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[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─Comcast imposed the same 1.2TB monthly cap on ALL of their plans - regardless of how much you pay, the "cap" is the same, and the only effect of this "cap" is that you pay a (rather steep) penalty for going over. They claim that "less than 1% of their customers exceed the cap" - we don't do anything...
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─This is really why all of the telcos/cablecos/Internet and cell phone companies wanted to merge. So they can increase prices and provide worse service. Yet somehow Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Uber, Netflix, etc... are the bad guys. The ones that actually provide competition. If anti-trust law...
[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:38] <exec> 08└─Just because data caps are the least hated things about their service, that does not mean they are liked.
[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Steps to prepare customers for overage fees: Step 1, Implement data cap. Step 2. Offer option to "extreme" usage customers to exceed data cap for a fee. Step 3. Redefine "extreme" using averages and percentages to force downward scope creep. Comcast made similar arguments about data usage in the pas...
[00:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─Hey, if people can vote for Trump, I guess anything is possible... People are pretty stupid. They bought into a cell phone service where they paid to receive calls! How dumb is that?
[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─"Well, there's spam, egg, sausage, and spam. That's not got much spam in it."
[00:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:58] <exec> 08└─It's true that H2O is the dominant green house gas but it's essentially constant.
[00:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:59] <exec> 08└─Or just dilute it with fresh water.
[00:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:01] <exec> 08└─I would rather have my water supplied with a proprietary blend of electrolytes.
[00:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:04] <exec> 08└─Like Brawndo. It's got electrolytes.
[00:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:06] <exec> 08└─Used by desalination plants which can then be used for bitcoin mining.
[00:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:32] <exec> 08└─The floppy is just a headline, it actually is a very small part of the video. Even if you aren't interested in penetration testing, it is cool to see the walkthrough of the 747. They walk through the passenger compartment into the avionics bay which is linked to cargo, then back up to the second flo...
[00:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:40] <exec> 08└─If a farmer drives their modern tractor for 20 hours, they get approximately half as much done as if they had driven that same tractor 40 hours (provided, of course, that there's enough land being cultivated to have 40 hours worth of tractor-driving to do). Ditto for modern industrial equipment: If...
[00:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:41] <exec> 08└─There's no way in hell I'm working four days a week. That's like six or eight times what I work now.
[00:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:43] <exec> 08└─I think we could benefit by encouraging people to be a little lazier.
[00:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─But the company achieves exactly the same goal by having the employee in question work 20 hours and charge for 35 hours, right?
[00:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:47] <exec> 08└─What you think is your business. The way you choose to treat other people might, however, get you into trouble.
[00:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:49] <exec> 08└─I work for a company that employs something like 75,000 people worldwide (I think). Every now and again we get a visit from some Vice-President or other top level VIP, and I have noticed a few things they have in common: They all have some title which does not seem to describe an actual job. They...
[00:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:52] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, merely vocalising an opinion.
[00:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 1742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:54] <exec> 08└─My company grew from 40K to 100K employees via acquisition a few months before I also joined via acquisition. Our CEO when I started was reasonably level headed, didn't do anything to upset the apple cart, tried to push for good things while protecting the all important growth numbers. A new VP was...
[00:26:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 1544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:59] <exec> 08└─So Apple is claiming the rights of what? All Ellipse shaped objects that may or may not be fruit related? That they could somehow be to similar or? It's not like the Apple logo has always looked the same either. The current form of it is not how the logo looked to begin with. That said it's been som...
[00:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:56] <exec> 08└─There already are desktop size electron microscopes.
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[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 2235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:43] <exec> 08└─Seriously, government backed monopolies shouldn't have shareholders. Utilities like Charter are required to have licenses to operate in specific geographic areas. Essentially, this monopoly exists in part due to regulations. Cable companies benefit from the use of public land to place their infrastr...
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─Charter to judge: I didn't do nothing wrong, she WANTED it! I can tell!!
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─Also taxes, cancer and anchovies.
[01:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:49] <exec> 08└─I am a self loathing white person, who needs to make amends for being white! If I self flagellate, the cops will beat me, shoot me, and lock me up. But, I can punish myself with data caps, and it will be alright!!
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─Or you could offer some kind of software that shows which users are hogging the network.
[01:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:54] <exec> 08└─People are pretty stupid. They bought into a cell phone service where they paid to receive calls! How dumb is that?
[01:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:56] <exec> 08└─If the FCC asked people "Do you like data caps?" the answer would be one of the following: 1. No. 2. Am I being punked? 3. What's a data cap? DAAAAAAAAA (slaps limp wrist against chest repeatedly) sure, please cap my data! While your at it DAAAAAAAA could you cap my intimate relations to 1.2 per mon...
[01:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─They did have a choice, to steadfastly refuse to buy into such a corrupt system. Means doing without, but that's the price to pay to see that you don't get ripped off. Most countries in Europe didn't rob people this way. So it's wasn't like there was no choice. People like pricey trinkets, and the r...
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:00] <exec> 08└─People in Europe don't get shafted as hard because the EU regulates telcos a lot more heavily. Case in point: the EU finally told cellphone operators to drop the roaming charges ripoff [bbc.co.uk] in 2017. If that's not in the consumer's best interest, I don't know what is. In the US, the ripoffs ca...
[01:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:18] <exec> 08└─It's what plants crave!
[01:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:20] <exec> 08└─San Diego did this many years ago. The detractors labeled the project, "toilet to tap." But, if you get your water from a river that is downstream from other cities, you probably already are drinking recycled sewer water. But, so called toilet to tap projects clean the water to a higher standard tha...
[01:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:05] <exec> 08└─Well, you got me curious trying to remember how things worked, and I came across this layman's explanation which I think is a talking about what you're thinking of - electromagnetism is electrostatics from a relativistic perspective: https://youtu.be [youtu.be] Thing is though, its still...
[01:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:02] <exec> 08└─Would you support legislation to slow gasoline pumps to a trickle? There are two ways to reach equality after all.
[01:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:03] <exec> 08└─This will make an interesting study of how well 900 volt DC insulation materials hold up against age, thermal cycling, humidity, and salt sprays found on coastal areas and northern iced roads. DC arcs are nasty. Incidentally, it only takes something in the range of 17 to 45 volts to do a welding job...
[01:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:05] <exec> 08└─This isn't going to be a popular comment, but, > We have four kids. That alone is (I believe) a bigger hit to the future of the environment than any combination of cars you might buy and use over your lifetime (assuming the cars continue to meet emission specs). Or looking the other way, you can be...
[01:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:48] <exec> 08└─Why am I the first to mod this up for the nostalgia? Are all us old fogies getting forgetful, or is just young kids here now?
[01:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:50] <exec> 08└─In the early 2000s I too mostly got my national news through the internet but I will say that one thing I miss is buying a local paper from the machine outside my favorite restaurant, ordering my usual, and spending a nice quiet lunch reading the newspaper and then leaving it for anyone else who wan...
[01:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:20] <exec> 08└─After today's pick of Kampala Harris as Vp2020, it's going to be a landslide. Plenty of "white suburban housewives" that Trump is trying to get afraid of integration by PoC admire her for her performances during both the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and the presidential debates. This is the first...
[01:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:21] <exec> 08└─It's in base 20 - I took my runners and socks off :-) So a very very small quantity indeed, and still probably too generous. But that's okay - my doggies still love me. As long as I walk them, and share my food and bed with them so they can wake me up every few hours , they're happy. They teach me...
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[02:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:05] <exec> 08└─Ironic that you link to the BBC reporting on how the EU stopped the roaming charges ripoff. Lots and lots of Brits who voted leave are going to get a huge shock when they get back from their next Greek holiday, aren't they?
[02:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─I saw something similar while looking for apartments a while back. There was this one place that advertised the entire building was powered by rooftop solar. Pretty neat I thought, maybe I'll call to get a tour. Then I read that there are monitors in the lobby/commons area that show how much power e...
[02:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:09] <exec> 08└─That came to an end pretty quickly. Now cell phones have larger free calling areas than landlines (what's a landline? Something you hang your laundry on to dry?) You can ruin their business model - stop streaming shit. You won't die. Or you can choose to be a slave.
