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[00:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:08] <exec> 08└─Love grilled duck - it's like grilled chicken with bacon on top. I hear Peking Duck is pretty good, too, though seems extravant waste just to eat the skin, but whatever.
[00:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:09] <exec> 08└─Well, when it has been grilled, parted and eaten, then it cannot track you anymore. It will simply be digested and shit will exit in due time. What is not to like about that?
[00:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:24] <exec> 08└─That works.... junkies should be jailed.
[00:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 2459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:25] <exec> 08└─It is about coopting the data brokers and OS providers. The reason it can't be about encryption, is because they aren't as stupid as they look. They know that banning crypto would tank the whole economy. It would make the mistake of the 18th amendment on prohibition looking like a rounding error in...
[00:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:27] <exec> 08└─Unless they are from Texas, in which case they should be President.
[00:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:44] <exec> 08└─I'll refer the reader to prior research by Randall Munroe: https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[00:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─Does that explain systemd?
[00:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:34] <exec> 08└─Although SN doesn't choose to run their operation like a business, they are for all intents and purposes a business.
[00:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, money talks with more clarity than any comment here can. When you sign up for a subscription , it gives you a suggested amount of $20 or so for a year's membership. I always paid more because I could afford it and (if browsing at -1) could get a wide variety of opinions on a subject. I gifted...
[00:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:38] <exec> 08└─Damn, now I do too. I looked into getting some good, embroidered ball caps instead of the cheezy ones we can get now a while back but shipping costs would make it not worth the bother.
[00:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:40] <exec> 08└─NCommander and matt_. And, no, we haven't had a treasurer for a while now. We'd quite like one though.
[00:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:42] <exec> 08└─They're not difficulties. We've just been nibbling away at our emergency savings instead of slightly growing it like we thought we were. You guys have always pitched in whatever we said we needed, we just said the wrong number for a while.
[00:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:44] <exec> 08└─Man, if you can figure out how to trim it down to half that or so without sacrificing uptime or implementing really bad idea security practices, I am so all ears.
[00:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:46] <exec> 08└─Ha! That wasn't anyone complaining about finances. That was martyb finally getting some numbers he could post. We're not hurting, we just had the bar set slightly too low.
[00:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:48] <exec> 08└─True but I'm not askeert of minor db changes. I'm just saying it's not really a thing doable with data entry alone.
[00:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:50] <exec> 08└─I serve up a slow pitch like that and you take it seriously? Come on, man!
[00:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:52] <exec> 08└─no, parent poster is asking for a +6 larger penis. Not sure php or perl or any database changes can help with that, though.
[00:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:55] <exec> 08└─Then SN should goto back to what that German guy was saying, control the costs and overhead.
[00:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:57] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't sweat it. If EF can keep his between 45 and 50 when he half tries, anyone can.
[00:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:59] <exec> 08└─Dude, have I ever appeared to be even as subtle as putting a half brick in a sock and swinging it rather than just throwing it? Seriously though, it's not easy to tell on a good one without having some context. That's what makes it good. Yeah, I don't get it either. Getting downmodded for making peo...
[00:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:01] <exec> 08└─Nah, my 1Gbps connection comes from 1Tennessee (nice bunch of local hippies, run a good business) and it's like sixty bucks. I'm pushing for enough for a corporate private island so we can all go shitpost while drunk on the beach.
[00:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Force is Strong in Neutron Stars - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:09] <exec> 08└─It's like the force that draws Big Black Cocks into Buxsome Blond's Pussy (and assholes... and mouth... and earholes... and noseholes... and ...). We learn so much from pornhub - the best edumacation website in the world. I laugh at "khan academy."
[00:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Force is Strong in Neutron Stars - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:11] <exec> 08└─A look at that star mangled spanner.
[00:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorpigal [6061] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:32] <exec> 08└─All I'm hearing is "tl;dr Larry Wall was right." His background is linguistics and his approach to computer language design was to make something approachable from a human language point of view. Some people don't like sigils, but it's hard to deny that Perl managed to be quite expressive and allows...
[00:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:34] <exec> 08└─No
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[01:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:06] <exec> 08└─I give you very best duck [youtube.com]
[01:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:08] <exec> 08└─On the github page: "Sorry, we had to truncate this directory to 1,000 files. 4,326 entries were omitted from the list." Putting a tracking block list on a service controlled by Redmond is probably not a reliable place to host it. Perhaps it should be mirrored in a few dozen places, with validation...
[01:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:10] <exec> 08└─Okay, you clickbaited me, but the last second made it worth it.
[01:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:27] <exec> 08└─Use 10% of the military budget and hunt down these individuals. This problem can be attacked in force if the government was serious about the problem. The local batch of advertisements was delivered by the postman today. On the cover near my address is a picture of a missing child. I remember seeing...
[01:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:46] <exec> 08└─No. SystemD is the end result of a "deal with the devil" type of corporate intrusion into the world of F/OSS.
