] <exec> 08└─They know a lot more than a few things about you, even if you never created an account. Sent email to someone with a gmail address? They know who you are.
[03:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:47] <exec> 08└─Or go android but buy a phone you can root and install LineageOS on. It is possible to have both control and neat shit.
[03:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:15] <exec> 08└─Man, buy them at WalMart or wherever you get your shaving stuff. They're like a buck fiddy for half a dozen double-edged blades and they're right by all the other blades. Mind you, if you got bigass Golem hands like me you're going to hate using safety razors because of how small the handles are.
[03:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:16] <exec> 08└─Mine was kind of slow. It took him until almost my thirties to know his ass from a hole in the ground.
[03:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of LED Street Lights on Autistic Son Led Damien McNamara on Dark Sky Campaign - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:14] <exec> 08└─It's unfortunate, but it's also part of life - dealing with morons and learning for yourself what it means to break diet, why you might not want to do that, etc. Our GF kiddo turns 18 this year and he pretty well understands his diet and doesn't try to break it very often, which is pretty remarkable...
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[03:21:15] <exec> 08└─I'm too indifferent to bother with the article, but my guess of things is that they were probably going to move anyway and noticed this change after they moved, and Dad being a light pollution campaigner to begin with wants to make sure to pile on every bit of "evildence" he can against the cool LED...
[03:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of LED Street Lights on Autistic Son Led Damien McNamara on Dark Sky Campaign - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:17] <exec> 08└─We had our street light, a reasonably efficient sodium-vapour lamp, replaced with ghastly garish LED lighting a few years ago. Then it failed, and was replaced ($$$). Then it failed, and was replaced ($$$). Then it failed, and was replaced again ($$$). Then it failed, and was replaced again ($$$). I...
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:55] <exec> 08└─California's already trying; we had the formal vote last year that authorized the state government to change the part of the state constitution that mandated the time change, so the next step is for them to decide which way to go (almost certainly year-round DST) and then petition Congress to allow...
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:55] <exec> 08└─Given I rarely get to bed before 3am, I also find the "hours of sleep" argument pointless; I just wish we'd go to year-round DST as I absolutely hate having night fall so early in the evening.
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[03:23:24] <exec> 08└─but I am drunk now so you will have to wait
[03:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614-Year-Old Genius Solves Blind Spots in Cars - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:09] <exec> 08└─I'm the AC that started this subject. You want a citation, here's one, bulk steel prices - https://www.alibaba.com [alibaba.com] Plenty of hits to choose from with a simple search. Costs for a variety of different alloys seem to be from $450 - $800 per ton. So...
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[03:24:10] <exec> 08└─I've got a few older cars with good visibility and I'm planning to keep them. So I understand where you are coming from on visibility. However, it's plain not true to say "weak acceleration" -- some of the quickest accelerating cars ever build are on the market now. Many of the new small motors with...
[03:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Were Those Experiment Results Really So Predictable? These Researchers Aim To Find Out - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:24] <exec> 08└─Gamblers of the 'Vegas sort never make (manufacture) anything, except bets against each other (and against the "house"). This even applies at the level of playing the markets (a legal and possibly-sophisticated form of gambling). I guess you could say that investing in a casino is also gambling by t...
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[03:25:00] <exec> 08└─I don't know. This company is really cutting at the root of free software though. A suit would cost around 500k or more against them however (Federal Question, Diversity suit)
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[03:25:01] <exec> 08└─>No idea what was going on with Sam's pond, but his ex-wife probably took everything. Women's rights!
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[04:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:57] <exec> 08└─The next Trump situation could be prevented only if Google provides their own reliable and conscientious candidate(s) thorouhly selected from the CIA background. This is exactly what Russians did for themselves to prevent next Yeltsin situation. Most probably will never happen because of implacable...
[04:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:58] <exec> 08└─Besides, it's Trump's job to prevent the next Google situation.
[04:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:00] <exec> 08└─We are living the dystopian future of big tech where Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook rule the world. Billionaire fortunes are made from advertising, undocumented immigrants are a hot topic, random nobodies operate their own streaming channels, and the Earth is orbited by privately launched satel...
[04:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:03] <exec> 08└─Google itself confirms the politician's firm, by cooly stating that *they alone* are what people expect Congress to be. That alone should be scary enough to prompt an emergency tear-up of this threat of a company...
[04:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:05] <exec> 08└─"fears", not "firm". Yeah autocorrect...
[04:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:07] <exec> 08└─Damn you! Now I have to find that show and watch it.
[04:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:09] <exec> 08└─social media controls politics today just as predicted in 1987.
[04:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:11] <exec> 08└─The next "Trump situation" can be prevented if we vote all the nutcases out of Congress next year.
[04:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:13] <exec> 08└─Try downloading it on your cellular device.
[04:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:16] <exec> 08└─was right about Google
[04:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:18] <exec> 08└─Blank Reg would want you to pirate it. https://www1.swatchseries.to [swatchseries.to] You're welcome.
[04:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:20] <exec> 08└─I would but I'm old and can't hold my cellular device close enough to my eyes (and still be able to focus on it) that it has the same apparent screen size as the big ole TV does from my bed. Getting old is annoying.
[04:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:32] <exec> 08└─good thing we can't smell through the intertubes...
[04:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:00] <exec> 08└─No, it's a biological construct. In any case every Linux user knows where to find girl on the Internet [gnome.org] (source code here [gnome.org]).
[04:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:02] <exec> 08└─Correction, Google used to give better results, until some cretin changed the search algorithm from "return what was searched for" to "return something that sounds vaguely like what was searched for". Literally. I can search for a particular set of terms and get a hundred pages of results that conta...
[04:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:04] <exec> 08└─I built my own browser to lie about screen size, version, and installed fonts. Are you one of the ~100 other people in the world who have done so?
[04:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:06] <exec> 08└─The only app I have from the playstore is "Ola"
[04:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:08] <exec> 08└─Yes he is, and you are all on my list. -Eric.
[04:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:10] <exec> 08└─I'll take your word for it but as of last year it still gave me exactly what I was looking for on the first page 99% of the time and as the first or second result 95% of the time.
[04:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:12] <exec> 08└─No such heroic lengths are necessary. There are plenty of extensions that are happy to do so for you.
[04:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Were Those Experiment Results Really So Predictable? These Researchers Aim To Find Out - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:46] <exec> 08└─Gamblers of the 'Vegas sort
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[05:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:30] <exec> 08└─Max Headroom, TV Series (1987–1988) [imdb.com] The overall premise was of mega-corporations using television networks to control politics and government, but today big tech social media corporations own the streaming video platforms that are replacing television. See Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+,...
[05:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:31] <exec> 08└─Old? Sounds like you're a candidate for the body bank. Don't worry, your involuntarily donated organs will enrich the 1%.
[05:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:34] <exec> 08└─Congress is old people. Social media influencers don't even need to be old enough to vote for those geezers.
[05:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:36] <exec> 08└─'Twas scummy content then, it's still scummy content now [soylentnews.org]. It's nothing new, the fucking non-story the brain-let-free-over-weekend eds pushed was published on the linked shyte site in June 24 2019 - go check the date if you don't believe it. Note to eds: I thought that you already k...
[05:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:38] <exec> 08└─Was a game on Spectrum too.
[05:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:40] <exec> 08└─Google itself confirms the politician's firm fear
[05:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:42] <exec> 08└─The next Trump situation could be prevented only if ...
[05:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:44] <exec> 08└─Undercover video is a primary source.
[05:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:47] <exec> 08└─Joke's on them then, none of them are worth having except the brain and the penis.
[05:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:59] <exec> 08└─SN smells like Bengay and Fixodent.
[05:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:01] <exec> 08└─Marty brings in subs for a decent discussion (well, at least for us geezers). And fnord actually done a decent editing job (for once). The only time I found linguistics interesting is when philology studied linguistic similiarity to trace ancient history, as an adjunct to archeology/anthropology. An...
[05:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:37] <exec> 08└─It's a fairly recent piece of brain rot. Worst-case is when you're looking for a specific term/phrase that has a common word in it, where Google will return nothing but results for that common word instead of the specific term(s) you want. And before I get a million replies saying "you need to put i...
[05:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:07] <exec> 08└─In Yakima, WA, we call it "Trunk-or-Treat". If you don't watch your step, you'll wind up in the trunk of a car. The 'treat' is when you don't. How to steal an American city: Montes v. City of Yakima - https://www.aclu-wa.org [aclu-wa.org] Embezzlement & swindling at the...
[05:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:08] <exec> 08└─I don't even shave, lol! I only use those blades in my knifes.
[05:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:10] <exec> 08└─Wrong kind of razor blades. Those are utility knife blades. They're probably ten times as thick as the ones used for the old safety razors that lost popularity back in the sixties and seventies. And only one side of utility knife blades is sharp instead of both sides (there is no back, they're symme...
