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[00:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Try As They Might, Ransomware Crooks Can't Hide Their Tells When Playing Hands - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:11] <exec> 08└─Ransomware has almost no chance with a journaling file system combined with a proper backup policy. I have zero knowledge backup with 30 days of versions kept. I can restore a document across 200+ points in time in some cases. With such systems ransomware needs to stay hidden, and keep its operation...
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[00:27:12] <exec> 08└─I doubt a journaling file system would help. Better to just keep frequent backups. Of course, keeping your computer off the net helps.
[00:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:24] <exec> 08└─Concerning the lenses you can sure be lucky and pick some vintage optics for pennies on the dollar, but they are usually sold at a price reflecting their quality/rarity, now that people realized that with a cheap adapter mirrorless cams can use most mounts (even video mounts, think the C mount from...
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[00:27:26] <exec> 08└─Yep, the notorious "crop factor" will be huge.
[00:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:28] <exec> 08└─Depending on the camera body you can use a lot of vintage lenses on DSLRs. Nikon has used the F-Mount for ages now. You can use most F-Mount Nikkor lenses on the current crop of full frame DSLR bodies. Not all, but most. You might lose AF or metering on some but they are usable.
[00:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:30] <exec> 08└─The crop factor is only around 1.6x My old film lenses are just fine with a 1.6x crop
[00:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Removes Vaping Apps From App Store - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:59] <exec> 08└─That's actually exceptionally cool :) If you were trying to create a Tron effect in your mancave, those are perfect.
[00:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Removes Vaping Apps From App Store - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:01] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. Well then stop giving them that power. Apple actually has the right to control its app store. Stop giving power to corporations like that in the first place. There are ways to distribute software that route around such attempts at control as damage.
[00:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smokers and Hypertensive Individuals have Higher Risk of Sudden Death from Brain Bleed - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:47] <exec> 08└─It is true that medical research is published that has no meaning or purpose than to take attention away from real issues; that adds nothing useful while removing trust in the previous research; that is made so uninteresting and useless that one can't help but think that the medical field needs to a...
[00:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smokers and Hypertensive Individuals have Higher Risk of Sudden Death from Brain Bleed - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:48] <exec> 08└─Is an autopsy even needed? It seems like outside of cases of murder, a pet scan or other form of full body x-ray/3d through-tissue imaging should provide the insight into potential causes of a patient's death, and unlike autopsies themselves they would only cost operating time of the machine, and an...
[00:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:52] <exec> 08└─who gets authority over invoicing, setting the price, .etc
[00:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:53] <exec> 08└─Jobs driving for Uber are not worth preserving. You're better off flipping burgers for minimum wage. No wear and tear on your car, no extra insurance premiums for using your car as a commercial vehicle, not getting paid for waiting or driving around waiting for a call, not having to worry about gett...
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[01:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Try As They Might, Ransomware Crooks Can't Hide Their Tells When Playing Hands - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:03] <exec> 08└─The journaling filing system helps mitigate file corruption, which is what ransomware really is. At this point I wouldn't consider a file system that didn't perform journaling. Good point about backups though. They're definitely a major part of it, but not just frequency. Duration of the backups, or...
[01:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:20] <exec> 08└─Depending on the camera body you can use a lot of vintage lenses on DSLRs. Nikon has used the F-Mount for ages now. You can use most F-Mount Nikkor lenses on the current crop of full frame DSLR bodies. Not all, but most. You might lose AF or metering on some but they are usable.
[01:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:21] <exec> 08└─There were digital backs over 20 years ago, camera manufacturers decided it would be more profitable to sell an entire new camera.
[01:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:41] <exec> 08└─I'd be in favour of being able to give the city videos of people who don't pick up their dog shit in return for a cut of the fine. And I know most other dog owners feel the same way. Same as keeping your dog on a leash. Everyone would benefit - including the dogs who would not be at risk of getting...
[01:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:42] <exec> 08└─How naive do you really have to be to believe that? Having declared this, the politicians are now going to be paid visits by Uber's lobbying firm. They're going to be VERY generous with donating to their reelection campaigns. The politicians will also be getting visited by the taxicab unions and lob...
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[02:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:09] <exec> 08└─Will it be all AMD, all Intel, all NVIDIA (unlikely), Intel + NVIDIA, or AMD + NVIDIA?