[02:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:11] <exec> 08└─There's special therapists for people with problems like yours ready to take your call... 800-266-2278
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:13] <exec> 08└─All 8K+ @ 120 fps, of course. :)
[02:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:16] <exec> 08└─Nobody is going to protect you from the consequences of all that free speech now, are they?
[02:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:18] <exec> 08└─Here, just look at a graph of productivity versus wages over the last 40 years and you'll see... oh dear.
[02:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:20] <exec> 08└─Oh please, you know anyone who really works 37 hours?...
[02:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:22] <exec> 08└─Everyone was happy until California said anything over 8 hr/day is overtime pay.
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─What they will do is work at something they enjoy, like gardening or fishing or walking the dog or knitting.
[02:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:26] <exec> 08└─Unless, of course, the cancel culture gets canceled. Free speech isn't the only behavior with consequences.
[02:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:30] <exec> 08└─> Incidentally, it only takes something in the range of 17 to 45 volts to do a welding job. Fun fact -- this is why some attempts to move car electrical systems from 12V to 36VDC or higher (lighter starting motor & generator, smaller wires, etc) have not been successful. All the switch contacts weld...
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[02:29:32] <exec> 08└─Agreed, thanks for the info dump. > dozens of 500-600 mile trips. With an aging relative and adult children rotating in-and-out of the assistant role, I now have a ~740 mile trip (each way) that I'm going to be doing round-trip. I'll probably drive one day, stay for 2 days for a "handoff" and then r...
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[02:29:34] <exec> 08└─"taxi service" A Lucid Air doesn't make a lot of sense for a taxi -- this long range model is priced over $100K, leather interior, etc. Seems like ordinary fares would mess it up in taxi service? Maybe there will be a few in limo service, but those trips are normally booked in advance and I don't th...
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[03:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:04] <exec> 08└─Actually we don't do high def (beyond maybe 720p) on anything. The kids can be demons on the fast forward / rewind though, and I think that eats it pretty fast.
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:06] <exec> 08└─At this point, it's obvious that telcos will never be anything but corrupt and monopolistic. They should be nationalized under a mandate similar to USPS.
[03:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─I prefer to live in the gray between area. As in, option three. I could keep streaming shit and suffer (option one). I could stop streaming shit and not die, as you say. (Option two!) Or I could "stream" it once. ..via bitorrent. After that, it's purely lan-traffic no matter how many times I re-watc...
[03:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:28] <exec> 08└─I heard you can get pregnant from sewer-to-tap government water. Wanna risk your daughters having hundreds of black baby? Every year? No thanks, socialists.
[03:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:30] <exec> 08└─Strictly speaking, he's not wrong. Just about -any- gas in high enough concentration will fuck up our current atmospheric balance and make life miserable (for us). That includes oxygen, by the way. It's not a matter of "CO2 bad, therefore Not-CO2 good".
[03:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:32] <exec> 08└─You see that a lot in rural communities too, where the water supply is a local lake or other non-high-flow water. The property has two supplies. One to the house, potable, and one to the yard, not potable. The non-potable tap is generally not billed by volume, but rather a flat monthly fee.
[03:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:19] <exec> 08└─Or rotting on the couch watching TV.
[03:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:21] <exec> 08└─True. Of course if you choose to be an arsehole, people might not want to be around you.
[03:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:23] <exec> 08└─If you want to get ahead in life, do more than the job demands. Eventually your increased value to the company should result in increased pay and improved position. Those who don't provide extra achievement are not the people that management thinks of when looking for people to promote.
[03:27:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:19] <exec> 08└─If any not-super-wealthy claimant filed that suit, they would be laughed out of court, and punished with a fine on the way out.
[03:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:58] <exec> 08└─They are required to defend their trademark, but the site has been in operation for over a decade. They didn't in all that time notice it? That alone ought to be sufficient to get them off the hook as Apple seems to have taken its sweet time sending the paperwork in. Really, Apple is just a bully an...
[03:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:02] <exec> 08└─There's nothing that requires extensive testing about gliding the booster back for reuse on a pair of extendable wings.
[03:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:04] <exec> 08└─I volunteer GP to go first.
[03:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:06] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't be hard with "millions" of illegals voting.
[03:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:43] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that surge pricing is no longer shared with drivers.
[03:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:44] <exec> 08└─If you don't want to pay taxes, why don't you move someplace where they don't have taxes?
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[04:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:40] <exec> 08└─Apple doesn't make displays. They have patents on software now? Great money to be made being a parasitic lawyer.
[04:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:41] <exec> 08└─Will they also be available in 2Gb, 8Gb and 32Gb options? Such innovation in the smart phone space.
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─Oh... damn! I gotta fill in this space too?
[04:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:45] <exec> 08└─I've been wondering that too. I wasn't sure if LCD/LED displays actually bother refreshing. CRTs had to constantly refresh to keep them lit, but LCD/LED shouldn't need to. But I guess they have been, and this is the first system to break away from constant full refresh.
[04:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:22] <exec> 08└─Good old time warner leading the way on fucking over their customers. They are even playing both sides of the coin to fuck us over. They even managed to create a 'we vs they' political fight out of it.
[04:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:23] <exec> 08└─Could be. Hey, I know, I'll invent a thing that will store the video locally in RAM and maybe in a temporary disk file, that way you can scrub through, rewind, play loop, whatever you want and not download extra redundant bytes. I'll call it buffeting. No, maybe buttering. Bummering. No, wait, buffe...
[04:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:26] <exec> 08└─No no, they're free to negotiate their own rate.
[04:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:28] <exec> 08└─If less that 1% use 1.2Tb/month... fuck it, that's almost nobody. What's the fucking fuss about?
[04:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:30] <exec> 08└─That depends on whether the British government will use its regained full sovereignty to continue the practice.
[04:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:32] <exec> 08└─Except you possibly, because even if you have an owned physical copy, you are infringing copyright by uploading data to other people during your bittorrent. Is it easy to rip Bluerays yourself, or do you need a specially hacked drive to do so?
[04:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:34] <exec> 08└─If less that 1% use 1.2Tb/month... fuck it, that's almost nobody. What's the fucking fuss about?
[04:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:25] <exec> 08└─They are, but not all suits have merit and a suit over this logo has no merit. There's no way that the two logos are confusing in any way shape or form. This is just another Mike Rowe Soft situation. Except in that case there was genuine room for confusion.
[04:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:26] <exec> 08└─If that were the case, they should have taken action years ago. This logo has been in use for over a decade and now Apple decides they want to enforce their rights.
[04:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:28] <exec> 08└─What else do you expect from a company that was run for decades by a man that feels entitled to park in handicap spots because parking where he belong is a waste of his time?
[04:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:13] <exec> 08└─That argument is why we can't have nice things. All the morons crying about their freedoms while ignoring the fact that living in society involves giving up some freedom in order to have nice things.
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[05:22:46] <exec> 08└─They seem immune to epidemic. Is it because they are largely based in the east Asian countries that had their acts together?
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:17] <exec> 08└─I would rather ride on 4-engine b747 than twin-engine b777, for redundancy. This, despite the awesome safety records of b777. That's why president/pm planes still use b747s.
[05:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:43] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. That was when wage laws were first introduced in the form of a maximum wage rather then minimum wage. It also led to a series of peasant revolts of which pretty well every one of which failed, usually in a way that was not pleasant for the peasants.
[05:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:22] <exec> 08└─You're seeing them as too monolithic. I would strongly guess that Apple management wasn't even aware of this letter until after people started making noises about it.
[05:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:17] <exec> 08└─The 6x9's in my car are 42 watts.
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[06:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:38] <exec> 08└─Laying off the threat management team instead of, say, whoever has been pushing unnecessary, unwanted, and detrimental UI changes onto Firefox, or whoever it was who was squandering money on diversity/inclusivity programs, is probably the death knell for this company. Pity, they used to make a reall...
[06:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─Pity, they used to make a really good web browser...
[06:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:51] <exec> 08└─Because they go back to work despite the pandemic, inside manufacturing clean rooms.
[06:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─I always have to bump displays up to 75Hz even for static content
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:55] <exec> 08└─also, robots.