[05:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 2377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:08] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed as society has become more obsequious and apologetic towards broken black culture, that the culture has only gotten exponentially worse? This should generally clue in that your hypothesis is invalid. Beyond that I think another great lesson, which also ties right back into America,...
[05:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian City Slurps Mobile Data To Track Visitors - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:11] <exec> 08└─To connect water or gas or electricity they "require" DOB, driver license, full name, address and a credit card or debit account. Why? So if you can't pay they can hound you in court or with collectors. I ask: 'Do I need to learn to drive to connect a service?' To which the answer is no. If they ask...
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[06:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Webs Don’t Rot Easily and Scientists May Have Figured Out Why - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:58] <exec> 08└─Yet another "Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956", to counter aristarchus submissions on spiders, that do not exist? What happened to the mindless bot submissions, editores?
[06:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Webs Don’t Rot Easily and Scientists May Have Figured Out Why - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:59] <exec> 08└─Has nobody really investigated why silk and cotton fabrics normally take longer than a few months to rot away?
[06:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:06] <exec> 08└─Another Runaway1956 sub? How many of these do I have to wade through before I can get to some real tech news? Asking for a friend.
[06:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:34] <exec> 08└─If release in full. When it's edited, it acts as Richelieu's "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." So, again, "Project Veritas" is NOT credible as a source of citations.
[06:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:36] <exec> 08└─Why do we care what the people who have REPEATEDLY been caught releasing fraudulent videos say?
[06:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:38] <exec> 08└─Remember when they 'caught' people selling baby parts then had to walk the whole thing back when it turned out they were COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT? Yeah....I remember that.
[06:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:40] <exec> 08└─If I selectively quote your sentence 'I suc coc' is a quote from a primary source.
[06:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:42] <exec> 08└─A convicted criminal says something, SN calls it news. News at 11. Got any crack dealer conspiracy theories to run next?
[06:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, we know you have the world's smallest brain and the world's smallest penis.
[06:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:47] <exec> 08└─And vote the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact IN.
[06:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:01] <exec> 08└─Nonetheless, TMB is an amazing asset for us to have and we should be thankful.
[06:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:39] <exec> 08└─Searching for midget porn may deliver broad results that would satisfy most searchers, but specific technical searches demand specific results.
[06:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:39] <exec> 08└─Sorry but it's much more difficult to find a half-remembered scene with a specific midget again than it is to find stackexchange for the five thousandth time for you.
[06:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:10] <exec> 08└─To be clear in my above post (that you responded to), I made an unfortunate typo. I was stating that places such as Burkina Faso or Benin (both in West Africa) have homicide rates, at least, there are somewhat comparable to Europe. So this was some evidence against a genetic cause. And yes of course...
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[06:24:33] <exec> 08└─According to the statistics, the most common accidents are single-vehicle accidents, of which the vast majority are running off the road or hitting an obstacle in the roadway (e.g. debris, animals, etc.). The second most common is rear-end collisions, where a vehicle runs into a slower vehicle from...
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[06:25:04] <exec> 08└─You seriously suggesting gorilla glass when pillar airbags have been mentioned?
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[07:19:03] <exec> 08└─Another fine Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956
[07:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:19] <exec> 08└─Well, you could also make some submissions that we can use that cover our areas of interest and comply with the stated guidelines. We welcome submissions from our community members rather than having to resort to using bots to find new stories. But I wonder what your complaint is regarding submissio...
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[07:19:56] <exec> 08└─Another sketchy Runnyway1234 submission, with cites to Project Veritas, known felons? "Shocked, shocked I am that there is gambling going on in this establishment!" Adjuntant: "Sir, your 'winnings'." Takyon: "This could be the start of a beautiful relationship." Casablanca is only an album by a ban...
[07:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:57] <exec> 08└─Not a Project Veritas "production", to be honest, 'twas the Center for Medical Progress [wikipedia.org] with the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos [wikipedia.org]. But, yeah, on the same vein [wikipedia.org], including an attempt on Planned Parenthood in 2008.
[07:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:59] <exec> 08└─Why do we care what the people who have REPEATEDLY been caught releasing fraudulent videos say?
[07:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:01] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that we could have a rather public "editor training" program of some sort? Sometimes I get the idea that our volunteers are just naive, and do not realize the liabilities of linking to such disgraced sources such as Brietbart and Project Veritas, and one's on the left, like, like, we...
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[07:20:03] <exec> 08└─Ed Training?
[07:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Finally Let a Reporter Ride in a Fully Driverless Car - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:00] <exec> 08└─So, an AI to detect my state of mind and refuse service based on some criteria chosen by the Deep State Collective Hive Mind Gaia? Pssshyeahrrright.
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[07:23:33] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed as society has become more obsequious and apologetic towards broken black culture, that the culture has only gotten exponentially worse? This should generally clue in that your hypothesis is invalid.
[07:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:09] <exec> 08└─Err ... you obviously neither understand what Daylight Saving Time is (hint: without DST, the previous day at sunrise it would have been 6:30, too), nor did you understand my post — you don't really deny that the days in summer are longer than those in winter, do you? And yes, that would be the ca...
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[08:19:03] <exec> 08└─From The Hill [thehill.com], presenting the actual reasons for Google's objections. Something on the line of "is it a probe or is it a case of economic espionage running through the Office of Attorney General?". Given the way various powers in the mighty USA respect the rule of law (remember Snowden...
[08:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Worried an Antitrust Probe Will Reveal its Secrets - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:04] <exec> 08└─Can you discredit this story, asshole? No? So, you have nothing to add to the submission? Who is stupider, you or your nemesis, Runaway1956?
[08:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Worried an Antitrust Probe Will Reveal its Secrets - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:06] <exec> 08└─Fuck reklaimthenet and the Brave browser. Both of them just exploit the netizens and provide nothing in return. You're just an useful idiot to them.
[08:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Worried an Antitrust Probe Will Reveal its Secrets - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:09] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is, Runaway1956. As George Carlin said, you take the average person, and you realize that half of people are stupider than that, but none are more stupid that Runaway. And now SoylentNews is following this asshole into the Devil's Anus, and it is not some portal to another part...
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[08:19:19] <exec> 08└─Altstarchus, you leave these altspiders alone! They've done nothing to you!
[08:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Webs Don’t Rot Easily and Scientists May Have Figured Out Why - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:21] <exec> 08└─You'll regret your attitude when the Alt Arachnid Army comes after you.
[08:19:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 1057 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:30] <exec> 08└─Well, you could also make some submissions that we can use that cover our areas of interest and comply with the stated guidelines. We welcome submissions from our community members rather than having to resort to using bots to find new stories. But I wonder what your complaint is regarding submissio...
[08:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:32] <exec> 08└─It lies. It has no friends.
[08:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:05] <exec> 08└─1. Delete any existing Google account 2. Get a real email provoder and file sharing provider 3. Smash your Android phone 4. Get a SailfishOS, Pine64 or other Linux phone 5. Never install Chrome 6. Never use Google play store 7. Set firewall/hosts to reject Google 8. Sit back and relax
[08:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:06] <exec> 08└─Google is still better than DDG when it comes to news search, where DDG is pretty much worthless, at least in my country. On the other hand, Google's general search is, indeed, worthless, as it usually ignores the search keywords (or uses them to derive other, related, keywords, and search for those...
[08:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effects of LED Street Lights on Autistic Son Led Damien McNamara on Dark Sky Campaign - 2827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:41] <exec> 08└─As my child psychologist friend says all the time, "just because someone can't communicate an idea with the words you want, doesn't mean they don't understand it." It gets her goat to no end when people who should know better say thing like, "Why is Johnny in GATE when his 504 says I can't give him...
[08:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:42] <exec> 08└─That doesn't look racist to me.
[08:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:43] <exec> 08└─No, obviously it means "Perpetually Over-entitled Caucasians", AKA, White Privilege, or White Fear. Slave Rebellions, whitey! Still coming for you a hundred and forty some years after! You should be afraid, after what you did!
[08:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:26] <exec> 08└─I think what they meant is that "Winter time," or Standard Time, is when the Sun is (was) directly overhead the defining city of the time zone. DST is defined as an offset from the standard time.
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[09:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:07] <exec> 08└─Deforestation and desertification are our greatest enemies in this whole "global warming" and/or "climate change" fiasco. Yeah, dinosaur juice is bad, I get that. Deforestation and desertification are the REALLY bad items. Want to save the earth? Plant a tree. Bring the forests back. We have endless...
[09:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Worried an Antitrust Probe Will Reveal its Secrets - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:19] <exec> 08└─> Can you discredit this story Well, there's this line: > And who knows it better than Google how “sharing” sensitive data with third parties can negatively affect those the data belongs to – Google routinely does it to their billions of users. Google doesn't sell or share user data. Google us...
[09:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Worried an Antitrust Probe Will Reveal its Secrets - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:21] <exec> 08└─Altstarchus is worried that he won't be probed. He sits, night after night, flashing lights at the sky, hoping the aliens will pick him for an anal probe. They ignore him, so Google is his only real hope.
