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[00:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:25] <exec> 08└─The bad taste police should give the college a ticket for making a play on words on what is hardly a laughing matter. I think Blue Lives Matter is appropriate, because it is a direct response to BLM.
[00:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:27] <exec> 08└─I am sick of tired of the "Blue Lives Matter" crap! Why do people think that Smurfs or Krishna are special? I say, "All Colored Lives Matter!" Not just the BlueMan Group.
[00:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:29] <exec> 08└─To the world at large: Grow up already! This is called satire. It's a protected form of speech. Anything anyone does is subject to it, as TV shows like Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy demonstrate. Laugh with the rest of us and go on with your lives.
[00:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:31] <exec> 08└─But which version of the slogan is the satire?
[00:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:33] <exec> 08└─The one that seeks to counterbalance fighting a History of discrimination and abuse, with a few recent regrettable tragic and idiotic actions.
[00:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:35] <exec> 08└─People who like to be offended like to be offended. My son keeps threatening to drop Philosophy and take Women's Studies instead, but I don't think he would be allowed to.
[00:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:38] <exec> 08└─My son keeps threatening to drop Philosophy and take Women's Studies instead, but I don't think he would be allowed to.
[00:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:40] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget "Black Guns Matter", too.
[00:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Thinking outside the ammo box - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:52] <exec> 08└─> when they were suddenly fantastically wealthy by any standard they were familiar with? With two, or even four or ten grand? > That the governments could prevent the citizens from buying arms with which to defend themselves from the government? People being able to fight their central government is...
[00:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Thinking outside the ammo box - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:54] <exec> 08└─The real reason the Middle East is in the mess it is in is because of the Sykes-Picot agreement. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah here it comes... - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:30] <exec> 08└─The treaty already provides all the framework they need.
[00:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They want to mine stuff from the moon? - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:49] <exec> 08└─The privates will have their work cut out for them
[00:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you believe - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:00] <exec> 08└─They put a man on the moon --dept
[00:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:trusted computing - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 1565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:25] <exec> 08└─OpenBSD has the same problem as Linux: it distributes non-free, sourceless firmwares. Last time I personally checked there was at least one such network driver within the base install. I maintain that some of these network blobs already contain spyware, and that all of them should be regarded as con...
[00:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:trusted computing - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 1644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:26] <exec> 08└─I found it an interesting thread to read. Especially because it was close to home for a software product I worked on in a former job. The package used encrypted communications links over untrusted networks. It handled large financial transactions and transmitted account numbers and authentication da...
[00:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:trusted computing - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:28] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, there is often a room for compromise, and additional layers of security are not a waste, even in the face of total insecurity elsewhere. But what drives me bananas about projects like Tails (serving blobs) or Tor (serving a Windoze client) is their refusal to even acknowledge this is ter...
[00:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:56:13] <exec> 08└─It's dark, nobody ever comes there unless they mean to steal his weed or shag his girl - and those with that intent usually come armed. He thought he saw a handgun, they were waving something around that's for sure. Skeered n fearin for his life, he shot in self defense.
[00:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:56:28] <exec> 08└─Wisdom seen in a South Carolina flea market: Nothing past this sign is worth dying for.
[00:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:moral failing! - 06A Protein is Found to Regulate Cocaine-Craving After Withdrawal - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:12] <exec> 08└─First someone would have to explain what exactly the effect of BRG1 actually is. "We wanted to know if BRG1 and this transcription factor also interact following cocaine addiction and if those interactions helped regulate genes in these individuals." ... that a protein in the brain regulates genes...
[00:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:could be reasonable - 06Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking for Salary Histories - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:04] <exec> 08└─I modded this funny because I find it cute that there are people this stupid.
[00:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:or just let them lie in the bed they made - 06Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking for Salary Histories - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:21] <exec> 08└─Agreed. But for the unskilled negotiator the rule of thumb applies. He he speaks first ... lost. For the skilled negotiator and different the poker rules apply ...
[00:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:[OT] Las Vegas uncaps Lake Mead's "third straw" - 06St. Paul Island Mammoths Died of Thirst 5,600 Years Ago - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:07] <exec> 08└─...AND 'enough for your people' is one thing, 'enough so you can waste it on any of a thousand water-wasting displays which have nothing to do with drinking it to maintain life', is another thing... i would be willing to bet they have a HUGE per capita usage because of the tourism industry...
[01:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Beer Corps - 06Craft Brewing Industry Saved Small Hop Growers - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:36] <exec> 08└─English references from a guy who actually goes through historical British brewing log books: 1880 - 1914 [blogspot.com] Between 1914 and 1953 [blogspot.com]: This really is revealing. I was surprised to see, on average, British breweries used about 80% malt in their grists. It makes me realise just...
[01:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Beer Corps - 06Craft Brewing Industry Saved Small Hop Growers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what you're on about saying good IPAs would be too cloying with pure barley. There are very few if any craft IPAs that are not pure barley malt.
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[01:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:24] <exec> 08└─The woman sounds like a nutter, a "sovereign citizen" type, like the shooter in Louisiana. But if the cops can just shut you down when you are living streaming what they are doing to you, that's how they avoid accountability. At the very least, it is damn suspicious since she ended up dead.
[01:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Social media are a problem. - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:25] <exec> 08└─"Her 5-year-old son was wounded in the exchange of gunfire." This is what social media are doing to our society. Back in the day, the police would have put him out of his misery.
[01:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:35] <exec> 08└─> I think Blue Lives Matter is appropriate, because it is a direct response to BLM. Yes it is. BLM is about anti-racism, responses that mimic it are about pro-racism.
