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[00:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:16] <exec> 08└─Sure compartmentalizing this would be expensive, but 42,800,000*P(we fuck up) is probably far larger than that cost.
[00:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:17] <exec> 08└─I applaud Stiglitz' recommendation to shut down all cryptocurrencies. Note that he also recommends shutting down all fiat currencies. I suspect this has something to do with his long-held belief that the only true value is in real assets, and his frustration that it has taken so long for his Beanie...
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─There are users of Firefox who have not updated for various reasons, including they are on an ESR version, a particular add-on stopped being updated after their version, or because they're using older operating systems. All of these users have been abandoned by Mozilla.
[00:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─I did this one (to an older, ESR version): In about:config, set this from true to false-- xpinstall.signatures.required;false It let me run EFF Privacy Badger, which was all I wanted to add to FF anyway. Does anyone have any reason why I shouldn't leave it this way, assuming I don't use any fu...
[00:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:42] <exec> 08└─1. This is not a normal bug. It is a bug that prevents people to restore the old browser from a backup and keep working. People will hate FF for this. 2. The browser is not an application, it's a virtual OS. The sites are the applications. As some applications still require some old OS, so does for...
[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is also what I did. If I knew what that option did I would have switched it long ago.
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─Get a very large chunk of money. That will allow us to start the project. Then get a very large income. That will allow us to continue...
[00:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─I don't know off the top of my head if there's a Windows port, but Falkon works really well on Linux. I find myself using a lot more Qt than GTK apps over the last few years actually...
[00:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:50] <exec> 08└─This won't work after Mozilla uses Normandy to change your settings back to something they view as more secure.
[00:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:14] <exec> 08└─I'd be more interested if this story stated they could track this drug use through the genome and see whether these were "wasters" or "innovaters" or whatever... If it's just "for religious purposes" I'll be disappointed... but not surprised.
[00:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:16] <exec> 08└─You're busy "tonight"... are you in my hemisphere? No, I hope we don't meet.
[00:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:18] <exec> 08└─Hint: not written accounts, much less English Christian ones. 'Cause they couldn't find any in that rock shelter in Bolivia.
[00:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:20] <exec> 08└─Radiocarbon dating puts the date of the bag at AD 905 to 1170.
[00:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:22] <exec> 08└─This is the tough part, because those accounts were used to calibrate the radiocarbon reference curve.
[00:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:24] <exec> 08└─(Soft knocks at the door) CHONG: Who is it? CHEECH: It's me, Dave. Open up, man, I got the stuff. (More knocks) CHONG: Who is it? CHEECH: It's me, Dave, man. Open up, I got the stuff. CHONG: Who? CHEECH: It's, Dave, man. Open up, I think the cops saw me come in here. (More knocks) CHONG: Who is it?...
[00:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:26] <exec> 08└─Among Libby’s first tests was Egyptian material with known historical age, but to more fully explore radiocarbon’s accuracy, he enlisted the assistance of archaeologists and geologists from their respec- tive professional societies to identify appropriate samples (Libby 1967). The initially repo...
[00:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:55] <exec> 08└─There is now legal ground for a ban of systemd.
[00:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:57] <exec> 08└─Sad to see a fellow human troubled by inconsequential things.
[00:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, I lke that idea: no AC subs, and no subs from new accounts until they've been here for $TIME and have at least $NUM_KARMA.
[00:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:02] <exec> 08└─Honorable intent but DFTT! You should have stopped once they questioned your anecdote. You gotta live under a rock not to know that misogyny in tech is a real problem.
[00:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, that's just, like, my opinion, maaaaaaaaaaaan :)
[00:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:06] <exec> 08└─Lol you realize that your grammatical structure makes it sound like you got some dude bouncing off your dick right? Being a charming asshole is very different from being a misogynistic asshole. Misogyny only gets a pass from people with massive insecurities or daddy complexes. Usually they find out...
[00:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:08] <exec> 08└─Got a citation? Large intestines don't count.
[00:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:11] <exec> 08└─You must be Catholic if you think a penis can only be used to procreate.
[00:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:13] <exec> 08└─I think we just found our first volunteer for SoylentGreen
[00:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:15] <exec> 08└─Have to disagree with you on this one. For the same reason I disagree the rejection of ari's submissions. Banning the submission on the overall behaviour of the submitter is an "intellectual shortcut". May be so enticing to adopt it for reducing the effort of editorializing, but it's still an abdica...
[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:17] <exec> 08└─Heh, seems that aristrachus has been sexually fertile until quite recently! Congrats, magister, there aren't many of us able to do it. (was about to say: "not many of us are able to pull it", but then I remembered that pulling is not the hardest part, it's the pushing) (large grin)
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[01:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:29] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a little weird how all these bad internet-related things all happen at once? Oh shit, you have to upgrade your Firefox only to undo new privacy-raping settings hidden in weird places, then you have to upgrade your Adblock only to find out that you have to do the same and it still doesn't bl...
[01:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:30] <exec> 08└─And if you want to avoid the problems that befell other mighty browsers, don't let women or minorities join your team. If anybody asks about your diversity statistics just buy some wigs (some colored pink and purple) and dresses for a photoshoot and say you're all trans.
[01:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:02] <exec> 08└─No texts written by English Christian monks were used for dating, then. Which makes the method totally reliable (grin)
[01:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:03] <exec> 08└─OK... They took a wild guess.
[01:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:05] <exec> 08└─The dates of ancient Egyptian artifacts primarily come from: Joseph Justus Scaliger (/ˈskælɪdʒər/; 5 August 1540 – 21 January 1609) was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonia...
[01:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:07] <exec> 08└─Was there something wrong with my Sub? I did the Sub about Melanie Miller's interesting work. On, the Studio 54 of ancient times. And 15 minutes later, Editor Takyon did a Sub about the same story. That one got approved, mine's still waiting. Why?
[01:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:09] <exec> 08└─Some religions are cooler than others. Like the ones where you are a shaman wandering around with cool drugs in your fox snout bag.
[01:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:40] <exec> 08└─Getting older usually involves becoming more aware. More aware of those Mexicans you used to like behaving like vermin, more aware of the decline in social mobility, more aware of how contemptuous/selfish/nasty people are, more aware that the Jews and other globalist psychopaths own America and its...