[01:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:05] <exec> 08└─The real Mr Bean, I presume :-)
[01:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:50] <exec> 08└─We are the Soylent Amigos! Wherever there is stupidity and bad reasoning, we'll be there! Wherever there is ignorance and bias, we'll be there! Wherever there is injustice and unsocial behavior, we'll be there!
[01:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:52] <exec> 08└─And a "not ad hominem" mod doesn't make a lot of sense. Not committing a particular fallacy doesn't seem to justify modding someone up.
[01:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Force is Strong in Neutron Stars - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:02] <exec> 08└─So... you don't like Big Black Cocks ... or you don't like buxom blonds ... Or perhaps nose holes offended you? That Big Black Cocks can't fit into the nose holes, that it?
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[02:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:07] <exec> 08└─Stop taking credit for the hard work done by our congressmen and congressladies.
[02:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:19] <exec> 08└─This is not a problem or anything malicious. The web front-end for a source code repository in GitHub is meant for casual inspection. If you are going to use the data, it's assume you will download a clone of the whole repository via Git protocol, with all of its history and metadata. Then you can r...
[02:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:20] <exec> 08└─They even make it easy to root out Government corruption! https://www.salon.com [salon.com]
[02:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:38] <exec> 08└─that will pay crackers to break into a few Senator's systems and drain some of those campaign slush funds personal bank accounts, and donate the funds to NAMBLA or some other such organization. Maybe then the cluestick can be successfully applied.
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:27] <exec> 08└─Well, when I was 12,
[02:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:29] <exec> 08└─That doesn't actually make sense, though. You posted an 18+ only notice, made literally zero effort at verification (since this isn't a website you have that sort of control over), then proclaimed verification doesn't work. If there'd been a trivial-to-circumvent catchpa or enter-your-age form, then...
[02:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:21] <exec> 08└─I ate too many tacos last night
[02:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:07] <exec> 08└─It is the Catch-22 of being an idiot. When you're serious people think you're trolling, when you're trolling people take you seriously. Time to see a neuropathologist.
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[03:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:09] <exec> 08└─Ya know what I like? Smokin' weed, drinkin' booze, takin' a nice bite into a juicy peach or smellin' cigar smoke. Know what I don't like? Jews, the biggest enemy the first amendment's ever seen.
[03:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:10] <exec> 08└─It's election season, so the now get tough FCC says you have to implement shaken/stir. Say a perfect implementation is done. The call recipient can absolutely know who called them. You are on the do not call list, you get a call you should not, file a claim, get a $40,000 judgment. What keeps the ca...
[03:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:12] <exec> 08└─I understand the sentiment here, but, hard work done by our congressmen and congressladies.
[03:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:15] <exec> 08└─Flamebait? Fucka A-Youa Vafanculo!
[03:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_bad_influence [3854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:17] <exec> 08└─I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! Here's what I do when I answer a call from an unrecognized caller ID: answer: (angry-voice) WHO ARE YOU, WHERE ARE YOU CALLING FROM, AND WHAT DO YOU WANT? (\angry-voice) caller: silence me: Your caller ID id is fraudulent. That makes you a liar a...
[03:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:30] <exec> 08└─Thank you DDG. And thank you SN, the article links to a firefox extension that installs DDG Privacy Essentials.
[03:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sorry 'bout that. I forgot to queue it up properly [youtu.be]
[03:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:52] <exec> 08└─Plan needs more Dark Web and cryptocurrency.
[03:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:53] <exec> 08└─The national association of Marlon Brando look alikes needs money?
[03:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:55] <exec> 08└─Why are people afraid of this guy?
[03:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:15] <exec> 08└─Someone once said somthing like, it takes 99% perspiration + 1% inspiration. Kind of rings true in my experience - if you can get pumped about expanding that horrific equation to 3rd order AGAIN because it hasn't worked the last 10 times you tried, you might have what it takes to do something intere...
[03:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:16] <exec> 08└─Remember the old saw about inspiration versus perspiration? In any major art, a lot of it comes down to endurance. The inspiration is the idea; the impetus to do a thing. The actual execution is often the harder part. That caffeine might be helpful should come as no surprise.
[03:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Students Get an Unexpected Glimpse of a Black Hole 30,000 Light-Years Away - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:58] <exec> 08└─NASA Selects 18 Research CubeSats as Secondary Payloads; Rocket Lab Will Send CubeSat to Lunar Orbit [soylentnews.org] They are sending up lots more CubeSats these days, and Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and others give NASA the ability to cheaply launch them.
[03:26:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:59] <exec> 08└─a fucking idiot
[03:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:28] <exec> 08└─I just don't like bad ideas that enable stupid reasoning.
[03:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:30] <exec> 08└─The AC nailed it. You need firm government that will hold SoylentNews in its velvet-lined gauntlet, squeezing to get the right amount of discipline and efficiency out. It'll end this soft, flaccid misappropriation. And no, that didn't sound creepy to me!
