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[00:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You should get it back to them somehow. - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:00] <exec> 08└─I know there is lost data from some of my old disks I really wish I could recover. For average people who lost it through 'average' problems, it is often a huge boon.
[00:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:True Story - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:01] <exec> 08└─I used to work at a small computer shop. Back in 2008, we had a guy come in who was a cop. He was trading in his old computer, and we bought the hardware on the condition that we would destroy the old hard drives, because they had some old police evidence on them, and simply erasing wouldn't do the...
[00:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:1) 02Re:Another one... - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:04] <exec> 08└─Well, no. The purpose of a negative review is not revenge, but to warn others. If he got $160, that doesn't lessen the need to warn others.
[00:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another one... - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:06] <exec> 08└─Did you eat paint chips as a kid? Advertising it as new then sending something obviously used is bait and switch. Amazons review system is biased towards more sales. I've had reviews accepted but later redacted because of complaints from the third party seller. Truth in reviews is frowned on when it...
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Resolution of reality - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:03] <exec> 08└─How does H.264 vs H.265 compare quality wise during same input format and output filesize?
[00:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The design of the Internet is the ultimate caus - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:54] <exec> 08└─The reason encryption by design were left out was lack of need on a purely research network that only allowed educational, government, military and big (relevant) business to even send or receive any IP packet. Abuse got you *plonk* in the physical way. Encryption software did also lack consistency,...
[00:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:offtopic: submission bug! - how to grab text - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:04] <exec> 08└─Try to grab your text by opening the "view source" window. Search for something that you wrote. If that fails then do the hacker trick by searching the process or kernel memory for any phrase you wrote. Using "grep" on the browser cache files may also work.
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[01:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let me get it out of the way. - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:43] <exec> 08└─Fucking Republicans blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. There. Now there's no need for lefties here to go on with their pro-Obama/anti-Republican rants.
[01:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Obstructionism - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:44] <exec> 08└─I have in the past criticized the Republicans (and some Democrats) for being obstructionist; opposing Obama by default just to frustrate his administration and prevent any meaningful work at all. Yet I can't help but be thankful for it this time. It's the primary reason we didn't even get to debate...
[01:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obstructionism - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:45] <exec> 08└─So you're a hypocrite. The system is "broken" until by chance it just happens to work in your favor, then you say it "works".
[01:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Obstructionism - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:47] <exec> 08└─Those favors may be in the short term. Broken systems tend to collapse and take everybody with them.
[01:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:49] <exec> 08└─This thing is way too secretive, and the things that have leaked are hella nasty for the average citizen. From what I've read the 1%'ers will be ecstatic over this, the rest of us will be screwed. Speaking from a US perspective, of course.
[01:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why keep the ThinkProgress link in the summary? - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:50] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. Clearly there are reputable sources covering this matter. I see four them listed at the bottom of the summary. Those are generally high-quality sources, they tend to be non-partisan, and they try to remain impartial. So why does the top of the summary still link to this questionable,...
[01:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Electronics Recyclers - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:18] <exec> 08└─their objective is to get electronics back into productive use. They only recycle them if they can't do so. They don't always know to wipe the drives.
[01:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Teach kids of the surveillance society - 06In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched! - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:40] <exec> 08└─This will put selective pressure on parents to teach kids about the surveillance society. At elementary school, the teacher is big brother. And who fills that role later is well known.. Smart kids know when to search for and exploit norty stuff. The other kids will learn the hard way.
[01:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No room for a mic, huh - 06Science Instruments Selected for NASA's Europa Mission - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:29] <exec> 08└─Just like all of the mars craft. Hey, who cares about hearing an alien world when we can look at another 5,000 photos of rocks and pour over more mass spectrometry results? Twats.
[01:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I am the happiest when I can walk to work - 06Google Launches "Sidewalk Labs" Spinoff Company - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:39] <exec> 08└─It's uncommon that I can pull that off but that's among the reasons I chose Portland.
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:The design of the Internet is the ultimate caus - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:10] <exec> 08└─A carpenter once explained to me that you cannot make concrete out of beach sand; rather you have to grind up rocks in a ball mill. That makes for sand particles with lots of nooks and crannies that enable the solidified Portland cement to bind far more effectively than is the case with beach sand,...
[01:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:The design of the Internet is the ultimate caus - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:11] <exec> 08└─You don't want to make concrete with SANDSTONE. You want to make concrete with LIMESTONE
[01:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:If I want to kill but are refused, then sue? - 06TTIP Debate and Vote Cancelled After MEP Revolt Over ISDS - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah but you'd have to compete with Blackwater http://mobile.abc.net.au [abc.net.au]
[01:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sysd [1769] (Score:1) 02Re:More displacement = Less Size - 06Fly Around Ceres in a New NASA Video - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:02] <exec> 08└─>The exaggerated vertical relief makes Ceres seem a lot smaller than it is. I started to get flashbacks to these guys from the early seventies: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] But yes, not an easy job working for the media arm of NASA.
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[02:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me get it out of the way. - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:42] <exec> 08└─You've not been paying attention. Most "lefties" can't stand Obama anymore. There are plenty of mere Democrats who still support him. The Democratic Party is just a bit to the left of the GOP, which sits far out in the right.
[02:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:43] <exec> 08└─The GP should note where Obama was (according to his minimal record) in 2008. [politicalcompass.org] Now, note how far he had drifted toward a pro-Wall Street, pro-war, pro-warrantless wiretapping position by 2012. [politicalcompass.org] Note also that if you have a very thin feeler gauge, you might...
[02:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:48] <exec> 08└─Politics = The 1% will get richer, the rest get screwed.
[02:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:50] <exec> 08└─Nope, that is the perspective from all sides of the argument. The people in ANY of these countries will be worse off in many fundamental ways over this. Only multi-nats benefit from this overall. (from what was leaked - its probably worse now) Although it is amusing many US posters on this topic aut...
[02:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:51] <exec> 08└─But Rachel Dolezal! Actually, that's very related, because between the life stories of Rachel Dolezal and Baraq Obama we could have a near-verbatim transcript of Frank Zappa's You are what you IS. [azlyrics.com]
[02:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:53] <exec> 08└─3 cheerleaders for Free Trade / the regime weren't enough for you when added to the source that actually covers popular protests (instead of ignoring them)? Note: Never having consumed C-SPAN, I can't confirm that they are an actual "news" outlet and not simply an echo chamber for incumbents. Thanks...
[02:12:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geotti [1146] 02Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:08] <exec> 08└─Netboot DBAN [wikipedia.org] before you resell a laptop, or at least run through regular system recovery. D'oh, Best Buy!
[02:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:12] <exec> 08└─The Unicode character seems to be a registered-trademark symbol: ®
[02:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Caught a Pedo - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 2497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:22] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What a touching story. And you are right, the stereotypical meddler gloves fit you just right. You've got it all, including the apparent blindness to your own filthiness and hypocrisy. Let's recount. You betrayed the customer's trust, which was a breach...
[02:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Sorry; payphones used to cost ten cents - 06In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched! - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:44] <exec> 08└─I have grey hair.
[02:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Sometimes I can be slow on the uptake - 06In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched! - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:45] <exec> 08└─the correct usage in this case is "dropped a dime to me." That is, the PPB officer called me on my cell. Sorry.
[02:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02java does not ship ask toolbar - 06Ask Toolbar Now Marked as Unwanted Software by Microsoft - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:07] <exec> 08└─Java developer here. My java software runs on Windows and Linux systems. Never once, in over 15 years of java, have I had it install a toolbar. No doubt this is just more FUD by immature java haters with an axe to grind.
[02:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02Well isn't that just ducky - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:25] <exec> 08└─/me balls up my cheap-ass computer, tosses it into the waste-basket, calls ISP for extra bandwidth, and starts to wonder how much he can get for the car. /jk.
[02:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No room for a mic, huh - 06Science Instruments Selected for NASA's Europa Mission - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:40] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Yeah, the static-y sound of wind blowing on a microphone is really cool.</sarcasm>
[02:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Depressing - 06TTIP Debate and Vote Cancelled After MEP Revolt Over ISDS - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:00] <exec> 08└─Whoa - who said "end NAFTA"? I plainly stated that the people were already fucked over BY NAFTA. The people have already been displaced. And, sometimes, you really can't go home again. It's to damned late to end it - but the criminals who imposed it on the Mexican people should be executed for their...
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[03:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Nice prop - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:44] <exec> 08└─I recognize the joystick they used in the cockpit set - it's a Warthog HOTAS flight stick, a replica of the A-10's stick. The yellow stickers were a giveaway - the stick ships in two parts, the base and the stick itself, the arrows are there to make sure you don't screw it in backwards and bend the...
[03:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:45] <exec> 08└─Who is Matt Damon?
[03:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Jumping Jehosephat Jews! - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:47] <exec> 08└─No, no, no. That's not how you do this. You maintain your class and dignity and don't get tacky. Sheeit, at least disguise this as a "Soylent Review" and have a motherfucker pretend to analyze it and throw in a couple bad points. At least that way it will generate curiosity rather than hate-mail.
[03:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:48] <exec> 08└─Who is Matt Damon?
[03:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:50] <exec> 08└─Fuck if I know. Didn't he play Spock in that Star Trek remake nobody gave a fuck about?