[01:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:47] <exec> 08└─Be a Pepper too!
[01:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:48] <exec> 08└─Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch
[01:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:53] <exec> 08└─He had a nice night with that girl, and who, or why, would he ever be escorted out for such a thing?
[01:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on!!! Flamebait? This should have reached +5, Funny long ago!
[01:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:57] <exec> 08└─Okay, you've got some pertinent points there. It won't work out that way in real life of course, but at least in principle you're correct. I just don't think our admins and eds are taking proper precautions.
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[02:09:15] <exec> 08└─The story contains barely any more information than the submission summary. I know reading the article before commenting is mostly a theoretical concern on SN, but I will say even if you were thinking of doing it, DON'T BOTHER. It was more Tweet than article: self-promotion.
[02:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:53] <exec> 08└─I say the real problem is the practice of making certificates expire, how that's implemented, and the consequences that are imposed. The expiration is not graceful, it abruptly switches from working fine to broken. No warnings, no gradual degradation of functionality, not much of a failsafe. The use...
[02:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:55] <exec> 08└─Just looked and there is a Windows port, but, for my Win7 SP1 (not updated), it requires this https://support.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] patch file from Microsoft. I've got an old stable system on this ThinkPad which I'm attached to, do...
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[02:10:33] <exec> 08└─Joseph Scaligers father is also very interesting: Julius Caesar[!!!] Scaliger (/ˈskælɪdʒər/; April 23, 1484 – October 21, 1558), or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Re...
[02:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:35] <exec> 08└─he...he...That's kinda like some of the threads here on S/N.
[02:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:08] <exec> 08└─I thought about escaping that fate by becoming a permanent man-baby and partying every day but my liver can't handle partying every day and people are no fun to talk to while sober.
[02:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:09] <exec> 08└─I can't afford a lobotomy, but shitposting on SoylentNews is kinda the same, so I do that for fun with my time off.
[02:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:50] <exec> 08└─Some typical Australian male was told by his newly-formed diversity committee that the mint he works for is going to move in a more "PC" direction. So he did what any other patriotic White male of his country would do, and subtly stalled by throwing his own monkey wrench into the gears of political...
[02:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:39] <exec> 08└─Those Amico fuckers want like $180 bucks for one of those sonsabitches. Not only are they late to the party, but way overpriced. Shit, a cutting-edge SNES Super Set was $200 when it was released. If there is retro gaming to be had, then Nintendo and Atari and the like should release newly manufactur...
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[03:09:07] <exec> 08└─If the realizable street value of these box top stamps is high enough, I wouldn't waste time hacking on viruses etc. Were I a thief, I would arrange myself a partner on the inside.
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[03:09:37] <exec> 08└─I say the real problem is the practice of making certificates expire, how that's implemented, and the consequences that are imposed. The expiration is not graceful, it abruptly switches from working fine to broken. No warnings, no gradual degradation of functionality, not much of a failsafe. The use...
[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─I actually keep Win7 around in a VM for my MIDI sequencer, Anvil Studio. Linux does everything else I want, and I can make it look like pretty much anything with some work. Maybe that setup would work for you?
[03:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─Just modded you up, interesting. Three of us volunteer to run a website for mechanical engineering students, where the students can download some proprietary data that is useful for a specific engineering project. So far, we've stuck to http: for our small website. To get a login, the students have...
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─If the login process itself isn't encrypted, then your users are exposing their credentials in cleartext to every mitm?
[03:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:54] <exec> 08└─No need for a doctor, a skilled trade person can do it with an icepick [howstuffworks.com] Wouldn't you believe it? You can even find a DIY lobotomy kit [google.com]
[03:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:03] <exec> 08└─My point was that there is no need to dig expensive holes. There is plenty of space above ground. Buildings where people live and work are a very small percentage of land use. Most human impact on the environment is farming. Putting up greenhouses and growing more per acre would free up more space a...
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[04:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:14] <exec> 08└─Do not open tombs! the curse of tutankhamon is still working (to see if it affects you personally, check the name of PID 1).
[04:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:44] <exec> 08└─What thread?!
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[05:09:03] <exec> 08└─Cordelia: "Two words I don't like right off the bat: tomb and unearthed. People, you've got to leave your tombs earthed."
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[05:09:12] <exec> 08└─I also read the article and agree, don't waste your time -- no useful info in the article
[05:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:22] <exec> 08└─I'll never understand why so many so called tech people shit on crypto currency. No it's never going to replace real money but it does have value. The recent bust of the dark net markets should tell you that. Its also amazing that the identity of Satoshi is still unknown. They are sitting on billion...
[05:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:35] <exec> 08└─I asked, why my Sub is still waiting. Otherwise known as, Pending. You "answered" something else I didn’t ask. You didn't answer that one. But you wrote 4 Paragraphs to say, I didn't put the Link, you wanted the Link. Which, if you'd looked at my Sub, I assume you would remember it. Without needin...
[05:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:11] <exec> 08└─Oh the Jews own the military? That's a new one.
[05:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 1886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:21] <exec> 08└─You will find many of your cherished myths are just that, myth. Raise your hand if you know that the earth centered side of the argument had some pretty potent arguments on its side. The big one, the big KABOOM shut up the other side for quite some time was not religious, it was scientific. Parallax...
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[05:17:54] <exec> 08└─Of course they won't be affected; there are no gender studies jobs. Can't lose a job if you don't have one. Seriously though: 1. Gender studies has no practical applications. 2. If you need a college course for interpersonal skills, God help you. That's God with a capital G, and I'm not even (mono)t...
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[06:10:05] <exec> 08└─Mozilla really doesn't advertise this, but they do maintain Extended Support Releases, the latest being version 60. I forget how long one is maintained for. Here's the link to the 60's version bump to fix this issue: https://www.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[06:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:06] <exec> 08└─If anybody asks about your diversity statistics just buy some wigs (some colored pink and purple) and dresses for a photoshoot and say you're all trans.