[06:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:37] <exec> 08└─You should read the PDF's - the original petition, and the follow up. You may pick any number of claims in the petition. Two, five, ten, or all of them. Then, you might research those claims which you have picked. I'll tell you what you will find, in each case: The claim is an outright lie. Both doc...
[06:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:39] <exec> 08└─The Ministry of Truthe reports that "broadband users enjoy having Internet plans with data caps, in a filing arguing that Charter should be allowed to impose caps on its Spectrum Internet service starting next year" thus everyone will remain happy with their 14.5 hour work days and mandatory human c...
[06:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:03] <exec> 08└─Tracing this down doesn't seem to say what metals are actually used in the MOF. Not even the abstract says it, and I'm not spending $9 to see the full text just to satisfy my curiosity (it's a lot cheaper than many such paywalls but still). If they need rare metals like platinum or rhenium to make t...
[06:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:56] <exec> 08└─Managers are like babies: If they can't see it, it doesn't exist; they demand all your attention; they whine when you don't do what they want; and they expect you to clean up all the shit they create.
[06:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:39] <exec> 08└─Fluke owns yellow with respect to measuring gear. Doesn't even have to be an exact match, you can't make a meter with a yellow case.
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[07:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:39] <exec> 08└─No, it started as the stripped down, customizable browser only alternative to Nutscrape Navigator, the browser that insisted you needed to install a dozen different clients in order to load a webpage. I'm not sure exactly when SeaMonkey started, but it took off about the time the stripped down custo...
[07:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:40] <exec> 08└─for Outreachy, that sexist and racist program?
[07:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:42] <exec> 08└─I think that the guys developing FF extensions, gecko based browsers, and the new rust engine, should consider mozilla a zombie and start supporting forks as they were the main versions. No need to invest. Use IPFS/zeronet/torrents as the zero cost massive distribution network, the end. Seamonkey ha...
[07:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:44] <exec> 08└─axing servo = we have closed down shop. OK mozilla is dead, ex servo team pls do a patreon or a go fund me and keep working on the thing. Brave browser people, consider helping out, depending on webkit is a perfect tactical move but strategically problematic. If they axed servo, then servo was good....
[07:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─As Linus once said, security bugs are just bugs. So having a separate task force away from the programmers that originally wrote the bugs isn't necessarily good management. If they fix their own stuff, they might be less prone to introducing new issues. I'm not surprised Servo isn't receiving love....
[07:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:45] <exec> 08└─Comcast now has an unlimited plan for $10 extra a month. My service is now $100 a month. That is with unlimited bandwidth and their highest speeds they offer, which is 110 Mbps Down and about 8Mbps up in my area. From what I can tell, this is a brand new thing they started last month. No need to p...
[07:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:37] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I would rather fly on a plane that gets updates via an old school pathway like floppy disks, than one that has a Teslamatic Over-The-Air remote control / update system...
[07:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:39] <exec> 08└─MH370 was a b777 - now suspected to be a hypoxic flight, caused by fire and system failures. Give me the good old Jumbo anytime. :) why they don't want phones on flights - that cartoon with the guy looking at his smartphone: "New Bluetooth device Airbus 340 detected. Pair to update Y/N?"...
[07:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─Have you guys been living under a rock for the past two decades? We are already hitting and exceeding the physical limitations of Earth. Sure there's probably a bunch of metals and oil still in the ground to be dug up. No problems there. But our current energy usage and resulting output of greenhous...
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[08:22:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─Laying off the threat management team instead of, say, whoever has been pushing unnecessary, unwanted, and detrimental UI changes onto Firefox, or whoever it was who was squandering money on diversity/inclusivity programs, is probably the death knell for this company. Pity, they used to make a reall...
[08:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:45] <exec> 08└─They only needed to lay off one person, Asa Dotzler, years ago. Instead, they're busy laying off the people who are actually doing something useful for Firefox.
[08:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:47] <exec> 08└─Good QA needs a separate review/triage team because the people that wrote the code often can't see the remaining bugs, which is why those bugs still exist. Writers need editors for exactly the same reason. 'Many eyes' isn't just a slogan, it is a core part of good engineering.
[08:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:50] <exec> 08└─Somewhere, Brendan Eich is smiling.
[08:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─Lol, "Nutscrape Navigator".
[08:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:54] <exec> 08└─No, it started as the stripped down, customizable browser only alternative to Nutscrape Navigator Yes, that's what I said. Netscape is Seamonkey, and there is no denying that it is still the best ever. I've tried the rest, they all suck. Firefox was always lame. It was never really any faster than t...
[08:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:56] <exec> 08└─It started life with a team of skilled and competent developers, and then those developers left and went on to work on Chrome/Chromium. Which explains a lot, really. https://web.archive.org
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:11] <exec> 08└─It seems to be more a case of "lookit what we can do!". The closest they ever get to revealing what effect this gee-golly-wilikers tech will give us is: Samsung claims that the new technology should be able to reduce the phone’s display panel power usage by 22% in general use.
[08:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:12] <exec> 08└─goes way back to segmented LEDs even. Given human eye image persistence, essentially lighting the segments periodically instead of continuously greatly reduces the power needed (and LEDs are current greedy). LCDs need a certain refresh "touch" too to maintain their "state". and their backlighting be...
[08:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:58] <exec> 08└─Anchovies? You make me sick!
[08:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:00] <exec> 08└─North Korea reports that people enjoy starving to death, based on it being the most popular hobby in the country.
[08:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:02] <exec> 08└─I'll take a data cap if you raise my intimate relations to 1.2 per month.
[08:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:57] <exec> 08└─Finally Boeing is using tried and trusted technology. Somehow, though, I think that those floppies are still the most tried and trusted piece of technology on that plane.
[08:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:58] <exec> 08└─The in-flight entertainment systems don't run on the same computers that the flight control software runs on and are network isolated. Any other arrangement would be grounds to shoot whoever approved it.
[08:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:00] <exec> 08└─The reason they want you to turn of the phone is so that you will pay attention to the flight attendants if there is a problem during take-off or landing. Because people really are that stupid.
[08:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:02] <exec> 08└─These are old 747s, designed and built back when Boeing was still an engineering company. The 737 Max mess was all after the bean-counters they brought in from MD took over.
[08:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:30] <exec> 08└─How? The average person can only fuck up so much in any given amount of time. How is that chance higher at 2x20 hours than at 1x40?
[08:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:32] <exec> 08└─Hey, I'm all down with not firing people for their freedom of speech. The world will become so much better once employees are free to expose their bosses bullshit with the security of knowing they can sue the pricks for everything they have. Fucking SUPER SWEET! This could be the greatest ideologica...
[08:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:34] <exec> 08└─Figures that a libertarian twat wouldn't understand their own ideals.
[08:28:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:30] <exec> 08└─Anyone who confuses the two logos must be visually impaired.
[08:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he finally grew a pear.
[08:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 6935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:36] <exec> 08└─And it's still *curated* news. Someone's entire job is to write those articles, aim them at you, and convince you of a certain narrative one way or the other. They're literally paid to get into your mindset, even if they don't actually believe that, and maybe even to change your mindset. That holds...
[08:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:12] <exec> 08└─My entrance to the rabbit hole was my (long departed) Dad, who would, when we asked a question at the dinner table (or wherever) take us by the hand to the encyclopedia and let us find the right place ourselves, which often failed as we would get sidetracked by some interesting facts on the way. Lik...
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[09:22:36] <exec> 08└─No comment. Not interesting. Sorry. Carry on, without me, Soylentils. #FreeAthaniniusKirchner!!!
[09:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:38] <exec> 08└─Is that the euphemism for "nixing antitrust decisions from a time when the justice system wasn't yet fully owned by corporations"?
[09:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:40] <exec> 08└─Yes. Yes it is.
[09:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:42] <exec> 08└─how does a government department get to 'review' judicial decisions?
[09:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:02] <exec> 08└─"Firefox was always lame." I must disagree. It became lame about version 4. It became totally lame when they abandoned version numbers and started with the marketing numbers. So roughly 10 years ago. At this point it's an object history in how not to manage a software project. The people who need to...
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[09:23:04] <exec> 08└─:-) But, we still have Seamonkey. So all is well
[09:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:06] <exec> 08└─Is it? Doesn't that depend on Gecko?
