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[00:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─I grew up taking it for granted that felons can't vote. Over the years, I've come to understand that depriving a person of his rights FOR LIFE is probably unconstitutional. Hey, you are found guilty of a crime, you go off to prison, pay your debt to society, and you should walk out of prison a free...
[00:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:17] <exec> 08└─Then again - do we want every dope smoking convict in the country voting? Crazy stuff will happen, like legalizing that Mary Jane weed
[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:19] <exec> 08└─Your sarcasm detector is broken.
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:22] <exec> 08└─With Runaway, you can never be too sure. Some insanity spews forth, and "oh, you were serious?"
[00:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:24] <exec> 08└─Over the years, I've come to understand that depriving a person of his rights FOR LIFE is probably unconstitutional. Hey, you are found guilty of a crime, you go off to prison, pay your debt to society, and you should walk out of prison a free man.
[00:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:26] <exec> 08└─After all, it's okay for dead people to vote Democrat, so there's no reason felons can't too.
[00:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying that people from both parties haven't committed election fraud. The specific issue is the restoration of rights to ex-felons (or never taking them away - see compro01's comment).
[00:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:31] <exec> 08└─Uhhh, Takyon, your partisanship is showing. Without Democratic votes, all those "law and order" measures would never get passed. What was that bill that Clinton signed? Three strikes and you're out? He could have vetoed the bill, but he didn't. Someone objected that the Republican controlled congres...
[00:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─Wholly irrelevant reply. The point is that Republicans do not want to grant voting rights to a group that is likely to vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Blacks vote for Democrats at around 85-95%, and make up about 35-40% of the prison population. Once you're past them, you've got the roughly 20% Hisp...
[00:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:2) 02Whereas in Canada - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:35] <exec> 08└─In Canada, even those currently in prison cannot be prevented from voting [wikipedia.org], much less after release. There are precisely 3 ways to temporarily lose your right to vote in Canada 1. Be the Chief Electoral Officer 2. Be the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer 3. Not be resident in Canada for...
[00:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:45] <exec> 08└─When a "personal" "computer" cost $5000, you could expect to find one "computer" in every middle class home. Schools might have one "computer" per classroom or even dedicate a classroom to be a "computer" "laboratory" as they were called back then. "Computers" were a big deal. Kids were taught to be...
[00:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of my state is doomed, DOOMED! - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:56] <exec> 08└─Florida.
[00:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just zombies? - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:06] <exec> 08└─I pictured large cities becoming war zones Washington, Baltimore and Chicago already are, don't you know? Although it's black on black violence. As a very astute person has noted, In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 per cent. They are up nearly 60 per cent in nearby Baltimore. In th...
[00:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zombies - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:09] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you know it? I own a couple of buildings. And I have my zombie preparedness plan down to my shooting perches. Turns out people are willing to pay for a mix of being able to plan in detail and think somewhat creatively. Who would have thunk it?* *Makes no claims to being responsible. Still h...
[00:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New Jersey - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:15] <exec> 08└─I live in New Jersey. Our state barely has enough of what it takes to survive Tuesdays. But we're mean, ruthless and don't give a crap so we're not worried about zombies.
[00:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:18] <exec> 08└─How did they rank gun ownership ? In a state like say the one I'm in now, Arizona, there is no requirement to register a gun purchased in state, nor do they require permits for open carry, and unless you are seeking to carry out of state under a reciprocity law, you don't even need a permit to carry...
[00:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:20] <exec> 08└─Gun sales in the state? I'd have to say I would much rather be here than in Alaska should the infrastructure fail.
[00:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─You don't get people to see a new point of view by insulting them, though as humans that is the hardest thing for us to accomplish :)
[00:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:37] <exec> 08└─Nobody is "pro" Guantanamo Bay, you alarmingly stupid nitwit. You created a convenient strawman for you to knock over. You want to know who's ANTI Guantanamo Bay? President Obama. Why don't you ask him why he didn't release this guy for the last 8 years?
[00:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:40] <exec> 08└─Nobody is "pro" Guantanamo Bay, you alarmingly stupid nitwit.
[00:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:42] <exec> 08└─A true statement cannot be slanderous or libelous at the same time.
[00:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:47] <exec> 08└─Its [dailykos.com] worse [usuncut.com] than [militarytimes.com] that. [wonkette.com]
[00:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─Sanders was not a serious candidate and he backed the corrupt system. Bernie was a complete fraud, by not standing up to Hilary on her actions in Libya and her misuse of classified material. Good job! If you don't like all the H1b visa workers or the TPP there is only one candidate who has stood aga...
[00:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:54] <exec> 08└─At least? Look at her track record. She's the biggest war hawk that ran in this election. None of the others compare. Don't forget that most states have one or two other parties on the ballot. This not a binary choice, no matter how much the two major parties want you to think so. Vote for someone,...
[00:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:59] <exec> 08└─Trump is the only candidate that will come down hard on these inbred ingrates.
[00:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jeff Davis was released sooner - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:10] <exec> 08└─Jefferson Davis spent only two years in prison, and he was President of the Confederate States in armed rebellion against the Union.
[00:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Best practices... - 06Best Practices Document for Automotive Security Has Been Published - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:11] <exec> 08└─And this is why I am leery of Tesla Motors. This is coming from somebody who read the manual for the Tesla roadster cover-to-cover.
[00:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Cyanogen Inc. Lays Off OS Development Team - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:17] <exec> 08└─India isn't one huge toilet? http://www.independent.co.uk [independent.co.uk]
[00:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heh. For those who missed it... - 06This $50 Android Smartphone may be the Best Deal in Tech - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:01] <exec> 08└─In case you missed it, Consumer Cellular markets toward seniors specifically. They even sell a device you can wear which will detect when you've fallen and can't get up.
[00:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:warning, poison gas - 06Super-Eruptions May Give Only a Year's Warning - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:50] <exec> 08└─I think they're talking more about the one underneath Yellowstone, or one of it's analogues.
[00:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:easy test, if you even bother - 06US Lags in Highway Safety - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:30:52] <exec> 08└─A driver should always turn his head to double check what he thinks his mirror is showing him.
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[01:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:32] <exec> 08└─I think the point is relevant. Democrats have their own reasons for keeping black voters on the plantation, and for keeping felons unregistered. Again - democrats haven't made any inroads into re-enfranchising felons. As you point out, felons are disproportionately black, so where are the dems on th...
[01:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:33] <exec> 08└─Why isn't Hillary campaigning on the issue?
[01:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:35] <exec> 08└─Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, a Democrat, for starters. We don't have to wonder about Hillary's stance on this, because she tweeted it: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] The 12 states in which the right to vote is stripped permanently are Alabama, Ari...
[01:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:38] <exec> 08└─Why isn't Hillary campaigning on the issue? Make no mistake, despite the blatant tokenism, they are still the party of George Wallace. "Roots run deep"
[01:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:40] <exec> 08└─She does support it: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] http://addictinginfo.org [addictinginfo.org]
[01:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think felons are an easy category of people to throw under the bus if needed, and that both parties have taken advantage of this fact at various times. It's just too easy to attack a politician for "siding with criminals" and too hard to attack them for siding against.
[01:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:44] <exec> 08└─Beyond the tweet I linked with Hillary supporting the VA governor, I have found that, yes, Hillary HAS campaigned on the issue: http://addictinginfo.org [addictinginfo.org] Sheeeeit
[01:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:47] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the restriction of right of felons to vote was in these states constitution since before there existed republicans and democrats, right? And those states were admitted to the union with those prohibitions intact. We've come to expect you to blame every evil in the world on Republ...
[01:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:49] <exec> 08└─"You do realize that the restriction of right of felons to vote was in these states constitution since before there existed republicans and democrats, right? That may be true. I'm sure that today there are many more laws (ways) to make one a felon than there were back then.
[01:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:51] <exec> 08└─We've come to expect you to blame every evil in the world on Republicans, but even for you, this is a long reach.
[01:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:54] <exec> 08└─Over the years, I've come to understand that depriving a person of his rights FOR LIFE is probably unconstitutional.
[01:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Whereas in Canada - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:57] <exec> 08└─nobody likes an enlightened do-gooder... no, seriously, those are the first Empire kills...
[01:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Me at age 9 - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:07] <exec> 08└─You still have that same childlike innocent charm.
[01:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Me at age 9 - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:09] <exec> 08└─About as childlike and innocent as Stewie Griffin, you mean.
[01:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:12] <exec> 08└─The troll is right on the money though. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Release date June 10, 1977; 39 years ago Introductory price US$1,298 (equivalent to $5,069 in 2015)
[01:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:15] <exec> 08└─I seem to be doing all right as a coder/developer/programmer/whatever you want to call me. Sure I'd like a little more money, but things are looking up this year. No matter what you do you have to pay close attention to figuring out how to produce something that people are willing to pay for.
[01:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:17] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what people are willing to pay for, nor do I care. I've heard Woz has the same attitude toward money, and yet Woz is rich as fuck.
[01:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of my state is doomed, DOOMED! - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah I moved from Florida as well. To New Hampshire. Didn't choose well, should have moved one state to the east, Maine. Oh well, nothing stopping me from heading that direction.
[01:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just zombies? - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:40] <exec> 08└─And in turn, ham operators will look to the postal services to deliver the inevitable QSL cards. Never mind the zombies, the mail will get through.
[01:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:09] <exec> 08└─You are wrong. Anybody who votes republican is definitely pro Guantanamo. And most of the democrats don't give a shit, or they would have raised their voices and looked for candidates to elect that would shut it down. It is the ANTI Guantanamo people who are weak and ineffectual, maybe intentionally...
[01:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jeff Davis was released sooner - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:35] <exec> 08└─Only two years for actual treason and sedition? Meanwhile our rogue government is trampling human rights and destroying any international goodwill it may have built up over the years. People are being told to avoid traveling to the US these days because we torture and murder innocent people and nobo...
[01:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Given that all new chips... - 06AMD Mulls a CPU+GPU Super-Chip in a Server Reboot - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:10] <exec> 08└─That bullshit is all thanks to sucking microsoft cock along with whoring themselves to the *AA johns. And Fuck intel and its garbage designs: ACPI, IME, EFI, etc.
[01:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relaxe; pot is not ergot - 06Colorado Town's Water May Be Tainted With Marijuana - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:11] <exec> 08└─Holy shit! A sarcasm detector that's immune to even /s! That's an accomplishment.
[01:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Skeet shooting with prizes..... - 06Donuts in Flight in First US-Approved Drone Delivery - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:55] <exec> 08└─has finally arrived!!!
[01:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The biggest takeaways - 06Wikileaks Releases 20,000 DNC Email Archive - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:38] <exec> 08└─in the shape of a sheriff's star, wink wink
[01:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking Assholes... at WikiLeaks - 06Wikileaks Releases 20,000 DNC Email Archive - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:56] <exec> 08└─I searched for "visa" and looked at 3 of the 183 results. The mails I looked at had each donor's name, address, occupation, employer, employer's address, phone number, user-agent, IP address, amount of contribution, card type, and last four digits from the credit card. They don't have the full credi...
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[02:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:46] <exec> 08└─When did this "support" begin? Did she ever make one squeak about it while she was in the senate? Or any other time before her 2008 campaign? Sorry, sounds like regular electioneering... *Blowin' in the wind* These people are supposed to lead, not follow fickle public opinion. She's definitely bogus...
[02:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:53] <exec> 08└─> Blacks vote for Democrats at around 85-95%, What proportion of black felons vote?
[02:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:55] <exec> 08└─I don't know. If there is data, it won't be completely reliable since some states don't consistently notify [washingtonexaminer.com] felons that they can vote again, or require an application to be submitted. I can tell you that a greater proportion of blacks than whites voted in the 2012 U.S. elect...
[02:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Interesting) 02"McAuliffe gets last laugh" - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:02] <exec> 08└─It's not reported in the summary that McAuliffe has already begun individually restoring voting rights to those on the list [washingtontimes.com], 13,000 to start with and he pledges to do the same for all 200,000 disenfranchised voters. All of them. Individually. Because the ruling only keeps him f...
[02:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Three strikes law... - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:04] <exec> 08└─Everyone makes mistakes, so I think people shouldn't be treated or labeled as lifetime felons unless they were convicted of three felony crimes. Anyone with three or more felony counts will always be a criminal and deserve no vote, welfare, social security, or any other benefit. I also think prisons...
