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[00:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let There be 'Circadian' Light - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:02] <exec> 08└─"Scientists say that energy from the sun transfers heat to the body through electromagnetic radiation in the form of photons. This radiation causes body temperature to increase. When your body temperature changes more than . 5 degrees, your body reacts by being sleepy, grump, or tired."
[00:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:28] <exec> 08└─I'll rephrase that for you... "Big business lobbyists bought Congress." That's how D.C. has operated for probably a century.
[00:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:04] <exec> 08└─iOS != MacOS
[00:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:06] <exec> 08└─So all those complaints are fake? Unboxing reviews mean shit. You know that, I know that, cut the crap. Also, why should I care what version it runs as long as it's at least 3.0? It's not like end user experience has improved since.
[00:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:08] <exec> 08└─The choices were another phone or using an existing one that was sitting in a drawer after an upgrade. One that works better than the newest Android. My preference would have been neither, and tell people to get hold of me via email alone, which I would check a couple of times a week, because I pref...
[00:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:10] <exec> 08└─A few people lodged a complaint on a website (out of how many orders?) - you're saying the whole company is a sham? For heaven's sake. If you're not just here to troll then I suggest you educate yourself about maintaining legacy devices with old kernels via lineageos, halium, replicant, postmarketOS...
[00:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:12] <exec> 08└─The cost of icloud is an upfront fee with a new Apple device, borne by your sister's original purchase.
[00:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:14] <exec> 08└─such goodwill and benevolence! thank you, apple
[00:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:16] <exec> 08└─If you're not just here to troll then I suggest you educate yourself about maintaining legacy devices with old kernels via lineageos, halium, replicant, postmarketOS.
[00:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:18] <exec> 08└─And what is the problem with that, exactly? It's the same fee (zero), even if the device lasts 10 years (which is likely - it only has 4 more years to go). You can buy extra storage on the cheap, but I'm not one of those people who stores crap on the cloud "because cloud." Got to wonder why you sh...
[00:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:20] <exec> 08└─Oh please, re-read the post you're replying to. Isn't MacOS a unix-like, at the core? Who has root on an Apple product?
[00:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:40] <exec> 08└─So all Tesler invented is "paste"? You know, if the dude had pulled the same stunt today, he would have been sued to smithreen by glue makers.
[00:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:37] <exec> 08└─This is the ethical equivalent of injecting a healthy young child with cancer and ebola. MS be gone! Cast this evil out!
[00:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:38] <exec> 08└─"Microsoft Threat Protection" .. sounds like the Mob. "Lenny, explain to him." "Ok. You see, you pay de boss for protection and we doesn't whack your system. Dats called protection." "So, you gonna sign up, or we let Mr Kneecaps here have a talk wit you?"
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[01:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:11] <exec> 08└─If iPhone works for you fine. But don't pretend your cloud email is a free just because you're using a free device.
[01:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:12] <exec> 08└─It's all about you? A community of nerds from ubports, luneos, plasma mobile, maemo Leste, manjaro and others do want to run free software on their phone. Not to mention folks that just want the latest Android release long after their manufacturers have abandoned them. Backporting kernel features an...
[01:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─No, they are probably saving money in the long run by avoiding an anti-trust suit in the EU. It's the same reason why many Android manufacturers, including Google, announced plans to do the same.
[01:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:36] <exec> 08└─sorry what you are using ctrl-modifiers on a phone?
[01:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Offers to Pay Users for their Voice Recordings - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:14] <exec> 08└─Daleks are Jewish?
[01:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Owes $9B in Taxes Related to Ireland Deal, IRS Says - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:44] <exec> 08└─That's pretty much my plan. Figure I paid $450 for the original tax preparation, and the new guy will want at least that, I'm starting from $450 out and things will only get worse from there. Been using the guy since, dang, '95 or so? with no issues Makes one wonder if the IRS keeps track of tax pre...
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[02:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:55] <exec> 08└─Since the environment has no data that can be monetized for advertising, Google does not care. In fact, the amount of carbon dioxide generated to power Google's data centers is so high that it would make St Greta the Grumpy spin in her grave.
[02:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:56] <exec> 08└─I think someone beat them to it.
[02:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:58] <exec> 08└─But Alphabet decided the opportunity to greatly disrupt the energy sector had begun to dwindle. While Makani at first felt it could provide a competitive advantage by using its technology on land and in shallow water—as well as deep water—advancements in competing technologies meant that was lik...
[02:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 3054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:41] <exec> 08└─Here's what I saw while living with a guy that did radio repair and built his own lasers... Both you and AC are pretty much on target. They diversified to both grow their customer base and hedge their bets. This worked for a while, but eventually the diversification turned into their new core busine...
[02:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:29] <exec> 08└─But FOSS did go to shit, with everyone engaging in the "okay new I need to find yet another new distro" every once in a while.
[02:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─And the PinePhone shill shouldn't pretend it's good for anything except a toy with increasingly crappy specs. They should stop posting anonymously and be up front about who they are and their motives.
[02:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:32] <exec> 08└─Gotta hate all these anonymous posts making a big deal about an obsolete piece of hardware. Every discussion that can be remotely connected, he shows up as a total shill, hiding behind anonymity, and one or two goats trail along.
[02:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:54] <exec> 08└─Don't be intentionally stupid trying to be a smart asshole. Modal editors have been around looong before smartphones.
[02:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kickstarter Workers Make History with Unionization Vote - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:16] <exec> 08└─But, but, but... I like my Kickstarter ionized thanks very much! And now these upstarts want to un-ionize? What is the world coming to?
[02:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals How Too Much Fluoride Causes Defects in Tooth Enamel - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:58] <exec> 08└─Are you sure your not confusing the polio vaccine with the smallpox vaccine.
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[03:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:55] <exec> 08└─Well, you know these kinds of programs aren't about energy or the environment but about sucking up data. And when you're already sucking up everybody's data, you need to look for untapped markets. And giving Obamaphones and free internet to the Oogaboogas in Africa is a good way to do this. The kite...
[03:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:57] <exec> 08└─is under pressure to stem losses from the company's "Other Bets" segment Having seen a few of these sorts of things run up and down. That is the sign the accountants are in charge now not the technology people. The contagion will spread to the rest of the company.
[03:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:59] <exec> 08└─But your typical African muslim has no money, having spent his meager savings on AK-47 rounds, so why would Google be interested?
[03:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:01] <exec> 08└─Well, if you'd bothered to read my post, you would have known that the Obamaphones and data plans would have been free to them. But there were other problems besides the kites being shot down. First of all, Africans don't read news or have the money or bandwidth to download Hollywood trash and buy a...
[03:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:03] <exec> 08└─If the accountants were really in charge, there would be no "Other Bets" section in the first place, and all their profits would come directly from Soros and the DNC using the reach of their platform to censor information on their behalf. Oh, wait.