[09:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Webs Don’t Rot Easily and Scientists May Have Figured Out Why - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, you are mistaken! They have injected toxin into my comrades, paralyzing their minds, and allowing them to be wrapped up in spun racist and misogynist and libertarian and pro-business webs of lies! We needs a Sam Gamgee to cuts them free, we do! (Did you know Tolkien was frightened by spiders wh...
[09:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:42] <exec> 08└─...has investigations open into at least 17 multinational firms.
[09:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:38] <exec> 08└─>the only improvement in internet age, excluding adolescents-coined slang that has always been happening, being greentext >which together with fake citations was already employed in Usenet groups way before Chans >and what these linguists celebrate instead is >Leetspeak improving the relatively emot...
[09:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:53] <exec> 08└─Considering IT has a hard enough time teaching full-grown adults not to do stupid crap like that, good luck teaching the 5-year-olds of the world.
[09:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:54] <exec> 08└─I guess these won't work if your computer doesn't have any standard global keybindings (basically any Linux install that doesn't use a default WM), or you remapped modifier keys. There should be something that prevents newly inserted keyboards from sending a rapid stream of events though. I can't th...
[09:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:00] <exec> 08└─So what do you want to see? How about we remove the people from any sort of potential discrimination or bias, give them their own extremely rich country, set them up as the sovereign and exclusive leaders, ply them with billions of dollars in aid, and let it run for a couple of centuries? This is no...
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[10:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:58] <exec> 08└─You don't need to plant anything, just eat fruit and crap outdoors.
[10:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:59] <exec> 08└─...not for these reasons. Tropical forests are fundamentally carbon neutral. A stable, old-growth rain forest does not sequester significant amounts of carbon year after year. In temperate climates, fallen trees turn partially into soil, or they may fall into swamps and turn into future coal. In tro...
[10:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe because CO2 emission is an act of violence?
[10:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:04] <exec> 08└─better yet, crap on your roof. best, crap on your neighbors roof when he guards you with the shotgun cocked; don't forget to ask him for paper, too.
[10:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Worried an Antitrust Probe Will Reveal its Secrets - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:17] <exec> 08└─Altstarchus is worried that he won't be probed.
[10:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:39] <exec> 08└─Bloody Brexiteer!
[10:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:54] <exec> 08└─It's a rapid response team dedicated to evicting people who don't have the authority to be there. Hosting a big party without the landlord's permission is certainly grounds for evicting trespassers.
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[11:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Toe Bone Hints That Neandertals Used Eagle Talons as Jewelry - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:07] <exec> 08└─It wasn't an imperial eagle talon, it was a TMB talon. And it technically wasn't a Neanderthal, it was Runaway, not that the difference is significant. And of course it wasn't in Spain, Runaway was never there. Everything else is plausible, Runaway has no idea what to do with a bird if it doesn't co...
[11:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:18] <exec> 08└─In tropical rain forests, biological material is almost immediately recycled into new plant matter.
[11:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:20] <exec> 08└─You're racist against the water vapours.
[11:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:22] <exec> 08└─You jest, but it did make me wonder why there are no cultures where people crap on their roof. It doesn't seem like that bad of an idea.
[11:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Worried an Antitrust Probe Will Reveal its Secrets - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:36] <exec> 08└─but none are more stupid that Runaway. And now SoylentNews is following this asshole into the Devil's Anus
[11:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Webs Don’t Rot Easily and Scientists May Have Figured Out Why - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:48] <exec> 08└─here is some anecdotal information from the spider on my kitchen window I am studying... I was away for a while and when I got back I noticed the web had some gashes that hadn't been repair. Closer inspection revealed that some of the web had become detached. My hypothesis - in air conditioned house...
[11:20:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:45] <exec> 08└─Look, come on guys. I hate young people as much as anyone... ...actually that's all.
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[12:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:13] <exec> 08└─Deforestation and desertification are the REALLY bad items.
[12:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:52] <exec> 08└─Well, seeing that I live in France, I'm not sure what you are claiming... Is France leaving the EU as well? Have I missed some crucial news? Or are you wrong?
[12:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:10] <exec> 08└─contracts, all the way down...
[12:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614-Year-Old Genius Solves Blind Spots in Cars - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:07] <exec> 08└─The acceleration on many new cars has been badly tuned in order to meet government fuel efficiency standards. When using the accelerator in a normal fashion, you get lethargic acceleration. But, if you want actual power, you floor the thing and then the engine/transmission roars with power. The thin...
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[13:19:00] <exec> 08└─> The government however immediately laid such fears to rest when it "denied any intent of disconnecting Russian netizens from the Internet." That's not how it works, mate.
[13:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:02] <exec> 08└─1) They don't need one of the top level DNS providers to be in Russia. They just need a copy of the latest zones, and they're good. 2) Tests like this show you dependence on foreign Internet. It's a sensible and rational idea... and one the US and others should be doing too. At least for their own i...
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[13:19:04] <exec> 08└─Elon to the rescue! Capitalist billionaire will save Russia!
[13:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:06] <exec> 08└─> I wouldn't be surprised to hear that there are things like industrial controls on power stations managed from some cloud platform Then you have a very low estimation of human ability.
[13:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Interview with the Head of United Nations Open Source Software Labs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:14] <exec> 08└─Free open source software is morally reprehensible.
[13:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:51] <exec> 08└─I agree. Between 1 and 2 years ago I noticed the results declining. Then I started using VPNs and getting captcha on searches. The juice wasn't worth the squeeze and I moved to DDG. Sometimes I will still do a google search if I can't find what I'm looking for to make sure. 1/20 times it will help....
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[13:21:52] <exec> 08└─Once you do that, the fun really starts. The phrase captcha comes to mind.
[13:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:54] <exec> 08└─Yup, that's exactly what I was referring to. Not sure if the "approximate-suggestion engine" name I used was the best label for it, but it's exactly the process you describe.
[13:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:16] <exec> 08└─This keeps coming up, and the original reasons for using DST are still valid today. (Summer evening light, and winter mornings) Where I live at roughtly 45N, switching to permanent DST means that schools will actually be teaching before sunrise for about a month on either side of the winter solstice...
[13:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614-Year-Old Genius Solves Blind Spots in Cars - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:35] <exec> 08└─I had 360 degree video feed from around my previous car in late 2009 (when the ION-ITX-A was around, which was the board of choice for my car at the time). It would display "blind spots" on the monitor (LinITX 8" Widescreen VGA/Composite Monitor with Touchscreen). It was dynamic too. Most of the tim...
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[14:19:01] <exec> 08└─This is just another distraction from what Trump did.
[14:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─in the so-called "free world" it is arguably illegal for governments to track people's activities on the internet. the russian government made it explicitly legal for itself to do so. i see a difference.
[14:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:04] <exec> 08└─How many babies did he eat?
[14:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:06] <exec> 08└─Skylink (Russian: Скайлинк) is a mobile LTE 450 MHz (formerly CDMA-450 MHz) operator in Russia. Starlink is a satellite constellation being constructed by American company SpaceX
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[14:19:09] <exec> 08└─Q is back: qanon.pub
[14:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview with the Head of United Nations Open Source Software Labs - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:17] <exec> 08└─>UNTIL Interview: A Tech Innovator from the UN with a Mission of Inclusivity WUUHHMMAANNNS RIGHTS!!!! DOWN WITH RMS!!!! (RMS agrees, because he's a cuck)
[14:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:39] <exec> 08└─OK, I agree that it's not necessarily "gone forever", or I wouldn't be advocating for people to plant trees. And, I've seen that (or a similar) article about the terra preta in the Amazon. Still - we have huge deserts in several parts of the world, that man has either created, or made worse. The Sah...
[14:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:59] <exec> 08└─Anyone advocating for that who doesn't live in New York or California is a colossal fucking moron.
[14:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:00] <exec> 08└─Well of course I do. You left them here. They're on the end table by the door if you ever decide you want to start using either.
[14:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:01] <exec> 08└─That's the price of not being tracked effectively. You didn't think they'd let you use their service annoyance-free without being able to sell you data, did you?
[14:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:02] <exec> 08└─or use adblock and then it doesn't matter what google knows about you.
[14:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─Except of course, we couldn't, because people have changed their behavior. See what happened to the underwear bomber, instead of cowering, people mobbed him. Once people saw what the cost of doing nothing was, they started to see that doing something, while dangerous, might still be safer.
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[14:23:43] <exec> 08└─Most selection of led light is misled as normally only 2 and most 3 factor are take in account: power, color temperature and luminosity. There are 2 more factors that are also important: cri (color rendering index), and spectrum. (note, cri and color temperature can be derived from the spectrum comp...
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[15:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:13] <exec> 08└─The article makes it sound like there's something unusual or at least unexpected about a black-hole binary system where the black hole isn't devouring material from the star, but for the life of me I can't think of why that would be. I mean, how many binary star systems do we see out there where the...
[15:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're dark matter, feeding on dark matter?
[15:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:16] <exec> 08└─Newly observed is new in a way.