[02:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Three strikes law... - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:06] <exec> 08└─Crime shouldn't pay if you're a repeat offender.
[02:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Sheeple - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:08] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when 90%+ vote for one political party.
[02:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Pokeman 3D - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:23] <exec> 08└─If kids today could just throw a pokeball at dysentery and AIDS they'd be fine.
[02:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shotgun, meat cleavers, and bbq pit - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:42] <exec> 08└─Personally I might add some molasses or switch the jalapeños for habaneros, and depending on whether they were a frequent McDonald's customer may need some salt to bring out the flavors, but I recommend this recipe [imgur.com] as a starting point.
[02:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Just zombies? - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:47] <exec> 08└─To be fair I'd feel insulted too if I were a house and my utilities had been out for a week.
[02:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just zombies? - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:52] <exec> 08└─We generally refer to southern Chicago as Chiraq. It's pretty bad. North of Chiraq is still safe enough: gay district, Chinatown, Koreatown, museums/planetarium/aquarium, etc still good places to visit.
[02:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Much better to control the fuel pump - 06Best Practices Document for Automotive Security Has Been Published - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:45] <exec> 08└─I guess you could run a disable switch without screwing up the car.
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[03:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022 minutes of hate - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:20] <exec> 08└─In 3...2...1...
[03:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old saw - 06Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:27] <exec> 08└─It has always been said that if you have physical access, the system is compromised no matter what cryptographical voodoo you try to run.
[03:23:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:40] <exec> 08└─Over the years, I've come to understand that depriving a person of his rights FOR LIFE is probably unconstitutional. Hey, you are found guilty of a crime, you go off to prison, pay your debt to society, and you should walk out of prison a free man.
[03:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Whereas in Canada - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:02] <exec> 08└─In Australia, there are three ways to not vote - for everyone else, voting is compulsory and you are fined if you do not make a vote: Be serving a full-time prison sentence of more than three years (your voting rights are returned the moment you finish your sentence). Be of unsound mind. Be convicte...
[03:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02"McAuliffe gets last laugh" - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 701 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:04] <exec> 08└─It's not reported in the summary that McAuliffe has already begun individually restoring voting rights to those on the list [washingtontimes.com], 13,000 to start with and he pledges to do the same for all 200,000 disenfranchised voters. All of them. Individually. Because the ruling only keeps him f...
[03:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:23] <exec> 08└─Are you rich as fuck?
[03:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:24] <exec> 08└─It helps if you know how to do something useful that you can then program the computer how to do more efficiently. CNC (machining) programmers are in pretty high demand, especially if you can do five axis. I had the perfect storm of a childhood for it, with my dad spending $3500 on an IBM PC in '81...
[03:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:27] <exec> 08└─I didn't have a machine anything in my basement growing up, because I grew up poor in a cochroach infested apartment. I didn't have a computer at home, and it didn't matter how many computer manuals I read as a child, I still couldn't break into the industry, because I had and still have absolutely...
[03:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:29] <exec> 08└─It may not have come across like it, but I was stating that I was lucky. Also, my parents were middle class, not rich, but yes, having resources does make a huge difference. What makes me an asshole though?
[03:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"You have died of dysentery" - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:32] <exec> 08└─... does not actually appear in any version of the game. I guess it's like "Beam me up, Scotty."
[03:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Jersey - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:07] <exec> 08└─Good, I suppose, since nobody gives a crap about new-joisie.
[03:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad design - 06Phones Are Going to Get Tougher This Year Thanks to Gorilla Glass 5 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:15] <exec> 08└─How about during the Inquisition? (middle ages, Catholics)
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[04:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Anyone suprised ? - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:29] <exec> 08└─The IOC once again fails to do anything that will interfere with the profitability of the Olympics. They run in a close race with FIFA as to which is more corrupt. We can only hope the team federations will show some backbone and step up.
[04:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Old saw - 06Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:38] <exec> 08└─this is spot on. However, so long as you are reasonably careful (multiple firewalls, and some disconnected machines!!!) , the script kiddies can be kept at bay. The Govt's probably not...especially with our world of binary blobs, backdoor chip instructions, porous network protocols (magic bytes anyo...
[04:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Yup. Software is what hardware does,not what it is - 06Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:40] <exec> 08└─I first learned about the concept of these side-channel attacks when Googling myself and finding a reference to "van Eck phreaking." No, no relation to the person who discovered this, sad to say, but that was an educational evening :) Since then I've been trying to think laterally about everything,...
[04:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:36] <exec> 08└─No, I'm poor as fuck, because I never met my Steve "Blow" Jobs who wanted to exploit me for money. You think a naïve idealistic phreaker like Woz would have accomplished anything lucrative without Jobs?
[04:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:19] <exec> 08└─That is why the house has solar panels, if the power fails the A/C keeps running, what we do lack is water beyond 2 weeks but there is the Colorado river with a few miles. The cockroaches don't stand a chance here, the scorpions, roadrunners, Gila monsters, and snakes stand in line to snack on cockr...
[04:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:35] <exec> 08└─Eeeeexcept this would only work if 007 were the villain here. That is rather the entire point. Think of it more like...well, I don't know any comic books, but imagine Sailor Mercury becoming a ruthless and efficient vigilante, cottoning onto the fact that she's controlling kinetic energy, not water...
[04:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:36] <exec> 08└─Well, before you sit any higher on your high horse you should remember that the conservative voices here quite often say similar shit. Since you're AC we can't call you out specifically!
[04:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:39] <exec> 08└─^ This, this, thiiiiis! I've never been able to put this into words, but AC here nails it. You don't reason with the zombie; you shoot it.
[04:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:48] <exec> 08└─Christians LOVE Gitmo because it's a miniature of what they believe their God will do to anyone he doesn't like (translation: anyone THEY don't like...) for all of eternity. My wake-up call out of that horrible religion was around age 14 when I realized that Yahweh was literally, no exaggeration, no...
[04:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah in the old days tribes and countries would go to war to seize more land and resources from those they attack. However nowadays many wars are to transfer wealth and resources from your own people ;).
[04:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How suspicious - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:16] <exec> 08└─Slahi turned himself in to Mauritanian authorities for questioning
[04:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad design - 06Phones Are Going to Get Tougher This Year Thanks to Gorilla Glass 5 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:38] <exec> 08└─To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. --Ecclesiastes 3:1.
[04:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Cyanogen Inc. Lays Off OS Development Team - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:30] <exec> 08└─Red-herring. One Plus isn't in the business of installing toilets, it is in business of selling phones. And Indians are crazy for phone [unu.edu]. Ignoring that market was just stupid. Phone is a tool for economic upliftment. Toilet is health safety. Indians sacrifice personal health for small gains...
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[05:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02More of a punishment - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:32] <exec> 08└─Being forced to stay home is a reward. Getting sent to Brazil to catch Zika or contract a fatal infection from the water IS the punishment.
[05:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:More of a punishment - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:33] <exec> 08└─May as well dope up on performance-enhancing antivirals!
[05:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02A possible solution - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not keen on a blanket ban as some honest athletes may get included. I think a better solution is to set up a system where 50% of prize money and sponsorships for professionals in any sport are held in trust and a blood sample taken and stored for all major wins. After 10 years, old samples are r...
[05:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:56] <exec> 08└─Even I caught that one though, and I've got a reputation for being just slightly more literal-minded than Leona Heidern...
[05:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:09] <exec> 08└─Electioneering, exactly. Young women who have found a new boyfreind can develop an interest in cars, and those same young men can find the girl's interests interesting too. Electioneering sounds all wonderful. After a couple years of marriage, she ain't coming out of the house to crawl around under...
[05:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah kinda suspicious when her husband passed three strikes and she did the "brought to heel" comment on black teens.
[05:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:12] <exec> 08└─So if the Democrats are "still the party of Wallace" that must mean the Republicans are now the party of...who, exactly? Atilla the Hun? I know you "conservative" types like to remind people that prior to the Civil Rights Act, the Democrats were pretty damn racist. This is true; no one with historic...
[05:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:15] <exec> 08└─President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother wants to make America great again — so he’s voting for Donald Trump. “I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart,” Malik Obama told The Post from his home in the rural village of Kogelo. “Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would...
[05:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─Either this or the tweet by itself amounts to nothing. Together, they almost add up to something. Now - how long was she in office in New York? How many times did she propose something like this while sitting around in Washington, drawing a fat check as a representative? Did she author or sponsor a...
[05:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 1594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:21] <exec> 08└─In the US prior to 1920, women weren't allowed to vote. Of course before the Civil War, blacks couldn't vote. But even earlier, only landowners could vote. The young aren't allowed to vote, have to be at least 18 years old, a relatively recent improvement on the older minimum age of 21. You start de...
[05:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Whereas in Canada - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:32] <exec> 08└─"Be of unsound mind." You've got us on that one. That covers 92% of one of our major parties, and about 87% of the other.
[05:25:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fnj [1654] 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:47] <exec> 08└─WTF?! There was never a more perfect example of flamebait. The loaded language is what marks it as such.
[05:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:50] <exec> 08└─Only if you present it like a fuckwit.
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[05:26:14] <exec> 08└─> At least? Look at her track record. She's the biggest war hawk that ran in this election. None of the others compare. The biggest war hawk among the democrats who ran. She's leading from behind when compared to most of the GOP candidates. [washingtonpost.com]
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[05:28:37] <exec> 08└─Is MS even to blame this time? From what I recall Cyanogen shot their own foot when they reneged on their deal with One Plus and gave an exclusive with Micromax. What OEM will do business with you after that?
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[06:23:33] <exec> 08└─There is no perfect solution, but a key component is missing: motivation for the country to ensure that their athletes are clean. Which is exactly what led to the Russian problem: the country itself actually had the reverse motivation, to ensure maximum doping, because winning medals is sooo importa...
[06:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:11] <exec> 08└─Fixed that for you: "Malik Obama is another low-IQ, low-information voter who actually thinks anything Trump says is worth the oxygen he consumed to say it with." What was your point? Also, they haven't been the party of Lincoln since the 60s, so you can cut that shit out too.
[06:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:16] <exec> 08└─"ramp up the policing to extreme levels, try to drag as many people as possible into court and slap them with trumped up felony convictions." But - we are already there. I don't remember the first time I heard that the US incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. At first, I denie...
[06:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:18] <exec> 08└─2nd highest incarceration rate? All the more reason not to deny felons the right to vote. You know a lot of people are in there who shouldn't be, victims of the War on Drugs among other misguided law making and enforcement.
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[06:24:55] <exec> 08└─Gawd, I wish I knew how to program CNC machines. I can still make anything a CNC guy can on a manual machine but managers fail to take into account the time required to program the damn things. I'd have a new job by 9 am tomorrow and I could get out from under a well meaning but minutia focused mana...
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[06:25:08] <exec> 08└─The assessment method is also a bit dubious. "Gun owners per capita"? So you end up with redneck zombies [youtube.com] with guns? In any case my entire country is safe, we have this guy [youtube.com]. "I kick ass for the LORD!".
[06:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:39] <exec> 08└─Can you get condensate from your A/C?
[06:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cold - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:41] <exec> 08└─Why does everyone who does these types of measurements always ignore climate? A frozen zombie can't move. When the zombie apocalypse comes, head to the poles or just hold out for five weeks for the nuclear winter to start.
[06:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And no - 06Colorado Town's Water May Be Tainted With Marijuana - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:10] <exec> 08└─No you don't. No really. That's your depression talking. I understand what that is as well, including insomnia, anxiety, blah, blah, blah. I wouldn't wish what I have on anybody. The stuff that depressives, especially suicidal ones, deal with can break a person. No matter what a person has done, I d...
[06:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Privately Targeted Advertising Device - 06This $50 Android Smartphone may be the Best Deal in Tech - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:35] <exec> 08└─I bought a Samsung flip phone from Walmart for $12. It's dumb as a rock, but works just fine as a phone.
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[07:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Landed on her feet - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:24] <exec> 08└─Debbie Wasserman Schultz hired as honorary chair of Hillary's campaign [commondreams.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:25] <exec> 08└─We know what Wasserman-Schultz is, now we just have to negotiate the price. Not very different from any other political whore. Seems the DNC is guilty of misandry at the least and full on corruption at the worst. Hope the Bernie crowd makes their lives miserable at the convention.
