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[00:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:20] <exec> 08└─Can you please elaborate? I don't like HFT and it feels like gaming the system, but I don't have enough knowledge about it to support my feelings. I would like to be able to bust out some decent evidence next time I get into a debate about it.
[00:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:22] <exec> 08└─Here are some older HFT stories: The End of High Speed Trading? - Probably Not [soylentnews.org] SEC May Relax Rules to Increase Fairness [soylentnews.org] UK Citizen in Jail for Causing "Flash-Crash", or Just High-Frequency Trading? [soylentnews.org] Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extra...
[00:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Vacuum-filled fiber ! - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:25] <exec> 08└─Packets? Where we're going, we don't need packets.
[00:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Vacuum-filled fiber ! - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:27] <exec> 08└─Even in a vacuum, light only travels about one foot per nanosecond. http://www.chemteam.info [chemteam.info]
[00:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Vacuum-filled fiber ! - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:29] <exec> 08└─vt=d 3.00exp8(m/s)*20exp-9(s)=6m (in vacuum) So we are talking cable less than 4m in length (light is about 2/3 the speed of light (vacuum) in copper/glass)). We are talking minimum patch cable lengths for Ethernet here.
[00:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Vacuum-filled fiber ! - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:32] <exec> 08└─I believe the point is that the IC gains you 180ns, the equivalent to being about 24m closer to the exchange switch per your math (at least your math here, since you got it backwards below). That's either a few hundred millions gained by being the fastest, or a few millions saved by not paying for t...
[00:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Vacuum-filled fiber ! - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:34] <exec> 08└─actually, the other version was correct after all: just in a weird unit time/distance format.
[00:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:3, Insightful) 02unheralded soldier in the eternal war on latency - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:36] <exec> 08└─or pawn of billionares? you choose.
[00:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LordByronStyrofoam [5232] (Score:1) 02Did they talk to Einstein about this? - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:38] <exec> 08└─Signals traverse copper cable at about .64c (where c is the speed of light). That's about 5-8nS per foot. So they are placing their facility within 4 feet of the exchange's boxes? If not, I think I'm calling bullshit.
[00:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Did they talk to Einstein about this? - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:41] <exec> 08└─Light moves at about 1 ft per ns. So it is actually about 1.5ft/ns in a transmission line.
[00:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02correction - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:43] <exec> 08└─about 8inches per ns in a transmission line. Who uses feet an inches anymore?
[00:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Disregard correction - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:45] <exec> 08└─The (nano) seconds per foot in contrast with meters per second is apparently confusing.
[00:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Disregard correction - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:47] <exec> 08└─Obviously, since you typed that it would be faster in a transmission line (1.5 ft/ns) than in the void (1 ft/ns). I use 180ps/in in typical PCB stackup, but metric everywhere else
[00:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Disregard correction - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─You require more thinking-typing-submit latency. :^)
[00:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:People just don't care - 06Popular Selfie App Sending User Data to China, Researchers Say - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:01] <exec> 08└─Phew! Guess I can finally go download all those cool apps I've been avoiding then.
[00:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:People just don't care - 06Popular Selfie App Sending User Data to China, Researchers Say - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:05] <exec> 08└─Don't get me started on Google services.... I flashed a forked version of Android and also flashed the Google services image as well because I was told google maps and various location services wouldn't work properly without it. It is true, you need the google services to be installed for a lot of t...
[00:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 1421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:21] <exec> 08└─Whoa, slow down cowboy. I do not make an engineer's salary: I am blue collar. I do not have a cell phone: cannot afford it. The last decent computer I had was pieced together from new case and motherboard with old parts. I am planning on building myself, hopefully, finally, a new computer with more...
[00:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:22] <exec> 08└─> Just think... the Chinese shit you pay low prices for: what does it add to your life? Food, clothing, furniture. Pretty much all the daily stuff. > And how much cheaper would it be if the CEO and high executives didn't take such big salary's and bonuses. I don't see anyone trying to fix that.
[00:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Trump BRIBED Carrier'' - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:25] <exec> 08└─Trump BRIBED Carrier into keeping *some* of the jobs 1) Trump showed up late to the game. (All the decisions had already been made.) 2) The jobs that were going to Mexico are on their way there, as was always the plan. 3) The jobs that were NEVER slated to go to Mexico haven't gone to Mexico. 4) Car...
[00:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Trump BRIBED Carrier'' - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:27] <exec> 08└─Ugh. Enough with the conspiracies. At least offer a shred of evidence. Carrier officially announced the plant was closing that spring. If that was some kind of game of chicken they took a huge PR hit for it.
[00:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for about 50-100 Permanent Jobs - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, the plan, that's been in the works since 2014, has always been a maximally automated facility to take advantage of cheaper shipping. It was in the news at the time, maybe even posted here. Foxconn Weighs Plan for U.S. Plant (Jan. 26, 2014) [wsj.com] So I guess the news is that they continue to...
[00:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gyped? - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:54] <exec> 08└─I get the need to be ethnic sensitive, but based on my experience that term is not offensive. My personal experience when visiting Rome 10+ years ago and having a Gypsy try to pickpocket me in broad daylight near the Forum did not endear me to them.
[00:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't recreate with CGI - 06Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:36] <exec> 08└─Wow, really? You think digging up Carrie Fisher's corpse, duct-taping her to some sort of animatronic robot, and operating her like a puppet is a MORE disrespectful option. Huh! Well.....nevermind then. Please unsubscribe me from your newsletter.
[00:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Repair Cafe -- Since 2009 but Under my Radar Until Now - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:27] <exec> 08└─Sex doll repair is the starting premise for film Cherry 2000. The main character's sexbot short-circuits and he takes her in for repair. The repairman is somewhat of a connoisseur and is a particular aficionado of the Cherry model. He laments to his client: "They don't make them like this any more....
[00:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's about time - 06U.S. Army Selects New Handgun to Replace the Beretta M9 Pistol - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:36] <exec> 08└─Wait until they melt in the hot desert sun. I feel sorry for all of you soldiers that will be sent to die at the whim of this administration.
[00:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1985 AFAIK. - 06U.S. Army Selects New Handgun to Replace the Beretta M9 Pistol - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:42] <exec> 08└─It's more complex than that. For penetration you want high velocity, but a narrow round by itself isn't the issue. You need a high sectional density, and then you need a projectile hard enough that it doesn't expend all its energy in deforming against the armour. Most 9mm rounds aren't all that hard...
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[01:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02fine grained permissions - 06Popular Selfie App Sending User Data to China, Researchers Say - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:45] <exec> 08└─the real problem here is that the user's choice about which data to share is not being respected by Google and Apple. it wouldn't be hard for them to add a 'permissions' app that overrides the application defaults. But they are exfiltrating so much data themselves that they don't want to remind peop...
[01:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:04] <exec> 08└─It probably won't be as much as you think. Do you really think that iPhone is lovingly soldered by hand over an 8 hour period? I suspect the plant will be highly automated. Nevertheless, it will provide jobs and also improve things for other businesses that provide parts, support, and supplies for t...
[01:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:''Trump BRIBED Carrier'' - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:08] <exec> 08└─Carrier still ended off "worse" than they would have been had they moved manufacturing to Mexico. Because of all of the bad PR they decided to stay and opened themselves to the highest bidder. If I recall it was Indiana that gave them the best tax offer with additional bonus of not needing to move a...
[01:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for about 50-100 Permanent Jobs - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:19] <exec> 08└─They were weighing, now they're mulling. I love how the article is almost exactly 3 years old, although I couldn't confirm the automation details due to the WSJ paywall.
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Repair Cafe -- Since 2009 but Under my Radar Until Now - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:10] <exec> 08└─at my house we use a watermelon. when we're done we feed it to the pledges
[01:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Repair Cafe -- Since 2009 but Under my Radar Until Now - 1670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:31] <exec> 08└─By liability, I was assuming they meant that insurance companies would refuse to cover fire damage if any non-certified appliance is plugged in. However, checking wikipedia: Portable appliance testing (commonly known as "PAT", "PAT Inspection" or (redundantly) as "PAT Testing") is the name of a proc...
[01:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is HARDWARE, not software. - 06Free Software Foundation Says We Need a Free Phone OS - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:55] <exec> 08└─As soon as the courts cleared BSD (when Linux came out it was still in litigation) and it was available under the BSD license GNU could have immediately packaged that kernel with all the GNU userland and had a fully Free system. The license on the entire distribution would have been the GPL, with th...
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[02:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:11] <exec> 08└─The prices for food would not change all that much with a greater level of protectionism, especially when in competition with China. It was only in the past few years when the FDA okayed the processing of chicken in China, but they still had to be American chickens. I do not have a lot of money. Two...
[02:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumb question (OT) - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:27] <exec> 08└─Europe has a 20% or so VAT while the US has 6% or so sales tax. Doesn't this put US exporters at a disadvantage? Example: GM builds a car for 20,000 in the US and sells it in the EU for 25,000 which leaves 1,000 profit after VAT. BMW builds a car for 20,000 is Germany and sells it for 25,000 in the...
[02:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Gyped? - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:45] <exec> 08└─When you have to teach people the etymology of words in order to explain why they offend you, that might be a clue that you're trying too hard. When you start banning words, where will you stop? "Hooligan" is offensive to the Irish; "vandal" to Swedes, some Spaniards and north africans, and pan-germ...
[02:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:funny I was think the opposite - 06Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:36] <exec> 08└─They didn't need to show a close-up of Carrie. There would be less risk if they had shown her from a bit of a distance. But knowing it's (partial) CGI probably made people pay more attention than they would have otherwise. You start focusing on realism or lack of if you know, and the power of sugges...
[02:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Repair Cafe -- Since 2009 but Under my Radar Until Now - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:43] <exec> 08└─Going to have to agree with you on this. With the exception of anything that I would need to program I have not come across something that I could not fix or at least break until its completely irrepairable. There are some things that I do not feel I have the time to fix though. I recently had the b...
[02:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:I decide when I am losing too much money. - 06Judge Finds That Aetna Misled the Public About its Reasons for Quitting Obamacare - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:47] <exec> 08└─Radio just mentioned that according to Royal LePage, property searches from America are up 326%. Of course it is not that easy to immigrate with a couple of years queue and how many can actually afford to buy property... I have heard of quite a few Canadians and holders of dual citizenship coming ba...