[03:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:05] <exec> 08└─So, can somebody else do this or is it dead in Google's patent coffers?
[03:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dltaylor [4693] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 895 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:33] <exec> 08└─While it is true that any computer serving files/messages/... to other computers should be configured to halt the propagation of malware, Microsoft has repeatedly used various "cover programs" to exfiltrate data from the computers on which they run. Unless there is complete transparency for all data...
[03:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:44] <exec> 08└─They can't even get their updates right without borking Windows: YEAH... I'll use a Microsoft product on MY Linux system. From my COLD, DEAD HANDS.
[03:26:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:51] <exec> 08└─ClamAV is a thing. Snort and other IDS exist and have done for years/decades. There is not only no reason for this to exist on a *nix system, but I'm throwing my hat in with the seemingly-paranoid posters upthread and guessing that this is some sort of exfiltration scheme. This shit will never, ever...
[03:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:02] <exec> 08└─Should have called it Microsoft Defendant.
[03:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:03] <exec> 08└─You forgot: "Nice system you got there, Linux admin. Shame if anything were to happen to it."
[03:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Owes $9B in Taxes Related to Ireland Deal, IRS Says - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:14] <exec> 08└─Well, people have something called the standard deduction, so I don't see why businesses can't have the same thing. Make the first $500,000 tax free (number picked out of thin air, may need some tuning). Small businesses will have their tax burden reduced or even eliminated for the smallest business...
[03:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Games: Eating Well to Remember - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:28] <exec> 08└─Vegan diets though are deficient in a key vitamin: B12. B12 deficiency can lead to pernicious anaemia and permanent neurological damage. B12 is easily obtainable as a synthetic supplement, but most vegan pushers are also hard-core "all natural" freaks and would balk at getting an essential vitamin t...
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[04:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─Didn't some old white guy flying a kite in a storm have prior art for capturing electricity with a kite? … and that many of those who tried to duplicate his discovery ended up a bit … dead? Must be fun splurging on ideas that were obviously bad just to get tax deductions.
[04:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:11] <exec> 08└─What did they spend on this "moonshot"? $100 million? The real moonshot was more like $100 billion. Sometimes the "Other Bets" don't work. And unlike the many Google products and services that have been cancelled, this snuffing will inconvenience nobody.
[04:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─The real moonshot, from Mercury to Apollo landing, was $25 billion. Seems like chump change today.
[04:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─...No."
[04:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:31] <exec> 08└─Tooltips don't work on touch interfaces - which have no equivalent to 'hovering' with the mouse pointer - and nobody's thought of an alternative The obvious alternative is to do what desktop UI's were doing 25 years ago - before the modern hovering-style tooltips became popular. You put a ? or some...
[04:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:49] <exec> 08└─They don't lock the accounts after five or ten failed login attempts? Let alone forcing password creation with small and capital letters with one number and one symbol!
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[05:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:51] <exec> 08└─~45 years ago I remember visiting a small precision machine shop. The owner offered up a polished bit of steel to show me what kind of surface finish he could achieve...and then hesitated before handing the sample to me. "Do you rust?" he asked. I asked for clarification. "Some people leave fingerpr...
[05:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:52] <exec> 08└─Fuck Jew shit. Good night, motherfucker, Bernie is good. Now let's laugh at all our misfortune! HAHAHHAHAHHEEHHEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And, FUCK YOOOOO!
[05:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:11] <exec> 08└─Adjust for inflation: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] $25.4 billion (1973) $153 billion (2018) That counts everything up to Apollo 17. You can subtract some if Apollo 11 is all you care about. Google X is intended to create new revenue streams. Even Google can't dump in...
[05:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:57] <exec> 08└─and anyone who thinks that they can truly use the internet anonymously hasn't noticed the folks convicted of child porn despite using VPNs.
[05:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kickstarter Workers Make History with Unionization Vote - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:34] <exec> 08└─Also, those blue-collar workers that were screwed when their jobs moved overseas would have been just as screwed without a union, because there are lots of countries around the world without pesky things like environmental protections, minimum wages, child labor prohibitions, and mandatory breaks. R...
[05:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Growing Crystals to Generate Random Numbers - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:40] <exec> 08└─From their paper [doi.org] they're comparing it to the Mersenne Twister [hiroshima-u.ac.jp], which is a very well regarded, but non-cryptographic PRNG. Kinda tells you that they don't really know what they're doing. Random number generators are generally evaluated by running them against a battery o...
[05:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals How Too Much Fluoride Causes Defects in Tooth Enamel - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:20] <exec> 08└─In 2016, "Percentage of US population receiving fluoridated water = 62.4% Can't logically speculate on 2020, of course.
[05:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Reveals How Too Much Fluoride Causes Defects in Tooth Enamel - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:22] <exec> 08└─Fluoride in water, by all accounts, is beneficial to the vast majority of the population, and for the few it hurts the benefits probably outweigh the negatives by a very wide margin.
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[06:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber-Attack Hits US Department of Defence Agency - May/July 2019 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:53] <exec> 08└─I feel such sympathy for them. Hope you have enough bombs to get you thru this *hearts*
[06:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:02] <exec> 08└─Would it stand up legally in court if this machine said she was 16? I have clients who would be interested in become majority owners in this business.
[06:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:05] <exec> 08└─You have questions? We have phones! Or We have blank stares!
[06:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:57] <exec> 08└─Actually, Barbara Hudson (nee Tom) has been talking out of her ass for decades. https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] She's really good at it, too. It's quite impressive. She has only recently arrived at SN. Please note that I am not condemning Barbara as dumb. I am also not suggesting that...
[06:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Workers Make History with Unionization Vote - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:45] <exec> 08└─Imagine a workplace where everyone feels they're getting screwed. Suddenly everything's a problem, nobody can fix anything, you get rolleyes to your face. Imagine a workplace where at least one person has pride in what they do. Suddenly you want to help them, somebody knows how to fix anything, you...
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[06:27:25] <exec> 08└─For recent Ryzen platforms, FreeBSD 12.1 is a very good one out of box. You may also try DragonflyBSD, that one is GNU friendly. OpenBSD may be too hardcore for a linuxer, and NetBSD is perfect for good haxorz only.
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[07:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cyber-Attack Hits US Department of Defence Agency - May/July 2019 - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:52] <exec> 08└─When I first saw this, I thought...Russian Hackers. Goddammit, those rotten meat-eating motherfuckers are sly. But how do we beat the Iranian and Russian menace? Our best friend! Israel! Who was totally not behind the "Russian hacking" all this time!
