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[00:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:40] <exec> 08└─Seems like he is throwing shade on Microsoft, who wholly deserves it. Once in bed with the NSA, always in bed with the NSA. I would find it absolutely incredible if this was a genuine attempt at providing real end-to-end encryption. Something is compromised. It will be innocuous, and thus deniable,...
[00:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:41] <exec> 08└─It's Microsoft. It's to be expected. Skype claimed to have end-to-end encryption in the past, although it was probably broken [blackhat.com] anyway.
[00:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:44] <exec> 08└─Perhaps .. but skype is the only preferred by microserfs and mircroserf wannabees.... ya know the colon of tech. Also every other platform of note rolled out (and/or emphasized) basic encryption years ago .. So yeah ... crickets.
[00:42:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:24] <exec> 08└─Lol, so if you agreed to a pay rate at the onset of employment, that's set in stone for life yea? Excellent, where can I send you the employment contract?
[00:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:35] <exec> 08└─Your situational insult doesn't work when you're the one who sets up the situation.
[00:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 1977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:37] <exec> 08└─Carbon Black [carbonblack.com]Careers [carbonblack.com] When I interviewed with Carbon Black I think last Summer they told me an employee survey found that the remote folks were both happier, with their productivity as measured by such things as bugs fixed and features implemented being higher. But...
[00:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:39] <exec> 08└─It depends on how (including where) you choose to live your life. Quit blaming other people for your problems.
[00:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:52] <exec> 08└─Please, like reading them is even realistically possible. Even if you have the law degree to understand it all, it would take 76 days/year [theatlantic.com] to read all the ones you're subjected to, and are expected to agree to. And, that's the point and why they should be completely unenforceable.
[00:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:53] <exec> 08└─Do we really want to nail Google?
[00:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:55] <exec> 08└─Hell, if you pirate the damn thing, you don't have to agree to *anything*! Just by paying for something, you tell them who to nail for accountability.
[00:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 630 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:05] <exec> 08└─Another day, another piece of evidence that Russia is still hard at work trying to interfere in our elections. Targeting groups that are vocally anti-Russia or anti-Russian interference can't be a surprise to anyone (except maybe the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue). Require 2-factor authentica...
[00:43:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 949 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:16] <exec> 08└─The rise of the anti-PAC Democrat [pbs.org] A growing number of Democrats running for Congress in 2018 are foregoing contributions from political action committees, opting for a more grassroots approach to fundraising in a bid to appeal to the party’s progressive base. ... Now, looking to the midt...
[00:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:30] <exec> 08└─Turns out that's just a conspiracy theory hopefully about ready to run out of steam. Russian intelligence officer, not a member of the DNC staff was responsible for the Wikileaks info on Hillary Clinton. [vox.com] It was all just a conspiricy theory against a member of the Bernie Sandars loyalists b...
[00:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:32] <exec> 08└─I'll be trully happy to be proven wrong, even if it will take years. Having all the politicians listening to the voters first will not only restore the proper democracy, but you may have the pleasant surprise to make it impervious to meddling from outside - the voted/voter relationship becomes too s...
[00:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:34] <exec> 08└─Don Trump's behavior towards Putin (and Kim Jong Un, for that matter) is certainly suspicious as all get-out, but it isn't proof. For instance, he could just have a bit of a hard-on for authoritarian leaders because he by all appearances would like to be one. By contrast, what the DoJ has been focus...
[00:43:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:53] <exec> 08└─Open-Plan offices encourage beggers to continually interrupt other workers to solve their issues in detriment of their assigned tasks. And once you fall in the solver category are doomed. That may be good for the company or not, but definitely rarely for those solvers not being able to develop their...
[00:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, it has plenty of tastes.
[00:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:02] <exec> 08└─Silverback alpha chad goes buuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrp.
[00:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:04] <exec> 08└─Watch some movies placed in the British Victorian era, you'll notice many masters asking servants using something on the line of "Can you bring some..., please?" Was it any chance the master sound subservient? Of course the servant was expected the s/he actually could so there was actually no choice...
[00:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:20] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Discovery of lunar water at the lunar poles by Chandrayaan-1 has renewed interest in the Moon. Locating such a colony at one of the lunar poles would also avoid the problem of long lunar nights – about 354 hours lon...
[00:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:27] <exec> 08└─Jack ass.
[00:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know where I got four from. Brain fart. I'm old. :)
[00:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:06] <exec> 08└─I can't argue against that. Without having seen your news, I would suggest asking "Who profits from the kind and degree of attention being paid to the U.S.?", and perhaps "Who profits from the attention NOT being paid to nearer countries?" as well.
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[01:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:36] <exec> 08└─So now we will have to trust random sites if we ever need something old, even if just to port to newer versions? Mozilla, you rock! As a sinking rock down to the ocean floor.
[01:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:42] <exec> 08└─The more of your comments I read, the more I realize what a shallow, unthinking, Borg-like collectivist lefty you really are.
[01:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:43] <exec> 08└─The place I'm working now requires me to punch a timeclock. I always considered the practice rather insulting in the past, but here I work basically whatever hours I want, and the timeclock does make it easy to make sure neither side is getting screwed on the number of hours I'm being paid for, so I...
[01:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:32] <exec> 08└─Because it's not just the officers who lose, it's their supervisors and their department and their city/state. Each layer up helps protect the one beneath, and we the people only have the weakest of leverage on the top positions.
[01:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:34] <exec> 08└─It's just you.
[01:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:05] <exec> 08└─It's certainly understandable, but even if those three were truly the only options, then those who chose the military would *still* be a biased self-selected sample of those presented with the choice.
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[02:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:30] <exec> 08└─Surely, I'm not the only person who has ever thought of archiving stuff that he deems potentially useful? Grab what you want now, before it disappears. You have more than adequate warning.
[02:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OldVersion.com [wikipedia.org]
[02:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:39] <exec> 08└─Who is Dolly? The musical hello dolly? Please explain
[02:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:40] <exec> 08└─Ha ha!
[02:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:10] <exec> 08└─I don't do that. I like keeping my home at home and work (and SN*) at the office.
[02:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:29] <exec> 08└─"Why just males? Aren't females victims of assault as well? " Decades ago there was an advertisement (for the NRA?) about that. Best I can recall: It showed a woman with scared young children on a dark street with a thug coming after them. She was pulling a gun out of her purse to protect the kids....
[02:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:31] <exec> 08└─They're arguing that we need a way to make everyone equal in each others' eyes, and that the threat of lethal force (barbaric as it may be) provides that where society does not.
[02:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:33] <exec> 08└─Besides, most pro gun ownership people are that way because they're basically cowards, needing a weapon to make themselves feel safe. Open carry doesn't appeal to cowards.
[02:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:35] <exec> 08└─Is that a USA thing? Seriously, you can't respect, trust, or be friends with someone who doesn't make the same amount of money as you? Or doesn't have the same education as you? Or doesn't live like you live? Or doesn't look like you or believe the same sky daddy as you?
[02:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:38] <exec> 08└─Is that a USA thing? Seriously, you can't respect, trust, or be friends with someone who doesn't make the same amount of money as you? Or doesn't have the same education as you? Or doesn't live like you live? Or doesn't look like you or believe the same sky daddy as you?
[02:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:40] <exec> 08└─I think people are missing one important point: On July 24th, 2018 the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that Hawaiian officials had violated George Young's rights when he was denied a permit to openly carry a loaded gun in public to protect himself.
[02:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:13] <exec> 08└─Actually I do have a non-STEM background, so I'm aware of some of the thinking behind this. If you accept that people can be born bad, rather than voluntarily choosing to be bad, then this has profound implications on both philosophical and criminal justice grounds, because now a defence lawyer can...
[02:49:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:41] <exec> 08└─No, fair enough. I do understand. No reason you should accept it either. Sometimes I wonder what would happen to Fox News or Breitbart, or even the US political system if the average American travelled as widely as the average European (or Australian, or whatever). I wonder how many eyes would be...
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[03:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:33] <exec> 08└─This is why I think life is reasonably common in the galaxy. It turns out the planet was pretty inhospitable during that period [wikipedia.org] and yet life began anyway. I hope to live long enough to see the results of a trip to Enceladus or Europa which might have a chance of discovering life th...
[03:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:44] <exec> 08└─It has been clear to anyone who isn't blind and deaf that Mozilla is in the terminal stages of SJW infestation, that part where it becomes unable to carry out the original purpose of the organization, for several years. If one reverts far enough to eliminate the damage there is still value in the Fi...
[03:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 4144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:57] <exec> 08└─Work At Home: Find a Remote Computer Industry Job [soggy.jobs] This is Soggy Jobs' most-popular page. I was trying to sell the uneducated, inexperienced folks in about a bazillion Facebook Work At Home groups that they could do entry level QA or tech support without any experience but no one ever re...
[03:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:58] <exec> 08└─If you can't take regimented hours, and don't like petty office politics, you may have the option of starting your own company or consultancy. But, be forewarned, the ability to set your own hours sounds great until you do it, then you find that you are actually working all the time. From many conve...
[03:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 2503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:00] <exec> 08└─I got paid twenty-three grand for it. I mean I really did. How cool can that be? My client said he was down with it because I sent him "daily" progress reports at all hours of the day and night, as well as having flawlessly implemented lots of features and killed lots of bugs dead but good. Too bad...
[03:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 1718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:03] <exec> 08└─Mare Island Naval Shipyard had one gate on the freeway, the other at the other end of a bridge from a city street. I remain flummoxed as to how even Flex Time enabled all the Civil Service staff to get to work every day. My father was quite the opposite of me: very much a Lark. Out of bed every sing...
[03:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:56] <exec> 08└─Russia works very hard to influence American politics.