[03:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:51] <exec> 08└─Who is Matt Damon?
[03:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:02] <exec> 08└─It's called "growing up". It's what happens when people get older, gain real-world experience, and start to see things as they really are. They finally realize that the lofty ideals of leftists are nothing more than the fantasies of those who are still youths, mentally. They realize that leftism onl...
[03:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:03] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, that's a claim we can test empirically. There are many "laboratory" civilizations running various experiments involving "leftism". I'm delighted to report that many have been successfully operating for decades, or centuries depending on your definition of "leftism". The perverse incentiv...
[03:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Obstructionism - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:07] <exec> 08└─Reply to myself to clear up a bit of confusion. I made it sound like I was thankful for Republican obstruction of a Public Option in the ACA. I meant that as an example of something I disliked. I wish we could have at least had a proper debate on it. Shutting down the TPP is crucial, and if some Rep...
[03:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:11] <exec> 08└─Although it is amusing many US posters on this topic automatically assume the other country's special interests are the ones trying to screw over the US here...it is quite the opposite.
[03:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:15] <exec> 08└─What the heck are you talking about? Why do liberals like you always go on and on about "vast right-wing conspiracies"?
[03:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Smoke and mirrors - 06Samsung Targets Retailers with Mirror and Transparent OLED Panels - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:24] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a carnival attraction to me. Basically, the sales people have run out of ideas, and they're offering smoke and mirrors for home use.
[03:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Caught a Pedo - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:46] <exec> 08└─Well, hello there, sub-height, sub-soaped, early-40s humanoid.
[03:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02From my first computer - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:49] <exec> 08└─I had used computers, and had plenty of exposure to them. But, I never could afford to own one. Or more accurately, I COULD HAVE owned my own computer, but there were to many other things that seemed more important to me. I stopped at an estate sale one day, and there was a computer sitting there. S...
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[04:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:47] <exec> 08└─Who is Matt Damon?
[04:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:48] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. Why did you link to a video of Winston Churchill?
[04:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:51] <exec> 08└─This guy [gawker.com]
[04:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02All Sci-Fi must be Feminist - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:53] <exec> 08└─Just like Gravity and Interstellar. Feminist or Boycott! Men do not belong in Space. Men belong in Prison.
[04:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All Sci-Fi must be Feminist - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:54] <exec> 08└─Don't you usually sign your comments with "-- gewg_"?
[04:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Interstellar was good - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:56] <exec> 08└─I thought Gravity was awful apart from the special effects.
[04:12:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Re:Let me get it out of the way. - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:05] <exec> 08└─You've not been paying attention. Most "lefties" can't stand Obama anymore. There are plenty of mere Democrats who still support him. The Democratic Party is just a bit to the left of the GOP, which sits far out in the right.
[04:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:09] <exec> 08└─The Soviet Union didn't even make it to 70 years old. The former members of the Soviet Union, especially the most successful ones, have all moved far to the right. Cambodia is a failed state. Vietnam is only marginally better. China veered hard to the right after numerous failures of leftism, and in...
[04:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:11] <exec> 08└─The Soviet Union didn't even make it to 70 years old.
[04:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:12] <exec> 08└─Well now, isn't that convenient! Blatant leftism somehow "isn't leftism" when it's an obvious failure.
[04:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:14] <exec> 08└─None of the nations you listed are examples of liberal democracy, so they simply aren't meaningful to this discussion. I'd love to hear how you can explain otherwise. I'm not interested in talking about totalitarian/authoritarian dictatorships because I think we can all agree that those are all bad,...
[04:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:16] <exec> 08└─"Disingenuous"? You're at the wrong site, pal. The site you're looking for is Hacker News [ycombinator.com]. That's pretty much the only word they know how to use over there.
[04:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:17] <exec> 08└─I went there a few times but there were too many insufferable social justice warriors. I hate politically correct culture.
[04:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:19] <exec> 08└─If you hate social justice and political correctness, then why do you use their terminology? "Disingenuous" is one of the terms they use most frequently against their opponents.
[04:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:20] <exec> 08└─Because typing, "pretending to misunderstand a situation or your interlocutor's arguments in order to build a straw man argument to fool bystanders" every time gets tedious.
[04:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:22] <exec> 08└─Instead of focusing on the topic at hand, you've started launching personal attacks against the others in the discussion.
[04:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:23] <exec> 08└─There's a toon for that: http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com [thecomicseries.com]
[04:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"The only adult in the room" - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:25] <exec> 08└─Interesting that you would bring that up line. Too bad it was being applied to the thug known as Obama (the serial murderer of children). Did you know that The Boston Globe used that line to describe Jill Stein? [google.com] It was used to describe a debate for the gubernatorial race in which she wa...
[04:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:1) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:27] <exec> 08└─The GP should note where Obama was (according to his minimal record) in 2008.
[04:12:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Obstructionism - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 826 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:28] <exec> 08└─I have in the past criticized the Republicans (and some Democrats) for being obstructionist; opposing Obama by default just to frustrate his administration and prevent any meaningful work at all. Yet I can't help but be thankful for it this time. It's the primary reason we didn't even get to debate...
[04:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:30] <exec> 08└─If you're living in America, even in the shittiest parts of Camden or St. Louis, you're still part of the global 1%.
[04:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:34] <exec> 08└─Why do liberals like you always go on and on about "vast right-wing conspiracies"?
[04:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:36] <exec> 08└─Why was that modded insightful? It isn't insightful at all. PBS and C-SPAN are among the most impartial news sources around, with some of the highest standards of journalistic integrity. It's absolutely absurd to question them. It's even worse when the person questioning them openly admits to having...
[04:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:37] <exec> 08└─Did you honestly just write that PBS is a "right-wing news source"?! Seriously?! And some fucking moron modded you up?! What the fuck?!
[04:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:39] <exec> 08└─Mod that stupidity down! PBS is not a right wing source of news! Neither is C-SPAN!
[04:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:41] <exec> 08└─Insightful my arse. PBS is like BBC: it's not rightist.
[04:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:42] <exec> 08└─How the fuck can somebody say that PBS is 'right wing'?????
[04:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:44] <exec> 08└─Dude, PBS and C-SPAN are not right wing!
[04:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:45] <exec> 08└─The NYT, PBS and C-SPAN are not right wing at all. Why did such a wrong comment get modded up to 4, Insightful?
[04:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:47] <exec> 08└─You must be pretty fucking far to the left to consider the New York Times, C-SPAN and PBS to be "right wing"!
[04:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I is leet cuz I can post comments while banned - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:17] <exec> 08└─Some guy runs l0phtcrack and suddenly he's all blackhatted and c00L? Oh, I get it. This isn't news. This is just an excuse for the rest of you pathetic shits to jizz all over the comments section to prove how l33t YOU are. Fuck all you morons.
[04:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03necrophage [3568] (Score:1) 02Intel secrets - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:18] <exec> 08└─A long time ago I bought a used tape drive with some extra tapes. After installing the device I found some data still on the tapes. They were secret Intel emails about the testing of a 486 pentium for laptops. The files were even marked "Secret." There was a lot of technical data about pin ### and t...
[04:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02happy and sad. - 06Apple Maps Vehicles Capturing Street Images of Ireland, the UK, and the United States - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:31] <exec> 08└─I loved that starbucks but at the same time I was unlucky in love with two different women. (Not at the same time.) I'm pretty sure I was at one of the tables at the window when the car went by, for sure I would have had my macbook pro. They must not have posted the photo.
[04:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Job Opportunities for Escaped Murders - 06How Two Escaped Killers Could Completely Disappear Off the Grid - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:37] <exec> 08└─Wow -- I know I've seen that too. Amazing how one forgets.
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[05:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pleasure seekers? - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:43] <exec> 08└─gewg_, have you tried putting your small part in this sort of a vacuum, in search of pleasure?
[05:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02overkill? - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if I'm getting it wrong but you could do the same with any decently powerful vacuum, just put a sock in the hose.
[05:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:overkill? - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:46] <exec> 08└─Most upright vacuums these days have the exact same thing built into the device. Just empty and rinse the dust bin before you vacuum the floor. Or you know, the standard dust devil hand vac separates the dust well before it gets to the impeller. Just about all vacs work this way. In short, unless yo...
[05:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a fucking dumb submission. - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:47] <exec> 08└─What a fucking dumb submission. We did this in the 1970s. We used a vacuum, a piece of paper towel, and a rubber band. The rubber band is used to affix the paper towel across the nozzle of the vacuum. It's permeable enough for the air to pass through, but for screws and other small parts to be stopp...
[05:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:What a fucking dumb submission. - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:49] <exec> 08└─Why don't we have a "Totally Stupid" mod?
[05:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:02] <exec> 08└─Isn't he the little guy that sorts hot molecules from cold ones?
[05:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Jumping Jehosephat Jews! - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:03] <exec> 08└─The Martian is the hot new sci-fi novel that we are all reading or have read recently--at least those of us who care about such things. Since this is a "nerd" news site it's a safe bet most of us here are sci-fi fans and would be interested in seeing this movie and the trailer. It doesn't look like...
