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[00:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:58] <exec> 08└─If you drink enough vitamin C solution you will pee and defecate without any conscious effort. At high doses it is a great diuretic and osmotic diarrhea-inducing agent. https://dx.doi.org(00)42799-6 [doi.org] https://jamanetwork.com [jamanet...
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[00:51:59] <exec> 08└─Can vitamin C stop aristarchus from bitching about this story?
[00:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:02] <exec> 08└─"Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone " Then leave me alone already!
[00:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:04] <exec> 08└─With a range of 2.8% to 16.4%, there's no way this is any sort of "study." I'd expect such pissy research from either social scientists or the pharmaceutical industry. Now an online survey - even shittier due to selection bias. Flush it.
[00:52:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:15] <exec> 08└─the one place I expect a lot of irregular package handling.
[00:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:28] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our . . . wait . . . there's a human in there!
[00:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:30] <exec> 08└─Does "Guardian XO" connotes industrial application to you? Cause to me it sounds like they're marketing this thing to riot control units...
[00:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:16] <exec> 08└─If you believe your communications are anonymous you're naive. It's an issue that only technology can resolve. So I guess it will be indefinite cant and mouse. Not really worth arguing, just gotta do our best to make it possible As far as the software development goes, sometimes it's best if you don...
[00:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:17] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't sweat it. Nobody else can protect theirs then either. Everything becomes wide open
[00:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:19] <exec> 08└─errrr... cat
[00:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:21] <exec> 08└─Once a project gets big enough the kingdom concept falls apart. That is why I suggested the delegation part. If you want to remain king of the hill then you get to deal with the headaches of angry and demanding users. We are social creatures and monarchy has been dubbed outdated.
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[00:53:24] <exec> 08└─That is insanely unfair. Just unbelievable so. Linus would say things like "that's a stupid way to do this or that", and do so to devs that had *repeatedly* been told "don't do that". It was very rare for him to 'explode' on someone, just out of the blue. He was always polite, very helpful, unless y...
[00:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:26] <exec> 08└─CGI sounds classier when spelled out.
[00:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math of Brewing a Better Espresso - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:40] <exec> 08└─I think a lot of this is basic chemistry (well, physical chemistry to be technical). When doing extractions you will be able remove much more material out of one solution into another using much less of the solution that you are extracting to by using less of the second solution for each iteration (...
[00:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:08] <exec> 08└─Not 10 years from now, when China gets around to demanding all its client states (belt and road debt vassals) demand settlement in Chinese currency. We know it's coming, but the powers that be will continue the usd as the world reserve currency until China says forget it. Then the USD will be worth...
[00:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:10] <exec> 08└─And yet when I spend cash nobody gets a cut for "enabling the transaction " - the merchant gets it all. Large merchants issue their own cards to capture those fees.
[00:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:12] <exec> 08└─The Internet provided us with an opportunity to reduce this power, but we failed: look at all the successful censorship being put in place by Russia, Turkey, China and other countries.
[00:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:14] <exec> 08└─Most of items on your list are so specific to US that I wonder how much you're aware that the world doesn't start or stop in America.
[00:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:16] <exec> 08└─Nope, the reason for it was to fill the pockets of the early adopters - it isn't by chance the total number of bitcoins that could ever be mined was so small. A shot in the dark at the time but the effort invested into it was negligible.
[00:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:20] <exec> 08└─This is accounted for in the operational costs(e.g. subtracted from profit): Nope, ~$600 million in interest payments went out in 2019. This is the loan they are paying the interest on: About 20x that ($14 billion) went out for content creation.
[00:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:21] <exec> 08└─Net is the correct number. You were right that gross was incorrect because it doesn't account for capital expenditures. I have provided citations for 2019 Q2, Q3 and Q4 in this thread for net profit. If there is a quarter where they did not profit why don't you provide a citation for a change. When...
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[00:56:23] <exec> 08└─Or an accurate portrayal of how nearly every business on the planet funds expansion.
[00:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:25] <exec> 08└─Nope, net income (profit) is an input to free cash flow, not vice versa.
[00:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:27] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I discovered Ghibli thanks to digital distribution... in 1999.
[00:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:27] <exec> 08└─Investigate Bozo instead! [twitter.com]
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[01:52:03] <exec> 08└─Flush it.
[01:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:05] <exec> 08└─What is not science? Publishing a preliminary result that indicates that the percentage affected may not be as trivial as it was believed? Why wouldn't be this science?
[01:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:07] <exec> 08└─With a range of 2.8% to 16.4%, there's no way this is any sort of "study." I'd expect such pissy research from either social scientists or the pharmaceutical industry. Now an online survey - even shittier due to selection bias. Flush it.
[01:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:09] <exec> 08└─... about deficating on the side walk in in San Francisco being part of the curriculum.
[01:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:11] <exec> 08└─Most likely, if the dose is high and frequent enough: Our findings are consistent with a number of studies [42,48,95] that showed a significantly lower vitamin C blood concentrations between cognitively impaired compared to healthy individuals.
[01:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:13] <exec> 08└─My Name Is Nobody.... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] ----- I just count in binary when i need to forget about all the perverts watching me.
[01:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:16] <exec> 08└─So... you're saying it's "Shitty Research"? =) Wit is intellect, dancing.
[01:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:18] <exec> 08└─Where's the +1 groan when you need it. :)
[01:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:20] <exec> 08└─I would expect real research to come up with a solid number and an error range. You know, 5% +/- 2% , 95% of the time or some such. Not an upper bound 6x the lower bound. And let's not count the self-selection bias or the notorious inaccuracy of "web surveys". I would grade this a fail even from hi...
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[01:52:22] <exec> 08└─I would expect real research to come up with a solid number and an error range. You know, 5% +/- 2% , 95% of the time or some such. Not an upper bound 6x the lower bound.
[01:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:24] <exec> 08└─Yep. I'd classify it as from the no-shit-sherlock department. Example: ... shy bladder. The condition is more common in males.
[01:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:26] <exec> 08└─I'm going to guess that being a partner in an accounting firm self-selects for people with this problem? Just visited my CPA (it's tax time for our tiny company). A few years ago the firm of about 50 people out-grew their rented space and had a developer build a new building to their spec in the 'bu...
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[01:52:28] <exec> 08└─where everybody was called Yuri.
[01:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:31] <exec> 08└─"Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone " Then leave me alone already! It's PUBLIC, idiot.
[01:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:33] <exec> 08└─Why do prefer mean as your measure of central tendency? Why do you prefer standard deviation? Standard error? 95% CI? What were you error bars anyway? I find the intervals (quartiles, deciles) quite useable too.
[01:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:35] <exec> 08└─As an counterexample to your restrictive definition of what qualify as science, even qualitative descriptions of what has been observed, can still be part of the science. And yet it doesn't offer error bars and whatnot, cause it has no numbers.
[01:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:37] <exec> 08└─Kawaii shoujo.
[01:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:54] <exec> 08└─Identity is irrelevant to the job.
[01:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:55] <exec> 08└─CGI sounds classier when spelled out.
[01:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:46] <exec> 08└─This may come as a surprise, but at anything larger than tiny scales cash handling actually isn't free. It has nontrivial overhead costs from counting, storing, transporting, depositing, shrink, buying change, etc. It's not as expensive as dealing with chargebacks and other credit card fuckwittery,...
[01:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:47] <exec> 08└─Merchants generally like cash. Even large amounts. That 2% - 3% credit card surcharge adds up really quickly. And when they get dinged extra for credit-card-imposed "cashback" schemes that are paid by the retailer and not the credit card company (contrary to public perception) you can end up losing...
[01:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064G Isn't Dead Yet: Qualcomm Unveils LTE-Versions of its Midrange Snapdragon Chips - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:03] <exec> 08└─I just buy a new laptop every 3 years that has "wifi" and "bluetooth". The days of caring about hardware like this for me are over.
[01:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Immunology Approach Could Treat Most Cancers - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:23] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling#Death_and_legacy [wikipedia.org] "Pauling died of prostate cancer on August 19, 1994, at 19:20 at home in Big Sur, California. He was 93 years old." VItamin C status can be seen in part as a marker for how diverse your diet it and how many fruits and veggi...
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[02:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:28] <exec> 08└─Admittedly urinals are fairly bad in some places. Right next to eachther, right in the doorway, especially with people walking right behind you. It doesn't take a genius to design these.
[02:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:30] <exec> 08└─My boss gets a dollar and I get a dime, that's why I shit on company time
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[02:52:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they got money. Or do you get something out of pissing in front of men?
[02:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:34] <exec> 08└─Sure, but qualitative observations don't try to make it sound more exacting by adding phony bullshit statistics, as was done in this study. My observations of how shitty this study was, and the misuse of fake statistics to make it sound more "sciencey", is observational science. The social science...
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[02:52:36] <exec> 08└─Not when 90% of all studies in psychiatry and psychology are non-replicable, have undisclosed author biases, conceal the raw data, or involve outright fraud. And the 10% that don't have these problems are mostly independent studies that disprove the other 90%.
[02:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:39] <exec> 08└─Once I was in New Orleans and really had to use the toilet, but the bar I went into had only one stall, with no door, and a shady looking guy standing by it holding the toilet paper. I'm sure the psychiatrists would put me on xanax for not taking a dump there.
[02:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:41] <exec> 08└─With a range of 2.8% to 16.4% it sounds to me like they actually did the math on the available data and reported what they found, instead of what makes them sound authoritative. Interesting that the data shows more shy bladder in males - my problem with public toilets is having to actually touch som...
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[02:52:43] <exec> 08└─Not when 90% of all studies in psychiatry and psychology are non-replicable, have undisclosed author biases, conceal the raw data, or involve outright fraud.
[02:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:45] <exec> 08└─Oh its worse than that. Anyone who tries to do a good job is pushed out because it is way faster to produce BS than science.
[02:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:47] <exec> 08└─If you need to go #2, order the #2 value meal from Taco Bell and you'll have explosive defecation in no time! Guaranteed to work.
[02:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:49] <exec> 08└─This is in line with my one shit per day principle. If you work hard enough and didn't drink excessively the night before, then you can easily train yourself to shit at exactly the same time once a day (in my case right after I get home from work). I worked for a place that had only Starbucks-style...
[02:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:52] <exec> 08└─Sure, but qualitative observations don't try to make it sound more exacting by adding phony bullshit statistics, as was done in this study.