[02:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Try As They Might, Ransomware Crooks Can't Hide Their Tells When Playing Hands - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:18] <exec> 08└─A log file system is what you are thinking of, I think. These are often continuously snapshotting, since no writes are done in place.
[02:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah...good luck getting some L glass for pennies on the dollar.
[02:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:38] <exec> 08└─Go fuck yourself. Bet you're glad RMS got cancled for "paedophillia apologism" Bet you're even happier he recanted, and is now standing in no-mans land.
[02:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:40] <exec> 08└─Isn't like adding milk to coffee? Ruins the coffee and ruins the milk. :-) Why add a probably not very good digital camera to a probably very good film camera? If you want digital, there is plenty of very good ones out there; the same goes for SLR.
[02:28:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03exaeta [6957] 02 - 06FCC Sued by Dozens of Cities After Voting to Kill Local Fees and Rules - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:42] <exec> 08└─No more local monopolies. This is actually good. For once, go FCC!
[02:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:01] <exec> 08└─I've done this gig - Company A payed Company B $11 per hour for employees. I was paid by Company B, $6 per hour. What did Company B do for me, above and beyond the $6 per hour? Nothing. They relieved Company A of some HR overhead, that's it.
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[03:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:14] <exec> 08└─Large DOD contracts (and small!) are regularly protested. This is nothing out of the ordinary.
[03:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:15] <exec> 08└─AMD would have been out of the running a couple of years ago. However, even Azure offers AMD options now: https://azure.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] Graphics cards for computational purposes is so situational I am doubtful it will be...
[03:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, AMD is winning in all categories now (faster and cheaper with lower power consumption). There is no reason to use Intel besides inertia, but this is the US government which is famous for inertia.
[03:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:20] <exec> 08└─From what I've heard, what is somewhat unusual is that this contract has no provision to wait, e.g., 90 days to allow protests to be addressed. I'm told that M$ has already starting working overtime with DoD to make it impractical for a challenge to the process to roll back and start over again with...
[03:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:51] <exec> 08└─It was really consumers that decided that hacking up an old camera at a significant fraction of the cost of a new digital one to get a frankenstein not-really-digital made a lot less sense than just buying a purpose-built digital in the first place. This was at best a very, very niche product. Now i...
[03:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Removes Vaping Apps From App Store - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:22] <exec> 08└─let's keep things simple and just ban dying.
[03:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Sued by Dozens of Cities After Voting to Kill Local Fees and Rules - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:58] <exec> 08└─In TFA there is this quote: "the Order prohibits excessive franchise fees and explains that local governments may not regulate most non-cable services, including broadband Internet access service, offered over a cable system." It doesn't say local governments can't decide who can offer cable in the...
[03:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smokers and Hypertensive Individuals have Higher Risk of Sudden Death from Brain Bleed - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:12] <exec> 08└─or people who write/publish articles for a living just gotta keep writing/publishing articles
[03:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Urges Congress to Require Ad Blocking Browsers for Govt Employees - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:52] <exec> 08└─Not if JavaScript is blocked.
[03:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fixes White Screen Problem in Chrome, Admins Furious - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:54] <exec> 08└─My problem with Firefox is twofold, the political one is that if I wanted a crappy Chrome clone I'd just run Chrome directly, the technical one is that since Firefox is now an also-ran there are lots of web sites that simply don't work with it, mostly ones that require some sort of auth and/or use a...
[03:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fixes White Screen Problem in Chrome, Admins Furious - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:55] <exec> 08└─fuck windows users. they are willing slaves.
[03:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fixes White Screen Problem in Chrome, Admins Furious - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:57] <exec> 08└─Google's apps have always been pretty much all-elbows, we control the system and will do whatever we want. Years ago I wanted to install Picasa for my parents to sort their photos, and it assumed the user was admin (i.e. my elderly parents were Windows system administrators on their PCs), shat all o...
[03:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fixes White Screen Problem in Chrome, Admins Furious - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:59] <exec> 08└─In a properly secure operating system, even the most shitty application should not be able to do that.
[03:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fixes White Screen Problem in Chrome, Admins Furious - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:01] <exec> 08└─In Nixos everything has its own directory under /nix/store and mounted read-only.