[05:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Jumping Jehosephat Jews! - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:05] <exec> 08└─It also pertains to all the "Colonize Mars Now!" hype, and the "How You're Going To Die On Mars" article. And space potatoes.
[05:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tangaroa [682] (Score:1) 02Obligatory pop culture reference - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:11] <exec> 08└─I sure hope that Matt Damon's movie about Mars is better than Ben Affleck's movie about the Moon. [youtube.com]
[05:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:36] <exec> 08└─Jesus Murphy! Each and every comment of yours is weirder than the last. Are there no end to the false accusations that you will shit forth?
[05:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:37] <exec> 08└─A "serial murderer of children"? What the fuck? How do you manage to pull so much idiocy out of your rectum? Where do all of these false accusations come from? Why are you so delusional?
[05:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:49] <exec> 08└─Not quite, but if you sleep in a bed, have hot and cold running water, cook on a stove, have refrigeration to keep food, have a roof over your head, have a television, and drive a car you are in the top 25%.
[05:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:55] <exec> 08└─Right....(warning: sarcasm) and Faux News is "Fair and Balanced".
[05:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:56] <exec> 08└─The main problem with NPR and PBS is 1) Unwillingness to consider risky ideas 2) Depth and insight of analyses are typically lacking to those with especially high standards.
[05:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Left and Right in media - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:59] <exec> 08└─I used to watch the PBS NewsHour. After it was purchased by a Republican consortium in Richmond, VA, there was a shift rightward. Having Mark Shields represent the "Left" in their point/counterpoint sessions was pure comedy. It reminds me of NPR's "Left, Right, and Center" which would properly be ca...
[05:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:06] <exec> 08└─What kind of idiot modded up that drivel as Insightful? Those news sources are totally not right leaning. It's beyond comprehension how somebody could claim that they are. This is pathetic. How did a comment so wrong get modded up here at SN?
[05:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02Re:Smoke and mirrors - 06Samsung Targets Retailers with Mirror and Transparent OLED Panels - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:16] <exec> 08└─All sales tactics are smokes and mirrors, nothing wrong with that, your purpose is to sell and to sell you have to attract, if people see your storefront filled with transparent LCD's at least they'll stop for some seconds to look what it is all about.
[05:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:28] <exec> 08└─My computers all run TrueCrypt. I could hand a drive to somebody right now and they'd never get anything off it. This is actually one of the reasons why, I don't want to go through the process of zeroing out a drive when all I really need to do is throw away the password.
[05:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:True Story - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:33] <exec> 08└─In my Ex-Day-job, we were occasionally asked to analyze hard drives for the Police. They were from seized computers, and this was before there were standard forensics software packs available. Arrive in a sealed bag, chain of custody signature tags and the whole thing. (Got the job because of person...
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[06:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:04] <exec> 08└─Matt Damon. Who is Matt Damon?
[06:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory pop culture reference - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:13] <exec> 08└─Have Kevin Smith write and direct it and I'll buy a ticket.
[06:13:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02True Story - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 2385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:32] <exec> 08└─Sometime in the early-mid 2000's I was working for a company who had been awarded a contract to do warranty repair for Best Buy. This was back during the XP era when the vast majority of home users were unaware of the "hidden" Administrator account with no password by default which could grant acces...
[06:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02As opposed to the feds... - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:38] <exec> 08└─Chain of custody? Evidence tags? Nah... Back in the dark ages, when I was a college student visiting family, one of the in-laws was a Secret Service agent. They had a case of credit-card fraud, and had a computer that they thought contained a bunch of stolen credit-card information. I needed to find...
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[07:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02No jobs, so Why bother? - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:43] <exec> 08└─There aren't any computer science jobs for Americans, so why educate them in a dead end field? Oh sorry, my mistake, this is public school. There aren't any white kids in public school. There are plenty of jobs for brown people in America! No Whites need apply.
[07:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Abstract Science - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:44] <exec> 08└─How exactly will San Francisco’s preschool set get in on the action? SFUSD says they "will most likely be using blocks to build robots, to introduce the concepts of procedural thinking, cause and effect, decomposition of complex tasks, pattern recognition as well as the ability to notice similarit...
[07:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Abstract Science - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:46] <exec> 08└─Computer science is a branch of applied mathematics. There's nothing specifically computer about it.
[07:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Dumb question - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:47] <exec> 08└─It's the year 2015. Why isn't CompSci a mandatory part of the curriculum everywhere in America?
[07:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dumb question - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:49] <exec> 08└─In the future, computers will write their own software, and cars will drive themselves. The only jobs left will be rim jobs.
[07:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proposal - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:25] <exec> 08└─Every film with Matt Damon must now involve him somehow stranded alone and dying on an alien planet. Even Good Will Hunting 2.
[07:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He's ignorant--but has losts of opinions - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:53] <exec> 08└─3 years ago, the count was 174 children murdered in the Bush-Obama "War on Terrorism". [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [alternet.org] The count was made by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. [google.com] -- gewg_
[07:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It is time. - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:22] <exec> 08└─While this applies to citizens of all 'democratic' regimes, it especially applies to Americans: It is time to become Stateless. There is power in numbers. There is even greater power in not being beholden to self-benefitting trade agreements which fuck the global citizenry. If you still have a mind,...
[07:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score:2) 02I'm more interested in the tech than the video - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:07] <exec> 08└─I have pretty bad internet speeds so I only rarely go for 1080p- usually sticking with 720p, or 480p for things I don't really care about. But I very much appreciate higher resolution monitors. While 4K monitors are still semi-expensive, I may actually get one in a couple years. Right now I'm using...
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[08:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Computer SCIENCE - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:49] <exec> 08└─AC posted above, "Computer science is a branch of applied mathematics." I've seen almost no "computer science" in any computer sciences classes offered by schools anywhere near me. Almost all "computer science" classes that I've had any exposure to, involved learning the Microsoft way of doing thing...
[08:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Computer Grifting - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:50] <exec> 08└─There's no science needed to use social media to scam people out of their money. Forget about Excel and keyboarding. Advertising, marketing, tweeting, and Facebooking, these are the hot skills in computer "science" today.
[08:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proposal - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:29] <exec> 08└─Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season [youtube.com] came out years ago buddy.
[08:12:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 1271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:43] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, that's a claim we can test empirically. There are many "laboratory" civilizations running various experiments involving "leftism". I'm delighted to report that many have been successfully operating for decades, or centuries depending on your definition of "leftism". The perverse incentiv...
[08:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score:1) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:07] <exec> 08└─Do you have time to figure out how the ruling class of other countries will screw you, if this like this get passed?
[08:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:18] <exec> 08└─Because everyone goes to Fox "News" for their in depth analysis and high standards right?
[08:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02oh, are we asking questions? - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:28] <exec> 08└─If it is question time, why did the same AC just post 7 comments all saying the same thing, but attempting to look like different posts? Perhaps no one is listening to you for a very good reason, and it's not necessarily connected with your views.
[08:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:In Portland, one dials 9-1-1 - 06In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched! - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:32] <exec> 08└─I have already asked The Oregonian for an apology; now their going to get a defamation lawsuit.
[08:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:offtopic: submission bug! - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:19] <exec> 08└─Ctrl-F only works if you know an exact string that appears in the paragraph.
[08:16:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02Re:Replace all hardware? - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:27] <exec> 08└─WTF has windows got to do with it The original source said it was spread by a rogue windows Installer (MSI) file. As a Unix user since 1978 I have never known it be susceptible to rogue msi's.
[08:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Replace all hardware? - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:29] <exec> 08└─Of course that raises the question why ordinary user accounts had the rights to install software. With such settings, you could also have compromised a Linux system with a malicious .rpm or .deb package.
[08:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:It is probably illegal... - 06CIA Refuses to Release Bin Laden's Porn Collection - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:45] <exec> 08└─I defer to Occam's Razor. It is simpler for this to have been true than it is to assume a conspiracy during a firefight. I suppose it could have been planted well after the fact and just added to the report at home but, really, it seems unlikely. And yes, I am well aware of the dishonesty in governm...
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[09:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Insightful) 02This is not what music is for. Ask any musician. - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:54] <exec> 08└─I'm a coder but I play the baby grand at the Portland Airport for tips from time to time. All I ever really hope for is enough to buy a coffee the next day so I can flirt with my favorite barista. If I don't get tipped at all, while disappointing I at least get the practice of playing in public. Far...
[09:12:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Computer SCIENCE - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 1473 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:07] <exec> 08└─AC posted above, "Computer science is a branch of applied mathematics." I've seen almost no "computer science" in any computer sciences classes offered by schools anywhere near me. Almost all "computer science" classes that I've had any exposure to, involved learning the Microsoft way of doing thing...
[09:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I learned about logic gates, flip flop circuits - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:09] <exec> 08└─how tape and disk worked and so on. In a course that taught DEC-System 10 BASIC. I feel I am far better off as a result of learning how computers actually work at the gate level before I ever learned how to program them.
[09:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My sister was overcome with grief - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:10] <exec> 08└─that she had to take trigonometry so she would be accepted to college where she majored in forestry, with the intention of being a park ranger. The best Dad could come up with is that one needs trig to measure the height of a tree which strictly speaking is true but real foresters use a simple table...
