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[00:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:48] <exec> 08└─For the last 2-3 years, or whenever this first showed up on the news, every place I've bought gas from had a sticky tape with a sign "if this tape is broken and you buy gas here you deserve what you get". Maybe not in so many words, but still....
[00:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:49] <exec> 08└─They just cruise around on free electricity, laughing at you chumps who still need to use credit cards.
[00:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:51] <exec> 08└─...while Tesla tracks their every move.
[00:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:54] <exec> 08└─I thought the skimming was one of the drivers behind these new cards that have microchips embedded in them and require physical contact for a couple of seconds to register.
[00:14:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:03] <exec> 08└─everybody's moved on and gone metric, and left imperial units in the century they belong to. The US leads the world in so many things, yet is so backwards in so many others. What a strange country...
[00:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─That was my thought oo, Others use the definition that's more accepted by the broader world: the international foot.
[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:17] <exec> 08└─They see it as a non-tariff barrier. Makes it harder we foot, for the rest of the world (except Myanmar and Liberia) to sell to the US market. And for a while it actually worked, but that was 40 years ago. Manufacturing has moved elsewhere, and US products have to be metric to sell on the world mark...
[00:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:19] <exec> 08└─everybody's moved on and gone metric
[00:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:21] <exec> 08└─How much did Russia influence this? Impeach!
[00:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:23] <exec> 08└─I particularly like the term "international foot", it's about as international as the World Series is worldwide (unless you count use in Myanmar and Liberia as making something "international").
[00:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:25] <exec> 08└─The history behind the metric system OTOH is more rational, and can be expressed in a single sentence: The crazy units of the Ancien Régime are being dropped, from now on we're using metric, any objectors please form a line behind the guillotine over there.
[00:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:27] <exec> 08└─cant divide base 10 easily. base 12 (inches in foot) can half/quarter/third into full numbers which is very handy for building. 16th/64th inch for the same reason. that's why its still used, base 10 is just as arbitrary as base 12.
[00:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:56] <exec> 08└─When they say they will do it for you, they mean they will make it a law instead of being self regulated. Like all encrypted traffic must also be decrypted with the goverment mast private key, here is the public key for you to use.
[00:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:57] <exec> 08└─Leave Apple and "big tech" out of it. We just develop our own protocols and encryption and ignore the people that say we can't. That's it, nothing else to be said or done.
[00:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:59] <exec> 08└─Self defense has never been called murder in US courts. Untrue. There's no such thing as self defense against a cop, or any other government authority.
[00:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:01] <exec> 08└─This is, in fact, a workable way of sending messages that cannot be deciphered in transit - especially if you use a one-time-pad method. Note that it is still possible for those intercepting messages to determine the sender and recipient - part of the message's metadata, which can be just as importa...
[00:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:42] <exec> 08└─Wrong on both parts. According to Section 5 of RFC 1738, the BNF for a url is: genericurl = scheme ":" schemepart
[00:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:43] <exec> 08└─When I checked, the two addresses would load identical webpages, but www.pool.ntp.org has a consistent DNS address of 151.101.190.217 while pool.ntp.org really is returning completely different DNS addresses each time it's accessed.
[00:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:45] <exec> 08└─It is useless? They are literally two different and valid names. server.example and www.server.example can be two different servers. For example, one could be your internal webserver, another your domain controller. Or the PSL interaction, where the content of www.pvt.k12.id.us is not under the dire...
[00:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, GP should try it himself and look at the PTRs and ASNs. That will make crystal clear you are getting the random machines from the pool. The reason why www.pool.ntp.org is consistent is because it is the deprecated URL for the NTP pool project, and therefore controlled by the NTP project throug...
[00:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:50] <exec> 08└─Just as most people don't know about the trailing dot in a domain name: "jazz.fm." tells the DNS not to go looking for a jazz.fm.topoi.pooq.com, for example. (topoi.pooq.com is my search space for local entities. I'm currently posting this from midwinter.topoi.pooq.com, which I can refer to as just...
[00:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:27] <exec> 08└─Cycorp has been working on something more fundamental for quite some time now: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Cyc (pronounced SYKE, /ˈsaɪk/) is a long-living artificial intelligence project that aims to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base that spans the basic co...
[00:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:28] <exec> 08└─So, what's a typical situation, 100 candidates per opening, but over half of them can be dismissed as resume spammers who are painfully obviously totally unqualified? Like the person applying for a programming job despite never having written a line of code in anything, ever, not even a formula in a...
[00:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Returns End Up in Landfills. - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:03] <exec> 08└─And that symbol triggers you harder than anything is going to until your death (and then, whoooo boy, are you ever in for a nasty surprise...).
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[01:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:53] <exec> 08└─actually it is too easy, i think they are exhausting us with awfulness. the cloud, the telemetry, the backdoors, the zero day handoff endrun, slimy lateral power grab, tracking, fingerprinting, intercepting, data collecting, kindof like mussilini is tweeting a hundred times a day, they are trying to...
[01:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:54] <exec> 08└─I'm sticking with Windows 7.
[01:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:57] <exec> 08└─Our support for meaningful privacy protection through the Washington Privacy Act [microsoft.com] Frontline: In the Age of AI transcript [pbs.org] NARRATOR: The tech companies had been publicly cautious but privately alarmed about regulation. Then one tech giant came on board in support of Mactaggart...
[01:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:59] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 Starts Showing Ads On Top Of All Screens, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them.
[01:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:09] <exec> 08└─"POS" is a perfect initialism for these things, because in addition to being a "point-of-sale" it also is a "piece-of-shit". And I'm not surprised the companies in question skimped on useful security measures like network segmentation: If a techie goes to management and asks for money or time to fix...
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:10] <exec> 08└─It's only a matter of time before all the car insurance companies track you all the time anyway so what the hell. https://www.marketwatch.com [marketwatch.com] and that article shows a bit of bias towards the practice. At least too much fo...
[01:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:37] <exec> 08└─Some states in the US [noaa.gov] already use the international foot for surveying, others use the US foot, and some don't care. Who knew that Montana, Arizona, and South Carolina were ahead of the curve?
[01:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─So.....you want everyone to suffer just because some builders are either bad at math or just plain idiots?
[01:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:10] <exec> 08└─I predict a rise in the number of hobbyists who sporadically send a few kilobytes of random numbers to their friends, carefully encrypted with the government's required encryption.
[01:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:56] <exec> 08└─Given that google search has got progressibely worse
[01:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:58] <exec> 08└─Just a minor nitpick here, its actually Honest Achmed, not Honest Akhmed. Achmed is, as the name implies, a completely honest CA who will sell you only the best-quality certificates at very reasonable prices. Akhmed is an imposter in Indonesia who defrauds his customers with marked-up certificates r...
[01:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:00] <exec> 08└─Read the man pages. If you're going to actually implement a server, they're the authoritative source. Not the RFCs. They don't do anything for giving actual implementation details. Where's SO_KEEPALIVE and SO_LINGER in your RFC? Nowhere. They are far from complete when it comes to actually implement...
[01:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:02] <exec> 08└─> They are literally two different and valid names. > server.example and www.server.example can be two different servers. Noone is saying otherwise. That doesn't make the distinction one that is useful to exercise. And if it's not useful, it's useless. > For example, one could be your internal webse...
[01:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:04] <exec> 08└─This syntax is incorrect. It is insufficient for hosts identified by bracketed raw ipv6 address (and port) instead of a hostname.
[01:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:06] <exec> 08└─At some point, it might be less frustrating to use a different search engine like duckduckgo. Sure it will be different at first, but for me, after using DDG for several years, it is google that is unfamiliar and strange looking.
[01:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:08] <exec> 08└─What you've described breaks URIs. If something attempts to break how the web works, then it becoming broken itself is entirely expected. Doctor, it hurts when I do >this<. Well, don't do that then. Then again, there appears to be some contradiction between your posts, if www. redirects to something...
[01:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:48] <exec> 08└─> Nah Very strange way of spelling "Yeah". You've basically repeated what I said.
[01:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nebula VPN Routes Between Hosts Privately, Flexibly, and Efficiently - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:59] <exec> 08└─I do not trust slack. They did not just whip this together. This is not a garage operation. This was not a bunch of guys throwing something together over beers. This is a cloud implementation that is so complex gosh they can hardly explain it. Slack has connections to all the wrong people to be trus...
[01:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US, Like China, Has About One Surveillance Camera for Every Four People, Says Report - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:21] <exec> 08└─Perhaps insurance companies should consider providing dashcams to make it easier for drivers to have them? If my insurance company offered me a dashcam along with replacement parts when maintenance was needed I might be tempted to use it.
[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:39] <exec> 08└─Man, don't even joke about that. My buddy was doing renovations on his house and someone broke in and ripped all the pipes and wires out of the wall. I'm not just talking about the NM electrical and fresh-water copper. I mean all of it, including the cast iron, PVC, PEX, and vinyl, on top of the fib...
[01:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palantir Wins New Pentagon Deal With $111 Million From the Army - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:56] <exec> 08└─this is the totalitarian system being put in place over the united states. it is not a laughing matter. in a certain way it is the matrix you are trapped inside of. https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.is [archive.is] but especially this one: https://archive.is [archive....
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[02:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:50] <exec> 08└─As long as they promise not to switch to systemd, they can show whatever ads they want.
[02:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:52] <exec> 08└─I'm sticking with Linux!
[02:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:54] <exec> 08└─But the bigger question is, will you be able to remove Windows 10? It would only take a few small steps to get hardware manufacturers to lock down desktop/laptop hardware as tightly as a toy cell phone. These ads show what Microsoft thinks of their users. They will move in this direction if they can...
[02:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. I know for a fact that certain manufacturers have already told Microsoft to fuck right off with their bullshit.
[02:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:58] <exec> 08└─I think [dragonflybsd.org] I can [openbsd.org] remove [netbsd.org] them. [freebsd.org]
[02:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:00] <exec> 08└─References please?
[02:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:03] <exec> 08└─I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
[02:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm blaming the victims here. If you enter into, and stay in an abusive relationship for fifteen years, then you're getting something out of that abusive relationship. You suffered the first minor abuses way back in the 1990's, and overlooked them. You suffered greater abuses in the later 1990'...
[02:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:07] <exec> 08└─I'd run boot-n-nuke first. Or replace the drive.
[02:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:20] <exec> 08└─Did you not even bother to read the summary???
