#comments | Logs for 2019-11-27

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[00:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:24] <exec> 08└─5g does for me again?
[00:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:55] <exec> 08└─The FBI don't need to. The NSA's PRISM facility is already recording all calls made in most of the western world. It isn't just phone companies in the US forwarding everything, but internationally.
[00:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe he intentionally meant both?
[00:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:44] <exec> 08└─Threadjacking, pure and simple.
[00:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:47] <exec> 08└─Was früher Punk war, ist heute Alt-Right [www.srf.ch]. Oh, look, an aristarchus sub came in handy, for once. Good thing janrinok censored him!
[00:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:49] <exec> 08└─Takes one to know one, eh starchy?
[00:50:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06AMD's Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Reviewed; 64-core 3990X Confirmed - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, it supports ECC RAM.
[00:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S.-Based Chip-Tech Group Moving to Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:51] <exec> 08└─Sorry for typo- I have a Sceptre monitor. Doesn't take much to get your knickers all bunched up, huh? I did not mod you, but as usual you deserve the downmod. Please seek help. There are medications that will help you.
[00:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S.-Based Chip-Tech Group Moving to Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:52] <exec> 08└─And because the democrats profiting there are political rivals (or in their clan) of Trump, that makes it uninvestigatable for the Trump administration -- even impeachable, according to 2019 democrat party doctrine. Americans sitting at home and watching the evening news take a step back and think:...
[00:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S.-Based Chip-Tech Group Moving to Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:54] <exec> 08└─There's only one cure, but it only requires a single treatment.
[00:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:20] <exec> 08└─I was just adding my bit of personal experience.
[00:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:22] <exec> 08└─You're not dead until you're warm and dead.
[00:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:52] <exec> 08└─Quite a snide response, going down a path based on an incorrect assumption. Please show me where I said it has to be hard-wired or hard-coded, never to be changed? It's simple- there should be a setting in the OS to let the USER decide on how the port is used. And maybe you're not aware, but there i...
[00:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that info, Bot. bbqlinux might be just what I need, but I see it's brand new. Maybe more likely antix...
[00:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:56] <exec> 08└─Must admit I like Rox.
[00:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:58] <exec> 08└─unless instructed to do so by the appropriate legal authorities who can present the necessary legal paperwork.
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[01:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:24] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I do not care if some foreign government throws heavy subsidies into some paradigm changing research, if that helps to progress all humanity, but... The tech war is based on America's argument that China's technological advances have been built upon stolen intellectual property rights
[01:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:25] <exec> 08└─More bandwidth I think. I mean, that sounds fine I suppose but I have no interest in paying more than I already do because 4G works fine.
[01:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:27] <exec> 08└─I wondered about that very thing. That whole paragraph is nonsense really: "The tech war is based on America's argument that China's technological advances have been built upon stolen intellectual property rights,
[01:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:29] <exec> 08└─Nobody needs 4G.
[01:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:50] <exec> 08└─Oh gods, I was actually thinking about how the Sex Pistols wound up with no money, despite kind of, almost inventing punk. But yeah, Green Day. Blah. I listened to London Calling the other day, coincidentally, and I had forgotten how good it really is. Not many double albums have no weak songs, alt...
[01:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:52] <exec> 08└─start a corporation. Then when you get caught the corporation gets fined and you can go live in bermuda.
[01:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:54] <exec> 08└─Oh gods, I was actually thinking about how the Sex Pistols wound up with no money, despite kind of, almost inventing punk.
[01:52:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Save the Web, Says WWW Inventor, as Tech Giants Agree - 385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:18] <exec> 08└─ISPs gave us a two-tiered web where only corporations are allowed to serve stuff and the serfs are only meant to consume it (while being spied on and watching ads). Now people can't put up a website about their dog or share their photos or send an email without a corporate middleman to watch over an...
[01:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Save the Web, Says WWW Inventor, as Tech Giants Agree - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:39] <exec> 08└─>Now people can't put up a website Easier than ever. You can buy a domain and get your site up in a single day. There are tutorials and videos for each step of the process. Not a techie? There are multiple websites where you can hire someone to do it all for you.
[01:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Save the Web, Says WWW Inventor, as Tech Giants Agree - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:41] <exec> 08└─TBL supported the EME proposal after years of discussion. His reasoning was that DRM was inevitable given the way the previous votes and discussion went and the EME specification was one of the better ones out of all the alternatives.
[01:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:59] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen an X configuration setup that uses multiple X sessions (or haven't in so long that I've forgotten if I've ever seen this), so I'm wondering if there's some documentation that can be pointed to for it, for the specific purpose of testing setups to try to answer this question. It might...
[01:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:00] <exec> 08└─if you want a *nix machine that is reasonably stable, then your best option is to get a Mac. You lose customizability, but in return you get a comparatively solid OS that doesn't give you grief.
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[02:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:12] <exec> 08└─That's fat. No soup for fat neutrino.
[02:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:34] <exec> 08└─Interesting conspiracy theory: Following Aleksandr Dugin's weak US/strong Russia philosophy, Russian insiders convince Trump to cripple the US' 5G prospects by banning Chinese vendors that provide the tech, and the US public to cripple the US' 5G prospects with scaremongering about 5G radiation. Res...