[02:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:54] <exec> 08└─If you must shit, shit on company time. Some companies, even nice ones, will punish you in other ways if you shit outside your break time, though. And they will let you know it as soon as you start working there. And California is an at-will state, and what average Joe has the time/energy/money/dign...
[02:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:56] <exec> 08└─I like one proposal that has come out of this reproducability crisis/ All experimental trials would have to be registered in advance, so there's no hiding the results of failed trials. Protocols and raw data would have to be made available, whether the study succeeded or failed. No more cherry picki...
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[02:52:58] <exec> 08└─I see all the H1-B hiring there has finally brought Indian culture to the mainstream. Where the fuck is Nancy Pelosi and what the fuck is she doing?
[02:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:01] <exec> 08└─>I'm going to guess that being a partner in an accounting firm self-selects for people with this problem? Just visited my CPA... had a developer build a new building to their spec in the 'burbs. The men's room has no urinals and separate closed stalls with floor to ceiling walls around each toilet,...
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[02:53:03] <exec> 08└─Read it. There was no "supplementary data." It was a bullshit web survey. By its nature riddled with self-selection bias. When you start out with evident selection bias, what you end up with is not "data." It barely qualifies as anecdotes. But it's easier to do web surveys than it is to design a s...
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[02:54:21] <exec> 08└─You can't solve problems caused by technology by adding more technology. But you can solve them by reducing or eliminated the technology that is the source of the problem. For everything else, there's lawsuits. :-)
[02:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah but as soon as the kids see the spec is from 93 they'll tune out... How's support for cgi these days anyway? I'm still keeping an apache2 around that handles my cgi needs, though most other bits are handled by nginx.
[02:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:24] <exec> 08└─A safe web framework would be useful though...
[02:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:27] <exec> 08└─Still works. So does any software that can open a port and listen in on it. You can write your own multithreaded server. I did it in c of my former employer, but you can do it in pretty much any languages that supports threads (though your performance will be shitty by comparison).
[02:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:29] <exec> 08└─All we have to do is to keep anybody from getting the advantage.
[02:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, I do know that. Used to be that the US was the leader in tech, and so any area the US wasn't up on, no one was. "Encryption is a munition" is especially US centered and arrogant, with its implication that no one else in the world can do decent cryptography on their own and has to "steal" t...
[02:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:28] <exec> 08└─No net income/profit is not the correct number. It is free cash flow.
[02:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Classic Half-Life Game is now Free on Steam - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:25] <exec> 08└─I agree that GOG is infinitely superior, I've been using it for a long time. Never tried GOG Galaxy though. A few other non-DRM sources for games are dlsite.com (a few big publishers and lots of indie/doujin, also has non-game software, audio, manga, and royalty-free art), itch.io and gamejolt.com (...
[02:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Immunology Approach Could Treat Most Cancers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:01] <exec> 08└─You have cause and effect backwards. It just means that skin cancer is a significant cause of such chronic ulcers.
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[03:51:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is hope for the hydrogen economy after all (where hydrogen replaces fossil fuels for transport)?
[03:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Molecule Able to Harness Entire Visible Spectrum - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:00] <exec> 08└─Finally Trump is letting out the classified super efficient solar panels. 10 kW per square meter? This will herald a new golden age of mankind.
[03:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:10] <exec> 08└─And you thought that 120fps @ 4K needed an expensive flash card....
[03:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:12] <exec> 08└─It is so fast that it can even capture light traveling in slow motion
[03:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:14] <exec> 08└─According to the paper, it can capture 350 frames at a time. It doesn't run continuously. The resolution is 72 x 512.
[03:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:16] <exec> 08└─That's no big deal, show me pictures of light travelling at the speed of light. Oh wait, every camera in existence does that ...
[03:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:18] <exec> 08└─That's no big deal, show me pictures of light travelling at the speed of light.
[03:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:21] <exec> 08└─Why yes, I'm in a contrary mood tonight :-)
[03:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:23] <exec> 08└─My point still stands that the article is a total lie. They took a maximum of 350 frames at less than vga resolution. And it wasn't even real pictures. Big science that captures petabytes and exabytes of data from particle accelerators is far more interesting and not just from the sheer quantity of...
[03:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:12] <exec> 08└─Uh no. All you need to do is fund an independent replication every time you want to fund a study to be taken seriously. If you don't, it is a pilot study. Preregistering studies is something stats autists came up with that is incompatible with science (where you always learn as you go).
[03:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:13] <exec> 08└─I've been outside the US and I think France was the only place where a double occupancy hotel room didn't have a door to the bathroom. So, on the throne anyone who was in the room was your audience.
[03:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:15] <exec> 08└─I had this issue as a kid, where I actually failed to hold it in before I got home a few times a year. But I overcame it as an adult by simply facing my fears. Did it enough times that now I have a mental process I go through to make sure it's not an issue before even stepping into the bathroom.
[03:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:17] <exec> 08└─> ...totally normal for public bathrooms in Europe and Asia. Interesting, you must frequent higher class places than I did. When I was in southern France ~20 years ago, I watched a farm worker piss in the field, easily visible from the road. Restaurant bathrooms were no more private than typical in...
[03:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:20] <exec> 08└─For me, it's the beans. If i get hard to pass stools, usually 5 or 6 beans, raw, will do the trick. On me, a handful of peanuts will do the same. I know what these do to me, and it can be either very useful on a planned dosing, or very embarrassing and messy for an accidental dosing. Believe me, I h...
[03:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:22] <exec> 08└─If you're doing a study, you should already have decided on a protocol, a selection criteria for your test subjects, what you are testing for, etc. Otherwise you're not doing science. Throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks is not science.
[03:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:24] <exec> 08└─I felt very vulnerable while performing the act, and was really insecure doing it around strangers.
[03:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:26] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone who has never actually done science.
[03:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:28] <exec> 08└─> easily train yourself to shit at exactly the same time This is called "being regular", one of many hits, https://www.sheknows.com [sheknows.com] Works for me, until something disrupts the routine, like occasionally working a double...
[03:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:30] <exec> 08└─Reality is a thing. People compensate. Machines break.
[03:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:32] <exec> 08└─Read it.
[03:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:35] <exec> 08└─Who the hell fucks their parenting up so badly that their offspring can't even take a shit when they need to? I mean, really, how insecure do you have to be to get all psyched out about making noises most appropriate to a shitter in a shitter? You motherfuckers need to start teaching your kids to st...
[03:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:37] <exec> 08└─If you think a visual shock might help, try the dinner party scene in Luis Buñuel "The Phantom of Liberty" in which bathroom and dining room are swapped, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Guests socialize on toilets around the table. At about 3 min into this clip the young g...
[03:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:39] <exec> 08└─People who experience this difficulty can cure it through more travel. When you have a choice of using a public toilet or holding it in for a 15 hour bus ride through the sticks and Montezuma's Revenge is crashing down on you, your shyness will be swept away in a moment. I found it impossible to use...
[03:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:05] <exec> 08└─I'd say you been playing too much Borderlands 2 but I don't think there's any such thing.
[03:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Routers Running Tomato are Under Attack by Notorious Crime Gang - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:22] <exec> 08└─Kinda like someone installing a deadbolt on their door...and not bothering to lock it! Just leave it in it's default configuration. Geez.
[03:54:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:35] <exec> 08└─"Let's use Rust but disable the feature that is the single biggest reason to use Rust in the first place" I don't even
[03:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:07] <exec> 08└─The problem he has seems to me to be that he wanted to show off his code and share his project, but didn't want feedback on it. Should've just disabled bug reports and pull requests on his repo. It's not open source that's the problem, it's wanting to participate in social activities when you're not...
[03:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:08] <exec> 08└─He's probably right and it's not a project that suits him, whether that's his fault, the fault of the community, or nobody's fault is hard to tell from what I have read.
[03:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lego Launches International Space Station with Rotating Solar Panels and Tiny Astronauts - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:29] <exec> 08└─This is an important post that needs to be upmodded Informative... My wife is probably gonna have a crack at me for this purchase, but this information is exactly the kind of insight I need to spin it as an economical buy. Thanks!!
[03:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lego Launches International Space Station with Rotating Solar Panels and Tiny Astronauts - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:31] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work for me, either. Stuff loads but times out and locks up. Typical "Business Grade" design. It's good enough to get some checkbox ticked on the executive presentation. But doesn't work.
[03:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lego Launches International Space Station with Rotating Solar Panels and Tiny Astronauts - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:33] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you have to use an older browser and fish through the document source. That's one of the reasons I cling tenaciously to some of my older technology. I can usually still get what I was after, but it may take time to work around the piles of crap the webmaster strew all over the place.
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[03:55:35] <exec> 08└─To advertise this toy, Lego could have one put in orbit by Cringely's latest venture -- micro sats ride on a small-ish solid fuel rocket, with initial launch off an F-104 at Mach 2+, https://www.cringely.com [cringely.com] The last operating...
[03:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math of Brewing a Better Espresso - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:32] <exec> 08└─Also, keep in mind that coffee is mostly water. More so with regular brews than espresso, but even with espresso, there's relatively little actual bean in the brew compared with the water. In other words, if you're going to do one thing to get better coffee, you should look at the water.
[03:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Math of Brewing a Better Espresso - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:33] <exec> 08└─Full disclosure: I consider myself a coffee wanker, and I really don't mind the bitterness of an espresso... I've got a relatively expensive (mid-high end machine) lever machine (La Pavoni Europiccola) paired with a decent grinder (Rancilio Rocky) and I find that if I have a coarse grind, I really s...
[03:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:10] <exec> 08└─Now though, with the anti-intellectuals in power in the US, should be all the easier for some other nation to take the lead on science and tech.
[03:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:21] <exec> 08└─Okay, Pirate Bay it is then.
[03:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immunology Approach Could Treat Most Cancers - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:54] <exec> 08└─That may or may not be helpful but large amounts of vitamin C are impossible to get via diet. How much would you need to eat to get only 10 grams per day?
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[04:52:06] <exec> 08└─DOI of TO(riginal)FA [doi.org] Of course it's not free access, the fuckers! But maybe there's hope? Data availability All the data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Crystallographic data for structure 1 reported in this article...
[04:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Molecule Able to Harness Entire Visible Spectrum - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:08] <exec> 08└─Dream on, there is barely 1 Kw/m^2 available: https://en.wikipedia.org's_surface [wikipedia.org] Average annual solar radiation arriving at the top of the Earth's atmosphere is roughly 1361 W/m2.[25] The Sun's rays are attenuated as they pass through the atm...