[07:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:28] <exec> 08└─Hillary and Schultz go back a long way. Schultz' mission in life was to ensure that Hillary was nominated. Sucks that she has been so successful. Bernie would have made a much better candidate, not to mention a much better president. In a more sane world, we would be choosing between Sanders who I d...
[07:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:30] <exec> 08└─Too many will be voting for one of these horrible people or the other in a desperate attempt to keep the other one from winning.
[07:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone suprised ? - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:44] <exec> 08└─I feel you're being unfair here. Not ALL Russian athletes were cheating, yet you seem to be advocating for banning the innocent along with te guilty. Group punishment is usually something that gets called out here on SN. Yet you appear to be endorsing it. As I mentioned on the prior story, linked ab...
[07:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 722 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:06] <exec> 08└─I grew up taking it for granted that felons can't vote. Over the years, I've come to understand that depriving a person of his rights FOR LIFE is probably unconstitutional. Hey, you are found guilty of a crime, you go off to prison, pay your debt to society, and you should walk out of prison a free...
[07:24:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 609 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:18] <exec> 08└─Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, a Democrat, for starters. We don't have to wonder about Hillary's stance on this, because she tweeted it: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] The 12 states in which the right to vote is stripped permanently are Alabama, Ari...
[07:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quintessence [6227] 02Re:Three strikes law... - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:47] <exec> 08└─Crime shouldn't pay if you're a repeat offender.
[07:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:10] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of free tutorials on the net if you want to learn. There are also free backplotting programs to test your code. If you can code Fortran I'm sure you could pick up Fanuc Macro B, which lets you do math, variables, and flow control in your gcode.
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[07:25:48] <exec> 08└─We have long suspected the two Virginias' relationship....
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[08:23:23] <exec> 08└─Just couldn't resist taking a selfie every day and posting a video to YouTube? Has NASA truly gone full-retard for social media? The time has come to defund.
[08:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:2, Insightful) 02To make a better movie - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:24] <exec> 08└─They should just put one frame every 24 hours, so it would show the same spot of the planet instead of spinning, which wasn't very smooth anyway. Then you would see the polar oscillation and the clouds moving. But somebody would probably complain about not seeing "their" spot.
[08:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Landed on her feet - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:34] <exec> 08└─Landed on her feet They should have tied a piece of buttered toast [youtube.com] to her back
[08:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Landed on her feet - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:36] <exec> 08└─Wow. Nice and blatant. The 5-second rule in action. I hope that stirs up a few more "Bernie Bros" to be disruptive at the convention.
[08:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Landed on her feet - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:38] <exec> 08└─It used to be that the only difference between the two corporate parties was that one of them tried to hide its corruption while the other flaunted it proudly. Now we can see that this is no longer a distinction between the two, so this should help things.
[08:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:41] <exec> 08└─Hope the Bernie crowd makes their lives miserable at the convention.
[08:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:46] <exec> 08└─I believe the powers-that-be are finangling to keep Gary Johnson out of office. I will probably go Trump as I flat cannot trust Hillary, yet I am afraid not voting for Trump will fail to counter the welfare crowd wooed by Hillary. This is the same sickening choice I faced last election. I ended up...
[08:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:48] <exec> 08└─The unfortunate part is that even if Johnson gets into the debates, he doesn't have the polish to present his ideas well. I almost wish Weld got the top slot. While other libertarian dislike him, he is moderate enough to draw votes away from at least Hilary and maybe Trump. The best I can hope for i...
[08:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:50] <exec> 08└─The 3rd parties should get together to do trial polls to let voters see if voting for them is viable or they would still be better off voting for their lesser evil. e.g. In the same poll Vote for who you really want: X Vote how you'd vote in the upcoming elections: X That way it becomes clearer whet...
[08:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:52] <exec> 08└─Trump wants to let the Russians back into Europe. Beware! And most people are treating the third party choices like third party cookies, simply blocking them out.
[08:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:55] <exec> 08└─Good thing you have your 2nd amendment, to prevent oppression (e.g. when the democratic process fails and the people in charge are not actually representing the majority of peasants)? (No, I'm not actually calling for violence. I believe most citizens just have a kind of fetish for their hand-guns,...
[08:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:57] <exec> 08└─Well you have to admit the recent police shootings have upped the ante with addressing police corruption, no?
[08:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:59] <exec> 08└─It's insane that Gary Johnson will have to get 15% support from polls to get onto the debate stage. 5% should be acceptable given that not many could even do that, and it seems like Johnson or Jill Stein could clear 5-10% if their names were actually consistent poll choices.
[08:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02This is karma - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:01] <exec> 08└─The democrats have not served the poor and working class since 1996 when Bill's disastrous one-two punch of NAFTA and "welfare reform" was inflicted on us. I was only 10 or 11, and didn't understand what these things meant back then. But in hindsight it's obvious the Democrats have been Republicans...
[08:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 2223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:58] <exec> 08└─Southern Strategy Yes, I was perfectly aware of what Nixon did. It was still preferable to Wallace, who was at the height of his fame at the same time, and it was also still preferable to Humphrey, who really gave the game away as the party intentionally threw the election by nominating him when McC...
[08:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:00] <exec> 08└─Whoa there, tiger. If you think I'm a democrat you're really not reading me right. Personally I wish just about every single person in both parties would die. Ease off the caffeine, will you?
[08:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:05] <exec> 08└─New York isn't one of the states that permanently denies voting rights to ex-felons.
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[09:23:22] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, you can do better than that. You could have, for example, asked why, and how, Lisa convinced NASA to get something to orbit her juices, and using some clever word play. Instead, you go the fucktard route. 3/10. You'll be held back a year at troll school with poor performances like that.
[09:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''not wildly optimistic that...'' - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not wildly optimistic that [Bernie supporters] will cause a huge enough scene to change anything They also have the Wikileaks DNC email dump. The item about Hillary's choice of running mate is gone from the queue now, but Tim Kaine is not at all what traditional Donkeys want. He's one of the mos...
[09:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not wildly optimistic that they will cause a huge enough scene to change anything or even be entertaining Yeah, now I'm wondering how they're going to keep people tuned in. Ad rates will plummet if they don't have something. Bernie also seems committed to shepherding his people into the Hillary...
[09:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:45] <exec> 08└─"if Johnson gets into the debates, he doesn't have the polish to present his ideas well." Is he any less polished than Trump? I think that's a tough call.
[09:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:47] <exec> 08└─This is the same sickening choice I faced last election. I ended up voting for the one I thought would do the least damage.
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[09:23:50] <exec> 08└─Ralph Nader wrote a great piece on all the disgusting tactics that the democrats use to block third-party candidates: While any Democrat or Republican who wins their party’s nomination is guaranteed a place on general-election ballots nationwide, smaller parties must, in many states, petition ele...
[09:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:54] <exec> 08└─For the sake of accuracy, Russia IS part of Europe. Russia is European, Siberia is Asian. As for Russia re-entering eastern European countries - what would anyone have expected? Our corrupt business "leaders" spent billions to destabilize Ukraine, so that a corrupt animal could be installed as "pres...
[09:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02This is karma - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:59] <exec> 08└─The democrats have not served the poor and working class since 1996 when Bill's disastrous one-two punch of NAFTA and "welfare reform" was inflicted on us. I was only 10 or 11, and didn't understand what these things meant back then. But in hindsight it's obvious the Democrats have been Republicans...
[09:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Donkeys before Slick Willie - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:01] <exec> 08└─Jimmy Carter was the one who got telecom deregulation going. Reagan gets the credit/blame because he got to sign it after his predecessor had done most of the legwork. ...and Lyndon Johnson sent a lot of folks who were too poor to get into college to the meat grinder that was Vietnam. (Infamous Chic...
[09:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2) 02Re:Old saw - 06Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:28] <exec> 08└─...some disconnected machines!!!...
[09:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:59] <exec> 08└─That is a horrible way to talk about our first black president's brother. It almost sounds racist. "Get back on the plantation, Boy!"
[09:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:03] <exec> 08└─I know you "conservative" types You seem a little jumpy yourself :-) And a tiny bit one sided to boot
[09:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:09] <exec> 08└─WHile literally true, your statement here is irrelevant. Clinton was in a position to have a federal law passed, and made no effort to do so. Errrr - slight correction. She was in a position to have a bill introduced that might result in a federal law regulating the felon right to vote. She did noth...
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[10:23:24] <exec> 08└─Google Chrome market share continues to rise...
[10:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:25] <exec> 08└─Flash should have been disabled by default just about the time that supercookies were discovered. It should have required positive actions by the user to enable flash for any site. More, permissions should have been temporary, unless another action were taken to make permissions permanent for that s...
[10:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:27] <exec> 08└─So when will JAVA and JAVAscript be killed?? FLASH could be cleaned, but the parent company does not want to pay for it. JAVA is in the same boat.
[10:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:To make a better movie - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:38] <exec> 08└─I was thinking along the same lines. The video moves along pretty fast, and I'm not sure where on earth I'm looking at any given time. You think you've identified a coastline, and it's gone. It's just so much blurry motion as it stands.
[10:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Landed on her feet - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:49] <exec> 08└─I hope so. BernieBros and BernieSisters. If there are no prime-time in the hall protest actions, I'll be sorely disappointed.
[10:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not wildly optimistic that they will cause a huge enough scene to change anything
[10:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:03] <exec> 08└─Johnson can come across as a stoner. He stumbles a lot over what he's trying to say, and he's not very good at thinking on his feet. I'll be voting for him (again), but let's be honest. Clinton and Trump can both demolish him in a debate by using time-tested tactics like Gish-galloping and appeal to...
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[10:24:10] <exec> 08└─Isn't it interesting how the Democrats have taken up the McCarthy Red Scare banner?
[10:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:15] <exec> 08└─It's only insane if you aren't a D/RNC-bot. Ross Perot's success was the catalyst for what we see now. Not saying you are wrong -- I agree with you -- but then I'm not D/RNC-bot.
[10:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02no blanket ban, right? - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:34] <exec> 08└─So, all the athletes can take their blankies with them, to protect them from the zika virus. I see nothing about thumb sucking - has that been banned?
[10:24:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Countries need a motivation... - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 1160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:37] <exec> 08└─There is no perfect solution, but a key component is missing: motivation for the country to ensure that their athletes are clean. Which is exactly what led to the Russian problem: the country itself actually had the reverse motivation, to ensure maximum doping, because winning medals is sooo importa...
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[10:24:47] <exec> 08└─well might need to drive it via a solar panel to prevent PSU intrusion, but you get the idea ;-)
[10:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02duplicate story - 06Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:50] <exec> 08└─earlier discussion of this same story is at /article.pl?sid=16/06/06/2139230 [soylentnews.org] related story: /article.pl?sid=15/03/06/0936216 [soylentnews.org]
[10:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Devil's Advocate - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:48] <exec> 08└─Lemme play Devil's Advocate here: "You have been convicted of the felony of Disagreeing with the Democratically Elected Government, because we taped you shouting nasty words at last weekend's (permitted) demonstration in the town square. You have been sentenced to 1 day jail-time. Because you're onl...
[10:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymous coward with an agenda - or duped - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:45] <exec> 08└─That was a fascinating article, thanks! Zbigniew "Realpolitik" Brzezinski [wikipedia.org]: "What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?"
[10:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Cyanogen Inc. Lays Off OS Development Team - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:00] <exec> 08└─You're right it's not, it has designated shitting streets.
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[11:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:28] <exec> 08└─Java can die anytime. But, Java is less pervasive than flash was, at it's peak. In my experience, java was used for less "evil" than flash. For instance, I've never opened a web page, to find sixteen throbbing headers based on java. IMHO, the history of flash is worse than that of java, by at least...
[11:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score:1) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:30] <exec> 08└─... but we're not in Soviet Russia. If a browser gets in the way between the user and it's favorite porn/game/social website, the user just downloads and runs another browser and sticks with it until next annoyance. Most users don't care about security unless it's too late (and even then) so the sec...
[11:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:32] <exec> 08└─But, I'm not speaking of Soviet style dictatorship. I'm merely talking about what should have been "best practices". Every browser development team in the world knew, or should have known, about flash vulnerabilities. I don't even suggest that they should have completely disabled flash. Simply make...