[09:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:08] <exec> 08└─Mosaic? A pattern made of differently colored stone fragments, set in a mortar matrix, and ground into a flat floor-like surface. Netscape? A scape of nets? Or the rogue rip-off off Stanford graduate students, same as it ever was. And then, the Dark Lord, Internet Exploder, come to blow you up and...
[09:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:10] <exec> 08└─The death-knell for that company was when the majority of their higher ups, especially marketing, began using Chrome as their browser of choice. As far as UI/UX changes in Firefox and certain other FLOSS projects are concerned, that's down to activist coders who've decided to blot out everything ori...
[09:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:27] <exec> 08└─Because they have less idiots in their government. Citation: How Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic [wired.com] Can you imagine? A minister for digital who is a "believer in open data, open governance, and civil society-government collaboration" and... wait for it... is "an acc...
[09:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:17] <exec> 08└─"Step 3. Redefine "extreme" using averages and percentages to force downward scope creep." It's not even just about forced downward scope creep. It's about the fact that, naturally, our bandwidth needs increase with time. Content on the Internet gets larger and larger. For instance you have 4K then...
[09:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bussdriver [6876] 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 982 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:35] <exec> 08└─People had arguments against 5 day weeks in the past; one can research how that went over and apply most of it to current times. Technology is making productivity rise so it's possible and we need to increase the number of jobs and stop blaming those who are left out... plus the idea we can invent e...
[09:25:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 425 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:44] <exec> 08└─First of all, and don't tell this your boss, but you working 4x10 hours is not in his interest because you can't be productive for 10 hours. Not even with a one hour break in between. As for why we're still working 40 hours despite being at least twice as productive [ourworldindata.org] as we used t...
[09:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:46] <exec> 08└─I work 35 hours a week. UK.
[09:27:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:01] <exec> 08└─Even assuming 100% of kids didn't develop symptoms, there's been some data suggesting they still develop a much higher viral load (as much as 100x), and are thus much more contagious. Exactly how "safe" is it for a kid when they infect their parents who are subjected to massive medical bills that wi...
[09:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:53] <exec> 08└─Myself included The Gaul to think everyone knows how to read a mappe
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[10:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:43] <exec> 08└─District Judge Analisa Torres
[10:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:44] <exec> 08└─Favors for billionaires? How dare you, Sir. How dare you.
[10:22:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:59] <exec> 08└─They only needed to lay off one person, Asa Dotzler, years ago. Instead, they're busy laying off the people who are actually doing something useful for Firefox.
[10:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:10] <exec> 08└─When you find the bugs you created, you tend not to repeat the same mistake again.
[10:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:12] <exec> 08└─They just renewed their deal with Google to put Google search as the default browser for another 3 years. Google probably tossed them the bone just to avoid antitrust issues. So, if you're going to get paid despite declining market share, why not lay off most of the developers - your REAL customer -...
[10:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:14] <exec> 08└─She does do something useful: brings in those big donations that pays her and the other top brass's salaries. Until that changes or there is a big enough public outcry, no one who can actually do anything about it will care to replace her or the rest of them.
[10:24:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 610 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:54] <exec> 08└─The headline and the article, in parts even tho there is no scare quotes etc, in some way make it sound like it's something horrible that you receive updates via floppy these days. Is the product somehow faulty cause it download them ala some constantly connected IoT-device? It's old. It works. Why...
[10:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:04] <exec> 08└─Thanks! Very Informative link!
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[11:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:36] <exec> 08└─From another perspective, wouldn't it be fair to say the telescope damaged the cable? I mean, ask yourself which one is worse off after this incident? I contend that dangerous telescopes need to be taken down to prevent this kind of outcome. All scientific apparatus needs to be taken off-line to be...
[11:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─It's their own fault through using a luddite headphone jack. Everyone else is adopting USB-C audio but the summary states it was an auxiliary cable that did the damage.
[11:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:51] <exec> 08└─Don't yell at me, the only favor I'd do a billionaire is to hold his head up when it gets chopped off.
[11:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:52] <exec> 08└─Brought by the United States, reviewed by the DoJ (the United States), and brought back to court to discuss the remedy as no longer being necessary.. The Government's review of the Decrees included a 60-day notice and public comment period. Gov't Mem. at 4--5. It received over eighty comments, many...
[11:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:54] <exec> 08└─Go Disney! Go Amazon! Go Google!
[11:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:56] <exec> 08└─The studios not only locked actors into contracts and controlled film production and the distribution of those films
[11:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:58] <exec> 08└─> Gotta love how the government continually acts against the interest of the people. Believe me it could be worse: Trump painted a grim picture of a Biden presidency during a rally-style speech to supporters on the tarmac of the Cleveland airport. "Take away your guns, take away your Second Amendmen...
[11:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:27] <exec> 08└─Asa Dotzler is male. Get the right person to hate.
[11:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:28] <exec> 08└─The nice thing with Open Source is that if the original developer fails to deliver, others can take over.
[11:24:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:12] <exec> 08└─People in Europe don't get shafted as hard because the EU regulates telcos a lot more heavily. Case in point: the EU finally told cellphone operators to drop the roaming charges ripoff [bbc.co.uk] in 2017. If that's not in the consumer's best interest, I don't know what is. In the US, the ripoffs ca...
[11:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:36] <exec> 08└─Not just profits, might scare the DRM people too, piracy is destroying the economy you know.
[11:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:37] <exec> 08└─I feel like the old cellphone "minutes" plan with the over-cap penalties they impose... funny how those "minutes" plans all went away when cellphone companies started actually competing with each other. Right after the .com crash, there was a huge fiber installation boom/crash that put in an outrage...
[11:25:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 733 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:49] <exec> 08└─In the agricultural and industrial sectors, where the primary work activity is manual labor that produces goods and services, there's a direct relationship between the hours of labor worked and how much stuff you get out of each worker. In the commercial and scientific sectors, that relationship doe...
[11:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:09] <exec> 08└─Give Bill Clinton two hot interns instead of one... see the problem? It's more of a bad apple thing, most hot interns won't be taking down the company, but... sooner or later you'll tie into one that can twist it around into a real problem - whether it's a slip and fall artist, a delivery driver who...
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[12:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─Is that the euphemism for "nixing antitrust decisions from a time when the justice system wasn't yet fully owned by corporations"?
[12:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:13] <exec> 08└─"Firefox was always lame." I must disagree. It became lame about version 4. It became totally lame when they abandoned version numbers and started with the marketing numbers. So roughly 10 years ago. At this point it's an object history in how not to manage a software project. The people who need to...
[12:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:24] <exec> 08└─...And now it's just a Chrome Look-a-like. Why not just use Chrome? What does Firefox offer?
[12:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:57] <exec> 08└─Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren't growing, so I'm pretty sure that the Brawndo's not working. Now, I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow. Secretary of Energy: Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet.
[12:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:59] <exec> 08└─If you are feeling like sticking it to the man who wants to paywall your curiosity and hide human knowledge from you, you could always enter this string of text '10.1038/s41893-020-0590-x' into SciHub.
[12:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:34] <exec> 08└─Who would have thought that the 747's navigation system got updated with 3.5" floppy disks. After all, it is such an old craft that I would have guessed that it would have been 5.25" floppy disks... or even the 8" ones. From wiki [wikipedia.org]: The first 747-400 was rolled out on January 26, 1988...
[12:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:07] <exec> 08└─Working a few days a month as my own boss earns me enough to support the lifestyle that I enjoy. Nothing un-libertarian about that, quite the contrary.
[12:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:22] <exec> 08└─It's not 0.9999c "To achieve this result, the researchers have had to slow down light to match the speed of the electrons using a specially designed metallic structure lined with quartz layers thinner than a human hair." So it's 0.9999 * alpha * c, where alpha is some suitably small fraction that th...
[12:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:04] <exec> 08└─I did not realize that a word "better" would produce such a storm, including flamebaits left and right. Let me go into more details. Gliding back home is better for many reasons the main ones being obviously fuel and stability of approach. Gliding is also tested for a hundred years and known technol...