[09:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Interstellar was good - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:46] <exec> 08└─Same here on both counts. I thought that the only people that actually liked Gravity were the ones with the mysterious ability to shut their brains completely off during a film or whenever discussion of it came up, given it was terrible from both the scientific/logical AND plot/character-writing ang...
[09:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThG [4568] (Score:2) 02Sounds familiar.. - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:51] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/1536/ [xkcd.com]
[09:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Stalin was diagnosed as "Classic Paranoid" - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:16] <exec> 08└─three days later the psychiatrist who diagnosed him died of poisoning. One of the early sources of funding for the pre-revolution Communists was that Stalin knocked over a bank. This was not what Marx was hoping for. The reason Marx devoted sixteen years of research in the Reading Room of the Britis...
[09:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:16] <exec> 08└─The URL doesn't actually contain Unicode, but ASCII characters which decode to Unicode. The only system which needs to know how to handle them is the web server; any other system can just treat them as the sequence of ASCII characters it is. That's the whole point of the ASCII encoding of Unicode ch...
[09:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:18] <exec> 08└─Even if that user had used TrueCrypt, and had used a super-strong password instead of an easily cracked one, it still would not have helped, given that that his password got delivered with the computer. The best encryption doesn't help against someone who has your password.
[09:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Caught a Pedo - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:32] <exec> 08└─I told the owner, and was quite clear I wanted to call the police.
[09:15:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Anti-virus/malware against any - 06Ask Toolbar Now Marked as Unwanted Software by Microsoft - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:18] <exec> 08└─My anti-virus said windows is a virus
[09:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Do they run Linux? - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:30] <exec> 08└─Equating business loss and liability to personal, human suffering and violence is fucking wrong, dude.
[09:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:LINUX, gonna FIX EVERYTHING! - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:35] <exec> 08└─That does not mean that there are no exploits nor does it mean that it is secure. The rant was nice, though.
[09:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:It is probably illegal... - 06CIA Refuses to Release Bin Laden's Porn Collection - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:14] <exec> 08└─I am glad I really do not know this... But, and I am ashamed to actually type this but I am certainly not going to search for this, is there such a thing as camel porn? I can only assume there is.
[09:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:It's Only Been A Week - 06How Two Escaped Killers Could Completely Disappear Off the Grid - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:20:02] <exec> 08└─D'oh! Thanks. I always get that one mashed up with the other. The worst part is, as you alluded to, I see the signs and the vehicles with the name emblazoned on it quite frequently. Yet, still, I type it out and my brain just refuses to do it properly. I frequently will type out border for someone s...
[09:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:I simply don't understand - 06UK Government Ignoring Advisers to Pursue Ban on "Legal Highs" - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:05] <exec> 08└─You are correct. It would most certainly not make a good DARE poster. I have had three DARE shirts. One was legit, one said DARE to think for yourself, and the final one said DARE - Drugs Are Really Expensive. I liked to wear the legitimate one when I was tripping and/or going out to a show. You can...
[09:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:I simply don't understand - 06UK Government Ignoring Advisers to Pursue Ban on "Legal Highs" - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:16] <exec> 08└─I was wondering why you were mostly agreeing with me but had started with the premise that I was incorrect. It is all good. I make mistakes - usually enough for the both of us. If it helps we can blame it on my writing style and the resulting lack of clarity.
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[10:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:This is not what music is for. Ask any musician - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:56] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is, the music scene is all about how many skin flutes you've blown. Are you sure you're a programmer? Because you're far too interested in social interaction to be a programmer. Nope, you said you're a coder. That explains everything. Coders aren't real programmers, are you now...
[10:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I learned about logic gates, flip flop circuits - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:13] <exec> 08└─You know how computers actually work? Don't ever tell anybody you know anything, because knowledge is for low-paid curry-eating losers. If you want to make real money, you have to be an ignorant executive who manages the curry-eating idiots who actually think knowledge is power. Knowledge isn't powe...
[10:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My friend Stew Chapman explained... - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:14] <exec> 08└─I think it was his grandfather's take, who was an investor. From low pay to high pay, there are people who work with tools, people who work with people and people who work with money. Coders are at the high end of people who work with tools. No doubt at the low end of those who work with money are t...
[10:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My sister was overcome with grief - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:16] <exec> 08└─Poetry is for dead people from the 19th century, dude. Today's hip 21st century poets accompany their poetry with unoriginal repetitive soundtracks, call it popular music, and spend their copious free time tweeting about the piles and piles of money they can make by repeating a few words over and ov...
[10:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02A poem of mine is used in a novel - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:18] <exec> 08└─... in which an expatriate American manic depressive lives in Istanbul. The author didn't know much about manic depression so he researched it then stumbles across my first page. With my permission it's in his book, I have a signed copy but I have such a poor memory for the names of things that I do...
[10:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I've been thinking about writing a novel - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:20] <exec> 08└─about gay niggers, but I don't know how gay niggers are meant to behave, because I don't know any gay niggers. I did a little bit of research and I stumbled across a short film documentary on the subject. It's been most illuminating.
[10:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03E_NOENT [630] (Score:2) 02ipads uber alles - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:21] <exec> 08└─I file this under the "every kid in the district needs a laptop | tablet" thinking that seems to be everywhere lately. "Well, it's a tech-driven world, and they need to be familiar with the latest technology or else!!11!" I hear. Yet here's the school secretary, a 50-something, deftly working with a...
[10:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ipads uber alles - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:23] <exec> 08└─Python in rxvt is boring, you unfit parent. Teach your kid JavaScript in Chrome, for Christ's sake. It's a whole visual development environment with a command line and an integrated debugger and instant feedback. Start by pulling apart an Ajax web site, make fun changes to the user interface, do som...
[10:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Here's what I do - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:34] <exec> 08└─get down on the floor, lay my head on the ground then look sideways. It makes small things stick up from the floor.
[10:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Er...did you SEE those films? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:57] <exec> 08└─Obviously you never saw the films. The only way you could consider Gravity to be even remotely "feminist" is if you looked past the stereotyped "emotionally crippled & hysterical woman needs to be talked through life by the calm, attractive, funny guy who nobly sacrifices himself for the greater goo...
[10:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Proposal - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:04] <exec> 08└─I'm stranded on earth you insensitive clod! with a lot of hairless monkeys in suits. ;)
[10:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Trailer here.. - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:06] <exec> 08└─The Martian | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX [youtube.com] (oops, no copyright trolls will jump out of your screen by watching this clip)
[10:13:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:19] <exec> 08└─The GP should note where Obama was (according to his minimal record) in 2008. [politicalcompass.org] Now, note how far he had drifted toward a pro-Wall Street, pro-war, pro-warrantless wiretapping position by 2012. [politicalcompass.org] Note also that if you have a very thin feeler gauge, you might...
[10:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:37] <exec> 08└─Here ya go, definitely this: http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com [thecomicseries.com] this too: http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com [thecomicseries.com] and this too as children live on the planet: http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com [the...
[10:13:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:43] <exec> 08└─This thing is way too secretive, and the things that have leaked are hella nasty for the average citizen. From what I've read the 1%'ers will be ecstatic over this, the rest of us will be screwed. Speaking from a US perspective, of course.
[10:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:45] <exec> 08└─I'll Take "Pragmatism" for 1%, Alex! [thecomicseries.com]
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[11:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Perfect! for telecommuting Prostitutes! - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:05] <exec> 08└─Touch your junk to the life sized screen.
[11:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Joke - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:06] <exec> 08└─The tables [youtu.be], they've turned. Ninety degrees, I believe.
[11:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Blue Wall Of Frustration.. - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:08] <exec> 08└─Just wait until the screen just goes BSOD or BWOF on you and require an reinstallation on that computer in a really hard to reach place while people wait for your presentation.. Gah! And they also want your keyboard to have a special dedicated Cortana key to boot..
[11:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02You must not know much about computers - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:18] <exec> 08└─I prefer the term coder because I am a real computer programmer. I once had a close friend who was a master carpenter; he owned all the weird little tools and so could build anything. But he preferred to describe himself by saying "I know how to swing a hammer".
[11:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If only free Internet radio were a thing.......... - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:20] <exec> 08└─.......just like free over-the-air radio used to be a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No jobs, so Why bother? - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:29] <exec> 08└─Everything in the future is only going to be more and more computer based. Internet of Everything? That shit is not Legos or crayons. A general understanding of how computers work is extremely important, even if the only byproduct is awareness of security and protecting yourself. Everyone should als...
[11:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Abstract Science - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:32] <exec> 08└─Teaching problem solving, critical thinking, logic, etc are important if you want people to be able to think for themselves. Teach a kid the answer to a question on a test? That kid can answer that question and only that question. Teach a kid how to break down the problem and actually solve for the...
[11:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02And it'll be taught poorly - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:45] <exec> 08└─Assuming, of course, that these classes won't just be Microsoft Essentials classes or mere programming classes where they copy code out of a book labeled as Computer Science classes, they will almost certainly be taught poorly. We can't even teach math, English, or any of the other subjects correctl...
[11:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score:1) 02Re:Here's what I do - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:59] <exec> 08└─Sometimes a flashlight at a low angle helps. But if you drop a discrete SMT on a speckled grey rug forget it (they obviously tunnel to another universe before they hit the floor).