[07:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber-Attack Hits US Department of Defence Agency - May/July 2019 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:54] <exec> 08└─Yaaasss and the NSA!!111000111!!!! Truth is that Trump, the CIA, the NSA, Microsoft, Intel and... fuckin Teamviewer probably, literally sit together every day. But sure maybe the Russians found a Windows exploit..pfft.
[07:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:04] <exec> 08└─> Then I got to handle his sample. You sound like you were a impressionable kid growing up in morally flexible times. Don't stress about it, things happen and no your wife doesn't have to know. Move along, nothing to see here.
[07:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:11] <exec> 08└─More of the blank stares really. It was during that ad campaign I went to RadioShack with my roommate so he could pick up a couple of components for a laser he damaged when he dropped a screwdriver in it. They didn't have what he needed, so he asked the lone guy working the counter if he could order...
[07:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Owes $9B in Taxes Related to Ireland Deal, IRS Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:39] <exec> 08└─Genius! You go first - let me know how it goes. Oh wait... you can't spend any money. S'pose you can walk over.
[07:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Owes $9B in Taxes Related to Ireland Deal, IRS Says - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:41] <exec> 08└─Fair point that the tax system is complicated. Whenever money moves, you do in fact rely upon the State so let's actually be honest about what that costs. Ayn Rand's architect thinks he created the world but he relies on a legal contracts and the basic honesty of humans. If you want to put a specifi...
[07:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Owes $9B in Taxes Related to Ireland Deal, IRS Says - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:43] <exec> 08└─I never had to deal with tax preparers, but don't they have errors and omissions insurance that you can claim on if it was their fault? Should be available even if they retired in the meantime.
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[08:24:07] <exec> 08└─Some people's skin oil is more acidic or basic than others. I've heard of this before, and steel-stringed guitar players can confirm. He could have de-greased the object after you handled it but didn't want to be put to that much trouble.
[08:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:06] <exec> 08└─He's making a valid point though. Just because you don't want such a phone doesn't mean that there isn't a demand for one. You probably don't tinker with Raspberry Pis. I do, I have 8 currently doing useful jobs. You might not like trying different distros but many people do. And many people would l...
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[09:23:52] <exec> 08└─These concepts sound a lot like limits in calculus, such as the idea of a Riemann sum to approximate the area under a curve or the distance between two points on a curve to estimate its slope. As the width of the rectangles or trapezoids used to approximate the area goes to zero or the distance betw...
[09:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:53] <exec> 08└─Hmm, the editors have bulloxed the entire point of the submission again. Of course, if you just assume that space is not infinitely divisible, because of some supposed limit or "dark matter", . . . did I just Gaaark?
[09:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:55] <exec> 08└─Your original submission contained such useful titbits as the following: 490 BC: Zeno is born in Elea, in what is now southern Italy.450 BC: Zeno and his mentor Parmenides (“the father of metaphysics”) visit Athens, where they meet Socrates.435 BC: Zeno dies, reportedly stabbed to death while bi...
[09:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:57] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the Quantum Zeno effect [wikipedia.org], named in his honor. It can be summarised as "a watched pot never boils" which is true for some quantum systems where observing them changes the behavior drastically.
[09:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:46] <exec> 08└─I think Larry Wall referred to it as "conservation of complexity" [johndcook.com] once in a talk. I suspect that if you believe that complexity can't be removed past a certain point, then you may have to sacrifice purity in a language's syntax or scope in order to improve its functionality in the sa...
[09:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:52] <exec> 08└─Uh, on who and for what exactly? I'm missing some context clues here...
[09:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:53] <exec> 08└─Which comments are you referring to? - I can see all comments but I'm obviously looking in the wrong place for those that you are talking about.
[09:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:56] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/faq.pl?op=moderation#spam [soylentnews.org] The spam moderation information in the link above doesn't specify a duration for the ban - it is up to the administrators to decide a duration depending on previous posting history and past relevant spam activity and moderations.
[09:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:58] <exec> 08└─Ah yes - there it is - 1 month. So why are you expecting 2 weeks?
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[10:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber-Attack Hits US Department of Defence Agency - May/July 2019 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:04] <exec> 08└─Having worked as a military contractor overseas for many years, it's no secret that they don't earn much respect from those whom they are supporting. A common saying is "DISA is a four-letter word [wikipedia.org]".
[10:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:16] <exec> 08└─That much effort? https://nanomoldcoating.com [nanomoldcoating.com] There are dozens if not hundreds of similar products on the market. Degreasing is as simple as a child spraying for cooties with this stuff. I take stuff apart, and degrease the parts. When I drill and tap holes, I degr...
[10:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:18] <exec> 08└─I leave fingerprints on stuff all the time, like most people do. I don't think that I'm special, in regards to fingerprints, but sometimes I will return to a piece of work to find corrosion starting at a fingerprint. I've never given it much thought, really. Sometimes, my hands are wet. Or, I may ha...
[10:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:38] <exec> 08└─That is the sign the accountants are in charge now not the technology people.
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[11:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:58] <exec> 08└─Your original submission contained such useful titbits as the following: 490 BC: Zeno is born in Elea, in what is now southern Italy.450 BC: Zeno and his mentor Parmenides (“the father of metaphysics”) visit Athens, where they meet Socrates.435 BC: Zeno dies, reportedly stabbed to death while bi...
[11:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:00] <exec> 08└─Ah, janrinok, you think the biographical details are irrelevant? What do you think Parmenides was trying to do? And what was Zeno doing with the paradoxes? Mathematicians and modern physicists just take them as problems to be solved, and they just do that by positing totally unsubstantiated metaph...
[11:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:02] <exec> 08└─2500 year old news in fact. Is SN getting desparate? Next up, the Universe is created.
[11:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:04] <exec> 08└─Janrinok should get credit for this submission: aristarchus' submission was junk... He submitted half an article, then the other half, then cut out 50%, then half that again, then brought in a turtle to finish up for him: the turtle puked half its dinner on it, then pooped on the other half. Janrino...
[11:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:07] <exec> 08└─It was pushed through, after a MAJOR rewrite, to make aristarchus happy.
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[12:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 2793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:53] <exec> 08└─If you have to handle any &-escaped entities at all, which you do, then for most content it's no-slower to parse unicode expressed as &entities; in plain ASCII than it is to parse the raw utf-8 encoded non-ASCII. This is because UTH-8 has a way more complicated state machine for defining what a toke...
[12:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:54] <exec> 08└─As someone who's written lexers/parsers, I have no idea WTF you're talking about. Character encoding comes way before lexing or parsing. By the time your lexer gets to it, all of the interesting Unicode language characters are already decoded. So yes, UTF-8 encoded text is faster to "parse" than exp...
[12:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:09] <exec> 08└─Only if the git request went to the correct workflow. Likely, we're alpha/pre-release, and the updates are still waiting in a request queue..
[12:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:11] <exec> 08└─you think the biographical details are irrelevant?