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[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:50] <exec> 08└─Yay ! Now we have a way to create out of thin air truckloads of highly unstable nitrogen-based products and stockpile hundreds of thousands of tons of them in giant warehouses for years and years ! What could possibly go wrong ?
[13:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:00] <exec> 08└─That telescope was helping spread covid through the radio waves too, so it's a good thing that it was damaged. Had they coated the entire dish with a protective hydroxychloroquine coating, this wouldn't have happened.
[13:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:19] <exec> 08└─The DNC deregulates the radio biz, and the RNC deregulates the movie theaters. Funny, I thought these guys weren't on the same side. /sarc
[13:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─They are on the same side. Their side.
[13:23:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 516 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:47] <exec> 08└─They just renewed their deal with Google to put Google search as the default browser for another 3 years. Google probably tossed them the bone just to avoid antitrust issues. So, if you're going to get paid despite declining market share, why not lay off most of the developers - your REAL customer -...
[13:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:53] <exec> 08└─When Chrome came out, between the money Google poured into development and the money Google poured into promoting it, Firefox started losing millions or even tens of millions of users per month. So continuing to develop the same features and same UI they had before was not working. Maybe chasing Chr...
[13:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:55] <exec> 08└─Mozilla had 1,000 full time employees, and Outreachy funds 20 interns for six months per year. Mozilla full time employee demographics are 75% white and 75% male. 7% of the employees total are black, Native American, or Latinx. But tell me again how Outreachy is the cause of Mozilla's problems and t...
[13:24:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 2235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:31] <exec> 08└─Seriously, government backed monopolies shouldn't have shareholders. Utilities like Charter are required to have licenses to operate in specific geographic areas. Essentially, this monopoly exists in part due to regulations. Cable companies benefit from the use of public land to place their infrastr...
[13:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:04] <exec> 08└─(plus android and iPhone/iPad/etc... devices take more space just for regular app and OS updates)
[13:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:06] <exec> 08└─Why don't websites like Stop the Cap host their own petitions? A lot of organizations, like the EFF, public knowledge, Techdirt, Soylentnews, ACLU/ACLJ, Freedom of the Press Foundation, etc... should host their own petitions that people can sign (and some seldom do). and I get it, having to go throu...
[13:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:08] <exec> 08└─i'm still on my old "minutes" plan from ~2002. 2 phones, 500 minutes shared between the two, ~$62/month all-in. that includes the 5-10 "junk" texts that cost $0.20 per. i think we hit 300 minutes of use in a month, but only once. when we had our first kid and got lots of calls from family. but we mi...
[13:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:42] <exec> 08└─Or rotting on the couch watching TV.
[13:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:43] <exec> 08└─We are already hitting and exceeding the physical limitations of Earth.
[13:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:46] <exec> 08└─The average person can only fuck up so much in any given amount of time.
[13:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:48] <exec> 08└─Fucking SUPER SWEET! This could be the greatest ideological coup, conservatives finally figure out why freedom and democracy are important.
[13:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:50] <exec> 08└─If you assume that people are working against you, do not hire them. I'm sorry, but when did it actually become normal to assume that people working for you are trying to screw you over?
[13:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:52] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we have a lot of managers in this thread.
[13:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. When Russians were working on manned space program, the one time use rocket design won only because military wanted it. Most civilians wanted glide back. They thought about vertical landing, but dismissed for fuel costs and dangers. 60 years ago that was.
[13:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:48] <exec> 08└─True. However, on a related note, I've heard that Chinese companies currently hire all available Russia's IT folks paying quite serious money even by the US standards. Perhaps funding issue will resolve itself soon.
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[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─The year 1909 called and wanted to remind you about the Haber Bosch process.
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─That's not my field, but the abstract didn't leave me convinced that they were processing atmosphere rather than Nitrogen gas.
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─That telescope was a marvelous engineering feat when it was built, and it has made important and significant contributions to science for many decades, but all we can mention is that this famous movie prop was damaged? Just a sample [britannica.com]: Scientists using the Arecibo Observatory discover...
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─POEs law is strong in this parent. I can't tell whether he's serious or trolling.
[14:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry, don’t get theZorin reference , please explain Zorin forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Andreas Fault https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:32] <exec> 08└─If your browser supports it, look at the italics. It's the way Walken emphasizes certain words.
[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─To me it is still better than Chrome, if only in the way it handles bookmarks...though it sure isn't as good as it used to be. I'm not quite sure which "threat management" team they've fired, but it doesn't sound good. Thinking that it handled threat management better than SeaMonkey did was the only...
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:06] <exec> 08└─Still, you often need someone else to show you what you wrote instead of seeing what you meant to write. I don't know about you, but it is really easy for me to read code as how I imagine I wrote it instead of how it is.
[14:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:18] <exec> 08└─Not just the economy, the entertainment industry is what keeps the medical world afloat. Can you imagine hospital rooms without TVs? Mass carnage and deaths! Oh the humanity!!
[14:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:20] <exec> 08└─That's a cell plan? If so, I don't want to border on "shill" or "spam" so I won't mention the company, but I just got a prepaid phone plan that gives me unlimited talk and text + 5GB / month data for about $16 / month. All prepaid, no fees, no online payments. Nothing to even think about for the fir...
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─> At this point, it's obvious that telcos will never be anything but corrupt and monopolistic. Well, they are machines of greed. Making money is job 1, any clever way they can figure out how to. > They should be nationalized under a mandate similar to USPS. Many called for that when the govt. broke...
[14:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:24] <exec> 08└─What I've noticed about "blockbuster movies" since the piracy wave hit is that their quality seems to have increased dramatically. Granted, there are a lot more movies that center on a small number of actors than there used to be, but when you're paying big names $20M to show up, plus a cut of gross...
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─Warning: my wife had a SUPER cheap cell plan for a year... tried it month to month for a couple of months and it was brilliant, so paid for the annual plan which cost something like 9.5 months to get. Once she was on the annual plan, quality became spotty - data very unreliable, and even voice had m...
[14:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:06] <exec> 08└─I think AC was referring to your few dozen slaves toiling away in the alphabet mines and the orphanage you burned down last month as celebration of your right to burn down orphanages.
[14:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:07] <exec> 08└─I've never had a job where a 30 minute lunch isn't part of the package along with at least two ten minute breaks per day, with one self-employed job as an exception and there I was the one who set my own lunch and break schedule. So if lunch/break are taken off almost every job I've ever had is a 35...
[14:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:09] <exec> 08└─when did it actually become normal to assume that people working for you are trying to screw you over?
[14:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:56] <exec> 08└─That was tareable.
[14:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PhilSalkie [3571] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 3948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:31] <exec> 08└─Rough data? This is the age of data, my friend - I have hard numbers. :-) I picked a similar drive, Philly to Detroit, late spring weather: Overnight charge at home to 100% 657 miles driven 10 Hours 48 Minutes driving time, highway segment average speeds 59, 68, 66, 67, 65 MPH, last hour was tooling...
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[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─Witch hunts and burnings at the stake, right around the corner. It is a lot like idiocracy, "no one will abuse this" lol. They have abused every measure like this every time, since forever. Bulk collection, shared with foreign states, used to harass reporters and for rapist hollywood producers to be...
[15:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:52] <exec> 08└─Pretty much, but there's no need to do witch hunts. They can come up with "legitimate" charges for virtually any person in the country in a much more organized fashion.
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─It's even stupider when you realize that anybody with actual incriminating information they want to sneak across the border has much better options using the internet. The whole point is to keep people scared so that they agree to this stupidity.
[15:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─It's a liquid composed of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases. Best thing you never saw!
[15:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─I tried to minimize that aspect of the story when I submitted it, but to be fair most of the general public would not know about Arecibo without the reference. I didn't care for that little factoid being part of the headline, but James Bond catches more eyeballs than Radio Astronomy I suppose.
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:40] <exec> 08└─By redefining administrative code (or passed laws) so that it is different from the conditions present when the judiciary reviewed it and therefore the judicial decision no longer applies.
[15:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─Gotta love how the government continually acts against the interest of the people.
[15:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:44] <exec> 08└─And also because in consent decrees guilt or liability is not admitted. Violation of a consent decree has to be noticed and advocated by a plaintiff - courts do not automatically take judicial notice that a defendant does not follow the terms of a decree. So if the executive does not file a charge t...