[02:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:I decide when I am losing too much money. - 06Judge Finds That Aetna Misled the Public About its Reasons for Quitting Obamacare - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:58] <exec> 08└─Companies leave markets all the time due to not making enough profit. For an insurance company, anything less then 10% or 20% is probably enough to force them to close up shop and concentrate their resources somewhere with higher profit margins. It's one of the things that pisses me off with industr...
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[03:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:3, Funny) 02Go home Mississippi, - 06Mississippi AG Jim Hood Goes After Google for "G Suite for Education" Personal Data Handling - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:13] <exec> 08└─Your'e drunk.
[03:42:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:27] <exec> 08└─i.e. rent-seeking so fast you can't even see it.
[03:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Vacuum-filled fiber ! - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:33] <exec> 08└─Even in a vacuum, light only travels about one foot per nanosecond.
[03:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:23] <exec> 08└─It the facility going to be built with H1B's like Elon Musk and how wonderful he was in Northern California?
[03:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for about 50-100 Permanent Jobs - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:36] <exec> 08└─It's OK all those people will get jobs building/repairing the robots. Just like how all the buggy whip makers got jobs building robots. Or something like that.
[03:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Soon to be running on 6 year old AMD hardware! - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:49] <exec> 08└─It's OK, every discussion ever that covers hardware or firmware has to have at least one mention of RISC-V, EOMA68, and perhaps OpenRISC for good measure. Everyone has to have their hopeless cause to believe in...
[03:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:I decide when I am losing too much money. - 06Judge Finds That Aetna Misled the Public About its Reasons for Quitting Obamacare - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:04] <exec> 08└─While perjury is a crime, it is very hard to get a conviction.
[03:47:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:I decide when I am losing too much money. - 06Judge Finds That Aetna Misled the Public About its Reasons for Quitting Obamacare - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:05] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go ahead and quote TFS: Now a federal judge has ruled that that was a rank falsehood.
[03:47:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02The judge let Aetna off lightly - 06Judge Finds That Aetna Misled the Public About its Reasons for Quitting Obamacare - 1278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:14] <exec> 08└─Aetna was making money doing business that competed with Humana in a few areas of the country. The merger probably would have eliminated this competition which might have made the merger illegal. The govt complained and started a lawsuit. Aetna responded by leaving those areas. In public, they sa...
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[04:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Guess... - 06Scientists Aim to Create the World's Largest Sickle Cell Disease Stem Cell Library - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:16] <exec> 08└─Guess not many Africans/African Americans here.
[04:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, it's like this: information asymmetry can be so profound that HFTraders can rob the profit from basically anyone else at the market. That is to say, they can have someone else take the risk at choosing to buy at a certain price, someone else take the risk of selling at another price, and eat eve...
[04:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:10] <exec> 08└─Pop quiz: if you have 100000 employees, how many employees will commit suicide in a given year no matter what you do? Bonus: At what number of suicides is it no longer your fault?
[04:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:20] <exec> 08└─You're not saving if you're buying clothes and furniture daily. As for food you really don't want to eat the Chinese shit (in some case this might literally involve shit). In 2011 the Chinese Gov claimed that 10% of farmland was contaminated, more recently they said it was 20%. What is the real figu...
[04:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:27] <exec> 08└─How the fuck is Trump responsible for this?
[04:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cheaper cars in USA - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:40] <exec> 08└─It's more probable that both brands sell the cars cheaper in USA, or more expensive in EU. Many EU countries also have extra taxes for cars. Both brands manufacture all over the world, so sooner or later they have to import/export anyway (BMW X5 is USA made, IIRC, so any X5 in EU is imported; GM has...
[04:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Soon to be running on 6 year old AMD hardware! - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:55] <exec> 08└─They meant Free as in speech, not free as in beer. Free as in freedom and liberation, not free as in zero cost. It is definitely possible to make money by selling hardware that is free and open in this sense, but the tangled web of patents, copyrights, and trade secrets that is the sine qua non of t...
[04:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:binks? Re:Stop this - 06Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:38] <exec> 08└─Darth Binks... the true Sith master.
[04:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:funny I was think the opposite - 06Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:53] <exec> 08└─My hobby: saying that random women are cross-dressers.
[04:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unsurprising. - 06Computer-Based Cognitive Training Program May Help Patients With Severe Tinnitus - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:24] <exec> 08└─That's probably going to be the hardest case to deal with. The easiest is probably going to be people like me that have ideopathic tinnitus. I've had it for as long as I can remember, but it doesn't usually get bad anymore like it used to. For me, the thing that helped was really forcing my brain to...
[04:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ACA - 06Judge Finds That Aetna Misled the Public About its Reasons for Quitting Obamacare - 1851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:33] <exec> 08└─The original plan was solid. Except the original plan wasn't implemented. Remember half the government is trying to destroy it. They pick and chip away a few parts and all of a sudden a good plan goes bad. Basically they took a nicely paved road and put in a few potholes. Just enough so people would...
[04:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And this is why ... - 06PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:39] <exec> 08└─This is why you don't use password "apps" at all. Generate pseudorandom passes with /dev/urandom and put them in a text file in an encrypted container. Sync the encrypted container as necessary.
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[05:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what I saw first... - 06Mississippi AG Jim Hood Goes After Google for "G Suite for Education" Personal Data Handling - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:30] <exec> 08└─instead of G Suite, I saw G Spot...
[05:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Points to ponder - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:19] <exec> 08└─I don't see why that is so crazy. According to This page [libreboot.org], a major part of the dispute (Libreboot being included as a GNU project) was not resolved until: 5 January 2017. That is less than 3 weeks ago. It makes sense to, at least temporarily, promote a stand made on principle.
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[06:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Interesting tactic - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:07] <exec> 08└─Basically Trump has shutdown the EPA pending getting his nominee confirmed and getting control of the place. Should stop the machinery over there from running wild and give the Dems a pause when considering plans to stall the process.
[06:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Earth is now flat - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:08] <exec> 08└─We welcome our new flat earth overlords. Particularly that orange haired freak show. There will be NO harm from pissing in your drinking water anymore. All republicans are good with their urine cocktails once again, so bottoms up all you fucking asslicking sodomites.
[06:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02don't be evil... - 06Raspberry Pi to Work With “Tech Titan” Google for AI Development - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:17] <exec> 08└─Google, just do one thing - remove the need for binary blobs. Perhaps buy out there IP needed. There, "don't be evil" can be interpreted as "Do something *good*", if the intent was not to look like a bystander....
[06:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Go home Mississippi, - 06Mississippi AG Jim Hood Goes After Google for "G Suite for Education" Personal Data Handling - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:25] <exec> 08└─Nope, it won't get better in the morning...that's inbreeding for you
[06:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02sequencing.... - 06Scientists Aim to Create the World's Largest Sickle Cell Disease Stem Cell Library - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:36] <exec> 08└─How about sequencing all of the variants? The biology is well understood, but genetic counseling may prevent a number of unnecessary cases...
[06:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Points to ponder - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:19] <exec> 08└─Seeing as joining the GNU Project generally entails assigning copyright to the FSF, the fact that they honored her unilateral declaration that the project had left strikes me as rather magnanimous.
[06:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Leah Rowe's response - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 3354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:23] <exec> 08└─Hi Michael, I'm perfectly happy for Raptor to publicly complain. This is only fair, and they have the right. However, there are certain facts that I would like to point out clearly for the community. Some facts for you to include on http://www.phoronix.com [phoronix.com...
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[07:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Very clever - 06NTT Creates 12 Core Single-Mode Optical Fiber - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:07] <exec> 08└─Those fibers could be the synapses of our future AI overlords.
[07:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:The Earth is now flat - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:17] <exec> 08└─Well, urine is sterile.
[07:42:18] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] 02Sounds disturbingly like Stephen Harper - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:19] <exec> 08└─FAQ: The issues around muzzling government scientists [www.cbc.ca] Then after a few years, they started erasing history (when the scientists are not longer allowed to object): What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries? [thetyee.ca]
[07:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good - 06Mississippi AG Jim Hood Goes After Google for "G Suite for Education" Personal Data Handling - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:35] <exec> 08└─He might be a scumbag, but he's right about this. Why are schools forcing students to use Google anything, or anything similar? They should run their own services or have none at all, because that's better than surrendering personal information to companies, which is something that should be illegal...
[07:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:36] <exec> 08└─I think committing suicide at work increases the odds that it is some kind of statement.
[07:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:funny I was think the opposite - 06Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:21] <exec> 08└─They didn't need to show a close-up of Carrie. There would be less risk if they had shown her from a bit of a distance.
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[08:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Earth is now flat - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:21] <exec> 08└─No, it's not.
[08:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:24] <exec> 08└─NASA apparently has been culling its more ancient research for decades. It doesn't have to be intentional. It can happen any time there's not much money for preserving research and libraries.
[08:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06Mississippi AG Jim Hood Goes After Google for "G Suite for Education" Personal Data Handling - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:42] <exec> 08└─He might be a scumbag, but he's right about this
[08:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:01] <exec> 08└─Investors harvest signal, traders harvest noise. HFT harvests the noise that's left over in the original noise once you've removed the first order noise.
[08:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:52] <exec> 08└─I guess I have to be explicit - "china" is a proxy for "all other foreign countries" take a look at the labels of your food, not just chickens. Lots of frozen vegetables come from outside the US. And if there is not a "made/grown in usa" label then it is definitely of foreign origin.
[08:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Trump BRIBED Carrier'' - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:59] <exec> 08└─The state made them the offer because Pence was governor. So for all practical purposes, Trump gave them the 7M Its not obvious that any other state would have made them that level of offer for just 700 jobs.
[08:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good for about 50-100 Permanent Jobs - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:13] <exec> 08└─So its not just me. I used to be able to go right through their paywall due to all my privacy extension in firefox. But in the last month I've hit it a couple of times.
[08:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02VAT is collected at each step - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:18] <exec> 08└─In the US sales tax is not collected on components that are destined for resale. So all the raw materialss and parts that go in one end of the factory and come out the other as an assembled vehicle are untaxed. But in Europe VAT would still be collected on them. So cost of manufacturing in europe is...
[08:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Gyped? - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:38] <exec> 08└─Very likely racist? Context and intent matter. If someone had no racist intentions when they used a word, then I see no reason to complain about it. This applies to every word in existence, by the way. The way people use language changes over time, and even an individual's usage of a certain term ma...