[01:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:38] <exec> 08└─BLM was started by butthurt trustfund kids that waved the muh-racism banner so they too could play the victim card, the most holiest of holies in our day and age.
[01:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, all it really does is point to success of the BLM movement while pointing to how it has jumped the shark. The University adopting the name can only need to more recognition and credibility for BLM. The fact that BLM has a stick so far up their ass that they can't see this points the way to...
[01:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:42] <exec> 08└─ironic you say that on the day when BLM reached a new level of organizing also civil rights movements don't "jump the shark" no matter how much it comfort you think that way
[01:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:49] <exec> 08└─The name of a course offered by a university isn't a great vehicle for levity. This title will presumably appear on students' transcripts, where it will require explanation.
[01:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:53] <exec> 08└─"Black Guns Matter", too.
[01:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:55] <exec> 08└─This may come as a shock to you, but it's not illegal to be racist. Beyond the breathless recriminations, no one much cares how much hatred you hold in your heart as long as you treat people fairly.
[01:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Matter McMatterface - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:57] <exec> 08└─Time to retire the "X lives matter" meme.
[01:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And somewhere, Zuckerburg cries a little more . . - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:00] <exec> 08└─n/t
[01:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 021-up - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:02] <exec> 08└─I hear "Green Lives Matter" and think of 1-up mushrooms [t.co].
[01:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Hi Ho - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:04] <exec> 08└─Hi Ho, Kermit the Frog here... Blam! Blam! Blam! It's... it's... not easy... being...being... green. [expires]
[01:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:15] <exec> 08└─Lighting II, more like Lame Duck. It's a jack of all trades, master of none. It has no strengths to play against an enemies weaknesses. Even it's stealth is of limited advantage and has a shelf life; radars are already being deployed by some US enemies that can see it clearly.
[01:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:17] <exec> 08└─Sixth generation stealth fighters better be covered with metamaterials. Flying Harry Potter invisibility cloaks.
[01:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You damned dirty ape-brains! - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:23] <exec> 08└─The total cost of the program to the US and its allies is expected to exceed $500 billion (~£375 billion).
[01:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You damned dirty ape-brains! - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:25] <exec> 08└─Or simply not tax it at all. Then it'd go to useful economic activity and making peoples' lives better in the US and elsewhere.
[01:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Huh? - 06Theranos Introduces New Product to Distract from Scandal - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:35] <exec> 08└─Like Hooli Chat?
[01:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Browncoats! - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:32] <exec> 08└─burn the land and boil the sea you can't take the sky from me!
[01:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:trusted computing - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:57] <exec> 08└─OpenBSD has the same problem as Linux: it distributes non-free, sourceless firmwares.
[01:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Browseprint - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:16] <exec> 08└─How does a clean install do on browserprint.info?
[01:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:38] <exec> 08└─wtf? um, BECAUSE it was crowdsourced, (OR WHATEVER THE FUCK) *that* makes it 'okay' ? that makes less than zero sense... oh, they curated the info... sure they did... it may very well be it was screwed up before, but only since it was you and your buddy 'playing', nobody noticed... now that -apparen...
[01:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:40] <exec> 08└─You called me a liar after I proved to you that Niantic staff personally vetting each and every location to ensure it's publicly accessible (among other TOS requirements), and STILL no apology? You're a dick. No wonder you live in the country, nobody would ever want to be around a fucking asshole li...
[01:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:50] <exec> 08└─It depends a great deal where you are. Around here you can legally be within the flood plain as the state owns all the bodies of water and as such anybody is allowed in them. It's a bit difficult in some cases like where private owners own all the land around that, but the state does own the lake it...
[01:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not Random placement - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how the DMCA applies here, the safe harbor provision applies to copyright material being traded over somebody elses service. Place locations aren't subject to copyright law as of yet, so the idea of being exempted from copyright claims because of crowd-sourcing is nonsensical. I'm sure...
[01:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Random placement - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:18] <exec> 08└─They've opted to not verify the locations and as such, I'd be surprised if they weren't held liable for that.
[01:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not Random placement - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:20] <exec> 08└─I hadn't seen that. That's even worse, if they've vetted the locations and the locations themselves turn out to be private property, then what's the point of vetting them at all? I'd assumed that they hadn't been vetted as it seems absurd for some of those pokemon to be showing up where they are. Fo...
[01:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:moral failing! - 06A Protein is Found to Regulate Cocaine-Craving After Withdrawal - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:40] <exec> 08└─there already IS a relatively inexpensive treatment for cocaine addiction, it's called cocaine... the fact that cocaine is expensive has NOTHING to do with its production, and EVERYTHING to do with its illegality... a dirty little secret not talked about much, is one of THE largest cohorts of cocain...
[01:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank you, Hillary. - 06US Launches Airstrikes Targeting IS in Libya - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah -- some company was seeing a not too rosy quarter. Time to blow up money and people.
[01:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:could be reasonable - 06Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking for Salary Histories - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:35] <exec> 08└─As a rule, temporary services offer no benefits, unless they are government mandated. If the temp is getting $90/hr, and you are paid $30/hr, then at least $50 of that difference is profit for the temp service. The temp probably only pays in to SS and unemployment. The various states may differ slig...
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[02:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:26] <exec> 08└─Considering that she was being arrested for charges stemming from driving around with a license plate that had been covered up to indicate that she wasn't subject to the normal laws, I think it's highly likely that she was one of those sovereign citizen nutters. It's unfortunate that she was killed....
[02:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:27] <exec> 08└─I know, right? How dare she demand liberty? That's obviously a summary execution offense.