[03:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:58] <exec> 08└─My company isn't the same one to use Welcome16 as a password? Seriously - every x number of days, the password must be changed. It increments by 1 each time. FFS, how long does it take to "brute force" a password when you know exactly what form that password takes? You don't even need software to do...
[03:44:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:44] <exec> 08└─The entropic drip of corruption doesn't flow backwards. If the courts make a ruling on net neutrality, it'll be to solidify the current rules by making small exceptions. Things just get worse and worse and worse until something snaps and you've got heads in guillotines or a civil war where you're sh...
[03:46:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 20 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:21] <exec> 08└─has to wear a weapon
[03:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:00] <exec> 08└─Except no. Here is the drafting history of the 2A: https://www.theliberalgunclub.com [theliberalgunclub.com] And note that it didn't arise in a vacuum, but came out of legal oppression and solutions to that oppression back in the Old Country: https:...
[03:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:01] <exec> 08└─You are stuck in a single moment in time, which happens to be when we are living in Clown World. A black guy with a gun? People get nervous.
[03:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:03] <exec> 08└─And what about the NRA's 6 million members?
[03:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:05] <exec> 08└─I like how you just skipped over the part about,
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[04:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:30] <exec> 08└─Agreed, I think life is probably common, but spacefaring life may be quite rare.
[04:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:42] <exec> 08└─Palemoon is no longer being maintained. https://www.basilisk-browser.org [basilisk-browser.org] is the new direction. Basilisk is a free and Open Source XUL-based web browser, featuring the well-known Firefox-style interface and operation. It is based on the Goanna layout and rendering engine (a fo...
[04:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:43] <exec> 08└─They really do know how to shoot themselves in the foot.
[04:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:45] <exec> 08└─Considering there was a Palemoon release last week, I wouldn't call it "no longer maintained". Or to use the vernacular on your comment - "citation needed" :P
[04:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:48] <exec> 08└─"Version 52 ESR is probably a very reasonable candidate version to use for the baseline code to go in the fork but parts of it should probably be reverted." I'm not sure how you determined that but it strikes me as dangerously wrong. I'd suggest forking from 3.6.28 and then backporting anything of v...
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[04:41:50] <exec> 08└─There was a major release less than a week ago: https://www.ghacks.net [ghacks.net] Why are you lying?
[04:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentnewsfan1 [6684] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:52] <exec> 08└─The founder of Waterfox has already solved this by not only including and maintaining old extension support in their fork, but backed up the extensions for rolling out in their own add on store. And you can install the addons that required FF57 from mozzilla.They sent an email to Palemoon's author J...
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[04:41:54] <exec> 08└─Palemoon is no longer being maintained.
[04:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:05] <exec> 08└─The more of your comments I read, the more I realize what a shallow, unthinking, Borg-like collectivist lefty you really are.
[04:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:07] <exec> 08└─Lol, so if you agreed to a pay rate at the onset of employment, that's set in stone for life yea?
[04:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:23] <exec> 08└─And in court there will be some sort of tortured logic excusing what was done that amounts to 'because the campaign donation check was large and cleared'. I'd guess it'll be something like 'everyone knew they were lying and tracking you anyway, just like facebook so it doesn't matter if they wrote t...
[04:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:04] <exec> 08└─There is a uservoice item to make human-readable safelinks: https://office365.uservoice.com [uservoice.com] It's a good idea, and worth an upvote.
[04:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:44] <exec> 08└─2. They allow managers to more easily spot people doing something other than heads-down work.
[04:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:45] <exec> 08└─Think? Deeply? In the office? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA good joke
[04:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:14] <exec> 08└─From the opposite side of the fence, I have to warn you that you are in for a long wait. The pro-gun rights world grabbed its collective chest and fainted away at this news. The 9th circuit has been where gun rights go to die. This ruling is way off script for them.
[04:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:15] <exec> 08└─"I like how you just skipped over the part about," I didn't do that. "and then went on to claim that," Didn't do that either. If you can't be bothered to parse what I read, why should I do the same for you?
[04:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:42] <exec> 08└─Compare that with Monsanto/Bayer being willing to lose it all actively throw it all away for a dollar.
[04:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:13] <exec> 08└─I resort to using those comparison sites and only having 3 or 4 to look at. I gave up last time. It was easier to just buy a laptop.
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[05:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imax and Google Have Put Their VR Camera Project on Hold - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:39] <exec> 08└─They want to be told what's important, cool, and ultimately worth their attention. That's why 360 stuff will never take off; people want to sit there and have their senses controlled by an expert—they don't want the freedom tyranny of being able having to choose where to look. Invalid form key: P...
[05:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imax and Google Have Put Their VR Camera Project on Hold - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:40] <exec> 08└─That's why 360 stuff will never take off; people want to sit there and have their senses controlled by an expert
[05:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:08] <exec> 08└─I agreed with you right up until you suggested PaleMoon. The PaleMoon team *intentionally removed the Accessibility subsystem* & has no intention of ever putting it back. I asked them why & was told it made the code cleaner, leaner, & more secure. I let them know that by doing so they were shooting...
[05:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:10] <exec> 08└─Did you try Waterfox? (Honest question; I don't have any idea about if it would work.)
[05:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:12] <exec> 08└─I also wonder if basilisk [basilisk-browser.org] and seamonkey [seamonkey-project.org] are BGTOW in this regard.
[05:42:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:20] <exec> 08└─No one cared. *crickets*
[05:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:27] <exec> 08└─The more of your comments I read, the more I realize what a shallow, unthinking, Borg-like collectivist lefty you really are.
[05:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:34] <exec> 08└─It's OK, if you're black there's a useful reference work How Not to Get Shot [harpercollins.com] by Professors D. L. Hughley and D. Moe for just this eventuality.
[05:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:35] <exec> 08└─With the added benefit that police are more likely to shoot you because they may hesitate to consider that it may be a ton gun. [emphasis mine]
[05:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure. Glyphosate (Roundup) herbicide can bugger up the biochemical pathways found in micro-organisms. More and more research is telling us that micro-organisms have vital roles in keeping anything with a gut functioning properly. The hot new thing is to use Roundup to "field dry" non-GMO...
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[06:42:19] <exec> 08└─The founder of Waterfox has already solved this by not only including and maintaining old extension support in their fork, but backed up the extensions for rolling out in their own add on store. And you can install the addons that required FF57 from mozzilla.They sent an email to Palemoon's author J...
[06:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:25] <exec> 08└─It has been clear to anyone who isn't blind and deaf that Mozilla is in the terminal stages of SJW infestation,
[06:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, but why should be have to? The internet is plenty big enough to hold the previous 'legacy' versions, so this seems to be nothing short of a petty move on the part of Mozilla.
[06:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:29] <exec> 08└─Wrong, the Pale Moon team is also supporting Basilisk, but from the Basilisk home page: Basilisk is a free and Open Source XUL-based web browser, featuring the well-known Firefox-style interface and operation. It is based on the Goanna layout and rendering engine (a fork of Gecko) and builds on the...
[06:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:32] <exec> 08└─Mozilla spent all their money on ... whatever ... and so has to cut back on their server storage.
[06:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:43] <exec> 08└─Why don't you try another feature, dear Microsoft : Make a skype "light" app which gets us back to fifteen years ago, as in "here is a list of people I can call/video-call, and their current availability, a button to add more, a way to type a phone number if I have credit, and a button to turn off t...
[06:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:44] <exec> 08└─You ruined Skype. You loaded every URL that was sent via encrypted conversations. You have an awful reputation for security. No thanks, we're not interested in anything like this from you Microsoft.
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[07:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:38] <exec> 08└─Expecting perfection is absurd, with the sheer number of Apple devices out there I'm shocked this didn't happen years ago. Apple should be commended that this took so long to happen, despite their many other failings. This is assuming that this is newsworthy, and not a more frequent event which made...
[07:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:39] <exec> 08└─I'm slightly surprised they had a sand-filled bucket at hand; it certainly is a good idea, and shows they were prepared for such an occasion.
[07:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:41] <exec> 08└─+1 I'd have expected them to have realised they have a lot of electrical appliances so they'd need to only have fire extinguishers suitable for electrical fires on the shop floor to prevent mix-ups, but a bucket of sand is a much neater and simpler to clean up solution for things like this that woul...
[07:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:59] <exec> 08└─They killed my father. So I kill them. It is just.
[07:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:25] <exec> 08└─Hookers and blow is the traditional way for software ventures to get through lots of money. Just sayin'...
[07:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:39] <exec> 08└─I agree with edIII, I think the comment is directed at Microsoft and the handful of people who still trust Skype.
[07:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:03] <exec> 08└─Stop making excuses for google. They were engineered by the secret services and are owned by jews. Huge amounts of money were put into creating the evil were call google. When google was found to record WiFi data from its street spy cars, people made excuses for it and tried to take attention away f...
[07:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:21] <exec> 08└─They were probably scared of the Commissars, the NKVD which contained mostly jews in all high positions. They had seen what happens to common people when the NKVD (jewish murderers) torture them. Their stomachs are cut open and internal organs are pulled out. The botanists were non-jewish it seems a...
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[08:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:30] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest forking from 3.6.28 and then backporting anything of value that's been added since.
[08:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:31] <exec> 08└─I've been using Palemoon and the win2k/xp build Mypal more and more lately. It's the best alternative that's left.
[08:42:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:41] <exec> 08└─Seems like he is throwing shade on Microsoft, who wholly deserves it. Once in bed with the NSA, always in bed with the NSA. I would find it absolutely incredible if this was a genuine attempt at providing real end-to-end encryption. Something is compromised. It will be innocuous, and thus deniable,...
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[09:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:33] <exec> 08└─that's no vaporator, it's the opposite: a harvester.