[08:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Points to ponder - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:43] <exec> 08└─It's sad that when people raise concerns in the free software community they get vilified like this. I knew it was inevitable when she spoke up, but it's doubly sad that Soylent is joining in. Needless to say I won't be donated to Soylet if it's going to go all GamerGate over this.
[08:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:2) 02Re:Opportunity for new bootloader best practices - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:47] <exec> 08└─A few years from now, somebody will look back on this joke and it won't be funny anymore.
[08:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Libreboot is not a dead project'' - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:50] <exec> 08└─With the toxic personality associated with it, one wonders if this project will be the next OpenOffice.org, where the devs jump ship en mass to work on the fork. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:46:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Re:Sigh. - 06Repair Cafe -- Since 2009 but Under my Radar Until Now - 3950 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:44] <exec> 08└─This post is absolutely pathetic, especially for a "tech news" site. It sure is a good thing the non-techies out there are actually rolling their sleeves up, buying tools, and fixing stuff themselves, as they show on all their Youtube videos for fixing everything you can imagine. Meanwhile, all the...
[08:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:I decide when I am losing too much money. - 06Judge Finds That Aetna Misled the Public About its Reasons for Quitting Obamacare - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. That doesn't make Aetna's actions any less slimy.
[08:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:UKPM - 06US Official Confirms Trident Missile Failure - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:48] <exec> 08└─I don't see what people have against Trident.
[08:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UKPM - 06US Official Confirms Trident Missile Failure - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:49] <exec> 08└─I thought four out of five dentists recommended Trident...
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[09:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:The Earth is now flat - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:30] <exec> 08└─It is, as much as the earth is flat.
[09:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:33] <exec> 08└─You got double troll modded before I could even figure out WTF you are talking about. Want to give a citation for that claim? Does it have to do with moon tapes sitting in a box in the basement?
[09:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like Stephen Harper - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:36] <exec> 08└─Um, Soylentils, isn't this where it is customary to say: "It's not censorship unless the government is doing it!" Oh, wait, it is the government? The Administration of tiny crowds, tiny hands, and tiny brains, it would seem. Post-factual "alternative science", here we go!
[09:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:don't be evil... - 06Raspberry Pi to Work With “Tech Titan” Google for AI Development - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:45] <exec> 08└─Or pile some support onto the existing VPU/QPU reverse [github.com]engineering [github.com] and open firmware [github.com] efforts, since the Vcore iV hardware specifications are already open.
[09:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Google transformation of Raspberry Pi - 06Raspberry Pi to Work With “Tech Titan” Google for AI Development - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:47] <exec> 08└─Every Raspberry Pi built after 2025 will include a QTNPU! That's right, a quantum tensor neuromorphic processing unit! Give every curious British child and manchild the power of an enslaved synthetic brain on their desktop!!! Raspberry Pi: You won't believe the filling!!!!!
[09:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Mississippi AG Jim Hood Goes After Google for "G Suite for Education" Personal Data Handling - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:58] <exec> 08└─Why are schools forcing students to use Google anything, or anything similar?
[09:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Did they talk to Einstein about this? - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:33] <exec> 08└─They're not measuring network transmission overhead, they're measuring PHY->userspace overhead. "TCPDirect attacks this network stack overhead problem with a “slimmer” kernel bypass architecture in which the TCP/IP stack resides in the address space of the user-mode application. ... it’s a use...
[09:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Did they talk to Einstein about this? - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:34] <exec> 08└─Come on guys... This is simply amazingly funny! Really, what kind of unit of measures you use? I can understand feed or pounds in the "real" world, if you where used to them... But, honestly, when i see "c" mixed with feets and "nano" attached to inches... i really start laughing!
[09:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for about 50-100 Permanent Jobs - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:33] <exec> 08└─My best bet for WSJ has been to search the text and try to find some other site reprinting the story. This is all I got: http://www.foxnews.com [foxnews.com] http://macdailynews.com
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soon to be running on 6 year old AMD hardware! - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─The reason 'free' and 'free' software exists is because the cost to make infinite copies is *very* low. The up front design cost is not. Making something is always high cost. However hardware has a different issue. To make infinite copies of something the cost is decently high. You do not see GNU st...
[09:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gyped? - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:00] <exec> 08└─Take the phrase "hey my nigger!". Depending on context and who says it it can be a term of endearment or a pejorative or both. In the context used the word you are trying to get everyone twisted up about people understood it to mean to be 'ripped off'. There is plenty in this world to be mad about....
[09:45:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02Re:Stop this - 06Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:29] <exec> 08└─But are they, question mark?
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[10:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02The StarOffice/OpenOffice Moment - 06All New Chromebooks to Support Android Apps - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:16] <exec> 08└─When you go from "my single multi-purpose app is the desktop envirionment within which you shall do everything" to "oh, OK, it's just an application, you may use others". Emacs is still holding out.
[10:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Interesting tactic - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:31] <exec> 08└─Or it could just possibly be that he is a big proponent of fossil fuels because he is heavily invested in them ... and his puppeteer Putin relies on higher prices of fossil fuels to run his country (and line his pockets). Based on the complete lack of transparency on Trump's part it's entirely possi...
[10:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds completely un-like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:39] <exec> 08└─You know, your reply to him got me wondering as I had heard that rumor (or is it now an alternative fact?) before. Seems NASA is actually doing the opposite. And trying to preserve as much of the research as possible. https://www.sti.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] We've all heard the stories of misplaced samp...
[10:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Twits - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:42] <exec> 08└─Trump Administration [...] Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media
[10:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Twits - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:44] <exec> 08└─Ain't room for another tweeter 'round deez nuts.
[10:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02As always, google at the cutting edge! - 06Raspberry Pi to Work With “Tech Titan” Google for AI Development - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:55] <exec> 08└─My prediction is that they're about -30 months ahead of the hobbyist! https://petewarden.com
[10:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, it's like this: information asymmetry can be so profound that HFTraders can rob the profit from basically anyone else at the market.
[10:44:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02Re:How many jobs? Come again?? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:32] <exec> 08└─When you bribe a politician, do you get to count him as one of those jobs that were created?
[10:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Re:VAT is collected at each step - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:47] <exec> 08└─This statement is somewhat misleading. Every resale indeed contains VAT but the VAT due to the tax collector is the difference of the VAT for the sale minus the VAT paid for parts/services upstream (bought to make the product/service sold). This way the VAT collected in the end exactly equals the VA...
[10:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Points to ponder - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:14] <exec> 08└─She puts announcements on the project webpages using the pronoun "we", but no other contributor has edit access to the webpages, no other contributor to the project has expressed any support of her changes, and the only other contributor who has said anything (Zammit) has come out vociferous against...
[10:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Points to ponder - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:16] <exec> 08└─Dude, lady's off her rocker.
[10:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Opportunity for new bootloader best practices - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:21] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Back in the early days of the web I remember somebody bitching that the way things were going, we were going to end up with a Font Negotiation Protocol. I think we're just about there!
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[11:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seriously.... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:18] <exec> 08└─... how do you manage to get ALL your systems (providing different services over various locations) infected? And... backups?
[11:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Any surprise? - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:19] <exec> 08└─Anybody here not see this kind of stuff coming? To me, it seems Congress and business management are the only ones so high up to not see this under their feet. In an effort to accommodate business models of snooping and controlling everyone by remote means, having Congress pass law to shield them fr...
[11:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds completely un-like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:50] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes [wikipedia.org] Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits [reuters.com]
[11:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People just don't care - 06Popular Selfie App Sending User Data to China, Researchers Say - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:06] <exec> 08└─Those people are idiots that do not care that they are idiots. If the people weren't idiots they wouldn't use such apps and then it wouldn't be a widespread problem.
[11:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Why the rage? - 06Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:39] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen Rogue One yet, but I also don't really understand the problem. Actors are not characters. On the stage, it's the norm for different actors to play the same character and it's not even that unusual in film. If an actor can't do the film, for whatever reason, then you can either cast so...
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[12:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the same argument DVD_CCA thought when creating DVD movie encryption. Anyone remember how that one turned out?
[12:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02They should have payed them - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:23] <exec> 08└─and followed the money. By the way, I don't understand why bitcoins can't be tracked. By design they're all unique, so I guess it should be possible to create a list of "compromised serial numbers". Any bitcoins that was used to pay a ransom should be flagged as compromised, so they can't be spent a...
[12:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like Stephen Harper - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:56] <exec> 08└─Government suppression of science is a real problem throughout the world. It isn't a new phenomenon, it even happened under the Obama administration, for example when a Department of Energy researcher was fired for not following the party line [house.gov]. In that case it was politically useful for...
[12:43:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Shimitar [4208] 02Re:Did they talk to Einstein about this? - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:56] <exec> 08└─Come on guys... This is simply amazingly funny! Really, what kind of unit of measures you use? I can understand feed or pounds in the "real" world, if you where used to them... But, honestly, when i see "c" mixed with feets and "nano" attached to inches... i really start laughing!
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[13:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 2320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:28] <exec> 08└─It's not quite the same. The problem with encryption for DRM is that encryption assumes two cooperating parties and one or more adversaries, but in DRM one of the cooperating parties is also the adversary. They have to be in the state of both having the key (to access the content) and not having the...
[13:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:29] <exec> 08└─Or, more to the point, it basically adds up to "anything the (supposed) Good Guys can use, the Bad Guys can use too". It's just like how if you keep a key to your house under the potted plant in your backyard, a burglar can look there too, find the key, and get right in.
[13:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02My Johnson - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:32] <exec> 08└─He can suck it. I'll stick to OSS solutions where most of that crew would kick you right he fuck off the team, and tell the entire world why, if you even thought about backdooring the crypto.
[13:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What bckdoor? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:34] <exec> 08└─"overcome encryption under lawful authority" That could be the front door. Get a warrant and force the bad guy to provide the key. Hmmm, there's that pesky 5th amendment. I guess it's back to the back door. Which brings up the old question of how do you make a backdoor that can only be used by the g...
[13:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Any surprise? - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:44] <exec> 08└─WTF are you on about?
[13:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:They should have payed them - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:47] <exec> 08└─> By the way, I don't understand why bitcoins can't be tracked. They can be tracked. In fact they can be tracked by anybody on earth, as the ledger is public (visible to all). You can look at the bitcoin blockchain right now and see exactly from which wallet to which wallet every single bitcoin flow...