[15:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:18] <exec> 08└─...would behave the same, isn't it? An 83.2 days period sounds good.
[15:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:34] <exec> 08└─Americans have something closely similar to this Russian law for quite some time (2009-2010): https://www.congress.gov [congress.gov] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Human Rights Activists, awake! Go, go...
[15:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:35] <exec> 08└─The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 expired at the end of the 2009–2010 Congress without receiving a vote from either chamber
[15:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:37] <exec> 08└─So Russia, Israel, the United States and China have all decided for Prison Intercoms over the internet which they are also imposing on the entire world. How is this good globalization? If every packet of my data is spied and/or blocked at any of a hundred intermediary network nodes, by a hundred dif...
[15:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:39] <exec> 08└─You know where the Russians got the idea.
[15:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:41] <exec> 08└─I think this is a good estimate of real life. Never underestimate human stupidity.
[15:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:43] <exec> 08└─Show me the difference. Show me AT&T and NSA bosses convicted for their role in spying.
[15:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:54] <exec> 08└─Living on the EU mainland doesn't preclude you from being a Brexiteer. I live in NL and over the past few years, I've become one of the most fervent supporters of Brexit. I blame our politicians for keeping that sorry bunch afloat. We should have cast them off in May so we could watch them bobbing a...
[15:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, you are not old enough. One typically hates the next generation, but loves grand children. At least this is how it works for me.
[15:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:55] <exec> 08└─emoji in particular
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─Unless you care that the council of insurance companies has bought your profile from Google, your rates have now doubled, and you can't get a better deal.
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[16:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:59] <exec> 08└─Quantum keys are an unproven technology. And I doubt they will be as robust as normal cryptographic keys.
[16:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:59] <exec> 08└─I needed this, so I'm guessing at least someone else will: Quantum key distribution [wikipedia.org]
[16:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:01] <exec> 08└─we all know the destiny of keys and it is harder to misplace a refrigerator.
[16:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─It was unexpected to find these intermediate masses because they have to merge with other black holes or swallow stars to do it. Repeatedly, when such encounters should be rare.
[16:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 973 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:19] <exec> 08└─1) They don't need one of the top level DNS providers to be in Russia. They just need a copy of the latest zones, and they're good. 2) Tests like this show you dependence on foreign Internet. It's a sensible and rational idea... and one the US and others should be doing too. At least for their own i...
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:34] <exec> 08└─now that the usa is outright invading countries
[16:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:35] <exec> 08└─Astonishing ignorance, or bald-faced lie. Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? If this was sarcasm you got me.
[16:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:37] <exec> 08└─And creating a general mess of the international world as a result.
[16:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:39] <exec> 08└─Hey, remember that time where we caught the NSA illegally spying, they said "okay we'll stop", then didn't even after Congress ordered them to? Repeat 2 or 3 times? That was great
[16:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:41] <exec> 08└─...and? When you have low expectations you're seldom disappointed
[16:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:44] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that Turkey had a "coincidental" several-day Internet outage during one of their unrests a few years ago, so yes, sometimes it does? Erdogan should write a book "How To Seize Power When Everybody Is Watching You And In Fact Some Have A Job Just To Prevent You From Doing Exactly That...
[16:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:46] <exec> 08└─Exactly.
[16:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:18] <exec> 08└─Almost every predator knows ‘don’t shit where you eat’. To stop the spread of parasites Btw same rule makes cannibalism taboo in nature If not for parasites cannibalism would seem normal
[16:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:00] <exec> 08└─From what I recall about some of their ridiculous demands, it may actually be easier to just take the 4% hit as a cost of doing business, than reengineer your entire global Internet platform to kowtow to their Right To Force Others To Forget You or whatever they are.
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─Have you ever looked at the King James Bible? As a quick refresher, I would point out it is filled with "thee", "thou", and numerous other obsolete language forms. 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me', 'verily I say unto thee...", etc. Enough said. Wait, a sec! So here and now, about 400 years...
[16:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─What did COBOL do for the English language. COBOL seems like mostly a record processing oriented language. Requiring skill with the language to write, but possible for a mere Manager to read. Fast forward to about 1987. Apple classic Mac gets Hypercard. With its Hypertalk language. (Later a system o...
[16:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:04] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. French is not going to take over the world.
[16:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:07] <exec> 08└─One typically hates the next generation
[16:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:09] <exec> 08└─What did COBOL do for the English language.
[16:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:11] <exec> 08└─COBOL syntax is modeled after the English, has sentences and paragraphs. And keywords.
[16:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Finally Let a Reporter Ride in a Fully Driverless Car - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─Trucks that are self driving will change the world profoundly just as paved roads and electric lights. It is inspiring to watch. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Finally Let a Reporter Ride in a Fully Driverless Car - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─[Musk] was trying to become the first car manufacturer who has FSD, but it just didn't happen.
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[17:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─I've lost all keys smaller than 2 cm, and these people are talking about 3 mm. completely impractical.
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming that is 3 mm2. NTU specifies a "3-4 mm" length and it looks about 1 mm wide. The Apple Watch SoCs [wikipedia.org] look like they are in the ballpark of 30 to 40 mm2 (it looks like it has grown larger as of S4/S5). So that is an additional 10%. Make it smaller!
[17:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:21] <exec> 08└─I have read that there's a gap in our knowledge between the largest known neutron stars, at approximately 2.5 to 3 solar masses, and the smallest known black holes, at approximately 5 solar masses. What kind of object is in between? A black hole, or a neutron star? Or could it be that there's some i...
[17:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:22] <exec> 08└─Thompson et al. observed light from a giant star that is Doppler shifted, indicating an orbit around a binary companion. The companion object must weigh more than 2.6 solar masses, but it emits no light, including x-rays. This indicates the presence of a black hole that is not currently consuming an...
[17:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:24] <exec> 08└─Both instances of "x 1030 kg" should be "times 10 to the power of 30" 10^30.
[17:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:54] <exec> 08└─It seems ever more that in the "free world" the difference is increasingly coming down to the fact that we hide our bad behavior, while 'non-free' (I suppose?) countries are quite open about it. Check out PRISM [wikipedia.org] which is just one of many government programs, and one of the few we actu...
[17:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:55] <exec> 08└─For those not getting, just because they said they won't do it doesn't mean it won't happen.
[17:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:57] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be surprised to hear that there are things like industrial controls on power stations managed from some cloud platform that becomes inaccessible if the cables are cut.
[17:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:59] <exec> 08└─Not a lie, Canada. Though to be honest the US invaded Canada in 1776 too.
[17:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:33] <exec> 08└─Then don't eat on the roof.
[17:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:34] <exec> 08└─Well, for one thing roofs are dangerous places. You can easily fall and be injured. One of the big reasons that solar power is dangerous is the danger of being an installer, and falling off a roof.
[17:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:36] <exec> 08└─Not really. The water vapor is only a temporary resident in the atmosphere, and is, anyway, in balance with evaporation from the sea surface*. CO2 is a long time resident. * In case it's not obvious, the argument is that the more humid the air is, the less it will accept evaporation at any given tem...
[17:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Webs Don’t Rot Easily and Scientists May Have Figured Out Why - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, if the spider continues living there it will usually eat the web and spin a new one each day. OTOH, in a dry climate, spider webs are ideally designed to dry out quickly. I don't think that's supposed to make them brittle, though. But spiders live a rather dangerous life, and some are tran...
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[17:21:14] <exec> 08└─...has investigations open into at least 17 multinational firms.
[17:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:02] <exec> 08└─Being a convicted criminal says that you got convicted, not that you're a liar. Being a politician says that you're a liar. (Every single one I've checked has been.) That said, I wouldn't trust Google here. They've got a clear interest in the issue being decided in a particular way. And corporate ex...
[17:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:27] <exec> 08└─More like, the internet is introducing change at an unprecedented pace. Lots of people don't like change, thus lots of people are ticked off that people use l33t and pwn in what would otherwise be a serious document.
[17:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─Lots of people don't like change
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─To handle all of the possible emojis let's get UTF-640. 640 bits per character. That ought to be enough for anybody! I propose that out of that immense space of characters, we carve out a "tiny" 2^64 bit space reserved for a group of characters that are an 8 by 8 square grid. (Call these squares pix...
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, and God bless the vertebrates. The spineless may inherit the earth, but I don't want to be there with them.
[17:24:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Effects of LED Street Lights on Autistic Son Led Damien McNamara on Dark Sky Campaign - 1220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:47] <exec> 08└─The gluten free diet changed our lives: it took a full year of being intensively gluten free before we saw the changes in our son, but he did a FULL 180°... ...he went from acting high and giggling at nothing (it turns out his gut bugs were turning gluten into an opioid) and regurgitating his food...
[17:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614-Year-Old Genius Solves Blind Spots in Cars - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:07] <exec> 08└─My car (Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross) does let you fully lower the rear headrests to the level of the top of the rear seat if they are not being used. The difficulties are the rear-seat passengers complaining/struggling when putting the headrests up, and failing to lower them back down.