[04:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Molecule Able to Harness Entire Visible Spectrum - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:10] <exec> 08└─The reliable mirror is in Taiwan (.tw) ! *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) you are talking about sci-hub ?
[04:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Molecule Able to Harness Entire Visible Spectrum - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the tip. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) One doesn't talk in public about a site that's classified as breaching the copyright law. "The Fine Print:" notwithstanding, S/N has some obligations under Safe Harbor provision if, hypothetically speaking, someone were to activ...
[04:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:28] <exec> 08└─But if my dad used it, the photos would probably still have motion blur
[04:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:30] <exec> 08└─> I shat on Confucius's grave. Is that like giving water on Arrakis, in Frank Herbert's "Dune" (spitting)?
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[05:52:03] <exec> 08└─It just had to be rhodium of all elements. Rhodium is likely the rarest element on the planet's crust, at around 0.2 parts per billion, certainly one of the three rarest along with rhenium and iridium. Highly doubtful if the process described will ever be of true practical use because of this.
[05:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Molecule Able to Harness Entire Visible Spectrum - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:05] <exec> 08└─Unless they can find a cheaper catalyst, it's unlikely. Rhodium is just about the rarest element on the planet!
[05:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monty Python Alumnus Terry Jones Has Died at the Age of 77 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:36] <exec> 08└─The poor donkey!
[05:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Immunology Approach Could Treat Most Cancers - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:23] <exec> 08└─Near impossible means you need to try really really hard to make something happen and even then you will probably fail.
[05:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:58] <exec> 08└─Should I hide under the desk?
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[06:53:51] <exec> 08└─heh! this cool! now we can go about making human (operators) the size of a dime ... but don't forget: the suit (means of production) will never belong to you!
[06:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Routers Running Tomato are Under Attack by Notorious Crime Gang - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe the attackers are the ones selling them.
[06:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math of Brewing a Better Espresso - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:15] <exec> 08└─Also I forgot the mention the disadvantage of using less of the second solution each time is that you would need to conduct the extraction more times which takes more time. So you have to figure out what you want to save, material or time.
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[07:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:54] <exec> 08└─What's the deal with this outfit? Is it Comcast lite?
[07:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:55] <exec> 08└─CenturyLink is one of the 4 remaining Baby Bell conglomerates. They are mostly in the West, Northwest and North, rural areas in some 30 states IIRC, and provides a huge chunk of Tier 1, enterprise, and data center service.
[07:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Molecule Able to Harness Entire Visible Spectrum - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:15] <exec> 08└─Buy 1000 metric tons of potatoes from Sicily, you'll get about 100g of platinum + rhodium [mdpi.com]. And a lot of starches.
[07:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:34] <exec> 08└─With today's helicopter parenting, there's gonna be a lot of them. Kids today are prevented from doing anything risky. unescorted to school.....nope. unescorted to the park....nope. unescorted to a friends house...nope. And on and on it goes. We would leave home and our parents would say "come home...
[07:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:35] <exec> 08└─Right with you until you went full retard.
[07:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:04] <exec> 08└─Get in the damn exoskeleton, Shinji!
[07:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Routers Running Tomato are Under Attack by Notorious Crime Gang - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:22] <exec> 08└─so if these devices are configured for bridging or even better into media converters then the exploit doesn't work? it seems devices that can be bridges need to be configurable so some kind of access is required. one would assume to configure the access ip of such a device to be in a range that the...
[07:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 064G Isn't Dead Yet: Qualcomm Unveils LTE-Versions of its Midrange Snapdragon Chips - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:23] <exec> 08└─Fine. You win.
[07:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 064G Isn't Dead Yet: Qualcomm Unveils LTE-Versions of its Midrange Snapdragon Chips - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/long-term-prediction-5g-will-be-a-failure.256708/ [techspot.com] With a range of 100m to 200m they are going to need a lot of hardware.
[07:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:20] <exec> 08└─You could just buy the content on DVD.
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[08:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:07] <exec> 08└─At least with copyleft licenses, the main worry is not that others claim to have written the code, the main worry is that someone makes a derivative product without opening up the changes. If the contribution is anonymous, anyone who decides to violate the license has nothing to fear. What would wor...
[08:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:09] <exec> 08└─Deleting the reports is wrong. Close them as WONTFIX or INVALID if you don't want to change it. Give them a low priority if you intend to fix it eventually, but not now.
[08:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:11] <exec> 08└─written in Rust ... by ... a senior software engineer at Microsoft
[09:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:30] <exec> 08└─Hey! I've got beer. Come on over boys.
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[09:51:53] <exec> 08└─i feel sorry for her. it sounds like she disconnected from reality at some point. hopefully she'll be properly cared for, rather than just punished. it's not the first time I think of MDC making a valuable contribution, but this certainly feels like a situation where he may understand more than bori...
[09:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:54] <exec> 08└─Probably because there was Turing Machine spinning in her head telling her to pick an item at every step it took. Being 1984 it only had a capacity of 8 bit.
[09:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gravitational Wave Echoes May Confirm Stephen Hawking's Hypothesis of Quantum Black Holes - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:08] <exec> 08└─Holes are fuzzy on the surroundings, in general. Plenty of documentation online.
[09:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravitational Wave Echoes May Confirm Stephen Hawking's Hypothesis of Quantum Black Holes - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:10] <exec> 08└─true. recently I had to seriously clip my nose-hairs, I expect the ears to require trimming soon as well. most annoying is the asshole, obviously, since I can't see it and yet I need to keep it clean.
[09:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:41] <exec> 08└─Looks like we can now actually see the Discworld light slowly progressing in a magic field…
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[10:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:41] <exec> 08└─So use the stalls with the doors and not the urinals.
[10:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clearview App Lets Strangers Find Your Name, Info with Snap of a Photo, Report Says - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:45] <exec> 08└─> everyone knows damn well not to even THINK of posting anything about me on Facebook. Let me repeat: Note that WhatsApp cannot be used without giving the application permission to scrape your phone's address book, so any colleague or friend who uses WhatsApp and has your data in their address book...
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[11:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:49] <exec> 08└─"The data was exposed to the Internet for around two days..." Not to completely dismiss that claim, but are they really sure that's how long they were exposed? That seems to be the time noted that BinaryEdge indexed them, but how fast did BinaryEdge find it? As an aside, I've never heard of that sea...
[11:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:58] <exec> 08└─Only the true daughter of Turing could decide to keep 2^8 items. Turing, it's about time you came out and spill the truth. It's ok to be straight, your contributions will be remembered no matter what. Knock 1 time to admit you are straight, twice for bisexual.
[11:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:00] <exec> 08└─Seriously, my first thought was some dude who wanted to be Turing's lover. But, some chick? That's gayer than gay.
[11:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gravitational Wave Echoes May Confirm Stephen Hawking's Hypothesis of Quantum Black Holes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:17] <exec> 08└─As opposed to non-quantum particles?
[11:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:55] <exec> 08└─I clicked thru and read and its "A systematic review" as they say. "Over the 1418 studies screened, ten were found relating to at least one review question." Quite a few papers, especially medical, are derivative. This is VERY popular in medical papers about, for example, dietary supplements. Also d...
[11:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:56] <exec> 08└─My immediate guess would be they're very woke and signally. I bet they brag about those "trans-friendly" bathroom stalls on their corporate tumblr page.
[11:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:58] <exec> 08└─Sure it will. They just have to leave the stall with the newspaper open to the crossword section. It would also take their mind off them being so literally anal-retentive. Of course, this is gender-specific. Women's washrooms don't have urinals, so it's expected to take longer, especially with panty...
[11:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:33] <exec> 08└─Deleting reports that are bogus is the same as deleting other spam. Or purging bad data. It's entirely up to the person in charge of the project to set policies wrt spam and bad data. I'd purge them too. Bad data leads to bad analytics. If it's invalid, why not purge it instead of marking it invalid...
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[12:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:56] <exec> 08└─Every time you hear about a hacked database it's Elasticsearch. The solution is obvious: ban this malware.
[12:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:57] <exec> 08└─don't let friends use Microsoft products!
[12:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Molecule Able to Harness Entire Visible Spectrum - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:40] <exec> 08└─Have you got an extraction process that leaves edible & sale-able mashed potatoes? I'll find a source for the gravy...
[12:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:05] <exec> 08└─What's really bad is the practice of citing works without even bothering to read the abstract, never mind the paper. There's a lot of that going along, as well as "citation farms", where groups cite each other's work to game rankings. The number of citations is no longer a proxy for relative quality...
[12:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clearview App Lets Strangers Find Your Name, Info with Snap of a Photo, Report Says - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:14] <exec> 08└─Nobody is forcing you to use WhatApp. So what's your point? I don't know anyone who uses it, and the people I know put only my first name in their contact information anyway - we don't even for the most part know each other's last names. It's not like someone is going to come up to me and say "we've...
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[12:59:15] <exec> 08└─> I don't know anyone who uses it Fair enough. Pretty much everyone I know uses it. > the people I know put only my first name in their contact information anyway Well done if you are successful at avoiding the darkness. For most people, even in this situation there is uniquely identifiable data (yo...
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[13:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:52] <exec> 08└─They're going to save that much just in initial roll-out/support for W10. Considering all the European data privacy concerns and regulations, why would they move to W10? I sorta surprised there isn't some sort of Airbus-like consortium working on an EU OS.
[13:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:53] <exec> 08└─How's that lower TCO going for you now? They could have kept moving off Windows and have been free by now, but no... Microsoft bought their politicians and the German taxpayers are paying for it. Microsoft is a cancer.
[13:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:55] <exec> 08└─i suppose some smart german(s) made a calculation and found that the cost of (so-called) security for m$ software is cheaper then the cost of usability for linux? also i suppose for a entity (the clubberment) that already knows everything about you, the notion of a "data leak" is hard to grasp? it w...
[13:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.securityweek.com/millions-unencrypted-fingerprint-and-facial-biometrics-found-unsecured-database [securityweek.com] "Trust us" they say
[13:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:17] <exec> 08└─I think this story about Julia Mathison Turing is completely fake. Alan Turing's father was Julius Mathison Turing. https://www.geni.com [geni.com] Either you guys have a very bad bug in current timeline of mātṝkā, or this story is a social probe in some...
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[13:52:18] <exec> 08└─He wouldn't have needed to be straight or even bi to have fathered a child. There are many gay men who fathered children with a woman anyway despite their sexual preference.
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[13:52:20] <exec> 08└─doesn't require a turing mind to draw a drop of blood (hair?) and shot it thru a paternity test machine? sheesh!