[02:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:36] <exec> 08└─You have a future in Hollyweird or MSM.
[02:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:00] <exec> 08└─I am not really familiar with the Misfits, but Black Flag were pretty cool. Don't tell anybody, but I actually think the Sex Pistols were a bit shit. As far as I can tell they wrote about 5 good songs, and none after they sacked Glenn Matlock, who might have been the only talent in the band. I bor...
[02:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:01] <exec> 08└─So you can circumnavigate something you never even saw? Then might as well say magellan did it.
[02:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MediaTek Dimensity 1000 SoC Supports 5G Speeds, 16 GB RAM, and AV1 Video Decoding - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:20] <exec> 08└─Will this system on a SoC chip support DRM rights management?
[02:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:34] <exec> 08└─The odds are indeed astronomically bad that you will be revived. For one, who says that EVEN IF the technology to revive you existed that they WOULD EVEN BOTHER? You're not worth the initial expense or the ongoing medical expenses to care for you after or to integrate you into society. You are count...
[02:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:35] <exec> 08└─Actually this has been happening for centuries at least. Whenever parliament is in session, the majority of the house except for the few people speaking go into suspended animation.
[02:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:37] <exec> 08└─Actually this has been happening for centuries at least. Whenever parliament is in session,
[02:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planetary Systems around Black Holes Proposed - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:01] <exec> 08└─Of course I meant stars, not start. I wish I could edit posts for such typos.
[02:52:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Save the Web, Says WWW Inventor, as Tech Giants Agree - 912 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:41] <exec> 08└─I hope I don't rain on anyone's parade, but one of my biggest concerns is web page bloat. I don't know how it could be enforced, and I'm not in favor of enforcement, but it would be nice to know how huge a webpage will be before clicking on it. Besides self-playing videos, etc., I hate when a page i...
[02:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:15] <exec> 08└─I never used Macs much until I had to do a short-term gig managing a lab full of macs, and they crashed enough to put me off from buying one despite that they were at the time new. I think they were iMacs, but still, if you're gonna pay a premium than it better fucking Just Work™. That was a few y...
[02:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret C64 Program Found On A Christian Rock Band's Vinyl Record - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:39] <exec> 08└─10 PRINT "JOHN 3:16" 20 GOTO 10
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[03:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:13] <exec> 08└─Ain't no upper limit on a massive Niggerection.
[03:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cohesin - A Molecular Motor that Folds Our Genome - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:20] <exec> 08└─NEEDS MORE NIGGERS!
[03:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:39] <exec> 08└─Probably, in no one's best interest as it would likely increase civilian casualties.
[03:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:40] <exec> 08└─They aren't doing anything a lot of us aren't doing as well. They need something they can trust, and not be denied because someone else decides to impose sanctions. If there is anything you need, and are dependent on it, you are vulnerable, leaving others to take your stuff away. It's how the rich g...
[03:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:06] <exec> 08└─Punk ain't exactly supposed to be "good" though. As a general rule, the better the musicians are, the less punk the music is. The main exception I'd make there is Social Distortion. Mostly what it's supposed to be is pissed off in a way you can relate to.
[03:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planetary Systems around Black Holes Proposed - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:06] <exec> 08└─The old orbits wouldn't survive, but what are the odds that the sun passes close enough to a planet in just the right way to slingshot it entirely out of the grip of the black hole? (hitting the black hole is almost impossible) And how does that compare to the average number of planets that the blac...
[03:53:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 1583 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:14] <exec> 08└─I've had a situation where I wanted to run 2 X screens (1 for my monitors, 1 for my projector) and found that virtually all modern desktop environments are completely worthless at handling this. It seems that they seem to think that "We have xrandr now, X screens is old school and deprecated so we d...
[03:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:22] <exec> 08└─I have this very complaint across the board. All sorts of eye candy everywhere (or the inverse -- flat, white, and featureless: Brutalism for desktops); meanwhile basic usability settings are nowhere to be found. Frex, you can make the corners rounded and the window beautifully transparent, but you...
[03:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:24] <exec> 08└─I froze my everyday install about a year ago because of a hardware-vs-kernel issue. It still works just fine for what it's used for. Eventually I'll get the new setup customized the same way and won't need the old one anymore, but meanwhile, it ain't broke, not fixing it.
[03:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:26] <exec> 08└─Here's the naked-install RAM usage, from a recent test done using PCLinuxOS as the base: KDE/Plasma: 595mb Mate: 546mb Xfce: 516mb LXDE: 389mb Trinity: 294mb Openbox: 264mb So Xfce is really not all that much 'lighter' than KDE. But DE is not, in my observation, the real factor. Rather, the distro i...
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[04:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Shares Mid-Sized Robotic Lunar Lander Concept with Industry - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, he will send 150,000 kg of his stuff instead of 300 kg.
[04:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:24] <exec> 08└─Is that your asshole commenting?
[04:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:26] <exec> 08└─Didn't they just discover neutrinos go faster than light a few years ago, it was all over the news? They must have negative mass.
[04:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:28] <exec> 08└─Matter, antimatter; ying, yang; trump, hillary; it's all in your mind, all mirror images. In the end, you have to conclude BRING BACK THE McRib!