[02:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─The chip bit cannot be cloned... BUT, I read that the info on the chip, read by a shimmer, is used to write a magstripe card which can then be used to make fraudulent charges.
[02:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:50] <exec> 08└─I learned in (a European) school that an inch is 25.4 mm, but used to be 25.401 mm until about mid previous century. I'm not sure if the 25.401 mm inch was an American or English version. They may have been slightly different in the past.
[02:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:52] <exec> 08└─The real insanity was in 1957. Options available: - adopt sanity now - adopt slightly less insane insane-lookalikes now Choice taken: - permit full insanity to continue for 60+ years Enjoy crashing things into mars for the next 6 decades!
[02:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:54] <exec> 08└─You've got it wrong, impeachment isn't about what the Russians did. Trump's request for them to hack his opponents was criminal enough, but those really are some of the lesser crimes he has committed. But you were just being silly, doubt you're ready to integrate Trump's betrayals into your world vi...
[02:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:27] <exec> 08└─One guy already did one good enough for manual computing. It is elsiefour with 3D printable tokens: https://gitea.blesmrt.net [blesmrt.net] It is surprisingly quite strong, and suitable for postapocalyptic world without any electricity, if you can craft tokens from wood. No electronic backd...
[02:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:29] <exec> 08└─Informants who don't lead others to flip need to testify in court themselves. So not just "an anonymous source." Informants who don't testify don't get to provide evidence in court.
[02:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:31] <exec> 08└─My response to the same quote would have been: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. ..." Every American who wants their device to be a safe haven for themselves should want a device that's a safe haven for scoundrels. The device can...
[02:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:33] <exec> 08└─That's a helluva lot better. Even so, relying on criminals turning on each other often leads to false convictions. IMO, "informant" is a slur. Cops use them all the time for less than admirable reasons.
[02:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.alternet.org/2016/12/texas-jury-sends-message-swat-raid-cops-finds-man-not-guilty-shooting-three/ [alternet.org] I hate to cite socialist net, but they were the first hit in my search. Yes, it is self defense when you shoot a cop in self defense. The problem is, we live in a police state...
[02:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:37] <exec> 08└─The encryption and applications that use it already exist. These right-wing authoritarians are talking about making using those encryption applications/methods, illegal. A fun read is how the author of pgp got around US encryption export restrictions by printing the source code in a special OCR font...
[02:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:39] <exec> 08└─An interesting read that partly addresses that issue: https://thecrimereport.org
[02:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:32] <exec> 08└─I use DDG on my laptop/desktop, but on Android devices it's a bit trickier to get away from Google everything as the default. Sure, you can run a third-party browser to get away from the built-in one or Chrome, but by default anything that searches for anything on Android inevitably winds up going t...
[02:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:13] <exec> 08└─If AI were that good, human market manipulators would already be gone. Stock markets are really ruthless at culling such things. However, I don't buy that humans are that bad and AI that good.
[02:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:15] <exec> 08└─One time in the last 60 years that has happened, I'm guessing you've just seen the publicity for the recent movie, and that's being pushed as some "USA! USA!" chest-thumping exercise.
[02:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:17] <exec> 08└─It tells me so much more about how the propeller head is wired inside
[02:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:19] <exec> 08└─HR does terrible things on the front end, not only matching (mostly meaningless) resume items to overly restrictive job descriptions, but also juicing the field to skew "irrelevant" parameters like race and sex toward more desirable ratios. What this ends up doing is freezing out lots of qualified c...
[02:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nebula VPN Routes Between Hosts Privately, Flexibly, and Efficiently - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:31] <exec> 08└─This is tinc with presumably better performance-- a *private* overlay mesh network-- no matter where they are, all your participating machines are available, as if on a private local network-- even when behind NAT. If *you* copy child porn between machines in *your private mesh*, then yeah, child po...
[02:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:11] <exec> 08└─Our house has 3 wifi routers, the one they provide for the downstairs and two for the upstairs. The one they provide isn't that great over long distances but the ones I bought separately work much better. The 4K T.V. downstairs is wired for things like Netflix though and most of the computers are wi...
[02:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Forum Members Exploited Weak Credentials to Turn Ring Cameras Against Their Owners - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:15] <exec> 08└─If you're a geek, hack it so it behaves like shit, tell your gf you told her so and play the hero for the maiden in distress, buy her some jewelry or an expensive dinner. Don't give up.
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[03:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Has Now Photographed 10 Million Miles in Street View - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:51] <exec> 08└─Google's mapping imagery is from public places you'd see while standing in the street or flying overhead.
[03:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Has Now Photographed 10 Million Miles in Street View - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:53] <exec> 08└─900000 miles per year. assuming they have 100 drivers that would be 9000 miles each per year. 9000 miles of built-up streets would be 15 miles * 15 miles of a 260' grid. 100 people doing one city per year - and no highways in between. Did they drop a zero somewhere?
[03:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:13] <exec> 08└─Nobody is getting fired for your curiosity.
[03:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:15] <exec> 08└─I'm going to be moving to Ubuntu as my web facing daily driver OS and have Windows 7 in a virtual machine. I can't trust Microsoft at all and never will. Seeing this whole Windows 10 fiasco (forced on people at times) was enough to burn the bridge of trust permanently. A Windows VM can be reset inst...
[03:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:17] <exec> 08└─You know those huge snot rockets that get stuck in your throat and sinuses and can't decide which way to go... in or out? You give it a giant heave... Out Keeping Windows is like sucking it in and choking on it.
[03:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:19] <exec> 08└─I have an uncle who works at Nintendo /s
[03:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:34] <exec> 08└─Number, expiry date and ccv are all you need to make purchases by phone or online. These details are all on the POS RAM, for at least an auditable amount of time They *aren't* supposed to be connected to corporate networks..
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:06] <exec> 08└─Need "-2 unfortunate" mod, for your friend.
[03:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:46] <exec> 08└─I know what they mean. As you mention, Apple can have the device encrypt a user key with an Apple public key and store the encrypted key on the device so that they can decrypt it at request. Of course if the private key ever got into the wrong hands or ever made it out on the Internet (or ever got c...
[03:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:48] <exec> 08└─A couple of other quotes from Lindsey Graham recently, on the impending impeachment trial: "This thing will come to the Senate, and it will die quickly, and I will do everything I can to make it die quickly"
[03:16:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 1151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:12] <exec> 08└─The url scheme is divided into PROTO (protocol, ex http, https, ftp), SERVICE (www, ftp, etc), DOMAIN (soylentnews, etc) and TLD (top-level domain, such as ORG, COM, EDU, NET, etc). Custom services are allowed, as long as both sides of the connection agree as to the port number the service should c...
[03:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:42] <exec> 08└─They kinda did the opposite. They said they would penalize you for having multiple sites with the same data. The easy fix was to redirect either www.domain -> bare domain, or bare domain -> www.domain. Lots of folks weighed in on what was the best approach, and the accepted answer was to make www pr...
[03:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:43] <exec> 08└─Linux desktop users can't broadcast on Twitch without Chrome, as Chrome is the only browser that has an extension for the Authy 2FA service that Twitch requires before issuing a stream key, and the stand-alone Authy app for Windows does not work in Wine. Or is it better to buy a copy of Windows to r...
[03:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:46] <exec> 08└─if www. redirects to something sensibly named, nothing confusing happens to either the browser or the server.
[03:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:30] <exec> 08└─And credit where credit is due - the "UK" know-how and chops at that time were significantly propped up by kiwis. Hell, I still cheer for a team with a New Zealander's name.
[03:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palantir Wins New Pentagon Deal With $111 Million From the Army - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:39] <exec> 08└─There was nothing "skewed" in the Fine Original Submission, and by goosing it, you introduced a negative, counter-skew, much like the Fairly Unbalancing of Faux Nudes.
[03:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billboard is Changing its Albums Chart to Count On-Line Streams - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:08] <exec> 08└─Lots of people love Big Macs, even really, really rich people, that I will tell you. It’s the stuff people really like. Believe me.
[03:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Serves Up Sizzling Rebuke of Arkansas’ Anti-Veggie-Meat Labeling Law - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:51] <exec> 08└─Not a boomer here, but I will start to care about people's tender little fee-fees about this topic the very nanosecond that vegans start being relaxed about which grill their buzzword-friendly meat substitute was cooked on. Not holding my breath, here. (Oh, and as for the whole racism and inequality...
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[04:14:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:03] <exec> 08└─I'm sticking with Linux!
[04:14:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 1012 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm blaming the victims here. If you enter into, and stay in an abusive relationship for fifteen years, then you're getting something out of that abusive relationship. You suffered the first minor abuses way back in the 1990's, and overlooked them. You suffered greater abuses in the later 1990'...
[04:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:16] <exec> 08└─"Windows 10 Starts Showing Ads On Top Of All Screens, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them." Sounds like M$ has throne down the gauntlet, in defiant challenge. Can't wait to see how this turns out.
[04:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sticking with Windows 7.
[04:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:21] <exec> 08└─Last I checked WINE was useful in specific cases, but not generally useful. Of course, the programs I was trying to play were MSWind2000 and previous games, and those might be a special case.
[04:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:08] <exec> 08└─no im telling you why its still used. baseing is arbitrary the math is the same., you should use whatever makes the job easiest.
[04:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:09] <exec> 08└─Makes sense to me. The only reason you base ten pansies cling so tightly to your antiquated system is because you still count on your fingers.
[04:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:11] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter if you're not a surveyor.
[04:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:14] <exec> 08└─Just do like I do and find the nearest inchworm.
[04:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 2526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:52] <exec> 08└─I was trying to keep it simple by not putting everything, but here is the whole thing, including the updating language of 3986: URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ] hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty / path-absolute / path-rootless / path-empty URI-reference = URI / relativ...
[04:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:53] <exec> 08└─> The url scheme is divided into PROTO (protocol, ex http, https, ftp), SERVICE (www, ftp, etc), DOMAIN (soylentnews, etc) and TLD (top-level domain, such as ORG, COM, EDU, NET, etc). Factually incorrect. URLs contain the protocol, host, and path (and a few other parts). URL does not specify what fo...
[04:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We've Got a Hotspot of Satellite-Wrecking 'Killer Electrons' in the Outer Van Allen Belt... - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:01] <exec> 08└─From the 2nd paragraph of TFS: "two donut-shaped Van Allen radiation belts".