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─Ought to put sarcasm tags around that. Some might not know or remember that there was a giant astroturf campaign to make it seem like the public was against net neutrality.
[15:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─Interesting that they are choosing to do a review right now, when most movie theater chains are almost completely shut down. Whatever decisions they reach, influenced by the present (hopefully temporary) situation should be reviewed again when the crisis resolves.
[15:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:23] <exec> 08└─Sure, which is why you have to keep going over it until you figure out where you screwed up. Handing that job over to someone else does nothing to improve either your debugging skills or your coding skills. Sometimes the best thing to do is put it aside for a day and approach it with fresh eyes and...
[15:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─We're on GoogleFi, something like $60/month for 2 phones with our normal 4G data usage: no contract, unlimited voice and text. Such a plan was unheard of 10 years ago, I think it was T-Mobile that cracked first and all the other carriers were forced to follow suit.
[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:41] <exec> 08└─competition (cough cough) in "long-distance".
[15:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:44] <exec> 08└─Let's be clear: I don't give a single fuck for their copyright. If the copyright owner disagrees with me, they're welcome to catch me if they can. The odds on that transaction are forever in my favor. I make a point of paying for a physical copy because to my mind, that's the fair and right thing to...
[15:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:46] <exec> 08└─^That's Comcast's cuntstomer service number.
[15:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:48] <exec> 08└─not "shill" or "spam" - just "accurate". as i said, that plan is ~18 years old; price never went up or down. i'm sure i could go cheaper. the prepaid options i looked at a few years ago expired the minutes every month - which defeated the point of prepaid; haven't looked since i used to love getting...
[15:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:50] <exec> 08└─that makes sense. when the storm hit last week, our cell reliability was unchanged. no loss of reception, no dropped calls. it would kind of suck for that to have dropped off when we needed it...
[15:29:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1622 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:27] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if a bunch of people are saddled with unpayable medical debt and/or left with lasting symptoms that leave them unable to work, that won't be good for the economy either. In this case, school is an activity that can be accomplished virtually. There's no need to make the pandemic wo...
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[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─I assume they cant get past that. Or buy a burner that is empty...
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:55] <exec> 08└─Not at the borders. The rules are different. For a reason. And clearly not the one you think it is.
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─So if you for some reason want to bring your own devices with you why not just DHL (or some similar company) your equipment to where you'll be staying there instead of carrying it with you OR if you are a crook I'm sure some of your crook friends can supply you with a computer or a burner when you a...
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Is this a good way to get rid of my Galaxy S7?
[16:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─shipping your stuff also means less to carry, lose, break, theft, not having to waste time with checked baggage.. I know people who even ship their clothes over, and then dont bother shipping them back. "burner clothes" so to speak.
[16:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─I think thin air is mostly CO2: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] At least that is what I think of when I hear "Thin Air". For further reference on the Richard scale of air: Thick Air: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Air: https://en.wik...
[16:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:26] <exec> 08└─No, I understand how it goes. And I do appreciate your story submission because I had not heard this news. But I'm a scientist and this kind of thing has been a burr in my saddle for the last 30 years. It is therapeutic for me if I vent about it every now and then. :)
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:48] <exec> 08└─Powering the display is a big chunk of a smart phone's power usage. This should definitely help add to battery life.
[16:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:49] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that too. The power savings for lowering the screen refresh will be offset by the power hungry chip you need to add that figures out whether the content is static and that it can drop the refresh rate. :)
[16:25:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─Charter to judge: I didn't do nothing wrong, she WANTED it! I can tell!!
[16:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 1342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─You should read the PDF's - the original petition, and the follow up. You may pick any number of claims in the petition. Two, five, ten, or all of them. Then, you might research those claims which you have picked. I'll tell you what you will find, in each case: The claim is an outright lie. Both doc...
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[16:25:59] <exec> 08└─That's true, but over that same time span they let all the pieces from that Ma Bell breakup remerge into what is essentially a monopoly again. They don't try to charge you for each POTS phone in your house anymore, and you are allowed to own your phones instead of renting them, but look at what we g...
[16:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:00] <exec> 08└─I was a young adult then AT&T was broked up. Suddenly: * cheap plastic phones everywhere, K-Mart, Radio Shack * in every shape, size, color, style, and gimmick imaginable * long distance rates got much cheaper, to the point where eventually long distance charges effectively disappeared from an ordin...
[16:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─Also taxes, cancer and anchovies.
[16:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─I thought it was the pre-registration line for Hell. But maybe they're the same thing.
[16:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─Not at all. There are always many factors in decisions, including "it ain't broke so don't fix it". If it's working for you, keep it! :) Very long backstory, but I couldn't keep my previous plan so I did a very intensive multi-week search and came up with a great plan. All good reviews. It's not the...
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─People would complain: I can't wear my Data Cap and my MAGA cap at the same time!
[16:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:11] <exec> 08└─I'm of the ilk that if I buy 12 months (some sell 15 months ahead) and audio quality goes down, I'll persist until they either fix it or give my money back, including filing FCC complaints, and every other govt. hotline, media (TV station) help, governor's hotline, file lawsuit, etc. Somebody's got...
[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:13] <exec> 08└─You're kind of comparing apples and oranges. I'm referring to the "competition" in the 1980s and 1990s for "long distance" with the technologies of those days over land-lines. I put it in quotes because cynical me believes they all communicated and price-fixed. Oh, look at that, I actually knew peop...
[16:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:58] <exec> 08└─No thanks.
[16:29:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:39] <exec> 08└─Are we talking about surviving the disease or fully recovering without any lasting effects? There is a difference with Covid, ya know...
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[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─Aren't they all?
[17:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Ahh...The Cardinal Richelieu argument [brainyquote.com]. Well done. So. What are we going to do about it?
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─What, did they invent the solid state rubber hose? Or are they just waterboarding people now?
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:58] <exec> 08└─Seems the powerful are always trying to push enforcers to operate beyond their purview. The MAFIAA wanted colleges to police students' Internet activity, to stop piracy. Thought nothing of the burden they were asking schools to shoulder. Passing on the costs to someone else is of course another clas...
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─At this point the fascist death spiral of the US seems inevitable to me, and I struggle all the time to find and reason to hope. But changes that would fix it: 1. Strike the military down to about 0.5% of GDP 2. Disarm police on patrol 3. Reassert universal warrant requirements for any and all surve...
[17:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─Thick Air: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:13] <exec> 08└─It's not hard to separate Nitrogen from atmosphere.
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:28] <exec> 08└─MSM told me the cable was peacefully protesting.
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─Well, for all we know, this damage is Sean Bean taking revenge for his character's death there in Goldeneye. Watch out, New Zealand, the spot where the orcs killed Boromir is next!
[17:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─They were in trouble for the simple fact most movies today suck. But this may bury them totally. At least as independent operations. The few movies left of value, you will only get watch what the studios offer to you, where and when they want.
[17:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:35] <exec> 08└─Wtf is a Latinx? Is that like a crossbreed of a Latina and a Lynx? How do I get one?
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:37] <exec> 08└─They should have canned the parasitic executive management instead of people who do actual work. These clowns cost Mozilla millions of dollars per year and provide negative value. I never understood why having a layer of folks who do not understand anything about the work the organization does, have...
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:39] <exec> 08└─I like SeaMonkey's speed, reliability, and low resource usage, but I have the visual design. Too much screen space is wasted! I've fallen in love with qutebrowser, not just because of good vi-like keybinds, but because it doesn't waste half the space on the screen putting big ass buttons that I don'...
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:12] <exec> 08└─To clarify- I mentioned "shill" and "spam" because I didn't want to write the name of my new provider and get accused of shilling or spamming. But I will if someone asks. Let's just say the name involves a primary color that is not yellow nor blue, and also involves a thing typically made of cloth t...
[17:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─Good luck with those windmills Don Quixote ... I don't know if they have the capacity to give you "preferential" service within their tier, but that's about all I think you would get in exchange for your squeaky wheel efforts.