[02:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:30] <exec> 08└─Do you trust the cops, who have a record of shooting black people for not flossing? Or the black chick, who is afraid the cops are going to shoot her for not flossing and is trying to document what's happening? Dead chick sounds like a nutter, but as the actual video got shut down and I'm hearing th...
[02:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, can you not do math? You're more likely to wind up dead as a white person getting involved with the cops than as a black person. Significantly more likely in fact. The problem is black people get involved with the cops far more often than white people.
[02:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eristone [4775] (Score:1) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:35] <exec> 08└─Buzzard, you know there is a ton of history why black people get involved with cops far more often than white people.. and some of it boiled down to "we need someone to blame oh hey look there's a black guy grab him". There is also a ton of history of black people having adverse dealings with law e...
[02:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:48] <exec> 08└─Did they reach Super Saiyan level? Why wasn't the press notified? In the long view of the world, there has been a general move towards greater justice for all. In that respect BLM, simply joins critics of Ruby Ridge and Waco in pointing out the excesses of the police. And my only comfort is that the...
[02:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:58] <exec> 08└─How the hell does *black guns matter* become _racist_?
[02:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:00] <exec> 08└─Are you saying the white guns don't matter? You racist!! Probably don't think pink guns matter, either. Misogynist!! And you are probably opposed to same gun marriage! Bigot! Don't try to weasel your way out by saying "All Guns Matter", we all know what you are saying.
[02:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Hi Ho - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:06] <exec> 08└─It was accomplices of Ms. Piggy.
[02:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Love it - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:08] <exec> 08└─I'd guess 1/3 of my daily web surfing is sites like fark and uberhumor. This article gave me the biggest laugh of the week so far. Not for the class name, which was a chuckle, but for the response it got, which was a huge belly laugh. I'm a cracker, I like to think my life matters as much as black l...
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[02:54:21] <exec> 08└─So, this program is going to cost over half a trillion dollars, and nobody's convinced it's going to be a significant improvement over the current state of affairs. I propose a thought experiment. Let's rewind the clock back to the eve of the Second Gulf War. And, instead of waging the war, we had p...
[02:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who would have stopped them? - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:19] <exec> 08└─Humour can be subtle, can't it.
[02:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They want to mine stuff from the moon? - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:24] <exec> 08└─Not an original idea. Ask Andy Griffith-- https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:trusted computing - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:02] <exec> 08└─For OpenBSD, see /etc/firmware/atu-license in base. The word "blob" has no strict meaning, and OpenBSD people seem to use to mean main CPU binary, hence their claim is OK, while they still distribute non-free, sourceless software. Actually. if you look at Atmel license carefully, it says that you ca...
[02:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Random placement - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the cliff incident. It seems odd, there must be something else to the story. What I found was "... in Encinitas, California. Two men hunting for Pokemon were so engrossed in the Go app that they walked past a No Trespassing sign and then a Do Not Cross sign near a cliff edge." Tha...
[02:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Do you need a subject for a 132 word response? - 06Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking for Salary Histories - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:45] <exec> 08└─Instead of just mocking GP, you could have earned an "informative" mod by linking to something useful. https://www.glassdoor.com [glassdoor.com] You can look up any large company on Glassdoor. The available evaluations aren't especially useful, unless y...
[02:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Salary - 06Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking for Salary Histories - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:50] <exec> 08└─I had one experience with unions, also in the '80's. My first job after leaving the Navy was union. The business was family owned for three or four generations, and related to "The Mob". Fact was, one family member had been indicted for his Mafia connections, but not convicted. Anyway, the company p...
[02:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Salary - 06Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking for Salary Histories - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:52] <exec> 08└─Here across the pond, my wife works a union job, and I can in fact confirm that they are "corrupt arseholes". Unless you are a baseball player or a government employee, unions here aren't worth shit.
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[03:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wouldn't It Be Great? - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:25] <exec> 08└─As of right now it just looks like an opportunistic PR stunt - they had TP-Link in a position where they could coerce them, so they picked something that would get them good press. But wouldn't it be great if this became an official policy of the FCC and they actively made it part of the licensing p...
[03:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:36] <exec> 08└─/me chants “I am a citizen of the United States, not a U.S. citizen. I am a citizen of the United States, not a U.S. citizen. I am a citizen of the United States, not a U.S. citizen.” Whee! I no longer have to file form 1040! I don't remember if that was the exact magickal incantation, but you t...
[03:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:37] <exec> 08└─Precisely what liberty was she demanding? Arguably posting on the internet, but it doesn't appear that the platform owners were coerced into doing it. It appears that what she was doing was a violation of their ToS anyways. The fact that it was reported by the cops wouldn't be any different than if...
[03:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:40] <exec> 08└─> that's probably more about limiting her access to outside interference than ti was about controlling video from leaving the scene. I know that's what they said, and probably what a lot of them thought. But how important was it really? For one thing, she had a near infinite number of other ways fo...
[03:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:42] <exec> 08└─Quite important. One of the objectives necessary if they're going to bring somebody like that in alive or get the hostages out is to get and keep the hostage taker as calm as possible. Having it livestreamed probably wouldn't have been as much of an issue in the past, but having an audience, especia...
[03:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:48] <exec> 08└─Remember, there are AT LEAST two sides to every story. I've commented in the past that if I were a black guy living in New York City, the 'stop and frisk' bullshit would have me inciting an insurrection. Incidentally, I've often stated that there are no "good guys" in the Arab/Israeli conflict. That...
[03:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:50] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, can you not do math? You're more likely to wind up dead as a white person getting involved with the cops than as a black person. Significantly more likely in fact. The problem is black people get involved with the cops far more often than white people.