[04:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:31] <exec> 08└─They discovered faulty equipment.
[04:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:33] <exec> 08└─Takyon posts news faster than light beer.
[04:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:35] <exec> 08└─Only in physics do they get to repeat the same experiment dozens of times costing billions of dollars. In other fields, you've got to be re-imagining the platform or driving the AI revolution every fucking 6 months or your funding goes to 24 Chinese post docs and their (also Chinese) supervisor who...
[04:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cohesin - A Molecular Motor that Folds Our Genome - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:44] <exec> 08└─It never ceases to amaze me with each discovery of how complex we are. It compels me to a belief that this whole shebang is deliberately designed. Which causes me even more consternation as many of those professing advanced knowledge of this Creator seem to have no idea or interest of this, and more...
[04:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cohesin - A Molecular Motor that Folds Our Genome - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:46] <exec> 08└─Nope, it's just a numbers game. Humans don't understand big numbers. - God
[04:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:06] <exec> 08└─5g. now with 25% more g, dawg!
[04:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Police Agency Hits Islamic State Servers in Blow to Jihadist Publicity - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:22] <exec> 08└─It survived the Putin's pressure though. Just saying.
[04:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:34] <exec> 08└─Look at the map of his voyages, he wasn't even close to antarctica during these supposed circumnavigations. Sometimes not even in the same hemisphere.
[04:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:11] <exec> 08└─The sticker price is $40,000 for the suspension and ~$100 per year in annual dues. I'm paying for the suspension with life insurance, so it's cheap. I'm the sole breadwinner for 4 humans and a preposterous number of cats so I have a lot of life insurance. Cryonics is a pretty small part of it. I'd l...
[04:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planetary Systems around Black Holes Proposed - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:38] <exec> 08└─Odds are very good that it'd either go in or go out. Stable orbits aren't exactly a razor's edge thing but they're very narrow on the scales we're talking.
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[05:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:13] <exec> 08└─" No need to be concerned that police would blame things on the robot, such as excessive force, injuries or death.
[05:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:36] <exec> 08└─In science, they work to get results as close to conclusive as they can wherever this is possible. If an effect is very small, like the mass of a neutrino or the behaviour of a very short-lived particle, an experiment needs to be repeated many times in order to get the kind of statistical power requ...
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[05:49:05] <exec> 08└─Ok... So 5G is stolen intellectual property rights. Did we ever pay China for the intellectual property of making explosive powder? Or is it "research" if we benefit, and "theft" if someone else benefits. Personally, I am getting so sick and tired of all this patent and copyright crap that keeps us...
[05:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:37] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to use the cloud!
[05:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S.-Based Chip-Tech Group Moving to Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:41] <exec> 08└─I'm going to assume you have a limited command of the English language. I can help! Open [dictionary.com] [ oh-puh n ] verb (used with object) to set in action, begin, start, or commence (sometimes followed by up) to open a campaign.
[05:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S.-Based Chip-Tech Group Moving to Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears - 2012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:42] <exec> 08└─What people campaign for politically and what they do in their own private life are often quite different. Because what benefits you as an individual and what benefits a nation are often in distinct conflict. For instance Warren Buffet remains one of the most vocal proponents for higher taxes on the...
[05:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:15] <exec> 08└─They will dress her up as Ronald Reagan, then use her as a superconducting perpetual energy source until such time as she can be thawed out in order to be consciously offended :)
[05:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pjbgravely [1681] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:00] <exec> 08└─When I did my first 2 X session on Ubuntu Warty Warthog I used howtos available at the time. When I acquired Nvidia cards I used Nvidia Settings from then on. The Mint/Mate break happened years ago. There was very few complaints because very few users used multi-X screens by then. I could use an ext...
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[06:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:15] <exec> 08└─Robot attack dogs don’t kill people, they just weren’t trained on a large enough dataset.
[06:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:39] <exec> 08└─It is also extremely tiny—approximately 500,000 times smaller than an electron.
[06:49:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:05] <exec> 08└─Interesting conspiracy theory: Following Aleksandr Dugin's weak US/strong Russia philosophy, Russian insiders convince Trump to cripple the US' 5G prospects by banning Chinese vendors that provide the tech, and the US public to cripple the US' 5G prospects with scaremongering about 5G radiation. Res...
[06:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Police Agency Hits Islamic State Servers in Blow to Jihadist Publicity - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:27] <exec> 08└─I can't be the only one reading this?
[06:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:45] <exec> 08└─Check out the Utah Data Center [wikipedia.org]. Its storage capacity is estimated to be at least on the scale of exabytes. Probably the most relevant quote there is: In April 2009, officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in large-scale overcollectio...
[06:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:46] <exec> 08└─Probably it is costing far less because probably the calls are transcribed to text (takes less space) and then processed into a database from where AI and other program can tap the information. Probably only those calls that contain certain keywords are stored fully with audio.
[06:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 1767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:48] <exec> 08└─Nobody needs to do so. The FBI with CALEA is already able to intercept all calls in real-time. All the high level carriers for the PSTN/Cellular networks are running mediation switches that allow such intercepts. The FBI's DCSNet [wired.com] manages the whole thing. There's already systems in place...