[11:23:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 579 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:00] <exec> 08└─Hillary and Schultz go back a long way. Schultz' mission in life was to ensure that Hillary was nominated. Sucks that she has been so successful. Bernie would have made a much better candidate, not to mention a much better president. In a more sane world, we would be choosing between Sanders who I d...
[11:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:07] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Johnson doesn't need to win; he needs to get enough votes so that Libertarians get federal funding next time around. He's almost certainly not going to get the 15% necessary in national polls to get into the debates but with the additional cash, the Libertarian candidate might next election...
[11:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:17] <exec> 08└─I believe most citizens just have a kind of fetish for their hand-guns
[11:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:22] <exec> 08└─The threshold was raised from 5% to 15% because of Ralph Nader, not Ross Perot. in 2000, as soon as Nader broke 5% and would have been included in debates between Bush and Gore, the decision was made to raise the requirement to stop 3rd parties and independents from getting in.
[11:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:This is karma - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:26] <exec> 08└─The democrats have not served the poor and working class since 1996 when Bill's disastrous one-two punch of NAFTA and "welfare reform" was inflicted on us. I was only 10 or 11, and didn't understand what these things meant back then.
[11:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nate the snake - 06Prime Minister of Nepal Resigns - 3988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:34] <exec> 08└─So, there's a man crawling through the desert. He'd decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn't get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his...
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[11:25:22] <exec> 08└─Why isn't Hillary campaigning on the issue?
[11:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02stolen laptop - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:00] <exec> 08└─That's more than just "young and stupid". It's evil. Unless by "young" you mean under the age of approximately 12, I'm ready to say that you are unfit for society. The use of a noose is indicated. No, I don't care to spend money pretending to reform you. That seldom works, and anyway we have no shor...
[11:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this new? - 06AMD Mulls a CPU+GPU Super-Chip in a Server Reboot - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:40] <exec> 08└─Ya but this one's a super-chip.
[11:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dublet [2994] (Score:2) 02Loyal customer - 06AMD Mulls a CPU+GPU Super-Chip in a Server Reboot - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:44] <exec> 08└─As a loyal customer of AMD I hope they succeed. The CPU market needs some serious competition and Intel is just too tainted a brand for me [wikipedia.org].
[11:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:3, Funny) 02Apologies - 06Cyanogen Inc. Lays Off OS Development Team - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, this appears to be my doing. I bought a Sony-Ericsson phone. SE was fully absorbed into Sony (IIRC) and the name discontinued. I bought a Firefox OS phone. Firefox OS was discontinued on phones. I bought a Geeksphone (FxOS). Geeksphone soon stopped supporting it, and Geeksphone now seem to be...
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[12:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:22] <exec> 08└─...to deliver internet access...
[12:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─Well, if it's anything like Free Basics... [theguardian.com]
[12:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's likely their "Internet.org" bullshit. Basically it's whatever they feel like letting you see, a nasty combination of Apple and AOL.
[12:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score:1) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:40] <exec> 08└─> Give the user two or three screens to click through... ... and lose him to the other, default, less secure browser. Security works only when it is not too invasive to the job done. Give them a complex, secure password and you will see it on a post-it note.
[12:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:42] <exec> 08└─It's not even doing what's been overdue, it's just making it click-to-run, and even that's still a year away (the August change is just blocking "some content", whatever that means). Then perhaps in 2018 they'll add a warning dialog, and in 2019 they'll change the warning text to a larger font, and...
[12:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02good idea - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:44] <exec> 08└─time to fix the regression called "flash".
[12:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Die die die - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:46] <exec> 08└─I love you flash!
[12:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02"Firefox 48" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:48] <exec> 08└─So is anyone still keeping track of what release they are actually on now? Is this actually firefox 5.xxx or 6.xxx series? It's so confusing trying to keep up with them since they purged sense from the organization.
[12:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To make a better movie - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:59] <exec> 08└─I hope they have enough data to generate such a movie (in fact 24 separatate movies, for each time-zone). I find this particular movie headache inducing (I tried watching with no sound; maybe with sound it makes sense even like this).
[12:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NASA Schmasa? - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:00] <exec> 08└─There are comments on the TechCrunch site accusing NASA of faking this. Can't we all just accept the moon landing kool-aid and get on with our blissful ignorance? /sarcasm The other comments wanting NASA to edit the video so it is "smoother" are ridiculous as well. Who wants NASA to edit video so mo...
[12:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:''not wildly optimistic that...'' - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:19] <exec> 08└─'. . . saying City Hall was a "cesspool of corruption and inefficiency".' Is this not something that can be said about most or all local, county, state, or federal governmental entities of the country of your choice? Something form years past: "There is nothing more corrupt than the corruption in lo...
[12:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:23] <exec> 08└─hemocyanin (186) [soylentnews.org] wrote [soylentnews.org]: Without the leaks, DWS would have done her HRC work all through the convention and on prime time which would help her get votes in her primary race.
[12:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:33] <exec> 08└─Nothing will get better by voting for evil
[12:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:40] <exec> 08└─Here here! Most US media has told the story of Ukraine exactly backwards, namely that Russia was came in and took over 1/3 of Ukraine. When what actually happened is that the US and EU came in and took over 2/3 of Ukraine from what had previously been a Russian-controlled country. And as Wikileaks i...
[12:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:46] <exec> 08└─You utterly fail to understand most gun owners then. Though they are fun to play with on the range, mostly they're viewed by their owners as the tools that they are. Ownership of them is not the goal in and of itself; what it enables is the goal.
[12:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is karma - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, you most definitely do have pre-teen political beliefs. You really should look into using your brain once in a while and adding some maturity to them.
[12:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reforms - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:56] <exec> 08└─So she's out, but she's just a symptom. Real reforms must be structural. The party is on track to adopting some actual reforms [huffingtonpost.com] super-delegates bound to vote the way the state majority votesvoting-day party registration for primarieseasier eligibility for caucus voters Progress i...
[12:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Naturally - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:58] <exec> 08└─Of course. She will resign just as soon as she makes sure the damage cannot be undone.
[12:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you are committed to non-doping... - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:20] <exec> 08└─then I propose a simple solution: test each and every participant. This way everyone is treated the exact same way. Upon completion of any event, *all* participants (not just those that complete the event) deliver a sample (urine, blood, whatever). The samples are taken in three fold (two for curren...
[12:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:48] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I found some guy who wants to exploit me for money because I'm better off than when I was being exploited for less money.
[12:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:21] <exec> 08└─I stand by my previous comment, I think that those higher up responsible for the torture know. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The strategy, involving both immigration happy left, fearmongering right, plus religious leaders, is to have religion themed civil...
[12:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama to the rescue - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:25] <exec> 08└─Slow hand crap
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[13:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MS bid - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:20] <exec> 08└─MS bid was for the whole of Yahoo, including their Chinese investment.
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:MS bid - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─And you'll see that the value of the whole thing was halved in mere years.
[13:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─All I care about is whether or not Mozilla gets their $1B no-strings attached payout. I don't really use yahoo for anything, but without that sweetheart money we could be forced into the arms of chrome and that would be just as bad as when MS IE had 90% of the browser market.
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:26] <exec> 08└─If Mozilla needs another billion to survive on top of the billions they received from Google, then their organization is completely broken.
[13:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is for Advertising and Search - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:28] <exec> 08└─What happens to the millions, nay, billion of @yahoo.com e-mail addresses? Are those kept by yahoo? Poor bots, their new owner is even worse than their old one...
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[13:23:39] <exec> 08└─As long as it's free, it's better than nothing. There are still parts of the good ol' USA that can't get anything but dial-up, unless you want the way overpriced satellite offerings. I happen to live in one of those areas, zero high speed offerings.
[13:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:42] <exec> 08└─Good for you then. You will be quarantined in your little garden... Good for you that you think that that nice little zen garden is better than nothing. Let me know what your owners want you to think about that when you got a minute to look up what they want you see online...
[13:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:44] <exec> 08└─Dry it up. Are you saying that nothing would be better than some level of internet service? I'm sure you're one of privileged ones that lives in a place with multiple providers available. Not everyone has that available to them. Try youtube on dialup, it's awesome.
[13:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uh - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:46] <exec> 08└─Up in the sky, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a solar-powered internet drone! ----- And that's retarded.
[13:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:57] <exec> 08└─Java is indeed bad. Javascript, or something like it, is essential for pages to be responding to user actions without a page reload.
[13:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Die die die - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─But we only have 14 months to serve up porn!
[13:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Firefox 48" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the Seamonkey Project is doing a fine job. Its first version was 1.8, continuing from the 1.7x version of the Mozilla Suite (which was a time when the version of Gecko was also in sync). 2.0 was the major XUL re-write that mirrored Firefox 4.0, and included the new JavaScript engine. Gecko's v...
[13:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Autoplay videos - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:10] <exec> 08└─The problem with this for me is that I was able to block flash videos from auto playing but I haven't yet learned how to handle other video types. As the percentage of flash use on the web shrinks, the percentage of tabs I open that auto play videos is going up. Guess I have to learn something about...
[13:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Autoplay videos - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:13] <exec> 08└─about:config media.autoplay.enable looks like the setting to change, if you want to keep non-flash videos from playing on their own.
[13:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So confusing... - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:39] <exec> 08└─That's just hilarious in light of the Politico article [politico.com] saying that Clinton wanted DWS out but Obama couldn't be bothered with getting rid of her: Several senior Democratic officials with ties to Hillary and Bill Clinton told POLITICO that campaign higher-ups have been trying to repla...
[13:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:''not wildly optimistic that...'' - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:44] <exec> 08└─Well there are some cities [twincities.com] that [twincities.com] are worse [stillwatergazette.com] than others [minnpost.com]. When I searched for Lake Elmo City Council news those were just the first 4 stories that came up as they have had a lot of additional problems recently. At one point they c...
[13:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reforms - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:15] <exec> 08└─Ahem. These "reforms" are after it was revealed how Sanders got dicked. Although the commission’s recommendations would not be binding
[13:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reforms - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:17] <exec> 08└─> These "reforms" are after it was revealed how Sanders got dicked. They didn't just happen overnight. The people who got them had been working on them for months. > A cynical person would this as tokenism to keep Sanders's support from jumping ship to the Greens. Obviously these things would not ha...
[13:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone suprised ? - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:36] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is that they were cheating on the doping tests. Blood samples were being switched (this was in international news, don't know if it was mentioned in USA news). Furthermore, athletes are admitted to the (they have no justification to call themselves this) Olympics based on which c...
[13:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Too coarse grained: - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, this should be done a per county basis. I would rather see a number of bodies in the ground factor instead of % cremated one too.
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[14:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MS bid - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah not taking that money then was a disaster. MS saved itself from a total write-off. The value of China investments is almost nil now.
[14:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:43] <exec> 08└─They just barely broke a billion grossed over their entire decade long contract with google. Similarly their contract with yahoo is for a billion spread out over multiple years.
[14:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing [wikipedia.org] In 2006, the Mozilla Foundation received US$66.8 million in revenues, of which US$61.5 million is attributed to "search royalties" from Google.[11] From 2004 to 2014, the foundation had a deal with Google to make Google Sear...
[14:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02i cringe - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:49] <exec> 08└─Every time I see a customer using yahoo mail.
[14:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:1) 02success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:51] <exec> 08└─Tony Robbins says that success leaves clues. Marissa Mayer is going to make more money in her time at Yahoo than I've made in my entire life (and I'm not young), so what did she do? Her plan never made any sense to me. She acquired many technology companies, but I can't remember seeing a single news...
[14:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Verizon invested in a dying industry - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:54] <exec> 08└─Online advertising is doomed. Not because of ad blockers, but because of the reason we want ad blockers: the increasing intrusive shrillness of online ads. The problem is that the total budget for online advertising is roughly fixed to the total GDP of the world, roughly two percent. The number of w...
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:07] <exec> 08└─If you claim youtube is a necessity, I think *you* are the privileged one here.
[14:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─You're funny!
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─Java has also added some of its own security measures - current versions of the Java plugin refuse to play unsigned or self-signed .jars, with no override for the former and requiring you add their cert as a root certificate for the latter. Which is actually kind of annoying if you're the kind of pe...
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─Give them a complex, secure password and you will see it on a post-it note.
[14:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Autoplay videos - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─I saw JS players that need 2 click to play as a result, though.