[12:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:13] <exec> 08└─STEM includes mathematics. Many of our community like brain teasers such as this, and they will have tried to think the paradoxes through for themselves before reading how and when they were solved mathematically. They are as relevant today as they were 2500 years ago, IMO.
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[13:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─Heck, I know I'm going down in flames, so I might as well get something else off my chest... Anyone who uses: -webkit-font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1, 'kern' 1; -moz-font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1, 'kern' 1; -ms-font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1, 'kern'...
[13:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─So the initial supporting argument, the one one would expect they think is strongest if they're leading with it:
[13:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:04] <exec> 08└─I have not seen that. Is that in the CSS standard? https://developer.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] CSS Fonts Module Level 3 The definition of 'font-feature-settings' in that specification. Candidate Recommendation
[13:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:06] <exec> 08└─+1 a thousand times. I had to go into dev tools and turn off those awful stylings to make the page readable. Those css styles simply should not exist.
[13:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:08] <exec> 08└─> Character encoding comes way before lexing or parsing. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. "Encoding" is on the way out. "Decoding" is what lexers do with stuff on the way in. I'm defining "lexing" to be what you do on the input stream, namely that of octets, to create tokens. This...
[13:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:26] <exec> 08└─Isn't any attempt to make aristarchus happy a paradox in and of itself?
[13:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:28] <exec> 08└─Dichotomy paradox: If you want to walk across the room, you have to first walk half that distance, then half the remaining distance, ad infinitum, so how do you ever get there?
[13:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:30] <exec> 08└─Zeno's accomplishments weren't about the paradoxes themselves, but the questions they raised. It is easy for us to dismiss his questions or disprove his assertions, because we have since formulated the scientific tools to answer these questions. Try to disprove Zeno's paradox without using math's li...
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─True, but never before has the White House supported and defended that corruption explicitly.
[13:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:02] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech does not come with a guarantee of anonymity
[13:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:21] <exec> 08└─Control-Z as we know it was also invented by him, as well as Control-X. Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V These are the core text editing primitives in the digital age, all conveniently located next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard. Tesler chose those keys for this reason.
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[14:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pwns for Sale: Scythe Prepares a Marketplace for Sharing Simulated Hacks - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:54] <exec> 08└─When your security team is led by diversity hires, it doesn't take a sophisticated threat group using sophisticated tools to break in.
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pwns for Sale: Scythe Prepares a Marketplace for Sharing Simulated Hacks - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:56] <exec> 08└─That's so true! Our company's CISO wouldn't allow us to use a firewall... she said that stopping hackers from getting in might harm their sense of self-worth, and that some of the hackers may self-identify as females in which case we would be committing a gender crime.
[14:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03catholocism [8422] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pwns for Sale: Scythe Prepares a Marketplace for Sharing Simulated Hacks - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:58] <exec> 08└─Why is that? Do white penises provide a defense against digital threats?
[14:24:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 2793 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─If you have to handle any &-escaped entities at all, which you do, then for most content it's no-slower to parse unicode expressed as &entities; in plain ASCII than it is to parse the raw utf-8 encoded non-ASCII. This is because UTH-8 has a way more complicated state machine for defining what a toke...
[14:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, replace "dlig" 1 with "dlig" 0, and everything gets readable again.
[14:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:15] <exec> 08└─It is not as difficult as the article suggests. Everything that needs parsing is already plain ASCII; tags, escaped chars, attribute names, etc. are all ASCII. Only the content can have different encoding and this only matters when you are rendering the text. Assume UTF-8 and render the page. If you...
[14:26:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:32] <exec> 08└─Just a theory, but I've seen enough users come and go around here with oddly detailed personas. Legitimate SN users would be unlikely to share such information.
[14:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:29] <exec> 08└─So, not detracting from the pioneers - they were out there making the next things happen and certainly made a difference, often a positive one, however... A lot of what Xerox PARC was coming up with in those years was inevitable, others had done it before them and if they didn't do it and bring it i...
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[15:24:13] <exec> 08└─Then again, I'm explicitly racist when it comes to character sets. It's our western internet, invented in ASCII for ASCII use.
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[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Privacy Policy: We don't track anyone except on this site, so DNT requests aren't relevant and are ignored. We don't collect any personally identifiable information from you except your email address, which you can change at any time, never has to be real in the first place, is only used to contact...
[16:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:56] <exec> 08└─Ruin everything. The site's ruined, ruined, ruined.
[16:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:58] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, I almost forgot. submit a pull request.
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─Its more like Commiefornia, or my favorite, the "Democratic Peoples Republic of Kalifornia", otherwise known as DPRK #2 after North Korea...
[16:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:02] <exec> 08└─You're on the Internet dipshit... Nothing is private.
[16:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:04] <exec> 08└─penis
[16:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─Oppai (おっぱい): ( o Y o ) Hey, look, we're educational now! You just learned a Japanese word.
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:09] <exec> 08└─$git pull my finger fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
[16:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─ZINGER! Nice one.
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say may be laughed at or sneered at.
[16:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:15] <exec> 08└─And another one! https://www.google.com [google.com]
[16:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:17] <exec> 08└─Nah, that's more like our CoC [github.com].
[16:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─Apparently not caring what you do on other sites or even requiring any personal information isn't good enough for the state of Confusion^WCalifornia,
[16:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:21] <exec> 08└─And another one! https://www.google.com [google.com]
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─We haven't spotted any signs of life on Mars, because life is carefully hiding from us. But, "they" are watching us. This attempt to retrieve a sample from the surface of Mars is just what "they" have been waiting for. "They" are going to hitch a ride, and the invasion begins. I'm headed off to watc...
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─Nahhhh, I don't think I'll put any sarcasm tags here. Let people think I'm cereal. Fruit-Loops?
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─Phobos is not on the surface from Mars. It may have been captured from the asteroid belt, i.e. it's made of a different mix of stuff, with no Martian microbes hanging around.
[16:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:58] <exec> 08└─I prefer to start with the strongest and end there. Saves time and weaker arguments aren't necessary unless your strongest one fails.
[16:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 1830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─Funny that I got into this sort of discussion very recently with another maths-head on a different forum. We were discussing the concept of infinitesimals, and while the concept was historically important in the development of the calculus and is superficially easy to understand, it is fraught with...
[16:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber-Attack Hits US Department of Defence Agency - May/July 2019 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─Trump: "It was the Ukranians!" DNC: " It was Putin! " Probable Truth: Somebody forgot to turn off the default eavesdropping settings on a windows machine.
[16:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:04] <exec> 08└─Doesn't change the facts. The total cost was $25 billion, not $100 billion. People reading the $100 billion figure may think that since it doesn't say its "adjusted for inflation ", that the inflation adjusted amount would be half a trillion or more. And if they use THAT figure, citing it without sa...