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[07:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:22] <exec> 08└─From the, you have 40 seconds to give me a treat, bzztgrrrl.
[07:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:23] <exec> 08└─40 seconds?
[07:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:52] <exec> 08└─So you can circumnavigate something you never even saw?
[07:51:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06AMD's Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Reviewed; 64-core 3990X Confirmed - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:19] <exec> 08└─That depends on the code you can run. With lockless data structures, it is possible and often quite useful to have many threads running effectively in the same address space.
[07:54:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help. - 978 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they *are* broken. Or at least, they are horribly fragile and utterly non-robust. Everyone is so concerned about trivial nonsense like customizability and themes and other garbage, and let the truly valuable stuff get sidelined. Like robust and easy to use multi-monitor support,...
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[08:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heating Techniques Could Improve Treatment Of Macular Degeneration - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:15] <exec> 08└─some good could come from sticking your head in the microwave?
[08:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:32] <exec> 08└─You now have 15 seconds to comply. You are in direct violation of treats to bot dogs code 1.13, Section 9.
[08:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Shares Mid-Sized Robotic Lunar Lander Concept with Industry - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:41] <exec> 08└─Difficulty levels: Spacecraft:* Bots:* Humans past van allen belt:*** Making the mission look like the fake moon landing of 1969:********
[08:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:29] <exec> 08└─According to a Telstra ad I saw today, you can download all of Hendrix's albums in seconds. So amazing.
[08:50:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 511 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:22] <exec> 08└─Employed? Signed an employment contract within the last 15 years? Read carefully, the release of any information whatsoever which makes the company look bad is a data security breach. They don't need to fire you for that, employment at will has that covered. Google is (and about 10,000 other employe...
[08:53:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Save the Web, Says WWW Inventor, as Tech Giants Agree - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:32] <exec> 08└─Save the Web, Says WWW Inventor, as Tech Giants' PR Departments Agree
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[09:48:29] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem that useful without a weapon. You don't want to use it if there are hostages. You can get plenty of information about the suspect's location using infrared technologies. You don't want to send it as a suicide bomber because it costs too much. That's a sizeable investment for an extra...
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[09:48:39] <exec> 08└─Getting anything done with all the funding going to SLS:***********
[09:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:26] <exec> 08└─But do they throttle BitTorrent downloads of Hendrix's discography?
[09:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:27] <exec> 08└─The night is always darkest before the end.
[09:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S.-Based Chip-Tech Group Moving to Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears - 1709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:10] <exec> 08└─As an example of this in the other direction, after primarily US bankers nearly destroyed the world economy during the previous administration Obama chose not only to not hold anybody accountable, but to give them hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to bail them out. Following the end...
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[10:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:36] <exec> 08└─> Other companies already have bots for disarming bombs. The police already have bots for disarming bombs They have already used those same bots as weapon platforms (e.g. https://mashable.com [mashable.com] ) They also already have drones for observat...
[10:49:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:23] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I do not care if some foreign government throws heavy subsidies into some paradigm changing research, if that helps to progress all humanity, but... The tech war is based on America's argument that China's technological advances have been built upon stolen intellectual property rights
[10:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:37] <exec> 08└─Probably, in no one's best interest as it would likely increase civilian casualties.
[10:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S.-Based Chip-Tech Group Moving to Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:20] <exec> 08└─If I gave you a $50 would you become a raving hateful racist online for a year?
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[11:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:12] <exec> 08└─If these social media providers permit this sort of code to run, they should be liable for it. A provider that has the power to ban people for their political and other opinions, also has the power to decide what code can run on their sites. These assholes want the best of all possible worlds, in wh...
[11:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:13] <exec> 08└─The problem is that from what I understand, the code is not running "on their site" directly, but on an end user's device in a 3rd party app as part of the malicous SDK, so outside any visible context to the targetted sites. I would not expect, nor want, the targetted sites to have sufficient device...
[11:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:05] <exec> 08└─Physics was way better when they tried not to get significance. They are following the rest of science down the toilet.
[11:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:06] <exec> 08└─Also, the faster than light neutrinos were not a statistical fluke. The statistics correctly told them at least one of the assumptions behind the null hypothesis was wrong... Just like it promised to do.
[11:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Police Agency Hits Islamic State Servers in Blow to Jihadist Publicity - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:58] <exec> 08└─That 'historical materiel' didn't get lost, ofcourse. And observing the enemy is easier when you've pushed them on a limited number of communication channels they think you're unaware of.
[11:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:19] <exec> 08└─I will donate a paper sack of fermented chicken entrails as a prize.*
[11:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:59] <exec> 08└─It's an open question who has the better suspension system*, but CI will accept patients who are already suspended. It wouldn't be as cheap as going straight to CI, but you could avoid the Alcor trust component, which is a significant part of the cost difference. *I think it is going to take MNT lev...
[11:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:01] <exec> 08└─With all you guys talking about being frozen I had a flash of inspiration: You should rent out the block of ice with your corpse frozen inside to high-end goth parties they chip ice chunks from at the bar to make drinks. Then you bank the proceeds in an index fund to finance your eventual revival.