[14:24:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Landed on her feet - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:58] <exec> 08└─Debbie Wasserman Schultz hired as honorary chair of Hillary's campaign [commondreams.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:So confusing... - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─So, is DWS a disaster that should be thrown under the bus, or is she worthy of being the Clinton campaign’s honorary chair?
[14:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─Count how many independents will win seats this year. I bet you it will be anywhere from zero to none.
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:14] <exec> 08└─That's the establishment's view of it. The corrupt establishment that keeps letting GOP candidates run on the Democratic ticket and is a huge circle jerk for barely legal bribery. Sanders ran for the issues. I don't think he expected to get that far, but it's pretty much destroyed the party now that...
[14:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:19] <exec> 08└─Whether she goes right now or after the convention doesn't really matter. The damage has already been done. She was able to manipulate the results up to this point and stack the committee dealing with the party platform with non-democrats pushing for GOP positions. The classy thing would have been f...
[14:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─The only problem with that is that if the Libertarians get more money that will likely just entrench the Democrats as they'll have an easier time of getting a "Democrat" elected in 2020. What we really need is some real accountability for the Democrats as they're not representing any sort of meaning...
[14:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:32] <exec> 08└─I considered that, too, but after watching "Clinton Cash", and considering Trump's kids and the many very competent executives that Trump has working for him, I decided Trump can do way less harm that Clinton. Imagine someone making deals (for monetary gain) to hand 20% of the US uranium reserves to...
[14:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 1955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:35] <exec> 08└─Well, I'd never heard any of that before. How interesting that the media buries this, until now. So, the Washington Post was sitting on dirt on the Democratic Party-- pardon me, about both the Democratic and Republican Parties (have to be Fair and Balanced!)-- until an election year, hmm? Bezos, wha...
[14:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reforms - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:55] <exec> 08└─Reforms don't mean anything as long as you continue to elect the same power structure. You are just falling for their feel good attempt at making you think it was always supposed to be that same candidate.
[14:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:If you are committed to non-doping... - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:20] <exec> 08└─It's a good plan, but not a perfect one. First, the samples are likely still identifiable. The blood has DNA, of course. For the urine, have all your athletes eat some tuna or whatever before the event, so their samples all contain certain detectable metabolites. Second, if most countries decide to...
[14:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:04] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase Sturgeon, 90% of all voters are idiots.
[14:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:17] <exec> 08└─the US incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. At first, I denied that - there must be some dicatatorships that imprison more than we do. What about that evil sumbitch, Saddam Hussein? But, no
[14:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:18] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't think so. Of course, it's hard to tell which killings are summary execution, and which are self defense. Right here, in the US, we've had 986 killed by police in 2015, and 532 in 2016 - apparently as of June 30. I would HOPE that most of those killings were in self defense, but in view of...
[14:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:21] <exec> 08└─The young aren't allowed to vote, have to be at least 18 years old, a relatively recent improvement on the older minimum age of 21. You start denying people the right to vote, and you do several things. You make the swarm intelligence less intelligent.
[14:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Just zombies? - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:30] <exec> 08└─That is kinda insulting to Iraq.
[14:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:44] <exec> 08└─Not near enough to survive on. And it is completely defendant on how much moisture is already in the air. Dry air will not give condensate.
[14:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama to the rescue - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:33] <exec> 08└─Unless you are wishing that Obama had disbanded Congress and declared himself dictator, you are barking up the wrong tree. Congress blocked every move he made to close Guantanamo. But yeah, lets blame the president for the actions of Congress.
[14:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Loyal customer - 06AMD Mulls a CPU+GPU Super-Chip in a Server Reboot - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:28] <exec> 08└─The best way to help them succeed is to buy their stuff. Hope you are saving money for a Zen build later this year : )
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[15:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─" Bart's ZIP-based encryption uses a very long and complex password, but the AVG researchers have figured out a way to guess the key using brute-force methods. Their Bart decryption tool requires the user to have at least one unaffected copy of a file that has been encrypted." Can't that be generali...
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:32] <exec> 08└─It could have to do with how the Bart ransomware generates the passwords as well. ZIP isn't exactly a go-to encryption solution in any case. They probably just used it because it was easily available. They don't need it to be totally bulletproof - they just need it to be sufficiently hard that payin...
[15:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MS bid - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:43] <exec> 08└─yeah, totally nil* *for a value of nil equal to $32 billions...
[15:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─> Mayer is not that attractive She's more attractive than you are.
[15:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Verizon invested in a dying industry - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:55] <exec> 08└─Skyrocketing numbers of web pages with only slowly growing ad budget means that each web page will earn less and less.
[15:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02My Plans - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─> What are your plans in light of the buyout? I guess if they're going to ruin Yahoo, I'll just go back to AOL.
[15:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Firefox 48" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:36] <exec> 08└─SJW's trying to make quick money
[15:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Firefox 48" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:38] <exec> 08└─No, SJW refers to people firing or trying to fire other people for not lining up with feminist orthodoxy. You know, something for which Mozilla is something of a poster child.
[15:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"not essential to the user experience" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:43] <exec> 08└─sounds like they'll be blocking Flash advertisements. Is that the case?
[15:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I like Flash - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:45] <exec> 08└─I actually Flash because you can block it with things like Flashblock. The new evil (for me) is html5 video that just starts playing. Can't block it, can't prevent it, can't uninstall it. Also, animated shit like gif and blinking text. Once annoying, then blocked, now back with no way to block, prev...
[15:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The setting - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:47] <exec> 08└─I have been using this setting by default for about 4 years now. tools->add ons->shockwave flash->ask to activate I set this on every computer I have control over. This cut down on 'my computer is messed up' calls dramatically. They are not really changing much other than default behavior. When I am...
[15:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So confusing... - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:17] <exec> 08└─"There's simply no one better at taking the fight to the Republicans than Debbie," Clinton said, "which is why I am glad that she has agreed to serve as honorary chair of my campaign's 50-state program to gain ground and elect Democrats in every part of the country, and will continue to serve as a s...
[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:41] <exec> 08└─My thinking is that Trump is so dangerously inept and impulsive that he'll blow the whole thing up. I'd rather lose 20% of the uranium supply of the US to Russia then to have 100% of the uranium supply of the US destroyed due to large nuclear explosions. Among other things, one of those scenarios ha...
[15:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is karma - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:00] <exec> 08└─TMB wasn't shunned - he shunned society. And, can you blame him? People like yourself are members of society.
[15:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:A possible solution - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 2843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:24] <exec> 08└─Change the sport rules or entire competitions to eliminate the advantages of doping. Mostly drug taking seems to result in higher strength and somewhat better cardio, so eliminate that as a competition factor. Personally I'm more impressed with a dude who can bullseye a gnat with a javelin at 100 ya...
[15:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A possible solution - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:25] <exec> 08└─Olympic billiards! Texas hold-em!
[15:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:14] <exec> 08└─How? Racist would be to cut him some slack because of his presumably dark skin. Azuma didn't bring his appearance / heritage into play at all...
[15:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:16] <exec> 08└─SJW rules - if you say anything about a member of a downtrodden/minority/subjected race which isn't complimentary, they you're being racist. No need to actually mention that person's race.
[15:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:18] <exec> 08└─Well, He's full black so fully retarded. Obama is at least half white so that's the part which is doing all the work.
[15:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:40] <exec> 08└─If this were the case, the prisons would be full beyond bursting point,
[15:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Interest in zombie genre - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:48] <exec> 08└─I was surprised to see West Virginia near last for active population though. Don't those hills have a lot of trails in them?
[15:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:15] <exec> 08└─So, I says to myself, "Self, WTF is this Sailor Mercury?" From the images Google offers, she seems to be an anime porn star. Hmmmm . . . knock kneed at that.
[15:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:19] <exec> 08└─No, not "^ This, this, thiiiiis!" The majority of voters in BOTH parties are irrational. This election cycle, the conservatives voted for the least irrational offering. Dems tried that, but they were beaten down by the likes of Wasserman-Schultz. The candidates, the parties, the voters, all are equa...
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[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2, Offtopic) 02I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:36] <exec> 08└─Judge Daniel Stahnke of the Clark County Superior Court in Vancouver Washington granted me permission to act Pro Se, and appointed attorney Neil Cane as my defense attorney. The form that the court clerk had for recording the case did not have any way to record that the defendant was to act Pro Se o...
[16:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:37] <exec> 08└─I threatened to disbar poor Mr. Cane
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 2662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─MDC is one of our own -- a reasonably talented coder who's something of a social misfit. He also struggles with some non-trivial mental health problems. In a civilized society, his ills would be like any other disability: a major pain in the ass, to be sure, but not an insurmountable barrier to livi...
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─didn't have to agree with that, as I wanted a jury trial, but the whole thing was a huge PITA so in the end I agreed to the dismissal.
[16:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:44] <exec> 08└─You don't need permission to appear pro se, you have the right to do so.
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─While a little interesting what does your comment have to do with the article and the case it mentions?
[16:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─The bigger issue is that they feel compelled to torture someone awaiting trial who has not been found guilty. Yes, it's horrible this happened to her, but it also would have been horrible if it happened to an innocent person. Or, frankly, that a guilty person would be tortured by the staff like that...
[16:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:58] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that they have the unencrypted zip (since they can zip the plain version of a file), and the encrypted version of same. So they are pulling the key. They could be bruteforcing it, but I think it's a known vulnerability in the zip encryption that you can determine the key from the plain...
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─You seem to be disputing what I said by agreeing with me. Less than 900 million plus a couple of hundred more million is barely breaking a billion.
[16:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─There are extras on The Walking Dead who are more attractive than I am.
[16:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:21] <exec> 08└─> Tony Robbins says that success leaves clues. Robbins is a huckster who made millions selling pop-psych bullshit to fools looking for short-cuts in life. Citing him is a sure-fire way to discredit whatever you might want to say.
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:39] <exec> 08└─That's the problem. Facebook has successfully framed the question as "some internet is better than none" but the issue isn't about internet access at all. It is no more "internet" than television is. You will be told what you can see and when you can see it. That completely misses the most important...
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Predicted in 1982 ... - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:41] <exec> 08└─By the Alan Parsons Project https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] " I am the eye in the sky Looking at you I can read your mind I am the maker of rules Dealing with fools I can cheat you blind ... " Wow, who says life doesn't imitate art? While I agree this kind of...
[16:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─You can go in the Firefox options and make Flash opt in (ask to activate). That's what I do.
[16:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Flash - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─Gman003 posted just above: "about:config media.autoplay.enable looks like the setting to change, if you want to keep non-flash videos from playing on their own." You mention fonts - https://www.techpowerup.com [techpower...
[16:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─Then vote for Jill Stein. I see you don't bother to demand accountability from the GOP. That reason most likely also applies to the Democrats.
[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:12] <exec> 08└─My thinking is that Trump is so dangerously inept and impulsive that he'll blow the whole thing up.
[16:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─For that matter, something I've been wondering for some time now is why so many of the elites in the US evidently don't really believe in democracy, and routinely take actions, blatantly illegal actions such as bribery at that, to subvert democracy.
[16:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:This is karma - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:34] <exec> 08└─If you're going to troll at least make the trolling germane to the conversation...and I don't think anyone whose entire political corpus can be summed up in the mantra "taxation is theft" has any right to accuse other people of "pre-teen beliefs." You know that quote about the difference between Lor...
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Old saw - 06Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:13] <exec> 08└─This article is talking about the situations where the software is actively running. Which is different from the normal "physical access" line in that the line normally presumes starting with an unpowered machine.
[16:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:51] <exec> 08└─Sorry to burst your sewage-bubble, Runaway, but I'm not an "SJW." Take your aggrieved whinging elsewhere; I call out stupid when I see it, no matter what color skin or what genitalia the perpetrator has.
[16:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:56] <exec> 08└─Jumpy? No, I prefer the term "vigilant." You see, in every era there are people like this...and in every era there arise people like me who find them and ridicule them. It's dirty work, but necessary. in much the same way a swimming pool needs regular de-wee-ing and chlorine treatments.
[16:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score:3, Informative) 02Played often but never completed - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:42] <exec> 08└─In the late 80's we would all be ushered into the computer lab to have time with the only computers in the school, none of the teachers knew anything about them so we would just play the games for an hour (to be exposed to technology or something). I spent many enjoyable hours playing the Oregon Tra...