[13:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:22] <exec> 08└─She legally changed her name to Julia Mathison Turing in 1988. Her previous name was Julie Ann Schwinghamer.
[13:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:25] <exec> 08└─Considering he was engaged to a women, I assume to try and keep up appearances which was a lot more important back then compared to today, it might not be to far fetched that he also decided to take one for the team. That said he broke of the engagement since he didn't feel like he could live with i...
[13:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03einar [494] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gravitational Wave Echoes May Confirm Stephen Hawking's Hypothesis of Quantum Black Holes - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:41] <exec> 08└─The particles making up my desk do not show any "quantumness". Although, I was told they could... More seriously, the assumption that everything on small scale shows a quantum behavior is just an assumption. In the case of Hawking radiation it is true. Since it is the uncertainty principle allowing...
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[13:55:59] <exec> 08└─A yes, the all we have to do is prevent X forever and always problem.
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[14:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:03] <exec> 08└─That's the big thing that's missing from the report, how much will the alternative cost? If moving to Win10 would cost EUR 10M then EUR 0.8M is a downright bargain.
[14:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:04] <exec> 08└─Moved to what? Linux is even less ready for the desktop than it was 20 years ago. Chrome books mean google has access to all your data - not gonna happen in government, and should not happen in business. Welcome to the new duopoly, same as the old duopoly - Microsoft and Apple. Mind you, anyone wi...
[14:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:06] <exec> 08└─Windows 7 isn't great but as we know Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare, that's why both users and corporations have been avoiding upgrading. These kind of articles all seem to be about encouraging users to upgrade, when really they should just be steering them to a better OS than Microsoft is willin...
[14:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:09] <exec> 08└─dithering algorithm.
[14:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:11] <exec> 08└─At first glance, this isn't too bad: €800,000 / (minimum) 33,000 PCs = €24.25 per PC. Cheaper than buying new hardware and software. (Not a good long term strategy, but there is appeal in this.) Of course, this makes me wonder... just how many copies of Windows 7 and 10 do they have running arou...
[14:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:13] <exec> 08└─Moved to what? Linux is even less ready for the desktop than it was 20 years ago.
[14:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah I think they'd do better if they just went with some corporate GNU/Linux solution and a support contract, or otherwise just hiring some bods who know what they're doing. It's not a big deal transitioning workers to things like libreoffice if you need to.
[14:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:48] <exec> 08└─The state governments in the states that didn't get the promised expansion should be able to seize the assets of the telecom companies that failed to fulfill the contracts for non-payment just like you can if a company fails to pay after a successful law suit. I'm assuming that the article is saying...
[14:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:50] <exec> 08└─They should be able to jail the CXXs of these companies for fraud, and claw back the money from either the company or the CXX suite. Again, it will never happen but....
[14:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:52] <exec> 08└─I use them because the alternative is Comcast in my area.
[14:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:54] <exec> 08└─The got rid of debtor's prisons for a reason. Are you proposing bringing them back?
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[14:53:05] <exec> 08└─It is an assumption that is backed up by a century of evidence (that is people doing experimentation that relies on the Heisenberg principle), or what we now call a Theory (previously this was called a Law).
[14:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:48] <exec> 08└─In the USA the urinals give just a little bit of privacy. Go across the border to Tijuana and the urinal is a trough along one side of a wall with water running across. No thanks. For the first 50 years of my life I held it in, sometimes all day until I got to a private bathroom. Now I don't care (a...
[14:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, definitely feels like this: https://wegotthiscovered.com [wegotthiscovered.com] Just needs the shield.
[14:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:19] <exec> 08└─and they want their industrial exoskeleton back. Anybody else been wanting one of these since they showed up in the movie Aliens in 1986?
[14:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:29] <exec> 08└─I've only watched this from the outside, but it the Rust community looks pretty reasonable. The Reddit community, in contrast, which swamped this project and large chunks of the Rust community with trolls, is toxic.
[14:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 064G Isn't Dead Yet: Qualcomm Unveils LTE-Versions of its Midrange Snapdragon Chips - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:45] <exec> 08└─Wi-Fi 5/6 doesn't matter for most people, but the particulars of Bluetooth could. Bluetooth 5's long range (4x range at 1/8 data rate) and high (2x) speed features are entirely optional. They will probably get more support in combination with the newly announced LE Audio [anandtech.com]. So one pair...
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[15:00:05] <exec> 08└─Your phone number isn't necessarily unique to you. Making that assumption would also require that they know you're single, and even then it's not a guarantee, so good luck trying to use the phone number as a unique identifier. Also, as people approach retirement it's recommended that they either us...
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[15:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Vodafone Quits Facebook's Libra Currency - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:54] <exec> 08└─The biggest users of virtual currencies are speculators and people looking for anonymity. I'm sure the first group would be interested but the second would stay away from a Facebook run currency like the plague. Without them, there is very little reason to consider Libra over the vast number of exis...
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[15:51:56] <exec> 08└─It never even made sense. They were going to peg it to the US dollar but back it with a basket of currencies. When asked by congress how the peg would work when the value of non-usd currencies backing it fluctuated, Zuckerberg said the economists were still in disagreement about it.
[15:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:13] <exec> 08└─Remember Munich? The city switched to Linux, to cut off the Microsoft drain. Then, Microsoft helped to get a mayor elected, whose mission was to switch back to Microsoft. By now, half of Germany should be off of Microsoft, and doing real computing with real operating systems. It's probably not too l...
[15:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:15] <exec> 08└─might raise a wry smile somewhere in Seattle.
[15:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:17] <exec> 08└─Is Windows ready for the desktop? Only because of the power they have over sales shops and business: Shops that run Windows have locked down desktops that make the computer less than useful, you DARE not click on emails without worrying about viruses, don't DARE go to unauthorized websites because y...
[15:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:19] <exec> 08└─No, the government WAS switching to Linux when a change of government brought in a Microsoft sponsored leader that reverted the switch back to Windows. Now taxpayers are paying for it. Just waiting to hear they've been hacked and EVERY desktop and server has been encrypted.... thinking I won't have...
[15:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:21] <exec> 08└─A system which is ACTIVELY boycotted (proof, 20 years ago ppc linux worked with all open source drivers on the titanium powerbook) is ready for the desktop. This is why it is actively boycotted.
[15:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:23] <exec> 08└─> lynch what kind of savage are you? first you make him pay with all his kickbacks and possessions for the damage caused to society. Then you lynch the entire Microsoft staff. Then you lynch him. This is how civilized society work.
[15:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:25] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Linux on the desktop, citrix apps for anything OS specific. Easy. Move on. This tired old thinking is outdated.
[15:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:28] <exec> 08└─When will people LEARN?!?!?
[15:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:30] <exec> 08└─for the rise of China and them forcing the world to use THEIR operating system, probably based on Linux.
[15:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:41] <exec> 08└─Asking for a friend
[15:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:57] <exec> 08└─Heck, even today lots of gay people have children for a wide variety of reasons - though pretending to be straight is likely the leading one. And it's not even like "gayness" is binary - there's a whole spectrum between "straight" and "gay", and almost no one falls at either extreme.
[15:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:11] <exec> 08└─??? They took money promising to do something with it. They didn't do it. They should either give the money back or go to jail. How is that bringing back debtors prison?
[15:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:12] <exec> 08└─I am shocked, SHOCKED, that telecom companies would do such a thing!
[15:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taxi Dudinous [8690] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:14] <exec> 08└─Based on my experience, this is their standard business model.
[15:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gravitational Wave Echoes May Confirm Stephen Hawking's Hypothesis of Quantum Black Holes - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:26] <exec> 08└─Only in their natural state.
[15:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Molecule Able to Harness Entire Visible Spectrum - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:43] <exec> 08└─There was a typo space after the decimal. It should have said 0.10
[15:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:02] <exec> 08└─350x72x512 = 13 million pixels that need to be captured basically instantly, in parallel. I wouldn't be surprised if the imaging sensor is arranged as a 25200x512 rectangle that captures and holds all the images. 350 Trillionths of a second is a pretty short time window, it's gonna need a really goo...
[15:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultrafast Camera Takes 1 Trillion Frames Per Second of Transparent Objects and Phenomena - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:03] <exec> 08└─Just a few days ago I was reading Zernike's Nobel Prize lecture How I Discovered Phase Contrast [nobelprize.org]. I recommend it for a good read if you want to see what this phase contrast stuff is all about. You don't need much specialized knowledge, just an understanding of what two waves out of p...
[15:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:14] <exec> 08└─Life is stranger than fiction.
[15:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:46] <exec> 08└─Considering the picture you're greeted with on the article page is of ripley in the exoskeleton, yeah, I'm going with there's a few people.
[15:56:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 604 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:40] <exec> 08└─That is insanely unfair. Just unbelievable so. Linus would say things like "that's a stupid way to do this or that", and do so to devs that had *repeatedly* been told "don't do that". It was very rare for him to 'explode' on someone, just out of the blue. He was always polite, very helpful, unless y...
[15:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:57] <exec> 08└─the main worry is that someone makes a derivative product without opening up the changes. What can be assembled can be disassembled. One way or another the changes will be opened. They can keep it private only as long as they keep the entire product to themselves. Nobody has to stay anonymous if the...
[15:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, if you understand nature, that's the way it has always been. Like eating and breathing.
[15:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 064G Isn't Dead Yet: Qualcomm Unveils LTE-Versions of its Midrange Snapdragon Chips - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that post you linked is based on misinformation. It's also called "spin" where a person with an opinion picks and chooses "facts" to support only their narrow point of view. It's one of the many logical fallacies, and I'm not expert on identifying logical fallacies- there are too many https:/...
[16:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:14] <exec> 08└─Pokemon
[16:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Classic Half-Life Game is now Free on Steam - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:15] <exec> 08└─The updated GOG Galaxy client is pretty awesome. I'd still take advantage of the ability to have a backup of your install files, though.
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[16:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:57] <exec> 08└─Companies are "committing" to climate change goals then walking them back, "companies can't ignore their workers" yet the gig economy and amazon sweatshops are as big as ever, etc. All this garbage is just marketing, at the end of the day if they think that ignoring their climate goals and treating...
[16:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:59] <exec> 08└─> One problem interpreting numbers like these is that there are many definitions of capitalism and socialism. ^^ this.
[16:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously? At a time when the best chance of getting the current nutjobs out of office is to go centrist, they move to the far-left? How well did that work in 1972?