[03:29:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:17] <exec> 08└─You choose names more often than you design numerically complex algorithms. The names (both nouns and verbs) are ultimately what transmit understanding to the reader. In addition, the ability to string together words in a coherent and meaningful manner is a pretty good indication of an ability to st...
[03:29:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03engblom [556] 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 867 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:26] <exec> 08└─It is neither math itself nor language skills itself that takes you far. It is the ability to split up a big problem into smaller problems and solving them. This skill is needed both in math and in communication. For example, if you write a thesis you know what conclusion you want to arrive at but y...
[03:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:03] <exec> 08└─Good one! I think the ultimate programming skill will be raising the local entropy. If you don't have that mastered, warming the couch (and the rest of the universe!) with your truly 1337 programming skill, then you're merely some blood pusher fake.
[03:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:04] <exec> 08└─You limit yourself (and, probably more dangerously, others) by pure dogmatism
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[04:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:18] <exec> 08└─I f I don't hang up immediately (or let it go to voicemail) I ask them how shitty the air smells in Mumbai today. And if they've shit on the sidewalk in the last 24 hours.
[04:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:19] <exec> 08└─Mr. Barb's true colors revealed. A racist, deranged, and mentally ill tranny.
[04:24:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 818 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:43] <exec> 08└─Dianne Feinstein reminds me: *Secret Laws *Secret Interpretations of Laws *Secret Courts *Secret Warrants *Secret Court Orders *Secret Arrests (in the middle of the night) *Secret Trials *Secret Evidence (not made available to the defense) *Secret Convictions *Secret Prisons *Secret "enhanced interr...
[04:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:56] <exec> 08└─How's that Epstein case coming along, Mr. Barr?
[04:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:58] <exec> 08└─Clearly, not just anyone should have access to child porn and child prostitutes. Only those who EARN IT by becoming a member of the elite class and getting buddy-buddy with people like Epstein (who didn't kill himself) have that privilege.
[04:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:00] <exec> 08└─Or maybe this forces website operators to do the police's work of policing content. Why should they be forced to do that? In any case, it's likely companies will simply stop moderating content altogether if immunity is removed. If there is no moderation the company isn't 'curating' the content and i...
[04:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:02] <exec> 08└─You have to EARN IT by learning how to use TOR.
[04:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:04] <exec> 08└─Speaking of alternatives. Exactly how many people have been busted for sharing content over qTox or another encrypted direct connection program? I doubt anyone has unless they messaged an undercover police officer directly. Platform immunity allows platforms to exist, Deny them that and everyone wil...
[04:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:26] <exec> 08└─You people have a one track mind.
[04:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:58] <exec> 08└─Its hard to supervise all the time. I remember when my son was about 8 and had a hamster. Stood behind him one day when he was Googling hamsters, in amongst the images were a few porn ones, he just didn't seem interested in them and I wasn't going to make a big deal out of it.
[04:29:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:38] <exec> 08└─If you have nothing intelligent to contribute - just shut up.
[04:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:14] <exec> 08└─And yet Perl gives rise to the ugliest most unmaintainable code. So much so that even code that works has a bad code smell to it.
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[05:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:15] <exec> 08└─you should always emulate your rom
[05:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─n/t
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:18] <exec> 08└─From zero to zero?
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:20] <exec> 08└─First off, the hard news: there is no such thing as a secure computer. Period. Not because they can all be cracked wide open, or anything like that. It's because it's a contradiction in terms. Computers are not intelligent devices that comprehend human concepts such as privacy and security. You can'...
[05:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:39] <exec> 08└─You should see the REALLY creative ones, they snort coke.
[05:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:41] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of boners, what were you thinking?!
[05:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:28] <exec> 08└─"This story resonated because I agree with it," Really?? Well, who cares. Also, https://youtu.be [youtu.be] "Introduction/Logic of propositions and predicates- 01 - Frederic Schuller"
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[06:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:17] <exec> 08└─Again? [soylentnews.org] And now here's something we hope you'll really like! [youtube.com]
[06:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:19] <exec> 08└─If you go from 0 to 0 in 0 time then your velocity is 0/0. That's not possible - therefore nothing is stationary.
[06:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:21] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that we have true ownership of our machines again?
[06:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:23] <exec> 08└─Of course not. It means that any drive-by script kiddie who wants your machine owns it. Intel - insecurity by design. These are the same people who wanted to force your computer to identify itself on the internet, more than 20 years ago. Time and time again, they work on something they call "securit...
[06:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:25] <exec> 08└─Oh it is absolutely necessary. A small barely visible computer inside your computer is a must when getting favorable treatment from operatives.
[06:25:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:02] <exec> 08└─The EARN IT Act is sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). I don't know whose pocket everyone else is in, but Feinstein never met a surve...