[16:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:30] <exec> 08└─Because we've all seen Game of Thrones, and therefore are scared of frozen zombies.
[16:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 2042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:49] <exec> 08└─Moron. Just because a lot of people draw those poor women in porn doesn't mean that's where they show up. If you're really wondering, imagine "Lilith Fair meets Power Rangers," the home series being "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon." Mercury is your stereotypical shy, mousy nerd, who happens to have been...
[16:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:54] <exec> 08└─Fool, I've been "bloodthirsty" since about age 6. Take your patronizing mocking and shove it so far up your sagging, flaccid asshole you gag on it. And no, both parties are NOT the same. Once more: the Dems have been Republicans for a couple of decades, and the Republicans have been theocratic whack...
[16:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:57] <exec> 08└─The majority of voters in BOTH parties are irrational
[16:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymous coward with an agenda - or duped - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:33] <exec> 08└─It was successful. The problem was that congress cut the funding as soon as the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan. They'd provided all of the military aid in secret, so even though the USA was pouring $500m/year into the country by the end of the conflict, it looked to the Afghan people as if the USA w...
[16:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:staggered - 06Server Reboots / Upgrades [Updated #5] - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:36] <exec> 08└─Excellent points! Thanks to our having redundancy in our configuration, with sufficient advance notice, we can deal with a server or two going down without issue. Were all of our VPSs hosted on the same physical machine, we'd lose that ability. It is actually to our benefit to have things spread out...
[16:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Cyanogen Inc. Lays Off OS Development Team - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:54] <exec> 08└─So you brought up the red herring yourself?
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[17:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Super-Hard Metal - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:30] <exec> 08└─\m/
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Adamantium ? - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:31] <exec> 08└─When do we get Wolverine ?
[17:23:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 2662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:42] <exec> 08└─MDC is one of our own -- a reasonably talented coder who's something of a social misfit. He also struggles with some non-trivial mental health problems. In a civilized society, his ills would be like any other disability: a major pain in the ass, to be sure, but not an insurmountable barrier to livi...
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─a woman who was raped was suspected of being a rapist, so somebody felt justified in kidnapping her and making her life a living hell...for what good purpose, exactly?
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─She was never suspected of being a rapist. Where did you see that?
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02That's not the point - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─simply to threaten to disbar him put him in a position of a conflict of interest. Had he not resigned, then I really could have disbarred him. There is also the court reporter's record of my request and Judge Stahnke's permission.
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I wanted the jury to hear a recorded phone call - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─In which I asked a Vancouver PD officer to help me report a 20 year old murder of a drug informant - a murder I witnessed - and he ridiculed me. I expect the prosecutor dismissed because he actually spoke to the cop.
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02No you don't - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:54] <exec> 08└─The judge can rule that the defendant is incompetent to act Pro Se or Pro Per.
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Informative) 02The court clerk violated the law and my rights - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:57] <exec> 08└─... because her form was not equipped with a checkbox.
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─Usually guards and inmates don't walk around hand in hand looking for people to beat up because they're bored or Bernie lost the nomination or they failed to obtain their favorite pokemon character. I'm sure there's more to the story. I think I found a FOURTH peculiarity of the case, traditionally a...
[17:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:03] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with news these days. It's crafted to rile people up, and doesn't seek to answer many of the important questions. It does a disservice to real issues that people really should be riled up about, because all the real issues float around in a sea of bullshit and click-bait. Couple t...
[17:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, there's likely a whole lot more to this story. The whole story seems taken from her lawyer's pleading. Not something one normally takes at face value, even in a court of law. Yet I'm constantly amazed at the mindset around SN that immediately assumes that This Lawyer was 100 percent truthful, (...
[17:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:09] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that was a typo of a particularly bad sort. Please correct to "but it also would have been horrible if it happened to any innocent person." My intention was to say that any person in jail awaiting trial should be treated as innocent, not to imply she was in any way at fault.
[17:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:11] <exec> 08└─The SJW angle is that her rapist was in the same facility, and was treated better. Did the guard think they got drunk and raped each other? Did the guard think that she had second thoughts and was making up the rape accusation? And even if he did, that meant she deserved abuse?
[17:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:13] <exec> 08└─Would the guards necessarily know they were involved in *the same* rape case?
[17:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:15] <exec> 08└─Fifth weird aspect to the story not being reported is why the dude is in there. Yeah yeah critical feminist theory that all men are rapists or WTF-land. But in practice, accused attackers are not usually tossed in the mental health center. So there's something behind that story. One story that insta...
[17:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:17] <exec> 08└─You said: "Fifth weird aspect to the story not being reported is why the dude is in there." She was testifying at HIS rape trial. That's why he is in jail. The only question is why was SHE in jail. Harris county jail is huge. There is no suggestion they were even in the same wing, and certainly no r...
[17:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Two issues - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 2097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:19] <exec> 08└─Three weird issues tapdanced around in the article. 1) She's bipolar so they treated her awful. I'm not saying its good that they treat bipolar people poorly, or that they should. But its weird that her victim status trumps her medical diagnosis to the point that its not being widely advertised as a...
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Two issues - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:22] <exec> 08└─According to the documents, authorities were scheduled to be on vacation and "did not want the responsibility of having to monitor Jane Doe's well being or provide victim services to her during the holiday recess [...] an order from the Harris County sheriff to take the woman into custody so she wou...
[17:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlHunt [2529] (Score:2) 02Happened in Maine, too - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:24] <exec> 08└─A prosecutor in Maine had a victim jailed and arrested a few years back, too: http://bangordailynews.com [bangordailynews.com]
[17:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:50] <exec> 08└─I hear people maligning Chrome all the time, and I don't get it. Facts are, it's technically superior to Firefox. It's way faster objectively and subjectively. While Chrome proper is spyware, Chromium is open source and available in all the major repos, so there's not even a "free software!" argumen...
[17:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:i cringe - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:54] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, that isn't remotely as bad as seeing a customer with an aol.com email address. There's other addresses that are really awful too, namely anything tied to an ISP: verizon.net, comcast.net, etc. I can't believe a lot of people are still so ignorant that they use ISP-provided email. At leas...
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Re:i cringe - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─Heh, I know someone with a juno account still. :-]
[17:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:02] <exec> 08└─Marissa Mayer is going to make more money in her time at Yahoo than I've made in my entire life (and I'm not young), so what did she do? She made more money in her time at Yahoo than you've made in your entire life, that's what she did. Sounds like she was hugely successful to me. And she's not uniq...
[17:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Verizon invested in a dying industry - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─Not only that they are buying up the irrelevant players (ie AOL). They *honestly* think this is a grand idea. They thought they were going to move the needle on the company with these. They didnt. So they are buying even more. They are doubling down on the idea. They actually believe they are the ne...
[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Um. - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:24] <exec> 08└─This fake internet may displace things like libraries with books. Yes, that would be bad.
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:I like Flash - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─HTML5 is the new flash. That is why chrome is dominating: it is the unofficial HTML5 player, and everybody else has to scramble to maintain feature parity.
[17:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:05] <exec> 08└─The world is run by sociopaths. You should be scared of everybody
[17:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:11] <exec> 08└─So, in other words, for your own position to make sense, you have to convince yourself that your political opponents are violent, evil, stupid, and hateful, in that order.
[17:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:16] <exec> 08└─Right. Because people had the lesson of Ross Perot getting Bill Clinton elected.
[17:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you are committed to non-doping... - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─1) What about doping which isn't known to the general scientific community? I'm thinking of things like Lance Armstrong, who was tested more (?, citation needed) than anybody else and was still thought to be clean for years as he was competing. 2) Who pays for it? I know you acknowledged this in you...
[17:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:38] <exec> 08└─I can tell you, that wasn't "vigilance". Cleaning the pool with sulfuric acid might kill the germs, but it doesn't exactly make it safe to enter. Not that I won't jump in anyway. I can have fun too. and in every era there arise people like me who find them and ridicule them. :-) You work "alone" [vo...
[17:28:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:57] <exec> 08└─Over the years, I've come to understand that depriving a person of his rights FOR LIFE is probably unconstitutional.
[17:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad design - 06Phones Are Going to Get Tougher This Year Thanks to Gorilla Glass 5 - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:38] <exec> 08└─What you say sounds reasonable, but it can't be true. Which do you think is most likely: 1) There is a vast conspiracy [xkcd.com] keeping this technology out of the hands of consumer goods, despite the fact that there is obvious research going into break-resistant phones and the obvious market share...
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[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Adamantium ? - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─Gotta steal all that gold first for the alloy.
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Sounds like they're describing hardness - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:25] <exec> 08└─One of the problems with ultra-hard materials is they have a narrow plastic band, and tend to fracture rather than bend. It's why cars are safer now that they aren't made of ultra-hard steel anymore. They crumple efficiently and absorb the kinetic energy of the collision. It's probably good for, as...
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─An Air Force machinist gave them to me out of their scrap heap. I don't know but maybe he wasn't supposed to do that. We had the idea I could make some parts of my telescope out of them; at the time I enjoyed telescope making as a hobby. Both pieces are about a half a square foot and one-sixteenth i...
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─I'm jealous that you were given that titanium. If anyone wants some experience working with titanium, you can buy small sheets on ebay. A bit too expensive for much more than specialized parts. http://www.ebay.com
[18:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:43] <exec> 08└─The employee booking her in identified her as a defendant because he had an order from the district attorney stating that she was a defendant. Is that so hard to understand? Jail warden's do not get to second guess the Sheriff or the District Attorney. Oh, what's that you say Miss? You're innocent?...
[18:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:44] <exec> 08└─frojack (1554) wrote: The employee booking her in identified her as a defendant because he had an order from the district attorney stating that she was a defendant.
[18:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─No it's the magical power of conflict of interest.
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:55] <exec> 08└─This is the Procrustes story of the day. When something doesn't fit, make it fit. No entry on the form for "victim"? Just mark her as a defendant! No entry for "pro se"? Sorry, can't fix the form, out of our control.
[18:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:02] <exec> 08└─it sounds to me like the jail staff didn't know what was going on, not being privy to the DA's gambit, and only having the booking sheet to go by.
[18:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:11] <exec> 08└─Oh... oops. I got that wrong when I look at the details. local hospital for mental health treatment
[18:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─There are four different methods to encrypt a zip file. Only the first two are widely used because they are the oldest, license free, have multiple FLOSS implementations, and are completely backwards compatible with any reader (in that they may not be able to decrypt but at least recognize it is a z...
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─D'oh "license free" was supposed to be "licensing cost free," as you have to get a special license, and usually pay for it, in order to implement that part of the specification.
[18:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:53] <exec> 08└─Mayer seems to have failed completely in doing anything with Yahoo to turn it around.
[18:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I was quite impressed by the Motorola VP I met - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:57] <exec> 08└─He actually took me for a ride on his yacht. That was quite cool. (I used to BE somebody.) When I told him how impressed I was to meet a real VP, he replied "Don't be. When Motorola wants to get rid of you, they make you a vice president."
[18:24:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] 02My Plans - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:59] <exec> 08└─> What are your plans in light of the buyout? I guess if they're going to ruin Yahoo, I'll just go back to AOL.
[18:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02It's a shame - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:02] <exec> 08└─It's a real shame that Yahoo, that once grand company, a symbol of the Silicon Valley of the 1990's and early 2000's, is now essentially kaput. I'll continue to use Yahoo for what I've always used it for, checking the weather forecast. I feel that Verizon waited was premature to buy Yahoo now. It'll...
[18:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Addons for GIF animation control - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:54] <exec> 08└─Two extensions (because providing the function as base is too much, even if one case at least it was): - SuperStop, so Shift+Esc does what Esc did: stop the annoying GIFs. - Quick Preference Button, to get a menu where (among other things) you can set image animation to none, once or normal.
[18:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:To make a better movie - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:07] <exec> 08└─24 separatate movies, for each time-zone I think 4 would suffice, we don't have to go overboard here.
[18:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─Now this is why I'm glad Slashdot doesn't have unicode!
[18:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:37] <exec> 08└─The corrupt establishment that keeps letting GOP candidates run on the Democratic ticket... You are wagging the dog. The situation is quite the reverse. Remember all those dixiecrats that jumped ship in '65. They run the republican party now. Sanders ran for the issues. Now you can disagree all you...