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[05:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:52] <exec> 08└─Is anyone actually surprised by this? Lofty promises pretty much always go unfulfilled.
[05:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:53] <exec> 08└─Dug back for some interesting self-driving car stories, Google found 300+ SN links with site:search so this has been a fairly popular topic. No particular selection criteria except that I looked for older hits: Should a Robot Sacrifice Your Life to Save Two? https://soylentnews.org
[05:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 2497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just the big players that are over-promising. Smaller startup operating in small areas, simple areas, office areas and real estate developments, but still public places is promising driverless cars in 2020: https://arstechnica.com
[05:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:58] <exec> 08└─Recent accidents, such as those involving Tesla cars equipped with Autopilot, a driver assistance software, have shown that "the technology is not ready," said Dan Albert, critic and author of the book "Are We There Yet?" on the history of the American automobile.
[05:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:00] <exec> 08└─Is anyone actually surprised by this? Lofty promises pretty much always go unfulfilled.
[05:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:02] <exec> 08└─Blame Tesla ... Incomplete partially driverless technology, criticized from the start for not being ready, is the most visible implementation and dragging down everyone else.
[05:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:36] <exec> 08└─What they're trying to do is make it so that they own all the computers. Everywhere. Even if you paid for it and technically own it, it obeys them above all else.
[05:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:28] <exec> 08└─In that context, it's a little surprising that the young upstart US didn't adopt the metric system with open arms.
[05:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:29] <exec> 08└─No, that's the international yard.
[05:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:10] <exec> 08└─Since I've already passed your last hurdle. I'll address your point. The RFCs are the authoritative source, short of market capture. The whole reason for the RFC is so that the networked systems use the same rules and speak the same language. If you are trying to write a server and your response doe...
[05:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:11] <exec> 08└─An outsider shouldn't expect to see anything because not all addressable names are in the form of domain.example, not all names in the form domain.example have servers, not all servers are web servers, and not all web servers are public servers. Plus, sometimes losing a customer who doesn't know the...
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[05:17:13] <exec> 08└─For those out of the loop: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] It has such ringing endorsements. Two of the best being, "Honest Achmed is at least more honest than Comodo." and "Considering the problems at DigiNotar I vote for giving Honest Achmed a second chance!"
[05:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Serves Up Sizzling Rebuke of Arkansas’ Anti-Veggie-Meat Labeling Law - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:22] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right about the directional nature of racism and bigotry. However, my reply was an attempt to short circuit the response pattern of escalation so the conversation could continue. When you see a childish insult as a response, no matter who it's from or who it's directed at, it usual...
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[06:14:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-27/driverless-cars-promise-a-victoria-without-crashes/10428760 [abc.net.au] Australia's transport ministers have set a national goal of having regulation in place by 2020 to support the commercial introduction of autonomous vehicles. [...] Roos, trams pose challen...
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[06:14:02] <exec> 08└─Easy c0lo, that's close to "if we haven't done it yet, we never will" type of argument. There can be all sorts of technological advances or outright paradigm shifts that can enable many things. Otherwise, people would have given up on rockets to the moon, quantum computers, airplanes, etc. I mean ho...
[06:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:04] <exec> 08└─Easy c0lo, that's close to "if we haven't done it yet, we never will" type of argument.
[06:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─>blockquote>It's not just the technology. Bureaucracy and roos have to be dealt with. Heh, you don't feel like listening to the lessons of the history, do you? "First they came for bureaucrats and and I did not speak out because I was not a bureaucrat. Then they came for the roos, and...."
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[06:14:26] <exec> 08└─But the bigger question is, will you be able to remove Windows 10? It would only take a few small steps to get hardware manufacturers to lock down desktop/laptop hardware as tightly as a toy cell phone. These ads show what Microsoft thinks of their users. They will move in this direction if they can...
[06:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:14] <exec> 08└─And so, are they also going to make burning letters written with pen and paper illegal, because that technique can be used to plan misdeeds where law enforcement can never access it?
[06:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:17] <exec> 08└─I particularly liked the Pratchett-inspired CA policy "nil certificati sine lucre". That, in a nutshell, is the policy of every commercial CA on the planet, only they hide it behind a mountain of legalese.
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[07:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:48] <exec> 08└─That assumes that everyone who had infringed the copyrights on these things would have paid for them at the price that the legitimate distributors are asking. That's a big assumption that isn't really justified. Most of the people who engage in this unauthorised copying probably would not have paid...
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[07:14:06] <exec> 08└─Kangaroos have user stories too .. The Australian Army developed a new helicopter flight simulator that would replicate the unique environment of fighting in the Outback. It would replicate weather patterns (hence why my friend who's a meterologist for the U.S. Air Force was shown this) and the wild...
[07:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:43] <exec> 08└─I'm going to be moving to Ubuntu as my web facing daily driver OS...
[07:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:44] <exec> 08└─Just an FYI Microsoft back ported all the telemetry into Windows 7.
[07:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:37] <exec> 08└─What about the international milk shake then?
[07:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:38] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, Obamacare was US only. So at least that one should definitely differ between US foot care and international foot care.
[07:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:24] <exec> 08└─Following up to my own post, I must say that DDG has been slowly succumbing to the Google brain rot in the last year or two, possibly due to taking results from Google or Google-fed sources. Try searching, for example, for _Requires_lock_held_ (a Windows SDK annotation) on Google and DDG. With Googl...
[07:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:00] <exec> 08└─I don't understand SN or slashdot. These articles are read by a global audience. Everytime I see an article like this I have to assume that it was addressed to the US audience, because no state us specified in the headline. Moderators, pkease, make sure that you add a country/world region name in yo...
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[08:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:49] <exec> 08└─From the precious-bodily-fluids dept.
[08:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:50] <exec> 08└─This is so weak it makes me question the value of fluoride in the water... I mean comparing the dental bills charged to medicare per patient in 2003 vs 2012 and saying the entire difference found in an arbitrary age subgroup is due to a change in water fluoridation policy in 2007? It is really diffi...
[08:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:52] <exec> 08└─It is really difficult to even take this seriously, I feel like I am reading the onion.
[08:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:02] <exec> 08└─It might also have been the network's profits, through whatever they did to monetize the viewers (you may safely assume that they didn't do it for charity ...). That doesn't change anything else of what you said, though. Adding insult to injury: for the *customers* they sure as hell had the better e...
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[08:14:04] <exec> 08└─Just wondering whether this was part of their gameplan. I can understand running such a business in Russia or similar but doing it in the USA so publicly would be stupid unless they've managed to stash enough of the money away and can somehow just get one or two years in prison (or even community se...
[08:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:23] <exec> 08└─That isn't my position, but mistaking me for the OP is understandable. Regardless, I also doubt I'll see it in my lifetime, but then again I am sort of old. I do think that my children will see limited use of self-driving cars. Things like follow truck convoys on controlled-access roadways to get ar...
[08:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:25] <exec> 08└─Yeap - that's Ozland. The kangaroos will kill you with missiles, if the weather, geography, flora and the rest of fauna doesn't get you first. The fact that kangaroos never get to fire missiles speaks volumes about the efficiency of the first lines of defense.
[08:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:27] <exec> 08└─but mistaking me for the OP is understandable.
[08:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:59] <exec> 08└─No, ours are 2.54 mm pin headers. Much more sensible.
[08:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:01] <exec> 08└─In Oz, we went metric long ago, so we have to find one of these [wikipedia.org]
[08:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:03] <exec> 08└─just because most people have 10 fingers (I have a friend with 8).
[08:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:05] <exec> 08└─Are you sure they are not 2.5mm pin headers instead of 2.54mm?
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[08:16:49] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a better solution would be for the judiciary branch to have its own public/private key pair. An Apple device can encrypt the user password with Apple's public key and then encrypt that encrypted password with the judiciary branch's public key and store the encrypted password on the device. T...
[08:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:50] <exec> 08└─Are they going to be surprised when the rest of the world decides the only way to be safe is to buy Huawei?
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[09:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:56] <exec> 08└─Based on your comment I actually read over the article (my first opinion was the same). Seems there is a bit more in the article and the researchers claim the difference is significant among all age groups. The time differences are IMHO not really a problem if you just take the amount of procedures...
[09:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:58] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't you be busy coming up with some Trump themed ASCII art to spew forth into the interwebs?
[09:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:00] <exec> 08└─They compare prices in two arbitrary years in arbitrary age groups without even properly accounting for inflation in the price medicare will pay. There is nothing to take seriously here, it is GIGO. If they use the exact same method on a town that begins adding fluoride you will see them show dental...
[09:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:02] <exec> 08└─Most studies are weak on their own, that's why you replicate. This one replicates the results from all the pilot studies that did the experiment in the opposite direction - detecting the benefits of adding fluorides to public water. Worldwide. Which confirmed the findings correllating natural fluori...
[09:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:04] <exec> 08└─"between 1998 and 2008 the increase in the cost of dental services exceeded that of medical care and far exceeded the overall rate of inflation" http://www.slate.com [slate.com] I knew this was the case just usi...
[09:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:06] <exec> 08└─If you think this is science just because they collected some data and compared some numbers YOU are the problem. This is cargo cult science. No rational thought went into this paper.
[09:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:08] <exec> 08└─"The mean caries-related treatment cost for the 0- to 18-year-old age cohort was significantly higher in the suboptimal CWF group than that in the optimal CWF group ($593.70 vs. $344.34, p 0.0001) without adjusting for inflation." This is comparing apples and oranges.. You have to be so ignoran...
[09:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:10] <exec> 08└─We are coming for you, Fluoride troll! When we find you, the first thing we will do is remove all your fillings. Then we will force you to have single payer health insurance, that covers dental and vision. You will have no where to go, no where to hide! You poor, poor pathetic excuse for a human b...
[09:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:13] <exec> 08└─It's Alaska, you moran! Different math up there, doncha know. (Seriously, what a maroon!)
[09:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:15] <exec> 08└─Given that you were unable to even *detect* the science in the article, I reckon your ability to refute it will be minimal, but I'll bite: If you see a problem with their science, identify it, and refute it, using equal or higher quality peer reviewed studies or metastudies. I love the fact that the...
[09:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:17] <exec> 08└─An isolated change? There is no isolated change here. Lots of things changed in 11 years regarding dental practice, medicare policies, and prices. Also, it is obvious p-hacking of dates and age groups. Then even after the the underlying numbers they compare are simply incomparable. Standards have fa...