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[04:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:21] <exec> 08└─Or AMD + Intel. Lots of chips from both companies. Microsoft got slightly custom Zen+ chips for Surface so there's that.
[04:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:53] <exec> 08└─EF mount hasn't been around as long as the Nikon one but on the plus side it doesn't require a motor inside the camera to work the lens. Although on a camera with minimal support for recording video, having a non-Canon lens with only manual aperture control seems to come in handy.
[04:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Removes Vaping Apps From App Store - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:26] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, less legitimate suppliers (especially in states where THC is not legalized) wanted to add far more filler than was necessary to make the THC vape properly, but if they just used PG or VG, it was visually apparent that the THC was overly diluted.
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[05:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Feds Indict 14 Over Alleged Scheme To Defraud Apple - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:11] <exec> 08└─Let's get it started here. The Chink menace starts on the west coast. They know the time is short, and that is why it starts here. Now.
[05:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Feds Indict 14 Over Alleged Scheme To Defraud Apple - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:12] <exec> 08└─Can't they just hijack a truck leaving the factory?
[05:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Indict 14 Over Alleged Scheme To Defraud Apple - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:14] <exec> 08└─I am looking at you, Amazon. I liked you back when you were selling books.
[05:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:33] <exec> 08└─I'd be in favour of being able to give the city videos of people who don't pick up their dog shit in return for a cut of the fine.
[05:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:35] <exec> 08└─You conveniently ignored that Uber AND Lyft drivers have no control over pricing.
[05:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:37] <exec> 08└─Jobs driving for Uber are not worth preserving.
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[06:27:10] <exec> 08└─What skills did they bring to the table to qualify for visas to live here?
[06:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like he just tapes the original shutter and mirror out of the way, and sticks the Raspberry Pi where the film would go. So it's really just a light-tight box with a mount to hold a lens on front. You can't even use the original viewfinder anymore because the mirror is in the way, and you're no...
[06:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:57] <exec> 08└─The Raspberry Pi camera sensor is about 3.7 x 2.7 mm. The size of a full frame 35 mm camera image is 36 mm x 24 mm. That's about a 9:1 crop factor. Without going into all the details, it's going to provide poor quality with even the best 35 mm camera lenses ever made.
[06:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:59] <exec> 08└─To the best of my knowledge, there are no fixed-mirror digital cameras comparable to the film Canon Pellix or EOS RT. I would love such a camera.
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[07:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Holiday Shoppers Beware: Look-Alike Domains Are Targeting Your Wallet - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:11] <exec> 08└─When Let's Encrypt launched, I knew this was going to happen. I warned SN about using Let's Encrypt several years ago because I foresaw major browsers dropping them as a trusted CA because of widespread abuse. Never, ever have faith in humanity. You will be disappointed EVERY time. My cynicism predi...
[07:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Holiday Shoppers Beware: Look-Alike Domains Are Targeting Your Wallet - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:12] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that people were taught to trust the icons.. I.E: they see a lock, or a green lock and think "I'm safe. This is the website I wanted." Google/Chrome has pushed this, even going so far as to declare unencrypted connections as "unsafe" even when they're perfectly fine. However, you...
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[07:27:15] <exec> 08└─https://news.umich.edu/how-lets-encrypt-doubled-the-internets-percentage-of-secure-websites-in-four-years/ [umich.edu] Major browsers aren't dropping support for Let's Encrypt though. And Mozilla is one of the founders of Let's Encrypt. The major browsers can maintain or use blacklists instead. Are...
[07:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Try As They Might, Ransomware Crooks Can't Hide Their Tells When Playing Hands - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:47] <exec> 08└─I think they are actually thinking of the more common Copy-on-Write file systems like ZFS or btrfs. CoW file systems work, essentially, by storing a new copy of each file on write and have many characteristics in common with incremental backups. In fact, many CoW systems explicitly allow you to save...
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[07:27:49] <exec> 08└─No, Journaling file systems do nothing to prevent FILE corruption. They are designed to prevent FILE SYSTEM corruption. Specifically, they are designed to keep the different metadata structures of the disk in a consistent state. Ordered journals with barriers have the additional design benefit of ke...
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[08:27:11] <exec> 08└─The difference is that these are legitimate certificates for illegitimate websites. All other trust revocations came from the issuance of illegitimate certificates for ligitimate websites. Even without Let's Encrypt, somebody would still sell these DV certificates. Probably one of the big names too.