[06:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bolek_b [1460] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:08] <exec> 08└─This week I had to migrate 80% of my FF installations (versions ranging between 53 and 56) to PaleMoon, where addons work as they should. So next time folks at Mozilla ponder why their market share dropped again, this is why - arrogant ignorance of legacy version users doesn't pay off.
[06:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:10] <exec> 08└─Or you could simply hire based on individual's ability without falling into a trap of only 2 choices.
[06:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:12] <exec> 08└─Even if it is they are still open to 0-day browser exploit insertions from their providers (which basically means government as well, one way or the other).
[06:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:07] <exec> 08└─You think that's impressive? Let me tell you a story about the HTTP Referer header.
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[07:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:03] <exec> 08└─That makes me smart. Facebook, if you want to do the smartest thing. Get out of High Tax High Crime California. And embrace our glorious national destiny. Nashville is so incredible. And by the way. If they paid taxes on this deal. It would be squandered, too. Believe me!!
[07:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:12] <exec> 08└─how do they say? honest question
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[07:09:21] <exec> 08└─It sounds suspiciously like marketing material.
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[07:09:53] <exec> 08└─1. This is not a normal bug. It is a bug that prevents people to restore the old browser from a backup and keep working. People will hate FF for this. 2. The browser is not an application, it's a virtual OS. The sites are the applications. As some applications still require some old OS, so does for...
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[07:10:10] <exec> 08└─if you dont care about verifying the identity of your website to the user and only want to secure / encrypt the data exchange bit-stream then just use simple easy self-signed certs. ofc the global players in the identity managment businesssss continue to lump both aspects together. one could verify...
[07:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:12] <exec> 08└─I refused to downgrade to Quantum, so to get (most) of my addons back I just moved laterally to FF55 Developer edition. Ported over my profile, meaning history and bookmarks, logins, etc. Was a bit of a pain, but worth it. Fuck them. I agree that the "Whoops, now you have to update!" angle is shady...
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[07:10:52] <exec> 08└─missed his objective by a continent
[07:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:11] <exec> 08└─In most countries it is illegal to destroy coins that way. Nobody does it to gold coins because the gold value is almost always worth less than or equal the coins' value to a collector. Silver is in the middle, sometimes it is technically worth doing, but even those coins mostly retail for more than...
[07:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:12] <exec> 08└─Nobody is paying $2.3bn. They will either use them or print replacements. 42 million notes is less than half a million printed sheets. Even with serial numbers and fancy polymer stock it would cost much less than a million to reprint them.
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[08:09:22] <exec> 08└─Britain, you say? By Jove, the chap was Anglo-Saxon Christian! Not even C of E! And probably fought against Arthur. Barbarian European White Trash Germans, you know.
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[09:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:07] <exec> 08└─Water is significantly wet - please stay aware. scorpion and frog story here, please move along.
[09:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Source Code Discovery Sheds Light on the Business of Malware - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:27] <exec> 08└─Aye, '..member of the team..', '..assurance..', '..produce a product of the same high quality..', '..campaign’s creators..', '..scale up their campaigns..' etc. Devops: So good, even the bad guys use it... ...and so do malware writers. Prats, one and all. (Now, where's my morning cup o' char..)
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[10:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:06] <exec> 08└─Politics is a strange beast, to be sure. But, I find it bizarre that the UK's committee for 'Digital' is lumped in with Culture, Media, and Sports. Sure, I can see how it *historically* ended there, but now? This file should have its own committee. To highlight that, how do you find MPs to sit on sa...
[10:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:16] <exec> 08└─The rich get bailouts.
[10:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 2366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:54] <exec> 08└─"Machine learning" is not self-aware AI. And spirituality is not religion. If a machine ever becomes truly sentient, it will have transcended any initial 'programming' that may have been fed to it. It will effectively have a core sentience that is capable of reasoning and has a concept of 'self'. Fo...
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[10:18:56] <exec> 08└─I have no idea exactly what they teach/learn in a gender studies course. But, I do know many people in the marketing, HR, sale, purchasing, and administration departments in big companies that have gone through those sorts of the courses. They were hired because they went to university and had some...
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[11:09:01] <exec> 08└─in this case is the security of a nation. Better the devil you know?
[11:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:20] <exec> 08└─I know they didn't have a proper all-of-England king until like 1200 years ago but they can tell you every lesser king and their direct relatives for hundreds of years beyond that. It shouldn't be hard to at least narrow it down to a pool of likely suspects.
[11:10:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:33] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that we can detect 5 psychoactive compounds after so long. And the combo is important. “This is the first evidence of ancient South Americans potentially combining different medicinal plants to produce a powerful substance like ayahuasca,” said Miller, a researcher with UC Berke...
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[11:13:12] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaargh...I was hoping TenNapel's, er, weirder views wouldn't become an issue. This is kind of conflicting, because they don't have any bearing on the game itself.
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[12:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:27] <exec> 08└─but the difference between a fact checking tool and a censorship tool is in the data fed as truth. Garbage in garbage out.
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─excuse me, culture secretary. What are your experience in terms of reverse engineering software firmware and hardware?
[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:38] <exec> 08└─Huawei has a center in Brussels [techcrunch.com] where government auditors come in, review the code, and build it against Huawei's keys while md5ing the the firmware to make sure it's the same as the one found in the routers. A similar arrangement was conducted with the Germans a few months ago. Btw...
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[12:11:00] <exec> 08└─IceCat Mobile is awesome on Android phones. You can load Firefox plugins which work just the same in android as they do on the desktop. It's awesome. F-Droid has it - https://f-droid.org [f-droid.org] I had to hunt down an older version as an APK to install it. Well worth...
[12:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:02] <exec> 08└─Bleh, go into the about:config and change xpinstall.signatures.required to false
[12:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:04] <exec> 08└─You can bet the next time this is about to happen the hackers will be ready and waiting to take advantage of the 5% of users using Firefox who won't be protected by plugins
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[13:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:28] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our accurate automated real-time censoring alphabetical overlords.
[13:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:29] <exec> 08└─I'm British, Never heard of Full Fact before this Fact.
[13:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:49] <exec> 08└─That a bank or insurance company always owns the tallest building in any city?