[09:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:19] <exec> 08└─I want to see the sugar consumption numbers too. You might save even more by taxing sugar... ;). Anyway there are studies in other countries that show that fluoridation helps: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.g...
[09:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:21] <exec> 08└─I've never suspected khallow of cowardly hiding behind anon in order to cover up beliefs which he knows might be unpopular. khallow is also smarter than this poster appears to be. khallow quite often takes the same facts as the rest of us (such as increased costs of some mass intervention), and conc...
[09:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:24] <exec> 08└─You measure developing ages, that's not p-hacking, that's standard practice in the field. Proof of the claim of p-hacking of dates requested. Yeah, they looked at a group before and a group after a change - obvious p-hacking to detect a difference across that change /sarc.
[09:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:26] <exec> 08└─You said: "They didn't "compare dental bills charged to medicare" at all. " Sorry, but you have no place deciding who is intelligent or not. This is exactly what they measured, and can be verified by anyone with 8th grade reading comprehension. Then you said they measured an isolated effect! Wtf is...
[09:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:28] <exec> 08└─Nope - that's clearly modern leftie science, that'll never convince him, we need something from the glory days when commie science was being rejected as it should be. How about https://www.jstor.org from 1950? Or this summary of studies in the 1950s and 1960s: http://www.who.int
[09:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:30] <exec> 08└─Any of a million different things could have changed, attributing these differences to the fluoride is total cargo cult science. Especially when they ignore inflation when comparing prices! How can you do that and keep your job! Only a government employee could get away with this.
[09:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:00] <exec> 08└─It's not just that in general, in the specific case of cars the manufacturers quickly grabbed all the low-hanging fruit, which was what led to amazing-seeming progress in the first couple of years when driving-assist went from "too risky to touch" to "let's do it anyway since Tesla seem to have gott...
[09:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:36] <exec> 08└─I'm sur about my stock. Are you sure about yours? My Raspberry Pi zero needed a 2x20 header. I don't even think 2.5 mm pitch would fit without violence.
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[09:18:26] <exec> 08└─Deciding for everyone what is relevant.
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[10:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:16] <exec> 08└─Nope. They counted procedures. That's the "one more per year". That's their scientific conclusion. They then converted that to a bottom line dollar value for those who don't know how expensive procedures are. That's an economic corollary.
[10:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:17] <exec> 08└─The evidence is that water fluoridation slightly reduces tooth decay. The benefit is almost zero in those who use a fluoride toothpaste and brush regularly, but significant in those who don't brush or don't use a fluoride toothpaste. Long term water fluoridation is also correlated with hip breakage...
[10:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:20] <exec> 08└─That is not the question this paper attempts to answer at all...
[10:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:22] <exec> 08└─Nope. They counted procedures.
[10:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:24] <exec> 08└─The evidence herein is that fluoride significantly (in the statistical sense) reduces tooth decay procedures even amongst those who do use fluoridated toothpaste (2.35 vs. 2.02, p < 0.001; 2.68 vs. 2.01, p = 0.004). The efficacity of the intervention ('pqwer' in the statistical sense) will dep...
[10:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:26] <exec> 08└─You measure developing ages, that's not p-hacking, that's standard practice in the field.
[10:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:28] <exec> 08└─I have a hard time caring about this study knowing it is based on data from Juneau. In the same time frame there has been a lot of political stress due to various state issues (oil prices, feds fucking us harder than normal, and lack of jobs). So it could mean more people using medicare than they we...
[10:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:30] <exec> 08└─Nope, Donny, just plain nope. Read the paper. Get someone to read it for you if that's too hard. Notice, right at the start where it should tell you what they're going to be doing, they actually tell you what they're going to be doing! And what they're going to be doing is "A bivariate analysis (Man...
[10:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:33] <exec> 08└─Pfft. 12/13 is absolutely standard as a cutoff for looking at deciduous teeth, and 18 as a cutoff for non-adults. > Just like no one would only look at 2003 vs 2012 instead of all the data. If they didn't get the result they wanted there they would have paid for more years, etc. You cannot say that...
[10:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:35] <exec> 08└─You have to throw away data that's inconvenient in order to p-hack
[10:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:37] <exec> 08└─So you deny what I quoted above comes from the paper? To be clear, I do not deny that they counted number of fillings, etc. The level of this communication has dropped below zero though, even dumber people than who wrote this paper are apparently reading it and taking it to be important.
[10:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:48] <exec> 08└─Well, they did pay for that - it was a subscription service. However, it was a moderate charge rather than an exorbitant one, which is why tens of thousands of people happily coughed up.
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[11:14:23] <exec> 08└─One more per year is a propaganda conclusion, does not specify how many per year so you cannot tell the increase in percentage, nor can you tell when one becomes adult, so no data overall. The cost is also unspecified, it is the gouging for the uninsured or the actual price for the all powerful insu...
[11:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if it's intentional, but TFS "one cavity per year, at a cost of $300" sounds like it is intended to minimize the impact of this result. But actually, that's a huge result! Your average kid with decent dental hygiene has around 1-2 cavities by the age of 12. Adding one per year is a huge...
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[11:14:26] <exec> 08└─In the paper they report an actual number per year. For ages 0-6 this is 1.55 +/- 3.89 in 2003, and 2.52 +/- 4.35 in 2012. Also keep in mind, this is "a variable *reflecting* the number of caries-related procedures", not the actual number of cavities found. The costs were: " Current Dental Terminolo...
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[11:14:28] <exec> 08└─Nope, that number is meant to exaggerate the result, the $300 value is rounded up from $250 and not adjusted for inflation (not even CPI).
[11:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─yeah, according to the article they went from 1.55 to 2.52 cavities, saying that it increased 1 cavity a year on average doesn't sound as much, but if they had put a more clickbaity title "removing fluorine increase cavities by 66%" would draw much more attention and still be correct. That's a huge...
[11:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:33] <exec> 08└─Also, their data says from ages 0-18 there were 2-3 cavities filled per year if you i interpret it your way. Seems excessive if the average person already had 36 teeth filled by the time they are 18. In actuality this number only *reflects* the number of cavities.
[11:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:35] <exec> 08└─Power is not the efficicacy... Every one of your posts here is BS pseudoscience, just like this study..
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[11:18:32] <exec> 08└─I've used this to bypass some restrictions too... :) For example: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] is blocked by the proxy but https://soylentnews.org. [soylentnews.org.] sometimes isn't. I think some webservers don't like that though... Similar f...
[11:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US, Like China, Has About One Surveillance Camera for Every Four People, Says Report - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:52] <exec> 08└─China kind of has way more people than the US, but similar area. It doesn't make sense to measure camera coverage per capita. Consider: one camera in a small room with ten people vs one camera in a mansion with one person. The latter has a higher camera count per capita, but with significantly less...
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[12:13:47] <exec> 08└─a. will not put sensitive information on laptops which are easily purloined b. will not remove sensitive information from company premises c. will encrypt all of our sensitive data d. will never leave sensitive data unattended unless locked inside of a secure space e. will never consider an automobi...
[12:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Max Q is a New Weekly Newsletter All About Space From TechCrunch - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:54] <exec> 08└─I'd hit Rocket Report/Eric Berger [arstechnica.com], NASASpaceFlight [nasaspaceflight.com], Space News [spacenews.com], and Teslarati [teslarati.com]. Also lists of F9/Heavy [wikipedia.org] and Electron [wikipedia.org] rocket launches.
[12:14:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 1512 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:07] <exec> 08└─Most studies are weak on their own, that's why you replicate. This one replicates the results from all the pilot studies that did the experiment in the opposite direction - detecting the benefits of adding fluorides to public water. Worldwide. Which confirmed the findings correllating natural fluori...
[12:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:40] <exec> 08└─> does not specify how many per year FFS. Before and after figures are right there in the article. Does being so clue-resistent hurt? It ought to, in order to discourage such a maladaptation.
[12:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:41] <exec> 08└─I deny what you quoted above comes from the paper. I do that because it does not come from the paper. See how logic works?
[12:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 1873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:43] <exec> 08└─I see a problem in cost calculation and interpretation. The authors calculated the increase in dental treatment cost using national CPI numbers. But CPI for Dental Services [in2013dollars.com] increased at a faster clip (43% versus 25% for the period in question). Second, they ignored the increasing...
[12:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:54] <exec> 08└─1. Has "streaming" (no uploading to other users, possibly a cached download from some central server) been considered to be copyright infringement committed by the end user? It looks like the UK is trying but failing [torrentfreak.com] to criminalize the user activity (they like to go after sellers...
[12:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:17] <exec> 08└─Mr Musk is, primarily, as salesman. Do all salesmen lie? Black swan territory for most of us - as I doubt any would have met any that don't lie (capabilities, speed, delivery date, availability, configurability, integration, cost... pick all of the list) However, that one salesman has managed to mak...
[12:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:18] <exec> 08└─It's a book promotion article (nicely timed for xmas!) so I don't like it, though I agree with the sentiment of TFS. It is obvious that this technology will never work, for anyone who knows about multiparameter optimisation/etc. It's a shame that they overpromised so much, because the technology doe...
[12:15:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:37] <exec> 08└─As long as they promise not to switch to systemd, they can show whatever ads they want.
[12:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:56] <exec> 08└─I got off the MS tit almost 2 decades ago and have never looked back: now I only occasionally have to interact with it at work and usually regret every second of it. I can't believe anyone would CHOOSE to use it beyond gaming. Windows is a gaming system and that is it: for anything else, it's a stea...
[12:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:58] <exec> 08└─Those old games DEFINITELY won't run on Windows 10 or even 7 (DirectX 6 etc while in theory still there are utterly broken). So whatever else, WINE will work BETTER for those than Windows, even though it quite often won't reach up to "actually usable".
[12:16:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 1273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:26] <exec> 08└─Back in seventh grade, here in the US, our science teacher at the start of the school year gave the class the chance to vote on what measurement system to use for the year in the class. Myself and one other person voted for metric, the rest for the traditional US units. The teacher gravely bowed to...
[12:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:59] <exec> 08└─That brings all the girls.
[12:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:51] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make the distinction one that is useful to exercise.
[12:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:52] <exec> 08└─we're already further down the slippery slope than anyone could have predicted in 2000.