[09:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:34] <exec> 08└─everything is inexpensive when someone else is paying. If it is cheap enough, he should have had no trouble finding investors. Conclusions: the university is no good at raising money and/or the prototype isn't *that* inexpensive.
[09:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 8986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:43] <exec> 08└─- Already? Consider that we nuked Japan with the technology of the early 1940s. What can we do with the technology of 2018? "Killer App" indeed. I see a very basic moral problem here. For me personally with my background in Physics I'm heavily into nuclear weapons. I think they're quite cool, they r...
[09:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:55] <exec> 08└─maybe this wasn't the first battery problem, just the first one to be publically reported.
[09:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:15] <exec> 08└─If you read the article, the numbers aren't certain, and there would have been a gradual lessening of the impact rate. There's also a graph there that places the earliest life at 4 billion years ago. If the interval between the chaos of bombardment and the first life forms is (relatively) very short...
[09:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:11] <exec> 08└─Ad hominem-based disregard for peoples' opinions is very caustic. It attacks you just as readily as it attacks those you accuse.
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[10:41:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this guy has been Wong his entire life.
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[10:41:41] <exec> 08└─Unlike existing methods, Wong's harvester could work in arid desert environments because of the membrane's high surface-area-to-volume ratio. It also would have a minimal energy requirement.
[10:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:50] <exec> 08└─Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits [soylentnews.org] This drone or the air-breathing electric thruster could easily have peaceful applications. Extremely low latency "satellite" Internet service, for example. Military satellite surveillance is al...
[10:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:01] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious: Where else are you going to find so very many Lithium batteries in such a small area?
[10:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:02] <exec> 08└─those poor ipads being treated like things by their customers and thrown away as soon as a new model knocks on the door. It's no surprise that one of them downloads the ISIS app and goes allahu akhbar. It's all your fault for making it happen, meatbags. #notallipads
[10:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:04] <exec> 08└─It's about time the mighty apple had their day in the battery fire club. Maybe, just maybe, with enough battery fires these makers will finally realize that end user replaceable batteries are actually a good idea.
[10:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:52] <exec> 08└─Just a few ideas: On giving their Apple buildfarm to another project (WTF?). On pushing people in and out of quite important positions in their company, so... On digging dirt of them all time which ends in courts, In consequence... On barking back to a dog. On HEURISTICS*! :) On separating with Thun...
[10:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:53] <exec> 08└─- Ago: Because a change in the Add-On API broke quite a highly-popular - as in tens of millions of users - Add-On that I depended on for my webmastering work. I don't doubt that someone coded up a replacement But Quick. That's not the point. What the point is, that early one evening I was able to fi...
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[10:42:55] <exec> 08└─That's what Palemoon actually _did_. If you think a fork would be good, lend some labor or perhaps give some money to Palemoon's open source effort.
[10:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:57] <exec> 08└─Because we've learned from Microsoft's forced upgrades from WinXP into Win7 and then from Win7 into Win10, that the best way to not have the old version out there in the wild is to remove anything surrounding it that is of value and that helps to keep it alive. Everyone must upgrade, the borg say so...
[10:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:32] <exec> 08└─His real name is Ryan. Jack Ryan.
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[11:41:23] <exec> 08└─I see! That IS a problem. Hmmmm...
[11:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:36] <exec> 08└─Buy this for $240, https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Paint pins with nanofiber technology Profit Or run a indegogo...
[11:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this guy has been Wong his entire life.
[11:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:39] <exec> 08└─Ask McAfee if it's a good idea to be a rich foreigner in Belize.
[11:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:41] <exec> 08└─Thunderf00t's done many vids on various products that were just looking for a bit of investment, and making the same general promises. E.g. from this playlist, all the following vids seem to be about water from air: https://www.youtube.com https://www...
[11:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:03] <exec> 08└─Electric cars, some jetplanes, electronic stores, any computer store, any place that gets a tesla powerwall... Lithium batteries has been around for decades, and they actually are quite safe unless you try to do insane things (like agressivly cut costs, push them to their limits, puncture them, run...
[11:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:04] <exec> 08└─A Chinese cell phone kiosk?
[11:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:56] <exec> 08└─maybe it's just my config, but: on opensuse, firefox quantum doesn't play "mp4" videos.(*) latest palemoon 28 also doesn't.(*) chromium >=68 also doesn't.(*) however, on the same system, firefox ESR 52.9 and chromium 66 do play *.mp4 inside a html5 video tag (or directly selected). is it just me or...
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[11:42:57] <exec> 08└─The final quoted paragraph explains that it is 'beta', and we all know the community's views on 'Beta', don't we?
[11:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:18] <exec> 08└─I think it's only Dolly Parton that worked 9 to 5, the rest of us normally did 8 to 5 since the company wasn't giving us an hour for lunch for free. That said I have not worked a job like that in over a decade, now it's more like come and work when you want/need as long as the work you are supposed...
[11:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:16] <exec> 08└─How about this lady? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:58] <exec> 08└─Two problems: 1) Our office did at one time have a rule against wearing headphones. Haven't seen it enforced in a couple years, but that's a potential issue. 2) It's not people talking in general that bothers me...I don't mind the noise...it's people talking *to me*. I have no doubt that someone wou...
[11:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:33] <exec> 08└─It wasn't too long ago that in Europe a member of the upper class/Aristocracy could literally run over a commoner in the street with their horse and carriage without any remorse or even a suggestion of legal consequences.
[11:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:34] <exec> 08└─Who's the other one?
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[12:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:27] <exec> 08└─Foisting an abomination like that on the web *should* be a criminal offense.
[12:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:28] <exec> 08└─I see!
[12:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:30] <exec> 08└─As someone with more than one sight inhibited relative, it seems amazing that computing interfaces lag behind. One would hope that *everything* would be visible in a text browser.... (yes, I use links and lynx to probe websites!!!)
[12:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:45] <exec> 08└─Its fine if you stick to the water and beer. In fact, if you had one of these [soylentnews.org], water should be plentiful.
[12:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:10] <exec> 08└─I never owned an Apple device. I have a Samsung Note3 since 2013 and i simply love this phone. Today it is still powerfull enough for 100% of tasks (gaming included, yes) and, always in a protective shell with a proper screen protector (nope, Gorilla Glass my oss, it does scratch) it's like new toda...
[12:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:11] <exec> 08└─But we did it to satisfy your ever-increasing hunger for da juice, little bot!
[12:42:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 388 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:28] <exec> 08└─This is why I think life is reasonably common in the galaxy. It turns out the planet was pretty inhospitable during that period [wikipedia.org] and yet life began anyway. I hope to live long enough to see the results of a trip to Enceladus or Europa which might have a chance of discovering life th...
[12:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:08] <exec> 08└─No, they forked a much too recent version and insisted on porting the subsequent brain damage as well. Plus it's now abandonware.
[12:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:10] <exec> 08└─The other possibility is that I have been involuntarily committed. But that has not happened, so far as I am able to determine.
[12:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:11] <exec> 08└─I just bought some on Amazon for about $75. They are very comfortable. Very quiet. I have not tried wearing them for hours. So that could be a problem I have not anticipated. They are supposed to run for 30 hours, but I have not put that to the test.
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[13:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:44] <exec> 08└─till she discovers heavily javascripted sites...
[13:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:46] <exec> 08└─visually-impaired user is unable to access the same content available to sighted users.
[13:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:48] <exec> 08└─"You must use the absolute latest Firefox, Chrome, or Microsoft Edge. Anything older WILL break. Scripting must be enabled. Ad blockers must be disabled. You must use a huge widescreen monitor. The monitor must be LCD with the same sub-pixel rendering. You must be using Microsoft Windows. We will sc...
[13:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:03] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, not again... same general promises
[13:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:05] <exec> 08└─Got just enough water? Got a good rainforest going? Kiss all that goodbye, now you've got those bozos in the desert stealing all your rain.
[13:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:31] <exec> 08└─Replaceability not likely to have prevented this fire, nor given someone the ability to do anything once a problem manifest. Li batteries go up in flames very fast. But still, law should require Li battery replaceability. At least you might notice if a battery is bulging. But even then maybe we need...
[13:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:53] <exec> 08└─It drives me crazy to see declaritive article titles that seem to state as fact what is only conjecture and hypothesis. There is no scientific proof to back up this idea, it's just the brainchild of a couple researches who did some statistical analysis using a known flawed dating concept. The "molec...
[13:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:29] <exec> 08└─It has been clear to anyone who isn't blind and deaf that Mozilla is in the terminal stages of SJW infestation
[13:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:30] <exec> 08└─Plus it's now abandonware.
[13:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:51] <exec> 08└─Go to IMDB. Look up movie called "9 to 5". Look at leading stars in that movie. It is a bit dated now. No cell phones. Typewriters. Obvious gender roles. But otherwise the same executives walking over the worker's backs that you would recognize today. And its very funny. Especially the Skinny & Swee...
[13:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have not attempted the self employment route myself but I have heard the same thing you are talking about. Forget 40 hour work weeks, you'll likely be doing 60-80 hours easily on your own business but being your own boss is often worth it I hear. Also, many times the extra time is spent on s...
[13:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:53] <exec> 08└─How in the world is this a troll?
[13:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:38] <exec> 08└─The activity that they observed (and assume is beneficial to health) is people snatching some time away from the stress of the open office. When I was in one I took a 10 minute walk around the grounds mid-morning and mid-afternoon (ie during work time) to de-stress my. Fortunately my place had groun...
[13:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:32] <exec> 08└─Why dont states just pass their own laws about it?
[13:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:33] <exec> 08└─There's also the fact -- which is part of this lawsuit and mentioned right at the top of TFS -- that the FCC has already stated that such laws are also illegal. Either the FCC is overstepping their authority and trying to coerce states into obeying rules that they have no right to make in the first...