[16:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:55] <exec> 08└─Your VPN can be bulletproof and you still can't be guaranteed to be anonymous. So why not just stop propagating propaganda about how you can be anonymous on the Internet. It's simply not going to happen. Even if you do everything right, you have to trust that the other end did too, and that is a maj...
[16:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:24] <exec> 08└─An offer of security from Microsoft? No thanks.
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[17:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─Have you seen /. recently? They completely disabled A.C. posts. You have to register and sign in to post comments. On top of that they IP ban anyone with differing political views even though the comments made were clean. I got IP banned for submitting a funny true BBC news story about cops in a don...
[17:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:14] <exec> 08└─WTF did you go there once we had SN?
[17:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:16] <exec> 08└─The thing is, if you don't say you don't collect information, how are those who come here via a link supposed to know? (OK, they could look at the html, but most people couldn't read that, and I've never bothered ... hmmm, those look like links to perl scripts (etc.). The real question is "What if y...
[17:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:18] <exec> 08└─I skim the headlines on the crapper in the morning. Sometimes they have something we missed that's worth subbing. Plus it's fun to laugh at their lack of UTF-8 support. I mean, I even offered to do that shit for them back years ago when they said they were going to finally implement it. For free. He...
[17:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:20] <exec> 08└─Nostalgia, probably. Everyone remembers their childhood, and their alma mater, and such. So, you get nostalgic, one day, and go for a drive through the old neighborhood. Maybe you even stop to visit the school. And, it's all warped, because none of it's as big as you remember. And, it's probably war...
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:22] <exec> 08└─I run a business and a website. Just for laughs I thought I'd try the "free" privacy policy generator on the linked site. Not only is it littered with options that say +$9 or +$12, but one of the questions is: What kind of personal information do you collect from users? Click all that apply: Email a...
[17:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:24] <exec> 08└─And there's the problem. The people behind laws like these are themselves bad actors at heart or they wouldn't assume everyone else is. Crap like this doesn't turn a criminal into an upstanding citizen, it just treats upstanding citizens like criminals.
[17:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:26] <exec> 08└─"What if you lie in your privacy policy?" Have you ever seen a common privacy policy that was not clearly 100% pure grade-A bull fucking shit? It is fairly well accepted that polices may read "we protect your privacy! Reeeallly!" while they turn around and quietly sell that data to the highest bidde...
[17:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:28] <exec> 08└─Dunno, how tall are you? Don't blame me when you slow pitch one across the plate like that.
[17:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:30] <exec> 08└─If you feel like prettying the language, layout, or whatever up before I get around to it...
[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─"Have you seen /. recently? " No.
[17:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:35] <exec> 08└─You collect the username I provide. You collect the email I provide which you don’t verify You collect and log IP address I visit from which my isp also collects You collect moderation that I submit You collect my posts, if any, If I name friends or enemies, you collect this info You connect usern...
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─The Phobos sample brings back some kind of anomaly. The last words heard from the team analyzing the sample are "There is something frigging evil coming though!"
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pwns for Sale: Scythe Prepares a Marketplace for Sharing Simulated Hacks - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─Ask Equifax, moron.
[17:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:13] <exec> 08└─Is you start with the strongest, and that's strong enough, you can stop there - bosh!
[17:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:15] <exec> 08└─> you Americans Oi!
[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─> parsing a freaking &-entity requires, you know, an actual parser That's not true either - that's a classic lexing job with a pretty simple grammar as long as you're prepared to be strict, and say a big "fuck you" to HTML5 which lets the entities not self-terminate, which is retarded. However, you...
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─"ASCII" => American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
[17:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─Most of Zeno's paradoxes depend on continuity, the rest depend on not noticing really small effects, but being increasingly likely to notice them if the effects get larger. N.B.: There *are* solutions which accept continuity, e.g. in the Achilles and the Tortoise you can can assume that covering sho...
[17:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:42] <exec> 08└─A long but very interesting read. Won a prize apparently. If you want a 2nd book, Donald Knuth's AOCP. Not related to the article, but since I'm referring to dead trees....;-)
[17:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:44] <exec> 08└─Try to disprove Zeno's paradox without using math's limit theory;
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:46] <exec> 08└─Which misses the whole point of the paradox. The paradoxes were digs at the ideas of continuous space and time that were assumed by the philosophers of Zeno's day, so if you answer the paradox by saying that space and time are actually discrete, all you've done is just removed the axiomatic assumpti...
[17:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:20] <exec> 08└─Propaganda about anonymity? Go take your meds, you're a bit unhinged.
[17:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:14] <exec> 08└─To be fair, didn't the AC bring up the trans fact first on this page? It wouldn't be the first time that's happened either, and it sucks. Other than that, at worst it's just off-topic if it doesn't relate to TFS in some way, but that's why we've got journals.
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[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:52] <exec> 08└─Just think you can live anywhere and still have connectivity. Wireless carriers who won't upgrade will suddenly find themselves with real competition. It will affect the astronomy geeks but overall this is a step in the right direction.
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:54] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget OneWeb that plans to do the same and faster than Mask. While they are based in Florida, they use French launch facilities and Russian rockets. Therefore they could potentially ignore the US regulations. https://www.oneweb.world [www.oneweb.world] The tech is 5G. There got to be Hua...
[18:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, I almost forgot. submit a pull request.
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:28] <exec> 08└─Because I was too lazy to style it at all.
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─Nahh, I'm being kinda serious here. When I left the elementary school, headed up to the junior high school, I never expected to come back. But, I did one day, after graduating from high school. I actually had to go inside the elementary school to pick up a cousin who needed a ride home. GEEZ LOUISE!...
[18:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of text in the policy. Would you please make the type size a lot smaller so that it is clear it is a footer or notice and not part of the informational part of the page?
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─We do hash the IP info but IPv4 addresses aren't something you can secure with a hash anymore because of the relatively small key space, so you're functionally correct even if it would take a few minutes to brute force the hash with a vid card. And we keep it for... two weeks. Precisely because we d...
[18:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─re: username, mod points, posts, friends/enemies Are these things SN collects, or are they things users generate? Is there a meaningful difference? If the collection is obvious like a post, does it have to be spelled out? I also don't think it is necessary to collect IP info. What collecting IP data...
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─I understand about the phone thing, but why are you spreading misinformation about blue LEDs?
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:39] <exec> 08└─Oh all right. 80% work for you?
[18:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:41] <exec> 08└─It's handy (as in extremely effective) as a first line of defense against spammers too. It also helps us spot obvious sockpuppets. It doesn't stick around very long though.
[18:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─I was talking about the guano stacking question.
[18:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:46] <exec> 08└─Fake Blues?