[12:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palantir Wins New Pentagon Deal With $111 Million From the Army - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:49] <exec> 08└─Our nemesis, Peter Thiel,
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[13:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unencrypted Facebook Employee Information Was on Stolen Laptop - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:53] <exec> 08└─Last place I worked at instituted mandatory drive encryption for all computers that log into corporate network(Bitlocker, via group policy). Originally it was set to have a 30 day grace period where your manager would receive notifications that your machine was out of compliance. Now it's only a thr...
[13:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unencrypted Facebook Employee Information Was on Stolen Laptop - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:55] <exec> 08└─>> This theft impacts current and former Facebook employees only and no Facebook user data was involved. They just admitted that none of their current and former employees are Facebook users. At least MSFT makes its employees use Windows 10.
[13:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Max Q is a New Weekly Newsletter All About Space From TechCrunch - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:03] <exec> 08└─You forgot spaceflightnow.com.
[13:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─Does the 2012 cohort contain more of any ethnic group than the 2003 cohort? Not saying that excessive alcohol consumption by parents leads to increased tooth decay in children, but Indians do love their firewater.
[13:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:53] <exec> 08└─You should read again what I wrote, I was talking about the propaganda conclusion, which is the one going into the media. Had I written "article" but I didn't. And my own conclusion implies the article is correct. The only thing I got it wrong is the price which is the one asked to the insurance (so...
[13:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:05] <exec> 08└─If MAFIAA had been involved in the calculation, the figure would have been in the billions or trillions.
[13:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:08] <exec> 08└─If you don't understand how computer security works, don't post. Those security patches from Microsoft are significant and necessary unless you browse the web behind a separate firewall (from a router or similar) with something like Firefox and NoScript and don't download anything. An awful lot of...
[13:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:24] <exec> 08└─Why does the vendor hold customer credit card info at all? Why does the PoS device not contact the bank and bank holds the transaction details?
[13:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:26] <exec> 08└─These systems end up having to store the CC info in memory briefly: They can't do things like use Javascript to send the CC info from the browser directly to the CC processor without going through the company's systems, because there's no system not controlled by the vendor for the customer to inter...
[13:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:13] <exec> 08└─In rural china they use base 12 and count on knuckles. Much more sensible! And only requires 4 fingers.
[13:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:07] <exec> 08└─> Why is "useful to exercise" even remotely relevant? Because that is the point that is being debated. I.e. it's totally relevant, and the only thing that's relevant, in this subthread.
[13:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:08] <exec> 08└─Completely disagree, but I'm out of modpoints, as there's been an invasion of trolls today.
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[14:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─It sounds like the Military Industrial Complex senses a new gold rush, in space! Sigh. Sure, why not. What the hell else do we build anymore except weapons?
[14:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:52] <exec> 08└─What the hell else do we build anymore except weapons?
[14:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:55] <exec> 08└─This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour.
[14:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:57] <exec> 08└─I'm reasonably sure that the US military (and other military organizations) have some space weapons. - Surveillance satellites. This is obvious: photosurveillance, but also electronic interception of any sort of radio communications, especially involving other satellites. - Pournelle's "Rods from Go...
[14:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:59] <exec> 08└─For all those future Advanced Space Technology, will the USAF be still buying more РД-180? https://www.airforcemag.com [airforcemag.com]
[14:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:01] <exec> 08└─This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour.
[14:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unencrypted Facebook Employee Information Was on Stolen Laptop - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:12] <exec> 08└─Good that you bring up M$. The whole incident just goes to show how great of an employer Facebook is. Not only are you encouraged to carry unencrypted data around, you may or may not use company products, and as a result you are offered free services. Wins all around. On second thought, they mention...
[14:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Max Q is a New Weekly Newsletter All About Space From TechCrunch - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:22] <exec> 08└─Most of it should be covered by NASASpaceFlight and Space News. NASASpaceFlight is a definite inclusion because of the diehard community. Anyone just wanting an email newsletter instead of visiting all those sites can get Rocket Report [arstechnica.com] (for spaceflight) or Universe Today [universet...
[14:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:13] <exec> 08└─I read what you wrote, troll. You wrote: > you cannot tell the increase in percentage Yet you can tell, as they provided that data. You also wrote: > nor can you tell when one becomes adult, so no data overall. Which is again utter bogosity - they say explicitly what ages they are considering, which...
[14:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:25] <exec> 08└─for saving people from watching "Star Wars the Last Jedi" or "Terminator Dark Fate" or "Charlie's Angels."
[14:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:30] <exec> 08└─Stop with the FUD. The telemetry patches are either separate patches or feature updates. Plus missing a patch doesn't instantly put you in a botnet nor protect you from tomorrow's 0-day. If you really understood how security works you would know it's more than some vendor patches.
[14:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:31] <exec> 08└─I've got my hardware programmer... at least if it's not intel with bootguard.
[14:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:50] <exec> 08└─I agree that the PoS system has to hold the CC info in memory. I assume that one would lock the PoS system down so that it is highly challenging to hack over the wire. Reading TFS, there is this jargon "Cardholder Data Environment"; it sounds like the credit card reader is cacheing on some (local) s...
[14:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:17] <exec> 08└─I'll give you a domain - devise a system that can monitor my bird feeder camera and identify never-before-seen bird species.
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[15:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:50] <exec> 08└─The tech industry has been getting a free ride for decades. Let them do without the tax breaks and subsidies, no more parking money in tax havens, pay taxes in the jurisdiction the profits were earned in instead of a low-tax haven like Ireland, and everything else that comes with being a regular bus...
[15:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:51] <exec> 08└─While I agree, we also need to destroy monopolisitic ISPs
[15:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:05] <exec> 08└─- Pournelle's "Rods from God" are pretty trivial, for example: Dumb projectiles that can be de-orbited and told to impact a particular point. As long as they are solid enough not to break up on re-entry, they can pile a lot of energy into a small area.
[15:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:06] <exec> 08└─I expect it just means the technology is sound. Not that you build it, unsure if it'll work, and go from there. Like others have mentioned, it's probably just a reference to something like (if not precisely referencing) SpaceX's suborbital transport system. Never really thought about it but military...
[15:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 1765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─>I'm reasonably sure that the US military (and other military organizations) have some space weapons. I seriously doubt it. >- Surveillance satellites Of course they have these; they've had them for decades (since the 70s at least; you can see the really old ones in museums now). These aren't weapon...
[15:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:10] <exec> 08└─No sign of China vs. U.S. EmDrive discussion [soylentnews.org] (maybe it's linked). That is probably a point in TheDrive's favor.
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:12] <exec> 08└─Surveillance technology?
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─Good luck testing a "rod from god" without the entire world knowing about it
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[15:15:07] <exec> 08└─Nope, Donny, just plain nope. Read the paper. Get someone to read it for you if that's too hard. Notice, right at the start where it should tell you what they're going to be doing, they actually tell you what they're going to be doing! And what they're going to be doing is "A bivariate analysis (Man...
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:25] <exec> 08└─Power is just the likelyhood a test detects an effect if that effect actually exists, P(~H0|H1). If the natural fluoride level is near optimal levels, (a) the treatment is unnecessary, and will display no efficacy to the public; (b) the test will not detect any benefit. If the natural fluoride level...
[15:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:26] <exec> 08└─They explicitly mention the ethnic breakdown, and how it's somewhat unusual compared to the majority the the other US states, in the paper. Also note, this wasn't a cohort study. Had it been, your question would have been irrelevant. But thanks for not reading the paper, and instead just blurting ou...
[15:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 2176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:28] <exec> 08└─What shocks me is that I never had cavities. I drank flouridated water growing up. I can't imagine a scenario when the entire community experiences any amount of additional cavity related procedures -- and that it's considered OK. Why do they have any? I mean I get that kids eat candy. And drink sug...
[15:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:31] <exec> 08└─What they're not doing is considering the "root cause" of the caries. It would seem to be a safe assumption that underlying diet and other factors remained relatively constant during the period studied, however- that rate of one cavity per year might (just might) drop equally dramatically with a die...
[15:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:33] <exec> 08└─Americans seem desperate to cling to anti-science at any cost
[15:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:35] <exec> 08└─I've had essentially zero cavities in 50 years, still got 2 fillings (ever so tiny, didn't even need to use novacaine, but still got the full billing) on the first visit after my parents got "dental insurance" that covered them, and another one that was just a sharp spot on a tooth face - not growin...
[15:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:49] <exec> 08└─still more content than that money could possibly buy, all bundled in one single, very convenient portal.
[15:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:13] <exec> 08└─If people didn't buy what salesmen sell, we'd probably all be subsistence farmers using rocks and blunt sticks to defend ourselves. Hype wins - especially when something like the P100D S and X types exist, and have dragged all the world's manufacturers along
[15:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:57] <exec> 08└─It really is, but look at all the job creation. (that was sarcasm) One thing I don't understand is: how and why so many significant and mission-critical applications- CAD, CAE, banking/financial, medical, real-time(ish) control, etc., are based in Windows. I don't think that would be the case if tru...
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[15:16:58] <exec> 08└─I agree. As far as we know, there are many patches that are telemetry-only. And as far as we know, the security patches don't include telemetry. There are fairly well publicized lists of those patches, and even simple .bat files for auto-removing them and other troublesome patches. Sometimes Windows...
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[15:17:00] <exec> 08└─> Plus missing a patch doesn't instantly put you in a botnet... Actually, by definition and for all we know about what they're actually doing, some MS patches put you in the MS botnet.
[15:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:02] <exec> 08└─There is an interesting timeline coincidence between systemd and Microsoft's interest and involvement in Linux.
[15:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:04] <exec> 08└─If you choose to use MS Win, then you are getting what you deserve. Your only choice here is to stop using MS Win. Wipe it from all your computers, install Linux, and move on.
[15:17:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:15] <exec> 08└─"POS" is a perfect initialism for these things, because in addition to being a "point-of-sale" it also is a "piece-of-shit". And I'm not surprised the companies in question skimped on useful security measures like network segmentation: If a techie goes to management and asks for money or time to fix...
[15:18:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:23] <exec> 08└─"no American should want a device that is a safe haven for criminality,
[15:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:04] <exec> 08└─No, you are expanding the OP's point to try to make yours. Like I said, it's a dumb idea but it won't break the request headers like the OP tried to imply it would.