[06:25:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 552 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:03] <exec> 08└─Senator Blumenthal Happy That SESTA Will Kill Small Internet Companies [techdirt.com] It's Spreading: Lindsey Graham Now Insisting 'Fairness Doctrine' Applies To The Internet [techdirt.com] Senator Lindsey Graham To Host Special 'But Think Of The Children Online!' Moral Panic Hearing [techdirt.com]...
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[07:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:13] <exec> 08└─Yes I know I need to upgrade my phone - where is my Pinephone/Librem 5?
[07:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:14] <exec> 08└─Google's own data suggests that 42.1% of Android users worldwide are on version 6.0 of its operating system or below.
[07:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:16] <exec> 08└─I would put the bulk of the blame on the device manufacturers and carriers that sell the phones. Locked bootloaders and broken drivers are bigger hurdles to keeping phones running than Google not backporting patches.
[07:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:46] <exec> 08└─Some dumbass recently used a service to get insurance quotes, an he put my number in. My phone was on fucking fire yesterday. Some of those pricks were repeatedly calling at 9 pm. Luckily it didn't continue the next day.
[07:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:02] <exec> 08└─Hemo always brings us the best stuff!
[07:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:30] <exec> 08└─Hey you'd be a junky too if your dad had as many connections to drug cartels. Stuff must have been practically free. Yours sincerely Bain Capital
[07:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:31] <exec> 08└─it was rubbish as children have no idea how to direct.
[07:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:17] <exec> 08└─if it's greenish it's a porn movie, 1950s-80s. if it's got shitty colors distortion and some noise in the bottom it is a videotape, 80s-95s if it's sized as a stamp it's an early movie/videocd, 90s-95s IIRC if it's 640x480 and decent colors it's an NTSC dvd 95s-10s if it's 720x576 and even better co...
[07:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Students Get an Unexpected Glimpse of a Black Hole 30,000 Light-Years Away - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:40] <exec> 08└─From the cosmic-peeping-tom dept.
[07:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks for letting us know.
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[08:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:08] <exec> 08└─How many of these devices are in a drawer, or even turn on any more?
[08:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:10] <exec> 08└─It is unfortunate that, with Android, getting a security patch is locking you out of your best chances to gain true control of your own device, rather than having only whatever control Google deigns fit to grant you.
[08:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:12] <exec> 08└─This is a clear case of "Goods not of merchandisable quality" and the owners should be entitled to a full refund.
[08:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:14] <exec> 08└─I would hire people to spread disinformation on behalf of my client.
[08:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:16] <exec> 08└─As I understand the report, these are all still in use. Maybe not by the original owner, but by a relative - or someone who bought second hand. The world is not totally composed of people with money to spend on stupidness.
[08:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:18] <exec> 08└─57763348. is that a better number?
[08:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:20] <exec> 08└─fortunately we can run to their competitor - you forget to mention their name tho. anyone? wide open for a plug here - anyone? sony where are you?
[08:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:35] <exec> 08└─0/0 is not undefined, it's zero. Zero multiplied by anything is zero (0 * 1/0, in this case)
[08:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:37] <exec> 08└─It simply isn't necessary that the manufacturer hard code "security" into the chip
[08:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:53] <exec> 08└─For carriers to do anything "voluntary" requires bribes or pitchforks, and probably both.
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[09:24:24] <exec> 08└─Absolutely Not. It's not the carrier's responsibility, nor the manufacturer's responsibility. Expecting them to keep your software updated after the point of sale is unreasonable. You're free to update your software on your property any time you want. Google is the maintainer of the project, get you...
[09:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:43] <exec> 08└─Cool, so 0/0 = 0 now we know!
[09:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:41] <exec> 08└─Goodbye "common carrier" status, ISP. You are now liable for what your customers do. That's like telling a phone company that if a criminal uses their phone system as part of an action to commit crime then the phone company is liable.
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[10:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:23] <exec> 08└─Google themselves are just as culpable. I have a perfectly working Nexus device officially stuck on Android 5.x
[10:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:24] <exec> 08└─From my experience: If GSM connectivity is not needed, I found that it's better to get UMPC, which is a PC with more user control over it. Smartphones are just devices for media consuming, think of them like these little chips from old sci-fi movies that tell you what you have to do to be a good cit...
[10:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:41] <exec> 08└─Who is "we" and "our" here? Concentration camp definition is - a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard. So, that describes Manus Island and that islan...
[10:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:00] <exec> 08└─Truly intelligent entity is capable to invent any tools for any possible context.
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[11:24:29] <exec> 08└─you forget to mention their name tho. anyone?
[11:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:30] <exec> 08└─my phone i5800 cyanogenmod(unofficial) 2.3. Works fine.You see i upgraded os already from 2.1.
[11:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:49] <exec> 08└─Long ago, I used to say "A hacker without oscilloscope is not a true hacker." This guy is elite. His friends too. People often link his tweets to me, and I always enjoy them.