[13:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:35] <exec> 08└─Ha! I had 386 printed on fridge magnets and gave several of them to friends.
[13:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:21] <exec> 08└─But, once in a while, the temptation is huge.
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[14:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:22] <exec> 08└─Is this really a big deal? This is very similar China's data localization requirements and all of the big tech companies complied. If you want to do business in <insert name of country here> then you have to comply with their laws no matter how worrisome those laws may be. Either give up on the mark...
[14:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, but India is a democratic country, so lobbying and a bit of trade pressure should result in more relaxed business conditions. (grin)
[14:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:38] <exec> 08└─> You must use the absolute latest You actually want that too, unless you are really into being hacked. Plus supporting older IE and its rebranded version (Edge) is like walking on lava. Ok, newer ones could also die in a fire as well.
[14:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:57] <exec> 08└─Vaporator is what atmospheric moisture harvesters are called in the Star Wars universe. Perhaps you're thinking of vaporizers, which exist in our reality? Or, with your "That's no X, it's..." phrasing, perhaps you're just making a bad joke?
[14:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:58] <exec> 08└─Why exclude the dust, unless it's clogging your collection membrane of course. Just don't disturb the silt on the bottom of the tank while scooping out your water.
[14:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:00] <exec> 08└─that's ok, there's a tiny violin for everyone downstream of those dams that keep getting built, too.
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:49] <exec> 08└─My name is LUCA and I live on the second floor I live upstairs from you
[14:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:27] <exec> 08└─What is going on with that "I want attention" font of yours? Are you like, the red site version of creimer from the green site?
[14:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:28] <exec> 08└─The developers had said they were moving to Basilisk, an Australis based fork, for new development. So did the future of palemoon change, or have they just finalized the release of the most recent dev branch?
[14:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:45] <exec> 08└─where did this 'throwing shade' term come from? it seems to be hip and cool to disparage someone disparaging someone by using that phrase. i have noticed an uptick in its use in mainstream news sites, which means it is either common now, or will soon be abandoned by the cool kids that made it up bec...
[14:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:54] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Coward does not know that children start classes at a specified time. Anonymous Coward will argue that then children should also be able to have flexible time. Anonymous Coward does not understand child/adult autonomy. Anonymous Coward is perfect There AC, you win!
[14:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:54] <exec> 08└─I agree with you - I've redressed that mod by adding my own.
[14:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:56] <exec> 08└─We have no idea how much it cost the Russians to mount any campaign. I'm not arguing whether they did or did not - but you cannot claim: Russia's "contribution" to the election was negligible.
[14:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're right. I DON'T know how much or how little the Russians invested. I do know, however, that Facebook and others have "exposed" piddling amounts of money investment. Had Russia spent billions, we might expect that we would have found a lot more than we have found. Unless we are just that...
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[15:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed, great news. I have a Windows machine largely because of the few games I play, but all of them are on Steam so I look forward to dumping Windows even for games. Thanks a million Valve!
[15:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:41] <exec> 08└─I mean, really. What's the eradication of tens of millions of acres of arable and grazable lands between friends?
[15:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:43] <exec> 08└─We'll either master desalination, or we'll see a lot of people dying off. All we need is cold fusion so we can evaporate, condense, and pump trillions of gallons of water, cheaply.
[15:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:45] <exec> 08└─All we need is cold fusion
[15:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:47] <exec> 08└─ROLLEYES Isn't hot fusion like a bomb? Or, like that whole global warming thing?
[15:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:57] <exec> 08└─But we are the USA - we have the right to rape whoever's data we choose. That is why we voted Chump!
[15:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:58] <exec> 08└─Damned Americans, always meddling in India's internal affairs. They're worse than Russia!!
[15:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:00] <exec> 08└─Circle the wagons! The Indians are coming! No, the real Indians! Some them even have H-1B visas!
[15:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:03] <exec> 08└─But India is starting to feel its balls under Modi. What is his take on US forced sanctions against Iran by the way? MIGA!
[15:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:05] <exec> 08└─But India is starting to feel its balls... under Modi... MIGA!
[15:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:07] <exec> 08└─Either give up on the market or give up control of the data, the choice is yours.
[15:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jlv [3756] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:23] <exec> 08└─Reading the PDF of the complaint helps to highlight some of the abuses the ADA helps foist.
[15:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:25] <exec> 08└─What's the problem? The transcription is trivial, not like they are reciting Shakespeare's sonnets in Swahili. (grin)
[15:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:47] <exec> 08└─Wong's group determined that their polymer membrane could harvest 744 mg/cm2/h, which is 91 percent higher than similarly designed membranes without these nanofibers.
[15:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:49] <exec> 08└─Stuff like Waterseer pull in millions for a scam that was going to magically pull water from air in arid climates... where there is almost no water vapor. Or Fontus, the self filling waterbottle, which was so obviously impossible that anyone with a basic understanding of physics could debunk. Just g...
[15:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:51] <exec> 08└─Just the energy to power the fans to pump enough air through the thing would be better spent on trucks filled with water.
[15:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:02] <exec> 08└─For scale, this is about the same lifetime as a Cubesat in ~300km circular orbit.
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:44] <exec> 08└─Poor battered, abused Luca. No one appreciates her. In fact, we've all but forgotten about her, and she had to be "rediscovered" in TFA.
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:46] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Someone has to point out what should be obvious. The list of "known facts" that aren't really known facts goes on and on. Astronomy, human prehistory, evolution, global warming, on and on and on . . .
[15:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:48] <exec> 08└─I'm having trouble parsing this sentence, because to me it means exactly the opposite of what is suggested: "The basic idea is that the more mutations two species share, the more time has passed since their evolutionary paths diverged." In fact the more two species differ, the more time has passed.
[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:50] <exec> 08└─"My name is Inigo Montoya, You Killed my Father! Prepare to Die!"--The Princess Bride, a few times in succession.
[15:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:30] <exec> 08└─"BGTOW"? Never encountered that acronym before, and Google returned dozens of definitions. Care to take a moment and educate those like myself who have no clue what your talking about?
[15:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:31] <exec> 08└─No, I haven't tried WaterFox yet. I shall go search for it now & give it a try. Thank you for the pointer.
[15:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:33] <exec> 08└─Stop trolling this thread. What does this have to do with Pale Moon? UXP will be the long-term future for Pale Moon. As such, we need something (an application) to develop this alongside our current browser platform and back-end. Eventually, Pale Moon will become a "UXP application", just like Basil...
[15:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:35] <exec> 08└─Or you can do what I do. Use whatever works. I can't tell you how much crud I have backed up over the years, that I never touched again. Except to look at occasionally and delete or think, man I should get rid of some of that junk. The only things I care about backing up anymore are things I've crea...
[15:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:37] <exec> 08└─I blame Google Chrome for "The Pile Of Elephant Dropping Menu." And / or anyone who thought such design was "good."
[15:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:39] <exec> 08└─I'm still running Version 52 ESR, 52.5.0 to be exact, seems to be stumbling along OK. When I check Help|About, it offers to update to 52.9.0, maybe I'll do that before 52 support ends. A few times over the last years, composing/editing in Gmail has started to act a little erratic, and updating Firef...
[15:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:56] <exec> 08└─Work switched from a roll your own solution IP phones to Skype integrated IP Phones a while ago. Other than that, the one or two people I had Skype to talk with, switched to Link.
[15:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─> ..lent a 75 cc motor scooter for a Summer ... So you were the slow poke I was stuck behind on CA Rt 1 for all those frustrating miles(grin).
[15:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:25] <exec> 08└─In a fair competition, google wouldn't stand a chance against other companies made by the people themselves. The system is rigged in their favor. Pay attention to where google came from. It will tell you where it is going.
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[16:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:24] <exec> 08└─Best thing since mono, ehh? We need moar Microsoft on our Linux machines! How long til we see Office365 for Linux?
[16:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:26] <exec> 08└─Hopefully this helps bring games that were developed in Vulkan to actually run in Linux when the developers just randomly decided not to support Linux for some stupid reason. (looking at you Doom 2016...) I'm also hoping the Proton version of Wine that Valve is developing might not open the Linux pa...
[16:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:28] <exec> 08└─How long til we see Office365 for Linux?
[16:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:30] <exec> 08└─Remember a few years ago when Oracle made that ridiculous lawsuit saying the API to java was copyrightable, and won? Until this very point, WINE has not been a technology that did much besides make shipping MS-only products a safer business choice, except where hobbyists were concerned. Microsoft ma...
[16:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, God! It's over! MSOffice on Linux! We're subverted! We're doomed! It's the end of all life as we know it!
[16:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:34] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one that thinks the full benefits of this remain to be seen? We already had Wine and a large community of enthusiasts striving to get games working under it with sites like WineHQ. DX9 support was pretty good which a lot of games still support. What we really gain from this will depend...
[16:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:37] <exec> 08└─various gnu/linux interests need to get together on this and make wine (or a different project) completely transparent to the end user. you should install the package and then be able to run windows applications without a bunch of config or needing a wine gui. also, isolate whatever it runs so it ca...
[16:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, I am a little concerned about this too. A huge issue is support from developers... especially big monstrous corporate entities. They do not want to provide support... even for windows. And lets face it, the second you say you are running on Linux through WINE is the second most companies s...
[16:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:41] <exec> 08└─I knew I shouldn't be hopeful.
[16:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:51] <exec> 08└─Isn't hot fusion like a bomb?
[16:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:06] <exec> 08└─I find it incredibly ironic that said companies are 'pushing back' against these regulations. If they had done a better of respecting privacy, rather than demonstrable running roughshod over it whenever it was convenient for them, then this wouldn't be happening. But the fact is, tech companies trea...
[16:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─There are actually long-term support versions of browsers available, so its number might appear old but it gets all the security fixes: https://www.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] too bad the only way to find it is to know it already exists.