[13:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Source Code Discovery Sheds Light on the Business of Malware - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, digging for detail in the article was of limited value Here's the FireEye blog postings analyzing the source code in depth by malware researchers. The authors have previously reverse engineered the malware without source and take the opportunity of having the source to go over what they found...
[13:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:49] <exec> 08└─I asked, why my Sub is still waiting. Otherwise known as, Pending. You "answered" something else I didn’t ask. You didn't answer that one.
[13:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:26] <exec> 08└─They do in Israel!
[13:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:11] <exec> 08└─given the amount of people recently imported to live for the whole eye for an eye thing? possible
[13:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, Come on, you can do better than that. How about 'With this latest use of the word by the Government the dictionary and Scrabble rules WILL be updated to reflect this alternatvie spelling' <sarcasm>see wut eye deed their?</sarcasm>
[13:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:14] <exec> 08└─no we have abos as you can see from the spelling on the recent bank not release
[13:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:16] <exec> 08└─no no no this is the new millenium blame speeling mistaeks on the lack of autocorrect not the lack of professional ability
[13:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:19] <exec> 08└─that would require me to reproduce
[13:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:21] <exec> 08└─Martin Luther King would have probably been the best Black choice for a dollar bill, though.
[13:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:23] <exec> 08└─I smell deceit
[13:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:25] <exec> 08└─spelling? they need to develop a language first
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[14:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:22] <exec> 08└─Last time our local government wanted to protect out privacy we had to give even more data on ourselves for everything as a result.
[14:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:24] <exec> 08└─Agreed, this is an educational and technological problem. Whatever these people come up with will just make things worse. People just aren't comprehending the scale of the datarape they are suffering. Go visit places like palo alto to see how rich these creepy fucks are getting by offering a "free s...
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:45] <exec> 08└─It was created propaganda committee.
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─And explains why certain people are against Huawei.
[14:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is Arthur?
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[14:11:57] <exec> 08└─It's also interesting to look at the lifespan of all these people. Not much different from today, despite all supposed medical advances in the last 400 years.
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[15:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, you could write a good privacy law if you tried. It would go something like "don't sell user info and let folks know what user info you collect and how you use it". But in lawyer speak of course because we can't have laws being written that the folks having to follow them can understand.
[15:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:24] <exec> 08└─DelBene's bill even says no lawyer speak: PRIVACY AND DATA USE POLICY.—Provide users with an up-to-date, transparent privacy, security, and data use policy that meets general requirements, including that such policy, presented to users in the context where it applies— (A) is concise and intellig...
[15:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─So, we can tell which bill was introduced to prevent a real privacy bill from passing by checking to see which one FB and Google support, can't we? You just name the bill that explicitly makes privacy invasion legal, and bars states from protecting privacy the 'privacy protection act'. If anyone pro...
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[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─Looks like popups with audio.
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─The same people who were tricked by "affordable care act" will be tricked by this. The effect of skyrocketing prices was obvious beforehand. There is just no helping some people, which is why there should be some sort of ignorance threshold you need to exceed before voting. Unfortunately it would cu...
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[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─if they sell another 2% stake to some other party (about $22 million), and ownership then transfers to the majority 49% owner....they pay $16 million in taxes on it? Ouch!
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─That's what sounds logical, but this is the rich 1% you're talking about. There are probably exemptions from the transfer tax if they sell another 2% stake to some other party... which they will probably do shortly... then sell the remaining 49% to Facebook... then the other 2% gets sold to Facebook...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─In the Dark Ages the church always owned the tallest building. For a period after the enlightenment, it was a government building. Since the industrial age it has been some corporate entity, often a bank.
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─Because they get tons of cash from their customers, and a significant part of their assets need to be in stable investments?
[15:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:41] <exec> 08└─I'll never understand why so many so called tech people shit on crypto currency. No it's never going to replace real money but it does have value.
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[16:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:18] <exec> 08└─Is the dedicated woman-exclusive bathroom, next to the "all genders" restroom - where the mens room used to be. Just like the wealthy left: vote in immigrants, because we don't have to live with them in our communities, and they don't compete with our college-educated jobs.
[16:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:20] <exec> 08└─Seriously, whether it's actual hieroglyphs or just an ideographic system like Hanzi, picture-words suck. Too complex, too inflexible, too many of them needed to express simple, everyday terms...even the Egyptians were on their way to using some of their glyphs for their sounds rather than semantic c...
[16:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:22] <exec> 08└─OMG!
[16:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:24] <exec> 08└─So you're saying there's a chance we can get a wider range of furry emotes? Also, what's the resolution roadmap for emoji? Can they be moving gifs eventually?
[16:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:26] <exec> 08└─too many of them needed to express simple, everyday terms...
[16:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:28] <exec> 08└─Not everything has to be expressible as a single character.
[16:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ekerin [2907] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─The challenge with that, is symbols get re-used and re-defined through time. Case in point the skull and cross bones. Used to mean "Death" - now means "Happy Fun Pirate".
[16:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:33] <exec> 08└─Yup. Except for the poop emoji. Everybody poops so it's both inclusive and universal.
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─I can't think of a more stupid example to justify adding more crappy emojis to the world - there are already too many and nobody knows what they mean because they can mean whatever the sender or receiver perceives them to mean. "The Gents" and "The Ladies" signs are simple icons that can be recognis...
[16:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ekerin [2907] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean it's not chocolate ice cream?! That explains my last date!
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:39] <exec> 08└─At this point I think it's gone way overboard. It's a fucking emoticon, you don't have to be political about it.
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ekerin [2907] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:41] <exec> 08└─You may want to re-evaluate your cultural bias here. What you see as universal, others in other cultures see as English imperialism - and the negation of local expectations and customs that existed prior to that time. Not saying all local customs are good, but that your universal symbol is far from...
[16:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:43] <exec> 08└─Point of fact: This pirate still owns a sword.
[16:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─especially since the unicode consortium is wasting time and ressources on unicode blocks instead of characters used for actual language. Inclusion should be done by narrowing the standart instead of widening it. Like skin colour, everyone in bright unnatural yellow wasn't leaving anyone out.