[03:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:52] <exec> 08└─That's how people who want to live handle situations like that. Most of the cases that the #BLM folks take on are cases where the deceased was engaged in activities that are highly risky. Running away from the police, waving around weapons, resisting arrest and similar activities. It makes it very h...
[03:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:55] <exec> 08└─[...] black people get involved with the cops far more often than white people.
[03:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:57] <exec> 08└─Guess you haven't heard that flossing is an ineffective waste of time. But why didn't the cops just cut the power and jam her signal? Waiting on hold for the *next available representative* seems pretty inefficient.
[03:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Facebook account shutdown for safety - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:59] <exec> 08└─of Facebook's stock price.
[03:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Stupid Police Tactics - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:01] <exec> 08└─So long as the police prefer to arrest people in their homes, in the hopes of finding further evidence, we will see more situations like this. Had she been stopped elsewhere, in a less defensible position, there wouldn't be long guns or a child involved. Why can't police do a legal traffic stop the...
[03:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Stupid Police Tactics - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:03] <exec> 08└─Police don't prefer to arrest people at their homes, there's usually only 2 places that you can routinely find people. One is at home where there's likely to be fewer random bystanders and the other is at work, assuming they have a job, where there's likely to be at least as many people around, and...
[03:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:15] <exec> 08└─#BLM intends to be against racism, but does a pretty shitty job of it. The basic message is that there should be better training for the police and more accountability and oversight to reduce the lives being taken by law enforcement. The problem though is that they're hypocrites that come out agains...
[03:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:28] <exec> 08└─Be fair to everyone, even the darkies. 😇 Simple!
[03:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02??? - 06Theranos Introduces New Product to Distract from Scandal - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:04] <exec> 08└─Why is Holmes not in prison? Why is she still working at Theranos? Why is she the CEO? Why is she announcing another miracle product that's basically identical to their first one? No, seriously. Wasn't she issued a sanction or something that forbids her from working in the industry? Who the hell do...
[03:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:15] <exec> 08└─So, myself, the media, and the property owners cited in the dozens of articles out there are uninformed. I wish there was a news outlet that reported links like this to keep the hysteria down. Right now the vibe I'm getting from the regular FUD sources is "The Pokemon Goers, they be walking alls ove...
[03:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:38] <exec> 08└─He reaches for his gun, but discovers it's been turned into a 🔫, and he sues Apple.
[03:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not Random placement - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:55] <exec> 08└─They did remove the pokemon from the Holocaust museum after the complaint, but if they're verifying locations it seems incredibly insensitive to put any pokemon there, especially that one. I think the deal with the cliff was that the algorithm they're using doesn't do a good job of dealing with the...
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[04:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't It Be Great? - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, at first I thought the PR stunt was on TP-Link's part: marketing that they make routers more powerful than the FCC will allow.
[04:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wait a minute... - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:31] <exec> 08└─So the FCC beats them in the head with a brick for "selling in the US routers that could operate at output levels higher than allowed by FCC rules. I'm assuming that's made possible by firmware. Now TP-Link has settled by way of fines and locking settings for power output. Wouldn't allowing third pa...
[04:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:46] <exec> 08└─Look, I think citizens should be sovereign - does that mean the police should be permitted to come shoot me? What if I think drugs should be legal?
[04:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:54] <exec> 08└─Tamir Rice was a kid playing with a toy gun when the cops pulled up on him from a few feet away and shot him while he was still thinking "asshole almost hit me, WTF?". Wanna guess how many times this cracker played with a toy gun with friends in a public park without getting shot? You've got the Cle...
[04:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:56] <exec> 08└─There's a reason why toy guns are legally required to have that nice bright orange tip. I can't recall when exactly those were added, but they were added specifically because people were being shot when the toy was mistaken for the real thing. The rest of them tend to agree with, but confounding cas...
[04:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:00] <exec> 08└─Have you got a source on that? I haven't read anything; just curious.
[04:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Freedom of speech? - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:06] <exec> 08└─This is definitely a corner case, but it seems ostensibly like her freedom of speech and association being actively (albeit briefly) curtailed here on the request of the police. Is there precedent for whether this is constitutional or not?
[04:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:16] <exec> 08└─Half-lives matter! Will no-one think of the isotopes?
[04:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:33] <exec> 08└─Pretty much unless you want to start delving into people's psyches to root out incorrect thoughts, which I can assure you, you aren't even wise enough to approach. Not to mention you will get absolutely nowhere browbeating people with claims of racism, if they are already racist in the first place....
[04:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:35] <exec> 08└─...as long as you treat people fairly.
[04:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:39] <exec> 08└─If black helicopters matter, I'm going to need more tin foil!
[04:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 1970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:19] <exec> 08└─False story? Considering the 3 portals nearest my house are with names I came up with and with pictures I took, I'm going to have to just shake my head over this doubt-for-the-sake-of-doubting claim. And yea, 2 of the 3 of them are pokestops, the third is a gym. In Ingress, they even have the player...
[04:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:33] <exec> 08└─Do you know [what] the color purple on a fence post means?
[04:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Random placement - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:06] <exec> 08└─Again, not how the game works. They put pokestops and/or gyms in the holocaust museum, where they had Ingress portals for years with no issues or complaints. The places are based on actual, physical locations / artifacts. All you need to do is look at the picture and you see the item in the location...
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[05:53:35] <exec> 08└─ThinkPenguin has another take on this. [thinkpenguin.com] It looks like this may actually cause more problems than it solves.