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[08:27:22] <exec> 08└─Entrepreneurship!
[08:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:36] <exec> 08└─I hear that the NSA has a new security project coming up: Systems Infrastructure Technology Hacking (SITH). Might have better luck with that one.
[08:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:14] <exec> 08└─Why add a probably not very good digital camera to a probably very good film camera?
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[09:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:11] <exec> 08└─I can't find the law's text, but I have no doubt it still will do absolutely nothing to outlaw political robocalls.
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[09:27:13] <exec> 08└─https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/house-senate-announce-agreement-on-anti-robocall-bill [house.gov] In May, the Senate passed [senate.gov] the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act by a vote of 97-1. In July, the House of Representatives pas...
[09:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Indict 14 Over Alleged Scheme To Defraud Apple - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:35] <exec> 08└─Don't you get some kind of lifetime achievement award for that? Beat the boss with his own weapon kind of thing?
[09:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fixes White Screen Problem in Chrome, Admins Furious - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:35] <exec> 08└─He complained *nix are a mess since they spread around binaries, data and configurations all over the directory hierarchy. While there are some customary conventions, and there's even the FHS specs [wikipedia.org] from the linux foundations, none of it is actually part of the *nix standard. So I reb...
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[10:27:11] <exec> 08└─Political robocalls don't have the same impact anymore. Nobody wants them and they get drowned out by all the other spam callers.
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[11:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:14] <exec> 08└─When the robot calls you, you'd better get used to be nice and do what it says. You'll eventually have to anyway.
[11:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:15] <exec> 08└─Political robocalls have at least one tiny saving grace. They do remind people that they should get out and vote, if only to defeat the irritating sumbitch who disturbed you while performing some important task, such as, ohhhhh, I dunno, watching paint dry? Most robocalls lack even that redeeming va...
[11:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:17] <exec> 08└─Huh. I'm not even nice to people who call me, can't see why I would be nice to a bot. Call me, and see how nice I am - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Indict 14 Over Alleged Scheme To Defraud Apple - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:40] <exec> 08└─Somebody indict the jewish bankers that sold fake assets to everybody. They sold a piece of paper they said was equivalent to money, which it wasn't. First they manipulate market to raise prices then they sell and then they dump. Indicting chinese fakers is easy; jewish bankers is not. The system is...
[11:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:54] <exec> 08└─Or, Windows is: So Hackable It's True (SHIT)
[11:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:33] <exec> 08└─My old film lenses are just fine with a 1.6x crop
[11:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:35] <exec> 08└─Same with Pentax. Unlike some of the other SLR makers, Pentax went out of their way to make their DSLRs compatible with their older K-mount film lenses, probably because they did not have the resources (as Canon and Nikon did) to introduce a full range of digital lenses all at once at the time. You...
[11:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:37] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The claim that "a wide selection of cameras and lenses are available on the second hand market for pennies on the dollar" is misleading. Quality film cameras are holding their prices well, although you can always find cheap crap like Zenith. Some, like the Pentax K1000, if in good nick sell...
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[11:28:40] <exec> 08└─I don't think any of the other 35mm camera makers made any attempt to allow their older lenses to be used on their digital cameras
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[12:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:21] <exec> 08└─This will be a 1000 page monstrosity and we will learn next year that only the first 20 pages deal with robocalls, the rest will be a surprise authoritarian power grab festival unless somehow the world flipped upside down overnight. Prove me wrong. I don't bother to read many things that are intende...
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[12:27:32] <exec> 08└─This isn't abuse though? HTTPS tells you that you actually are connecting to the server in the URL and that no one else is eavesdropping. All of this is still true. Users will need to re-learn to check the URL, if they stopped doing that. Both Firefox and Chromium gray out the non-domain parts of th...
[12:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:01] <exec> 08└─Scuba diver ironing underwater - US Army Approaching shark in background - 'Cloud' services operated by the armies of other countries in other countries Heck at least aws is kindof american such that the cia can lol trust them with a huge contract, meaning it is the cia enough that the cia trusts th...