[11:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:50] <exec> 08└─Intel CSME is the cryptographic basis for hardware security technologies developed by Intel and used everywhere, such as DRM
[11:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:08] <exec> 08└─Just flaming at them doesn't do much good, it's water off a duck's back to them and they just move on to the next victim. Better to sound interested and ask for more details; and tell them you are elderly (they love the elderly) and deaf, so ask them to go slowly and shout it. Then put the phone dow...
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[12:24:37] <exec> 08└─Is my Unisonic 6434 vulnerable? I don't recall that it has gotten any updates since sometime around 1990, but it still seems to work great. It's not my fault that the rest of the world are wasteful idiots. :P
[12:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:58] <exec> 08└─Yea quite right it does user space interface with gpu.
[12:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:00] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/02/22/1033250 [soylentnews.org] Told ya!
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[13:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Drones Can Hear Walls: Mathematicians Show that Sound Can be Used to Locate Flat Surfaces - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:16] <exec> 08└─Bats and humans can echolocate with only 2 ears.
[13:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:35] <exec> 08└─between two ducks. Ended in full board seki.
[13:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:37] <exec> 08└─The second best thing in the universe: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:04] <exec> 08└─Your pigeon was delicious, but the message is garbled...send again?
[13:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe? And don't call me Surly.
[13:28:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:21] <exec> 08└─"being a fucking idiot" is a verb clause though, so it's really attacking the action and not ad hom.
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[14:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:09] <exec> 08└─gonna lick them ALLLLLL UP.
[14:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:10] <exec> 08└─In a blog post noting the retraction, NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt reflected on the ever-growing catalog of studies claiming to find solar cycles in Earth’s climate. “[T]here has been a long history of people assuming that they 'know' that solar cycles have an effect and then just lookin...
[14:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:12] <exec> 08└─that opinions on global warming (true/false/policy) are not correlated to how well informed a person is. so whatever you think about it, the fact that you have an opinion has no correlation to the relevant information you have on the topic. in other words everyone is talking out of their ass and not...
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Drones Can Hear Walls: Mathematicians Show that Sound Can be Used to Locate Flat Surfaces - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─Doesn't hurt that drones are emitting a continuous, loud, rather unique sound pattern to listen for echoes of...
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Drones Can Hear Walls: Mathematicians Show that Sound Can be Used to Locate Flat Surfaces - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─"One drone, four microphones" Elexa has 7 mics if I remember right. Really, they need to catch up with their surveillance tech. It doesn't count until you can tell what brand of knickers the familiy wears.
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and 1/0=0, too. Proof: 0 = 1/0 - 1/0 = 1/0 + 1/(-0) = 1/0 + 1/0 = 2/0 = (2*1)/(2*0) = 1/0
[14:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:51] <exec> 08└─won't most this data get incorporated into extensions like ublock origin?
[14:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:52] <exec> 08└─Ah, so the project is only for people who already use github and know the knucklehead stuff. /sarc It still doesn't solve the fact that the image can be vectored differently to different users from the server side. Which is why it needs to be mirrored. Or are you saying that you trust github?
[14:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:22] <exec> 08└─Anyone who's old enough to want to watch porn is going to watch porn no matter what you do. This is simply another law on the pile of laws that serve no real purpose other than to make sure everyone can be charged with a crime should someone in power find them inconvenient and to placate idiots.
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[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─If the sun did not shine on the earth billions of years ago, there would not carbon rich plaant life. That life then got "pushed" the bottom of water ways and buried. Then under that pressure converted to oil, coal and natural gas. It stayed there, until a another warm sunny day (thank you sun), it...
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[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─Then it burns for the third and last time.
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─It's not the energy from burning fossil that's the problem - well, other than the fact that it's the motive for us to do so. IIRC the extra thermal energy reflected back to Earth by the CO2 from burning fossil fuels, is something like a million times greater than the energy that was released by burn...
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─It was also apparently wrong enough to be retracted this week by the journal that published it, even though its authors objected.
[16:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─I guess... every paper accepted is correct, right?
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─You're trolling, but if this was a serious peer reviewed journal, countless man-hours went in to perfecting the paper before submission, followed by the PC poring over them and finally selecting a subset of submissions for publication. Serious institutions will readily admit and promise to do better...
[16:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One for the Super Rich Fanbois: Ultra-Rare Functional Apple-1 Computer Goes on Auction - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:39] <exec> 08└─Is people do not understand numbers. $300,000 is .03% of a billionaire’s wealth. Steve Jobs would be embarrassed of this price
[16:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One for the Super Rich Fanbois: Ultra-Rare Functional Apple-1 Computer Goes on Auction - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:41] <exec> 08└─Many billionaires are cash poor, and rich people don't stay rich if they blow all their money.