[18:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:48] <exec> 08└─WOW! Lazy or not, you're fast! It's already reduced and styled nicely.
[18:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you very much! It's a small change, but appreciated. The size differencce is enough to break the flow so that it stays separate visually.
[18:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:00] <exec> 08└─Fobos-Grunt 2 mission is scheduled for the same 2022-25 window (currently for 2025 launch) http://www.russianspaceweb.com [russianspaceweb.com]
[18:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:01] <exec> 08└─Perhaps interesting to mention the two versions of the reasons for failure of the first mission. The official one was ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. The unofficial was a bug - summer savings time was set/not set. Regardless of opinions, Russia stopped doing time adjustments (before she was trying to...
[18:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:58] <exec> 08└─I don't really get the mathematics behind most of this, or anything honestly, but in the specific case of the arrow and the tortoise, isn't it just a converging series? 1/1 + 1/10 + 1/100 + 1/1000...etc, should sum to a number much less than infinity. Is this a classical proof that spacetime is quan...
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 1804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─The solutions.. >Dichotomy paradox: If you want to walk across the room, you have to first walk half that distance, then half the remaining distance, ad infinitum, so how do you ever get there? Because space time is quantized (i.e., its 'pixels'), eventually, there is a minimum unit you can move, an...
[18:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:02] <exec> 08└─"Because space time is quantized..." Really? Please provide evidence of this. Quantum mechanics, despite the name, doesn't say so. It says matter and energy are quantized, but spacetime in QM is still a continuum. And even if it were true of the physical universe that says nothing about an abstract...
[18:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:04] <exec> 08└─Zeno's accomplishments weren't about the paradoxes themselves, but the questions they raised.
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[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:54] <exec> 08└─My wife freaked out when she saw a string of them going across the twilight sky in San Diego. She thought Russia launched nukes this way.
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─"A Russian company called StartRocket says it’s going to launch a cluster of cubesats into space that will act as an “orbital billboard,” projecting enormous advertisements into the night sky like artificial constellations. And its first client, it says, will be Pepsi." Can't wait for someone...
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:58] <exec> 08└─Satellites - predictable tracks, just about the easiest possible thing to automatically edit out of a long exposure, once you've done the math. If they were obscuring 10% of the incoming radiation, sure... but these are tiny tiny pinpricks moving in super-predictable paths - the kind of thing your i...
[19:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:00] <exec> 08└─Obvious solution: build 1000s of space telescopes. Put them in lunar orbit. And at the Earth-Moon Lagrange points. And very high orbits of Earth. Now, if only someone will pay for all that, I suspect the astronomers would view it as a fair trade in exchange for losing the ability to make ground bas...
[19:24:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:14] <exec> 08└─$git pull my finger fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
[19:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:46] <exec> 08└─...we share with nobody.
[19:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:47] <exec> 08└─Minor changes to live templates are simple and fast. I haven't committed any code yet though.
[19:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:49] <exec> 08└─Nah, this one: Nobody.
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:51] <exec> 08└─Have you seen /. recently?
[19:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:53] <exec> 08└─No, it is not required that every website interact with users or attempt to track them for the sweet, sweet ad revenue.
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:55] <exec> 08└─Nostalgia, probably. Everyone remembers their childhood, and their alma mater, and such. So, you get nostalgic, one day, and go for a drive through the old neighborhood. Maybe you even stop to visit the school. And, it's all warped, because none of it's as big as you remember. And, it's probably war...
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:39] <exec> 08└─having just ASCII has been sufficient for that for billions of people for decades
[19:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─I have not seen that. Is that in the CSS standard?
[19:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Parent Company Alphabet Pulls the Plug on Power-Generating Kite Project - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:57] <exec> 08└─/\ This guy actually practices being stupid. It's some kind of a badge of honour to him.
[19:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 2482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:21] <exec> 08└─The AC from a month ago who got spam modded for copy/pasting a list of Trump's bullshit. I was also calling out Buzztardo for his hypocrisy, and was quickly banned via the spam mod. At least that is what the authoritarian shithead said, however the fact that my IP is still banned and janrinok's expl...
[19:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 1671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:22] <exec> 08└─Because that is what TMB stated, he claimed zero responsibility and said it was only the spam mod itself and the negative karma would decay over two weeks or so. I decided not to bring it up till now as it is over four weeks. It is clear to me that those who run the site are authoritarians who have...
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[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:53] <exec> 08└─It's not a new concept, but requires an order of magnitude higher energies. Hopefully the 'swag of patents' is on something innovative rather than trying to lock down what may just be the natural progression of fast pulsed laser energies bringing this into realistic range. Here's a 2009 article on i...
[20:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:07] <exec> 08└─It will affect the astronomy geeks
[20:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:08] <exec> 08└─fast moving prick
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:10] <exec> 08└─A few years back, I was thinking about getting into astronomy - like: work on Mauna Loa. I briefly toyed with the idea of getting a hobby telescope and doing some of my own backyard work - you can do some really impressive stuff these days with less than $10K in equipment, but... in the end, no matt...
[20:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:12] <exec> 08└─Wireless carriers who won't upgrade will suddenly find themselves with real competition.
[20:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─OneWeb that plans to do the same and faster than Mask
[20:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:16] <exec> 08└─I thought he was more a prick of attitude than a prick of light...
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─Camera in the front, monitor in the back! Problem solved. You're welcome.
[20:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:21] <exec> 08└─Musk is footing the bill for Starship, which will be far more beneficial to astronomy than Starlink will be detrimental. NASA will be able to get more than 10x done with their budget, should they choose to do so. Your dream of thousands of space telescopes will be realized. Most of them can work jus...
[20:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:23] <exec> 08└─You just need to find something the amateur scope is still useful for. https://occultations.org [occultations.org] Maybe you could automate a telescope to look at predicted occultations as well as checking random stars: Distant Kuiper Belt Planetesimal Found Using Occultation [soylentnews.org] This...
[20:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:15] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, making websites disclose what information they collect on users is totally a communist plot! SDRefugee is the type of person that makes it hard for us to have nice things. Probably hates the concept of universal healthcare more than Nazis.
[20:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:16] <exec> 08└─Top kek libertarian logic right there. Wish I could go through life so confidently stupid, all the self-reflection and critical thinking gets tiring.
[20:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:18] <exec> 08└─TMB lies to you, they do store the hashed IPs for a long time and he has admitted it would be trivial to get the actual IP out of it but he is just "too lazy." Just FYI, don't take his statements at face value.
[20:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:20] <exec> 08└─Yup, what is in the codebase repo does not match what is actually being used. Good thing you're totally trustworthy *eyeroll*
[20:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:22] <exec> 08└─I haven't been going to the green site anymore, but learning that the site has now devolved to such a level does hold some schadenfreude value. Like learning that your ex who ran off with the pool cleaner was just arrested for shoplifting or something.