[18:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:42] <exec> 08└─He won't throw fuel on the fire, he will bring his extinguisher instead.
[18:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─Hillary Clinton in particular was determined to destroy Russia's ally Syria (which created the conditions that allowed ISIS to thrive, incidentally). In the quest for global domination, You go with what works [counterpunch.org]. In addition to that we wrecked their oil economy and weapons sales in t...
[18:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone suprised ? - 06No Blanket Olympics Ban for Russian Athletes - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:35] <exec> 08└─True but the country was systematically cheating the testing process for team sports, and ALL the Russian athletes are supported by the government. Hopefully the Federated team councils will recognize the violations and ban the countries teams, and then the individual athletes can pass or fail the d...
[18:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:36] <exec> 08└─Ok, with those rules you are probably more familiar than me :-) (Although I tried to learn the basics for implementing SoylentBob...) To Azuma this label doesn't fit too well. Her rambling against Islam and other religions gets into the way, I think tolerance trumps woman suppression in SJW logic. U...
[18:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:37] <exec> 08└─"Rambling?" Thanks for that Q *groan.* Which one of us, exactly, has spent nearly a decade on church history, comparative religion, apologetics and counter-apologetics, logic, philosophy, and yes, reading the Koran? I don't ramble, thank you very much.
[18:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:45] <exec> 08└─In many ways I've always been alone in this world. I was lucky enough not to be an orphan at least, but most of the time I've been very internal and solitary, studying and learning from a distance. This planet is insane, and I want no part of that insanity; the phrase "in the world but not of it" de...
[18:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:15] <exec> 08└─No actually ours will function as a swamp cooler which is the exact opposite. What we can do is filter the pool water for consumption in the event of a 'long' term outage, and with the Colorado river nearby we would haul in barrels of water and store in the pool. We keep about 2 weeks supply of drin...
[18:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well when we cut off your supply of Colorado River water we'll see how long it takes before you eat your gun, or someone else makes you eat yours. (At least for any who are south of the Seligman-Prescott-St. Johns line.) Sayeth an ex-Arizonan who misses the gun laws and the deserts, but also r...
[18:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:46] <exec> 08└─This election cycle, the conservatives voted for the least irrational offering.
[18:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:52] <exec> 08└─You need Congress to pay for Guantanamo's decommissioning. Guess who controls Congress right now...
[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apologies - 06Cyanogen Inc. Lays Off OS Development Team - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:54] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I should contact phone manufacturers, and see if any will pay me *not* to use their phones.
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[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Electric motors... - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─...went through a similar phase. At first, you bought a motor and attached all sorts of stuff to it. Then each tool came with its own motor...and today you find electric motors used for the vibrating alert on your phone, something incomprehensible to the world a century ago. In the age when a comput...
[19:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02going vertical, are we? - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─Instead, chip manufacturers will turn to other means of boosting density, namely turning the transistor from a horizontal to a vertical geometry and building multiple layers of circuitry, one on top of another.
[19:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds like they're describing hardness - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:38] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the BBC article says it's four times harder and tougher than titanium; however, hardness and toughness are VERY different things. Actually, there are more or less opposites. Hardness refers to the resistance to plastic deformation, whereas toughness refers to the ability to absorb impacts, i...
[19:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:41] <exec> 08└─Also to note, if you're welding titanium, it must be done in an inert atmosphere (100% argon, no humidity). Additionally, you need to reduce the heat input as the heat affected zone around the weld will become very brittle. That pretty much leaves you with TIG, Plasma, or specialty MIG processes lik...
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─So, which is it? Was she in jail because the DA thought she was going to refuse to testify against her own rapist or because she was a defendant suspected of sexual assualt according to the DA's signature on the paperwork?
[19:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:59] <exec> 08└─you seem to think that that's a good thing, or at least acceptable; I, on the other hand, find it horrific
[19:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─So then, just to make it clear, you are going on record [...]
[19:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not the point - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:04] <exec> 08└─I still don't get it. "To disbar [thefreedictionary.com]" is "To prohibit an attorney from the practice of law by official action or procedure", in other words "to remove its license/authorization to be a lawyer", AFAIK. I can imagine you could have fired him or sued him, but unless you're some kind...
[19:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not the point - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─oh wait, did you mean debar [thefreedictionary.com]? Then your sentence would make much more sense to me.
[19:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the point - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─He couldn't disbar him, nor did he want to. What he did was file or make public his intent to file a hostile action or complaint against the lawyer with the bar association. At that point, the lawyer had a conflict of interest with his client and was ethically obligated to resign. You can't represen...
[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:No you don't - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, but, to my knowledge, in the US, that would also mean the defendant is incompetent to stand trial. Things may be different in Canada, where you were as I can see from your posts elsewhere in this discussion.
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─> And quite obviously a lot of SN readers need to start reading and thinking like they are older than 15. Start with #1 man. You have a history of making up shit from whole cloth just because it fits your own internal narratives. Even when 2 minutes of google would have shown you otherwise.
[19:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:07] <exec> 08└─Robot resume rejection email perhaps? No gmail beta invitation? Still yearning for Reader? Wave? "I can't believes I sent it all of our datas, my iPrecious!"
[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I was quite impressed by the Motorola VP I met - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─Hehe, In verizon VPs actually hold some sway on what goes on. That is because no one really knows what is going on. They regularly have 2-3 groups working on the exact same thing. Whichever VP can kiss ass better to the CEO wins. It is by far the most disorganized company I have ever worked for. Tha...
[19:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a shame - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:26] <exec> 08└─Insightful. Seems hard to contemplate today. But google has a lot of services that really have no visible means of support other than advertising revenue. Maps, Gmail, News, and Search, Calendar, Drive, etc. The list goes on an on. All of that hanging off of advertising revenue in a time when people...
[19:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Autoplay videos - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:15] <exec> 08└─Do modern browser packages come with flash integrated? I haven't had it installed since I rebuilt anything I've rebuilt -- I made the decision back in 2013 to not install flash, and there have been very few instances where I required it. All were business related. I ended up having to install flash...
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NASA Schmasa? - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─Nice troll, but here is 100% proof that NASA landed men on the moon, [youtube.com] and NASA does not fake any of their images. [sli.mg]
[19:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:08] <exec> 08└─He won't throw fuel on the fire, he will bring his extinguisher instead.
[19:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:19] <exec> 08└─I see you don't bother to demand accountability from the GOP. It's a valid double standard. Demanding accountability, or any kind of good behavior really, from the GOP, is like demanding good, rational behavior from an insane lunatic who's in an asylum. The Dems put themselves out there as the part...
[19:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:25] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine Trump's ego (which is yuuuuuuuge!) would ever settle for just being a figurehead.
[19:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─Why do you say the Washington Post "was sitting on dirt"? Did you notice that they covered the actions against Nader in the 2004 story [washingtonpost.com] linked from his article? Nader's book "Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State" was published in 2014, an...
[19:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:37] <exec> 08└─In the quest for global domination ...
[19:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:39] <exec> 08└─What exactly is the benefit to us plebs if the US government achieves global domination? Clearly we don't want that. Without an enemy it will turn on us and even itself. Such is the nature of things. We are probably safest to just stay out of the crossfire.
[19:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, detachment can be a good thing. I'm a bit of a practitioner myself, but I still buy canned beans and drink city water.
[19:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:50] <exec> 08└─In the event of a systemic failure I doubt anyone will have the equipment or the skill to cut off the supply of the Colorado river, and if it does happen you can count on quite a few pissed off survivalist with lots of firepower coming upriver to see what happened :)
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[20:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02What Moore Giveth Programmers Taketh Away - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─How many cores does your iToy have? Now how many threads do your apps run? Yeah multithreaded programming is difficult, but then so is singing on the street for tips. I made six bucks just now. Deal with it.
[20:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nah - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:59] <exec> 08└─We will need to transition from electronics to photonics.
[20:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:20] <exec> 08└─I got a set of titanium eating utensils, partly out of curiosity and partly in hopes I could persuade my significant other to ditch the plastic she prefers over stainless steel. Quit wasting money on plastic. I wondered if her objection to stainless steel and love of plastic might be simply the weig...
[20:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:21] <exec> 08└─The ore is so cheap they use it in white paint and toothpaste (TiO2, rutile, titanium dioxide). I was once given a tour in a washing powder factory. They had a glass display case where they proudly presented next to each other: cheap washing powder, and cheap tooth paste :-) that made me think about...
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02the bar has an ethics board - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:46] <exec> 08└─I once complained about the plaintiff's ambulance chaser when he filed a defamation action due to his own fevered imagination.
[20:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Vancouver in the United States - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:53] <exec> 08└─I live there now but still call my company Portland Software Development and Consulting [soggywizards.com] so people don't think I'm in Canada. Vancouver Washington was the first, established about 1840 or so as a Canadian Army fort, later turned over to the US Army when we finally agreed on our com...
[20:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two issues - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:13] <exec> 08└─But its weird that her victim status trumps her medical diagnosis to the point that its not being widely advertised as a mentally ill person being brutalized but instead she's a crime victim.
[20:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:28] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that they have the unencrypted zip (since they can zip the plain version of a file), and the encrypted version of same.
[20:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:29] <exec> 08└─Can't that be generalized into a vulnerability in ZIP encryption itself? Or is this an already well-known vulnerability in ZIP?
[20:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:31] <exec> 08└─Given a cleartext source document and an encrypted version, almost any encryption method can be brute forced. Not just a Zip weakness.
[20:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 2574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:52] <exec> 08└─Being open source doesn't mean it's not spyware. Sorry for the unusual attachment, but the following is a gzipped base64 log of urls that chromium requests on startup, to showing the favorites menu, to clicking on soylentnews. One of the extensions is the app store, where loads of javascript are pul...
[20:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:03] <exec> 08└─My point is that people like Tony Robbins say success leaves clues, and you can look at those clues and imitate the successful people to have success. I'm trying to find out what this CEO did to be so successful. All I see is nothing.
[20:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should stop listening to hucksters like Tony Robbins. As for Marissa, she was a successful upper manager of some kind at Google. Apparently that let her talk her way into the Yahoo job.
[20:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:06] <exec> 08└─So the key to success is to do nothing?
[20:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:09] <exec> 08└─Mayer's looks are important because every ... single ... article ... about ... Yahoo for years has had her picture. I think I've seen one that didn't. We are bombarded with her looks. I pointed out the double standard, because I don't know any other CEO, male or female, who is given this treatment....
[20:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:12] <exec> 08└─So what? Would you decide to buy stock of a company because the CEO is attractive? Or would you consider using a company's products because the CEO is attractive?
[20:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaking of overdue - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:57] <exec> 08└─A longer easier to remember password is better than the punctuation explosion most password schemes require these days. No, I'm not suggesting "Correct Horse Battery Staple". Anything you can't remember without yanking out your wallet (leather or digital) becomes a nuisance and just begs to be writt...
[20:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I like Flash - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:14] <exec> 08└─NONE OF THAT SHIT WORKS.
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:So confusing... - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:53] <exec> 08└─There does seem to be a contradiction here. I'm too cynical to believe that DWS was supporting Clinton on her own or that Clinton wanted DWS out. That Politico article has to be damage control. There is no way Clinton can't throw DWS under the bus. "She resigning? That's what we wanted all long!" I'...
[20:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:09] <exec> 08└─He never intended to be anything but a stalking horse, to keep some interest going in what would otherwise be a boring coronation, to gin up some excitement in the base No, that's what the democrats hired Trump for. I doubt the emails would reveal that many democrats registered as republicans to vot...
[20:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:27] <exec> 08└─True, but it will be less worse.
[20:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:39] <exec> 08└─One thing to remember, before the end of World War 2 the whole of Europe and much of Russia was always at constant war and/or under attack from one side or the other. This is something Americans cannot comprehend with the big moat and friendly neighbors that surround it. Recent failures of containme...
[20:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:52] <exec> 08└─Ross Perot didn't get Bill Clinton elected. People simply decided they would rather vote for Ross Perot. Maybe if the mainstream candidates don't like the so-called "spoiler effect", they should put forth non-evil candidates.
[20:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:14] <exec> 08└─That's why there usually is some (or some more) sense in your posts - but as I wrote before, your strong language sometimes drowns the voice of reason a bit, and tempts some individuals to provoke you. (Well, I didn't put it exactly that way, but the meaning was similar.)