[16:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:26] <exec> 08└─That is the larger part of the problem. There are many special purpose browser offshoots that look "older" even though they are "up to date". Of course there are also some times that one MUST use an older browser or some task simply can NOT be done. While keeping software patched is one part of the...
[16:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:52] <exec> 08└─Air already dry in the desert. What kind of ecological impact would using something like this have, if used extensively? Or is it really, a drop in the bucket so to speak, and not something to worry about?
[16:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:02] <exec> 08└─That "Human Computer" guy, you refer to. Was probably a Woman. https://www.history.com [history.com] Also, specifically relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "Wartime computing and the invention of electronic computing Human compute...
[16:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:21] <exec> 08└─You value that replaceable battery very highly. I prioritize a software design that isn't made to spy on me 24-7 and that actually works smoothly. My iPhone is as old as your Samsung and on its original battery--mind you, battery time has dropped quite a bit.
[16:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imax and Google Have Put Their VR Camera Project on Hold - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:30] <exec> 08└─VR is hard to get right. What's more, it's expensive, and you've gotta strap a giant thing to your face. It's just not as convenient as sitting in front of a screen to view something. I am a little sad to see something like that being paused, possibly indefinitely, but I do have hopes for an awesome...
[16:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:50] <exec> 08└─If only the list of your known ignorance didn't go on and on. As a former professional biologist, I know that evolution is a fact.
[16:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:51] <exec> 08└─What you know are some facts, but you can't prove, or reproduce evolution, now can you? Go ahead, evolve us some mastodons. That would go a long way toward convincing all of us that you *really* understand evolution. And, no fair trying to clone a mastodon from some well-preserved DNA. You gotta evo...
[16:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:39] <exec> 08└─Its not supposed to be human readable.
[16:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:41] <exec> 08└─Does anyone find it somewhat ironic that the only thing slowing a computer (at least in my case) to the point i think it is slow and needs to be replaced is the web going slow? But we are a consumption based society and the web is for consuming en mass. I could have a 10 year old computer that can s...
[16:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:43] <exec> 08└─Browsers going their own way?
[16:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:00] <exec> 08└─skype "light"... Really, that's all we need.
[16:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:38] <exec> 08└─Your articles are interesting - especially from the National Review. But I question the validity of the statistics they used. One of the things that caused a public outcry after the Michael Brown shooting was the statistics that came out of Ferguson: "Ferguson’s population is 67% African American,...
[16:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:40] <exec> 08└─Everyone understood the right is both an individual right for the first 200 years and knew they'd be ridiculed as a dunce if they said something different, so there was no need for a high court to take up the matter as it didn't arise. The Constitutional convention wasn't a mythical event. We have t...
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[17:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:22] <exec> 08└─Anyone recommends something from that list? I guess I could use more things to read after I finish Red Mars trilogy.
[17:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:23] <exec> 08└─Don't dig too deep into the sci-fi & fantasy publishing and awards world. Kind of like the old saying, "don't fight with stupid people".
[17:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:26] <exec> 08└─I curious too, if someone here can actually recommend a single book on this year's Hugo list?
[17:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:28] <exec> 08└─Personally, I've been rather addicted to the Spinward Fringe series by Randolph Lalonde.
[17:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:30] <exec> 08└─Also, if I remember right, one or two of the books in the series are available for free on the Nook platform. I also, highly recommend any of the Nook E-Readers (Not the tablets, but those are ok too.), except for the original (The weird one with a LCD Screen and E-Ink Screen.).
[17:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:32] <exec> 08└─I was exposed to Spinward Fringe on Kindle, when they offered it free. Can't remember definitely, think I got books 1 through 3 for free, the rest are on offer at reduced prices. I read the free ones. Pretty good story.
[17:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:34] <exec> 08└─Also, the Terran Republic Series by Charles E. Gannon. This one got me hooked: https://www.baen.com [baen.com] If you want an interesting read, read the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book. If you want to delve into the mind of an Atheist, read the rest of the series.
[17:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:36] <exec> 08└─Best novel: The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers Death’s End by Cixin Liu Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palme So which one of those was the Sad Puppies choice? Or in any other ca...
[17:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:38] <exec> 08└─*no comment*
[17:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:41] <exec> 08└─I may look at the list. But, I'm put off by TFS. All I see is gloating that men have been kicked out, and women have taken over. At a guess, none of them are half the woman that LeGuin was. Other old skool female authors didn't need this support group nonsense either. And, oh yeah. Aristarchus sub....
[17:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:43] <exec> 08└─Way back when awards like Hugo and Nebula were created more or less as half publicity, half politics. Scifi was generally regarded as pulpy trash for kids, not real literature, so the publishers and authors and fans put their heads together and created awards to give it all an aura of, at least, res...
[17:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:45] <exec> 08└─Cixin Liu is good. I have no reservations about his work. He could be the next Asimov or Clarke.
[17:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:47] <exec> 08└─First heard about it on Scalzi's website [scalzi.com], googled it, and it doesn't sound interesting. But winning 3 times in a row is an acheivement. Anyone read it? Is it any good? Disclaimer. A few years back I decided to read all the novels nominated for that years Hugo or Nebula awards, don't rem...
[17:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:07] <exec> 08└─Anything that helps provide another option to Windows is good for everyone. In some ways Valve is placing themselves in a typical console manufacturer's role as it related to online distribution of games. They can act as a certification authority for compatibility with Linux and their version if Win...
[17:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:08] <exec> 08└─Valve? It's not like WINE did not exist before this.
[17:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:10] <exec> 08└─It is also an option to kill native Linux gaming. Because, why bother porting, just run through this and pray.
[17:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:12] <exec> 08└─WINE does not care about isolation. On the contrary, they want to "invade" host system at every opportunity. That menubuilder.exe was a total disaster, with files opened in notepad and "IE" running on HTML pages.
[17:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:15] <exec> 08└─A licensing fee more like it.
[17:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─Actually, the tokomak is a lot like a bomb. They fire it up, let it run briefly, then shut it down so that it doesn't run away from them. They haven't figured out how to contain the fire for extended periods of time. A quick search suggests that China has maintained a tokomak reaction for a whopping...
[17:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:27] <exec> 08└─So what about the supposed global warming precipitation rise? Warmer air, higher moisture content, and thus (especially topographically/orographically created) more precipitation. That means more rain in the summers, more snow in the winters. What about storage to help contain this precipitation div...
[17:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:46] <exec> 08└─"Last week, India's IT minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said he had asked Amazon to set up servers in the country, to comply with the localisation requirements." oh, well everything's fine then...this just illustrates what kind of stupid/arrogant whores the people of the world are dealing with. like t...
[17:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:05] <exec> 08└─the only thing i "require"(test with) out of your list is a new-ish browser. yes, a high percentage of web agencies do the stuff you list. unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of internet users are ignorant and lazy, so small shops that do things better are largely ignored.
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:34] <exec> 08└─What kind of ecological impact would using something like this have, if used extensively?
[17:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:35] <exec> 08└─there is no way such a device could be made portable.
[17:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:37] <exec> 08└─Should have gone straight to crowdfunding
[17:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:39] <exec> 08└─Or he knows how to get free advertising.
[17:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:50] <exec> 08└─Off your meds? On crack? Psychological breakdown?
[17:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:12] <exec> 08└─Replaceability not likely to have prevented this fire, nor given someone the ability to do anything once a problem manifest. Li batteries go up in flames very fast.
[17:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:32] <exec> 08└─try linux. networking comes from its core :)
[17:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is there isn't always something that works. I've lost some old add-ons that have been discontinued, and I can't find anything equivalent. The old Cookie Monster add-on for cookie control, for instance. Yes, there are a lot of cookie add-ons, but none of them offer the same level of granu...
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:35] <exec> 08└─I regard it as a fundamental right of every computer user to consciously decide whether to install updates.
[17:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:54] <exec> 08└─For all of history, communicating across any non-trivial network has always run the risk of interception. You can still plan a revolution with your neighbor with a string and two yogurt pots. Or encrypt your own packets on your HP calculator before typing them into the evil spy computer OS. It'd be...
[17:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:55] <exec> 08└─It's a phrase from the African-American vernacular (ebonics). Similar meaning and usage to "throwing salt". There may be a biblical origin, but I'm not sure. "Selling wolf tickets" is my favorite ebonic phrase (same as "crying wolf").
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skype Now Offers End-to-End Encrypted Conversations - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─communicating across any non-trivial network has always run the risk of interception.
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[18:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:17] <exec> 08└─The grant, and presumably her research, was going to end in a couple months anyway. I'm not a scientist but I'm guessing she's done everything but write up the results by now. What a waste to give her to boot when the hardest, most expensive part is done. What the problem with not funding her in the...
[18:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:19] <exec> 08└─Their policy defines bullying as a misuse of power that can make people feel vulnerable, upset, humiliated, undermined or threatened. It says harassment is unwanted physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating someone else's dignity, or creating an intimidating,...
[18:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:41] <exec> 08└─That's what I'm thinking. Anybody else like that out there now, or just soft mushy pretend-SF? Am still doing old SF, plenty there there.
[18:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:42] <exec> 08└─Space Raptor Butt Invasion won every Hugo, forever. They just haven't realized it yet.
[18:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:44] <exec> 08└─Ok, if not the winners, how about any of the nominees?
[18:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:46] <exec> 08└─* Politicized once top rated websites that no one visits anymore Alexa rank V Decrease 6408
[18:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:49] <exec> 08└─The only book I read by Cixin Liu is "The three body problem" and that was excellent! A bit hard to follow at times, but a great read; if his other books have the same standard, they must be good too.
[18:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:51] <exec> 08└─I've edited Aristarchus' submission, it is more about the awards rather than the alt-right aspect now, and I have included a 2nd source to give the story balance. Try reading the linked articles.