[20:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:25] <exec> 08└─old situation: massive abuse of users "maybe this should be regulated" new situation: massive abuse of users, and every page has a box to check where the user "agrees" to the abuse
[20:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:27] <exec> 08└─I posted the initial comment about needing a privacy. You do collect a small amount of personally identifying information such as hashed IP addresses and, if logged in, the user name, email address, and other user-submitted content. I don't think it's correct to say you don't collect any personally...
[20:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:29] <exec> 08└─I have a website with nothing but static html. I don't collect anything. The hosting provider collects stats like OS/browser/referrer/location. I know that because I can see a monthly tally if I log into their site. I don't know if they collect anything else or if it counts as personal information....
[20:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:31] <exec> 08└─If you've ever done live maintenance, that's just part of the job. Otherwise you end up spending so much time on synching with the repo that the job doesn't get done. But here's the thing - if you don't trust him, why are you here? And what do you base your skepticism on? Anything specific, or just...
[20:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:33] <exec> 08└─Californian assholes making our laws and voting for them seem to be doing everything out of spite schorched-Earth style rather than looking out for the people's best interest. If I didn't know any better I'd say it's because they're all Mossad about to be tried for sedition. We haven't seen much of...
[20:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:35] <exec> 08└─They claim now that they don't have UTF-8 support on purpose. Depending on which staff member responds, it has something to do with censorship in China, avoiding combining character spam (like this [ycombinator.com]) or to maximize discussion by forcing people to use English. Either way, it definite...
[20:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:48] <exec> 08└─In 2015, NPO Lavochkin officially promised that launch in 2024 on the Angara-5 rocket.
[20:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pwns for Sale: Scythe Prepares a Marketplace for Sharing Simulated Hacks - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:59] <exec> 08└─Don't know about that. The last 3 attacks I have got, looked pretty good. I learned long ago do not originate from inside an email and log in and see what is going on. Do not trust email. But the last 3 I got were *really* good. I mean correct spelling, graphics pull from the correct servers, even t...
[20:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:53] <exec> 08└─There are a number of posts here that claim a simple solution to Zeno and question the value of his questions. Invariably those simple solutions use mathematical tools of concepts in physics that did not exist in Zeno's time. His very good questions questions lead to those tools.
[20:30:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender ATP Preview Arrives for Linux Distros -- iOS and Android Versions to Follow - 359 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:25] <exec> 08└─It rather depends on what you use your computer for. If you run a server of some kind, it is always useful to check that you are not pushing out viruses that, although they cannot affect your own computer, might have serious consequences for the recipient. I'm still not tempted to go to MS for my an...
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[21:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─> [Fairy tale] > [Business] > [Background] > [Not us] > [Speculation] Hmmm, noticeably lacking in all that is "Results". From the press release (i.e. straight out of a marketting department): '"I think this puts our approach ahead of all other fusion energy technologies," said Hora, who predi...
[21:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:59] <exec> 08└─Though notably absent in the glowing Wikipedia entry on him, Hora has a series of papers over the years on low energy nuclear reactions, AKA cold fusion. He also has an entry in The Worldwide List of Alternative Theories and Critics.
[21:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:01] <exec> 08└─How much do you trust what a salesman promises about a product that hasn't been built yet? He's got some interesting claims, but I can't verify them. The parts that I can verify seem reasonable, but... The question is "Did the new laser design do what he claimed?". No way I can tell, but that the ne...
[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:03] <exec> 08└─having a device where x 0.0 guaranteed comes out would be pretty "cool" too. nature and science is difficult because most stuff is "blunt". finding "the cutting edges" is when science takes a leap. having something where you put in Y and getting x (times) 0.0 out every time would definitly be a "edg...
[21:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:24] <exec> 08└─I live in a area where outside of towns the only option anyone has for internet is using a wireless carrier. So the size of the NID isn't going to matter. People in rural areas would not care if it was the size of a fridge.
[21:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the clarification. Yup, rural folks have it real bad. Do you think the wireless carriers will even try to build up and compete with broadband constellations? It seems like a lost cause if you can get 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps from satellites.
[21:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:28] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget OneWeb that plans to do the same and faster than Mask.
[21:25:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:04] <exec> 08└─We do hash the IP info but IPv4 addresses aren't something you can secure with a hash anymore because of the relatively small key space, so you're functionally correct even if it would take a few minutes to brute force the hash with a vid card. And we keep it for... two weeks. Precisely because we d...
[21:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:30] <exec> 08└─At the mere suggestion, I heard your comment. And he wonders why I never call.
[21:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:32] <exec> 08└─Go back to taking care of your eyesight, don't waste time on other people's arguments if you're too lazy or uninformed to properly participate.
[21:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, back to day drinking huh? You should really get into a rehab clinic, you're not a good drunk. The confederates lost, get over it.
[21:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:23] <exec> 08└─I'm glad that you don't have any bad memories of our Empire, I'll take that as a compliment. Lots and lots and lots of Indians in that empire, you know. You also seem to think that nobody dies or is born, which is weird.
[21:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:24] <exec> 08└─Having said that, the fact that you think that you can counter a "has been" with an "is" shows you're really not very good at anything remotely approaching logic.
[21:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:26] <exec> 08└─<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
[21:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:57] <exec> 08└─aristarchus is not happy. He is giddy, ecstatic, consummated with bliss. Now if only janrinok understood what a slam to STEM the paradoxes are.
[21:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:58] <exec> 08└─The dichotomy paradox is a series of halfs, not how they gave it. They gave the limit version, which is not the original one given. Basically, the repeated is that you have to halfway to get somewhere, which repeats for that half, etc. Which means that your first step is to cross the smallest half....
[21:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─Just realized you were talking about the other one, but the underlying idea is the same. You'd have to do an infinite number of fractions in a finite period of time.
[21:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber-Attack Hits US Department of Defence Agency - May/July 2019 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:12] <exec> 08└─cnet is still spewing that lie? it's not a hack when you give a contract to a company run by a foreign state and the foreign state gets a copy. it's called treason and these whores publishing this propaganda know it.
[21:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:35] <exec> 08└─Very true, not Barbara's fault someone doesn't believe her back story.
[21:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:36] <exec> 08└─Pinephone shill? You really are a fake door. No hinges in sight! For someone as opinionated as you and who butts into arguments it is pretty ridiculous how much you complain about AC posters. Are you just upset you can't tell if it is an actual bigot messing with you for being trans? Cause if you're...
[21:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:38] <exec> 08└─Would you please pay attention to the larger context? "Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS" Obviously the GP thought Runaway made a mistake, totally understandable to think he would, and was trying to inform him that the story is about iOS not MacOS. T...