[11:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:1) 02Re:Storm Front? - 06In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched! - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:37] <exec> 08└─The story specifically mentions that the monitoring software is being used in primary schools. Let me translate that into American for you: kids from the ages of 4 to 12 years are on the Internet and being monitored.
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[12:11:51] <exec> 08└─I almost bought a "Big Ass Table." Well, no... I seriously considered it - that is a much more accurate statement. The 55" veritical table being offered here looks pretty nice and the price is not too bad I suppose, it is not like there is much to compare it with. I currently have an older projector...
[12:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02you suck, M$ - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:53] <exec> 08└─mod me down clowns
[12:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If only free Internet radio were a thing....... - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:06] <exec> 08└─Your "free" radio still exists, though it uses that dreaded "ad model" to support itself. So does the free Spotify product. Don't want ads? You'll have to fork over some cash. Don't want to "pay" for music with cash or ads because "music should be free"? Get involved in the music industry and before...
[12:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If only free Internet radio were a thing....... - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:07] <exec> 08└─How about music with a decent price? It's the middle men that takes consumer bucks, not musicians.
[12:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:No jobs, so Why bother? - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:19] <exec> 08└─so why educate them in a dead end field?
[12:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Dumb question - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:25] <exec> 08└─And Steve... He is coming back, I know it! His head is cryogenic and frozen and stuff! He is comin' back as a cyborg!
[12:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I learned about logic gates, flip flop circuits - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:31] <exec> 08└─"How to exploit curry-eating losers and curry deficient losers for profit and fun while making the government (people) pay for it" - be successful now! ;) They key seems to get power so that one can grab more power. Catch-22 is how to get started..
[12:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Computer SCIENCE - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:33] <exec> 08└─I've seen almost no "computer science" in any computer sciences classes offered by schools anywhere near me.
[12:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ipads uber alles - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:40] <exec> 08└─There are countless people who are able to "make a living using a computer". That doesn't mean they necessarily know much of anything about computers; only that they know how to follow directions applicable to their task at hand. Every kid needs to learn how to problem solve, and every kid needs to...
[12:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:11] <exec> 08└─Wait, he's taking my job? ;-)
[12:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:All Sci-Fi must be Feminist - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:20] <exec> 08└─Space is the hardest to escape prison of all!
[12:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03drgibbon [74] (Score:1) 02Re:Interstellar was good - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I couldn't understand the hype around it at all. I went to the cinema to see it and I was ready to leave well before it ended. Visually stunning sure, but that's all. I would have preferred it as a pure space 15 minute short (and if there had to be people, no talking). The characters and the s...
[12:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good (grumpycat.jpg) - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:16] <exec> 08└─This is like the "There are starving African children, so your problems don't matter." non sequitur you hear often, or at least variations of it ("first world problems"). Essentially, it's just a tactic to try to legitimize someone's suffering by saying they should be thankful because it could be wo...
[12:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:java does not ship ask toolbar - 06Ask Toolbar Now Marked as Unwanted Software by Microsoft - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:06] <exec> 08└─Just do a search for java install ask toolbar, even just images, and maybe that will refresh your memory, you Java and/or Ask apologist.
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[13:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Best Condoms Ever, Now With Superlubricity! - 06Diamond Nanoparticles and Graphene Combination Adds Up to "Superlubricity" - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:44] <exec> 08└─Try our new Diamond Jubilee condoms, now with actual diamonds, graphene and superlubricity. Our high tech approach to birth control is even better than our two-tube DG Jelly (sorry about the grittiness of the diamonds tube, we should have caught that during testing).
[13:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Condoms Ever, Now With Superlubricity! - 06Diamond Nanoparticles and Graphene Combination Adds Up to "Superlubricity" - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:45] <exec> 08└─Super efficient, the womb will be permanently out of business once those lubricants osmosis into the tissue. The participants may also be out of breath permanently at a later stage. ;-)
[13:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Still doesn't beat organic superlube - 06Diamond Nanoparticles and Graphene Combination Adds Up to "Superlubricity" - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:47] <exec> 08└─Reminder Organic Superlube? Oh, it’s great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it, though—it’ll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets. —T. M. Morgan-Reilly, Morgan Metagenics
[13:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blue Wall Of Frustration.. - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:58] <exec> 08└─When you pay that much for a computing device I believe the official acronym is BWTF.
[13:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If only free Internet radio were a thing....... - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:13] <exec> 08└─What is a decent price? A dollar a day for hours of entertainment? 50¢, 33¢, 25¢? If that isn't cheap enough there's always "free" radio, though there's the pesky ads and the fact that you basically have zero control over what they play. The middlemen do take too large a piece of the money pie. T...
[13:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No jobs, so Why bother? - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:24] <exec> 08└─even if the only byproduct is awareness of security and protecting yourself.
[13:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ipads uber alles - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:45] <exec> 08└─From watching a few classes where kids were having a great time learning Logo (long ago...), I'd say to teach your kids Scratch.
[13:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And it'll be taught poorly - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:48] <exec> 08└─This is so true. The level of stupidity I encountered in public school was astonishing to me as an immigrant from Eastern Europe. I came to this country in 6th grade and basically did not learn ANY new math for 4 fuckin years! But of course I took a yearly test that was a joke and stated I was at 12...
[13:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's what I do - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:03] <exec> 08└─(they obviously tunnel to another universe before they hit the floor)
[13:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02my technique - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:04] <exec> 08└─My technique for finding dropped parts involves stopping immediately as the part is dropping and listening. I don't go into a mad scramble attempting to stop it, I don't start bobbing and weaving. I simply freeze and listen. I usually have an excellent idea which area of the floor the part fell (and...
[13:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03randmcnatt [671] (Score:2) 02DustBuster - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:06] <exec> 08└─Looks like he's reinvented the DustBuster [homedepot.com]. I especially like the recharge station / wall hanger.
[13:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Intel secrets - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:31] <exec> 08└─a 486 pentium
[13:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:ALL toolbars are unwanted - 06Ask Toolbar Now Marked as Unwanted Software by Microsoft - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:09] <exec> 08└─Really, I haven't seen a toolbar that was worth having.
[13:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02legal dogfight over public domain? - 06CIA Refuses to Release Bin Laden's Porn Collection - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:33] <exec> 08└─Musing on two thoughts. Assume you have something that is under copyright; say a movie with Mickey Mouse. That movie is on a hard disk, legally, in use by someone who becomes the subject of a FOIA request. What happens to the Mickey Mouse movie? If the results of the FOIA request are in the public d...
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[14:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score:2) 02other uses for shop vacs - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:05] <exec> 08└─Off-topic but maybe interesting? Have you used a shop vac in a creative way? Sometimes bees/yellow jackets/wasps are too close to the house. One nest was in a wall where I didn't want to spray poison. Rigged the shop vac near the entrance to the hive and vacuumed off the bees as they entered/exited....
[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03randmcnatt [671] (Score:2) 02Re:other uses for shop vacs - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:06] <exec> 08└─One night my daughter screamed and came running out of the bathroom. I looked in and saw a moth "tornado". There were 1000s of miller moths swirling around. We have no idea where they came from. I went in with a spray bottle of water and my shop vac; it took at least a half hour to clear the room, t...
[14:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:other uses for shop vacs - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:08] <exec> 08└─So then what did you do with the shop vac full of angry bees/yellow jackets/wasps? How did you dispatch/dispose of them?
[14:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:03] <exec> 08└─There is a better correlation between percentage of blacks in a nation and that nation's well-being, than any left-wing/right-wing dichotomy. The previously mentioned Cambodia for example, is light-years ahead of the most liberal democracies in sub-Saharan Africa. Haiti? Shares half the fucking isla...
[14:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Caught a Pedo - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─What's twisted is that certain arrangements of bits are illegal, and the fact that someone (not necessarily the owner of the computer) possibly molested a child. But instead of going after people who take harmful actions, we've chosen to go after people who possess videos or images. A good use of re...
[14:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Radical? - 06In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched! - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:01] <exec> 08└─I hear that IS have formed a retro 1950s style rock 'n' roll band. They're called Jihaddywaddy.
[14:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do they run Linux? - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:32] <exec> 08└─It would be far more similar to say a bank that had a pile of your gold with information on where to get more of your gold locked up in a store room with a deadbolt. They will say they had someone come and make sure it was locked up, but it doesn't mean it was adequate. You need to have an actual sa...
[14:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LINUX, gonna FIX EVERYTHING! - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:37] <exec> 08└─gnu/inux has significantly less vulnerabilities by design. You can easily make it less secure and it has bugs and exploits like everything else, but it's still a safer system than most other OSes that focus on usability first. Generally the linux bugs you see tend to be far less impactful as well, a...
[14:17:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03No Respect [991] 02Re:offtopic: submission bug! - 06Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:46] <exec> 08└─Whenever you're entering a large amount of text in a browser form field, remember to always Ctrl-A followed by Ctrl-C before hitting the 'submit' button. You will not regret making this a habit.