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[18:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:00] <exec> 08└─just electrify the thing and get it over with.
[18:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:01] <exec> 08└─I had some misgivings about the design. A single bolt holds the slats, up at the top? FFS - wish I had known that. How many people DID know it, and never put two and two together? I'd like a few more details. Is it an all-day job to cut through a slat, or is over and done with in ten minutes? A batt...
[18:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:03] <exec> 08└─My first powered saw is a Dewalt reciprocating saw. There is very little it cannot cut through.
[18:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:05] <exec> 08└─Umm, RTFSRNW fitted with specialized blades, the saws can slice through one of the barrier's steel-and-concrete bollards in minutes I suppose, in multiples of ‘minutes’ it could take all day.
[18:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can see all the extension cords now, to power those saws, and nearby houses. It's pretty easy to short the thing to ground too.
[18:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:10] <exec> 08└─So an unguarded wall can't stand attacks forever? Was that somehow a surprise? Walls have always had to be guarded if you expect them to actually have a long term purpose. In other words, no one did any serious pen testing on the wall design, or it would have been obvious that with all that leverage...
[18:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─The engineers estimated that it would take someone 20 minutes or less to cut through a bollard if a team worked in pairs with two saws. The crews might go through multiple blades to complete a cut, the engineers said, but the blades can be changed quickly to resume sawing.
[18:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:14] <exec> 08└─There has never been an wall built that could not be breached, avoided, undermined, or climbed over. Period. There have been lots of attempts at it, from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China, but every single time, it's failed to keep people who want to cross it from doing so. Walls can help d...
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[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─$69.99 at harbor freight. That's about 150 pesos. We pay for the wall ... Mexico pays for the reciprocating saws.
[18:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:18] <exec> 08└─Hahahahahahaahahhahahaha omg what a fucking waste of my tax dollars!!! And here I thought Trump gave away the secret "It will be so tall, how are they gonna get down? Maybe a rope..." Lol who actually thought the wall would keep people out? My guess is Trump runs a bunch of coyotes and he wanted to...
[18:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:21] <exec> 08└─...and he has made the project a physical symbol of his presidency...
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─Sheesh. The wall is imperfect, therefore we must allow unlimited hoards of identity thieves and worse to just pour across with no attempt to do anything about it? Millions upon millions of these people would make our country about as nice as Central America -- do you want to live like that? The USA...
[18:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─Guess Trump was right when he wanted a big beautiful brick wall. Thanks Democrats for wasting our money. On the bright side, better than the Normandy barriers. You wont ever stop some dedicated people on foot, but we can stop vehicles and trucks.
[18:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:37] <exec> 08└─So why is QKD Quantum technology, however, allows us to encrypt the key within the message. Only the person with the exact same key as the one inside the message can open it.
[18:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:38] <exec> 08└─It's all very well for the chip to be small, but if it needs to be submerged in liquid helium to work, it's not going to be very portable. FWIW, the article doesn't appear to say what operating temperature it needs, merely that it's made of "standard components" like silicon.
[18:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:53] <exec> 08└─Neutron stars are also quite difficult to observe, when they don't have an axis that causes their radio signals to periodically sweep across our observation. And that means almost all of them. And the older ones are expected to be pretty quiet anyway. So the difficulty of observation doesn't allow o...
[18:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:55] <exec> 08└─Or simply ×1030 kg.
[18:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember some guy named Clapper [apnews.com]. He's some kind of big hero patriot [independent.co.uk] now. Forward is backward We love Big Brother!
[18:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:30] <exec> 08└─I refuse to be cannon fodder in any of their wars and you should to.
[18:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:32] <exec> 08└─some controls systems definitely allow remote access via some (likely shitty) proprietary VPNs. the VPN listening on the interwebs for all to try to login.
[18:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:35] <exec> 08└─we are already at the Freedom is slavery stage. i have intelligent family members that are so brainwashed they actually revel in their servitude and defend their masters when questioned.
[18:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:37] <exec> 08└─somehow? you're misunderstanding what khallow posted.
[18:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:39] <exec> 08└─OK, you're not denying we're invading countries, you're quibbling over when we started. Fair enough. But the war of 1812 was fundamentally defensive. It was declared by a tiny young republic against a world-spanning Empire that had been waging war against it with no declaration for some time. The at...
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─Sure. But what does that have to do with my reply, to the parent that implied the bill he posted, which died in congress, was actually a law in the US? Or have to do with turning off the internet for a country?
[18:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interview with the Head of United Nations Open Source Software Labs - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.softwareheritage.org/ [softwareheritage.org] having nothing to do with RMS, beyond FSF showing up in the supporters list
[18:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Toe Bone Hints That Neandertals Used Eagle Talons as Jewelry - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:00] <exec> 08└─I thought Runaway was only interested in one of the wings.
[18:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─Well, the outlandish predictions were outlandish. GDPR's goal is to protect people's privacy, not to bankrupt companies. If you read The Register, companies in Europe at least were VERY worried about GDPR as it rolled out, and truly did make changes to improve privacy in order to avoid these fines....
[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GDPR Fines Haven't Rocked the Data Privacy World - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:05] <exec> 08└─GDPR's goal is to protect people's privacy, not to bankrupt companies.
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't try to con a linguist would you?
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─The ONLY thing constant is change
[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─“Hmmm … that guy doesn't seem to have a Google profile … what does he have to hide that he takes that much effort? Better add some premium to his insurance rates, just to be sure …”
[18:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:50] <exec> 08└─News story from reliable source or I'm sorry I don't believe it happened. (And that's OK. You owe me no proof. I owe you no credibility since many reliable sources have published that on deep searches there has NEVER been a published case found in medical literature that was verified true.)
[18:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fall Back Sunday for the USA... Tonight! - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:43] <exec> 08└─Not been my experience. I have a bunch of "smart" thermostats and controllers (which aren't allowed to talk to the internet) and every one of them needed to be adjusted yesterday along with the ancient tick-tocking mechanical cuckoo clock. Even the weather instrument (which does listen to Denver, Co...
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[19:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:04] <exec> 08└─This is how you deal with a whale [youtube.com]
[19:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:20] <exec> 08└─There has never been an wall built that could not be breached, avoided, undermined, or climbed over. Period. There have been lots of attempts at it, from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China, but every single time, it's failed to keep people who want to cross it from doing so. Walls can help d...
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─just electrify the thing and get it over with.
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─OTOH, there's no reason they can't either use several batteries, or a portable generator, or just hook it up to a car/truck.
[19:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─Waste more money and be crueler is literally your only solution to any problem.
[19:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─From article below. So the prototypes are 18ft, the full size should be around 30ft. All structures should be secured at least 6ft below ground. If that was the case you shouldn't just be able to saw through one bollard/post and then push it aside. If that is the case then someone fucked up when the...
[19:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:35] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how deep you plant the thing, it's getting cut off at the ground level. They could stiffen it, but that would just mean it would take a sawzall and a car jack.
[19:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:37] <exec> 08└─he wanted a big beautiful brick wall. Thanks Democrats for wasting our money.
[19:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:39] <exec> 08└─Why not immigrant repelling rocks? They can be fairly cheap if bought in bulk and easily put in place. Hey, the one I have for tigers works great!
[19:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:41] <exec> 08└─Fill the steel tubes with a mixture of thermite, ammonium perchlorate, and nitro glycerin. That should slightly disable the sawzall.
[19:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because when's the last time you ever saw a Mexican using a sledge hammer?
[19:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and Mexico was going to pay for it. Really, don't bother saying tariffs are paying for it, because Americans pay for the tariffs through higher prices.
[19:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:47] <exec> 08└─The Wall is certainly a very poorly architected by many aspects. For example, one could design a permanent modular staircase with single steps mountable quickly with four screws using just two vertical bars as a support like this: ~~~ ~~~ |xxx| |xxx| o=====o==o=====o ...
[19:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:50] <exec> 08└─Yep, all of 'em are "bad people". You don't want no "bad people" moving in now do you? Especially nowhere near where you live. Right? I seriously doubt that ALL of the folk are "bad people", but rather regular folk like you and me who just want to live their life and take care of their family, and...
[19:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─Great idea! Then those trying to breach the wall can rig up something to introduce an electrical current or spark to the tubes while they're standing a good distance away behind a hill or something, and you've saved them all the trouble of finding their own explosives.
[19:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:54] <exec> 08└─That is it? The fed is printing more than that every day.
[19:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:56] <exec> 08└─We should also be asking, "Where are those sensors?" One of the selling points were sensors, which amount to a force multiplier. One guard can patrol ten times as much fence, if he has tattletales mounted in/on the fence. Infrared, visible light, motion sensors, UV, sound, whatever. That, and where...
[19:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:59] <exec> 08└─(or if we still had balls, shot)
[19:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:01] <exec> 08└─Well, Marty, it's for certain that they aren't all "good people" either. The cartels are already operating north of the border. They come, and they go, fearlessly, and do as they please while here.