[12:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:44] <exec> 08└─camera manufacturers decided it would be more profitable to sell an entire new camera
[12:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:46] <exec> 08└─an f44 lens originally for film SLRs
[12:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:48] <exec> 08└─he could accomplish the same thing without the SLR. Just build a light-tight box with the camera sensor inside of it, that can mount the lens out front
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[13:27:23] <exec> 08└─They are not going to come up with anything that would work, it is pure political posturing for next year's election. In order to stop robocalls, they are would have to require not only that all calls are human initiated, but that the dialing human check the number against the "do not call" list The...
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[14:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei's First Google-Free Phone Stripped And Searched: Repair Not Too Painful... Once You're In - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:08] <exec> 08└─Fuck China.
[14:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei's First Google-Free Phone Stripped And Searched: Repair Not Too Painful... Once You're In - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:10] <exec> 08└─And, that is why you don't get good things. You'll screw anything that moves, and if it doesn't move, you'll move it yourself. Put your silly little dick away, and talk about phones - or something.
[14:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei's First Google-Free Phone Stripped And Searched: Repair Not Too Painful... Once You're In - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:12] <exec> 08└─Honey, i got good things, gob loads of them. You can, too. Here, suck this. Oh, almost forgot: Fuck china.
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[15:27:14] <exec> 08└─US Numbah Two Japan Numbah Three China Numbah Eight fuck yoooooouuu china numba wan
[15:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Holiday Shoppers Beware: Look-Alike Domains Are Targeting Your Wallet - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:45] <exec> 08└─weeeeeelllll you gotta consider that this article is posted on a site that sells more or less competing product at a very high price. Its like panicking that Toyota is going downhill because you read an article explaining how Toyota is inferior... and further research indicates its literally posted...
[15:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Shoppers Beware: Look-Alike Domains Are Targeting Your Wallet - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:46] <exec> 08└─Ford was bought out by Yugo a long time ago.
[15:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Indict 14 Over Alleged Scheme To Defraud Apple - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:01] <exec> 08└─How to play the welfare system.
[15:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:02] <exec> 08└─Interestingly thats the crop factor for my EOS 7D, AC must own Canon products. They're nice, aren't they AC? Other brands are all over the map. For fun I was motivated yesterday to look for APS sensor breakout board and such as you'd think camera hackers would want some kind of raspi/arduino breakou...
[15:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Fixes White Screen Problem in Chrome, Admins Furious - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:11] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, while there are certainly a political issues with Firefox, that's not what I would have pegged them as :-p - Ousting their CEO because he donated privately to the wrong side of an issue on the ballot. - Blocking the Gab plugin for non technical, non security, non legal reasons (pol...
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[16:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Bank To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels In 'Landmark Decision' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:21] <exec> 08└─That not investing in something did nothing to actually stop that thing unless everyone did it.
[16:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:36] <exec> 08└─Bailout without prosecution Ukraine Libya Syria Due process free execution Forced subsidization of the private insurance industry Mass surveillance Abuse of the Espionage Act Our problems are the cults which believe Democrats aren't equally responsible for the shit.
[16:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:37] <exec> 08└─Prove me wrong
[16:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:20] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has a much longer history of involvement with the USG than Amazon does, and not only that, *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Amazon is run by a globalist pedo cuck
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[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─Yes. Even "legitimate" robocalls are a pain in the ass and should be banned. While there are some provisions WRT do-not-call, this bill focuses (mostly) on scam calls. Most importantly, it *requires* voice providers to validate the purported caller id of the call as coming from that source, block su...
[17:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:42] <exec> 08└─who enter your phone number onto websites for "shipping confirmation" and other things deserve what you get. I get one robocall a month, if that, because I've maintained vigilance for years and years about who gets my number. Seriously, stop entering your personal information except where absolutely...
[17:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:45] <exec> 08└─Anyone who still uses electricity deserves what she gets. Guns and oil is the answer.
[17:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:27] <exec> 08└─Every time I read one of your posted comments, I am reminded of reading the newspaper articles in SimCity 2000.
[17:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:28] <exec> 08└─The ironing is strong in this one.
[17:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:56] <exec> 08└─Their point, I think, is that being able to reject the offer is not relevant to the discussion of whether you are a contractor or an employee.
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[18:27:26] <exec> 08└─What's with the people who cling to fossil fuels in defiance of all reason and sanity? Even when fossil fuels plain cost more money and are less convenient, some still cling. I can only think it's a visceral dislike of change. In our daily lives, personal transportation in the form of the automobile...