[16:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Drones Can Hear Walls: Mathematicians Show that Sound Can be Used to Locate Flat Surfaces - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:52] <exec> 08└─Fool! I use my tongue.
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't the manufacturers, it's the whole system from governments to business customers to consumers. At no point along the way have enough governments, or business customers, or consumers or some combination of the three said, "No, stop, we do not accept the latest generation because /it...
[16:26:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03progo [6356] 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─This is not a problem or anything malicious. The web front-end for a source code repository in GitHub is meant for casual inspection. If you are going to use the data, it's assume you will download a clone of the whole repository via Git protocol, with all of its history and metadata. Then you can r...
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[16:26:46] <exec> 08└─Since both factions aren't worth a damn, when can we start conscripting people to a single term like for jury duty? It couldn't be any worse than this nonsense.
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[17:24:46] <exec> 08└─It was published in Nature's Scientific Reports [nature.com] journal. So yes it probably was political pressure more than scientific pressure. I wonder how often people who suggested the Earth was *not* the center of the universe were forced to recant. Not to suggest this is the same thing beyond th...
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[17:24:48] <exec> 08└─Nature : Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome ! [nature.com] ... Asking ‘what’s the worst that could happen?’ is a helpful exercise. It flags potential risks that emerge only at the extremes. RCP8.5 was a useful way to benchmark climat...
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[17:24:50] <exec> 08└─countless man-hours went in to perfecting the paper before submission, followed by the PC poring over them and finally selecting a subset of submissions for publication.
[17:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One for the Super Rich Fanbois: Ultra-Rare Functional Apple-1 Computer Goes on Auction - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:00] <exec> 08└─...there will be only 5 computers, and only the wealthiest kings of Europe will be able to own them, hoyyyyven maven!
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[17:25:02] <exec> 08└─*hides raspberry pi zero*
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─You act as if the only people that can upgrade your software, and fully operate your devices, are the carriers and manufacturers.
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:03] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with any -ism. It has to do with incentive structures regardless of the -ism involved. (As far as -isms are concerned, the most helpful one here would maximise the combination of individual choice and access to resources, so that contrarians can actually achieve something.) The...
[17:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─The more secure you make something, the more you have to restrict who can use it (decreased access). I know this comment is a bit high level and vague, but I don't see how mass market, commodity goods can ever be Secure with a capital S.
[17:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─"Ha! Ha! Ha!". Also, that never was a root of trust in the first place, but a root of control of general computing to be sold off for the highest amount of money offered. Money that, by market logic, has to be re-made by screwing the general computing population out of at least that amount, plus mar...
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[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─Depends. For some kinds of security you need to control who can write and don't care if everyone can read, or even prefer that. And I believe that that kind is possible. Constructive proof is write once CDROMs.
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[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─It's not accidental at all. People, all of them, look for evidence to substantiate their theories and are poor at criticizing that evidence, and also tend to over extrapolate what they believe it shows. This is as true of scientists as of anyone else, which is why science is supposed to contain corr...
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[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─Andrew Wakefield's paper on the supposed link between vaccines and autism was also accepted. By The Lancet, no less. And it too was retracted. Was it also for political reasons ?
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─The scientific community has already been low-balling the severity of climate forecasts. They didn't want to look alarmist. And people ignored those low but still unpleasant estimates because they didn't say anything really bad would happen for 50 years. Or 100 years. Or in some cases they stretched...
[18:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/02/01/039203 [soylentnews.org] Not much left to argue against between these two publications. Is it too late to pull Al Gore out of the mothballs?
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─That was the fun’s plan. It looks out and see melting mercury. The cloud covered Venus with it oven heat. Those big gas gaints just short of being suns themselves. The earth is just a cool ball with water moisture. So it thought how to fix that? Give those “ants” away to stay warm. That then m...
[18:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:49] <exec> 08└─Pencil: check Pencil sharpener: check Paper: check
[18:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─Bah, ... that's trivial stuff. Here, I show (for the first time) that 1/0 is also 1. 1/0 = 0 ⇒ 1 = 0² ⇒ 1 = 0 = 1/0 q.e.d.
[18:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:29] <exec> 08└─Offtopic Democrats are stalking. No sense of humor. They are still so bitter
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:31] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm glad some people can have a bit of fun with the topic without getting slammed for it.
[18:26:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03exaeta [6957] 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:57] <exec> 08└─Speaking of alternatives. Exactly how many people have been busted for sharing content over qTox or another encrypted direct connection program? I doubt anyone has unless they messaged an undercover police officer directly. Platform immunity allows platforms to exist, Deny them that and everyone wil...
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:02] <exec> 08└─Sortition is not my idea. And you don't understand how it works. It sounds just as good as majority rule. You won't have career criminals in congress. Higher turnover is obviously necessary. They won't have the time to "enrich" themselves. And we can still punish them for criminal behavior. Why do y...