[19:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:03] <exec> 08└─Israel and South Korea use a few sentry guns stated at $4million per pillbox covering 1.5km each. They only take a couple of operators per two dozen boxes since the operators only need to press the red button as the computers do all the movement detection, aiming and target finding. The US-Mexico bo...
[19:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:05] <exec> 08└─That is it? The fed is printing more than that every day.
[19:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:07] <exec> 08└─Please, don't remind me just how stupid engineers can be. Instead, let's inquire where all the guards were, while the wall was being defeated. There is no "impenetrable wall" - never has been, never will be. The Great Wall of China is impressive, but the wall was guarded by troops.
[19:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:22] <exec> 08└─we all know the destiny of keys Yeah, my couch, forever gone, along with millions of dollars in coins, and a couple of cell phones
[19:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:20] <exec> 08└─Your optimism is sweet; delusional, but sweet.
[19:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─In most of history, change was probably slower, but still present. If you looked at any segment of history would you not see some change? Languages change. Customs change. As new generations of people are born, they never do everything exactly the way their parents did it.
[19:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:23] <exec> 08└─Wow. Nice sourcing. Thank you! I'm curious because I've read of things like Timothy O'Bryan, but that was a deliberate murder attempt and not a prank. And as you say, "prankings" like pins. And a buttload of unconfirmed urban myths NOT backed by a hospital ER report or police reports that actually n...
[19:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:24] <exec> 08└─How much does a "bad USB" device cost (Jeezus, did TFA really call it that)? How many do you think a malicious actor can buy and spread around to get how many nibbles? Maybe CD's at less than $2 each you can invest a couple hundred in and get results. Did you know that I can create my own botnet by...
[19:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nordic and Baltic Trading Halted Again by Technical Failure - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─this is what happens when you hire a windows user as your "IT guy".
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[20:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:57] <exec> 08└─But every person who saw the crash coming knew Tether was pitching IOUs disguised as USD to buoy the price of bitcoin. But congrats to a couple exchanges for getting to play Federal Reserve for a year; that must have been fun.
[20:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:58] <exec> 08└─On one level it doesn't see untoward -- many people who have a stock they are attached to and hold for a long time period, buy when the price on that stock goes down. This sounds like a bitcoin believer doing a similar thing. On a different level though, I don't understand "tether" -- is it backed b...
[20:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:40] <exec> 08└─The sound would at least alarm the border patrol in LA that a breech occurred, and at the same time fix the Tijuana sewer river problem.
[20:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:41] <exec> 08└─As the article discusses, this installation is a compromise between cost and function. The border patrol strongly requested a see-through wall to audit the other side, so rigid concrete is largely unfeasible. Apparently during testing all prototypes could be defeated with the proper application of p...
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:43] <exec> 08└─Did anyone here really believe something Donald Trump built would be made well? When this is all over, you jackoffs who supported him will have a lot to account for.
[20:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:45] <exec> 08└─There has never been an wall built that could not be breached, avoided, undermined, or climbed over. Period. There have been lots of attempts at it, from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China, but every single time, it's failed to keep people who want to cross it from doing so.
[20:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:48] <exec> 08└─The article gets it right - the Diablo brand Demon carbide sawzall blades will get through a 6in box tube full of concrete. I bought a Milwaukee brushless recipro saw and the Diablo blade for less than $200. If you went brushed, you could probably do ot for about $130. There is nothing "specialized"...
[20:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:50] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, because nobody in the history of history has ever figured out how to disable a sensor. And no, that doesn't necessarily tell you where the breach is going to happen: The people trying to cross the border are organized enough to do moves like "Disable sensors at points A, B, and C simultaneou...
[20:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:52] <exec> 08└─With a 5Ah or 9Ah 18V pack, you could cut for at least half an hour before it was depleted. I can fit the saw, twenty blades, and five batteries in a backpack that weighed like fifteen pounds total. Once the tubes start to rust, you could also probably just hit them with a cold chisel and a 10lb sle...
[20:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:54] <exec> 08└─3/16 wall box tube isn't cheap sheet metal. It is pretty thick, but for 6x6, it would be considered thin wall. You can probably get up to or above 1/2" wall hot roll from any respectable steel vendor.
[20:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, EMJ blue book says .188 wall is the thinnest in 6x6 for HREW square tube. They went cheap, could have done .375 or .5 wall
[20:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:59] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point. *Every* wall is imperfect, unless it's well guarded. The absolute best that a wall can accomplish is to slow people down enough that guards have a chance to spot them. And that's rarely more than buying you a few minutes. As such it makes great sense to build walls for secu...
[20:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:01] <exec> 08└─I would say the biggest thing a reciprocating saw needs is adjustable speed and a good blade. My first saw had a knob for speed control. That was crap. My new one's speed is controlled by the trigger, which is great, but it's also battery operated, so has limited use time. Now I have two, and neithe...
[20:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:03] <exec> 08└─The Democrats proposed sensors, so those had to go.
[20:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, there is. Go browse the blade aisle - you'll see "all purpose blades" - those aren't specialized. Near them you'll also find fine blades, coarse blades, metal-, wood-, plastic-, ceramic-, masonry-, etc,etc,etc blades. All of those are specialized blades for specific materials or situations...
[20:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:07] <exec> 08└─This is the same media that says you can print a gun in minutes, so yes, an actual number would be necessary to understand what the claim really is.
[20:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:10] <exec> 08└─Locks used for storage units usually have a hollow shaft, with a hardened steel rod (like a needle bearing) inside. Hacksaws (even powered ones) have a hard time (pun intended) cutting them.
[20:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:12] <exec> 08└─Apparently during testing all prototypes could be defeated with the proper application of power tools.
[20:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:27] <exec> 08└─Also... how the hell are we supposed to transport entangled data? Modern infrastructure can only transmit classical data. Transmitting entangled photons across is decades or centuries away. Quantum Exchange is not relevant today and wont be for decades. Even then, it only serves as a supplement to c...
[20:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:28] <exec> 08└─QKD is just a quantum replacement for DHE. And it inherits all the vulnerabilities of DHE, namely a weakness to MITM attacks. DHE is a solved problem, why the hell do we need QKD?
[20:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:30] <exec> 08└─Another conservative slowly catching on to khallow's game. I must say watching the brainwash detox is pretty enjoyable, reminds me of the Matrix "Welcome to the real world."
[20:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:31] <exec> 08└─I meant that when a government agency with basically no oversight can just ignore the one body that can give them orders, what the fuck is the point of anything anymore
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Webs Don’t Rot Easily and Scientists May Have Figured Out Why - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─Actually, if the spider continues living there it will usually eat the web and spin a new one each day.
[20:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Because Internet" Makes a Linguist's Case for L33t Speak, Other Online-Text Fads - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:06] <exec> 08└─I would say that with the advent of the internet, we've greatly increased the speed of change. The telephone may have brought the world much closer, but most people still called and talked with people they knew. With the internet, you have people from every country in the world sharing their own uni...
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[21:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:06] <exec> 08└─I have to imagine that the politicians know on some level that when they asked for ISP opinions on the thing, whatever the ISPs told them would be self-serving bullshit that wouldn't be helpful. As a regulator, when you ask the people you're regulating what they want, obviously their answer will be...
[21:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:07] <exec> 08└─Placing fixed DNS over HTTPS, so even local control of DNS is blocked is bad. My firewall has blacked holed over 17,000 domains protecting my network, now Firefox and Chrome are going to blow right through them, vs honoring local DNS first. What about local machines on my network, that I want to be...
[21:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:09] <exec> 08└─But of course the assumption is that the politiweasels actually care that they're being lied to. Quid pro quo is not just for presidents, you know. It is the lubricating gel. Without it, the process is very painful.
[21:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:11] <exec> 08└─Congress can't do anything about what Google does here. Per Reed v. Gilbert, regulations on DNS are at least subject matter restrictions, thus any regulation relating to them is subject to strict scrutiny. It'd be something challenged immediately. Congress can't regulate DNS, it has no authority to...
[21:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:13] <exec> 08└─This is the merit of Open Source Software. Nobody is forcing you to use Chrome. If someone is, take your beef up with them. DNS over HTTP is a fine mechanism to circumvent organizational wiretapping of DNS queries. I fully support DNS over HTTPS. Your software should not be able to be DNS wiretapped...
[21:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:24] <exec> 08└─On a different level though, I don't understand "tether" -- is it backed by dollars or just magically zinged into existence and then used to buy bitcoin? That feels scammy but I don't have the economic background to articulate that feeling.
[21:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:26] <exec> 08└─Sorry... I meant to say tether was allegedly Representative Money [wikipedia.org]. To answer your literal question, theoretically it would mean every new TetherCoin in existence, they would be on the hook to give you a dollar if you wanted it... You could go to them and say "here's my coin, give me...
[21:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:24] <exec> 08└─Pretty much anything can be defeated with the proper application of power tools. Power tools tend to make noise though, so a microphone set up as a noise detector every twenty yards or so would largely solve that.