[17:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:16] <exec> 08└─Optimistic me likes to believe that without the breakup, we'd still all be using 56kBaud modems on twisted pair copper to the home, and paying $30+ per hour for domestic long distance - 'cause you know that copper isn't cheap since the Chinese started using it...
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:18] <exec> 08└─When I was traveling in Germany in the late 1980s, I could call around on my AT&T long distance card for rates similar to what I paid back home... which were quite a bit lower than they had been just a few years earlier. On the other hand, my friends' domestic phones made a little "peep" noise every...
[17:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:20] <exec> 08└─Are there any open source petition frameworks that can be quickly and easily implemented? That is a problem SN might be able to meaningfully help with.
[17:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─I gave her three options... she chose this one.
[17:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:49] <exec> 08└─Don't space stations have convenient reliable toilet to tap?
[17:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:25] <exec> 08└─Yep. I remember my first computer that had a 1.44M 3.5", it was a 286 that I bought used - the owner had upgraded to a 386. That was somewhere around 1989 or 1990 if I remember right. I was rather amazed by having that much storage on a floppy - in 1987 I was still using a Model III TRS-80 with 100K...
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[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─How many vulnerabilities rely on Intel management engines? It's almost like Intel CPU's are somewhat secure, so "management" engines had to be added on, to introduce these vulnerabilities. And, firmware is always a proprietary blob, so no one can actually look at it.
[18:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that a factory reset renders data "unrecoverable". You can still remove the hard drive, and recover files from it. In my (somewhat limited) experience, factory reset is nothing more than a delete command. We all know that deleted files aren't actually gone, until they are over writte...
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─Just buy a cheap temporary phone when you get to your destination.
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─A nifty move with nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to creating a range of useful products—from dyes to pharmaceuticals—out of thin air.
[18:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─So they are also getting the benzene from the air? Because if not, then I don't see how this is making stuff out of thin air any more than fire produces ash out of thin air.
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:15] <exec> 08└─Torres' ruling (PDF) found that, basically, because we now have home video and Netflix, we don't really need to worry about competition in the movie-theater sector the way we used to.
[18:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─I mean, anybody inside and outside the government can look over a legal decision in detail. That's not a problem. What is a problem is that it sure looks like what the DoJ is going to try for is finding some way of undoing that legal decision that doesn't involve finding a new case and bringing it t...
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, and of course I understand there ARE times when laws and regulations are outdated and need to be removed, revised, or even expanded. We have a process for that through the legislative branch. I guess that's another outdated concept that's too slow and inconvenient for today's world as well.
[18:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:57] <exec> 08└─It could depend on PFM, as long as it works... Really it's the stability of its interface and options that keep me hooked. Cookie manager could use some work though. And bookmarking, you know who had the absolute best bookmarking? Internet Explorer, it just stored a shortcut to the page on your disk...
[18:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:59] <exec> 08└─But that takes money. More than 90% of Mozilla's funding is through the deal with Google. Without it, they would have closed shop within a year or so. So how are you gonna finance the salaries of hundreds of developers? There are no companies with deep pockets who need Firefox, unlike those who pay...
[18:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:01] <exec> 08└─[...] or whoever it was who was squandering money on diversity/inclusivity programs, is probably the death knell for this company. [...]
[18:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:03] <exec> 08└─Too much screen space is wasted! Try F11 low resource usage *cough* Say whaaa?!
[18:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─Your sanctimonious virtue signaling here still isn't going to get you laid.
[18:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:07] <exec> 08└─So not this Asa? https://search.aol.com [aol.com]
[18:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:10] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to realize how toxic these types of outreach programs are. Anytime you let someone in based on different criteria, the other people start looking down on, start dismissing, and get aggressive towards everyone who matches the group of the people let in with easier criteria. It's a "I w...
[18:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─No, silly. It's one of the new starter Pokemon!
[18:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:52] <exec> 08└─This is really why all of the telcos/cablecos/Internet and cell phone companies wanted to merge. So they can increase prices and provide worse service. Yet somehow Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Uber, Netflix, etc... are the bad guys. The ones that actually provide competition.
[18:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:54] <exec> 08└─In other news, Charter employees are enjoying working in the office during the current pandemic: Charter employees beg for work-from-home rights during pandemic [arstechnica.com] But there isn't enough space or enough desks to do that, the employee said. "This is the rough part: we sit at a differen...
[18:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:56] <exec> 08└─You only need to keep the companies managing the wires and the companies running things on them separate. Do you remember the tons of dial-up ISPs? You could find whatever feature you wanted. With electric deregulation you can buy electricity from whichever generating source you want. If ISPs didn't...
[18:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:58] <exec> 08└─How about cutting the monthly price by 40%? That is really popular with customers.
[18:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's fine then. Those orphans had it coming though.
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[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─Title makes a claim of super capacitance. The article eventually refutes that claim, informing us that an entire wall stores less energy than a standard battery available at WalMart. Maybe they should have just sat on this discovery, until they figured out how to improve on it.
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:52] <exec> 08└─That product they discontinued? https://threatpost.com [threatpost.com]
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:55] <exec> 08└─I'm really starting to think this is all planned. "Lets insert this non-fixable critical security bug here. It will take a couple of years to be found then everyone will have to upgrade so they can be safe. We win with more sales to replace hardware that is performing perfectly fine, and dont get bl...
[19:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─If I get the situation straight, next time Intel will push for planned obsolescence by having motherboards mail to random users. "hello stranger, I am vulnerable, ping my IPv6 at port 40535 for details, quick, I feel lonely" Of course the campaign will fail because that's what Intel does, lately.
[19:23:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:15] <exec> 08└─At this point the fascist death spiral of the US seems inevitable to me, and I struggle all the time to find and reason to hope. But changes that would fix it: 1. Strike the military down to about 0.5% of GDP 2. Disarm police on patrol 3. Reassert universal warrant requirements for any and all surve...
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─They are producing a bunch of hot air.
[19:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3VCt24tkE [youtube.com]
[19:24:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:55] <exec> 08└─Mozilla had 1,000 full time employees, and Outreachy funds 20 interns for six months per year. Mozilla full time employee demographics are 75% white and 75% male. 7% of the employees total are black, Native American, or Latinx. But tell me again how Outreachy is the cause of Mozilla's problems and t...
[19:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:10] <exec> 08└─Please don't let Pale Moon go away!!! Dumped Mozilla Firefox for it when they started the nonsense with Pocket.
[19:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:56] <exec> 08└─Were there Vikings singing of the virtues of caps at the next table?
[19:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:02] <exec> 08└─You probably didn’t know that the pinhole trick was an early form of copy protection. They punched a hole, then wrote the failed sectors to a file. Copied to a floppy with any different faulty sector caused the copy protection to kill the launch. Yes they’re durable. Yes, it only takes a minute....
[19:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:03] <exec> 08└─Except that the fly-ability of that 4-1 engined plane turned out to be pretty bad. In the 80’s there was a meta-study that concluded the survival of multi-engined aircraft after an outage was lower than expected. Enough that the increased chance of failure (more engines=more chances for trouble) w...
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[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─"Real" super capacitors do have less energy density than a standard battery. But the defining character of a supercapacitors is the fractal surface area density of the capacitors. These sound like they're just... the surface area of a brick? So they're regular-ass capacitors?
[20:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:49] <exec> 08└─If not a battery, you can turn your house into a taser. That would be cool when a cat jumps up on the roof
[20:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:01] <exec> 08└─I remember a time, long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away. In a different millennium, now swept away in the sands of time. A time when a microprocessor did just one thing, and did it well: execute instructions. My those were the daze.
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─It will take a couple of years to be found
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─But changes that would fix it: 1. Strike the military down to about 0.5% of GDP 2. Disarm police on patrol 3. Reassert universal warrant requirements for any and all survelience, hang judges who sign blank warrants 4. Require public defenders' offices be as well funded as prosecutors' offices Defini...
[20:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:26] <exec> 08└─The importance of #1 and #2 isn't as obvious, but I think it's super important. But as long as we're off on unnecessary military ventures across the entire planet, an overfunded panopticon surveillance state is always going to be part of the equation. And as long as the normal day-to-day interaction...
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─I don't see how this is making stuff out of thin air They are making money out of thin air. Yoooo toooo can become a millionaire!