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[18:27:46] <exec> 08└─Bullshit, "Our agreement will require telephone carriers to verify calls and allow robocalls to be blocked in a consistent and transparent way" IOW, they are demanding the carriers develop call log databases that are easier to search by the government. When they created the "do not call list", all t...
[18:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Indict 14 Over Alleged Scheme To Defraud Apple - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:15] <exec> 08└─Those 10,000 'fake' [backdoored & rootkitted] iPhones & iPads were intended for sale to Registered Sex Offenders residing in the USA. They have unique surveillance & tracking capabilities that normal iPhones & iPads don't. How to steal an American city: Montes v. City of Yakima - https://www.aclu-wa...
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[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Metal Array Floats Even When Damaged - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─All this means is that the metal has a net density (after trapped / hydrophobically attached air is included) lower than water. One can hope it is structurally stronger, and less prone to corrosion / fracture than styrofoam. There were a few houseboats in Miami that were floated on styrofoam pontoon...
[19:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Metal Array Floats Even When Damaged - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:16] <exec> 08└─I watched the video, it's a pattern etched onto the sides of the sheetmetal with a laser. Looks to me like a single use type deal. Maybe useful for torpedo casing.
[19:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Metal Array Floats Even When Damaged - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─Not just the strength, but, what is the load bearing capacity? As in, how much of this stuff will it take to carry a ferry load of cars and people? Can't forget how it affects ship handling. We've got a ferry loaded with 12 cars, a couple delivery trucks, and 200 passengers. Does it sit in the water...
[19:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Bank To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels In 'Landmark Decision' - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:36] <exec> 08└─The Bank of China maybe?
[19:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Bank To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels In 'Landmark Decision' - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:38] <exec> 08└─Khallow, paging khallow!
[19:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:59] <exec> 08└─Read it, It boils down to this. They are creating a committee (whose members are undefined, but will assuredly comprise those telcos whose dicks Congress regularly sucks) to figure out how to do what they say they have already done. Since of course they have no idea how to do what they say they just...
[19:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:01] <exec> 08└─I feel like we've been subjected to an intentional upswing in robocall annoyances in the last few years, just so they can set the strawman ablaze just before November 2020...
[19:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:03] <exec> 08└─An interesting exercise is to setup a Google Talk or similar phone number for the express purpose of catching all the crap that comes from "give us your phone number or we won't process your order" B.S. I did something similar with a "give us your name/address to access our newborns website" 18 year...
[19:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:05] <exec> 08└─Give us specifics, friend. Not your interpretation/regurgitation of talking points, but specific sections of the bill that *directly* support your assertions that: assuredly comprise those telcos whose dicks Congress regularly sucks
[19:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:07] <exec> 08└─I feel like we've been subjected to an intentional upswing in robocall annoyances in the last few years, just so they can set the strawman ablaze just before November 2020...
[19:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:09] <exec> 08└─this is why i don't fund them. it's either that or burn them alive, but defunding should work fine.
[19:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:11] <exec> 08└─"Our agreement will require telephone carriers to verify calls and allow robocalls to be blocked in a consistent and transparent way" IOW, they are demanding the carriers develop call log databases that are easier to search by the government.
[19:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:14] <exec> 08└─I find it surprising that you only get 1 robocall a month. There's only a finite number of 10-digit phone numbers, and a good proportion of them are in use. There are definitely robocallers that don't use lists and just increment through the possible phone numbers, which is obvious in places where t...
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[19:30:54] <exec> 08└─That is kindof an interesting view. Without financial incentive, the state governments will have no incentive (other than bribery, in all of its various lawful and unlawful forms) to continue with exclusive right-of way-contracts. In fact, the Fed would be invalidated hundreds of contracts between t...
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[20:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:12] <exec> 08└─Siezures are caused by the brain trying to compensate for chaotic muscle contractions, so it makes sense it would be easy to predict them from electrical activity. Look at every siezure treatment, it always includes muscle relaxers. Just one more thing where medical researchers reversed cause and ef...
[20:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:14] <exec> 08└─They didn't call it AI then, but SSDD - same stuff, different decade: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org [ieee.org] Warnings an average of 71.7 minutes before onset...