[16:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:03] <exec> 08└─is that it forces businesses to become activists. One of the great strengths of capitalism is that it is value neutral. It means that everyone can work together even if they don't agree, even if they don't particularly like each other. It makes our differences less important and our common purposes...
[16:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:05] <exec> 08└─"Commitments to sustainable business practices". The problems that are driving people away from capitalism are overwhelmingly material and concrete problems beyond the scale of individaul bad actors. Climate change, increasing inequality, poverty, and social isolation. Real problems, have to be spec...
[16:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. And therefore Capitalism can't solve those problems, but also doesn't create them. What's wrong is the incentive structure. Change the incentive structure and Capitalism will change what it does. Actually, of course, this partially depends on precisely what you mean by Capitalism...but it works...
[16:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Quits Facebook's Libra Currency - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:18] <exec> 08└─Can't believe they wasted their time by asking him about a scheme that is either a fraud or destined to failure. Let the criminal justice system handle it.
[16:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Quits Facebook's Libra Currency - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:20] <exec> 08└─No, most users of digital currency are that, but the biggest users by any meaningful measure are like 2 central exchanges because the idea has no actual merit and falls right back into central banking, but unregulated
[16:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:46] <exec> 08└─Windows 7 isn't great but as we know Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare, that's why both users and corporations have been avoiding upgrading.
[16:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:29] <exec> 08└─> They should either give the money back or go to jail. Bankruptcy is the legal instrument whereby a person or organisation can renege on their financial obligations (for example, obligation to complete a contract). I believe you are proposing an alternative, whereby a person is jailed should they b...
[16:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:31] <exec> 08└─I'm more shocked that Ajit Pai's FCC doesn't do something about this! Like give Frontier an aware so as to encourage other ISPs to engage in similar desirable behavior.
[16:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:33] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the way Tel-Cos and ISPs are supposed to operate? Seems no matter how well intentioned they start out, they wind up copying the likes of ATT and ComCast.
[16:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravitational Wave Echoes May Confirm Stephen Hawking's Hypothesis of Quantum Black Holes - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:45] <exec> 08└─Grains of sand for instance can be thought of as non-quantum particles. They behave more or less classically since their de Broglie wavelength is much shorter than their size and so we can use Newton's good old laws of motion to accurately model their dynamics rather than resorting to the Schröding...
[16:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:34] <exec> 08└─As you get older, you get less concerned about modesty in the context of any kind of "business" that needs to get done. (eg, kidney stone, and nurse asks you to pee in this jug, if you can get anything other than blood to come out) As for the urinal troughs along the wall, at least one major stadium...
[16:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:35] <exec> 08└─In my life, especially at college dorm in late 70's early 80s, with large common restroom / shower area, I've noticed that some males have a habit of flushing urinal first in order to be able to start peeing. Maybe some people similarly need to flush a toilet first before doing their business.
[16:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:37] <exec> 08└─Reproducing scientific results is a waste of resources! Doing the same experiment a 2nd time, as if a published paper cannot be trusted. Especially when said paper has plenty of squiggly math symbols! Therefore, congress should outlaw reproducing work that has already supposedly been done in publish...
[16:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:39] <exec> 08└─I just count in binary when i need to forget about all the perverts watching me.
[16:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:42] <exec> 08└─Wow. In almost forty years doing my job, I've never encountered that. Have never had any official "break" time. Nobody monitoring restroom use. Nobody gives a thought about leaving their desk for the kitchen, or restroom, or even to leave the building to run an important errand, etc. We're all here...
[16:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:44] <exec> 08└─Taco Bellyache's bean burrito is also inexpensive.
[16:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Routers Running Tomato are Under Attack by Notorious Crime Gang - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:34] <exec> 08└─Since the Reagan Years, tomato is classified as a vegetable.
[16:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:28] <exec> 08└─Now we live in a world where large corporations are the primary contributors to major open source projects. Even Microsoft is figuring out that this has real benefits.
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[17:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:30] <exec> 08└─What we have now is capitalism run amok. Greed unrestrained by any sense of responsibility. There's nothing wrong with being successful. And maybe it's just me, but I have this silly notion that at one time, some companies had a sense of not harming people in their rush to profit. But then, I think...
[17:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:31] <exec> 08└─Marketing is a tiny expense with a huge ROI. While we lived in Houston, we went to a toddler's play place and frequently met another mom there who was a "Pelican washer" for one of the big petroleum companies. Her job was to go around wherever oil was spilled (think Exxon Valdez, but it's a continuo...
[17:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:33] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's materially necessary to define terms explicitly in PR campaigns where you see what people have positive and negative associations with. Is Norwegian-style social democracy "socialism"? The exact same person, will tell you yes and no depending on what they're trying to persuade you...
[17:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:35] <exec> 08└─Not surprisingly, most people do not understand shareholder capitalism. They actually think it is the law of the land. You hear it all the time in arguments, and you hear it on this site as well. Pretty much in any story having to do with corporations and corporate profits, there is at least one per...
[17:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:37] <exec> 08└─> some bad apples were the exception The problem is that capitalism selects for the bad apples, when "badness" gives a competitive advantage. For example, killing a few workers to avoid having to place pesky/expensive fences and nets on the skyscraper as it goes up.
[17:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:40] <exec> 08└─More and more, it does not need workers https://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com]
[17:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:42] <exec> 08└─The more amusing part is you think Sanders is far left, he IS a centrist by all the other sane countries' standards. All you've said here is you will vote for a corrupt criminal instead of a liberal who would actually help your brothers and sisters suffering from insane medical bills and lack of wor...
[17:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:44] <exec> 08└─individaul bad actors
[17:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:46] <exec> 08└─Commun/socialism isn't inherently evil, and neither is Capitalism - but the way they have been implemented is - to varying degrees.
[17:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:48] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_That_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs [wikipedia.org] The error in thinking is much older than capitalism. And still, its natural consequences are a rude surprise every single time. Verily, history teaches us that history teaches us nothing.
[17:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:50] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of jobs. Unemployment is at 3%. Yang's popularity is based on people who want to be paid like they have a job, but they don't want to actually go to work. Remember the old saying "Democracy will last until people realize they can just vote themselves money from the public treasury"?...
[17:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:53] <exec> 08└─You can make the case that under certain ethical frameworks, economic systems can be inherently moral or amoral. tangent ahead I find one of the biggest ironies of all time that *The moral basis for capitalism can be argued to be deontological: "everyone has rights and as long as those rights are no...
[17:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:55] <exec> 08└─Even when you give them free money to improve society, they still don't. You still have to check up on them. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I am surprised anyone would even ask this question after I had been posting this link here for so long: t...
[17:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:57] <exec> 08└─It seems like you were trying to respond to a totally different post. Probably from a totally different topic.
[17:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 2275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:36] <exec> 08└─Back in the 90s I was installing Slackware from a stack of floppies. That changed with Mandrake 6.0. Easy to set up except for sound and network cards and dialup internet. Today, half the distros fail to install from a USB stick, none of the others support the console if it's not on your laptop scr...
[17:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:37] <exec> 08└─So which of the over 1,000 distros supports printers, sound cards, and a not shitty office suite? I run Linux, and it's gone from a joy in the 90s to so fucké that my next machine will possibly be from Apple, even though I hate OSX. At least it works.
[17:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:40] <exec> 08└─Really, a headline over an 800k cost? A quick googling shows Deutschland's governmental budget at 360Billion. That's 0.00022 percent (2 ten-thousandths of a percent) of the budget. That's 9/10ths of a cent. Given a population of 83 Million, that's a penny per citizen.
[17:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:42] <exec> 08└─It's a great thing to meet a mind more deviant than my own. Would you consider giving lessons?
[17:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:30] <exec> 08└─SONIC in the Bay Area seems to have maintained their principles pretty well, but been a long time since I've checked up on them.
[17:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:38] <exec> 08└─I thought that film was called "The discreet charm of the bourgoisie". Might it have been released with different names in different countries? "Down with Freedom! We Want Slavery"
[17:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:24] <exec> 08└─If the contribution is anonymous, anyone who decides to violate the license has nothing to fear.
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[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:08] <exec> 08└─It's a pay-to-play organization(*), what did you expect? (*) They have 'platinum', 'gold', 'silver' members, how do you think you get that level?
[18:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:09] <exec> 08└─For profit, nonprofit, benevolent societies, brotherhoods, churches, whatever - he who pays the bills usually calls the shots. I'm somewhat sympathetic to this complaint, but, reality is what it is. Any one of us can donate 50 billion dollars to the Linux Foundation, and our voices will be heard. I...
[18:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:38] <exec> 08└─Looks like the thought police have mod points today!
[18:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:40] <exec> 08└─we would go to McDonald's if we wanted FAST food, but it wasn't great. We went to Burger King if you wanted good burgers or Harvey's if you wanted extra pickles or what ever: but you had to wait longer. Today, you wait and wait no matter where you go because they know you'll wait because they've eli...
[18:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:42] <exec> 08└─It's basic contract law via bylaws and regulations. There's nothing magical about shareholder capitalism. The other big reason corporations have their hands tied is that fudiciary thing which isn't there to prevent corporations from doing responsible stuff, but to keep them from doing fraud against...
[18:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:44] <exec> 08└─Communism is absolutely evil, at least when applied to any society with more than a couple of hundred people. On the very small scale it can work. But on the large scale... Communism depends on compelled labor, as no individual has the right to seek a better life. And yet it guarantees only basic su...
[18:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:46] <exec> 08└─> One problem interpreting numbers like these is that there are many definitions of capitalism and socialism. ^^ this.
[18:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:48] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Between shifting definitions and the acute lack of true Scotsmen it's very difficult to have a discussion on the topic.
[18:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:50] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't look exactly like that. Karl Marx wrote within a specific timeframe, regarding a specific society, with the built-in assumptions that do not even apply any more. Adding on to that, his swallowing of Hegel's notions of historic progress (since roundly and rudely debunked) meant that hi...
[18:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:53] <exec> 08└─It seems like you need to work on your reading comprehension. The worst I did was assume the AC will vote Trump instead of Sanders, and I highly doubt they would vote Biden anyway since that comment is most likely just more FUD from the shills
[18:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:55] <exec> 08└─It's just you. There never was a more moral period of business.
[18:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:57] <exec> 08└─It's pretty well understood by now in the field of political economics that capitalism does not, and can not, exist in a vacuum. It requires, at a minimum, contract law along with judgement and enforcement of same. You also need, depending on how you split things up, laws governing ownership and nui...