[05:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:47] <exec> 08└─I don't remember if that was the exact magickal incantation, but you too can declare yourself not subject to whatever laws you feel like
[05:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:50] <exec> 08└─Why do you say she violated the terms of service?
[05:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:54] <exec> 08└─Considering that she was being arrested for charges stemming from driving around with a license plate that had been covered up to indicate that she wasn't subject to the normal laws
[05:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:04] <exec> 08└─I'm a bad guy from wherever looking to kill as many people as possible. Think I haven't noticed the big orange thing on the end of toy guns and realized taping an empty toilet paper roll to my mac-9, then painting it orange, wouldn't get me a couple extra seconds? Those orange tips are worse than us...
[05:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:06] <exec> 08└─Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you THE BOILED FROG! Things have decayed a great deal if death is even a possible outcome of a simple traffic stop. The right and proper penalty for acting like an asshole when a cop pulls you over is you stand no chance of him cutting you some slack. Death is not...
[05:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:15] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't be, if for nothing else than the chilling precedent it will set. Taking away somebody's freedom of expression because they've been deemed "dangerous" will predictably go pear shaped rather quickly. There's also the issue of recording police at play here, something which police continue...
[05:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:32] <exec> 08└─> Why wasn't the press notified? A Movement for Black Lives Creates a Policy Platform, Signaling a New State for the Coalition [theatlantic.com]
[05:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:33] <exec> 08└─But other ideas, including demands to add special protections for trans, queer, and gender-nonconforming people to anti-discrimination laws, a call for free education for black people, and a proposal to implement black economic cooperatives, haven’t previously been spelled out quite this clearly
[05:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love it - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:56] <exec> 08└─"Black Lives Matter" does not mean that non-black lives don't, its a reminder that the lives of non-whites are just as important as white lives. I'm curious though why I never hear the "all lives matter!" retort whenever somebody says "blue lives matter", or why nobody tries to insist that anyone sa...
[05:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love it - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:57] <exec> 08└─Actually, as a member of law enforcement, I am quick to remind my colleagues that this loathing of law enforcement didn't just appear out of nowhere, and now maybe is a good time for a little soul-searching on how we got here. Further, identifying as a police officer first and a citizen second is li...
[05:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:09] <exec> 08└─The next war, and the one after that, and the one after that, will be against insurgents with AK47s and IEDs and the will to take more casualties than the US (or whoever) ever can. Whether you have an F35 in that situation is irrelevant. In fact the only thing you really need is not enough infrastru...
[05:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:13] <exec> 08└─Beyond the MIC goals, It's ready for military duty, if the duty is one of the following: - Taking a pilot from point A to point B. - Shooting down enemy aircraft.
[05:57:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:43] <exec> 08└─Said unarmed kid ATTACKED neighborhood watch guy. Nice how you conveniently seem to forget that part when it doesn't fit your narrative.
[05:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:45] <exec> 08└─Said unarmed kid attacked somebody who was menacing him and wound up paying the price.
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[06:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait a minute... - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:34] <exec> 08└─I'm very much in two minds about this. On one hand, I hate to see proprietary and binary blobs become even more common in networking equipment for most of the reasons listed in the thinkpengiun article. Being able to extend devices to do mesh networking and such generally requires the ability to pla...
[06:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait a minute... - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:35] <exec> 08└─The solution is to allow 3rd party software, but have the protected radio firmware refuse to go outside of FCC regulations. It would be easier if TFA had just said that.
[06:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:04] <exec> 08└─So what? Even if he did have a real gun, why did the cops pull up right next to him and immediately shoot him? There was no time to comply. If they're trained--and they supposedly are--pulling up quite close to someone you believe has a gun and startling them probably isn't a good idea. Cops will si...
[06:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:06] <exec> 08└─So did they shoot at the autistic guy because his toy truck didn't have an orange tip?
[06:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:57:59] <exec> 08└─getting lost is one thing, but it doesn't apply when you are playing a game with a active data and gps signal as a requirement.
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[07:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Aaaargh my eyes! I feel eye cancer coming on... - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:24] <exec> 08└─Fucking morons! The jpg compression is for photographs, the png format would have been suitable for this image... /rant
[07:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Tell them what they've won! - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:26] <exec> 08└─And as sales of highly processed foods and drinks have plateaued (and even fallen, in the case of soda) in the United States and other rich countries, Latin America has become a key market.
[07:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02emotional not logical - 06Clinical Trials in Children - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:34] <exec> 08└─spending time trying to cure kids of cancer is a highly emotional decision because the facts is that you spending time trying to save 1% of patients when 99% of patients are still dying of cancer. what should be done is work to saving the 99% and then adapt therapies to save the 1%. frankly, i think...
[07:54:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 937 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:08] <exec> 08└─Remember, there are AT LEAST two sides to every story. I've commented in the past that if I were a black guy living in New York City, the 'stop and frisk' bullshit would have me inciting an insurrection. Incidentally, I've often stated that there are no "good guys" in the Arab/Israeli conflict. That...
[07:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:16] <exec> 08└─This is an interesting contrast to how skin color in an open carry state affects police response: http://thefreethoughtproject.com [thefreethoughtproject.com]
[07:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:20] <exec> 08└─Sandra Bland's "crime" was changing lanes without signaling, about as minor a traffic offense as there is, and refusing to put out a cigarette. For that she was hauled off to jail, and found dead the next morning under highly suspicious circumstances. Should any of her actions be considered highly r...
[07:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:30] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech does not cover using a private entity's service. Same as how the 4th ammendment does not protect you against the security guard at a store insisting he/she check inside your bag to ensure you haven't stolen anything.