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[12:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:10] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer [wikipedia.org] Specifically, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] History repeats itself. https://www.military.com
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[12:48:12] <exec> 08└─will put the Titanic in American Presidencies: Full speed ahead, all hands to bed, or the the galley! Onwards unto icebergery!
[12:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:21] <exec> 08└─But I do use Rapper....I got hit by Slim Shady code.
[12:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:24] <exec> 08└─"You must enable javascript to view this page." So obviously they're part of the problem. Facebook and twitter are cancer. Block them at the router.
[12:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:26] <exec> 08└─'...the code is not running "on their site" directly, but on an end user's device in a 3rd party app as part of the malicous SDK..'
[12:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:19] <exec> 08└─> In other fields, you've got to be re-imagining the platform or driving the AI revolution every ***ing 6 months Good! What would you fund: * Measure fundamental constant of nature * "Re-imagine the platform" * "Drive the AI revolution" It turns out that buzzword bingo doesn't get funding... > ***in...
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[12:50:33] <exec> 08└─In his book "Culture and Empire", Pieter Hintjens makes the point that within decades it will cost governments less than $100 per person to store all audio and video surveillance of each person within their borders for an entire year.
[12:54:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Save the Web, Says WWW Inventor, as Tech Giants Agree - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:15] <exec> 08└─including Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
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[13:50:40] <exec> 08└─Nobody needs to do so. The FBI with CALEA is already able to intercept all calls in real-time. All the high level carriers for the PSTN/Cellular networks are running mediation switches that allow such intercepts. The FBI's DCSNet [wired.com] manages the whole thing. There's already systems in place...
[13:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:43] <exec> 08└─Several of Hintjens book are available for download directly from his old web site, which is still up. "Culture and Empire" is also available for download: https://legacy.gitbook.com [gitbook.com] It's is quite a good read, as are his other books.
[13:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:46] <exec> 08└─He wrote the book in 2013. $100 can buy about 6 TB of disk storage today. That's enough to hold about 2 months of 10 Mbps bitrate video. So if $16.70/TB declines to $2.78/TB, i.e. 36 TB for $100, you're there. Seagate is planning 50 TB by 2026, so the prediction could become reality by 2030. You can...
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[14:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:09] <exec> 08└─Sadly, the list of D's following the co-sponsors names will ensure this legislation dies a speedy death in front of Moscow Mitch's committees. And, if by some miracle it happens to get past those hurdles, it will never get to the floor for a vote. Wake me up when the Democrats retake the Senate.
[14:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:11] <exec> 08└─Also, any supporters could be branded as "COPRAphiliacs" (don't Google that at work).
[14:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:13] <exec> 08└─Dammit. You beat me to the joke.
[14:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:15] <exec> 08└─And don't forget that the Mitchster [twimg.com] has held up something like 400 bills [nationalmemo.com] passed by the House [thehill.com] since the beginning of 2019.
[14:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:17] <exec> 08└─When either chamber of congress is in session, the doors must be closed, the room must be hermetically sealed. Why? Because. Or something. Think of the children! Etc
[14:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:36] <exec> 08└─The code didn't do anything wrong. It just slurped at a shady data watering hole.
[14:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:38] <exec> 08└─There ain't no such thing as privacy on social media. Period. I don't care what your settings are, the megacorp that created the platform has your data and can and will use it to sell targeted ads, which means whichever ad company they sell to will be able to figure out what your data is more-or-les...
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[14:50:08] <exec> 08└─I think we lack a phrase for distinguishing between conspiracy theories. For instance it is literally a conspiracy theory that Epstein was killed. But when you look at the evidence (guards somehow stop checking in at exact time he offs himself, cellmate inexplicably removed, camera in front of cell...
[14:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:51] <exec> 08└─Yes. Edit them together. With rythm and rapidly repeated short phrases. Add a bass line and modem noise and . . BAM! Instant "music".
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[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─This would be just another step which proves how irrelevant the TLD system has become.
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:16] <exec> 08└─As someone who only has .org domains (OK, I have .fi and .ee for my business too), I guess I should have feared this day, but I never imagined something so potentially disastrous would ever come about. .org isn't a commodity that should be sellable to the highest bidder (or whoever did the most effe...
[15:48:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:23] <exec> 08└─Sadly, the list of D's following the co-sponsors names will ensure this legislation dies a speedy death in front of Moscow Mitch's committees. And, if by some miracle it happens to get past those hurdles, it will never get to the floor for a vote. Wake me up when the Democrats retake the Senate.
[15:48:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:25] <exec> 08└─Also, any supporters could be branded as "COPRAphiliacs" (don't Google that at work).
[15:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:30] <exec> 08└─When either chamber of congress is in session, the doors must be closed, the room must be hermetically sealed. Why? Because. Or something. Think of the children! Etc
[15:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 1781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:51] <exec> 08└─What if I told you facebook was a bad actor? Talk about snuck premises ffs, this is like saying someone is a murderer because he caught another murderer for us. When really it is a murderer pointing to a detective who caught another murderer, hoping by simply helping with the effort they will be per...
[15:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmc23 [4142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Heating Techniques Could Improve Treatment Of Macular Degeneration - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:59] <exec> 08└─Heats the liquid in my eyeballs just fine.
[15:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:20] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem that useful without a weapon.