[18:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:59] <exec> 08└─right *now* there are jobs And after self-driving comes fully online? Even those people getting by as Uber drivers will be out of a job
[18:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:01] <exec> 08└─I don't think "capitalism run amok" is anything new. There have always been unscrupulous companies. What may be new is the degree to which corporate cronyism exists. Large companies have always influence politicians, but many politicians barely even pretend to represent their constituents. Their vot...
[18:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:44] <exec> 08└─Before spreading that FUD, you need to read up on Munich. The overview is, the rank and file had more than 80% adjusted to Linux. A few didn't like it, a few hated it, and almost no one really bitched. There were a few - very few - instances in which Linux was not able to fill some niche space, so t...
[18:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:14] <exec> 08└─I think she should return those items to a museum, then give special concierge-level tours and answer questions about the items with interested visitors who pass a gatekeeping quiz and join the Alan Turing fan club, of which she's the president. That sounds fair enough.
[18:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:35] <exec> 08└─Predictable results. It's as if this was set up so they wouldn't have to actually deliver.
[18:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:44] <exec> 08└─Taiwan (and Japan I hear) features urinals with motion sensing. They start to flush (a little) as you approach--and automatically supply the water flow that I understand some guys need to get started. I'd heard of this "preflush" when in my 20s, (c.1980) while working with a much older engineer on a...
[18:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:45] <exec> 08└─Your title could be correct (for the original version?) I remembered watching it 20 years ago (but did not remember the title), googled around a bit to find that clip and took the title from there. Certainly an unusual movie!
[18:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lego Launches International Space Station with Rotating Solar Panels and Tiny Astronauts - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:56] <exec> 08└─Works for me. I just clicked the "Explore" button on the left side of the cookie notice overlay.
[19:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:51] <exec> 08└─I was LOLing 30 seconds into the first episode -- thanks for the pointer :-) .
[19:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:52] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the insurance fraud [schlockmercenary.com]!
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[19:51:58] <exec> 08└─he who pays the bills usually calls the shots.
[19:52:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 922 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:10] <exec> 08└─"Commitments to sustainable business practices". The problems that are driving people away from capitalism are overwhelmingly material and concrete problems beyond the scale of individaul bad actors. Climate change, increasing inequality, poverty, and social isolation. Real problems, have to be spec...
[19:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:38] <exec> 08└─So perfect a fit: http://www.read.gov [read.gov]
[19:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:40] <exec> 08└─And the flip side of that coin is that they've also watered down the term socialism to the point of absurdity by labeling literally every proposal that helps people as socialism. Obamacare is socialism? Well I like being able to buy my own health insurance. The EPA is socialism? Well I like rivers t...
[19:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/special-comment/ebay-v-newmark-al-franken-was-right-corporations-are-legally-required-to-maximize-profits/ [litigationandtrial.com]
[19:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:44] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about the stealing from charity: https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] https://wrongologist.com [wrongologist.com]
[19:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:47] <exec> 08└─And when there are not, get back to me. (spoiler : people have been saying automation will destroy all of the jobs for 200 years and they've been wrong the whole time.)
[19:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:49] <exec> 08└─Please explain how you can read the best chance of getting the current nutjobs out of office
[19:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:51] <exec> 08└─I didn't mean a Trump loyalist, I logically concluded that they would not vote for a "far left" candidate, and their use of "far left" belies their ignorance. Probably a Libertarian since they are willing to call the current group nutjobs, but that means they'll vote Trump over Sanders. Possibly the...
[19:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:53] <exec> 08└─Today, you wait and wait no matter where you go because they know you'll wait because they've eliminated so much of the competition.
[19:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:55] <exec> 08└─I'll see you and up with some SCOTUS: Common Misunderstandings About Corporations [cornell.edu]
[19:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:57] <exec> 08└─Capitalism turns hierarchical corporations into the dominant form of how humans are organized. And one of the problems with hierarchical corporations is that they tend to develop into systems that select its leadership for sociopathy. Sociopathic people are more effective at doing things like lying...
[19:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:00] <exec> 08└─Looks like Kim Jong Un has mid points today too!
[19:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:02] <exec> 08└─If you insist that the business cover external costs, like air pollution, then it will adapt to avoid them.
[19:53:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Vodafone Quits Facebook's Libra Currency - 345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:10] <exec> 08└─The biggest users of virtual currencies are speculators and people looking for anonymity. I'm sure the first group would be interested but the second would stay away from a Facebook run currency like the plague. Without them, there is very little reason to consider Libra over the vast number of exis...
[19:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Quits Facebook's Libra Currency - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:15] <exec> 08└─It was the greatest idea of the last decade, the people that recognized it as such have already become very wealthy for doing so. But it is not over. If the governments of the world could not agree to a currency weighting scheme for SDRs, they won't be able to agree on a UN-coin or gov-coin either....
[19:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:47] <exec> 08└─I was abused by one of my parents and had this issue since I can remember. Maybe that is part of this? I fought against it as an adult and I have mostly beat it though, but it took concerted effort.
[19:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:20] <exec> 08└─There are these guys actually building a CAPABLE power loader that looks EXACTLY like the one in the Aliens movie. They've been at it for a year now and they have a functioning arm. This is part 6 video (most recent) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I think these guys are 2-...
[20:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:01] <exec> 08└─But that's not as edgy!
[20:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Secures International Rights to Studio Ghibli Animated Films - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:02] <exec> 08└─Hard to choose between: shin sekai yori the ancient magus' bride time of eve dusk maiden of amnesia
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[20:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:00] <exec> 08└─So what? [chromium.org]
[20:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:02] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice + Firefox anyone?
[20:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:04] <exec> 08└─Irritating your customers is always great for market share.
[20:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:06] <exec> 08└─If this doesn't prove that they're effectively a monopoly I'm not sure what does. If you or I did this, we'd be in the lockup for "hacking."
[20:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:08] <exec> 08└─A blacklist value of '*' means all extensions are blacklisted unless they are explicitly listed in the whitelist.
[20:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:19] <exec> 08└─When Microsoft finally acquired "joined" The Linux Foundation in 2016, they did so at the Platinum level.
[20:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:21] <exec> 08└─"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." (Le Lys Rouge)
[20:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:23] <exec> 08└─No, but tens of thousands of people have donated the actual work that created the operating system. Money is like 3rd, at best, in terms of things linux go. The capture of open source projects by moneyed interests is pretty much in direct defiance of the underlying ideals.
[20:52:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tekk [5704] 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:32] <exec> 08└─Companies are "committing" to climate change goals then walking them back, "companies can't ignore their workers" yet the gig economy and amazon sweatshops are as big as ever, etc. All this garbage is just marketing, at the end of the day if they think that ignoring their climate goals and treating...
[20:52:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 754 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:38] <exec> 08└─Yes. And therefore Capitalism can't solve those problems, but also doesn't create them. What's wrong is the incentive structure. Change the incentive structure and Capitalism will change what it does. Actually, of course, this partially depends on precisely what you mean by Capitalism...but it works...
[20:52:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:40] <exec> 08└─What we have now is capitalism run amok. Greed unrestrained by any sense of responsibility. There's nothing wrong with being successful. And maybe it's just me, but I have this silly notion that at one time, some companies had a sense of not harming people in their rush to profit. But then, I think...
[20:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:17] <exec> 08└─You know, rarely do I see someone modded troll for being anti-left and think "Yeah, that's not the correct response", but it's not the correct response here. It's blindly ideological, but I want to actually discuss this, because it actually differentiates the left economic vision from the right one....
[20:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:19] <exec> 08└─I've had hundreds of orders from all over the country in the last few days alone! https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[20:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:21] <exec> 08└─Not really. The discussion is about capitalism, and the only definition of capitalism that matters is the system we have now.
[20:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:23] <exec> 08└─Other countries are irrelevant. They do not get a vote here.
[20:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:25] <exec> 08└─Doesn't apply, Burwell isn't even about fiduciary duties at all, it's a first amendment case. No one would ever apply Burwell to a publicly traded corporation. In fact the opinion itself actually points out that a religious freedom argument could likely never even be presented by a public corporatio...
[20:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:27] <exec> 08└─I think you are mixing up immoral and amoral. Immoral means morally wrong or objectionable. (Exploiting workers is immoral.) Amoral means separate from morality. (If you look at exploitative business practices amorally, they are efficient.)
[20:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:30] <exec> 08└─Yet another attempt to criticize free market capitalism by citing an example where it's deliberately broken. Here, the US government gave a business a bunch of public capital to another party without even rudimentary safeguards to ensure the money was used for the intended purpose. Nothing free mark...
[20:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:32] <exec> 08└─The proper question is: what outcome do we want, and how do we shape the rules of our society to support that?
[20:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:34] <exec> 08└─Remove the boomer soviet-communists-will-kill-us-all-with-nukes indoctrination that my generation never had and there's very little actual deterrence to socialism.
[20:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:36] <exec> 08└─I suppose you're right.
[20:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:38] <exec> 08└─Did you address your fake news journal post yet?
[20:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:40] <exec> 08└─No, mostly what we have is a government that is supposed to keep its foot on the neck of anyone playing silly buggers with monopoly powers but deciding they like huge sacks of money better than doing their jobs. Greed in business is not a problem, it's shit functioning as intended. The ability to st...
[20:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:43] <exec> 08└─ok, boomer (no really, way to miss the point of the fuckin post as much as is humanly possible)
[20:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:45] <exec> 08└─Come to TN. The illegals here have jobs that have them riding around in shiny, new $70K trucks because nobody here wants to work. You can not hire day labor in TN, legal or illegal, because there is no labor to be found. Even at twice minimum wage. Anyone here who wants to work can find a $15/hr job...
[20:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:47] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean some people here click on your links? Learn something new every day.
[20:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:49] <exec> 08└─I have no idea if that's true or not. I'm a straight up burger snob. My metric isn't speed, it's that they can make a burger as good or better than I can (I make damned good burgers) and that I don't have to cook that night. Price isn't really relevant either as long as they don't go nuts.
[20:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:51] <exec> 08└─You want good results? Tie their pay or even their continued employment to how well they do their jobs. Ditch the Rolls Royce Retirement and the Heavenly Healthcare and let them live with what they tell us we have to live with. Forbid them any income whatsoever outside the pay from their office. Hav...
[20:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:54] <exec> 08└─But that isn't what profit is at all. Profit is the money that's left after the costs are subtracted, and it applies to both workers and investors. If profit was the difference between what a worker was paid and what their work is worth, then a business increasing profits by, for example, negotiatin...