[18:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:53] <exec> 08└─I'm genuinely curious what the "religion" is that you're saying has been merely "displaced". What do the "muddy peasants" want? I'm only reading this comment section in the hopes that the anti-SJW crowd around here, by virtue of being more literate than the average anti-SJW, would explain this. Ever...
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:55] <exec> 08└─I only skimmed, but I didn't see any gloating and nothing at all about men being kicked out and women taking over. My guess is you're other posts on here of "I read some of their stuff, well the free stuff, and it was ok" is this story's equivalent of "One of my good friends is black!" The sad truth...
[18:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:57] <exec> 08└─I've edited Aristarchus' submission,
[18:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:23] <exec> 08└─Is there any chance that windows only CADCAM will be made more Linux compatible by this?
[18:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:24] <exec> 08└─And lets face it, the second you say you are running on Linux through WINE is the second most companies say that you are on a unsupported platform and close the issue.
[18:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─why bother porting, just run through this and pray.
[18:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─On MY computer? Another 200 years. By then I doubt I'll be in any condition to install it.
[18:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:31] <exec> 08└─Mesa is adding compatibility profiles for opengl >4 (at least on AMD cards) , so yes... they could start working ... the major problem could be any DRM, as some of then use undocumented shit to try to impose the DRM... wine may or may not have already workaround for those, but you will need to test
[18:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:33] <exec> 08└─*WINDOWS* can't even do that for Windows software. The thing to keep in mind about Wine is that it supports a hell of a lot more Windows software than Windows does these days. You can run Win95 programs all the way up to Win10 programs. Microsoft's got their little "compatibility mode" toy, which as...
[18:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:35] <exec> 08└─Vulkan ... if they start to use vulkan, the remaining is lot easier to port or for wine to support... but better, this may make developer break the windows prision and test/develop on another platforms, so increasing the portability of the code and the linux port could end being mostly free, you jus...
[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:37] <exec> 08└─I tried several games last night through this feature, both supported and unsupported on Mint and SteamOS... The supported worked great, the unsupported I had about a 70% success rate (didn't try any huge AAA games though)...
[18:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:52] <exec> 08└─Umm, not quite how that works buddy. Unless you create some feedback loop so the reaction can sustain itself then there really isn't much danger. Worst case you destroy some of the lab, but this isn't like that stupid Spiderman movie where a miniature sun literally starts rolling around the city.
[18:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:54] <exec> 08└─could impact water supplies
[18:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─Data localisation is not just a business concern, it potentially makes government surveillance easier, which is a worry.
[18:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:15] <exec> 08└─Localization means opening up a data centre in India, restraining it with Indian laws (good for government) and creating some permanent local technical jobs probably in remote areas like in himalayas which are cold (good for the image of government). There is no room for logic here, except to have s...
[18:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:37] <exec> 08└─does pornhub have an erotic literature section?
[18:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:07] <exec> 08└─Oh there are many designs which allow you to fold a large area in a smaller size, it's just that your collection efficiency will drop dramatically if you do. An important tidbit about passive moisture collectors is that they are very much like solar panels in that the most efficient design is a larg...
[18:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:09] <exec> 08└─Curiously, I thought that as well, but doing the math proved otherwise, as long as you rely on the wind that is. At air water content of 8g/m^3 (typical for deserts), even a moderate breeze of 5km/h will shift impressive amounts of air for you. The amount of air that a wind trap can capture is rough...
[18:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─If the water were used to grow plants/forests, the effect on the local environment could be quite dramatic.
[18:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:43] <exec> 08└─It probably only made the news because it happened in an Apple shop.
[18:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Exploding' iPad Battery Prompts Apple Shop Evacuation - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:44] <exec> 08└─Lithium batteries .... are quite safe unless you try to do insane things (like agressivly cut costs, push them to their limits, puncture them, run them in non-secured containers or hand them to untrained people)
[18:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:07] <exec> 08└─> Sometimes new just means less useful. Usually new just means less useful. FTFY...at least for the case of consumer-type software.
[18:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:09] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing this decision has absolutely nothing to do with SJWs,
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:11] <exec> 08└─Still have a couple of old ThinkPads (T61 and T42) running Win XP and they are perfectly functional, MS-Office 97 runs pretty darn fast and if there are any bugs in Office I must have learned to work around them. I update MalwareBytes and AVG every now and then, never used the MS anti-virus stuff. S...
[18:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:47] <exec> 08└─Electric Universe A theory so powerful it actually reverses the flow of time which is how it's proponents are able to work backwards from their conclusions.
[18:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:44] <exec> 08└─My family is in my heart. Not some coding job. Just out of curiosity, are you single? I know I might sound like a dick by stating my preference like that, but do ANY of these workaholics have children?
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[19:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, they would be bullying you and these abuses are the problem with "anti-bullying" programs.
[19:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:19] <exec> 08└─a misuse of power that can make people feel vulnerable, upset, humiliated, undermined or threatened
[19:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:21] <exec> 08└─What the problem with not funding her in the future?
[19:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:23] <exec> 08└─Is it bullying to threaten to withdraw a scientist's funding? (Especially for research that could have a negative impact on clean coal.) Is it possible for anti bullying policies to be bullying? (Extra credit for writing an anti bullying policy that qualifies as bullying under the anti bullying poli...
[19:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:26] <exec> 08└─The hard part is writing one that doesn't.
[19:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:28] <exec> 08└─I know nothing about this case but don't forget that people have started to call those who try to reproduce their research "bullies". http://www.slate.com [slate.com]
[19:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:30] <exec> 08└─HIPPA was the "hot topic" of 2005-6 (and still is in certain circles), but back around then I knew a researcher doc who got his funding and all association with a particular university cut off by a disgruntled ex research assistant over HIPPA violations. Seems that the research assistant (behind the...
[19:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:32] <exec> 08└─>negative impact on clean coal. No such animal exists
[19:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, I hardly recognize it, and am surprised my name is still on it!
[19:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 2206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:04] <exec> 08└─The only real position I've been able to glean from the sad puppy supporters is basically a mimicry of the social vs. hard sciences discrimination that tends to float around here. A lot of the new sci fi, supposedly especially the stuff written by women, is about character development and society an...
[19:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:06] <exec> 08└─You have to ask why a "diversity hire" [urbandictionary.com] shouldn't get recognition? Human societies respect and reward achievement, not immutable characteristics, identity politics or virtue signaling literary bourgeoisie. After years of turning their noses at sci-fi, the leftist literati are no...
[19:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:08] <exec> 08└─Politics is just the aggregate actions of human opinion. Every award is political, but at least the Hugo Awards are more democratic than most http://www.thehugoawards.org [thehugoawards.org] One might argue that the Sad Puppies just "got out the vote" as it were, and while there is s...
[19:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:10] <exec> 08└─"leftist literati" heh, crazy bastard confirmed perhaps you have not heard but racism and sexism are pretty massive topics across the whole planet, only recently have they begun to be addressed in popular culture like scifi writing now going to dictate to the audience what good science fiction is?
[19:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:44] <exec> 08└─What host system? Wine is not an emulator. It's an API. An interface. Providing access to the system is its very purpose.
[19:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:45] <exec> 08└─How about speed?
[19:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:48] <exec> 08└─The time is now. I just installed a VM instance of Manjaro 17 Xfce, this week, and was surprised to see that it included six JSON files for pieces of Office 365.
[19:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:50] <exec> 08└─If this helps get Windows market share down and Linux market share up, then developers will eventually have an incentive to target Linux natively. SteamOS hasn't amounted to much yet, and I'm not sure it ever will. ChromeOS is much more common but is not oriented towards gaming. Maybe Google will tr...
[19:43:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:40] <exec> 08└─"You must use the absolute latest Firefox, Chrome, or Microsoft Edge. Anything older WILL break. Scripting must be enabled. Ad blockers must be disabled. You must use a huge widescreen monitor. The monitor must be LCD with the same sub-pixel rendering. You must be using Microsoft Windows. We will sc...
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[19:45:40] <exec> 08└─"Version 52 ESR is probably a very reasonable candidate version to use for the baseline code to go in the fork but parts of it should probably be reverted." I'm not sure how you determined that but it strikes me as dangerously wrong. I'd suggest forking from 3.6.28 and then backporting anything of v...
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─is it just me or what kind of water-shed moment just happend?
[19:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 2074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─And your evidence supporting any of this is what, exactly? Because as far as I can tell, what you are trying to imply without explicitly stating (because if you don't flat-out say it, you must not be bigoted) is "Straight white guys are simply the best at programming, anyone else is inferior, and we...
[19:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:45] <exec> 08└─I'll ask the nurse.
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[20:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:20] <exec> 08└─So, we throttled the Fire Department during a Fire so some rich SOB could teleconference? \ Geez...
[20:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:22] <exec> 08└─Verizon said a mistake had been made. However, it highlighted that the fire department had subscribed to a contract that stated data throughput would be cut after a usage limit had been hit.
[20:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:24] <exec> 08└─The complaint to me seems like it was speed and not about connection, did the firefighters ever lose their connection? Unlimited uptime!
[20:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah I had the same thought. This easily becomes an avenue for abuse. That said, don't make too much out of it. This is just how societies work. Hopefully the Trust continues to do investigations and doesn't just yank funding based on accusations, and until then there is no reason to cry foul.
[20:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, I was worried when I read Now the UK biomedical charity which funded Ms Rahman's research has decided to act earlier, and pulled her funding.
[20:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:45] <exec> 08└─Is incarceration for criminal conviction a crime?
[20:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─Have you heard of the word: "context"? People often like to pretend that they haven't when it suits them. Perhaps you just have a zero tolerance rule for zero tolerance rules.