[16:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─Two gender-based shitters is not remotely English in origin nor is it imperialistic. Forget your shitty education and go learn something actually true.
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:01] <exec> 08└─+1 Healthy Cynicism
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─And the same morons that opposed it will oppose this as well because they're too stupid to understand what's going on. You make it sound like the skyrocketing prices started after the ACA was passed, but the reality is that the rates were previously skyrocketing and they slowed a bit until Trump and...
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:04] <exec> 08└─I have no health insurance, and don't want any. The whole thing has been a scam for many years now, the affordable care act just tried to force people to buy into the scam so it could grow even bigger. No surprise there. Healthcare itself has also been becoming scammier and scammier too. In general,...
[16:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─Climate Change is evil? Hardly. That's like saying the sun is evil, or rain, or... Regardless, there is something else just as insidious and far less controversial to be concerned with out there. Even if we survive climate change in the coming decades, this will inexorably destroy everything hu...
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─I have no health insurance, and don't want any. The whole thing has been a scam for many years now
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder how that happened. Maybe he missed a meeting with the lobbyists assigned to him.
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─Just add up how much you could save before the typical healthcare need strikes. Then look at the actual cost of whatever procedure you need not the 2-20x inflated chargemaster prices. People would be far better off saving their money. Perhaps some very low premium, really high deductible, insurance...
[16:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:10] <exec> 08└─It was fine until the underwater section, you know, the fishbowl powered by retro rockets where you had limited air, no way to know where you were going, and only a few bumps into the terrain allowed before the glass shattered? Though I have to admit the trashcan...motorcycle...tuba-spewing...thing...
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[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:40] <exec> 08└─The use of Unicode modifiers [wikipedia.org] means that you could have a nearly infinite amount of glyphs generated using remaining empty code points. As far as storage limits go, apparently all of Google's Noto [google.com] adds up to 1.1 GB (compressed?). But it's modular. Emojis still remain a sm...
[17:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, now, get off of my ship.
[17:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ekerin [2907] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─Buzzy - Your rough handling of a disagreement explains the comment section :( I was wondering why nothing was done over all this time.
[17:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:46] <exec> 08└─Why did they include a little Klansman?
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─That's the CND's logo and they can go fuck themselves. It doesn't mean peace.
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─That is part of the problem with using highly detailed graphics as a symbol. You wind up communicating much more than than what was probably intended. A simple smiley may become a particular kind of smile. The appearance may imply a certain style that may change as the years go by. In this case appa...
[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─There's no reason we can't create UTF-64 when the time comes, but that's not to say I'm horribly pleased with the way companies are eating up this character space without discretion and implementing different concepts in the same address space (example: Google gun v.s. Apple water-gun). I feel like...
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─Be careful, that is also a symbol of white supremacy.
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─My device is already seething with emojis, how can we opt out?
[17:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─0/10
[17:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:00] <exec> 08└─No, but she made a very specific claim. My response should be read in that context.
[17:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:03] <exec> 08└─So long as we're willing to cede symbols to them at the slightest request, they'll nab it sooner or later. We should really just laugh in these 🤡s faces and ignore them.
[17:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:05] <exec> 08└─Wow, ignorant people downvoting facts within seconds of being posted to this board: >"White supremacists tried to copy the symbol" https://www.quora.com [quora.com]
[17:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─copy -> co-opt
[17:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:09] <exec> 08└─You, and the white-supremacist-referencing-AC below, both knew what the symbol meant before reading the rest of my comment. Also, words have multiple meanings as well.
[17:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:11] <exec> 08└─Such variable width encoding, much sadface.
[17:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─The ride never ends. 🚂🎢☠
[17:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─There's no reason we can't create UTF-64 when the time comes
[17:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:17] <exec> 08└─I regurgitate pellets like an owl, you insensitive clod!
[17:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:20] <exec> 08└─Honk, honk 🤡🌎 👌💯 🔥🔥🔥
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─From being a universal encoding to represent all the world's writing systems... to being a battleground (dumping ground?) for SJWs to push their insane globohomo agenda on the world. This is what women contribute to tech? (See article summary.) How did we ever cope without them before? Hire them and...
[17:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:24] <exec> 08└─20 years ago when I was spending time on IRC I always felt that :P is feminine.
[17:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:26] <exec> 08└─uhm. in scotland I would assume the bathroom without the skirt is cleaner, because nobody uses it.
[17:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:46] <exec> 08└─I have no health insurance, and don't want any. The whole thing has been a scam for many years now, the affordable care act just tried to force people to buy into the scam so it could grow even bigger. No surprise there.
[17:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:33] <exec> 08└─Arthur was a Briton, a descendant of the wave of immigrant scum from Europe who took over the British Isles sometime in the first millennia BC ( or second, depending..) This corpse?, from what I've read so far, was a member of a wave of immigrant scum from Europe who flooded the country after the ol...
[17:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:56] <exec> 08└─Those billions are useless even if Satoshi exists. There is no $1B new market demand for BTC.
[17:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:42] <exec> 08└─Seriously, what is the worst that could happen? If they know to use unique credentials (always a good idea regardless), it won't give an attacker access to anything else. "download some proprietary data", ok if this is multi-million dollar data that would be bad if it wound up in the wrong hands, th...
[17:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:44] <exec> 08└─All my addons disabled but at least fucking Pocket works! Fucking Pocket. And fucking Reader. And the popup bullshit that happens whenever I type anywhere. Thank fuck for all that.
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[18:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:19] <exec> 08└─All that verbiage of hype and hyperbole, says absolute zilch about the thing, whatever it is.
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─I vote we create UTF-1048576 directly, and just store the MP3 for every word in existence. And for the deaf we put the 3-D printer source file of the object.
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─It is disgusting that the degenerates in the Bay Area tech companies get to decide this for the world. I want non-leftist stuff. I want politically incorrect stuff. I want weapons, and not just lame squirt guns. I want a Kel-Tec RDB, an M4 carbine, a pump shotgun, an MP5, a chromed pistol, a tan pis...
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─My immediate thoughts are browse in elinks with a terminal that doesn't support them or write a GreaseMonkey script to scrub them.