[15:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:06] <exec> 08└─yeah I disagree with them. the 'trivial' aspect of an FQDN is supposed to, you know, be the host name. The server. so what if they farmed it and a standard name of WWW was used? They trivialized the entire world wide web in doing this. Sounds to me like its a move more to keep traffic in their ecosy...
[15:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:08] <exec> 08└─No doubt With noscript blocking scripting, duck duck go works mostly the same as with it. Looks a little different, but a small compromise since overall it works fine. Sometimes I just permit scripts anyway. Sometimes they have hooha that pops up to self-promote, but that's about it that I've seen (...
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[16:13:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:51] <exec> 08└─It sounds like the Military Industrial Complex senses a new gold rush, in space! Sigh. Sure, why not. What the hell else do we build anymore except weapons?
[16:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:04] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight, the Navy has actual working fusion reactors while global warming rages on causing more damage than any enemy could ever inflict
[16:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:05] <exec> 08└─Hunter-killer satellites that can maneuver to a different orbit and destroy another satellite. Easy to do, Only in concept.
[16:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:07] <exec> 08└─Its the US military, so most likely a spelling correct induced variant of "confusion reactor" - a device causing more confusion in the White House than any enemy could ever inflict.
[16:14:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─Nope. They counted procedures. That's the "one more per year". That's their scientific conclusion. They then converted that to a bottom line dollar value for those who don't know how expensive procedures are. That's an economic corollary.
[16:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─Wow! This is peak idiocy I've seen on this site. Those quotes come directly from this paper.
[16:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:24] <exec> 08└─Sugar doesn't matter so much as pH. I wonder if the fluoridation process affects the pH at all.
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:26] <exec> 08└─I had a bad fever and got put on antibiotics when I was about two, ever since I had weak enamel. I eat zero sweets and always had fluoridated water, doesn't matter.
[16:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:29] <exec> 08└─Fuck the dollar amount. 1 cavity per year is the alarming figure.
[16:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:44] <exec> 08└─I remembered something and did a bit of googling. Some years back, the RIAA claimed that LimeWire owed them $75 TRILLION. Google shows various versions of this claiming 74 trillion or 72 trillion.
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:45] <exec> 08└─People also want free lunches, provided by someone else, that are pleasing to the palate and nutritious. Or, don't you think that if someone could reasonably figure out a way to provide such a one-stop portal that it wouldn't win? Don't you think that if the content rights holders could make more ou...
[16:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:57] <exec> 08└─Privoxy says different!
[16:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, but I haven't seen a chip reading pump POS setup yet. They all still read magstripes.
[16:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:19] <exec> 08└─There is no "info" to read from the chip on a CC. The chip is not a clone of the mag stripe. The chip has an active role in the transaction. The "chip" is a microprocessor with Java. When inserted into POS terminal it is powered up and does one job. It has a secret private key that was never recorde...
[16:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:21] <exec> 08└─That is what makes these a big fat target. It will be a big undertaking1 to replace all of the POS terminals in all fuel pumps with chip enabled devices. 1which can only be done by an undertaker
[16:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:23] <exec> 08└─If you've ever gone through the PCI compliance process to build a system that handles credit card payments, or even studied how to go through that process, one of the first acronyms you learn is "Cardholder Data Environment". This is the boundary of anything that holds cardholder information, or car...
[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:10] <exec> 08└─Question: Aren't all lengths an exact integer multiple of the Planck length? Are all time measurements an exact integer multiple of Planck time? Velocity would be distance per time, thus one Planck unit divided by another, so even velocity would be an integer multiple of some base units.
[16:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:12] <exec> 08└─Even people with fewer than ten fingers still learn arithmetic from childhood in base 10 and become fluent in it. The "tyranny of 10" is really the lubrication of compatible standardized number systems so that it is easy for everyone to easily communicate and conduct commerce. Customer: "I demand to...
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[17:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:56] <exec> 08└─Suuure, but not related to NN and it comes off as supportive of removing NN protections.
[17:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:57] <exec> 08└─My ISP shouldn't be restricting usage. They shouldn't be snooping on the data stream, they shouldn't be tracking which online stores I like to frequent, and they shouldn't be throttling speeds. Sure, I can see load balancing to some degree, but that's a fair bit different than basing throttling arou...
[17:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─should have added, H-K duties, 'killing' a satellite doesn't necessarily mean having to blow the bugger to smithereens..
[17:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 2065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:22] <exec> 08└─That's ArsTechnica, which is increasingly equivalent to saying - that's clickbait. The actual story there is that a group that has nothing to do with NASA nor had any particular insight into their tests (beyond what was publicly published) chose to run an experiment to see if they could also replica...
[17:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unencrypted Facebook Employee Information Was on Stolen Laptop - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:34] <exec> 08└─Karma?
[17:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unencrypted Facebook Employee Information Was on Stolen Laptop - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─That sounds like an IT department's worst nightmare. Then again, perhaps, I'm thinking of the complaint department, 1000 miles in that other direction.
[17:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:47] <exec> 08└─Yea, well it isn't one cavity per year either. Look at the data and interpret it that way. That means on average people in Juneau had about 36 cavities by the time they are 18. And that is the same with or without fluoride. So that is not what the number means. The people who wrote this paper have n...
[17:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 2045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:05] <exec> 08└─1) I don't know if this argument would hold water, but what I suggest the relevance as to whether the end user paid anything for the content, whether they had to access the use behind a password or was it streamed for one and all, and whether the user had reason to believe that the service was legit...
[17:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:06] <exec> 08└─and "Debbie Does Double Deepthroat" AKA "My Name Was Bruce"
[17:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:08] <exec> 08└─Don't you think that if the content rights holders could make more out of allowing a one-stop deal that they wouldn't go for that instead
[17:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:10] <exec> 08└─See subject. Torrents at least provide for archival and free use of content in any way the user can make work for them. What do pirate streams provide? The same kind of vendor lock-in and opaque code on user machines as a Netflix or Hulu, but benefiting antisocial criminals instead of social crimina...
[17:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:24] <exec> 08└─Those old games DEFINITELY won't run on Windows 10 or even 7
[17:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─Given how high the bar is for PCI compliance, I am surprised that any systems are even allowed to handle CC info without being on a dedicated network, isolated VMs, etc. The costs of PCI compliance are also quite high. There is the compliance testing. They'll try to hack your systems. Your system ha...
[17:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:37] <exec> 08└─AKA the metre.
[17:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:39] <exec> 08└─Can't remember the last time a President made the country bigger. And bigger is greater. So he really did #MAGA
[17:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:25] <exec> 08└─Go back to doing investigations the way real detectives do it - by getting off their asses and investigating. Getting informants to flip. Stop wasting your time watching doorbell videos - they obviously don't stop even casual thieves.
[17:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:26] <exec> 08└─You could still use digital. We just need government mandated ROT17. "The government selected ROT17 because two applications of it will not revert the ciphertext back to plain text.", the senator explained. "...and furthermore", the senator added, "we chose ROT17 because 17 is a prime number unlike...
[17:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:29] <exec> 08└─Apple said: "We will never again do it either. At least not without raising the price first."
[17:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:41] <exec> 08└─This is an issue, and a forced "solution" to a legitimate source of problems. I cam think of several poorly configured domains which won't resolve at "http://blah.com" and you need to go to "http://www.blah.com" Google needs to stop obsessing with this kind of shit and read their forums for the legi...
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palantir Wins New Pentagon Deal With $111 Million From the Army - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─Quid pro quo, janrinok, quid pro quo. Not my opinion.
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[18:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:52] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if tails packages were ported to antix, which has already good live facilities and doesn't feature the overly complex gnome and systemd, great breeding places for backdoors. A good result would require a lot of care, so it is unfair to ask the project to double its efforts. Some exp...
[18:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:53] <exec> 08└─Snowden got caught.
[18:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─why trust antix?
[18:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:57] <exec> 08└─Micah Lee uses magical stickers of protection and thusly never got hacked: https://theintercept.com [theintercept.com]
[18:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:00] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Snowden expected to get caught by the NSA's logs of internal activity. So he preempted the investigation, skedaddled, and revealed his identity on his own terms. By the time of Reality Winner [wikipedia.org], those internal systems would have been beefed up. Using TAILS + Tor + whate...
[18:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─The entire repeal is based on the ludicrous claim that the internet is NOT a Telecommunications Service [theverge.com]
[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─The Navy definitely wants compact fusion, for use on sailing ships if not in Navy "UFOs".
[18:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unencrypted Facebook Employee Information Was on Stolen Laptop - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:50] <exec> 08└─Well, they had Bitlocker setup it's not completely hopeless if a user forgets the PIN or if if someone gets locked out by too many attempts. The recovery key is stored in Active Directory and IT support would provide it when needed. Of course, if your recovery key didn't work then it a was boot and...
[18:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:03] <exec> 08└─You are still talking about the article, I still talk about the conclusion in TFS. Its conclusion focuses one aspect and says nothing about how the situation for everybody in the place differed from the average situation in the country, all variables considered, because the study maybe doesn't consi...
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 3636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─What if i told you that your brain is more important than your teeth? What if I told you that therefore preventative measures to protect teeth that include neurotoxins are only convincing to people who have already had their brain treated with neurotoxins? What if I told you that once you are 60 and...
[18:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:07] <exec> 08└─>Americans seem desperate to cling to anti-science at any cost This remark should be left to sociological contexts, which are not quite science themselves.
[18:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:28] <exec> 08└─So what? Then they should have done without. A person is charging $1.00 for apples. Person doesn't want to pay $1.00. Why is it then justified that he just takes the apple and walks away eating it?
[18:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:29] <exec> 08└─'eh, I have a Netflix account with 1 physical disc and online streaming for $20 a month. If it's not on Netflix, we don't watch it. Also, Netflix isn't the super giant mega corporation that is Amazon. Netflix did kill off Blockbuster, so I still call them the good guys.
[18:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 2340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:31] <exec> 08└─We can be friends. My commentary is better. Our time will be remembered as worse than book burning, this is a form of copyright-enabled elimination of culture. I noticed quite early that when I was staying with people who had netflix, the things that I felt like watching, were never there. Ever. You...
[18:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:46] <exec> 08└─I highly recommend using PlayOnLinux. It makes dealing with WINE much easier and you're likely to spend more time playing games. As opposed to spending more time trying to make a game work on Linux.
[18:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:47] <exec> 08└─Just make sure to backup your unreplaceable files. I.E. pictures / documents / music / videos, especially ones that you've created yourself. Otherwise, most everything else can be replaced.