[20:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:56] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is the system that saved most people from hunger and poverty in human history and that is a proven fact.
[20:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:58] <exec> 08└─Depends on the outcome that you want. The most successful parts of the american model are the parts that put limits on power; the famous checks and balances. As far as the market is concerned, I can think of one place where I'm in broad agreement with Warren on goals, if not methods. I would shape m...
[20:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:00] <exec> 08└─Soooo you're an idiot who doesn't understand democratic socialism? Got it, please go suck off all the CEOs who got corporste bailouts on my dine thaaaaaaanks.
[20:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:02] <exec> 08└─Uber sets the prices of uber rides, not "the market". It's a fiction to assuage regulators who think like you do.
[20:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Quits Facebook's Libra Currency - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:13] <exec> 08└─Luck is for people betting on dumb ICOs.
[20:54:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:29] <exec> 08└─Moved to what? Linux is even less ready for the desktop than it was 20 years ago.
[20:54:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:38] <exec> 08└─When will people LEARN?!?!?
[20:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:48] <exec> 08└─get off of systemd distros ... Try Void Linux and you instantly get rid of the "Red Hat" bloat
[20:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:50] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you should just stay with Microsoft and quit complaining HAVE YOU EVER CONTRIBUTED TO LINUX OR DO YOU JUST BITCH ALL THE TIME?
[20:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:52] <exec> 08└─With your constant anti linux comments I have to ask: HAVE YOU EVER CONTRIBUTED TO LINUX? IF NOT, YOU REALLY HAVE NO GROUNDS TO COMPLAIN ...
[20:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CenturyLink, Frontier Took FCC Cash, Failed to Deploy All Required Broadband - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:41] <exec> 08└─They hounded me for years about money they claimed I owed them. The company had posted charges to a bank account I closed, even though I had phoned in to cancel service, and mailed their equipment back. Their customer retention a-hole wouldn't hear the word "cancel", which I must have repeated five...
[20:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can't Go in a Public Restroom? You're Not Alone - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:53] <exec> 08└─If I don't get over my shy bladder and shy bowel, I'm gonna have a case of shy underwear ....
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[21:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:06] <exec> 08└─Remember back in the good old days that they would get in trouble for doing this kind of thing? Pepperidge Farm remembers [wikipedia.org].
[21:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:08] <exec> 08└─Who -- google or MS?
[21:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:10] <exec> 08└─ex + elinks? ed + curl? echo + wget? Maybe talk the old way, words and sounds?
[21:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:12] <exec> 08└─Who -- google or MS?
[21:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:14] <exec> 08└─I am trying out "Brave" in Win10, initially as a PDF reader, but also to verify its functionality. I have noticed that unwanted extensions, such as "Avast" magically show up in both browsers, but can be disabled. Is it possible to disable this new extension in Brave?
[21:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember: While that was being prosecuted and decided, they increased their lobbying spending considerably, and all of a sudden the prospect of a breakup and any real punishment went away. They learned their lesson well: Bribing the government is good for business.
[21:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:29] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone has ever tried to calculate the time value of donated work.
[21:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:30] <exec> 08└─I believe what we are seeing is also a response to the general economic downturn over the last forty years. Free Software is at its heart a hobby, and hobbies require both time and money from the hobbyist. The majority of people who would be driving it today simply can't afford it.
[21:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:33] <exec> 08└─The Linux kernel by itself was valued around $5 billion back in 2015.
[21:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:35] <exec> 08└─One man can change the world with a bullet commit in the right place. (c)
[21:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:37] <exec> 08└─This confirms my biases, therefor must be correct.
[21:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:39] <exec> 08└─There was another such calculation some years earlier, prior to 2009, and it was in the $4 Billion range.
[21:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:42] <exec> 08└─I think the lone hobbyist coder is long gone. Major open source projects now get most of their code contributions from corporate paid full time developers. The world has changed. Big businesses see a real profit benefit to contributing to open source. Yes, it costs you something. But you get in retu...
[21:53:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:13] <exec> 08└─> One problem interpreting numbers like these is that there are many definitions of capitalism and socialism. ^^ this.
[21:53:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:23] <exec> 08└─And the flip side of that coin is that they've also watered down the term socialism to the point of absurdity by labeling literally every proposal that helps people as socialism. Obamacare is socialism? Well I like being able to buy my own health insurance. The EPA is socialism? Well I like rivers t...
[21:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:56] <exec> 08└─Words mean things, but you're a fan of Trump's trolling so I'm not surprised you would be ok with making up your own rules for language as well. You man up enough to correct the record with your jourbal entry blaming Democrsts for Republican legislation? Curious what bit of logic you have to protect...
[21:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:57] <exec> 08└─Regulations bad! Wait, why aren't they regulating those monopolies? *surprised pikachu*
[21:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:00] <exec> 08└─Umm, what about their kids with no experience getting to run the white house? Oh right, your a tribal hack who can't ever admit he is wrong. You are a blight upon this community.
[21:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:02] <exec> 08└─This is, like, almost by definition, what capitalism is. You must be an elite to control enough wealth to earn "profit".
[21:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:04] <exec> 08└─Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
[21:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:06] <exec> 08└─The problem is that capitalism selects for the bad apples
[21:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:08] <exec> 08└─There's no one system of capitalism. Even if we restrict our attention to the US. Capitalism varies hugely by region. Capitalism in Silicon Valley is very different from capitalism in Wyoming or Louisiana.
[21:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:10] <exec> 08└─Tie their pay or even their continued employment to how well they do their jobs.
[21:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:13] <exec> 08└─Where?
[21:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:15] <exec> 08└─I think there is a balance to a lot of things about public policy. It is either extreme that is bad. Capitalism run amok. Or alternately government regulation run amok. I would venture a guess that many government regulations were the result of bad behavior by businesses that had a collateral damage...
[21:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:17] <exec> 08└─And could you really say this was some kind of fair, or reasoned debate, where both parties are just seeking the truth, after looking at this chart that demonstrates the people arguing against me are nothing more than stinking leaches?
[21:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Quits Facebook's Libra Currency - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:30] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin didn't have an ICO.
[21:55:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 567 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:03] <exec> 08└─Before spreading that FUD, you need to read up on Munich. The overview is, the rank and file had more than 80% adjusted to Linux. A few didn't like it, a few hated it, and almost no one really bitched. There were a few - very few - instances in which Linux was not able to fill some niche space, so t...
[21:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:07] <exec> 08└─I'd like to, but the 4th directive is apparently censored wrt meatbags.
[21:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:20] <exec> 08└─Every time you hear about a hack it's Windows. The solution is obvious: ban this malware.
[21:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:21] <exec> 08└─I started charging a minimum of $20 every time my friends fucked up Windows and asked me to fix it.
[21:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:59] <exec> 08└─Feedback and transparency. Closing a bug as WONTFIX or NOTABUG provides important feedback to the userbase about what has already been reported as well as information about what the developer considers valid reports. Deleting them means there is no record so the next person to come across a problem...
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[22:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:58] <exec> 08└─In space, no one can see you're a tree.
[22:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:00] <exec> 08└─Black... with a thousand points of light
[22:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:03] <exec> 08└─Nope, reusing Air Force uniforms to save money, but with a new patch sewn on. If Space Force does send military personnel into space 50 years from now, they should wear orange instead of camo.
[22:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:05] <exec> 08└─what to call members of the new service
[22:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:07] <exec> 08└─Air Force has airmen, so Space Force should have spacemen.
[22:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:09] <exec> 08└─> I'm happy that the US military is focusing more on space. Beats finding new ways to blow people up. With that huge budget, maybe they can make some non-destructive progress. Its the US military. If anything, they are going to work (and spend money) on finding even more new ways to blow people/thin...
[22:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:11] <exec> 08└─Are you signing up then, Fangorn?
[22:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:14] <exec> 08└─"non destructive" doesn't really fit with what the military is about.
[22:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:16] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Command [wikipedia.org] Space Force has been around since 1982. It just wasn't a service branch. They will probably try to find new ways to blow up satellites or prevent them from being blown up.
[22:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:18] <exec> 08└─The uniforms should be black, and all Space Force members should be required to wear Blackface makeup. Ethanol, that's not funny and you're a racist.
[22:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should just adopt the uniforms from the Stargate TV series?
[22:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:22] <exec> 08└─If they are doing a covert mission in space, they will wear a spacesuit. They can just make that black. Unless it absorbs sunlight + lasers and kills them faster.
[22:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:41] <exec> 08└─To hell with the sound quill + parchment
[22:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:43] <exec> 08└─bing.com 127.0.0.1
[22:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:45] <exec> 08└─I 'member
[22:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:47] <exec> 08└─If you get sick of Brave's shit, go WaterFox instead. I never understood why Brave was higher-rated, it's got all kinds of little privacy-autist-triggering shit that's not straightforward (if not impossible) to disable.
[22:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:06] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that's what's happened - see systemd. It wasn't the first attempt - anyone remember mono? But what did people expect? Never agree to assign your copyright to any foundation - they all end up with their primary interest being self-perpetuating. Just look at the Mozilla Foundation. Inst...
[22:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:33] <exec> 08└─No, the problem with "socially responsible capitalism" is that the people pushing the phrase are usually anti-social neoliberals. They keep using these words. I do not think it means what they think it means. [soylentnews.org]
[22:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:35] <exec> 08└─If you'd read Adam Smith you'd realize there's no contradiction. Government must act to maintain a free market, not to hinder it.
[22:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:37] <exec> 08└─Well environmental regulations are a hindrance but important if you don't like cancer and do like intact ecologies. Mostly I was poking fun at the "gov bad, regulations bad" crowd. Such regulations are often criticized by conservatives as anti-business job wreckers, but I like living in a less pollu...
[22:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:39] <exec> 08└─The interest rate for small accounts hasn't be above inflation since at least the 1960's. There was a brief period when "treasury bills" or "certificates of investment" were above inflation, but just about as soon as they were opened to purchase for less than $10,000, that ceased being true. OTOH, t...
[22:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:41] <exec> 08└─I went for the crimes and abuses of power more directly tied to being president, otherwise it would have taken too long!
[22:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does require serious enforcement. So do laws against bank robbery. The problem has been that there hasn't been serious enforcement, so the result has been largely PR. Also, the pollution laws don't require that the company pay to clean up the pollution they allow to escape, but rather that t...
[22:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:46] <exec> 08└─You gonna issue a retraction on your fake news journal yet? Are you capable of admitting when you're wrong, or is "democrat" the magic word which triggers TMB out of all respectability?