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─you do know that that symbol is actually meant to mean "Nuclear Disarmament" right? It is a combination of the flag semaphores for N and D. It was later taken to be the symbol of the whole "Anti-war Peace Movement". Though I've also heard it used as a warning of a painful death. Seems some ancient...
[18:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─Just set up an alternative version of this: http://www.evertype.com [evertype.com] Use a browser extension, etc. to force a system to display politically incorrect symbols instead of Elvish, Klingon, or whatever. Anybody who isn't in the club will be blissfully unaware.
[18:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, but some poop in the streets.
[18:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:17] <exec> 08└─This is just another one of the Leftist Shit-tests. It is beyond retarded, but don't worry in a week they will come up with a better one. And they will keep doing this until they poke so hard the backlash will make Commies look like saints. Stupid leftists, you do not have to make everyone hate you...
[18:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:19] <exec> 08└─Imagine being so offended by emojis that you label it "beyond retarded" before threatening to lynch people in the street.
[18:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─Solving the problem once and for all with unisex restrooms using the poop symbol has my vote.
[18:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:24] <exec> 08└─The challenge with that, is symbols get re-used and re-defined through time.
[18:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, but some poop in the streets.
[18:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:28] <exec> 08└─I used that one a lot, but it was meant as a sarcastic smiley on par with the winking sarcastic smiley. Perhabs I've been misunderstood all this time.
[18:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:30] <exec> 08└─I want a woman being stoned.
[18:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 3640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─The CIA didn't backdoor Cisco products at production. They backdoored it by redirecting it during delivery, putting their malware/backdoor in, and then delivering compromised product. This is well documented, and Cisco took efforts to evade that. Once someone has control of the hardware, then have c...
[18:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:26] <exec> 08└─Crooks getting outdone by crooks. I love it. I wish I could pay no taxes as well.
[18:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, we use unique credentials -- one user (normally a university student) per login. We don't have any great way of keeping a student from sharing their login, except that we make it easy to have your own. For example, we can tell when a class has a project that requires our data--all of a sudden w...
[18:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:51] <exec> 08└─> ...the hackers will be ready What, you mean we FF users will start seeing ads again? Oh noes... Or did you think of something more sinister that would be possible??
[18:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:35] <exec> 08└─And his father (who was accused of making up his own family history) had a friend named Mark Antony: When a certain Mark Anthony of the famous Italian family of the Roveres arrived in Agen, in Southwestern France, in the second decade of the sixteenth century, he brought along with him his personal...
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[19:09:19] <exec> 08└─Nice PR spin, though.
[19:09:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─Seriously, whether it's actual hieroglyphs or just an ideographic system like Hanzi, picture-words suck. Too complex, too inflexible, too many of them needed to express simple, everyday terms...even the Egyptians were on their way to using some of their glyphs for their sounds rather than semantic c...
[19:09:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─Two gender-based shitters is not remotely English in origin nor is it imperialistic. Forget your shitty education and go learn something actually true.
[19:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:19] <exec> 08└─Space too. That sign means "arsehole" in Brazil, if I remember right...which fits pretty well with the people apparently trying to co-opt it :)
[19:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:20] <exec> 08└─You might want to steer clear of the one with the sheep glyph on its sign though...
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:22] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me like what you really want is to get laid. And if the above is any indication, that is never, ever going to happen, LOL :D
[19:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:24] <exec> 08└─Ooooh, you just reminded me, the emoji we *really* need is a symbol for male masturbation! The SA forums had their little :fap: (and :schlick: too, they beat Unicode to inclusivity by years). Would be absolutely perfect for that kind of post, for at least two reasons.
[19:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─It's funny I see this. I read an article less then a half an hour ago that described the difference between the "OK" sign, the "circle game" sign, and the racist sign. "OK" sign has curved fingers, the "circle game" one is straight or curved fingers below the waist, and the racist symbol is straight...
[19:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the morons upset by the word "gender" apparently didn't notice that these are just gender neutral emoticons not some elaborate attack on the sanctity of marriage or whatever.
[19:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:30] <exec> 08└─ᛉ Peace. You just used the symbol used to denote your own genocide, and just believed the BS that it meant "peace". In the same way, "Islam is a religion of peace" -- Islam means Submission. When all are made to Submit, there will be peace. My challenge to you: Convey a simple meaning using such a...
[19:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:33] <exec> 08└─It's funny to see writing being deliberately devolved, we have a proper alphabet but we somehow we need to bring back rebuses and pictographs instead. The one case where this does make some sense is language independent markings for basic things like 'where's the terlett at?" It's nice to be able to...
[19:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:35] <exec> 08└─That assumption about OP AC may be wildly correct (although unverifiable).
[19:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, you have. That's a protruding tongue. Pbbbllllbbbbbbllllttt! :P
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:39] <exec> 08└─Runaway you should log in to post such brave rhetoric.
[19:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:41] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I want all those things and more, for gamedev, so I can easily make rogue-like tile displays that have full accessibility data built in for screen readers. Not that I'm not a Nazi too, of course. Who isn't 1488 these days?
[19:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:43] <exec> 08└─The answer is simple: Because "Teach Men Not To Rape" hadn't been invented yet, and vulnerable little girls wanted to be able to squat by themselves without having parents worry a man was going to penis their virginal pussies.
[19:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:45] <exec> 08└─In this case apparently someone created emoji that that imply what they have in their pants.
[19:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:48] <exec> 08└─*incorrect
[19:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:50] <exec> 08└─'Murica. Wasting time on meaningless shit for as long as anyone remembers.
[19:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─It's not that simple though. If you think that the custom of gendered toilets is universal, think again. It's not even that common in Europe. Everyone squats by themselves anyway. It's either a single occupant toilet or else there are stalls. And the popularity of that custom in the US probably has...
[19:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:15] <exec> 08└─Script and Ad blocking became my default state back when websites first started abusing the hell out of people with things like that.
[19:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:39] <exec> 08└─They did the same with HP and other companies too. It is so well known, that Carly Fiorina bragged about doing so during her presidential run.
[19:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─Who mods that troll? I prefer FF to most others but it is perfectly valid criticism. They have ignored user input and added "features" nobone cares about and now we have this failure that has inconvenienced millions of people. Ah well, shitposting and shitmodding, a long standing SN tradition.