[21:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:25] <exec> 08└─Generators are fucking heavy. Also quite expensive compared to a couple extra rechargeable batteries.
[21:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:27] <exec> 08└─Depends how heavy a workload you're asking of them as to how long they'll last but, yeah, extra battery packs are absolutely viable.
[21:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was getting my sawzall on just this morning in fact (chopping out the old freon lines for scrap since the indoor unit is being relocated) but I know better than to ask it to cut up the concrete and rebar slab where the baptismal used to be. For that we got a good, corded circle saw, some mas...
[21:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:31] <exec> 08└─Alligators are protected. We do have ill-tempered sea bass though.
[21:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:33] <exec> 08└─I have a ball cap just like that! It works so good that you can hardly find a tiger in North America if it's not locked up so it can't be repelled.
[21:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:35] <exec> 08└─Far too long ago. I had to do it myself because there aren't any in TN Home Depot parking lots like there are in OK or TX. Apparently so few people in TN want to work that all the illegals here have damned good jobs and don't need to sit in the weather hoping for a day or two of work. I shit you not...
[21:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:38] <exec> 08└─It seems to me you have not had to face the extremes these people did. Put yourself in their shoes for a bit and tell me what you might do differently. Walk hundreds of miles in hopes of getting a better life?
[21:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:40] <exec> 08└─Shit yes. Diablo makes some badass motherfucking blades for not being specialty work.
[21:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure, their life sucks. So what? They don't get to come here. Analogy: There are homeless people and burglars outside. Surely you will let them into your home? Your door can't stop them all, so why bother, and lots of them are miserable. Why are you excluding them from your home? If I wanted t...
[21:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:44] <exec> 08└─Specialty IMO, would be something you have to custom order from a distributor, not something that is readily available on the shelf at the two Home Depots within five miles of me. You are talking about application. Stop being so pedantic
[21:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:46] <exec> 08└─That's why it's easier to just hammer those off.
[21:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:48] <exec> 08└─Well, there were castles that were never breached before the days of gunpowder. These days, though...
[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:50] <exec> 08└─Expensive to own, fairly cheap to borrow for a couple hours of steal. But in many cases, a couple extra batteries will do just fine.
[21:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:53] <exec> 08└─That's not really clear...unless you are on a budget. I suspect that it would be quite possible to build a wall that would be difficult enough to penetrate that some other approach would be used. But it wouldn't be cheap.
[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─In Ga, you won't necessarily find Mexicans with sledge hammers at the Home Depot, but you will at a construction project.
[21:21:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 1313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─The article makes it sound like there's something unusual or at least unexpected about a black-hole binary system where the black hole isn't devouring material from the star, but for the life of me I can't think of why that would be. I mean, how many binary star systems do we see out there where the...
[21:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:29] <exec> 08└─You joke (I hope), but tiny black holes are actually one of the candidates for dark matter that haven't been completely ruled out yet. Assuming dark matter is in fact some exotic non-interacting material though - it would be almost impossible to create a black hole out of the stuff. It just can't cl...
[21:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 2225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:30] <exec> 08└─I believe the "2.5 solar mass limit" on neutron stars is a theoretical limit - we know roughly how dense neutronium must be, and we know how strong the weak nuclear forces is. Combine the two, and you get an upper mass limit before the weak nuclear force is no longer strong enough to keep a body fro...
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─If you're the same AC as above, I don't really get what point you're trying to make. The bit in the summary The government however immediately laid such fears to rest when it "denied any intent of disconnecting Russian netizens from the Internet."
[21:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─Deforestation and desertification are the REALLY bad items.
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 2499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─I like your new sig, BTW. I favor planting trees, too, and prefer forests to strip malls. But the apocalyptic thinking, the pure end times hysteria that is sweeping the globe now, is not born out by science. Even in the middle of New York City, in one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, t...
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[22:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:07] <exec> 08└─The process of raping the customer shouldn't be easy to do.
[22:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:08] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that ISPs want to be able to redirect not-found domains to advertising. Of course, I'm sure these DNS over HTTPS providers will want to do that eventually to.
[22:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:10] <exec> 08└─The customer has to say no.
[22:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:12] <exec> 08└─Fair's fair. Congress lies to America all the time.
[22:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:14] <exec> 08└─DNS over HTTP is a fine mechanism to circumvent organizational wiretapping of DNS queries. I fully support DNS over HTTPS. Normally I would agree, but Cloudflare? Eventually the ISP's owners will buy them, and then who has all that DNS info? And this whole HTTPS thing is a joke also. The certs aren'...
[22:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:17] <exec> 08└─If they want to win reelection, they have to. Let's not wag the dog.
[22:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:19] <exec> 08└─I'm going to continue this analogy with, statutory rape is a thing where you're not legally allowed to say "yes" regardless. When there's only one option for ISPs in your area...
[22:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:21] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't exactly that DNS is checked over HTTPS, the problem is that this decision is made on the browser level. I would have absolutely no problem with a program you install at your computer that makes all the DNS lookups on that computer go through HTTPS. I do have a problem with the brow...
[22:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:23] <exec> 08└─endthebacklog [endthebacklog.org] [really is on topic]
[22:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 2148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:26] <exec> 08└─The cognitive dissonance at Mozilla is pretty intense. If Mozilla truly cared about user privacy they would not be consistently and actively working against it. Here's some things that come to mind, in no particular order (and I've probably missed a lot). By default, Firefox sends every keystroke yo...
[22:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:27] <exec> 08└─Google adds temporary flag to Chrome to allow FTP protocol [ghacks.net]
[22:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:29] <exec> 08└─When the customer says "no" or gives any type of feedback, that constitutes what is known as "consent".
[22:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:41] <exec> 08└─If you can explain it easily, it isn't finance (or economics)
[22:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds like derivatives to me
[22:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:44] <exec> 08└─Ambitious whale Moby Dick Set on the course to get rich quick. He mined bitcoin With his giant loin And screwed the world markets big.
[22:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:47] <exec> 08└─nuke the gay whales
[22:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:49] <exec> 08└─Years from now, people will be surprised to learn investors handed over billions to people they didn't know and who faced little oversight.
[22:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:02] <exec> 08└─Some other approach than a ~$100 sawzall? Certainly. But in the absolute worst case they use a $50 ladder or grappling hook. Obviously that'd mean you can't drive through it, but if you don't have guards smugglers just transfer people from one vehicle to another waiting on the other side of the wal...
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─Let's ask the dictionary, shall we? From Merriam Webster: Specialized (adjective) designed, trained, or fitted for one particular purpose or occupation a.k.a., about 80% of all tools beyond basic hammers and wrenches (And you could even make an argument for those. A wrench is a tool specialized for...
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:06] <exec> 08└─I would be inclined to agree that "specialty" tends to imply a greater (and thus less common) level of specialization. But that's not the word they used. "Specialized" stands as the alternative to "general purpose" - if it's not one, it's the other.
[22:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:08] <exec> 08└─Or tunnels. Its not like the cartels are notorious for digging tunnels [wikipedia.org]. Oh wait...
[22:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 1802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:10] <exec> 08└─The Israelis seem to be doing a good job of keeping their border wall intact. So it must be possible to maintain the integrity of a wall. Also, I recall the Berlin Wall, made of super-hardened concrete, was pretty formidable when I pounded on it with a sledge hammer. Using the masonry blade on my an...
[22:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:12] <exec> 08└─No matter how much they add reinforcements, unless they change the material all it means is the sawzall has to make two cuts to get rid of a bar instead of one and then flex. Trump has a simple solution, though, just add diamonds to the concrete mix, that will stop the sawzall blades.
[22:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:14] <exec> 08└─($10 billion / ~330 million Americans giving a bill of approx. $3000 for every one of us to pay)
[22:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:16] <exec> 08└─The "Berlin Wall" which extended the length of the East-West border was mostly protected by the threat of being shot on sight. The big deal in 1989 was that the east side guards laid down their guns and refused to shoot the people crossing "no man's land."
[22:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:18] <exec> 08└─Sucks pretty hard. I'd have paid damned good to not aggravate my RSI and manage to have both pain and numbness at the same time for weeks afterwards.
[22:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:21] <exec> 08└─They're big Hogan's Heroes fans, yup.
[22:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:23] <exec> 08└─"The sound would at least alarm the border patrol in LA that a breech occurred" Not so much a 'wall breech' as 'wall total removal'. Maybe they can build the next one out of giant dominoes; that ought to provide border patrol a nice show too when it falls down.
[22:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:25] <exec> 08└─Great idea! Then those trying to breach the wall can rig up something to introduce an electrical current or spark to the tubes while they're standing a good distance away behind a hill or something, and you've saved them all the trouble of finding their own explosives.
[22:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:27] <exec> 08└─"so a microphone set up as a noise detector every twenty yards or so would largely solve that." How does that solve anything? unless you have a border agents every few hundred yards or so to come running when the alarm goes off? But if you have that, then you don't really need the wall at all. Just...