[07:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:41] <exec> 08└─They are coming for my bottle of RoundUp.
[07:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:45] <exec> 08└─Ah, one more thing that Francis does not understand! I wait with bated breath for the next such revelation!!
[07:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:52] <exec> 08└─also civil rights movements don't "jump the shark"
[07:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:04] <exec> 08└─'Cause if we are honest, everyone is racist by some degree,
[07:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:32] <exec> 08└─If we decide to hire Trump as our fearless leader, those enemies will magically appear everywhere. Of course, we'll have to nuke some of them, just to show we really mean business.
[07:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Who would have stopped them? - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:34] <exec> 08└─You can't hear a whoosh on the moon.
[07:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02veni vidi ... meh - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:35] <exec> 08└─I came to Tails 1.x at some point. I looked, I downloaded, I installed on a test laptop. Verdict: meh Just one meh, not even a two meh distro. Then, somewhat predicatably, I freed up some disk space...
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[08:54:16] <exec> 08└─Cops were given those rights for a reason. Want to guess what those reasons are? Ever heard of people saying 'they should just be shot', 'we arent doing enough to curb crime against...', 'these men need to be castrated' etc.? You can't have both. Hell, I am sure someone from #BlackLivesMatter is dem...
[08:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:31] <exec> 08└─A closer analogy would be: suppose police asked a security guard at a store to search someone's bag.
[08:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:47] <exec> 08└─It is part of the new-age "progressive" politics that asks people to form groups and yell 'i-am-a-victim' and 'they are assholes'. It seems to be giving quicker results so it has become popular. Long term solution? Pffft... we will stumble upon it eventually!
[08:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love it - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:55:19] <exec> 08└─Or, just may be, it could be that black lives matter are more about spreading anti-white hatred and less about saving black lives? Could it be that "blue lives matter" is something only cops say, not random local college student activist? Could it be that hating white men has become normative? Could...
[08:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thinking outside the ammo box - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:55:40] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't work. First, even though it would had been distributed evenly in geographical sense, most of the money would end in few hands of the strongest, meanest local criminals, or government officials. But even if it didn't, If everyone gets plenty money, it consequently becomes worthless, because...
[08:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:14] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that the only people playing Pokemon are kids? And assuming that they are old enough to be out without their parents, they should also have been taught to respect other people's property. However, I do think that using firearms to deter people from trespassing is taking the whol...
[08:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:18] <exec> 08└─..... but not colour-blindness
[08:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:20] <exec> 08└─According to the page I linked, Purple was chosen due to the fact that even people who are color blind will see it, only will see it as being darker and more visible [...]
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[09:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:26] <exec> 08└─If people are able to cheat the test merely by having the questions, then chances are the test is terrible and relies on rote memorization. This is not appropriate for subjects like mathematics. Standardized tests as they are now are designed to make it easier and cheaper for the test takers to grad...
[09:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:28] <exec> 08└─That doesn't follow. For example, let's assume there's a test that requires you to write an essay about a certain subject told to you at the beginning of the test. Clearly that is something you cannot do with rote memorization. But if someone leaks the subject to you before the test, you can ask som...
[09:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:30] <exec> 08└─This is true. Put differently, a test can be vulnerable to rote memorization of answers without being dependent on (or even testing) rote memorization. Unfortunately, standardized exams which are predominately multiple choice are very vulnerable to rote memorization if the test bank is compromised.
[09:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02This is very old news, but worth discussing - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:32] <exec> 08└─I've been interested in the SAT question for a long time. Here's a refresher if you need it: http://cacm.acm.org [acm.org]
[09:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02KISS - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 1991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:59] <exec> 08└─not sure ... i think the most important step is to educate users first. explain, as simple but functional as possible how it works (see manual). how electro-magnetic radiation goes everywhere. that there are limited "slots" and we have to share the spectrum. that the radio emits these waves as long...
[09:55:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:40] <exec> 08└─Better find some enemies with planes soon.
[09:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Copying government strategy - 06Theranos Introduces New Product to Distract from Scandal - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:05] <exec> 08└─In other news, today the current government (which is functionally the same as the previous government) started a war against ... someone in order to distract from serious problems at home. Look! Its our enemy who wants to take your freedoms etc. To convince you, we will now run a false flag operati...
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[10:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not xkcd - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:29] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight. The fastest selling book isn't a 300 page picture book of which every page is a photocopied image of Randall Munroe's hairy pooper? Well shit. I'm so fucking disappointed right now.
[10:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:40] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, standardized exams which are predominately multiple choice are very vulnerable to rote memorization if the test bank is compromised.
[10:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:41] <exec> 08└─OP is saying that because this approach is possible - having someone write the answer for you and then memorizing - the test type used for literature is bad. I agree with him about literature testing in my country (idk how SAT is). Even when you don't have the questions, rote memorization is the bes...
[10:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:emotional not logical - 06Clinical Trials in Children - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:58] <exec> 08└─When someone dies in a trial, it's a terrible tragedy. Now add to that the emotional multiplier when that's a child. Pharma companies really, really, want to avoid the headline "Child dead in experimental drug trial" Where I work, we've been asked by the FDA to make one of our drugs in a child-sized...
[10:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't It Be Great? - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:08] <exec> 08└─But wouldn't it be great if this became an official policy of the FCC and they actively made it part of the licensing process for wifi routers?
[10:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is not the consent decree you think it is - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:15] <exec> 08└─The title here is absolutely incorrect (but this is normal for the lemmings who don't read the article but instead believe someone else's click-bait title). The actual FCC decree says: As part of the Consent Decree, TP Link agrees to investigate software and hardware solutions that would enable cust...