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[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─qTox.. I wish its use would become widespread enough to make the news. I would like to see how robust it is against attacks from the state, and its lapdog media. I mean, the only weapon they will have is the ISP itself where the connection is made. They can just block encrypted packets. Then what?
[18:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity, Study Indicates - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:29] <exec> 08└─I was thinking about your Mom.
[18:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:07] <exec> 08└─They don't want common carrier status. They are agents of the state. They are not "liable", the are the policeman, the watch guard. They will receive bonuses for finding people and turning them in.
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[18:32:29] <exec> 08└─Missed the word "variation", did we? ;)
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[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─App Store Guidelines ban police-spotting apps, raise bar on dating apps and more [techcrunch.com] The revised rule (section 1.4.4.) now says that Apple will reject apps “used to commit or attempt to commit crimes of any kind by helping users evade law enforcement,” in addition to the existing la...
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[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─and yet Waze will still be allowed. Because speed trap tagging, radarcam alerts, etc. is not evading law enforcement?
[19:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple’s New App Store Policies Fight Spam and Abuse but Also Allow Ads in Notifications - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─Life must be sweet! Do they stop and have beluga caviar for lunch?
[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Iron-Clad Asteroid - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─better than asbestos and from space!
[19:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:40] <exec> 08└─If it weren't for the sun the earth would be very cold right now. See, the sun releases radiation and the radiation heats up the earth.
[19:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:42] <exec> 08└─Evidently, "being wrong" is now a political reason. Of course, makes perfect sense, when we have a US administration that has all the best epidemics and a stock market to match!
[19:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 1377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─That article is intentionally misleading. There are a large number of 'climate models are accurate, honest!' articles. Most laypeople take this to mean 'well what they predicted must have come true.' That is not what these articles say. One of the most critical factors in climatology is 'forcing'. I...
[19:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:28] <exec> 08└─I'd gladly absolve them of having to keep my software up to date, in return for them not locking down my device so that I'm allowed to install updates myself, or even completely change the software running on it if I so choose. Ideally mobile would be more like a PC - the manufacturer provides the h...
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[19:25:59] <exec> 08└─narrow-minded to just blame Intel
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[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that depend on who you ask? The Digital Rights Owners are sure to believe that DRM is "security". It helps to prevent peole from watching movies for free. It maybe makes it easier to catch pirates, sometimes. That may very well qualify as "security" to those people.
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[19:26:20] <exec> 08└─I agree there isn't a lot that can be done about these fly-by-night operations. Even if you track them down you'll find they are just a shell with no assets or anything to go after. The obvious solution, if you get a phone call you shouldn't, is to instead allow you to go after the phone companies....
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[20:24:40] <exec> 08└─Apps written by Khazar Jews are explicitly allowed, so no problem there.
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[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─Waze has been brought up repeatedly: Apple rejects Hong Kong protest map from App Store, relents under pressure [digitaltrends.com] (October) As the developers pointed out, that meant Apple should equally well ban the Waze app from the App Store as it notifies people when there is a traffic camera a...
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[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─just don't use those apps, because you already know that they'll break the rules and if caught, go "oops, won't do it again " ... until the next time. It's just the nature of the beast. If you didn't pay for it up front, you'll pay for it some other way.
[20:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Iron-Clad Asteroid - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:53] <exec> 08└─How did they not scan the dust with such a microscope before? Seems like step 1 in analyzing asteroid dust. Ok, step 2, first check it out with a spectrometer.
[20:25:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:05] <exec> 08└─It's not the energy from burning fossil that's the problem - well, other than the fact that it's the motive for us to do so. IIRC the extra thermal energy reflected back to Earth by the CO2 from burning fossil fuels, is something like a million times greater than the energy that was released by burn...
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[20:25:21] <exec> 08└─Global Warming doom and gloom is what interested people are using to freak out the young, while corona cold virus is for freaking out the oldies.
[20:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:22] <exec> 08└─See, the sun releases radiation and the radiation heats up the earth.
[20:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:24] <exec> 08└─It's a common theme with climate change deniers. Clutch desperately at any offered straw. Scream bloody murder if even the slightest criticism is offered against even the wildest alternative theory, all while pretending that the slightest error on the other side is iron clad proof of a global conspi...
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[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─A friend worked for Apple in their very early days. They ran out of cash to pay him, or something like that, and gave him an Apple-1 main board. Smart guy kept it.
[20:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─I would've thought the dripping sarcasm, and obviously incorrect statements, obviated the need for the sarc tags, but then again, people eat Tide Pods.
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[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─I was being sarcastic, but the problem the carriers have is that they can't actually let us have control the phones. If you controlled the phone, you could disable certain tracking measures. You could affect how e911 operates, and indeed, shut down all telemetry. If you had unfettered access to the...
[20:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:17] <exec> 08└─My apologies, I was born with a defective sarcasm detector....