[22:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:43] <exec> 08└─And it inherits all the vulnerabilities of DHE, namely a weakness to MITM attacks.
[22:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─I think Russia just made it easy for The Rest Of The World to perpetually keep Russia offline. just keep sending Russia packets that trigger their tripwires, because that part of the equation is now a single point of control.
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:48] <exec> 08└─I agree, and I applaud you for saying it. People do cling to what they've been told. It takes time for that attachment to delaminate. But it will, because in the end reality trumps fantasy, even intricately constructed and massively executed fantasy.
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─I used to be very glad Canada defeated the American invasion, but now I think it wouldn't have been such a bad thing. Canada as a country has the potential for greatness, but they have done little with it. What a colossus the two would have made together.
[22:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Toe Bone Hints That Neandertals Used Eagle Talons as Jewelry - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:07] <exec> 08└─is a valley. Homo Neanderthalis is a species. Changing the colloquial spelling is awkward [sfwriter.com].
[22:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Bans "Party Houses" after Shooting - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:09] <exec> 08└─Liberia was just one of many failed attempts to get rid of the darkies [wikipedia.org]. That's not equality of opportunity. That's just another way to discriminate against other humans for no good reason. There's plenty of institutional and individual (like yours) bigotry still in this country. And...
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[23:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Ends Development on Custom ARM Cores, Signals Layoffs at Austin, Texas R&D Center - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:11] <exec> 08└─They didn't use them even in their own phones.
[23:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Ends Development on Custom ARM Cores, Signals Layoffs at Austin, Texas R&D Center - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:13] <exec> 08└─That's what comes to mind, but apparently they do use Exynos in lower/mid range phones. But what about the most important phones? Samsung Galaxy S9 [wikipedia.org] Global: Exynos 9810 USA/Canada/China/HK/Japan/Latin America: Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Samsung Galaxy S10 [wikipedia.org] Worldwide: Samsu...
[23:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Ends Development on Custom ARM Cores, Signals Layoffs at Austin, Texas R&D Center - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:14] <exec> 08└─I bet patents have something (at least a little) to do with it. Qualcom's legal dept is no joke.
[23:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:38] <exec> 08└─It's possible this is true of some, but also possible they genuinely don't know better and aren't incentivized enough to care. I have encountered politicians who did the equivalent of a wiki walk after I discussed some security topic with them when they realized how much they'd underestimated the co...
[23:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─No thank you. From TFS: DNS over HTTPS makes whichever DNS provider selected by the browser vendor the eavesdroppers seeing what DNS lookups your browser is making. This can make it more difficult for the users of such browsers and the networks/organizations in which they exist to manage and control...
[23:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:41] <exec> 08└─I get tired of government criticizing Google/Facebook/Twitter all the time when the real villains here are ISPs, Cable companies, Cell phone carriers that keep merging, Hollywood, and old media.
[23:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:43] <exec> 08└─Comparatively speaking, American politicians are relatively responsive to demands from the voters. It just requires massive numbers of them, enough to put reelection at risk.
[23:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:45] <exec> 08└─I get tired of government criticizing Google/Facebook/Twitter all the time when *additional* real villains like ISPs, Cable companies, Cell phone carriers that keep merging, Hollywood, and old media don't get enough criticism. There should be enough criticism to go around. Don't stop beating on Goog...
[23:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:48] <exec> 08└─> against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome. "and Chrome" being the key. Mozilla is just proxying for google the battle to pwn DNS lookups. Mozilla has already proven being google's lapdog by giving up the extensions ecosystem. Unless the request came from the deep state. But differentiating betwe...
[23:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:50] <exec> 08└─Don't stop beating on Google/Facebook/Twitter Why? Can they block access to anything?
[23:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:52] <exec> 08└─whom to allow and whom to forbid spying on its users. Not for a censor-in-the-middle, however much you personally love bondage and discipline.
[23:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe I like choice in my DNS providers? Giving all to cloudflare and google is hot garbage. One of those two is know to datamine the hell out of everything. The other probably does too despite what they tell us. Then they want to make me think my ISP is up to no good? Well guess what they are too!...
[23:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:56] <exec> 08└─Only allow packets to ip addresses where the OS did the DNS lookup?
[23:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:58] <exec> 08└─"A program" which a regular user would not even know about, let alone be able to properly configure, will be used only by a tiny minority. As a consequence, any action against that program, the protocol, and its users, will go through unopposed. Which rather defeats the whole purpose. Common browser...
[23:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:16] <exec> 08└─The plunge protection team is at work doing the same thing with stocks.
[23:20:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:45] <exec> 08└─Why not immigrant repelling rocks? They can be fairly cheap if bought in bulk and easily put in place. Hey, the one I have for tigers works great!
[23:20:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 1407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:50] <exec> 08└─Yep, all of 'em are "bad people". You don't want no "bad people" moving in now do you? Especially nowhere near where you live. Right? I seriously doubt that ALL of the folk are "bad people", but rather regular folk like you and me who just want to live their life and take care of their family, and...
[23:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:45] <exec> 08└─And given that it takes at least a few weeks and $millions to rebuild the section of wall they just blew up, and costs them maybe a few hundred pesos to blow it up again, I suspect the coyotes would be happy to make that exchange as many times as it takes. You seem to be thinking "BOOM", and then th...
[23:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:46] <exec> 08└─Explosive dominoes! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:48] <exec> 08└─I don't want the USA to be like El Salvador.
[23:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:50] <exec> 08└─Well, there were castles that were never breached before the days of gunpowder.
[23:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:52] <exec> 08└─The wall is imperfect, therefore we must allow unlimited hoards of identity thieves and worse to just pour across with no attempt to do anything about it? Millions upon millions of these people would make our country about as nice as Central America -- do you want to live like that?
[23:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:54] <exec> 08└─With the proper application of power tools, you'd be hard pressed to find something you can't get through.
[23:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:56] <exec> 08└─With enough resources and violence every solution becomes final. Since people are not that prepared to go all endlosung, immigrants will win, or better, succeed, because they are weapons, not players. The victory might be the planned police state, which has been built and needs a crisis, or the plan...
[23:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sawzall Vs Trump's Wall -- No Contest - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:58] <exec> 08└─While true, the cartels have enough money to dig deep enough to get under a 6 foot footer.
[23:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:16] <exec> 08└─They aren't quantum keys. They are just keys. It is the technique for agreeing on a key that is quantum, not the keys themselves. Note - this is pure bullshit: "Quantum technology, however, allows us to encrypt the key within the message. Only the person with the exact same key as the one inside the...
[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─Its quantum (no copying) nature means that any evesdropping significantly greater than the quantum channel's noise floor will be noticed, and the key exchange invalidated. You do expect some noise in a quantum channel, so there is a small amount of evesdropping that is possible undetected (noise is...
[23:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:20] <exec> 08└─Security Top Tip: If you believe your installation is absolutely impossible to hack, then you've just introduced your first vulnerability. However, yes, by design the mathematics and hardcore physics makes QKE theoretically impossible to MITM. Who made your repeaters? Huawei, you say?
[23:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers May Have Discovered a New Class of Tiny Black Holes - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─Black holes may start off lighter than their sun, however, they still do devour stuff, and merge, which is why some can end up tens of millions of times heavier than their initial masses. But you do highlight a common physics fallacy. Were the sun to be replaced by an equal mass black hole, our orbi...
[23:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed. What is to be done?
[23:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:29] <exec> 08└─The fact that they put blackboxes into ISPs along the way.... well, that's just playing catchup with the US, UK and everyone else who already do the same.
[23:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:31] <exec> 08└─OK, but that doesn't answer my question. Have you considered a career in politics?
[23:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:33] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, think if the US and Great Britain had stayed together.
[23:24:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 888 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:00] <exec> 08└─...not for these reasons. Tropical forests are fundamentally carbon neutral. A stable, old-growth rain forest does not sequester significant amounts of carbon year after year. In temperate climates, fallen trees turn partially into soil, or they may fall into swamps and turn into future coal. In tro...
[23:24:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 1827 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:07] <exec> 08└─OK, I agree that it's not necessarily "gone forever", or I wouldn't be advocating for people to plant trees. And, I've seen that (or a similar) article about the terra preta in the Amazon. Still - we have huge deserts in several parts of the world, that man has either created, or made worse. The Sah...
[23:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Says Climate Impact From Loss Of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─But as I looked around, it looked like a regular old growth forest, just like any other.
[23:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:44] <exec> 08└─I watched the video of the CNN leaks. Zucker did say what PV reported he said. The CNN co-workers complaining over beers about what Zucker was doing was real also, and substantiates the central claim that Zucker was manufacturing its coverage rather than reporting the news. Did you watch the video?
[23:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Exec Responds to Politician Looking to Curb Google's Influence - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:45] <exec> 08└─There is an editor training. I did it. It's thorough. Once I completed it, though, they told me they had enough editors and that they thought continuing to submit stories was a more valuable way for me to help the SN community. So, I did that instead of becoming an editor. One way to address your co...
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