[15:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:21] <exec> 08└─I am sure they can be trained to tell white people from black people.
[15:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Shares Mid-Sized Robotic Lunar Lander Concept with Industry - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:33] <exec> 08└─NASA has a goal of sending astronauts back to the moon by 2024.
[15:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:53] <exec> 08└─New presidential order: scientists (including doctors) are not allowed to set an upper limit on anyone's mass.
[15:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:55] <exec> 08└─read somewhere (wrongly?) that 4% of a "commercial" nuke reactors output flies away as neutrinos. also read somewhere that zee neutrino was inven... errr... proposed to save the erngy conservation law because vith them unstable matters the detected decay products didn't add up? now it would be hilar...
[15:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cohesin - A Molecular Motor that Folds Our Genome - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:05] <exec> 08└─Those are huge dice you got there!
[15:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:32] <exec> 08└─China, we the people of the USA would like to present you a free telecom gift which I'm sure you will appreciate. Our gift to you is . . . AT&T! Please take it. All of it. Also be aware that AT&T representatives can sometimes be difficult to spot. You must look closely. They are disguised to appear...
[15:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:33] <exec> 08└─I think you mean . . . before you realize it is an oncoming train.
[15:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:35] <exec> 08└─> Huawei has always strongly denied that its technology can be used for spying. Did they actually say that or did they deny that it is being used for spying? Because, it is communications equipment, of course it CAN be used for spying. So can the gear from Cisco and all the other suppliers. You don'...
[15:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:38] <exec> 08└─My god i never thought of it that way! We should hurry up and remove all barriers to trade so they can erode our standard living to nothing and round us up as organ cattle, after all its only right, they did tell us about gunpowder.
[15:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:20] <exec> 08└─What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway?
[15:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not anti-union. I've always figured that all bottom-rung and near-bottom-rung employees have more in common with people working next to them doing a similar job than they could ever have with the suits who get paid big bucks to walk around describing how we need to reprioritize the action items...
[15:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:22] <exec> 08└─Boomers co-opted punk and turned it into bland, corporate rock.
[15:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:24] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure pro-union is not an option for most of the libertarians around here. It is Bloomberg, so I felt that the article specifically avoided the word.
[15:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:09] <exec> 08└─Only if we charge triple for Daquiries , Grasshoppers, Mojitos, and Mint Juleps. If you like Pina Coladas And watching frozen brains If you're not into hygiene And won't put me in the rain If you like frozen hands at midnight and dewar flasks you like to scrape you're the drinker that I've looked fo...
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[16:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:10] <exec> 08└─How is this new? Psionics have been around as a thing since the 1st edition. There was even a specific handbook for the second edition. There was an entire world setting (Dark Sun) that was heavily into Psionics. I'm not sure about the 3rd and 4th edition since we never bothered with them since the...
[16:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:19] <exec> 08└─As someone who only has .org domains
[16:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:21] <exec> 08└─Check out the movie The Public, the public kicked out of the public library Public is being kicked off the internet, only government and corp is left, and no one can tell the difference. 100 brain slugs could take over the planet by 2022 at this rate if they play their cards right. It is not a rando...
[16:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:24] <exec> 08└─Okay, Okay, Here's a quart of oil, jeez, it's good, it's synthetic 5/30 weight.....good doggy? (backs away slowly)
[16:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Shares Mid-Sized Robotic Lunar Lander Concept with Industry - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/rp_lunar_surface_7.jpg?itok=z2M1qzKJ [nasa.gov] I can see solar panels, rockets, ramp for RORO - but what are the weird spheres? Fuel pods? What are the solar panels for? Just electricity during transit? Or something...
[16:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:39] <exec> 08└─people who want to drill another hole in your wallet and connect a endlessly leaky coin faucet totally need it ... same hole, different name.
[16:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:26] <exec> 08└─Tell them to go take a picture of it and show me.
[16:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MediaTek Dimensity 1000 SoC Supports 5G Speeds, 16 GB RAM, and AV1 Video Decoding - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:45] <exec> 08└─that's awesome! now if only someone would care if i called them or they would call me. *sniff* i guess i'll just have to join the "big cloud society" under some banner name and dive in to feel ... social. i'll try and again. and again .. in 5 min ...
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[17:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:13] <exec> 08└─Always the unloved stepchild…
[17:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:14] <exec> 08└─> I'm not sure about the 3rd and 4th edition since we never bothered with them > Is this some kind of unpaid promo from Wizards of the Coast? Come on, TSR went bust more than 20 years ago, you can't still be bitter?
[17:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:16] <exec> 08└─In /Advanced/ D&D, yup, it goes all the way back, but wasn't in the original "Dungeons & Dragons". Used to only be available for people who rolled 18 intelligence, and who then passed an extra throw after that. So it's presumed absense from later AD&D editions should only have affected a small minor...
[17:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:18] <exec> 08└─I'd more characterize them as the loved carbuncle than anything. It was like wizard duels: cool in theory, but utterly impractical unless the campaign was special-built to highlight it. I, and so many others, love them. However, they were unbalanced (overpowered in many ways, underpowered in others)...