[22:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:48] <exec> 08└─That would be science, not capitalism. Also, capitalism is the single most dominant cause of our environmental pollution due to greed pushing disposable products, packaging, and designed-to-fail devices. I won't argue capitalism does have positive aspects, but that is the stuff you probably have a g...
[22:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:50] <exec> 08└─There actually have been times of more "moral" business. When transportation was expensive, and you were dependent on local customers opinion of you, businesses were more moral. When customers are plentiful and either uninformed or mislead you get less moral businesses being successful.
[22:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:52] <exec> 08└─Ha, you get one troll mod and bitch about it? Baby
[22:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:54] <exec> 08└─That's more to do with the growth of lobbying since the Civil War. It used to be illegal to "lobby" federal legislators. (I'm not sure about state legislators.) It's also a result of faster communication and transportation. And larger populations. Legislators used to actually speak to most of those...
[22:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:56] <exec> 08└─Anybody can point out imperfections. Marx did. Inventing something better is far more difficult. Marx failed. His nonsense assumes a world in which human nature is somehow mysteriously changed. Attempting to follow his advice has killed well over 100 million people, and it would be foolhardy to try...
[22:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Quits Facebook's Libra Currency - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:11] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[22:55:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:57] <exec> 08└─don't let friends use Microsoft products!
[22:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Exposed 250 Million Customer Support Records - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:02] <exec> 08└─I tell everyone who asks that I don't, and won't, support Windows. They quickly stopped asking, and life became happier.
[22:56:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:16] <exec> 08└─She legally changed her name to Julia Mathison Turing in 1988. Her previous name was Julie Ann Schwinghamer.
[22:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:21] <exec> 08└─Yep, just about to point that out. There is a reason why a number of services allow you to track name changes across the entire U.S. and why more courts are getting the power to require a psychiatric exam before granting one. It isn't that uncommon for people who are obsessed with someone to change...
[22:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sarcos Offers Fully Mobile, Insanely Strong Industrial Exoskeletons - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:27] <exec> 08└─I was thinking Starship Troopers.
[23:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Am Done with Open Source': Developer of Rust Actix Web Framework Quits, Appoints New Maintainer - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:45] <exec> 08└─The real user base of a bug database is the devs. End of story. People repeatedly spamming stuff that is not a bug have no right to be provided a platform. Same as if you shitposted to the FDA drug interaction database. The rust fanbois are being stupid demanding their version of code purity - and l...
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[23:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:13] <exec> 08└─https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/147006/where-did-the-field-uniforms-come-from-that-the-sg-teams-wear [stackexchange.com]
[23:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:14] <exec> 08└─I'll add it to my list of pole questions. What to call members of US Space Force? * Spacemen (spacepersons) * Rocketeers * Space Cadets * Spaced Out * Other (please specify in comments)
[23:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:17] <exec> 08└─Is there a defined purpose of Space Force? Are they astronauts? Or pilots of space drones?
[23:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:19] <exec> 08└─They will probably try to find new ways to blow up satellites or prevent them from being blown up.
[23:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:21] <exec> 08└─A good hazing ritual would be to wrap all second-lieutenants in gold foil satellite-style and post them up for bitch-duty like CQ. When I worked at the shipyards, I would have to be let on board by an ensign who was being hazed by similar bitch-duty. I noticed that one of his collar bars was green a...
[23:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:23] <exec> 08└─For the near future, dicking around with satellites and possibly orbital weapons. For the far future, deflection and destruction of asteroids, and shielding Earth from magnetic anomalies. For the very distant future, space colonialism. To seek out new life and new civilizations, and enslave them and...
[23:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:25] <exec> 08└─The spaceman vanished into an inner room and reappeared in a moment lugging a plastic case called a space pack, or "spack" for short. It contained complete personal equipment for space travel. Rip grabbed it. "Fast service. Thanks, Rocky." All spacemen were called "Rocky" if you didn't know their na...
[23:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:27] <exec> 08└─Geeks Unlike the other forces, physical strength has no advantage and every task *is* ‘rocket science’
[23:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Command [wikipedia.org] According to AFSPC, its mission was to "Provide resilient and affordable space capabilities for the Joint Force and the Nation." AFSPC's primary mission areas were: National Security Space Launch: The launching of satellites and o...
[23:52:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 20 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:45] <exec> 08└─Who -- google or MS?
[23:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, but the poor lusers will be confused with no sound. Caveman cubicles are the pointy-haired boss solution. Therefore, I propose: hammers and chisels on stone tablets. Lusers will hear the *tink* *tink* of typing(even better than the old beloved IBM 'clacker' keyboards), and HR can hear/feel the *...
[23:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:55] <exec> 08└─" Aside from the potential to enrage sysadmins and users alike, we question the wisdom of conditioning users to search for internal, likely confidential data in their Web browser's general-purpose search bar "
[23:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:57] <exec> 08└─edlin + usenet
[23:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:59] <exec> 08└─lol Or perhaps you can reroute bing to Google (or whatever search engine you want) instead? I wonder if you can do it with the hosts.txt file (IIRC and if that's still used)?
[23:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:01] <exec> 08└─Unless it comes up 'do you want to do this' they should be sued into oblivion. Burnt to the ground, and we all get to have a party stamping on their ashes.
[23:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:04] <exec> 08└─You're assuming that they don't avoid IP lookup. IIRC, they have in the past avoided it, so they probably will this time.
[23:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know about Chrome, but in FireFox you can choose which search engine you want as your default. Sometimes I choose Google, and sometimes I choose Duck-duck-go. Somehow I never choose Bing...but I could.
[23:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:08] <exec> 08└─The point I was trying to make was that searching externally to corporate doesn't make a difference whether or not it was Bing, Google, Yahoo, or even DuckDuckGo. Those are all essentially the same searches, just with different skins, anyway. DuckDuckGo just pretends to suck more than the others so...
[23:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Community Members: Linux Foundation Representing Only the Interests of its Corporate Membership - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:28] <exec> 08└─Well, to me my android phone is a poor substitute for a real phone, with the only advantages being a built-in alarm clock and a built-in phone book. The latter is only an advantage because stores stopped selling small ones to carry in my pocket. And the alarm clock is a pretty poor alarm clock...but...
[23:53:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 1203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:45] <exec> 08└─Marketing is a tiny expense with a huge ROI. While we lived in Houston, we went to a toddler's play place and frequently met another mom there who was a "Pelican washer" for one of the big petroleum companies. Her job was to go around wherever oil was spilled (think Exxon Valdez, but it's a continuo...
[23:53:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 857 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:50] <exec> 08└─The more amusing part is you think Sanders is far left, he IS a centrist by all the other sane countries' standards. All you've said here is you will vote for a corrupt criminal instead of a liberal who would actually help your brothers and sisters suffering from insane medical bills and lack of wor...
[23:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:08] <exec> 08└─Capitalism and government regulations are not in opposition. There are many quite decent arguments that capitalism couldn't exist without support from the government, or at least not any more than it exists among the illegal drug merchants. But even they depend on government backed currency...so may...
[23:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:09] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is absolute evil, except when limited to two or so people, like with prostitution, or just a few, like Mercenaries, or slavery, or the Market for Soylent Green. Contracts of Mutual consent.
[23:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, public corporations are tied by their corporate charters. If their charters say they're out to maximize shareholder profits, then they are required to act that way. If other goals are supposed to take precedence, then they're supposed to put those goals first, though enforcement of that it...
[23:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:14] <exec> 08└─C'mon, Flautulent Buzzard! We all know you do not have enough money to be worth coming after! You would be dead weight in a Socialist society! What we really want from you is your coding skills, and you seem to be willing to donate these to SN for free! Thanks, Comrade!
[23:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:16] <exec> 08└─You mean Sanders, don't you? We can at least sort of see how Trump got rich. He started with a small loan from his father, and then invested it in real estate, and he did a bunch of brand licensing. Sanders has 3 houses. How? He has never worked a high-paying or non-elected job. Is this how socialis...
[23:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:18] <exec> 08└─. A recent example is the profoundly dishonest Gross National Happiness [wikipedia.org] index of Nepal
[23:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:20] <exec> 08└─That really depends on what you call capitalism. What would you call the stone age merchant who traveled the amber route? He had to have the capital to acquire his merchandise to start with, and he needed to sell it at enough of a profit to pay for his trip. And he had no governmental support, not...
[23:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:22] <exec> 08└─Science is about knowledge, not organisation. Capitalism is a form of emergent organisation. Science doesn't feed the hungry - it provides know-how on feeding the hungry. Capitalism provides organisation that results in getting the hungry fed.
[23:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:25] <exec> 08└─It also depends on what you call government. The community or tribal standards that support trade and honest dealing are also a form of government - including for prehistoric amber merchants. If you think governments only involve scribes and ministers and all the rest of it, sure, you're right.
[23:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:27] <exec> 08└─The interest rate for small accounts hasn't be above inflation since at least the 1960's.
[23:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Well Can Capitalism Solve Capitalism's Problems? - 3077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:29] <exec> 08└─...it stops this "externality" bullshit and starts thinking past the next quarter. And reminds itself that it exists for the sake of improving the lot of humans in a way which (ideally) jibes with human nature more than something like a top-down command economy. Capitalism's major problem is the sam...
[23:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:20] <exec> 08└─With your constant complaining of Windows/Linux/whatever, if you never contributed code to it do you have any right to complain? See how flawed your argument is? Unlike most users I actually paid $160 for a collection of Linux distros from Walnut Creek back in the 90s. The situation with Linux has b...
[23:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:21] <exec> 08└─Gotta love how stupid trolls demonstrate their stupidity with flawed arguments. Have you ever contributed to Windows/OSX or do you just complain about it all the time? Same flawed argument, just a different target. I noticed you continue to fail to address the problems I point out - that's a pretty...
[23:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:24] <exec> 08└─For those interested, BypassESU is a hack of German origin to enable future Windows 7 updates. Not guaranteed to work, Microsoft might push an update to counter it. There's an explanation out there how to change the registry manually as well.
[23:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alan Turing’s OBE Medal, PhD Certificate, Other Missing Items Found In Super-Fan’s Colorado Home - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:57] <exec> 08└─My pastor said that is 100% false. Lucifer and his dark materials are trying to lead God's children astray through temptation. He told us so while vividly describing the depravity all men are tempted by in their darkest thoughts. And he should know, since he was caught blowing a gentleman while on u...