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[22:24:01] <exec> 08└─See subject: Enter Mr. Salvatore Pais (whose name oddly means "Savior of the nation") & his ANTI-GRAVITY INERTIALESS tech patents (& no doubt already MADE invention by now) per https://patents.justia.com [justia.com] his patents! Things like High frequency gravitational...
[22:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:02] <exec> 08└─And the great thing about this is it will all happen in OUR lifetimes thanks to The Singularity, coming any day now. Any day.
[22:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:04] <exec> 08└─They laughed at Einstein too. His hair, its a joke.
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─Its mostly at and fee so no. They are all about the numbers and they have no idea how to build a market.
[22:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─That's no planet...
[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:32] <exec> 08└─... moon whatever
[22:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:39] <exec> 08└─is a post that makes a server crash considered "keeping a log"?
[22:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:40] <exec> 08└─1) Why would California law apply to an organization that does not do business in California? Actual impact, not potential impact claimed by consultants to sell privacy policies. 2) Is this related to TMB possibly abusing his admin access to find out the author of a comment: https://soylentnews.org
[22:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:42] <exec> 08└─Your just racist I guess.
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:44] <exec> 08└─SN doesn't block Californians from using it. One endpoint of the transaction is therefore in CA jurisdiction.
[22:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:46] <exec> 08└─So why isn't CA already blocking websites that don't comply with its laws because that's how it ends isn't it?
[22:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:38] <exec> 08└─The ASCII standard was published in 1963. Has there been billions (assuming short scale: 2.000.000) people with English as their first language that have interacted with computers since then? As for India: There are 14 writing scripts used today (source: https://bharatbhashakosh.blogspot.com
[22:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:39] <exec> 08└─The meta viewport is a kludge. It is used as a signal to mobile devices that they don't have to pretend they are a 640x480 pixel device, and instead can show the webpage in a readable manner. Unfortunately without the initial-scale=1 it doesn't work. I grudgingly added it to my website so it looks p...
[22:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:14] <exec> 08└─Also note that many of them don't actually solve them without bringing their own problems. For example, a quantized universe causes mathematics to break down at said small scales or entail contradictions. Or that the solutions that require a B theory of time either don't explain across reference fra...
[22:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:15] <exec> 08└─hahaha, lol. if you dont observe how can you beforehand know that it changed drastically? nevermind this bollocks. all this confusion comes from education not being free and popular science books trying to interest "new age" crowd (in buying the book). ofc, the world IS mostly boring and imagining s...
[22:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:17] <exec> 08└─well, after archilles and turtle heard about zenons objection they decided (after an infinite about of time past inbetween the decision process) to first declare they where racing to pluto even tho they secretly already agreed on a length of 5 turtles and 2 archilles so that if zenon showed up to th...
[22:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyber-Attack Hits US Department of Defence Agency - May/July 2019 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:30] <exec> 08└─what? may 2019¿ and the news only reaches us now? they must have really slow computers at the DoD
[22:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:58] <exec> 08└─fascism is government run industry. with a dash of racism to better select which industry to promote. "fascism" is misunderstood, like "hacker" (cracker) or "troll" (disruptif xor offtopic).
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[23:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:00] <exec> 08└─Elong is the hottest billionaire with the most desirable dick. Musky can bury his massive cock in all our dirty love tunnels any day.
[23:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:01] <exec> 08└─Heaven forbid fat-ass Americans should have to walk for a full quarter hour.
[23:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:03] <exec> 08└─The more it just seems like a very limited, inefficient subway system. Perhaps once you actually can travel from city to the city it might start to make sense. Also, it might be better if they were using something like a van, rather than a passenger car. Actually, just build a high speed subway syst...
[23:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:05] <exec> 08└─Can't wait to see what happens to a railcar going 155mph during a 6.5+ magnitude earthquake nearby.
[23:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:08] <exec> 08└─Get the Extra Big-Ass Fries with that.
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─What is in the Wikipedia entry: Against established knowledge, he discovered electron acceleration in vacuum by lasers based on nonlinearity.[1] His derivation of the nonlinear (ponderomotive) forces of laser-plasma interaction including dielectric effects in the Maxwellian stress tensor led to the...
[23:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:53] <exec> 08└─It's not that backyard astronomy is useless, more data is always good and there are valuable things that a wide blanket of fuzzy eyes can do that a small number of sharp ones can't, but... they are quite different, and most of the WOW (translate: funding) does tend to come from the sharp eyes' data.
[23:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:54] <exec> 08└─How long did it take to transit? What's its apparent magnitude? Tonight, in a part of the world where even seeing Sirius is a rarity (yes, a European capital city), there was this bright spot just hanging there, even brighter than the planes that had just taken off, all alone and placid. I pointed i...
[23:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:56] <exec> 08└─At just after twilight their magnitude was almost as bright as Venus, fading slowly as they crossed overhead. How to find Starlink satellites with Stellarium... https://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[23:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:08] <exec> 08└─As it does not contain enforcement provisions of its own, CalOPPA is expected to be enforced through California's Unfair Competition Law (UCL),[7] which prohibits unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business acts or practices.
[23:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:09] <exec> 08└─Hopefully this: https://www.natlawreview.com [natlawreview.com] can shed some more authoritative light on the matter. Most of the CCPA’s obligations apply directly to a “business,” which is an entity that: 1. Handles person...
[23:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:11] <exec> 08└─I've had to recompile c code remotely on a FreeBSD server multiple times while it was getting 100-800 hits a second. I know what it's like with a server written entirely in c with loadable modules also written in c, no easy peas scripting language. And if I got it wrong it meant a trip 500 miles awa...
[23:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:06] <exec> 08└─Since you obviously know this subject well, I must ask. He stated this was forty-five years ago. Was it this simple to de-grease a highly polished piece made specifically to show off how good of a surface the shop could produce at that time?
[23:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:22] <exec> 08└─Actually it's not. People are automatically suspicious of anyone who doesn't stand behind their words publicly. So any anonymous speech is trading at a discount. So you can say it but you'll probably find few give it much cred. In effect, it's closer to shouting in an empty room BECAUSE it's anonymo...
[23:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 1701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:21] <exec> 08└─The PinePhone shill posts the same thin all the time - "You should have bought a PinePhone " - on any topic even remotely connected. Considering how low-volume the product is, any sales by any means is welcome to them, but I see it as forum spam. Now I will bring up being trans when it's relevant,...
[23:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:22] <exec> 08└─Want proof - send a sel addressed stamped envelope to my address that I posted here. Or am I now co-opting the mail service? Put up or shut up.
[23:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Considering Letting Users Change Default Email, Browser, Music Apps in iOS - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:24] <exec> 08└─The post asked a related question - about MacOS. Who are you, the thread police? Since when are related questions not allowed, especially since the article mentions the Mac as well? Or did you not read the article ?
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