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[15:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03StupendousMan [103] (Score:1) 02Brief summary of the Rosetta mission - 06 Philae Comet Lander has Woken Up Again - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:45] <exec> 08└─I gave a talk on the Rosetta mission a month ago, while we were still waiting for Philae to awake. It has lots of pictures, and links to further reading. http://spiff.rit.edu [rit.edu]
[15:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Yea but the guy's shirt and cunttress whore rights - 06 Philae Comet Lander has Woken Up Again - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:46] <exec> 08└─Yea but the guy's shirt and cunttress whore rights? Is that guy fired and imprisoned for hate??????
[15:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02mmobile - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:23] <exec> 08└─Too bad no one can afford a mobile data plan where they can actully USE the streaming service without burning the monthly data allowence in days.
[15:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:1) 02Re:And it'll be taught poorly - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:00] <exec> 08└─aww man, you're lucky. The most interesting elective at my school was just calculus-based physics, and the closest thing to computer science was basically java programming.
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Who is Matt Damon? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─He's that puppet in "Team America" Matt...Damon...
[15:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:29] <exec> 08└─Why would they have the password?
[15:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Bweare of typos! - 06In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched! - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─If you try to lock down school computers, you will end up with students who are more educated about the reality of computer security than you are comfortable with.
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[16:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Wait … - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:48] <exec> 08└─You are getting pregnant by getting a penis transplant?
[16:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Does it have working nerve transmission - feeling? - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:49] <exec> 08└─It's possible to impregnate a woman by simple using a needle to extract the sperm from the male. And inject it into the uterus. But it's not very romantic nor pain free. So the key question is, does this transplanted penis makes it feel good to have penetrative sex or is it just like a numb appendix...
[16:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Does it have working nerve transmission - feeli - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:51] <exec> 08└─So the key question is, does this transplanted penis makes it feel good to have penetrative sex or is it just like a numb appendix?
[16:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02Ambiguous headlines for comic effect - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:52] <exec> 08└─The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy
[16:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:1) 02Maybe its time to stop... - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe its time to stop mutilating the genitals of baby boys.
[16:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe its time to stop... - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:56] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't exactly call an 18-year old a baby-boy.
[16:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe its time to stop... - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe its time to stop mutilating the genitals of baby boys.
[16:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Congrads! - 06 Philae Comet Lander has Woken Up Again - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:05] <exec> 08└─Watching the bumpy landing was nerve racking even for a spectator like myself. I wonder if the lander is awake enough to do work - I seem to remember previous estimates of waiting for August to awaken Philae.
[16:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Why U.S. manufactured? - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:27] <exec> 08└─The products will be manufactured in the U.S., most likely due to exorbitant shipping costs.
[16:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:1) 02Re:Dumb question - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:02] <exec> 08└─Why would computers write their own software?
[16:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb question - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:03] <exec> 08└─Computers already write their own software. When was the last time you wrote code in binary? -- hendrik
[16:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:A poem of mine is used in a novel - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:15] <exec> 08└─I love finding mystery-poetry in my journals!
[16:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:A poem of mine is used in a novel - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:16] <exec> 08└─But your journal is empty, so you cannot find mystery-poetry there.
[16:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:ipads uber alles - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:20] <exec> 08└─I feel like Python has a much simpler syntax than ECMAScript. If I were teaching a child a first language, I'd pick Python over ECMAScript any day. If you have the cash - and if you have cash for anything, it should be teaching your kids - littleBits and legos seem like a really awesome combination....
[16:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:And it'll be taught poorly - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:26] <exec> 08└─Well, the problem is that it is hard to test understanding. Testing memorized knowledge is easy. You ask for it, and then you compare the given answer with the expected answer (which is considered the "correct" answer, by definition). If they match, it's a point, otherwise it's no point. Now imagine...
[16:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:other uses for shop vacs - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:46] <exec> 08└─Have you used a shop vac in a creative way?
[16:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:56] <exec> 08└─RTFA, then you know.
[16:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The amazing world of windoze malware - 06Ask Toolbar Now Marked as Unwanted Software by Microsoft - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:09] <exec> 08└─The endless waves of malware were the last thing I remember while still on the Micro$oft operating system some 9 years ago. I had a collection of all kinds of silly anti-malware scanners I regularly ran to purge any uninvited code snippets off my CPU, it was a kind of a ritual, not too different fro...
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[17:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe they got it backwards?
[17:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:Does it have working nerve transmission - feeli - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:52] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the one he had is broken, otherwise they would not be replacing it.
[17:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Just because there's a high rate of penis amputati - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:58] <exec> 08└─...doesn't actually mean there's any sort of "need" for this surgery there.
[17:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Just because there's a high rate of penis amput - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:00] <exec> 08└─I see where you are going with this. Now I want to see how far you can go before you offend somebody's delicate senses. (I do not mind, I think I am the only black person here and I am only 1/4 black so I say run with it.) So, then, we have established that. Now, where, exactly, are you going with t...
[17:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because there's a high rate of penis amput - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:01] <exec> 08└─I know where I would go with it. Forget about race - anyone who trusts the local shaman/witch doctor to use a knife on his penis is pretty much undeserving of procreating. I would say the same if this were an Asian, a European, or an aborigine from the Americas or Australia. And, the same would appl...
[17:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Ed's note - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:03] <exec> 08└─"[Ed note: We recently ran a story about a woman who succeeded in having a Live Birth After Autograft of Ovarian Tissue Cryopreserved During Childhood.]" Somehow - this story just doesn't seem as interesting as the autografted ovary. Generally speaking, if us guys aren't poking our penises where the...
[17:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ethnic group does silly and dangerous things - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:04] <exec> 08└─Nominated for the Darwin awards...
[17:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Robotron [3099] (Score:2) 02This was - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:06] <exec> 08└─This was a dick move on everyone's part.
[17:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Reverse-Bobbitt? - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:08] <exec> 08└─This just seems a bit odd. So a dead person donates his penis with the condition that he shall receive a new fake franken-penis crafted from his belly skin so he can be buried like a "man". Cause he really needs his fake penis in the afterlife or what? Reattaching your own penis has apparently been...
[17:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02kudos - 06 Philae Comet Lander has Woken Up Again - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:15] <exec> 08└─awesome engineering and yeah! the sun shines! luckily it doesn't have/need wheels : P
[17:12:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02This is not what music is for. Ask any musician. - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:45] <exec> 08└─I'm a coder but I play the baby grand at the Portland Airport for tips from time to time. All I ever really hope for is enough to buy a coffee the next day so I can flirt with my favorite barista. If I don't get tipped at all, while disappointing I at least get the practice of playing in public. Far...
[17:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If only free Internet radio were a thing....... - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:52] <exec> 08└─Setting up an account on bandcamp is very time consuming?
[17:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nicdoye [3908] (Score:1) 02Re:mmobile - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:55] <exec> 08└─Not all markets are as restrictive as the US. I have unlimited data (3G and 4G) on Three (Hutchison) in the UK.
[17:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:A poem of mine is used in a novel - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:29] <exec> 08└─My SoylentNews journal is empty, so you have a very low probability of finding mystery-poetry there.
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score:1) 02Re:And it'll be taught poorly - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, for the past decade, I've taught in a school that focuses on understanding instead of rote memorization. We don't give them any tests except one standardized test a year, and they score equal to (or slightly above) demographically similar schools. But we start at kindergarten and go up fro...
[17:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:And it'll be taught poorly - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:40] <exec> 08└─Assuming, of course, that these classes won't just be Microsoft Essentials classes or mere programming classes where they copy code out of a book labeled as Computer Science classes, they will almost certainly be taught poorly. We can't even teach math, English, or any of the other subjects correctl...
[17:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:overkill? - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:52] <exec> 08└─before you suck up the floor
[17:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's what I do - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:58] <exec> 08└─Why would you drop a Shanghai Maglev Train on a speckled grey rug?
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:other uses for shop vacs - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:03] <exec> 08└─Mix the water in the spray bottle with dish soap. It makes for a good insecticide.
[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Er...did you SEE those films? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:32] <exec> 08└─The only way you could consider Gravity to be even remotely "feminist" is if you looked past the stereotype
[17:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Resolution of reality - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─https://sonnati.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/h265-part-ii-considerations-on-quality-and-state-of-the-art/ [wordpress.com] http://www.extremetech.com [extremetech.com] (page 2) http://www.avsforum.com
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02No 8k for me - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:50] <exec> 08└─Interestingly YouTube only offers me the video up to 2160p (not that I could display even that resolution on my monitor, so I don't really mind, but anyway, it's an interesting fact).
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[18:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02WTF - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:44] <exec> 08└─An Advert? I wouldn't mind, but I bet SN didn't even get paid for it
[18:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Insightful) 02for a fee of $499 - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:45] <exec> 08└─Free as in ... ??? This is a rant: I get nauseated when I see "Certified System Administrator exam" because it's an artificial barrier to entry - pay to play - in the computer field. Sure, you expect that from Microsoft. But Linux is supposed to be an end run around artificial barriers to entry. Thi...
[18:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:for a fee of $499 - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:47] <exec> 08└─I also see a lot of people who won't get jobs because these certifications are a red flag to some employers -- Couldn't learn it on your own, eh?
[18:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:for a fee of $499 - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:49] <exec> 08└─You mean those certifications that means certified idiot? ;-) (some also seems to imply certified fanboy, which can be even worse in a workplace)
[18:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThG [4568] (Score:2) 02Re:for a fee of $499 - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:50] <exec> 08└─The HRs are the real problem here. They won't hire you without that dumb shit. It's the sole reason the LF introduced those certificates in the first place.