[13:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:2) 02Re:They should have payed them - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:49] <exec> 08└─The problem is "who" gets to create that list of compromised serial numbers and "who" will actually honor them? I am guessing that it is a lot easier to launder "compromised" bitcoins as there will always be people who will accept them for some good or services (perhaps at a discount). Attaching the...
[13:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02An expensive lesson. - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:52] <exec> 08└─None of the public machines should have any kind of information stored on them that was vital or worth a single bitcoin, information shouldn't even be allowed to be stored on them. So they should just be wiped without even having to think about it. That they are not automatically wiped on a nightly...
[13:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02CEO hostile takeover - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:28] <exec> 08└─(Note, I'm trying to explain, not condone or excuse these actions - or hopefully even put a value judgement on them) Federal agencies can be thought of as very large companies, but with odd somewhat decentralized anarchic power structures. Some agencies have a history of supporting administrations w...
[13:47:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02Their will have to be Laws made soon. - 06Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:04] <exec> 08└─Does the estate even own the deceased image? I know the Tolkien estate has sued many people for simply using the name Tolkien, but while that likely falls under fair use, using someones image to advertise your product definitely would not. But now that she is dead, can her estate really sell the rig...
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[14:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02obligatory - 06A Trip Down the League of Legends Graphics Pipeline - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:31] <exec> 08└─dota > lol
[14:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How many times are we going to see this? - 06A Trip Down the League of Legends Graphics Pipeline - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:33] <exec> 08└─This "How it Builds a Frame" article has been written very many times, for various definitions of "it".
[14:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:43] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't assume those working for the government are necessarily good guys, either. There are often bad people working for the government (especially intelligence agencies and the like) and sometimes there is even an systemic effort to suppress certain groups of people (such as journalists, acti...
[14:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:45] <exec> 08└─That's why I said "(supposed) Good Guys". You obviously leave that out when talking to Sessions and people who think like him, because authoritarians think only in terms of "we're the Good Guys, everyone else is the Bad Guys".
[14:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:47] <exec> 08└─It's just like how if you keep a key to your house under the potted plant in your backyard, a burglar can look there too, find the key, and get right in.
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:My Johnson - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:50] <exec> 08└─After the new Congress passes a law stating that all encryption will have a back door, I doubt many developers on the team would continue under the threat of prosecution. Then the grunts will come in and add in an insecure back door. You can't fight stupid when the law says you have to be that way....
[14:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:My Johnson - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:53] <exec> 08└─You mean any *American* developers would quit the team. As long as there's somewhere in the world safe from this bullshit, I expect we'll have options. Also, good luck trying to force backdoors on the likes of Apple and Google. At some point it would start to look anti-business, which is anti-jobs-i...
[14:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My Johnson - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:55] <exec> 08└─Uncle Sam has extradition treaties with many of his underlings... I mean... ALLIES, and he probably will find a very good excuse to arrest one of these non-American developers when she (all the best programmers are transgender, of course) comes to the US to attend a conference on Feminism in Cryptog...
[14:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MAGA - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:58] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[14:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Back door'd encryption - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:00] <exec> 08└─Encryption with a back door isn't encryption.
[14:43:01] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02The Fundamental Problem - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 3387 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:02] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem with treating digital encryption like physical locks - which would lead to law enforcement having the right to break in - is the same as the fundamental problem facing everything digital: scale. The police can, with a lot of time, expense, and visibility, break any safe. But...
[14:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Government. Your violently stolen money at work! - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:12] <exec> 08└─Contrary to the "private" sector, the government's failure means that it gets rewarded even more resources by decree.
[14:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously.... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:14] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't say the backups are infected. I hope they have some. Nor does it say what security hole was used to break into the system. The article does say what kinds of techniques are typically used for ransomware. Whatever it was, I hope they fix it when they restore the systems.
[14:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:An expensive lesson. - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─The time costs money. 'Time that has already been paid for in the form of salaries'? Er, no. Even assuming the workers are salaried, instead of waged, the hours they spend working on restoring the computers is hours they are NOT spending on doing whatever their job normally is. So either that work b...
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:An expensive lesson. - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:24] <exec> 08└─I think you're completely misunderstanding information technologies. The library here in Springfield, IL has public computers that are connected to the internet, they offer free wi-fi in the library, and their card catalog [lincolnlibrary.info] is online, but you can't get into the computers that ho...
[14:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not a lot of details - 06NTT Creates 12 Core Single-Mode Optical Fiber - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:38] <exec> 08└─They say the application is undersea cables. Can they do a fusion splice? Do they have a multichannel optical amplifier that is at a similar scale? Can they use it to offer dark fiber, or is cross talk canceling required at each end?
[14:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:57] <exec> 08└─Can you please include some terminal "but I guess that's just the typical gibberish to be expected from you, khallow" in your responses, so that those of us who have him foed down by -5 don't feel tempted to pull up your post's parent in case it might have some useful content. He apparently is unawa...
[14:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:58] <exec> 08└─Can you please include some terminal "but I guess that's just the typical gibberish to be expected from you, khallow" in your responses, so that those of us who have him foed down by -5 don't feel tempted to pull up your post's parent in case it might have some useful content.
[14:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like Stephen Harper - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:02] <exec> 08└─According to unnamed sources in the CIA, Kim Jong Un has a bigger penis than Donald Trump.
[14:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like Stephen Harper - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:05] <exec> 08└─People are noticing how Orwellian [washingtonpost.com] this administration is.
[14:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why did Obama give 200 M to Muslim countries - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:10] <exec> 08└─Just wondering
[14:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:People just don't care - 06Popular Selfie App Sending User Data to China, Researchers Say - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:24] <exec> 08└─Why do the software platforms use the same kind of scheme that browser platforms have use for permissions. Really, what's the fundamental difference between this: www.foo.com wants to set a cookie foo_tracker [ ] don't ask me again [accept] [deny] and: com.foo.funnycamera wants to access security do...
[14:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score:1) 02Re:fine grained permissions - 06Popular Selfie App Sending User Data to China, Researchers Say - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:27] <exec> 08└─There was an Android update around summer 2015 that finally gave users fine grained control of app permissions. Before that update you either accepted everything the app wanted or rejected the app entirely. Now you should be able to deny an app individual permissions while still installing it. My ph...
[14:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Points to ponder - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:47] <exec> 08└─Are you not vilifying our community for raising concerns?
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[15:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Incredible - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:16] <exec> 08└─I thought the first images I saw were fakes/mock ups! Really beautiful images. Even better, this should help tune the weather models. Last winter most of the models of the North Atlantic were a joke. If patterns are close to normal they can do pretty good, but when things get more complex (lots of u...
[15:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Nexrad vs satellite - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:18] <exec> 08└─I did some googling and the top tier nexrad radars (only over land, or nearby land anyway) resolve down to 250 meters pretty easily and the satellite claims best resolution right underneath the flightpath of 500 meters but more like 2000 toward the edge of the imaging disk. So the resolution is awes...
[15:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:How many times are we going to see this? - 06A Trip Down the League of Legends Graphics Pipeline - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:28] <exec> 08└─This "How it Builds a Frame" article has been written very many times, for various definitions of "it".
[15:42:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:39] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't assume those working for the government are necessarily good guys, either. There are often bad people working for the government (especially intelligence agencies and the like) and sometimes there is even an systemic effort to suppress certain groups of people (such as journalists, acti...
[15:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:My Johnson - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:47] <exec> 08└─indians who where not born here have ALWAYS been happy to do the government's dirty work. they'll happily do it and for low wages, too. many american citizens (the R variety, mostly, since that is the party with the authority boot-licking attitude) will also happily work against their own best inter...
[15:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's right there in the summary - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:01] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? Their incompetence right there in the summary: the library authority has said it will wipe its entire computer system and rebuild it from scratch, a solution that may take weeks.
[15:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting tactic - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:34] <exec> 08└─The new nominee also intends to gut the EPA, so I don't see how this is anything other than Trump doing exactly what he was planning to do all along regardless of what the Democrats have to say about it. No sophisticated political maneuvering here, just "If you won't let me hire the person I want to...
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting tactic - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:35] <exec> 08└─> Also, what exactly do you mean by "running wild"? Exactly what is the EPA doing that is totally outrageous or shouldn't be happening? Can't you see? The clue's even in the bloody name! They're agents protecting the environment. And there are few things wilder than the environment. I saw it once, i...
[15:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Twits - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:54] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't call people on twitter "tweeters", I call them "twits" as in "all the twits on twitter twitting away at other twits." But more on topic, Trump is Liar in Chief, and his lackeys repeat his lies no matter how stupid those lies are.
[15:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for about 50-100 Permanent Jobs - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:59] <exec> 08└─If the summary can be believed regarding the factories being for displays, then Foxconn already have form for 100% automated display production lines (whilst 100% believable for assembly lines, I'm unsure if actual component production has been so automated yet, something may have been lost in trans...
[15:46:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Re:Gyped? - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 1676 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:26] <exec> 08└─When you have to teach people the etymology of words in order to explain why they offend you, that might be a clue that you're trying too hard. When you start banning words, where will you stop? "Hooligan" is offensive to the Irish; "vandal" to Swedes, some Spaniards and north africans, and pan-germ...
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[16:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Nexrad vs satellite - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:36] <exec> 08└─Yep, you are correct this is not for local weather in the United States. Far from minimal, the detail, speed and number of channels are a game changer. This can image the whole damn planet in minutes in unprecedented detail. This is for the big picture and large scale weather patterns (think jet str...
[16:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─It is quite funny. Obama and his team built the current system up over what they inherited, and that was OK. Obama's people also called for backdoors, and that was OK by most of the left as well. But a few days after the new team takes over, and the system they inherited is now ultimate evil, and fo...
[16:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:The Fundamental Problem - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 2276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Let's say you have a cryptographic system where there is an algorithm that uses a publicly available constant in the process. This algorithm would be framed so that a private constant can be used to reduce the complexity of cracking a key to something that co...
[16:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:The Fundamental Problem - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 2220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:11] <exec> 08└─I hope you are right that this can be done, that this can be effectively communicated, and that people are willing to try to understand. There is a reason that many tech companies are made up of individuals that are not on the fringes of the political spectrum. A lot of that has to do with the view...