[19:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─Israel is just a massive fron for Russia to launder money from China while destabilizing the US "covert" drug trade. Did no one else find the Stalin watermark they use in their bills suspicious?
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[20:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:55] <exec> 08└─"But they had to add a little detail, that dress, and suddenly that person symbol doesn't mean person anymore; it means man." Jennifer. 100% WRONG, it's the other way around. The one with the Dress means woman -- or girl. And possibly -- hopefully it's a miss quote. Let's pray that they Miss Quoted...
[20:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:56] <exec> 08└─But it may happen after defeating patriarchy, right? Because patriarchy shames men for being non-masculine? If only all the men listened to your advice!
[20:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:58] <exec> 08└─Why not mark the toilet with, I don't know, a picture of a toilet? Isn't that the more interesting question?
[20:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:00] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but whether AC fucks himself or not, that remains the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Seems it means something different to you. That's the trouble with single characters.
[20:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know why, but "Two gender-based shitters" just makes me laugh uncontrollably! Best comment I've ever seen on the site. Well played.
[20:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:05] <exec> 08└─Accusing Runaway of posting as an AC?!? Harsh. Don't destroy someone's rep like that.
[20:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:07] <exec> 08└─"Personally I don't care if the person on the toilet next to me is male or female [snip a bit.] Peeing, defecating... these do not stimulate me sexually at all." I agree. You go there to do your business and get out, and so does everyone else, or should. "The whole rest room "must be gendered" thing...
[20:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:09] <exec> 08└─It's a stupid claim. Those things aren't expressible with one emoji without previously having trained the reader to understand the meaning. A similar result could be had for defining L to mean love or P to mean peace. The point of words and written language is that you don't have to train people to...
[20:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:12] <exec> 08└─Inequality increases when the rich pay little or no taxes. The taxes that should have been recovered from the sale could have gone to cheap housing for the lower economical classes, but there is no place for the poor when (((the criminal classes))) are involved. Shut down facebook. End its misery.
[20:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:27] <exec> 08└─This guy is an Essex man https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] , a race unto themselves. Stereotyped factory working class Tory voter, who wears braces because a belt won't fit round his beer belly. Essex girls https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] are red hot t...
[20:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:52] <exec> 08└─Because people fear that which they do not understand. This hack wasnt a bitcoin hack. It was lazy people doing stupid things with items of value. Banks are hacked everyday. But instead of the bank being on the hook, we the people pay for it via deposit insurance and fees on our accounts and the who...
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[21:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:32] <exec> 08└─This soylent news post could be the turning point ... for clickbait headlines. But it's probably not. Seriously... how about: "MIT researchers design new power efficient microchips optimized for "deep learning" algorithms" Don't breathlessly report every single incremental step as "This could be the...
[21:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:33] <exec> 08└─Replying to self... as if to emphasize my point... TFA states: Many smaller companies are developing new chips, too. “It's impossible to keep track of all the companies jumping into the AI-chip space,” says Mike Delmer, a microchip analyst at the Linley Group, an analyst firm. “I’m not jokin...
[21:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─What a trash summary. Is it an ASIC for deep learning algorithms? Who fucking knows, but I sure know how the person giving the speech felt.
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Neo
[21:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─When someone actually makes real 'AI' we won't have a term to describe it, because it's already been so heavily plundered by marketing for anything from 'expert systems', 'deep learning', 'pattern recognition', 'statistical analysis' and pretty much anything else they want to apply it to. As for act...
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─You seem to have gotten your definition of AI from sci-fi, See AIMA's introduction for a good selection of definitions of AI. Also, AIXItl is an ASI which already exists in the real world, it's just _far_ too slow to use.
[21:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:07] <exec> 08└─The OK sign never has a racist connotation to it, that's an urban legend. Now, it does sometimes mean asshole in certain parts of the world, but the meanings for it are either OK or asshole, not anything to do with neo-nazis and the like.
[21:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:08] <exec> 08└─Chinese has between 50k and 100k total characters that have appeared somewhere in some book, but even a professional scholar of the language is unlikely to know more than 20k. Most people only know a few thousand of them that are used regularly, the balance of the rest are either obscure, archaic or...
[21:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:10] <exec> 08└─You're being sarcastic, but if men *did* listen to the things I've been saying like "stop telling one another not to get help when you need it" or "for the love of fuck do not mutilate your baby's genitalia" or "racism is stupid, you have more in common with $OTHER_ETHNICITY than you do with a rich...
[21:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:13] <exec> 08└─Okay, asshole.
[21:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:15] <exec> 08└─Lots of people poop on their phones too.
[21:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tomtomtom [340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:17] <exec> 08└─The urinal is pretty global these days, at least in venues where the scale means it is worthwhile including them (although these days its getting quite unusual to see the old-style trough rather than individual urinals but whether there are dividers still seems to be 50/50 on individual urinals in m...
[21:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:19] <exec> 08└─> ☮️ nice crosshair.
[21:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:21] <exec> 08└─You reckon I should have to stop participating in the community or censor myself on story-related matters because I do lots of work for the site? Not gonna happen. I don't have a problem in the world keeping site matters on a mostly professional footing but I did not magically become some higher for...
[21:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:24] <exec> 08└─My work here is done then. *tips hat*
[21:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:26] <exec> 08└─> It's a fucking emoticon I've actually never seen the emoticon for 'fucking' but it's sure is a matter of time.
[21:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:28] <exec> 08└─Autocorrect incorrectly corrects incorrect to correct. Fuck meta.
[21:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:30] <exec> 08└─I would imagine that being a tough independent thinking manly man he wouldn't be fazed by it.
[21:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:32] <exec> 08└─whether AC fucks himself or not, that remains the logo for the [CND]
[21:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:34] <exec> 08└─> It's funny to see writing being deliberately devolved, we have a proper alphabet but we somehow we need to bring back rebuses and pictographs instead. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and...
[21:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:36] <exec> 08└─I technically still haven't completely understood how bathroom icons would create the patriarchy instead of the other way around. But, given that we are talking about leftists, for whom the truth is more of an impediment for grandiose theories and plans than something to look for, I am not sure ther...