[18:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:49] <exec> 08└─Why so complicated? Just keep your computer unpowered. I want to see how Microsoft displays ads in that case. ;-)
[18:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─There may be a time where I nuke Windows from all my machines. That time isn't now, but it could be soon. Windows is a matter of convenience, like Steam. Once, they become inconvenient to use or they push enough Stupid things, like advertisements, I can and will switch. Pushing advertisements, that...
[18:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:54] <exec> 08└─man up (or woman up)
[18:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:56] <exec> 08└─I asked my computer about Microsoft Windows. Here's what it told me: $ whatis Microsoft Windows Microsoft: nothing appropriate. Windows: nothing appropriate.
[18:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─No, Privoxy doesn't remove them. It prevents them from getting onto your computer. Obviously if they are not there to begin with, you can't remove them. Thus Microsoft is still right. Anyway, does Privoxy actually block those Microsoft ads? After all, Microsoft is in the unique position to control t...
[18:18:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:44] <exec> 08└─I particularly like the term "international foot", it's about as international as the World Series is worldwide (unless you count use in Myanmar and Liberia as making something "international").
[18:18:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─Need "-2 unfortunate" mod, for your friend.
[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─Including averages?
[18:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:14] <exec> 08└─Only surveyors look up?
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─That's interesting. But is an average an actual measurement or is it really a calculation? You never measure the average something or other.
[18:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:04] <exec> 08└─If you've lost physical access to your device. You've lost half the battle or more.
[18:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:19] <exec> 08└─Not even last week, I encountered a site where not including the www just didn't work. Was like the server wasn't there. Caught me off guard when I wrote the link down based on what was in the address bar and sent it to a friend. We spent a good couple minutes wondering why it didn't work until I re...
[18:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:21] <exec> 08└─I was trying to stay out of this thread, but I'm appalled enough at the following statement that I just can't help myself. Read the man pages. If you're going to actually implement a server, they're the authoritative source. Not the RFCs.
[18:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:23] <exec> 08└─duckduckgo is the Google of yesteryear. Hopefully, they don't go down the same rabbit hole that Google went down.
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[19:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─So to translate, it appears a law firm thinks they have a class action claim, placed ads to get in touch with more class members, and the drug company responded by mobilizing their supporters to try and get the ads pulled. They're trying to get Facebook to judge the risks as "not clinically signific...
[19:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:48] <exec> 08└─This bullshit has finally made the rounds to SN. These ads are your typical class action lawsuit against a prescription, nothing more. Some people did have bad side effects from the drug but the left has blown this into anti gay propaganda.
[19:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:51] <exec> 08└─These people are easily lead by corporate propaganda.
[19:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:53] <exec> 08└─But the drug was thoroughly tested on goats, where HIV originated.
[19:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:55] <exec> 08└─Think drug companies sometimes push out dangerous products to consumers out of greed and disregard for public safety? Shut up, bigot.
[19:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:57] <exec> 08└─For as much as SN editors like to include politics on this website, isn't it weird how the post on the recent UK election has been stuck in the subs queue since last week?
[19:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:59] <exec> 08└─On a similar note, how about not seeing a single thing on reddit about that black anti semite shooter in New Jersey. If it was a white guy all the anti gun people would be crying and saying this was domestic terrorism blah blah. Black guy does it and nobody says a goddamn word.
[19:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:01] <exec> 08└─Meantime, for good or bad, potential jurors are "brain washed" in preparation for the trail.
[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─The government needs its "kill switch" and content control, and only the ISPs can do that. We need to circumvent them with bulletproof multicast tech that nobody can interfere.
[19:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─And Bernie Sanders now has a plan out there to replace one of the mega-corps with publicly owned ISPs controlled at the municipal level. I'm not sure which is worse: A potentially unaccountable government-run system, or an unaccountable monopoly system. I know some libertarian types will just assume...
[19:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:29] <exec> 08└─Also, they should be required to show average speeds in your area and market it with those numbers at the front. You know the process for making that happen, right? It's guaranteed to work.. "Voting is the easy part" [coloradosun.com]
[19:14:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:38] <exec> 08└─What the hell else do we build anymore except weapons?
[19:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:46] <exec> 08└─Well, they did pay for that - it was a subscription service. However, it was a moderate charge rather than an exorbitant one, which is why tens of thousands of people happily coughed up.
[19:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:11] <exec> 08└─That's clearly not true, as human drivers offer an existence proof of a counter example. OTOH, that might well be the easiest way to do it. But I'm not sure. Depending on communication offered by others might open the door to various exploits that would be worse than implementing everything locally.
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:27] <exec> 08└─Actually one Planck length per Planck time is the speed of light. Therefore in Planck units, the only integer speeds are zero and light speed.
[19:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─It's the pirates' fault. [sciencealert.com]
[19:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─Most people would call it cheating to claim that the country is actually bigger just because you changed the units of measurement.
[19:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─People have universally employed the decimal system for numbers. One might argue that the duodecimal system would have been a better choice, but given that the decimal system is here to stay, it is reasonable to adapt the measurement system to that. That said, a measurement system based strictly on...
[19:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:21] <exec> 08└─Vs 1999 Lindsey Graham: You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role, Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the offi...
[19:20:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:33] <exec> 08└─When you hear "most cases" and "most people" in the domain of a software project, that project is going to cause disasters.
[19:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:39] <exec> 08└─But reading forums isn't fun. Developing an AI that can play go and later, maybe, read the forums for you sounds more fun. Then someone can do it on their 10% time and the company won't have to budget for it! I'm sure that AI will be able to understand the freeform problem reports in the forums and...
[19:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palantir Wins New Pentagon Deal With $111 Million From the Army - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:41] <exec> 08└─Nor my opinion, either, but you cannot and do not speak for everyone in our community
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[20:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:54] <exec> 08└─5G makes you impotent.
[20:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:56] <exec> 08└─Telecom companies are greed-driven oligopolies hell-bent on giving US consumers a raw deal and maximizing their profit. But in this case they've done all of their homework and actually have their consumers' best interests at heart, and you're just an anti-science Russian troll if you would even ente...
[20:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:12] <exec> 08└─SN editors like to include politics on this website
[20:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, also they didn't post the IG report results (that now everyone admits the FBI did lots of bad things... but it was just "mistakes" for now). There are also very active mods on this site that upvote the anti-Trump drivel and downvote well-sourced facts. Just look at the fluoride thread a couple...
[20:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:15] <exec> 08└─These ads are your typical class action lawsuit against a prescription, nothing more.
[20:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:17] <exec> 08└─Rewording: "The counter claimers should probably file a lawsuit against the claimers, and have a judge(s) order..." Addendum: This doesn't seem like it's a new problem; magazines and newsletters have been running medicine related ads for more than a century.
[20:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:20] <exec> 08└─Here's the FDA label information for Truvada. [fda.gov] It has a whole section on the bone density stuff: 5.5 Bone Loss and Mineralization Defects It does say there is no correlation between the bone density loss and increased fractures. So unless they're actually saying you'll break your leg if you...
[20:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:22] <exec> 08└─>Everyone knows by now the outcome of last week's UK election, and the submission that you are referring to adds nothing to that knowledge, so there seems to be little point in pushing it out on the front page. So you didn't approve it when it was submitted because everyone would know about it a wee...
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:33] <exec> 08└─Hey, if you can't trust an insider threat, then who can you trust? I mean, sure, he lied his ass off to THEM, but he'd never lie to US!
[20:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─How would municipal politicians not be held to account? They live in the same city as the voters, not some far-off state, provincial, or national capital.
[20:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:17] <exec> 08└─Currently, we can deliver a payload to anywhere in the world in 30 minutes or less. The Ballistic Linear Acceleration Massdriver (BLAM for short) can deliver a payload inside a specially designed shell that has a 90% on target rating with 78% overall survivability of the payload (breakdown of suppli...
[20:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:46] <exec> 08└─pH is important, but is relatively independent. The water is carried in metal pipes, so the pH will be normalized. The fluoride salts that get embedded in the teeth are less sensitive to acid than what they replace. That said, I'm not really impressed with the study. It's not long term enough. There...
[20:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe add cyanide, not fluoride? Many problems will be gone. Starting from holes in teeth, through probably... all kinds of diseases. And a population too. Side effects? Let's blame tinfoil hats for them! :). And seriously, the best way is to make children brush their teeth.
[20:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:49] <exec> 08└─It is generally considered unethical to experiment with something that is believed to be dangerous (or conversely removing something believed to be good). So nobody would test whether people's teeth are hurt by removing fluoridation. At least when Juneau decided to take this step, someone maintained...
[20:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:14] <exec> 08└─Russia is run by a KGB officer, remember? Criminals don't like such an environment. Just saying...
[20:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries - 3177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:15] <exec> 08└─Couldn't that just be explained by backroom dealings between the various mega-corporations? Netflix needs to negotiate with these corporations to secure rights for digital streaming. The ownership rights to a lot of TV and movies gets shuffled around and confused pretty easily, though. It might be p...
[20:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:00] <exec> 08└─No, Trump doesn't lie, he just uses alternative counting. :-)
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[21:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:57] <exec> 08└─Radio waves are cooking your skull, please make sure to keep your tinfoil hat on at all times, in the state of California.
[21:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:58] <exec> 08└─Tin is known by the state of cancer to cause California.
[21:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, please tell me all about the physiological effects that you've observed cells undergoing in a petri dish under milimeter wave raditation(other than like, literally cooking at obscene flux levels like 150 watts per square meter). I'm sure your material evidence is totally robust and not, as you...
[21:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:03] <exec> 08└─Tired and humourless at the end of 2019 or just humourless?
[21:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:05] <exec> 08└─That's why I only recommend aluminum foil hats.
[21:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:07] <exec> 08└─Ignoring all the wit and cleverness of just saying random very dumb bullshit you believe?
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:09] <exec> 08└─Some of the climate change denial shitheads at least rise to this level.
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:11] <exec> 08└─OP sounds like a good parody of the incoherent rambling one can, sadly, too frequently read all over the internet today. Seems you've been a too easy victim of Poe's law. Merry Christmas. Start early, you need it. The TL;DR: whoosh
[21:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─Ambulance chasers have been off the leash for far too long, it's past time to give their choke chain a good yank. Some treble damage legislation against proven false claims sounds like a good start.