[17:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:29] <exec> 08└─Not that it hurts for you to post this stuff, but everybody does know the "sides". The problem is that they're too comfortable to give a shit. They're not going to risk what little trickle down they have left. Just like golf and bowling, a 'revolution' requires follow through. The usual half-assed w...
[17:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:42] <exec> 08└─That article is disingenuous in at least two ways. The first is that it lies about the bill count. Here [congress.gov] is a list of all bills introduce by the house. The exact count, as of now, is 335. Unfortunately there's no clear date filter but it's pretty safe to say the number was significantl...
[17:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 2209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:44] <exec> 08└─There is a legal tactic where you talk past a crime to give the impression it is legal. If you look at what this bill talks past, this bill is horrible. For example, it says more or less that carriers can do anything they want with data that they "de-identify". The problem with that, is that to de-i...
[17:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:46] <exec> 08└─Yup, like climate change protecting privacy is now going to be a "liberal issue." We can't protect your privacy because then those damn commies win!
[17:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:56] <exec> 08└─> to be fair, there are probably ships actually sailing today that aren't as well-preserved as Vasa Might well be true, but since I last visited it (it's an amazing museum, by the way, if you go to Stockholm I'd recommend it as the clear #1 tourist destination), they've discovered that the gel they...
[17:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:10] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with everything you say but I admire the way you say it. Ranting done right.
[17:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:14] <exec> 08└─researchers has used a new spectrometer to find and set an upper limit for the mass of a neutrino.
[17:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cohesin - A Molecular Motor that Folds Our Genome - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:25] <exec> 08└─That's what she said! -God
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[18:48:36] <exec> 08└─People need a leader. The system is smart enough to know that and it works very hard using people's money to find these leaders and destroy them before they can lead the people to freedom. We the people of the world are not free. Some people get targeted because they can change and destroy the very...
[18:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:46] <exec> 08└─Robodogcop humps leg of thief, more news at 11.
[18:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:22] <exec> 08└─FTL travel doesn't require negative mass, it requires imaginary mass.
[18:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:23] <exec> 08└─> Physics was way better when they tried not to get significance. That only works in a paradigm where most phenomena are unexplained. We are now in a paradigm where all known phenomena are explained by the "standard model" and we have to find phenomena that cannot be explained by this model*; which...
[18:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:53] <exec> 08└─True or not, the histories that have been written make the claim and google is just returning what others say.
[18:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Put Into Suspended Animation For First Time - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:41] <exec> 08└─Only if we charge triple for Daquiries , Grasshoppers, Mojitos, and Mint Juleps.
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[19:48:08] <exec> 08└─Just two stories before, it looks like the same.
[19:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:10] <exec> 08└─I submitted this one, at the same time I submitted several others. After doing so, I looked at the subs queue, and saw that it had already been submitted. LOL, I guess it was important enough to publish twice?
[19:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:12] <exec> 08└─But do you reserve your right to comment on the other one too?
[19:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe and I've never looked at 5th edition so I can't judge objectively, but from what I read here [wizards.com] the answer to that question would be no.
[19:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 1537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:42] <exec> 08└─I have some issues though. Eliminating inheritance is denial of service attack to the unit called family. Sure the firstborn takes all was unfair, but it worked to prevent atomization and ultimately dissolution of wealth. Privacy: a fully transparent society is what technology would enable us to do....
[19:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:58] <exec> 08└─This bill is the equivalent of a literature professor writing a paper on astrophysics, while consulting with the Pope as a primary source. The only rational motive for such a thing, is to obstruct justice and reasoned debate.
[19:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:00] <exec> 08└─They are quick at stabbing.
[19:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Police Agency Hits Islamic State Servers in Blow to Jihadist Publicity - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:30] <exec> 08└─There is a podcast about one of the earlier efforts against ISIS online: Darknet Diaries episode 50 [darknetdiaries.com]
[19:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:57] <exec> 08└─Previous phrases that have gotten a lot of mileage in the sample world include "pure energy" and "the system is down", along with others that don't immediately spring to mind. What are the key phrases of telemarketing that might gain traction in this medium? (The examples I used were spoken by Spock...
[19:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:03] <exec> 08└─Cook never made that claim.
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[20:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:32] <exec> 08└─Because it's finally launching in 5e 5 years into its lifespan (to be fair, Pathfinder also added psionics 6 years in, but the point of Pathfinder was that you could just use the 3.5 material, including psionics.
[20:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:34] <exec> 08└─I just glanced through, but the abilities seem to be roughly on par with the types of benefits you'd get by following another class path. In other words, I don't think it's completely broken out of the gate. Time will tell, but I'm not alarmed. As FatPhil mentioned above [soylentnews.org], qualifyin...
[20:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:59] <exec> 08└─"Yup, Spot alerted me to drugs in this car. Level indicates that someone smoking a joint walked past the car roughly ... 44 months ago. Weed better search it."
[20:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:36] <exec> 08└─That is exactly the opposite of reality. When you have a theoretical prediction to test, you try to not get significance, which means your theory is making accurate and useful predictions. Although I must say that neither GR nor QM have ever been used to make an useful prediction.
[20:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:10] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree at all. Maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind, as when I wrote that comment I was enjoying "Tales from Topographic Oceans" by Yes, which is about as far from punk as it is possible to get.