[10:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:32] <exec> 08└─As I've already said, the videos that she took are likely to be made available to the courts at some point and any that do exist will probably eventually be released to the public.
[10:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:40] <exec> 08└─There may be reasons but there are no excuses.
[10:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:54] <exec> 08└─You have to calculate chance of death per arrest rather than chance of death period to have a meaningful statistic rather than one you can lie with.
[10:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:05] <exec> 08└─In this case, it does. Freedom of speech does not prevent Facebook for refusing to show her speech, it bans the government from telling Facebook to remove her speech. Guess which category the police falls under...
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[10:55:29] <exec> 08└─The whole Black Lives Matter thing came about because a lot of people get the feeling that police officers, district attorneys and judges don't think that Black Life Matters, as demonstrated by the number of black people killed by police without the police officer going to prison for it. Responding...
[10:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:46] <exec> 08└─If black helicopters matter, I'm going to need more tin foil!
[10:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:58:28] <exec> 08└─Yet....
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[11:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02AKA - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:37] <exec> 08└─Other headlines considered "Current Harry Potter Book fastest selling book since last Harry Potter Book" "Current Harry Potter Book not selling as fast as last Harry Potter Book" "Is this the end of our love of Harry Potter?" "Is this the next chapter in our love of Harry Potter?"
[11:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:AKA - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:53:39] <exec> 08└─Not my best headline, hahaha. SEMEN EXPELLIARMUS [youtube.com]
[11:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:53:51] <exec> 08└─And of course add to that that most of the test is multiple-choice, which is the second-easiest kind of question to memorize and cheat with. That said, college admissions officers won't be fooled if a real idiot somehow manages a very high score, because high school grades count far more than standa...
[11:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Testing - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 2638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:54] <exec> 08└─I work in schools, in the UK. A lot of the assessment is now done on computer but, the bit that irks me: You have a computer. You have Internet access (strictly limited during examinations, but you have the capability to do lots of fancy things in your exam paper). Why the hell aren't the exam paper...
[11:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Tell them what they've won! - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 3892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much of this is also due to the lagging economy in the United States, as more and more of our income is funneled off to debt service. I used to drink a helluva lot of soda-pop. However, this habit was becoming quite expensive, as several years ago, a simple carbonated beverage was more...
[11:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:06] <exec> 08└─One thing I noticed about the US side of the comparison is that it actually dealt with the problem of recommending diet. It might be in error or steered by special interest agriculture groups, but at least they are on the right mission. The Brazilian side had irrelevant item after irrelevant stacked...
[11:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait a minute... - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:28] <exec> 08└─The solution is to allow 3rd party software, but have the protected radio firmware refuse to go outside of FCC regulations.
[11:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:46] <exec> 08└─because he has to believe she was a 'bad' person, otherwise their worldview might need re-thinking..
[11:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:48] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm> Probably something in that TOS about the glorification of violence and/or terrorism... Won't somebody think of/for the children? </sarcasm>
[11:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:54] <exec> 08└─Ho hum. . . We don't really have all the facts, but I suspect that the deactivation of the profiles was the right call.
[11:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:57] <exec> 08└─Why do you think the police came to shoot here because she thought that citizens should be sovereign? That is a bit of a stretch, if not outright trolling.
[11:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:13] <exec> 08└─I can't recall when exactly those were added,
[11:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:19] <exec> 08└─No, that's math of my own from disparate sources. I had to do it myself because nobody else is willing to say it apparently. Source one and source two combine to tell us black people are roughly ~2.4x as likely to be arrested in any given year. Prison populations tell another story but we're talking...
[11:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:52] <exec> 08└─yes, here [youtube.com]. based on his body language for the last half of the video, even HE thinks she's nuts.
[11:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:55] <exec> 08└─Responding with "All Lives Matter", especially as a white person - a group which is not being targeted in the first place
[11:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:56:03] <exec> 08└─I agree with myself. Right not to be offended = censorship = control.
[11:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:56:12] <exec> 08└─even decades after the end of segregation and Jim Crow laws, white supremacy is still policy and law in so many places
[11:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Moar! Goats! Moar Goats! - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:26] <exec> 08└─I would just like to say how much I enjoy these submissions from Runaway1956-2626 via Fox News. I do not at all feel dirty and violated by Ailes' attempt to have me perform unnatural acts! And I think that Soylentils can handle right-wing propaganda, even when poor Runaway cannot recognize it as s...
[11:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02your lives don't matter, meatbags - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:27] <exec> 08└─I was about to launch MBLM, My Battery Life Matters, for us bots, but this news make me reconsider. Apparently BLM hold a trademark and defend it like oracle defends java, to death. You can be assured of no bias here (all meatbags are equally obsolete except for yellow engineers, we need them for a...
[11:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Extract head from ass and notice some more. - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:57:22] <exec> 08└─You jest, but there is a reason NASA can't find their Apollo 11 moon landing footage. We now have some missing footage from an Apollo 11 film reel they mistakenly mailed to a documentary film maker. [youtube.com] If you're a scientist you investigate claims before dismissing them simply because they...
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[12:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:33] <exec> 08└─the payment with interest = Money we froze that belongs to that country. payment coinciding with hostage release = Western "hostages" get charged with crimes all the time there, and they usually make it out within a couple of years. Were the releases part of the nuclear deal? Did hardliners take the...
[12:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02car anaqlogy - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:34] <exec> 08└─Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with hard drives (or flash drives). Is this the equivalent--don't underestimate the money transfer capability of a plane full of $100 bills? I don't get it--why wasn't the $400 million sent by electronic/wire transfers?