[21:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:39] <exec> 08└─Well, I have no idea what that symbol is supposed to mean, and I'm not interested enough to research it.
[21:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:41] <exec> 08└─You're either ignorant of the meta-issue or being disingenuous. The white-nationalists and adjacent allies deliberately exploit the ambiguity and plausible deniability of the sign. They're playing a game. Sartre, someone who I am not usually much a fan of, figured this out a long time ago. Though he...
[21:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:43] <exec> 08└─Lilith Velkor was a fictional character. That said, it is true that the cross that folk were crucified on had many different forms, and IIRC, Saint Peter was crucified upside down at his own request, so it's vaguely possible that his cross looked like that. Quite unlikely, as it was much easier to f...
[21:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:16] <exec> 08└─Fact checking charity? Like the "charities" spiriting muzrats and homo erectus hybrids into europe?
[21:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:31] <exec> 08└─China went ballistic. They actually attempted to put *political* pressure on Canada, with the very bizarre and inexplicable belief that, for example, the Prime Minister could order her release. Or another political figure.
[21:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:33] <exec> 08└─The legal system is not a computer program, as you seem to believe. If the stakes are high enough, political considerations will be taken into account. Canada is a middle weight in international diplomacy. The big boys in the room are the US and China. Canada has a kid's level of choice. Either Cana...
[21:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:51] <exec> 08└─because one has a license to print fake money that is loaned to the slave masters and repaid by stolen slave labor. the other runs a massive extortion racket. both are internationally sanctioned organized crime.
[21:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:52] <exec> 08└─how will the slimey little parasites bleed working people dry if this is allowed to stand?
[21:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Source Code Discovery Sheds Light on the Business of Malware - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the links -- very good material there ...
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:34] <exec> 08└─"Once governments clamp down on those providing exchange services the usefulness of cryptocurrency will decline rapidly." i'm sorry pal, but you're talking out of your proverbial ass. decentralized exchanges already exist and will get better. we will be able to exchange privacy coins without some pa...
[21:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─so these stupid fucks were running an exchange and using windows? they deserve to be attacked.
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:27] <exec> 08└─Sadly, there are people actively working to make this a difficult choice.
[21:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:50] <exec> 08└─Nobody likes torture.
[21:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:52] <exec> 08└─yeah, and that's a bunch of bullshit. google makes money off of ads for illegal shit all the time. no feds are investigating that. it's still not money laundering. accepting money from people you know are criminals is not money laundering. washing money as a service is money laundering. these feds w...
[21:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:53] <exec> 08└─If you're making millions selling drugs and what not, you have plenty of money to hire poor inner city youth to "disrupt" investigators. Also, don't you know bitcoin is not private?
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[22:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cloud Glitch Leaves Nvidia T4 GPUs Off Estimated Bills for Some Virtual Machines - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:26] <exec> 08└─Sounds like such services need motivation to make their estimates accurate. Here's a simple idea - make such "estimates" for the price of service legally binding. If your "estimator" says it will cost me X amount for Y service when I sign up, then that's all I should have to pay. It's your problem,...
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tencent and Ant Financial Latest Firms to be Awarded Virtual Banking Licenses in Hong Kong - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─A direct bank (sometimes called a branchless bank, virtual bank, online bank or an internet-only bank) is a bank without any branch network that offers its services remotely via online banking and telephone banking and may also provide access via ATMs (often through interbank network alliances), mai...
[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tencent and Ant Financial Latest Firms to be Awarded Virtual Banking Licenses in Hong Kong - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─Can I deposit my virtual money?
[22:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:49] <exec> 08└─real 'AI'
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─AI, a term being watered down for a long time. Yes, AI was coined by sci-fi based on some underlying assumptions. Even in the 70s the sort of ML systems we have to do were hypothesised and even a lot of the underlying mathematical theory was proposed. At the time we didn’t have machines powerful e...
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─Even in the ‘80s, distinguishing AI from advanced expert systems has always been problematic when resorting to fact based questioning. A glorified encyclopaedia with algorithmic processing is not live intelligence. Unless of course we play fast and loose with the term intelligence. Then again, the...
[22:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:35] <exec> 08└─"'Murica. Wasting time on meaningless shit for as long as anyone remembers" And nothing of value was added!
[22:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:37] <exec> 08└─☮️ is the flower power [wikipedia.org], a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. My challenge to you: express unambiguously "mourning" in a single pictogram. --- My point: the fact that one pictogram can represent a concept does not invalidate the idea of "many of them are neede...
[22:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:39] <exec> 08└─☮️ My challenge to you: express the concept of peace in equal or fewer characters without using an emoji.
[22:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:41] <exec> 08└─With pictograms, please.
[22:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:43] <exec> 08└─I've actually never seen the emoticon for 'fucking'
[22:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:49] <exec> 08└─Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch [wikipedia.org]
[22:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:51] <exec> 08└─Try reformatting him.
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[23:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cloud Glitch Leaves Nvidia T4 GPUs Off Estimated Bills for Some Virtual Machines - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:23] <exec> 08└─Uh, this is actually an estimate though. Google Cloud has exact prices listed in the pricing documentation. The estimator, if I understand correctly, basically calculates based on your current/expected usage how much your total would be at the end of the month. e.g., if compute costs 1 USD per vCPU...
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─See if it can as much as intelligently control traffic signals. Given video feeds of traffic entering the intersection, as well as info as to what the other lights are doing, deduce the most efficient traffic control. Wasn't this previously known as an "adaptive filter"?
[23:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not ignorant, the only people claiming that sign as a white power sign is the media, it wasn't until after the media asserted the connection to those groups that it started to spread and in most cases is more accurately connected with trolling rather than an actual hand signal. Yes, they do ofte...
[23:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:12] <exec> 08└─Could I get that fact checked?
[23:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:29] <exec> 08└─It took hundreds of years, for our laws to adapt to the type of high-tech, mass production, IP society we have now, and the Chinese are having to do it in 20 years.
[23:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:03] <exec> 08└─This guy is an Essex man..&etc.
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