[20:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fires Four Staffers After Protest, Accusing Them of Data Security Breaches - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:11] <exec> 08└─Quite right. I think of Taylor Swift, Beyonce and all those chart acts as producing Big Macs. The record companies love it, as it is the same thing every time, and they know how to sell it, but there is nothing creative about it.
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[21:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:14] <exec> 08└─If you ever hear someone talking shit about another person behind their back, you better believe they do it about you the moment you turns yours. Same goes for organisations like this. If they shit-stain anyone "against" them, the moment you aren't a member, expect a hose pointed in your direction....
[21:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:15] <exec> 08└─...do invariably receive a very pointed reward. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of scumbags however. Stupid, too; the "copyright industries that helped the company to thrive" part is hilarious.
[21:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:17] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem to be just this one instance, either... almost every post on the CreativeFuture blog appears to be just constant shitposting about other people and organizations. I'm surprised any company would want to be affiliated with that. Good on Microsoft for disassociating themselves from tha...
[21:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:20] <exec> 08└─The Software Publishers Association ("don't copy that floppy") was the top lobbying arm of the copyright mafia. Then Micro$oft turned its back and created its own org, the Business Software Alliance. In just a short time, the SPA evaporated into history.
[21:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:31] <exec> 08└─They named a consumer privacy act after coconut meat?
[21:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:33] <exec> 08└─No. They named it after their native homeland fruit. The second choice name was banana. Third choice name was camel juice.
[21:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:54] <exec> 08└─[...] These days, I'm more inclined to ignore Psionics, but this 5th Ed implementation seems at a glance to integrate with the way most of the core rules for other abilities work already, and seems to keep things simple.
[21:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's my bias right there, I've never seen the need for adding in the complication of psionics. It's never added anything to the stories or adventuring for me. You could render the simplest implementation possible and I'd probably still be biased against it. And as such, I actually liked the...
[21:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:09] <exec> 08└─A major problem is that power isn't evenly distributed. Even if it were, it would destabilize, if only due to random influences. When there are ways of leveraging power of any sort to achieve greater power, they will be used, and those who achieve greater power will be some fraction of those who use...
[21:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:27] <exec> 08└─I remember a time when they did have control of the senate, and they let everybody spy on us back then too, did nothing about the Patriot Act, let the telcos and NSA spy like crazy, etc, etc. Going back to the same democrats will not help one bit. They are passing this feel good bullshit, as a form...
[21:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:52] <exec> 08└─It's accessing their API. It's asking for the user's data, and facebook/twitter are giving it that data. This is the old "he hacked our site because he made a HTTP request that we responded to by serving the content he asked for" bullshit. Either the API is braindead and has no intention to keep use...
[21:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:43] <exec> 08└─If you are living in a dense urban centre and it's been deployed properly, you get ludicrously fast wireless data performance. If it hasn't hasn't been deployed properly, which is about all the scenarios currently in major US centres, you get great performance for about 10 feet and then you lose con...
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[22:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:09] <exec> 08└─Oh, boy, I just can't wait to pick some on ebay.
[22:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:20] <exec> 08└─"In an era of creative decimation perpetrated by the world's biggest technology companies" Yeah, it's all the tech companies fault. It can't POSSIBLY be the publishers' fault. They don't lock up works, making them harder to access. They don't charge unreasonable fees for things. They don't abuse the...
[22:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:22] <exec> 08└─I like "The Facts Illustrated" page on their site. It contains no facts, really.
[22:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:24] <exec> 08└─The QOTD seems relevant. The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it.
[22:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:26] <exec> 08└─Confused and hurt, we did some digging
[22:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:28] <exec> 08└─They're trying to sound sarcastic like da millennials, and failing hard.
[22:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:02] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain what psionics adds to a world where magic is already pervasive?
[22:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:03] <exec> 08└─The Mindcrafters in ADOM make more sense.
[22:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:36] <exec> 08└─All of the stuff your talking about isn't defined in a way that can be clearly compared against evidence. A lot of people will look at this law and think they know what it says. But they won't know how it translates into telecom regulations or tort law. My initial impression is that just getting law...
[22:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:38] <exec> 08└─If they're all robocalls, I bet they redundancy-compress down wonderfully.
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[23:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:14] <exec> 08└─Power transistor with low gate loss and high freq capability?
[23:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:30] <exec> 08└─Quite frankly, it is a shame that groups like this can act they way they do exist.
[23:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:32] <exec> 08└─They sound a bit passive aggressive too
[23:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:43] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they look away from their porn long enough to check if the same article was posted a few hours earlier?
[23:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:45] <exec> 08└─Pete and Re:Pete were sitting in a boat. Pete jumped out. Who was left?
[23:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:10] <exec> 08└─I always thought of it as a tribute to the minmaxers, griefers, and monty haulers who all helped make D&D what it is. Psionics is awesome until you run into something like mindflayers or psionic Dragons, then it's time for spontaneous braining melting while the non-psionic characters go "What's wron...
[23:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:11] <exec> 08└─Flavour. The same way that they included Sorcerers in addition to Wizards, because some people prefer the idea of innate magic ability vs learning from a spellbook (also the mechanics around spell selection are slightly different, but it's mostly for the flavour IMHO).
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