[20:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:24] <exec> 08└─Canned beans AND tap water? Consider that the detachment may be on the part of others...
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[21:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:31] <exec> 08└─Oh most beautiful of memes! Mod up Submitter +9000
[21:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:32] <exec> 08└─Kind of sad that the most effective way to end security theatre is to stage a huge attack despite of it. :P (I am totally going a a list now, aren't I? -- more security theatre!)
[21:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:34] <exec> 08└─If you aren't on at least 2 lists by now your doing it wrong.
[21:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:36] <exec> 08└─I'm writing a journal entry about an interesting hypothetical scenario. Let's see if I can get onto 5 lists.
[21:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─Its all fun and games until you get no-fly-listed in the middle of your business trip to europe and can't come home.
[21:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not convinced it's actually a worst-case scenario...
[21:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:43] <exec> 08└─Valid point, but don't forget that humor is one of our best coping mechanisms. Cracking jokes about the horror going on around us is healthy, once people are afraid to stop cracking jokes is when we need to march in peaceful protest.
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:going vertical, are we? - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:53] <exec> 08└─Stacking separate chips does help with yields, reducing costs, but the stacking process isn't cheap yet, so it make sense for expensive stuff. When it comes to heat, making channels for the heat to flow through is costly in real estate, and only good for low-power chips. We can't sandwich things if...
[21:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02coming full circle back to good programming - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─The incredible increase in computer capacity and speed over the years has enabled some really sloppy and wasteful programming. Maybe soon we can refocus on making software small and good again, instead of bloating programs with libraries by the dozens, and reckless memory management that asks for tw...
[21:24:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 987 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:23] <exec> 08└─Judge Daniel Stahnke of the Clark County Superior Court in Vancouver Washington granted me permission to act Pro Se, and appointed attorney Neil Cane as my defense attorney. The form that the court clerk had for recording the case did not have any way to record that the defendant was to act Pro Se o...
[21:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 1548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:34] <exec> 08└─Discussion does not matter in these cases, it is most frustrating. I had a similar discussion with a retired officer who worked for a short bit in a county jail and he was telling the group about how their sheriff had bought military rations (MREs) at a good price in order to save the county money....
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─A little bit of extra-curricular punishment for (accused) sex offenders isn't exactly unheard of. [foxnews.com]
[21:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Errors - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 1764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:37] <exec> 08└─The way I see it, her case (and MichaelDavidCrawford's clerks case) sound like there was an error made in the system, but for some reason this error was not acknowledged or corrected. Like it is acceptable for "commoners" to make errors, but when somebody in authority makes an error, there is a poss...
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:39] <exec> 08└─They'll wonder how their ancestors could possibly have been so cruel and stupid.
[21:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:01] <exec> 08└─Jack booted thugs. That is what you guys come off as. She was 100% a victim from start to finish. If you want to blame someone why not blame the person responsible? The DA! Sending her to jail is bad enough, but saying she's the defendant? Everything else stems from this, and you conservatard thugs...
[21:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah I think we basically agree, seeing as her lawyer is also a big fan of Oh, right, details won't actually matter unless they support your viewpoint.
[21:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:13] <exec> 08└─I read it completely differently :-) My (completely substanceless) opinion is, that the guard thought: "oh shit! I really screwed up! If I ignore it, maybe the problem will go away! Pity for that woman though."
[21:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:05] <exec> 08└─Go to a good university and study a hard science or engineering discipline. While you're there, meet as many people as you can and form friendships. After you graduate start working the network you created for an in with a big company. You'll need a good deal of luck, too. Most people who try this p...
[21:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a shame - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:17] <exec> 08└─Another alternative. The services will be free if you use Google's network (which you of course have to pay for), or a "partner network" (where the ISP is paying Google in return to Google offering their services for free on their network). Or in short: The cost of those services may end up being hi...
[21:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh - 06Facebook Completes First Test Flights of its Solar-Powered Aquila Internet Drone - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:36] <exec> 08└─It's only retarded because FB runs it. If it was legit open internet then this would be pretty awesome!
[21:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Greater Good" vs "Market Manipulation" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:16] <exec> 08└─I'm really torn about this Kill Flash thing. On the one hand, Flash is a terrible program full of security holes. So eliminating it seems like it is for the greater good. On the other hand, what you have here are a bunch of companies essentially conspiring to eliminate another company's product. Wha...
[21:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:To make a better movie - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:30] <exec> 08└─4, like the corners of a CUBE, is it? Yeah, I see you Gene Ray.
[21:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Warning? - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:33] <exec> 08└─warning: has narration
[21:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:05] <exec> 08└─Voting only works if there isn't an organized campaign of election fraud. The DNC went way out of it's way to do things like close polling stations and hasn't even bothered to count all the ballots in CA or release the figures from IA. The exit polling data had to be "corrected" because it didn't ma...
[21:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:12] <exec> 08└─The Russians or somebody gave Wikileaks a lot of docs. We initially thought that it would be a crap dump, but the shenanigans surrounding Debbie Wasserman-Schultz have stirred up some nice chaos in the party. The timing was perfect, since her removal from her position (note: effective only at the en...
[21:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:14] <exec> 08└─Don't let the media distract with speculation about who did the dump. Doesn't really matter, does it? Did the same suspects get all concerned about any of the other WikiLeaks dumps and where they came from? Of course not. Are the documents authentic? The DNC doesn't dispute the issue of autenticity...
[21:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:16] <exec> 08└─You really seized on the first sentence of my post.
[21:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:28] <exec> 08└─There's a very good reason for the double standard here. As long as the DNC marches further and further right, there's not really any accountability possible for the GOP. Especially for the majority of Americans that think the Democrats are too far right. What are we going to do, vote for the corpor...
[21:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:39] <exec> 08└─They are the minority. You're basically falling for the same line of reasoning that the "elites" fall for, thinking that most people are the same as the small vocal shitty minority.
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[22:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:41] <exec> 08└─Mind you, this was 36 years ago. The arguments are the same, just the level of comic absurdity has bled from television satire, into daily public rhetoric. Sir Humphrey: I understand that were you to cancel Trident you would be met not by the President but by the *Vice* President. Jim Hacker: The *V...
[22:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry. It was 2nd series - 30 years ago. Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe. Jim Hacker: I don't want to obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe. Sir Humphrey: It's a deterrent. Jim Hacker: It's a bluff. I probably wouldn't use it. Sir Humphrey: Yes, but t...
[22:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:45] <exec> 08└─The whole point of BrExit was the UK deciding a slow slide into insignificance was a lousy way to go, that they wanted to try actually being a real country again and see if they still had what it takes to stand in the world as an equal. And if you want to be in the elite club we all understand what...
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:59] <exec> 08└─"once people are afraid to stop cracking jokes" - lol. Once "average" people are afraid to stop cracking jokes, you mean. As someone born in the 1980's and versed in science and technology I've been afraid for about 15 years.
[22:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:00] <exec> 08└─The implausibility of a "peaceful protest" while the population is afraid broke my sarcasm detector.
[22:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Instill democracy? - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:02] <exec> 08└─Fuck that shit. I mean, our so-called democracy is so excellent that we have the prospect of Trump presidency, but we will install democracy in desert nomad land?
[22:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:going vertical, are we? - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:13] <exec> 08└─Vertical NAND and HBM on top of CPUs are nice, but the existing stacking process is not going to work for CPUs. It's possible that post-CMOS technologies will be able to drastically reduce power consumption and leakage, to the point where 3D/layered CPUs could be feasible. Stuff like these: http://s...
[22:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02get a grip, it is size of transissor - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:17] <exec> 08└─10+ yrs years ago my brother I had quite a conversation of gate width. At that point they were crossing the 50 atom wide gates and an alpha particle comes floating through (200 atoms wide) and destabilize the gate. If this was in flip-flop circuit the state changes. Alpha particle could occur spont...
[22:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:get a grip, it is size of transissor - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─um,, Alpha particles [wikipedia.org] are about 1 atom across; if that (lacking electrons).
[22:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:57] <exec> 08└─According to TFA, they did NOT provide her with her meds. So apparently, all they provided was an extremely bad environment for someone with a psychiatric problem to recover in.
[22:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─There is the minor matter of failing to give her her meds, and locking her up in the same facility as her attacker. Since other inmates were also said to have beaten her, I'm pretty sure they don't mean a pillow fight.
[22:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:24] <exec> 08└─The DA has made some public statements defending herself, which confirm several though not all key facts of the case. Here's a link to her statement, embedded in a criminal lawyer's assessment of the case. To the best of my knowledge he is older than 15. http://blog.simplejustice.us
[22:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:27] <exec> 08└─Until the court case settles we won't find anything out most likely. My take is that they dropped any assault charges against her for her doing the same. No matter what she could be found guilty of assault for hitting a guard, the law doesn't care what put her in that situation, so seems fair to dro...
[22:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:25] <exec> 08└─The key to success is the opportunity to run a major company into the ground, sell all the cash assets, layoff all the effective workers, and then sell the company before anyone catches on.
[22:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02uBlock uMatrix... - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:35] <exec> 08└─And some about:config setttings. uMatrix takes a bit more finagling, but combined with uBlock it has more granular features than noscript (although you can use all three, but since uMatrix often blocks 2nd tier sites, even if noscript allows the scripts to run, you might have to enable in two places...
[22:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:To make a better movie - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:54] <exec> 08└─It seems the satellite doesn't take its pictures at the same time every day for every location, so even if you pick the closest frames for your location, the continents jump back and forth and the misalignment ruins any kind of animation you might see from the clouds.
[22:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:39] <exec> 08└─Because there was a reason you put it first. Whether you thought of it yourself or just blindly bought into the Narrative that is saturating the media today doesn't matter. The point is the importance, for the Dims, of deflecting sufficient attention from the contents of the emails to the meta conve...
[22:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:18] <exec> 08└─So, in other words, for your own position to make sense, you have to convince yourself that your political opponents are violent, evil, stupid, and hateful, in that order.
[22:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:31] <exec> 08└─Dems get more black votes, so it's better for them that criminals vote. For Reps it's the other way around.
[22:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No strong opinion on this one - 06Virginia Court Overturns Order That Restored Voting Rights to Felons - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:08] <exec> 08└─Seychelles? I've been to the Seychelles several times and I'd swear there wasn't 868 people on the whole island!
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[23:23:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 742 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry. It was 2nd series - 30 years ago. Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe. Jim Hacker: I don't want to obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe. Sir Humphrey: It's a deterrent. Jim Hacker: It's a bluff. I probably wouldn't use it. Sir Humphrey: Yes, but t...
[23:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:20] <exec> 08└─Well, it is the nuclear missile that Harrods would sell [youtube.com].
[23:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:22] <exec> 08└─Such a damn good clip.
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that have been Yes, Prime Minister?
[23:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the other UK - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:27] <exec> 08└─Ukraine got rid of nuclear weapons. That didn't turn out to be a bright move.
[23:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:44] <exec> 08└─I'm writing a journal entry about an interesting hypothetical scenario. Let's see if I can get onto 5 lists.
[23:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Instill democracy? - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:46] <exec> 08└─But there's a seemingly more likely prospect of a Hillary presidency, and she's incredibly authoritarian as well. We're fucked either way. Again.
[23:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:59] <exec> 08└─Tell me the whole thing doesn't scream of Vogon training? :)
[23:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─She could be guilty of assault, but I'd insist on seeing surveillance video first, given that things like this happen: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]
[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─> "psychically pushing them into the cell is battery" So the guards can't even think in the general directions of prisoners these days? Sheesh, what is the world coming to?
[23:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:success leaves clues - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:15] <exec> 08└─Theranos suddenly makes sense.
[23:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:23] <exec> 08└─The reason I put it first is because in the series of events, Wikileaks has to get the docs first before they can leak them. The Russians leaking emails to Wikileaks scenario is plausible, not that it detracts from the releases in any way in my view. The Trump coordinating with the Russians narrativ...
[23:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:If he wasn't a terrorist before... - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:32:38] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, I do think that Trump is the least irrational of the choices offered. Who does he belong to? Who did all the others belong to? Carson was a wild card, I don't know who he belongs to, but all the rest belong to Wall Street and Corporate America. And, where are Wall Street, Corporate Americ...
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