[20:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Metal Array Floats Even When Damaged - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:24] <exec> 08└─The question is if the metal lattice will be structurally stronger than styrofoam filled boats which last more or less forever already. We have the floaty part down already - There are plenty of boats that have foam filled hulls and are essentially unsinkable, the most famous is probably the Boston...
[20:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Metal Array Floats Even When Damaged - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:26] <exec> 08└─The interesting part here is: if the buoyancy is obtained from compressible gas "attached" to the outside of the metal layer, that buoyancy is going to diminish with depth, down to ~50% @ 30', ~33% @ 60' etc. It's not actually a great profile for depth control, SCUBA divers need to actively control...
[20:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Huawei's First Google-Free Phone Stripped And Searched: Repair Not Too Painful... Once You're In - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:37] <exec> 08└─Google and Apple free - Seems like a nice feature we haven't seen in a long time. Sophisticated Camera Setup - I use my camera as a phone once in a blue moon. Seems to be a waste having four or five sensors to me. Curved OLED Display - Not sure why I would want to look at my phone from the beveled e...
[20:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's First Google-Free Phone Stripped And Searched: Repair Not Too Painful... Once You're In - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:38] <exec> 08└─Those are roughly my thoughts as well. It also has a Nano Memory slot, instead of Micro SD. Sorry, I am not going to get involved with propriety memory cards . Does anyone remember those expensive Sony ones? No, I thought not.
[20:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:17] <exec> 08└─The perhaps one small benefit of all of this is that so many people have been trained now that unwanted call = scam, is that politicians may think twice about using robocalls even if political robocalls are still allowed in the laws.
[20:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:18] <exec> 08└─Are you the blonde in the white dress?
[20:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quick And Dirty Digital Conversion For Analog SLR Camera - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:52] <exec> 08└─Exactly, though I might consider just getting a sensor so I wouldn't have to tear apart a RPI camera, though I assume the RPI camera is cheap and interfacing to it is easy.
[20:33:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Prehistoric Ape From Germany Was a Pioneer of Two-Legged Walking - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─There are lots of examples of different species evolving similar traits in response to environmental/situational factors at different times and in different places. We call that Convergent Evolution [wikipedia.org] (CE) Examples: Flying: Bats, birds, flying insects (there are examples of CE among in...
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[21:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─Mine could tell when I was about to pass out from low blood sugar,,and are a lot more portable than an AI. Plus, a lot more reassuring to wake up to, and better at keeping people at a distance when it happens in public.
[21:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:15] <exec> 08└─And, you don't look as silly - those electrode caps have never been stylish.
[21:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:19] <exec> 08└─It has been for a long time, reactionary angry nerds.
[21:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Indict 14 Over Alleged Scheme To Defraud Apple - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:48] <exec> 08└─They'll be awarded 5-10 years
[21:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Removes Vaping Apps From App Store - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:28] <exec> 08└─Just like how there are a trillion tip calculator specific apps. Use your stock calculator, you dumbass
[21:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brave Urges Congress to Require Ad Blocking Browsers for Govt Employees - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:01] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one who finds it uber ironic that Brave touts its ad blocking browser so heavily with ads? I don't trust anything that advertises so hard - how do they support such aggressive ad buys?
[21:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moscow-Contacted Rebels Charged with Downing MH17: Investigators - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─There is also the fact that the population of Crimea actually voted to secede from Ukraine
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[22:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple 'Surprised' by Germany's New Law to Open Up Mobile Payments - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:07] <exec> 08└─After buying an iPhone, Apple consumers are surprised to have any money left to spend.
[22:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:18] <exec> 08└─Anyone who doesn't parrot what it says in the textbook must be a "troll", I wonder what type of person modded it that way? A. Government employee B. Destitute/Indebted C. Republicrat D. All of the above
[22:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:19] <exec> 08└─Your article says: > A fixed parameter setting applied to all cases predicted 82% of seizures with a false prediction rate of 0.16/h. That's a bit different than 99.6%.
[22:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:22] <exec> 08└─They can always hide them under a colander and claim they're part of the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The seizures happen when they're touched by his holy noodle-y appendage
[22:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Metal Array Floats Even When Damaged - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:33] <exec> 08└─Skynet will use this technology to build terminators that can swim.