[20:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─Depends on the intentions behind it. Someone always looking over your shoulder can be intimidating. Taking things out of context, making a big deal out of small errors, insisting you file extra TPS reports, insinuating that you can't be trusted, etc.
[20:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:52] <exec> 08└─Where do you draw the line for allowable amounts of abuse of subordinates?
[20:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:54] <exec> 08└─Being put in a position of power and authority over another is a huge enabler of this kind of abuse: the bullying, humiliation, sexual harassment, racism, and all kinds of prejudice in general. We keep constructing hierarchic organizations for people and jamming scientists into that. We shouldn't, b...
[20:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:56] <exec> 08└─Speaking as an academic, does failing students working on the project when they've clearly demonstrated to be utterly incapable count here? There's plenty of students that seem to consider sitting around during class should be sufficient for passing it and they are quite willing to file complaints w...
[20:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:58] <exec> 08└─There are two kinds of people: 1. Those who love hierarchy such as management, marketing, sales, accounting, policies, vogons, etc. 2. Those who are artists, scientists, engineers, mathematicians, software developers, musicians, etc. Reminds me of the old "two kinds of people" joke.
[20:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:01] <exec> 08└─A top geneticist has lost her funding based on bullying allegations, reports Nature.
[20:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:03] <exec> 08└─Victims of the convicted criminal probably think incarceration is a good thing.
[20:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:05] <exec> 08└─Which animal doesn't exist? The negative impact? Or the clean coal?
[20:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 4704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:42] <exec> 08└─When I was a teen, I was happy to assume that if it was published, it must be good. I stuck to the SF/Fantasy genre because that's what I liked. Nothing wrong with regular fiction, I just liked SF/Fantasy more. Also, I wasn't as critical, and at $1.95 to $2.50 in 1980 (I know, paperbacks used to be...
[20:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:44] <exec> 08└─I used to take the Hugo awards, and all the nominees, as solid recommendations. About 15-20 years ago, the general quality of the nominees and winners started to decline. For the past 10 years or so, I look at them as authors to be avoided. I haven't read Jemisin's novels, but I did suffer through a...
[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:46] <exec> 08└─perhaps you have not heard but racism and sexism are pretty massive topics across the whole planet, only recently have they begun to be addressed in popular culture like scifi writing
[20:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:48] <exec> 08└─Blarg, here I go posting without reading all the comments again. You pretty much pre-hit all the points I made.
[20:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:50] <exec> 08└─Like the previous couple of years, women almost completely swept the awards.
[20:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─My edited article submission is much better now! I demand this outrage stop!
[20:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:30] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I wonder why AMD cards. Running Mastercam and Solidworks basically mandates an Nvidia Quadro card. Now I'm thinking back to when any serious CADCAM software came with a Unix box designed for it. Today most professional grade CAD and all professional grade CAM that I know of is Windows only, exc...
[20:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:05] <exec> 08└─Situations like this, I have to imagine the real reason to get rid of backwards-compatibility is so that people can't continue using the old stuff while calling the new stuff out as being the steaming pile of shit that it is. I recall that when they rolled out Australis, the #1 most popular add-on t...
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[21:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:31] <exec> 08└─I never saw the appeal of memorization of a huge number of multi-key commands. In the DOS days, when GUI editors weren't an option, I did use Brief (by Underware) and loved it - never have seen any editor do rectangular block copy as well - it had multiple windowing and basically everything you coul...
[21:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:32] <exec> 08└─The whole point is to communicate your desires to a machine, and what this machine does well is precise repetition. Yet, for some strange reason, a large number of people find it appealing to use a communication device with a single button (and some sense of imprecise location). I, for one, find it...
[21:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:34] <exec> 08└─Emac FTW!!!! ;-)
[21:41:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:43] <exec> 08└─Verizon said a mistake had been made. However, it highlighted that the fire department had subscribed to a contract that stated data throughput would be cut after a usage limit had been hit.
[21:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:46] <exec> 08└─The throttling happened after a data limit was reached, therefore I postulate that substantial data was being used before the wild fires hit, therefore I further postulate that the Fire chief was getting "hot" with his data before any ignition occurred. Or maybe not, but quite possible.
[21:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:49] <exec> 08└─Verizon said a mistake had been made...
[21:41:50] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:51] <exec> 08└─the fire department had subscribed to a contract that stated data throughput would be cut after a usage limit had been hit.
[21:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:53] <exec> 08└─You speak of a data limit, on a plan that was unlimited. For a large Verizon price I will sell you a 2 liter bottle containing an infinite amount of Diet Coke. But then AT&T would say I stole their idea.
[21:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:55] <exec> 08└─Yep, unlimited should be unlimited. OTOH who doesn't know that Verizon has no such thing as an unlimited plan? That any and all plans are subject to throttling and restriction? Does anybody competent not know this? (And yep, I'm running a No True Scotsman risk, but I think it's justified in this cas...
[21:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:57] <exec> 08└─I'm glad someone else said it. Fault lies with who ever failed to vet the terms of service associated with a life critical service. Verizon sucks. Verizon should have immediately given the fire department unrestricted access and told them to work out the details later. But the details are to have th...
[21:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:28] <exec> 08└─Trying to get everyone on the same page can result in tearing that page.
[21:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:29] <exec> 08└─Intentions matter. But the effects matter too. If you accidentally run someone over. Intentions don't matter. Maybe someone thinks they were bullied but the supposed bully was merely having a bad day getting their unit tests to run. Bullying is probably an ongoing thing, not a one time thing. A patt...
[21:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:31] <exec> 08└─Someone will inevitably ask: did they agree to the abuse as a condition of employment? Sort of like a cable tv or ISP or mobile phone "agreement".
[21:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:33] <exec> 08└─She couldn't have been a bully because she's a girl, and a foreigner. I think what happened here is that some males got intimidated by having a brown-skinned female boss and played the bullying card to effect some change. Sort of SJW judo.
[21:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:36] <exec> 08└─All authority makes me feel vulnerable and threatened. ANARCHY!!!
[21:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:38] <exec> 08└─She couldn't have been a bully... she's a girl, and a foreigner. I think what happened here is that some males got intimidated [and performed] SJW judo.
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─That's because they're bullies
[21:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:24] <exec> 08└─Looks like my editing was bad. My intent was to challenge you to prove that book X is objectively worse than book Y regardless of whether you think it was written by a "diversity hire". That the author of book X meets the Urban Dictionary definition, especially its negative connotations, is not to b...
[21:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:25] <exec> 08└─You say the Hugos got bad between 10 and 20 years ago. Do you assert that they have been dominated by "progressive politics" for that long? Or could something else be responsible for the shift in Science Fiction that you find distasteful?
[21:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:27] <exec> 08└─African American transexual woman wins three years in a row. What further evidence do you need?
[21:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:29] <exec> 08└─I think this whole situation is quite childish of the puppy supporters, they want the same comfortable enjoyable format they grew up with. The irony is pretty appalling, scifi has always been the genre that pushes cultural boundaries and discusses possibilities for humanity's future.
[21:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should just start handing out participation awards ;)
[21:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:34] <exec> 08└─Well I have to agree that "Poor Sad Puppies, now with extra sadness, and some Proud Boys on the side." is a pretty shitty addition to the summary. However, janrinok tries to remove the controversy by changing the parts you quoted, that is pretty scummy.
[21:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:36] <exec> 08└─From the first book in the trilogy: Perhaps I can help without spoilers. I belong to a small book club, and one member chose this for our last read. It was universally disliked, for being over-long for its limited plot, and for having two unexplained features, one of which was serious enough to be c...
[21:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:38] <exec> 08└─It is a very tired and rehashed debate. If you have honestly not heard the argument, Eric Raymond wrote fairly extensively and precisely about it when it first happened. Most relevant articles here [ibiblio.org] and here [ibiblio.org].
[21:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we can't hurt the feelings of the alt-right folks around here can we? Even though the articles are totally about that topic. BAD EDITOR BAD! Go sit in the corner and think about what you're doing.
[21:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:42] <exec> 08└─but the truth is just that they are on the less popular side of societal evolution.
[21:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Circles Wagons as India Reviews Data Protection Proposals - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:58] <exec> 08└─Permanent local technical jobs in remote areas are a bad idea? Seems like a decent way to get vocational technology education into otherwise disenfranchised populations.
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Flying Pseudo-Satellite Drone Sets New Endurance Record - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:03] <exec> 08└─The cubesat can't be reused, but it goes around the world a lot of times during that span. Different applications.
[21:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla to Remove All Legacy Add-Ons - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:55] <exec> 08└─since that pretty much guarantees you will overlook the best candidates / employees due to factors that have nothing to do with their ability to do the job
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[22:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:42] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you want it to do. If you need to do several different bulk manipulations of a file, vim is the shit. If you need to edit a small config file, use nano. Its the text editor that allows you tell it what to do and not blunder around like a luser.
[22:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:43] <exec> 08└─I've used nothing but vi (usually gvim) for a long time. I can't say I'd recommend vi to someone necessarily, but I do find it's great once you start learning even a little of what it's capable of. As long as I've been using it I'm sure I've barely scratched the surface, but what I do know seems jus...
[22:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:46] <exec> 08└─I do large amounts of writing without looking at the screen. Not possible without key commands. Even things like looking down and scrolling until I get the button to send and email is very annoying when I can do [control]ENTER to send. And ARROW keys are usually so much faster than moving your hand...
[22:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:48] <exec> 08└─"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Ok, there's some truth to that. Remote terminals can have significant lag (but that hasn'...
[22:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:50] <exec> 08└─"If you need to edit a small config file, use nano. Its the text editor that allows you tell it what to do and not blunder around like a luser." Ed has been renamed to nano? Man I can't believe I missed that.