[20:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:50] <exec> 08└─the people that know the most, or have the most influence in the matter, have the most responsibility to do the right thing.
[20:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:34] <exec> 08└─what kind of homo modded this "troll"?
[20:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:11] <exec> 08└─yeah, i think parents need to talk to their kids about porn. If they can't be trusted to steer clear of it, then they can't use the internet un-monitored/at all until they are older. however parents choose to handle it, it is not my problem, and none of the government's business.
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[21:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─Nothing Can Stop Us Now is the theme song created specifically for Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, located inside the Chinese theater at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and boy is it catchy!
[21:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:00] <exec> 08└─Ya, as if the climate has never changed anywhere on earth in 4+billions years until man became industrial. What idiots! Ok maybe not idiots, but definitely misguided blind followers. MM-CC really has become a religion or even something like Scientology. -They have immutable beliefs, actually a doctr...
[21:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:01] <exec> 08└─I think a good 50% of deniers are paid shills or disingenuous and fanatic supporters of GASOLINE! They are the tools who would huff spray paint and sacrifice themselves Mad Max Fury Road style. The goal of such shilling is to KEEP the conversation mired down in bullshit instead of brushing it off an...
[21:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:03] <exec> 08└─So you believe that nothing is ever done for political reasons?
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One for the Super Rich Fanbois: Ultra-Rare Functional Apple-1 Computer Goes on Auction - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, most of the middle class has negative wealth. Just getting to zero is an accomplishment.
[21:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:45] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I pretend I don't speak English and I speak to them in a foreign language.
[21:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:32] <exec> 08└─Clearly, not just anyone should have access to child porn and child prostitutes. Only those who EARN IT by becoming a member of the elite class and getting buddy-buddy with people like Epstein (who didn't kill himself) have that privilege.
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[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─Build an electric car and put Ford Pinto shell on it.
[22:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:58] <exec> 08└─Blah, blah, blow it out your ass. 1) It's not a belief 2) Science is not immutable 3) The leaders are pointing out that science isn't subject to opinions, or politics, just facts. Your problem is that there is no scientific basis for contradicting man made climate change. Simply saying these things...
[22:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─Andrew Wakefield's paper on the supposed link between vaccines and autism was also accepted.
[22:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:02] <exec> 08└─No, NOT trolling. It was a fair question in response to your implied statement that acceptance=correctness. Would you mind answering my friend's question?
[22:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:04] <exec> 08└─He's too young to be President these days.
[22:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:53] <exec> 08└─The hardware component manufacturers not providing updates is not a good reason for dropping support? Clearly, Google should buy out all of the component manufacturers so it can control how long the components are supported, kind of like how Apple has near full control of their entire hardware chain...
[22:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:28] <exec> 08└─Another impressive group is the one I've seen where they decap the chips to reverse engineer them and find vulnerabilities.
[22:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:47] <exec> 08└─They already sell your DNS lookups. Not too far a step to sell your Host header or SNI data.
[22:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Good Programmers Better at Math, or Language? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:10] <exec> 08└─"Variation" is exclusively used in cases where the difference is within a relatively small amount. While this amount is never defined specifically, I would argue that something that is difference enough to be defined as a cardinal opposite, something that is completely antithetical to the original t...
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[23:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─Where's our Lord Musk in this story??
[23:25:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 1495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:06] <exec> 08└─Blah, blah, blow it out your ass. 1) It's not a belief 2) Science is not immutable 3) The leaders are pointing out that science isn't subject to opinions, or politics, just facts. Your problem is that there is no scientific basis for contradicting man made climate change. Simply saying these things...
[23:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─> So yes it probably was political pressure It's not quite so clear - the author was also a journal editorial board member. https://www.nature.com [nature.com] Search for Valentina Zharkova, paper lead author.
[23:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One for the Super Rich Fanbois: Ultra-Rare Functional Apple-1 Computer Goes on Auction - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:24] <exec> 08└─The only publicly known Nintendo Playstation prototype sold yesterday for US$300k ($360k with auction fees) [bbc.com].
[23:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:04] <exec> 08└─https://download.lineageos.org/ [lineageos.org] https://get.resurrectionremix.com [resurrectionremix.com]
[23:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:06] <exec> 08└─And you talk as if cryptographically locked bootloader and updates are not a thing. Minimaly manufacturers should be required to unlock the boot loader when they stop supporting a device.
[23:26:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 468 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:58] <exec> 08└─Just flaming at them doesn't do much good, it's water off a duck's back to them and they just move on to the next victim. Better to sound interested and ask for more details; and tell them you are elderly (they love the elderly) and deaf, so ask them to go slowly and shout it. Then put the phone dow...
[23:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:24] <exec> 08└─https://m.soundcloud.com/wtfbrahh/francis-hates-google-remix [soundcloud.com]
[23:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:02] <exec> 08└─Considering what I've heard about hamsters and porn, it's probably good he didn't click on it!
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