[22:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Bank To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels In 'Landmark Decision' - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:56] <exec> 08└─Let's be clear up front here, I do think fossil fuels need to be phased out wherever possible. wherever possible != everywhere they're in use. I'm very much in favour of wind and solar being put in, and will happily pay a bit extra on my utility bill to help it happen. I would not be averse to livin...
[22:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Bank To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels In 'Landmark Decision' - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:57] <exec> 08└─What's with the people who cling to fossil fuels in defiance of all reason and sanity? Even when fossil fuels plain cost more money and are less convenient, some still cling. I can only think it's a visceral dislike of change.
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[23:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple 'Surprised' by Germany's New Law to Open Up Mobile Payments - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:09] <exec> 08└─Now, if Apple had the children of members of the ruling party on its board, they could've avoided this. And of course it would all be perfectly legal and ethical…
[23:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple 'Surprised' by Germany's New Law to Open Up Mobile Payments - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:11] <exec> 08└─" Giving competitors' access to this platform (for a fee) would help to even the playing field. "
[23:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple 'Surprised' by Germany's New Law to Open Up Mobile Payments - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:13] <exec> 08└─Every German is a Nazi but Apple's Tim Cock is Hitler
[23:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple 'Surprised' by Germany's New Law to Open Up Mobile Payments - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:15] <exec> 08└─"duplicitous sniveling bootlicking fag-authoritarian globohomo" If you take that statement literally, it sounds more like the Demokrauts.
[23:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:29] <exec> 08└─Is there any research into why people make such poor medical decisions? Their brains must be somehow switched off, since this can't be explained just plain stupidity. At the end of the day, our DNA differs from a monkey by only 2%. That is probably why people blindly trust medical researchers. I thi...
[23:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop an AI System With Near-Perfect Seizure Prediction - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:30] <exec> 08└─Probably for the same reasons people stay o medications for years that don't work. The whole chemical imbalance in the brain " as the cause for depression has been debunked (it was ultimately just marketspeak) but people are afraid to take responsibility for their own outcomes. And same as any other...
[23:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Metal Array Floats Even When Damaged - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:44] <exec> 08└─As of now in practice these materials start losing their effectiveness over time once submerged or abraided[sic]
[23:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei's First Google-Free Phone Stripped And Searched: Repair Not Too Painful... Once You're In - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:57] <exec> 08└─Are you the same Chinaman who told me that you will play a joke, that you will go pee-pee in my Coke? You insectoid bugmen should stop drinking caffeine, your ganglia were not designed to handle it.
[23:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei's First Google-Free Phone Stripped And Searched: Repair Not Too Painful... Once You're In - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:59] <exec> 08└─It is supposedly compatible with Nano SIM [wikipedia.org] slots, which are standardized: Huawei Introduces a Memory Card That Fits into a Nano SIM Slot [soylentnews.org] The use of the slot as a storage device is limited to a few Huawei smartphones unless it somehow gets wildly popular (doubt it wit...
[23:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:44] <exec> 08└─Neither. He's the old-sounding guy here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US House and Senate Finally Agree on Something: Robocalls - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:45] <exec> 08└─They are charging the FCC (referred to as the "Commission" and whose members a quite well-known) to promulgate regulations within 1 year of enactment. They are also increasing the enforcement powers, including confiscation of dial-out numbers, lengthening the statute of limitations, increasing other...
[23:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Holiday Shoppers Beware: Look-Alike Domains Are Targeting Your Wallet - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:59] <exec> 08└─The problem is trusting any CA A CA took money off someone, that's all that a certificate proves. I have more trust for self-signed certificates than for ones from 99% of the CAs in the firefox defaut trust list.
[23:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Removes Vaping Apps From App Store - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:56] <exec> 08└─Yes. Stop allowing yourself to be used by proprietary software (which gives the tyrants who make it control over your computing) and locked-down prisons like Apple devices.
[23:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Removes Vaping Apps From App Store - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:58] <exec> 08└─Personally, I rarely bother with even the pencil and paper. Since you called me a dumbass, let's try a practical. I have unflavored nicotine at 100mg/ml. I want 15% flavoring (by volume) in 150ml of juice at 30mg/ml. Please show your work. Then ask your mom and dad to do it.
[23:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Urges Congress to Require Ad Blocking Browsers for Govt Employees - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:32] <exec> 08└─Not (yet) if JavaScript is blocked.
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