[16:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously.... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:24] <exec> 08└─Newer ransomwares attack backups if they can. They will search for shares on the network, even if the active user doesn't have an active link to the shared files. It will attempt to interfere with Shadow Copy and other services, if it can, as well. I've seen it in real time - backups vanishing one a...
[16:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Backups - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:25] <exec> 08└─If it is not off-line, off-site, and verified, it is not a back-up.
[16:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Any surprise? - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:29] <exec> 08└─You definitely have a good big-picture view of the information / computer world. Quit mixing code and data! This is what happens when we do.
[16:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02I want to know something ... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 2653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:37] <exec> 08└─[Assuming the target is a computer running a Windows OS] If I had backups of these files from the system drive (generated once a week by a scheduled task): - The master file table (MFT) - The master boot record (MBR) - The system Registry hives: "DEFAULT | SAM | SECURITY | SOFTWAR...
[16:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:15] <exec> 08└─I don't play those games, don't have a foe list
[16:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like Stephen Harper - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:20] <exec> 08└─And finally somebody is using that word correctly. What makes the Trump administration "Orwellian" is that it is very clear about using language to confuse rather than inform. George Orwell was most heavily interested in the science of spin doctoring before that was a formal idea, and there's little...
[16:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:21] <exec> 08└─I suppose the real issue here is that the fact that foxconn is considering a plant in the expensive America means that hey either believe or have reason to believe that it will soon be as cheap or cheaper to operate a plant in the USA compared to China. Might be something to think about. They are a...
[16:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:VAT is collected at each step - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:41] <exec> 08└─From my company's experience, in Europe, we don't even charge VAT any more for 90% of our clients, because the governments have worked out that it's nothing but administrative overhead for the companies. It's only the clients in our home country that we charge VAT for. I like it when months don't ha...
[16:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Repair Cafe -- Since 2009 but Under my Radar Until Now - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:15] <exec> 08└─If your toaster is UL certified, it doesn't magically lose that logo when you repair it. I'm not talking about building your own toaster here, I was only talking about repairing products you own. Finally, most of us here are in the US, so we don't have the level of regulation you're talking about. A...
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[17:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02unrealistic headline - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:28] <exec> 08└─This looks like interesting research, but until car dashboards and steering wheels are shaped like airbags, there isn't much point in making them extra soft. It's not just that the airbag is soft, it's also right next to your body and head to catch you and give you a nice "relatively-low-acceleratio...
[17:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:unrealistic headline - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was thinking: why would you want your car to explode on contact?
[17:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:unrealistic headline - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:31] <exec> 08└─I thought the headline was inspiring. A car could be its own air bag. Next, I want an aircraft to be its own air sickness bag.
[17:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:unrealistic headline - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:34] <exec> 08└─Still, not having dashes, steering wheels,etc, that will absorb impact as well is an added bonus. Also great for passengers that don't have airbags.
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Incredible - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:43] <exec> 08└─The side-by-side of new vs. predecessor was indeed quite an eye-opener: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov until you realise that the new image isn't even a high resolution one: https://w...
[17:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nexrad vs satellite - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:47] <exec> 08└─Coincidences in engineering are always interesting where you get the same resolution roughly if you launch a camera into space or if you bounce radio waves around the ground. That would lead me to think both projects are spec driven defined by the meteorologists. "Yo EEs, we don't care how you do it...
[17:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:Nexrad vs satellite - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─I "know" spy sats can get much higher res so the satellite camera is just meeting specs rather than cutting edge. Likewise higher freq military radar certainly can image a higher resolution but its not needed for meteorological work so it isn't done.
[17:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:08] <exec> 08└─Well one thing I think you're missing is that, just like with DRM where reverse-engineering can be simply banned, with mandated backdoored encryption, the use of unapproved encryption can be banned. Sure, you can say that "only criminals" will use it, but with ubiquitous surveillance, it wouldn't be...
[17:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:14] <exec> 08└─That's strange, because I seem to recall countless criticisms of Obama and his cohorts over the issue of the surveillance state. There was certainly a lot of discussion about it on this website. Partisan hacks are nothing new and exist on both sides, so what are you even referring to?
[17:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:16] <exec> 08└─But but libruls are evil! I'll bet this whole thing is fake news spread by libruls! Trump is going to make sure we have fantastic encryption! The best encryption! Trump! Trump! Trump!
[17:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:18] <exec> 08└─I've been consistently critical of the surveillance state, regardless of who's in charge of it. And I'm certainly not alone in that. I agree that partisan hackery exists, on all sides, but there is such a thing as ideological consistency. Basically, scratch somebody who works specifically in politic...
[17:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─I'd say it's more akin to allowing johnny law to have a skeleton key to every lock "just in case".
[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:MAGA - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─Let's make backdoors beautiful again. https://unintentionalgoatse.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[17:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Fundamental Problem - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:36] <exec> 08└─That sounds exactly like: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] in that the whole security of the thing depends on two constants being independent. The security of the whole thing goes out the window if there is a valid solution to (Backdoor EC multiplication Secret1) = Secret2....
[17:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously.... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:48] <exec> 08└─The hole was probably some stupid patron looking at some shady website and got hit with malvertising. Once inside the network, it spread through with ease. At least the library I did some IT work for didn't have proper firewalls in place between public access computers and the rest of the system. Of...
[17:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:An expensive lesson. - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:00] <exec> 08└─If you would have bothered to RTFS you'd have seen that a middle manager clicked on an email link. It had nothing to do with computers set out for patrons.
[17:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:I want to know something ... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:03] <exec> 08└─"Encrypt the filesystem" means that they scramble all of the files the user has access to in a specific way that only the attacker knows how to reverse. This can include online backups.
[17:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want to know something ... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:05] <exec> 08└─That is why I pull backups, not push them.
[17:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:I want to know something ... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:07] <exec> 08└─I always pull back. But then i push forward again. Then i do it again. And again. It's fun. Wait. What are we talking about?
[17:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:2) 02Re:Twits - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:54] <exec> 08└─and his lackeys repeat his lies no matter how stupid those lies are.
[17:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The beginning of the end - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:57] <exec> 08└─When the president views the EPA as the enemy you know we have a problem. The ignorance and greed is strong with this administration. My only hope is that the people will finally "get it" after seeing the country trashed (literally) for four years.
[17:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02NO! - 06Raspberry Pi to Work With “Tech Titan” Google for AI Development - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:10] <exec> 08└─We should be following the path of those such as Mycroft https://mycroft.ai [mycroft.ai] "That is why Mycroft is important. We are on the path to providing the open source community with a sustainable model for deploying virtual assistants. " Keep going with the open source...
[17:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:People just don't care - 06Popular Selfie App Sending User Data to China, Researchers Say - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:15] <exec> 08└─Google Services is Google's secret weapon to keep control of the important Apps on Android. This started some years ago and I remember when I recognized it. Stop putting the cool features into the OS and start putting them into the Google Services. Now a cloned Android doesn't look so attractive.
[17:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:35] <exec> 08└─Here's an insanity check. Suppose you have such a large number of people committing suicide that you have to install suicide nets on your building to "protect" them from ending the life of misery, pain and virtual enslavement that your workplace creates. Suppose that you create working conditions th...
[17:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Opportunity for new bootloader best practices - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe you remember a joke back in ancient times about being able to get a computer virus by email. You could get the virus by merely reading the email. Ah, ha ha! It was so funny. Because, in general, people on Usenet understood how email was just text. Sometimes using MIME extensions, it could have...
[17:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Repair Cafe -- Since 2009 but Under my Radar Until Now - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:44] <exec> 08└─It's not just the structural limitations. Someone will need to reverse-engineer that part and create a CAD model of it, which unless it's a very very simple part is going to be time consuming. I guess it could be laser-scanned, but for anything with specific mechanical functions or tight tolerances...
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[18:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:20] <exec> 08└─What was the point of having a national referendum if the votes don't matter?
[18:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:22] <exec> 08└─What was the point of having a national referendum if the votes don't matter?
[18:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:24] <exec> 08└─the intellectual dishonesty that is endemic in some quarters today.
[18:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:26] <exec> 08└─The votes would've mattered if "remain" had won, which is, I suspect, what the government firmly believed would happen. It's hard to imagine Parliament not following through here. But I'm American, so my understanding of politics in the UK is limited at best. If this were the US, a whole bunch of mo...
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:28] <exec> 08└─It'll almost certainly be the same in the UK, which is what is so particularly baffling about the FUD being thrown around by some of the Leave supporters over this. Sure, the Liberals, SNP, and a few others will vote against, along with some rebels in the other parties who go against their constitue...
[18:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:31] <exec> 08└─In America, if you put an unconstitutional bill on the ballot, and it wins, it's still the purview of the court to strike it down.
[18:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:unrealistic headline - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:41] <exec> 08└─I drive a Formula One car, you insensitive clod.
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:unrealistic headline - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:44] <exec> 08└─I have good news *bleeaaeahrrggh*
[18:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:3, Funny) 02Challenge accepted! - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:47] <exec> 08└─what they're made of doesn't seem to matter
[18:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Full image of earth every fifteen minutes??? - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:00] <exec> 08└─[Citation needed] GOES satellites are geostationary, IIRC. I believe what was being aimed for was that it can provide a full image of the hemisphere of the satellite's location every fifteen minutes. (Not the whole earth.... even the ISS takes 90 minutes per orbit.) Corrections to the above invited.
[18:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How many times are we going to see this? - 06A Trip Down the League of Legends Graphics Pipeline - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:10] <exec> 08└─My name is not "dancing".
[18:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:How many times are we going to see this? - 06A Trip Down the League of Legends Graphics Pipeline - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:11] <exec> 08└─Are you the same guy who complains that everything on imgur is a repost?
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How many times are we going to see this? - 06A Trip Down the League of Legends Graphics Pipeline - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─We can file it under "Still being relevant", and we'll file you under "Curmudgeons".
[18:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:30] <exec> 08└─Obama Won’t Seek Access to Encrypted User Data [nytimes.com] The Obama administration has backed down in its bitter dispute with Silicon Valley over the encryption of data on iPhones and other digital devices, concluding that it is not possible to give American law enforcement and intelligence age...
[18:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:35] <exec> 08└─Protip: You keep the encryption key secret by wearing the t-shirt inside out. That's how.