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:35] <exec> 08└─Easy enough to weed out those that were influenced by the Facebook advertisements. Q#1 Do you use facebook?
[21:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─Much more likely to have been a monkey, but I'm not sure if that's just propaganda I've picked up over the years or not. In any case, gays are people too and should be treated with respect. I don't even know what people that are into bestiality are called, but sick would be a good definition.
[21:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:39] <exec> 08└─Feel free to get all your news from Hacker News, then. Personally, I like the simple no-nonsense Soylent News interface. The lack of advertisements makes me feel like it's 1995 all over again. In a good way.
[21:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─*pedantry*
[21:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:36] <exec> 08└─That guy has lived his whole life in the US military, so he's a hammer. It is no surprise he sees everything as a nail. The US military industrial complex is running out of enemies again, and they really need enemies to keep that sweet cash rolling in. As General Hammer is retiring from the Air For...
[21:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Max Q is a New Weekly Newsletter All About Space From TechCrunch - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:00] <exec> 08└─Is this basically an ad for TechCrunch? Why not post stories about other email spamscriptions?
[21:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook about Crypto - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:12] <exec> 08└─An even better one! “I have a duty far greater than just getting to the next election. Members of the Senate have said, ‘I understand everything there is about this case, and I won’t vote to impeach the president.’ Please allow the facts to do the talking…. Don’t decide the case before t...
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[22:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:49] <exec> 08└─The company that had promised to give... Bush? the election a decade or so ago. The surprising part here is there is still an apparently honest Republican out there, unless they realized this was such a sham win that it would result in bloodshed or a larger investigation they would rather avoid... P...
[22:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:51] <exec> 08└─I'd highly recommend paper votes, due to the problems with electronic voting. Paper ballot fraud is much harder to accomplish than electronic voting machine fraud. Worse yet, you could get someone voted in, due to a bug in the voting machine software. Who in their right mind would trust something as...
[22:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─The good news was that the chairwoman of the county Republicans realized the numbers made no sense and promptly initiated an investigation.
[22:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:10] <exec> 08└─Quick follow up, I've decided to actually answer the "cook" question rigorously since someone may pretend to be seriously concerned about it. We're going to do worst case for an adult human male at 10 meters. A 5g station can be expected to use 10 kilowatts of electrical power. Worst case analysis m...
[22:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─I don't buy your parsing. Someone lampooning the psychos wouldn't make bones about being unreasonably described as a Russian troll, something that itself, is overdone by people who are tritely dismissive of internet criticism. Their core message was built on a basically sound argument: i.e. that tec...
[22:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─California is a cancer upon the United States. And if you want your brain and balls to be shielded properly, then you have to coat your foil hat and codpiece with something else that will attenuate and also preferably, shift the phase of the incident energy approximately 180 degrees upon reflection...
[22:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:39] <exec> 08└─Needs more <blink>blinking text</blink> and under construction [textfiles.com] graphics.
[22:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:40] <exec> 08└─Need "-1 WTF" mod.
[22:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:42] <exec> 08└─Some countries [nps.org.au] try to stop that sort of advertising
[22:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:44] <exec> 08└─The crazies are melting down, they put all their marbles in Trump's basket and can't stand the idea they were suckered by a reality TV buffoon. Many people tried to warn them, but "unironic heresy!"
[22:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:57] <exec> 08└─"It was used by: Edward Snowden" Yes mean the guy on the run in Russia and held at the behest of the Russian government? What an endorsement.
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─You don't trust it, you have less millions lines of code to not trust.
[22:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celebrating 10 Years of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:01] <exec> 08└─the guy who proved conspiracy theorists quite right? my hero.
[22:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:46] <exec> 08└─As General Hammer is retiring from the Air Force he is busy looking around for a nice consulting job in the private sector, because that is what retired generals do in the US.
[22:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.wired.com/2006/06/ufo-hacker-tells-what-he-found/ [wired.com]
[22:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:50] <exec> 08└─> a device causing more confusion in the White House than any enemy could ever inflict. A so called "woman" I presume?
[22:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:52] <exec> 08└─Another retired military story? Who pines for these? Oh, Runaway.
[22:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:54] <exec> 08└─With this White House, there is no confusion from women, it is a rather straightforward quid quo pro.
[22:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:27] <exec> 08└─Both of you quoted the paper. You each are suffering from what you accuse the other of.
[22:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:29] <exec> 08└─Hilarious. Israel requires and recommends MORE vaccines then the U.S. Both in the number of diseases and rounds. Don't worry, I'll wait while you respin your conspiracy theory.
[22:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:43] <exec> 08└─Perfect! One foot is now defined as the distance light travels in vacuum in one nanosecond's worth of Planck times.
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─Right -- defined as either: 96 cm ('colonial' meter) = Divisible by 2 4 8 16 32 and 6 12 24 48 120 cm ('Texan' meter) = Divisible by 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 12 15 20 24 30 40 60 That works, right? Even more divisibility options than the yard.
[22:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:47] <exec> 08└─"Arithmetic is being able to count to twenty without taking off your shoes." -- Mickey Mouse
[22:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:49] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it!
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[23:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─Well, there's at least one *honest* Republican in Pennsylvania, perhaps the only one in the US. Maybe it'll start a trend. I won't hold my breath.
[23:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:54] <exec> 08└─It's important to them that the elections don't appear to be a sham, even if they are shams. That's the difference between being able to dismiss anyone questioning the election results as a conspiracy nutter, and the evidence being so clear that it's impossible to do that and thus the legitimacy of...
[23:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:56] <exec> 08└─The surprising part here is there is still an apparently honest Republican out there
[23:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:58] <exec> 08└─I like the analogy of, "you enter the polling booth, rather than a paper and pen, there is simply a person in there, who asks you your voting preferences and promises to add them to the appropriate tallies." I don't see how an e-voting system is different from that person... other than that a person...
[23:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:00] <exec> 08└─In Dungeons & Dragons, the Drow are a Chaotic Evil race of Dark Elves. The race, their religion (the Lolth, the Demon Queen of Spiders) and everything about them is evil. Yet one of the most famous heroes of the Forgotten Realms is a Dark Elf named Drizzt Do'Urden - an outcast who has turned his bac...
[23:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:03] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it's just a coincidence that it's ALWAYS the Dem getting under-counted.
[23:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─Trees can be a Renewable Resource
[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─There is the obvious comment about the flaws of electronic voting, which we all know. However, the thing which caught my eye was: Vote totals in a Northampton County judge's race showed one candidate, Abe Kassis, a Democrat, had just 164 votes out of 55,000 ballots across more than 100 precincts ......
[23:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:09] <exec> 08└─Elections only get audited when 1) there IS a paper output and 2) someone NOTICES that the result is statistically impossible. Do you really think that no one with an opportunity and motive to skew election results isn't doing it? It's probably happening everywhere, not necessarily in a grand conspi...
[23:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:11] <exec> 08└─ES&S==Diebold
[23:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:13] <exec> 08└─*I* almost had a heart attack when I heard this part.
[23:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Massive E-Voting Screwup in Pennsylvania - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─some members of the former "party of morals" actually do do the dooda (-dooda) right thing.
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─Have you considered OP wasn't actually parodying any single particular position, but rather an inconsistent combination of them and the smug indignation that usually accompanies them? Have you considered why this got you so clearly upset when you obviously agree with exactly half of it?
[23:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:36] <exec> 08└─I've talked a lot of shit about 5G (including my satirical...maybe...comment above) but the truth is I don't know whether or not it is harmless in the long-term. But that's kind of the point, as with self-driving cars, I think this needs to be vetted a little more carefully before cramming it up the...
[23:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:39] <exec> 08└─Sweeeeeet. EF's paranoia made him impotent. Didn't think he'd find a partner anyway, but thank Christ he won't be procreating one way or another.
[23:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─Someone sticky this post! EF is capable of adult conversation! Too late for tomorrow's headlines?
[23:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:43] <exec> 08└─but with 5g if you want a strong signal you'll have to be inside that safety fence :)
[23:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussie Feds Prescribe $9m Cash Injection to Counter 5G Phobias - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:45] <exec> 08└─"Probing the effect(s) of the microwaves’ electromagnetic fields in enzymatic reactions" https://www.nature.com [nature.com] The less a "progressive" knows, the louder their public demonstrations of ignorance are.
[23:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:15] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the Hacker News commentariat is a bigger echo chamber than this place, they just post things sooner.
[23:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:16] <exec> 08└─No one ever heard of simian aids until after human aids... Looks like it started in humans to me.
[23:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:19] <exec> 08└─You can't see anything there at all? You've literally been programmed to no longer recognize reality and are in for some big surprises.
[23:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ads on Facebook are Spreading Misinformation about Anti-HIV Drugs - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:21] <exec> 08└─I know....off-topic....a bit... I asked my doctor if there was anything for restless leg syndrome where the side effects weren't worse than the symptoms and she told me to try tonic water. The quinine is a musle relaxant and it works WONDERFULLY, no side effects (except it tastes awful and has more...
[23:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:53] <exec> 08└─Well, have you ever tried to use the internet to communicate at a distance?
[23:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:54] <exec> 08└─A potentially unaccountable government-run system, or an unaccountable monopoly system.
[23:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Industry Asks US Court to Reconsider Net Neutrality Ruling - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:56] <exec> 08└─Well, have you ever tried to use the internet to communicate at a distance?
[23:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:29] <exec> 08└─The rods need not be so very large, I think. The article talks about rather large rods, or poles, that will have a pretty big impact. I believe that you could work with a lot of smaller weapons, maybe even small enough to be equivalent to a stick of dynamite.
[23:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:57] <exec> 08└─You are right. The denotation definitely didn't but the connotation did. At least for me. But it might also have something to with the fact my screen reader starts to sound sarcastic after awhile due to its flat tone.
[23:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lofty Promises for Autonomous Cars Unfulfilled - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:58] <exec> 08└─my screen reader starts to sound sarcastic after awhile due to its flat tone.
[23:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can’t Remove Them - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:56] <exec> 08└─In a perfect world, MS and Windows would be a non-starter. In a perfect world, people would have brains and not use it. Too bad there are so many stupid people in this world....
[23:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:25] <exec> 08└─True, although I do take the measure of a man. So therefore people are integers also. No, DON'T go looking for the post hoc in that one.... By the way, I also weigh the same as a duck.
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