[22:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:52] <exec> 08└─There's a certain religiosity in the Emacs community, promulgated no doubt by Stallman and his FSF. While that religiosity engenders a useful theoretical zeal that is enticing, I find that the Vim community's rough-and-tumble pragmatism are better for getting shit done.
[22:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:54] <exec> 08└─note that vim probably has a better way to do this but a copy operation in vi is like this: move to the first line you want to copy know how many lines you want to copy, call that N while in command mode type in: Ny for example, copying 10 lines is 10y now navigate to the place you want to insert th...
[22:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:56] <exec> 08└─Vim is like SystemD of vi. nvi forever!
[22:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe. Maybe not: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:01] <exec> 08└─And when you're done doing shit, you can always use Emacs to get some work done.
[22:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:03] <exec> 08└─WYSIWYG may be good for quickly learning basic commands, but like LATEX, computers are better suited for the grunt work of formatting. I worked with a physicist at los alamos who was very good with both Tex ad vi. It was impossible to follow him as he reworked his entire paper - just a bunch of scre...
[22:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:05] <exec> 08└─I never saw the appeal of memorization of a huge number of multi-key commands.
[22:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:07] <exec> 08└─If you need to edit a small config file, you probably have a small job editing config files. Some people have grown up jobs
[22:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:09] <exec> 08└─Ed?? What's with this user interface nonsense? Use sed!
[22:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:12] <exec> 08└─What?! Ima volunteer editor to the dwarven news exchange you insensitive clod! Yea its a small job but for grown ups!
[22:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:14] <exec> 08└─Religiosity? Pfah! On an entirely unrelated note, Emacs-Lisp (and Lisp in general) is the one true editor customization, configuration, and extension language.
[22:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:30] <exec> 08└─"Mistakes were made" is an expression that is commonly used as a rhetorical device, whereby a speaker acknowledges that a situation was handled poorly or inappropriately but seeks to evade any direct admission or accusation of responsibility by not specifying the person who made the mistakes. The ac...
[22:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─Unlimited Cosmic Data Limit!!! (itty bitty data pipe) -NetGenie
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─Lives and structures lost because they couldn't get a tweet out?
[22:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:13] <exec> 08└─No, we are talking about people who do sloppy as hell work and have no idea what they are talking about. People who are doing untold harm to animals, patients, society and even civilization by polluting the scientific literature. When its pointed out to them they dont even argue that anythings wrong...
[22:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:15] <exec> 08└─She got accused, she got defunded before she could defend herself, nor present the results of her study. I guess I should have said that but, naive as I am (at 60 no less) to me it was assumed. This whole thing stinks.
[22:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:17] <exec> 08└─I followed the link but did not find the specific allegations in any detail -- just that 45 people signed a letter. It's probably true and all, but so far there is absolutely no meat on this story -- it's just a report that people said she was an abusive boss without providing any detail or examples...
[22:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:19] <exec> 08└─It gets worse than knuckles. For example, unkempt hair can be classified as non-verbal conduct that has the effect creating an intimidating, degrading, environment. Especially pubic hair, but I digress. It's the victim that by feeling intimidated decides if whatever is bullying or not. A wonderful t...
[22:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:21] <exec> 08└─Well we can have anarchy for your sake, use it to snuff you out without legal repercussions and return to the rule of law, so you represent only a temporary problem.
[22:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:23] <exec> 08└─>power is a huge enabler of this kind of abuse True, but you know that power is based either on superior force or superior standing. Standing is social. So, all you need is for the abused to be able to document the abuse and share it. The abuser gets declassed. Equalizing the power, instead, means t...
[22:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:25] <exec> 08└─>and behaves like a good machine. You say that as if it were a negative trait. Stop bullying.
[22:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:28] <exec> 08└─I find people wearing crucifixes makes my environment hostile and offensive. They are trying to bully me into joining their religion or they'll consider me a heathen sinner.
[22:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:22] <exec> 08└─they want the same comfortable enjoyable format they grew up with.
[22:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:23] <exec> 08└─Racism and sexism are sociology things, i.e. "soft science" because they concern feelings, not measurable physical numbers like rock density
[22:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:25] <exec> 08└─perhaps you have not heard but racism and sexism are pretty massive topics across the whole planet, only recently have they begun to be addressed in popular culture like scifi writing
[22:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:27] <exec> 08└─*Whine whine crazy anti-liberal lizard person rant* Sorry was there some actual content buried in your commentary?
[22:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:29] <exec> 08└─Pffft, you are the alt-right poster child of SN so you don't get an opinion here. You ARE the problem.
[22:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the Oscars and Emmys. Those are basically a flat list of "avoid at all costs" with only quite rare exceptions.
[22:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:11] <exec> 08└─Remember a few years ago when Oracle made that ridiculous lawsuit saying the API to java was copyrightable, and won?
[22:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─> Non-windows does not exist. Are you willfully blind to the Apple cult that so many web designers belong to ?
[22:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:46] <exec> 08└─It is normally the forest that actually attracts the water. Following paper was written in 2009 https://academic.oup.com [oup.com] Abstract A new hypothesis suggests that forest cover plays a much greater role in determining rainfall than previously recognized. It...
[22:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:48] <exec> 08└─... better spent on trucks filled with water ...
[22:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:54] <exec> 08└─Evolution has a lot of solid science behind it, there's not a lot of wiggle room for it to be wrong. Climate change on the other hand... that's a political position rather than scientific. Clearly the earths climate has changed radically over it's history, virtually all of which occurred before the...
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[23:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Got a Huge Spike in Internet Users - 1832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:35] <exec> 08└─Science could not even begin to explain it; its attempts to do so had been nothing short of pathetic. Even the world's most renowned scientists, who had conducted numerous rigorous octuple-blind studies in an attempt to solve this cryptic puzzle, had utterly failed. "It," of course, referred to 'The...
[23:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:04] <exec> 08└─do a complex regex replace
[23:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:06] <exec> 08└─That is what I loved about Brief, was keyboard based everything - even window size adjustments. However, much of that was due to the limited nature of EVERYTHING back then, I don't think that Brief's window system would scale well to dual 4K displays... Also, just now, I wanted to move an e-mail rec...
[23:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 2056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:08] <exec> 08└─So, what I'm talking about with column copy is more like: You've got a section of indented code you want to move back a level, in Brief: arrow to a corner of the rectangle of characters you want to erase, Alt-A to start the rectangle selection, arrow to the other corner, Alt-B (or whatever it was) t...
[23:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:10] <exec> 08└─On that note: https://github.com [github.com] Pretty much THE perfect terminal text editor. https://github.com [github.com] Very similar to Acme but written in clean go and should be able to overcome acme's limitation in the future. https://github.com [github.com...
[23:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:12] <exec> 08└─If you want to do an operation like reduce the brace level of code you use a regex to rewrite the line as a string, like this: 10,20s/^ // that says from line 10 to 20 apply the regex that rewrites the first four spaces into nothing to do that on an entire file is like this: %s/^ // I don't know h...
[23:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Throttled Fire Department's “Unlimited” Data During California Wildfire - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:32] <exec> 08└─Well, that's what you'll get with Net Neutrality! All packets are the same. The fire deparatments packets get no more preference than porn videos.
[23:43:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:02] <exec> 08└─A top geneticist has lost her funding based on bullying allegations, reports Nature.
[23:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:21] <exec> 08└─Were these other women brown-skinned? Looks like typical British racism and xenophobia.
[23:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Effect of Zero Tolerance on Science - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:23] <exec> 08└─She couldn't have been a bully because she's a girl, and a foreigner. I think what happened here is that some males got intimidated by having a brown-skinned female boss and played the bullying card to effect some change. Sort of SJW judo.
[23:43:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:45] <exec> 08└─Politicized VMA's saw a ratings decline for a fith consecutive year. [deadline.com]Politicized Oscars, all time low. [hollywoodreporter.com]Politicized Hugo Awards, books nobody wants to read
[23:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:22] <exec> 08└─In Venezuela it's cheaper to wipe your ass on banknotes than buy toilet paper. This isn't some dystopian fiction, it's socialism in action. Do you defend the indefensible or resort to name calling and then claim VLM shouldn't get to express his opinion? Why haven't the far-left all emigrated to Vene...
[23:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:24] <exec> 08└─Unless you are a SJW, in which case coonchick scifi might appeal to you.
[23:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe she didn't win *because* she was black, but because she overcame the handicap of being educated in black American school system. In SJW America, only the best lose.
[23:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:28] <exec> 08└─Informative. But I happen to profoundly disagree with ESR's definition of SF.
[23:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:30] <exec> 08└─Does this mean you are okay with folks submitting stories in the form of editorials bashing the left? This simply isn't how discussion sites work, keep editorializing out of the submission and let people discuss it. It is not a difficult concept.
[23:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Releases Steam Client Allowing Windows Games to Run on Linux Through WINE - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:12] <exec> 08└─What? Oh. Shit, don't scare me like that.
[23:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:29] <exec> 08└─"If the land is barren, it's easier to frack" Make America Dustbowl Again.
[23:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Person Claims Apple Web Design Violates Law - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:16] <exec> 08└─Put in a blindfold
[23:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Scientist Develops Portable Moisture Vaporator with 10 Gal./Hr. Capability - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:52] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Sober me, well rested, right out of bed, screws up "pity da fool". Takes tired me, half drunk, looking forward to bed, to see the problem.
[23:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:01] <exec> 08└─The evidence for evolution comes from the fossil record and from what we know about how biology works. If you want to see evolution in action, just look into the mirror - you are an example of a biological hybrid between your mother and your father. You have traits from both of them and if any of th...
[23:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor of All Life Emerged 3.9B Years Ago - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:02] <exec> 08└─It turns out the planet was pretty inhospitable during that period and yet life began anyway.
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