[18:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:My Johnson - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:41] <exec> 08└─That won't happen. Such people are already not coming to America, after the infamous debacle with Sklyarov. With Trump/Sessions in power, everyone's going to stay away.
[18:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2) 02Re:My Johnson - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:44] <exec> 08└─I used to set up FreeSWAN tunnels for my work back in the late 90s. The project rules were such that no American was allowed to contribute due to the laughable "weaponized encryption" laws back then. No restrictions on usage, though. I think those laws were repealed or scaled back some years ago.
[18:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously.... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:04] <exec> 08└─You can't expect random people off the street to be savvy about not visiting sites with malvertising. You can't even expect experienced users to avoid that all the time. The way you avoid this is through proper IT practices: 1) install an ad-blocker (this means don't use IE), and better yet (and in...
[18:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:An expensive lesson. - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:16] <exec> 08└─I would disagree. There is nothing else to do if all the computers, servers, systems or whatever are down. Getting them up again is the only task at hand. If you are paid to work with the computers then this is now your only or main task. If you are getting paid a monthly (or weekly or whatever) wag...
[18:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:An expensive lesson. - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:19] <exec> 08└─I did read the fucking article, I even read it again and I still can't find what you mention. The system is believed to have been infected through a centralised computer server, and staff emails have also been frozen by the virus. The FBI has been called in to investigate.
[18:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:The StarOffice/OpenOffice Moment - 06All New Chromebooks to Support Android Apps - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:32] <exec> 08└─Eclipse is still holding out. And I hope someone will make a Chromebook with a decent (like 64 GB) amount of local storage at a reasonable price.
[18:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting tactic - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:50] <exec> 08└─I have a friend who thinks the way you do, and she has an MBA. Sadly people don't understand basic economics. More fossil fuel production means lower prices. Simple economics. Also lower dependence on foreign oil, which is not what Russia or other oil exporters want to hear. All the crap they force...
[18:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting tactic - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:52] <exec> 08└─The more that is used by utility companies to create power the higher the demand for fossil fuels. Sure there will be more production - to a degree - but I don't think the it will cover the increased usage. Every producer wants the US (and every other market) to use more. Of course by disagreeing wi...
[18:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting tactic - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:54] <exec> 08└─his puppeteer Putin
[18:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Earth is now flat - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─Something tells me that, despite the subject, you still believe in NASA propaganda about the "ball Earth" model. The Earth has always been flat. All you have to do is verify the evidence with your own eyes. Trump will assuredly verify that the azimuthal equidistant map is the true map of the surface...
[18:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:12] <exec> 08└─Challenge? Fuck you, you fucking fuck. It's effortless to get hodads like you to wish for better filters. Like the "Foe: -6" preference that's available. Not that you could find it in the SN settings.
[18:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CEO hostile takeover - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:23] <exec> 08└─> Undermining via press leaks and whisper campaigns is a tactic of opposition, so he's banned it. Those were always "banned." He's banned official communications with the public. If anything, he's encouraged leaking because he's taken away all forms of above-board communication. Also known to star w...
[18:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:12] <exec> 08└─The most important part of the response you quoted But in a summation, there is a collective fortune lost. Imagine a 0.1% tax increase by a government, with the cited purpose as being "legislative branch bonus fund"
[18:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''using the pronoun "we"'' - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:11] <exec> 08└─Yup. Rejected submission from September: Recent Libreboot Headlines Were Due to 1 Person [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[19:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:16] <exec> 08└─Sorry, couldn't resist. But in all seriousness, doesn't this point to at least some of autism being possibly an immune or inflamamtory issue? This is very very interesting...
[19:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:18] <exec> 08└─Some parents of autistic children have reported that medication with cannadinoids improves their behavior. A theory that many subscribe to, but has yet to be scientifically validated, is that it dulls low-level pain that is constantly aggravating them - as in autism hurts and since they can't commun...
[19:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:20] <exec> 08└─I read that with a shit eating grin. Beats taking the piss though. Seriously though, something I read some time ago jumps to mind. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] The researcher...
[19:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:22] <exec> 08└─The Ministry of Truth may well have alternative facts that autism is in [alternative] fact caused by vaccinations.
[19:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:24] <exec> 08└─More likely, gut flora has a lot more to do with health and long term effects on our bodies than science has previously given credit. There was a recent story about how somebody "hacked" themselves with a fecal transplant and it relieved their bowel issues. There is also strong evidence that chronic...
[19:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:26] <exec> 08└─Yup. This idea of a gastrointestinal link to autism has been floating around for years. Too bad the autism research well has been poisoned.
[19:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:29] <exec> 08└─They also tend to be sensitive to metal on skin contact, ie jewelry. And food allergies as well. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a link with some sort of auto immune problem.
[19:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ewww... - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─I'd rather take the autism, thanks.
[19:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:42] <exec> 08└─Sure, but the PM and party leaders have no excuses. They knew damned well they were playing political games. Perhaps some were even hoping the courts would save their backsides at the last moment after they have already benefited from the political mud wrestling.
[19:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:46] <exec> 08└─Honestly, it's hard to say. There does seem to be an undercurrent of "buyer's remorse" that followed the referendum results. Depending on the extent of that (or the MP's' estimates of that), they may vote stay, or just leave the issue to fade away without comment. If I understand it correctly, they...
[19:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:50] <exec> 08└─In America, if you put an unconstitutional bill on the ballot, and it wins, it's still the purview of the court to strike it down.
[19:42:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 2625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, the votes matter. It's the question that was asked (and the consequent steps specified in the Referendum bill) that are the issue. The question asked was "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?", with valid responses of "Remain" or "Leave". The "Remain" outcome was a cl...
[19:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:56] <exec> 08└─Forgot two references! Referendum act: http://www.legislation.gov.uk [legislation.gov.uk] Comparison with 1975 referendum: http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk]
[19:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:58] <exec> 08└─Great post, thank you. Does everything you say also apply to issues with the other UK countries, like the failed Scottish vote to leave the UK? If they did vote to leave (or if Ireland makes good on their threat to hold a similar vote), what would happen there?
[19:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:00] <exec> 08└─The referendum is a very, very new invention in British politics, and is only used by parliament to ask the advice of the public.
[19:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:02] <exec> 08└─O dear.. I'll try to express what I've learned, but I'm not a legal scholar so part of this may be bullshit. But I have the feeling I have a consistent overview of the matter, in any case. Consider this therefore some kind of a rant, for sanity's sake. Oh and it's a long rant as well. Let's start wi...
[19:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bernie - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:06] <exec> 08└─wat
[19:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Profit gimmick, expensive replacements - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:21] <exec> 08└─I smell a profit angle from car co's. If the dashboard is an airbag equivalent, and you get into an accident, the dashboard will probably get messed up to some degree. And the car co's will charge an arm and leg to replace the dashboards since they need these "space age" materials to make them soft....
[19:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nexrad vs satellite - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:36] <exec> 08└─In the mid 80s SPOT was selling optical orbital images with 10M resolution, so yeah. SPOT is an ongoing program and the 6 and 7 twins are selling 1.5 M resolution. That's about 18 inches not fifteen meters or whatever. If you're ever bored google up the owners of SPOT 7. It got sold to who to do wha...
[19:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02wtf - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_%28satellite%29#SPOT_6_and_SPOT_7 [wikipedia.org] In December 2014, SPOT 7 was sold to Azerbaijan's space agency Azercosmos, who renamed it Azersky.[5]
[19:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Full image of earth every fifteen minutes??? - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:41] <exec> 08└─You are correct. Here [noaa.gov] is some background info on where it will fit into the existing system.
[19:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Full image of earth every fifteen minutes??? - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:43] <exec> 08└─I think you're getting confused by the low earth orbit APT sats which do/did exist and being low earth orbit were not geosynch. In the 80s back when SD NTSC and 32x16 characters was considered high screen resolution, 8 bit home computers had just enough power and memory to receive HF wefax (and I di...
[19:44:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 285 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:10] <exec> 08└─That's strange, because I seem to recall countless criticisms of Obama and his cohorts over the issue of the surveillance state. There was certainly a lot of discussion about it on this website. Partisan hacks are nothing new and exist on both sides, so what are you even referring to?
[19:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:16] <exec> 08└─Here, you can 3d print TSA master keys: https://github.com [github.com]
[19:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:3, Insightful) 02The essential problem - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:34] <exec> 08└─This is what idiots like Jeff Sessions and his ilk do not understand: You can have strong encryption without backdoors or you can have NO encryption. There can be no in between. There can be no half measures. With regard to strong, nearly unbreakable encryption, the cat is out of the bag and no amou...
[19:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02between the lines ... - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:35] <exec> 08└─how about a real physical key? if lawful authority has the physical encrypted device in hand then they can really unlock it with a real key and then remove the chips that are storing the data (and get around the encryption)? this would be "okay" if the real key were securely stored, difficult to cop...
[19:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:I want to know something ... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:08] <exec> 08└─For backups i would suggest you focus on your actual data and not operating system files. Reinstalling windows is no big deal and something that has to be done periodically anyways. If you want to preserve your OS then i'd suggest doing a full-disk backup and not selective OS files. If you get some...
[19:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Addiction versus Cure - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:37] <exec> 08└─Compare it the big criticism of the pharma industry - they don't want to develop cures because there is no money in that, they want maintenance drugs that you have to buy every day for the rest of your life. Same thing with fossil fuels. They would rather we stay addicted to oil, even at $30/barrel...
[19:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:55] <exec> 08└─One of khallow's better efforts, really. Reminded my more of classic frojack: understated, misdirection, surface appearance of rationality, denies climate change, than it did of just the typical gibberish to be expected from khallow.
[19:46:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like Stephen Harper - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─And finally somebody is using that word correctly. What makes the Trump administration "Orwellian" is that it is very clear about using language to confuse rather than inform. George Orwell was most heavily interested in the science of spin doctoring before that was a formal idea, and there's little...
[19:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─Found a good write up: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com [nakedcapitalism.com] And HFT now dominates equity trading: It has been estimated that today 73% of equity trading volume is a result of algorithmic a...
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[20:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:18] <exec> 08└─Cannadinoids... make you more polite? Side effects include an increased tolerance for cold weather.
[20:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe alternative vaccines?