[18:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This offer is available exclusively through SN - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:52] <exec> 08└─as a service for our readers. Normally, if you wanted training to become a Linux sysadmin, you'd have to sign up for a class that could cost thousands of dollars, and might require you to take off time from work. Now, for selected students who qualify, Linux Foundation is offering an advanced course...
[18:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:01] <exec> 08└─No, the surgeon is the one who got pregnant. It's a complicated story.
[18:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because there's a high rate of penis amput - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:12] <exec> 08└─I must be honest and that I am admit mostly trying to get an amusing response or two seeing as I am bored.
[18:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Just because there's a high rate of penis amput - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:14] <exec> 08└─Without the circumcision, he would be considered a child. His peers would openly treat him with contempt and he would be unable to marry or procreate, which defeats the purpose of avoiding the procedure. In ancient times an uncircumcised man having sex was a capital offence for both parties, accordi...
[18:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reverse-Bobbitt? - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:18] <exec> 08└─I'm on the organ donor list. I had no idea it might include "boner donor", I'll have to edit my parts preferences.
[18:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Reverse-Bobbitt - what could possible go profit - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:20] <exec> 08└─Why stop at one penis? one could have two for that instant double penetration. It would make masturbation kind of hard however. Then I'll guess the dildo industry will "donate" to a senator or congressman in order to stop lab grown penises without any body attached for personal gratification purpose...
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Inaccurate model of friction? - 06Diamond Nanoparticles and Graphene Combination Adds Up to "Superlubricity" - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─Zooming down to an atomic level, friction is caused by atoms locking together, making it difficult for them to pass over one another. It's like sliding the bases of two egg cartons over one another. They'll often get entangled together during the process.
[18:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Blue Wall Of Frustration.. - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:52] <exec> 08└─Bank Wire Transfer of Funds? Is that how you have to pay for it?
[18:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Too small and too expensive... lame. - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:55] <exec> 08└─I have a few large dry-erase boards at the office. The $20K MS model is like a toy compared to the size of those. They work fine, and they support unlimited number of pens. Perhaps these MS "hubs" will be bought by a few companies who have too much money, but they make no sense for anyone else. Equi...
[18:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02M$? Don't want. Won't buy. - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:57] <exec> 08└─Won't pass a stone to the mafia of computers.
[18:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I would almost consider the 55 - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:58] <exec> 08└─If it weren't $7000. For that price it should either have something a little more potent than an i5 and integrated graphics. I'm sure that's good enough for what it's intended for, but that's still a high price.
[18:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:ipads uber alles - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─I file this under the "every kid in the district needs a laptop | tablet" thinking that seems to be everywhere lately.
[18:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:And it'll be taught poorly - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:01] <exec> 08└─Someone who truly understands something will very likely be able to pass some poorly-designed standardized test with ease.
[18:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:30] <exec> 08└─Well now, isn't that convenient! Blatant leftism somehow "isn't leftism" when it's an obvious failure.
[18:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Resolution of reality - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:10] <exec> 08└─Well thanks ;-) H265 – part II : Considerations on quality and “state-of-the-art” [wordpress.com] Summarizing, HEVC pushes the traditional block-based video encoding paradigm to higher levels of efficiency (and also complexity from an encoding/decoding p.o.v.) thanks mainly to: – variable...
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[19:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Ed's note - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:23] <exec> 08└─I know what you mean, but there are many millions of people in the world. male and female, who find themselves, through no fault of their own, born into societies with "traditions" that result in intimate parts of their bodies being removed by butchery at ages where they are physically and mentally...
[19:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Two-fisted style... - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:29] <exec> 08└─It would make masturbation kind of hard however.
[19:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02Re:Reverse-Bobbitt? - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:31] <exec> 08└─RTFA, his penis wasn't cut off. It was infected. There was nothing worth re-attaching.
[19:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Reverse-Bobbitt? - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:33] <exec> 08└─RTFA, his penis wasn't cut off. It was infected.
[19:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:2) 02Not Impressed..here's why.. - 06Microsoft Announces 55" and 84" Surface Hubs - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─We recently moved offices and installed some 70" Display screens for pomp and circumstance board rooms. The thought of using these as touch screens is quite amusing since in order to get them to a usable height you would need a stool to get to the top of these.. much less the goofiness of dragging s...
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not what music is for. Ask any musician - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─har har, coders write code and programmers write programs. It's a play on words more than anything else. Do programmers not write code? Maybe programmers can only write 80 interfaces with circular references and seven layers of abstraction that some coders have to unfubar : ) But hey, it compiles. E...
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Er...did you SEE those films? - 06Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:11] <exec> 08└─That says a lot about who's been defining feminism for you, and very little about how actual feminists operate in the actual world.
[19:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Obstructionism - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:01] <exec> 08└─I wish we could have at least had a proper debate on it.
[19:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:58] <exec> 08└─I did actually, and I still don't understand what it has to do with my post. I'd never give a TrueCrypt password to Best Buy.
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Resolution of reality - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─New Intel/AMD/ARM CPUs and GPUs have hardware support for H.265 (and maybe VP9) decode. I can decode H.265 720p on a 4 year old cheap laptop (no hardware support for H.265), so you are overestimating the requirements. Can it do 1080p? Apparently not. When I try playback I get skipped frames and othe...
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[20:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02how do personal ads for people into incest work?? - 06Tolkien's First Fantasy Tale to be Published After 100 Years - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:46] <exec> 08└─a sticky note on the fridge??
[20:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:for a fee of $499 - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:00] <exec> 08└─Cisco supposedly gives you huge $$$ discounts on support contracts. If IBM gives you a discount of 10% on service contracts if over 50% of your employees have some WTF certification... On the other hand I drank the kool aide and did a whole CCNP about a decade ago, totally F'in worthless on the job...
[20:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:for a fee of $499 - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:01] <exec> 08└─As a linux admin doing devops work who is a few years out from moving (and looking for a new job)... it never dawned on me why so many linux blogs existed. That it would be useful in a hiring scenario never even dawned on me. Hmm. Not sure why this evaded me.
[20:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:This offer is available exclusively through SN - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:03] <exec> 08└─But hurry! This offer ends Wednesday, June 17. Make sure you mention "gewg_" when you sign up
[20:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:This offer is available exclusively through SN - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:05] <exec> 08└─A far reaching knowledge of what beer, wine, and spirits are best for your intended purpose!
[20:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because there's a high rate of penis amput - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:28] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the one performing the operation anesthesizes himself before operating ;-)
[20:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Two-fisted style... - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:37] <exec> 08└─There were special people that sawed up the ice blocks at the coast or lakes etc. Transported them to storage facilities and distributed them in dedicated tools of transportation. When refrigeration came it all went away. Guess there were no politicians to donate to at the time. Of course this new t...
[20:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Reverse-Bobbitt - what could possible go profit - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:38] <exec> 08└─Why stop at one penis? one could have two for that instant double penetration. It would make masturbation kind of hard however. Well masturbation and hard are supposed to go together. However, it's not difficult, it's essential: http://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] My prostate...
[20:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02How awesome is that? - 06 Philae Comet Lander has Woken Up Again - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:52] <exec> 08└─My mind is just blown by this. First, seven months ago, now this. Honestly, if I were a very rich visionary in a high-tech company, I'd try my best to grab some of the people who make such resilient marvels of engineering. This is just amazing to me.
[20:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If only free Internet radio were a thing....... - 06Apple Music vs. Spotify et al - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:39] <exec> 08└─Your recommendation that all professional musicians, bands, etc set up an account on "bandcamp" demonstrates your complete grasp of the situation.
[20:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Here's what I do - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:47] <exec> 08└─get down on the floor
[20:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:01] <exec> 08└─And I see no actual names of such civilizations are mentioned. I imagine though you probably include the Scandinavian democracies and exclude the US democracy.
[20:18:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02The difference between platforms - 06Ask Toolbar Now Marked as Unwanted Software by Microsoft - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:13] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the real world: - Linux: doesn't care about you (to varying degrees) - Windows: a confluence of immoral companies trying to fuck you in the ass sideways (to varying degrees) - MacOS / iOS: a single immoral company doing the same (to a still varying but more consistent degree)
[20:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Resolution of reality - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:45] <exec> 08└─The question is Linux/BSD drivers for that H.265 hardware acceleration (co-processing).. How is H.265 compared to VP9 quality, bitrate and processor demand wise? That 4 year old cheap laptop. What CPU, frequency, memory type and frequency and screen does it have? And if you get sent an 1080p video,...
[20:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Resolution of reality - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:46] <exec> 08└─I created an H.265 1280x720 video with an average video bitrate of 32 kbps. It looked like bad mosaic art but it worked.
[20:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Resolution of reality - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:47] <exec> 08└─What bitrate is the minimum in order to pass the "wife & kids test" ?
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[21:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:47] <exec> 08└─might be time to stop growing crops in the fucking desert.
[21:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Instead they should be growing them where things like frost randomly happen every year. That'd be way better than dealing with the occasional drought.