[20:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:01] <exec> 08└─A fraudulent response sent to the Arecibo radio is a huge part of alien crank lore [rationalwiki.org]
[20:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arecibo Radio Observatory Damaged by Broken Cable - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:03] <exec> 08└─Glad you didn't reference the movie Contact. That would have made things weird and awkward.
[20:24:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 404 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─Brought by the United States, reviewed by the DoJ (the United States), and brought back to court to discuss the remedy as no longer being necessary.. The Government's review of the Decrees included a 60-day notice and public comment period. Gov't Mem. at 4--5. It received over eighty comments, many...
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[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─The sugar is sweet!
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─Heh, yeah. That ain't even as good as a Leyden jar.
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─Cat? Naw, electric chair for squirrels.
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Go steal some black squirrels from the closest city. They will chase away the red ones, and they won't invade your attic.
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:10] <exec> 08└─That's assuming we don't replace all that Intel kit with AMD.
[21:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Critical Intel Flaw Afflicts Several Motherboards, Server Systems, Compute Modules - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:12] <exec> 08└─And then switch back to Intel when a similar flaw is found in the AMD PSP?
[21:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:35] <exec> 08└─I generally agree with you And by best practice thereby draw additional attention to yourself as the 4% who do not have a cellphone and the 1 in X who don't cross the border with one... it would be interesting to know what that X is. Probably enough to get you tagged for further inspection and obser...
[21:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─Why not DHL? Because that offers a TLA the ability to intercept your phone and try to do whatever they want to with it for as long as they want to try. Better hope it's as secure as you think it is, then. Not to mention, as elsewhere, it singles you out as someone crossing without technology. If tha...
[21:24:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:00] <exec> 08└─Good QA needs a separate review/triage team because the people that wrote the code often can't see the remaining bugs, which is why those bugs still exist. Writers need editors for exactly the same reason. 'Many eyes' isn't just a slogan, it is a core part of good engineering.
[21:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks for playing.
[21:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:34] <exec> 08└─Duh...gender fluidity is one of Mozilla's favorite employee qualities.
[21:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─>> Wtf is a Latinx? It's the new politically-correct name for wetbax.
[21:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─I know an Asa that is female, so I guess I assumed his gender. Regardless, I don't "hate" Asa. I'm just pointing out how big nonprofits like that work.
[21:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:41] <exec> 08└─Seamonkey used something like 1/4 the RAM of Firefox or chrome last time I checked. I had to open a bunch of tabs to get to more than 1G.
[21:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 2137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:43] <exec> 08└─Outreachy is an internship program. They aren't hiring and promoting unqualified full time employees to fill diversity quotas, they're getting 20 interns in two three month periods per year. It's literally 2% of their work force, and the most junior people in the work force. That sounds like "educa...
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:46] <exec> 08└─+1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 It started there and went downhill ever faster as the "User eXperience" team expanded.
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[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─More and more, news sites throw up some kind of popup when you land on their pages. "We use cookies, click to accept!" WTF, how do I dismiss this thing? There is an "accept" button, and a "more information" button. On some of those sites, the "more info" button leads to a menu where you can reject a...
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─uBlock has an element zapper. Gets the crap out of the way so you can continue without a response to the site. As far a the site is con concerned you just never clicked the coockie monster poopup.
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─I hit those all the time, clicking "do not sell my personal information" usually leads to a really confusing page where you're basically asked "have you stopped beating your wife". I generally read whatever of the 3-4 lines the website allows, or just fuck right off.
[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─Options: 1) Share 2) Share with everyone 3) Share with friends (who can re-share) 4) don't use facebook
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─Nothing gets by Runaway! May not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but he is the one that has shovelled the most bullshit!
[22:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:06] <exec> 08└─ᴵ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᵐᶦⁿᵈ ˢʰᵒᵛᵉˡᶦⁿᵍ ˢʰᶦᵗ, ᵇᵘᵗ ᴵ ʰᵃᵗᵉ ᶦᵗ ʷʰᵉⁿ ᶦᵗ ˢᵒᵘⁿᵈˢ ˡᶦᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ˢʰᶦᵗ ᶦˢ ᵗᵃˡᵏᶦⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵉ.
[22:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:08] <exec> 08└─Submitted (true) news stories from BBC disappear. I guess editors can pick and choose based on their own political bias.
[22:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:10] <exec> 08└─There are myriads of options designed to hide your choices, deny meaningful choices, or just overwhelm you. You've covered a couple, but the most obnoxious one I came across was one that gave you three buttons: Accept, Decline, and Options. Of course, "Accept" is a blanket approval and you get to se...
[22:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:12] <exec> 08└─I think this is actually a GDPR requirement [cookiebot.com]. I remember seeing it on UK sites before I started seeing it on more and more US ones.
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:14] <exec> 08└─What does the shit say to you, Runaway? Is it "Son of Sam Shit"? How long have you been hearing voices like this?
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:17] <exec> 08└─On some of those sites, the "more info" button leads to a menu where you can reject all the cookies. But - how does that site remember my settings
[22:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:29] <exec> 08└─Oh yes they will. I've had one living in mine all winter. The only difference is that black (and grey) squirrels actually sleep at night, allowing me to do the same. She had babies so I couldn't just kick her out in the cold. At the end of spring she left on her own, taking her little babies with he...
[22:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:11] <exec> 08└─So, tell us, oh keeper of the secret: what is this "reason"? Does this reason make the behaviours acceptable?
[22:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:15] <exec> 08└─When If you find the bugs you created, you tend not to repeat the same mistake again.
[22:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:52] <exec> 08└─Really? Weird.
[22:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:12] <exec> 08└─>never been one who enjoys driving a car - it's always felt like dog-work You people should start using the correct terminology: countach is UFO pre-oil crisis alfa and ferrari are THE CAR RWD DOHC and carbs, no electronics is CAR FWD is car with body mounted the wrong direction AWD is drunk-yard ca...
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[23:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:09] <exec> 08└─Not using Facebook does ot solve the problem. The EFF are just using Facebook as a case in point, because everyone is familiar with FB if only by reputation. In fact the sameis true for most websites. If you do not accept their cookies and agree to them reading your data as far as they can reach, th...
[23:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:11] <exec> 08└─That's my understanding of it, the cookies were being set regardless of whether or not you wanted to, but now there's a notification. You can still block the cookies using the same methods as before, it's just that they're notifying you that they want to that's changed.
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/12/0252216 [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https...
[23:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─If you do not accept their cookies and agree to them reading your data as far as they can reach, they won't let you use their website,
[23:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:29] <exec> 08└─And so the wolf huffed and he puffed, and he accidentally tazed himself. But the Wolf got the last laugh when the pigs had to sell the house to pay the fine from the Department of Natural Resources for tazing wildlife...
[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:10] <exec> 08└─With spinning rust and dumb NAND memory block devices (ex: an sdcard ) , you are correct, the data stays there until it is overwritten. On a memory block device using wear leveling algorithm (ex: an ssd supporting the TRIM command) deletion is usually unrecoverable.
[23:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─The flip side of that is you can't even trust an ATA Secure Erase to do what you expect it to on an SSD. This is bugging me a bit; I intend to get to Canada by 2022 if at all possible, and run a rather strange-looking kit: Gentoo Linux on an LVM-on-LUKS setup, on an NVMe SSD. The kind of meathead wh...
[23:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:30] <exec> 08└─The immediate use I can think of for this is nitrogen-containing fertilizers, and we are in serious need of these as the soils deplete. There are nitrogen-fixing plants (in symbiosis with bacteria) that do this, but I never expected to see a non-biological process; the problem is that nitrogen molec...
[23:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─> The DNC deregulates the radio biz Huh? Then I suppose Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones are raging libtards.
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:22] <exec> 08└─It only has to come into effect long enough to make a quick buck. And another buck on the return side trolling about govt regulation.
[23:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:19] <exec> 08└─I've found a few while doing refactoring or adding a feature. We probably all have. It's the same as real life in a way: you're doing something and you realize that it gets you thinking that maybe you made a mistake elsewhere in your life.
[23:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:21] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough to remember that one. Nutscrape and its MS counterpart Internut Exploder.
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