[20:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:25] <exec> 08└─Gut flora is acknowledged as a significant factor in overall health, but I don't think that modern medicine has nearly the handle on it as they do, say, cancer, heart disease, circulatory problems, etc. Back around 1990 they made the connection between h.pylori and ulcers, that took many years to ro...
[20:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:29] <exec> 08└─of course it's autoimmune related! what do you think happened when they were shot up with a bunch of contaminated vaccines? mayhem, that's what!
[20:42:31] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02So many links to get to the study - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 1135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:32] <exec> 08└─First you go the article, when is pretty sensationalist for N=18. Then you get to the publicity page for the university research department. That includes a number of important points: 1. The study focused on children with both autism and severe gastrointestinal pain. 2. The improvement on autism re...
[20:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02is this it? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:34] <exec> 08└─http://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-016-0225-7 [biomedcentral.com] Together, these findings suggest that MTT is safe and well-tolerated in children with ASD ages 7–16 years. MTT led to significant improvements in both GI- and ASD-related symptoms, and the improvemen...
[20:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:is this it? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:36] <exec> 08└─That's the one. Sorry. Wasn't thinking when I posted. Shoul've linked.
[20:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:48] <exec> 08└─No it wasn't. The Prime Minister's Party was reelected on a platform of offering the voters a chance to vote on the question of remaining in the EU. Parliament then voted to hold the vote and everyone campaigned on the assumption the vote would settle the issue, that Parliament was kicking the can o...
[20:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Thing - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:54] <exec> 08└─I do have some appreciation for the meaning of the old word "thing", or spelled "þing": Thing [wikipedia.org]. It's a bit self-referential: if the people of the community are gathered, then what they decide, is what the people have decided. Of course that can be subverted, I haven't seen Leni Riefe...
[20:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:56] <exec> 08└─laws ultimately will be litigated in the courts
[20:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:59] <exec> 08└─The votes would've mattered if "remain" had won
[20:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 2606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:05] <exec> 08└─Working from memory here: With reference to the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum (and working from memory) one key issue was the fact that the Scottish Parliament wanted to hold the referendum, but the Scottish Parliament, which is subservient to the British Parliament, didn't have the power to...
[20:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:09] <exec> 08└─Glaring mistake #1: art. 50 says the country must notify the European Council, not the European Commission. D'oh.
[20:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So What? - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:13] <exec> 08└─It sounds like May actually follows the rule of law so it's a moot point... however, why does this matter? As a thought experiment, imagine May were to say "forget the courts, EU, here is formal notice of Article 50." Even if the UK courts say it is unconstitutional (which I'm not even sure they can...
[20:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score:1) 02Re:So What? - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:15] <exec> 08└─I would hazard a guess that the EU would take the court ruling into consideration with regards to 'a designated legitimate authority'. May and her party are now required to take the order to leave through the parliament, and until such time, I'm sure the EU will just watch and wait. Under current EU...
[20:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backdoor plan, not - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 1709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:40] <exec> 08└─User Al want's to setup an encrypted session to user Bob. The Govt agent George want's the ability to look into the session give permission from Judge Judy. To support this somebody we trust, Kim, sets up a set of Key servers. Kim creates a set of PKI key pairs and publishes the public keys K1..Kn....
[20:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Burying the Lead, People. - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 2166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:41] <exec> 08└─I know y'all may think this blindingly obvious, but the real lead here is: Candidate who wants to make America "GREAT" "again" ends up putting together a team that is advocating exactly the same totalitarian shit as before. Kind of like how the candidate who would give us "HOPE AND CHANGE" ended up...
[20:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Any surprise? - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:00] <exec> 08└─Turn in your geek card. OP is perfectly understandable.
[20:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:I want to know something ... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:15] <exec> 08└─I think pushing via sneakernet can be secure.
[20:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:05] <exec> 08└─Well, personal experience. A friend picked up a bunch of research on inflatable wing structures (this was published results on a inflated wing launched by sounding rocket no less) from a NASA library that was throwing it out back around 2008-2009. He said that the NASA libraries had been shrinking f...
[20:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Twits - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─At this moment he couldn't care less about his lackeys. Because his lackeys will not speak until Trump tells them they can and then they will spew exactly what he is currently saying. He cares enormously about all the civil service policy people who are in a position to point out the lies, hypocrisy...
[20:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:06] <exec> 08└─But with lower latency, they *can* know you are trying to buy a stock. It is called front-running. It is only illegal is the peons do it though.
[20:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:''Libreboot is not a dead project'' - 06Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:15] <exec> 08└─From what I have read, her personality does not seem that toxic. Apparently, the GNU project finally gave up ownership of Libreboot when all of (or at least most) the developers followed her.
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[21:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:15] <exec> 08└─Economist Dean Baker has pointed out that allowing the American Medical Association to construct artificial barriers to expanding USA's medical labor force is dumb and makes healthcare more expensive.
[21:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:16] <exec> 08└─I like conspiracy theories, when I read this article the first thing I thought was of how this is a great way to keep Florida from going red in 2020.
[21:42:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 1018 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:26] <exec> 08└─I read that with a shit eating grin. Beats taking the piss though. Seriously though, something I read some time ago jumps to mind. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] The researcher...
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Gulp by Mary Roach - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:39] <exec> 08└─Book has an entire chapter on fecal transplants. Rest of the book is a good read as well.
[21:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but I'm honestly expecting to see fairly minimal dissent from the two main parties and it's essentially going to be rubber stamped, even if takes a while to get there. If there is going to be any serious attempt to halt the process the best time for that will be when it goes to the promissed...
[21:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:01] <exec> 08└─reducing a complex issue to a single "up/down" vote... ...worked beautifully in Crimea.
[21:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:10] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the overview. I suppose that's where the idea came from when Britain held it's first referendum in the 70s. The only inherently referendum-based political system I'm familiar with is Ireland's, where changes to the country's constitution can only be made by public referendum.
[21:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:14] <exec> 08└─Legal argument, as much as I could understand it: If the UK government decides to take rights away from the UK people, that they are used to having, you'd expect that they put it to a vote in the houses of parliament.
[21:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:16] <exec> 08└─BTW may I congratulate you on a comment that was much clearer than mine :-)
[21:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:So What? - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:22] <exec> 08└─Does the UK court ruling have any meaning or force, beyond the extent that May and the government listens to it?
[21:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Make airbags work better first... - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:37] <exec> 08└─I've been in 4 accidents, airbags have never deployed.
[21:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Nexrad vs satellite - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:53] <exec> 08└─It's not so much the tech that's cutting edge, it's more that the weather dudes got a serious upgrade. The ability to image the whole planet quickly and in much higher detail than before just the way meteorologists need is the cutting edge part.
[21:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02Simple compare to doom rendering process... - 06A Trip Down the League of Legends Graphics Pipeline - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:10] <exec> 08└─as a computer graphics layman, I always enjoy reading about all the steps taken to reach a specific ambiance in games. This one is interesting but pretty simple to follow compared to the details published for a Doom frame last year: http://www.adriancourreges.com
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:12] <exec> 08└─But that is just my opinion, since we live in a post-factual world.
[21:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:13] <exec> 08└─He apparently is unaware that you can only cull that which is live, and research is only live when it's being done.
[21:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:16] <exec> 08└─and your best answer is that governments take more as taxes.
[21:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:17] <exec> 08└─I wonder what would happen if people were required to hold on to their purchases for at least 12 hours...
[21:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:20] <exec> 08└─A market with an average holding period of 22 seconds has nothing to do with investing and everything to do with profiting from churn.
[21:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:24] <exec> 08└─But with lower latency, they *can* know you are trying to buy a stock. It is called front-running. It is only illegal is the peons do it though.
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[22:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:11] <exec> 08└─I realize it's more expensive than Wine's free-as-in-beer, but for my essential Windows apps I need for work, I use a Windows install on a VM. It's a lot less setup headache, less troubleshooting. I use Parallels myself, have used VMWare in the past. I know many people who use a similar approach. Th...
[22:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:13] <exec> 08└─I use Parallels myself
[22:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:15] <exec> 08└─Gaming, with varying degrees of success. By far it's the single source of applications where high-performance requirements are pitiful when run on a VM*. I use it for whatever I can actually get working, and I have wineskin set up on the girlfriend's mac for Stick of Truth. I've had pretty good luck...
[22:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not firing up a VM to edit a few code files in Notepad++.
[22:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:27] <exec> 08└─I like conspiracy theories, when I read this article the first thing I thought was of how this is a great way to keep Florida from going red in 2020.
[22:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:30] <exec> 08└─From anecdotal and personal experience, those Cuban doctors are treated in high regard in other developing countries and have made huge tangible differences to the local communities affected by medical emergencies or just a lack of local expertise. Even down to local medical professionals being prou...
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─Even in general medicine, consider different care techniques in the USA vs Cuba, we have MRIs falling out of our ears so naturally a dude gets a bump on the head you MRI him and consult with a radiologist. In the 3rd world where the Cuban docs are trained to operate there are no MRI where there is n...
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─So, by "Fake" you mean "True, but I don't think it's important."
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─With regard to Cuban doctors, yes, drop in the bucket, irrelevant. With regard to artificially restricting access to Medical school, not expanding capacity of the residency program / relaxing residency requirements or providing alternative pathways to certification, the AMA absolutely is artificiall...
[22:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02''only sent 70K''[1] - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:38] <exec> 08└─Dr. Baker didn't restrict his comments to Cuban doctors--or even to doctors. He said -foreign- doctors; he also mentioned e.g. nurse practitioners who can provide MANY services at a lower cost than the current paradigm in the USA. ...and, as you note, Cuba has enough medicos to export a bunch. We sh...
[22:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:''only sent 70K''[1] - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:41] <exec> 08└─Whoa AC good catch. In general theory, the doc is correct, its merely wrong to apply him to this particular story about Cubans.
[22:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:43] <exec> 08└─Over the last half century only 1000 Cuban Dr have defected to the USA which is a drop in the bucket for us but does make us look like total dirtbags to the 3rd world, it doesn't help us much but it makes sure Algerians don't get medical care at all, for example. The problem I see with this statemen...
[22:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You wanted a Strong Federal Government. - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:45] <exec> 08└─Well, now you've got one. Enjoy it.
[22:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:You wanted a Strong Federal Government. - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:47] <exec> 08└─Just want to make sure, you do realize that Ex-Prez Obama is the one that ended the policy, right?