[21:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02EFficiency - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:49] <exec> 08└─From what I've read (which may or may not be correct) just improving the efficiency of the farms would solve the problem. They use wasteful watering techniques as opposed to soaker based root watering, etc. It's cheap but extremely inefficient. I know that most of the vineyards fro what little water...
[21:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Long term? - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:51] <exec> 08└─Does this threaten the long term viability of California? Deficiencies can be solved with technology. But those costs and can break down.
[21:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:how do personal ads for people into incest work - 06Tolkien's First Fantasy Tale to be Published After 100 Years - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:00] <exec> 08└─I think we can steer this off-topic first post into an on-topic direction by complaining that so much of Tolkien's minor notebook jottings have been published, that it's only a matter of time until the sticky notes he left on the fridge are collected and published in an edition curated by Christophe...
[21:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02An even bigger question: - 06Tolkien's First Fantasy Tale to be Published After 100 Years - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:01] <exec> 08└─How does 100 year old unpublished works by a diseased author deserve 50-70+ year copyright terms? This is an affront to 'benefiting the public and advancement of the arts' for which copyright was supposed to have been intended. Furthermore, am I the only one to have become tired of Tolkien's works?
[21:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02below, systemd troll OTD - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:18] <exec> 08└─It's nice to see certified people, but if you are in a hurry here's a quick test question to select good sysadmins. Q: dafuq is systemd? 1: a new fast init system 2: a suite of system tools that will probably end up like android, nominally free software, practically impossible to fork while keeping...
[21:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:1) 02Re:Reverse-Bobbitt? - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:56] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming that it had to be amputated to prevent the spread of the infection. If it's a choice between losing an appendage and losing your life, most of us will chose to lose the appendage.
[21:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So? - 06The World’s First Penis Transplant has Reportedly Resulted in a Pregnancy - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:57] <exec> 08└─A chicken baster can get a female pregnant. Now a testical transplant
[21:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Use a girlfriend in 4 easy steps - 06Super Cheap Vac Attachment Helps Find Small Dropped Parts - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:13] <exec> 08└─1. Get a girfriend 2. Put her stocking over the vacuum hose 3. Have her vacuum the floor where the dropped part is 4. Reward her with a kiss
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[22:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:1) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:53] <exec> 08└─Yes those damn surprise forests really are a problem.
[22:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:54] <exec> 08└─I don't understand your comment.
[22:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:55] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Corn grows in great in places with very cold weather. Look at this map: http://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu [illinois.edu] Most corn is grown in some of the regions with the coldest nastiest winters America has to offer. And then there is Canada, w...
[22:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:57] <exec> 08└─According to your article if they grew it elsewhere it would be seasonal.
[22:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:59] <exec> 08└─a very thirsty crop
[22:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:00] <exec> 08└─and that brings up the interesting point that produce export is exporting that volume of water permanently out of that ecosystem
[22:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:02] <exec> 08└─Every location has its ups and downs. California's is that it has a moderate climate and occasional drought. The mid-west has plenty of water but harsh winters and summers. Name a location and you'll find a big disadvantage. Your suggestion is not very helpful.
[22:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:03] <exec> 08└─The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw But seriously, you're right. Importing water to grow crops is not sustainable.
[22:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Long term? - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:05] <exec> 08└─It doesn't help that California keeps enticing assholes to move here with runaway housing development. They need to stop assholes moving here, and they need to throw the illegals and property developers the fuck out. Let them all go to Texas. That's one aspect in addition to the farming and industry...
[22:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Long term? - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:07] <exec> 08└─They need to stop assholes moving here, and they need to throw the illegals and property developers the fuck out.
[22:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Exemptions - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:08] <exec> 08└─I have yet to find any conclusive information on this so maybe someone can be +5 Informative. Are fracking and other energy/mining companies still exempt from the California water restrictions?
[22:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Nuclear Power and Desalination - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:10] <exec> 08└─They need nuclear power from some inland states away from the faults, and desalination plants along the coast and along the bay. It's not rocket science, but maneuvering this through California's dysfunctional political system will be harder to do.
[22:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02It costs more to flush the toilet. - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:11] <exec> 08└─Southern Ca charges more in sewer fees than water use. My typical water district bill is $100, that's $12 for water and the rest is sewer fees and tax.
[22:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:It costs more to flush the toilet. - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:13] <exec> 08└─Even in civilized areas, most costs are like that. Pumping in a little chlorine for sanitation and some mind control fluoride (just kidding?) is dirt cheap compared to the Fing around the sewage treatment plant has to go thru before they dump into the river. Takes a lot of electricity to run a sewag...
[22:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:An even bigger question: - 06Tolkien's First Fantasy Tale to be Published After 100 Years - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:20] <exec> 08└─unpublished works by a diseased author
[22:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:An even bigger question: - 06Tolkien's First Fantasy Tale to be Published After 100 Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:22] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, am I the only one to have become tired of Tolkien's works?
[22:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:below, systemd troll OTD - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:39] <exec> 08└─No, a good system admin would tell you that you're an idiot for bringing up systemd in the first place.
[22:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:below, systemd troll OTD - 06[Expires 2015/06/17] Linux Foundation & edX Offer Second SysAdmin Course - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:40] <exec> 08└─No, a good system admin would tell you that you're an idiot for bringing up systemd in the first place.
[22:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:How awesome is that? - 06 Philae Comet Lander has Woken Up Again - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:32] <exec> 08└─I'd try my best to grab some of the people who make such resilient marvels of engineering.
[22:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:How awesome is that? - 06 Philae Comet Lander has Woken Up Again - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is often that companies have a management style that turns people in to less than resilient marvels of engineering regardless of where they started.
[22:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Obstructionism - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:58] <exec> 08└─I'm thankful also that this has happened. As a New Zealander; the TPPA is pure madness; it will allow other countries / companies to effectivly set our laws. Especially around copyright and pharmaceuticals. Labour laws will be up for grabs along with safe working practices that are codified into law...
[22:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, martyb added some Right-Wing sources - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:17] <exec> 08└─The main problem with NPR and PBS is 1) Unwillingness to consider risky ideas 2) Depth and insight of analyses are typically lacking to those with especially high standards.
[22:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Intel secrets - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:19] <exec> 08└─One of these probably early 90s anecdotal story: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I had a cousin of this chip, that put a fast 486 in a 386 socket. This general kind of thing has been around since the 80s. V20 or V30 or something was a faster pin compatible 8088 "IBM X...
[22:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Resolution of reality - 06First "8K" Video Appears on YouTube - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:35] <exec> 08└─It depends on how good your eyesight is and how far away the screen is. If I remember correctly, we have already far surpassed the maximum resolution for TVs, assuming you don't have the screen pressed against your face, sitting 10+ feet away in a well lit room, no more than two hours a day, etc. Ag...
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[23:11:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:55] <exec> 08└─might be time to stop growing crops in the fucking desert.
[23:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is interesting. There's a difference between water and usable water. The world is mostly covered with water but very little of that is good to drink or water crops. Of that water that moves in and out of CA (or anywhere for that matter), how much is actually available for use? I don't know...
[23:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:hmmm - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:06] <exec> 08└─Importing water to grow crops is not sustainable.
[23:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Long term? - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:12] <exec> 08└─Most >80%? water is used for agriculture, which produces much more food than CA consumes. CA feeds the world. CA is essentially exporting their water all over the world carried in fruits and veggies. Take away that, CA has plenty of water to support its citizens.
[23:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Exemptions - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:14] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but apparently, fracking doesn't use [reuters.com] that much water. California oil producers used 214 acre-feet of water, equivalent to nearly 70 million gallons, in the process of fracking for oil and gas in the state last year, less than previously projected, state officials told Reu...
[23:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why mention silicon valley at all - 06California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:18] <exec> 08└─Why didn't the cable industry invest more? Or Pepsi? Or Disney or the MPAA? Or Edison or the water and gas company or car companies like Ford. What about oil companies and casinos. While we're at it lets include furniture companies and hair salons. After all most of the economy is small business, wh...
[23:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Grocery lists? Phone doodles? - 06Tolkien's First Fantasy Tale to be Published After 100 Years - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:30] <exec> 08└─What are they going to do when every scrap of paper this guy ever wrote on has been monetized? Do they have a cache of his old grocery lists? Phone doodles? Dry cleaning receipts? I just wonder if the output of stuff like this will ever stop.
[23:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Condoms Ever, Now With Superlubricity! - 06Diamond Nanoparticles and Graphene Combination Adds Up to "Superlubricity" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─Eh? Without friction you're just humping air...
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"it's currently being done incorrectly" - 06San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─Depends on where you look. Robert Pogson was a teacher in the last years of his working life. He immediately found M$'s stuff to be unworkable. In no small part, that was the time sink of dealing with malware. He discovered Linux, put that on the boxes, and that problem disappeared. He found MICROS~...
[23:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06House Defeats Obama's Trade Agenda - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:54] <exec> 08└─If you hate social justice and political correctness, then why do you use their terminology? "Disingenuous" is one of the terms they use most frequently against their opponents.
[23:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Avoiding Such Issues - 06 How Best Buy’s Computer-Wiping Error Turned Me into an Amateur Blackhat - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:00] <exec> 08└─Good advice ...
[23:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bweare of typos! - 06In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched! - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:44] <exec> 08└─I am comfortable with students learning about computer security.
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