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─but I don't think it's a primary causal factor, or a route to a "cure."
[22:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:04] <exec> 08└─We don't need peer reviewed double blind placebo controlled studies to tell us that one of our children is gluten sensitive, has moderate to severe reactions when he ingests gluten, and the other child doesn't seem to have a problem with gluten. Gut flora and other things influence the level of sens...
[22:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02No better way? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:14] <exec> 08└─Surely, the various critters living in the gut can be introduced some other way. I can see walking into a pharmacy, to get a prescription filled for a pound of poop. "Take before eating." Yuk . . . Wonder if there is any correlation between autism and cleanliness fetishists. Mothers and fathers are...
[22:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No better way? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:16] <exec> 08└─That could explain some of the increase in reported cases. But, then again, there's also been a massive increase in attention to the point where there's plenty of additional cases reported due to increased awareness and somewhat increased support. It remains to be seen whether this will replicate, b...
[22:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No better way? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:18] <exec> 08└─we allow doctors to kill them when in most cases [bacteria] aren't the problem
[22:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:21] <exec> 08└─Who knew you could get THAT add-in powder for your smoothie?
[22:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:33] <exec> 08└─The Prime Minister's Party was reelected on a platform of offering the voters a chance to vote on the question of remaining in the EU. Parliament then voted to hold the vote and everyone campaigned on the assumption the vote would settle the issue, that Parliament was kicking the can on the question...
[22:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Bernie - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:58] <exec> 08└─Subscribers' posts can't be modded down to -1. /comments.pl?sid=17604&threshold=-1&cid=457616#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[22:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:So What? - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:02] <exec> 08└─As I mentioned to a friend earlier, her White Paper has Andrex printed on the roll because she, along with the rest of the party, are bricking it. Now that even members of her own party are starting to think this whole austerity thing might be a bit much - it's now hitting the NHS so hard that even...
[22:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make airbags work better first... - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:19] <exec> 08└─> I've been in 4 accidents, airbags have never deployed. Lucky you, they are expensive to replace...and here in NY State they have to be replaced to pass the annual safety inspection (required to get/keep license plates). I'm assuming your accidents were fender benders, at low speed.
[22:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02Story of my life - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:20] <exec> 08└─from hard to soft [...] in response to a small amount of stress.
[22:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Goop - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:23] <exec> 08└─Just fill the car body with that goop that is a liquid until squeezed or hit: I dunno... It's made with corn starch or something. Once the accident is over, the dogs can come pick you clean!
[22:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:05] <exec> 08└─USB drives, SD cards, or something custom-built, hidden in a toy (something with electronics), sent by mail.
[22:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:18] <exec> 08└─Cover it with a white sheet. [independent.co.uk]
[22:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Burying the Lead, People. - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think I'm going to continue submitting updates on the Crypto Wars, regardless if it is the same shit that has been going on for 2+ decades.
[22:47:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02CEO hostile takeover - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 1250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:12] <exec> 08└─(Note, I'm trying to explain, not condone or excuse these actions - or hopefully even put a value judgement on them) Federal agencies can be thought of as very large companies, but with odd somewhat decentralized anarchic power structures. Some agencies have a history of supporting administrations w...
[22:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:03] <exec> 08└─I won't argue your priority, but I do argue the concept of letting some financial firms make a business out of fleecing investors by using fancy hardware to work the margins. Governments tax for a purpose, and the money generally goes back into the economy in some form. HFT seems to be taxing every...
[22:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:06] <exec> 08└─Well, liquidity is something I don't see as a huge positive. To me that feels more like a bonus for the brokers by being able to squeeze the margins tighter, I would prefer that longer term stability be given more priority. Also, specific to HFT the liquidity benefits seem to be a hotly contested is...
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[23:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:14] <exec> 08└─> [...] applications that need direct access to GPU like bitcoin miners [...] Mining Bitcoin with GPUs is still a thing?
[23:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─Not being spied upon is certainly one. It's also a lot lighter than installing Windows in a VM. Have you seen how frikkin' big Windows is these days? It's also generally faster as the OS is not busy downloading and installing updates, sending "telemetry", or doing who knows what to the registry. I'm...
[23:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Adobe Digital Editions - 06Wine 2.0 released - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:19] <exec> 08└─Even though Adobe promised it would provide a Linux version when the publishers chose to use Adobe's copy protection scheme for epub books, Adobe never did. I need it to download custom ebooks. When I use Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe is so kind as to custom-encrypt the books for just me. Once I hav...
[23:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─The revolutionaries took over Cuba 1 January 1959. Some people had the good sense to flee before the 1 May 1961 proclamation in which "a socialist regime" was declared. https://www.marxists.org [marxists.org] http://www.latinamericanstudies.org
[23:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:''only sent 70K''[1] - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:38] <exec> 08└─Though I admit, I did consider nuking that horrifying and source mangling link, I let it stand in my edit. Another editor whose name I shan't reveal unless he wishes to step forward changed it when doing a second look. Thank you for submitting.
[23:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:41] <exec> 08└─we spend all our money on cancer I will be sure to tell my dad that his life is unimportant.
[23:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:57] <exec> 08└─I sense an imminent ban on any further testing of the gut bacteria idea. Disgusting. Sad. #GetALifeStupidScientists.
[23:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:05] <exec> 08└─Others have been postulating that gut biome may have a non-casual relationship with depression, etc. Got a sweet tooth? Could be your gut biome pumps out neuroregulatory compounds that help compel you to eat more sweets... There's at least one case report that was publicized of a person who had C. d...
[23:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:27] <exec> 08└─Having been through school in the UK up to PhD, I can confidently say I had no clue about the difference between Parliament, government and courts until I went to the USA and learned the US system. Then I could translate it back into UK term and realize that we have much less separation of powers. I...
[23:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02WRONG! - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:31] <exec> 08└─A bunch of the most senior judges in the UK just said that you are wrong.
[23:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WRONG! - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:33] <exec> 08└─“I think people in this country,” declared Vote Leave’s Michael Gove, “have had enough of experts.” Judges? Pfft, bunch of experts. Fuck 'em.
[23:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:55] <exec> 08└─This is about lots of MPs wishing that they did not have to vote to leave. Those votes will be remembered at the next election.
[23:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So What? - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:03] <exec> 08└─(Original poster here.) I think I found the answer to my own question: Article 50 [lisbon-treaty.org] 1. Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.
[23:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Profit gimmick, expensive replacements - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:19] <exec> 08└─In most instances, airbag deployment is a good indicator that you aren't going to replace anything in the car. Between the airbag cost and whatever structural damage caused the deployment, insurances are quick to total the car...
[23:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make airbags work better first... - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:22] <exec> 08└─And you lived, so clearly the airbags weren't needed.
[23:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's backwards - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:27] <exec> 08└─You want it soft and squishy and able to absorb energy when an impact happens (rapid change). You want it rigid the rest of the time. A non-Newtonian fluid is the opposite of that. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goop - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:29] <exec> 08└─Sadly your brain isn't made of that stuff so it would go splat against your skull. Maybe leak out your eye sockets? When are the Myth Busters going to do an episode on that. How much force would it take to expel your brain though your eyes?
[23:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Incredible - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:39] <exec> 08└─> I've certainly not noticed great improvement in any forecasts in the last 3 decades You certainly haven't paid attention then. Or you live in a microclimate behind a mountain. 5 to 7 days forecasts are now surprisingly accurate, and not just "it will be dry in Tucson". The three sets of storms whi...
[23:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Incredible - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:42] <exec> 08└─Well, 2 decades ago, I lived on the flat plain of East Anglia, which, despite being in Britain is categorised as "arid", and since then I live on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and the forecasts were good for 4-5 days back then 99% of the time, and are only good for 2-3 days now, apart from extreme ma...
[23:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:It's right there in the summary - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:03] <exec> 08└─They have 700 computers. That alone might take weeks. If they haven't backed up their entire membership base, it would be hopeless to restore it in muerely a few weeks. Even so, I imagine there will be trouble knowing who has borrowed or returned specific books after the last backup.
[23:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously.... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:07] <exec> 08└─Adobe has ironically named its DRM system "Adobe Access." https://www.adobe.com [adobe.com] On Linux, support for it exists only in the "system" or "standalone" Flash player: Flash Player is integrated with Google Chrome. Google Chrome's Pepper Flash Player plug-in doe...
[23:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02^ This - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:11] <exec> 08└─Should be in all-caps and bold as well. If your copy of your stuff can't survive a fire, flood, burglary, or hack, what you have is NOT a backup. That the articles about this event doesn't include the names of the IT personnel responsible for the difficult-to-restore software/data infrastructure is...
[23:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02feeling inadequate - 06NTT Creates 12 Core Single-Mode Optical Fiber - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:47] <exec> 08└─my pc only has two cores and my apple only has one.
[23:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:20] <exec> 08└─the bankruptcy of the term, "post-factual". Opinions remain opinions no matter what sort of world we live in.
[23:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─But that is just my opinion, since we live in a post-factual world.
[23:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump Administration Freezes EPA... - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:39] <exec> 08└─...proving that global warming isn't real.
[23:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Fear and Loathing in Trump Regime? Update. - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:40] <exec> 08└─Then there is this: http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[23:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NO! - 06Raspberry Pi to Work With “Tech Titan” Google for AI Development - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:53] <exec> 08└─They're not on a open source, sustainable model. Their service still requires their cloud. It doesn't look like you can configure it to stay local to your system, it needs to access to their cloud to perform the majority of the audio and event processing and data mine you. I'm not aware of anyone de...
[23:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02improved headline - 06Scientists Aim to Create the World's Largest Sickle Cell Disease Stem Cell Library - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:15] <exec> 08└─Cell Scientists Aim to Create the Cell World's Largest Sickle Cell Disease Stem Cell Cell Library
[23:48:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:28] <exec> 08└─Investors harvest signal, traders harvest noise. HFT harvests the noise that's left over in the original noise once you've removed the first order noise.
[23:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:33] <exec> 08└─but I do argue the concept of letting some financial firms make a business out of fleecing investors by using fancy hardware to work the margins.
[23:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:37] <exec> 08└─Well, liquidity is something I don't see as a huge positive.
[23:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Did they talk to Einstein about this? - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:58] <exec> 08└─So they are placing their facility within 4 feet of the exchange's boxes?
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