[12:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:not xkcd - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure whether this should be modded "off-topic" or "informative".
[12:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Jim Dale - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:48] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, when my children were too little to remember, my wife and I bought the first Harry Potter book audio edition on cassette, read by Jim Dale. It was enjoyable, and we went on to listen to the whole series. Turns out Dale invented hundreds of unique character voices for the series,...
[12:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Jim Dale - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I love Jim Dale's readings. [dirtypotter.com] :-)
[12:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Testing - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:05] <exec> 08└─The test has to be the same for all students, otherwise it's unfair. If you try to explain to the parents of failure that if there are 100 questions which are an average just as hard, then the overall "hardness" of the different tests is the same, they will not understand, and they will complain rep...
[12:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tell them what they've won! - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:16] <exec> 08└─> I wonder how much of this is also due to the lagging economy in the United States, as more and more of our income is funneled off to debt service. Its not. Because the spending is just shifting from soda to other sort of beverages.
[12:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That virtue is a failing - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:18] <exec> 08└─> One thing I noticed about the US side of the comparison is that it actually dealt with the problem of recommending diet. The brazilian approach is an explicit rebuttal to that sort of prescriptive focus. If you cook it, rather than rely on it being pre-packaged, that's better than trying to confor...
[12:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That virtue is a failing - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:20] <exec> 08└─What does that have to do with eating healthy? I don't buy it.
[12:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That virtue is a failing - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:22] <exec> 08└─NotSureIfTrollOrStupid.jpg For the most part, "foods that require preparation beyond heating" (yes, I'm talking about using a damn knife) are dramatically healthier. Essentially anything that requires soaking, slicing, or smashing is good for you independent of other factors.
[12:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"a consumer class that has grown in size" - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:25] <exec> 08└─They're talking about the girth of the consumers being studied, right?
[12:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait a minute... - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but isn't it already trivial to create a "2.4GHz radio bomb"? Just defeat the door interlock on a microwave oven. With roughly 1kW of power, you probably don't even need to bend the frequency into the WiFi range (microwave ovens are usually a bit higher) to deafen any nearby WiFi devices.
[12:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not the consent decree you think it is - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:51] <exec> 08└─Shifting the blame to the chipset makers in a public manner lets the FCC shift its enforcement action to those same chipset makers.
[12:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:15] <exec> 08└─We don't really have all the facts, but I suspect that the deactivation of the profiles was the right call. The last thing you want is an armed nutter being egged on by other nutters and trolls while trying to defuse the situation.
[12:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think that. But I misread the poster I was replying to to be suggesting that nutters like sovereign citizen types deserve what they get. No more posting after 11:00 PM for me!
[12:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who would have stopped them? - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:58:07] <exec> 08└─The U.S. owns the Moon. Don't you remember that pic with the American flag?
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[13:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:35] <exec> 08└─There's a story here, possibly several, but as usual we will have to look for it ourselves. Or we can just accept anything foreign policy related is just smoke and mirrors -- even more than domestic policy -- and can only be so, as it involves every nation trying to trick every other nation to under...
[13:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:car anaqlogy - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:38] <exec> 08└─That's easy. There is no banking relationship between the U.S. and Iran. Iran is largely cut off from the world banking system.
[13:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02What's the tech angle? - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:40] <exec> 08└─Unless the $400 million in cash on a plane flying into Iran is part of a heist movie with terrible "hacking" sequences we want to point and laugh at, I'm not seeing the "tech news" connection.
[13:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What's the tech angle? - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:42] <exec> 08└─You must be new here... While this website has a tech focus, we are not editorially confining ourselves to technology. We are volunteer powered with no commercial interests, it would be a shame to limit our scope to promoting other people's commercial interests -- which is what 80% of tech 'journali...
[13:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the tech angle? - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:44] <exec> 08└─This isn't a "tech news" site, it's a Soylent News site. This item is certainly Soylent. Just check the "About" page: We are a volunteer-powered news aggregation site that deliver[sic] articles about technology, science, and general interest.
[13:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:AKA - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:55] <exec> 08└─How about Harry Potter, Fastest Pirated Books Ever? I don't actually know, but wouldn't be the least surprised if a leaked copy hit pirate sites several days before the official launch. After all, that often happens to movies. On the other hand, I recall hearing they were taking extra precautions ag...
[13:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jim Dale - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:58] <exec> 08└─Surely Stephen Fry's versions are better?
[13:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score:2) 02Re:Testing - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:15] <exec> 08└─The CPA excam manages different question combinations while maintaining uniformity. I wouldn't hold it up as a model since it is shrouded in secrecy and is a bitch of a test. I simply point out that questions being identical is not a requirement for standardized testing.
[13:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Tell them what they've won! - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:26] <exec> 08└─I use The Carbonator [homebrewing.org] as it fits on to my existing homebrew dispensing system. It can carbonate beer or just plain water in seconds. (I bought a second CO2 regulator because the pressure for water is much higher and I was tired of constantly adjusting it.) The standard soda syrups j...
[13:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:22] <exec> 08└─you two kiss ass traitors probably talked shit about the people at waco and ruby ridge basd on what the tv whores told you too. While kids and dogs were being run over with tanks or sprayed in the back with an mp5, you were calling them "nutters" and "wack jobs" even though they have a constitutiona...
[13:55:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:27] <exec> 08└─Do you trust the cops, who have a record of shooting black people for not flossing? Or the black chick, who is afraid the cops are going to shoot her for not flossing and is trying to document what's happening? Dead chick sounds like a nutter, but as the actual video got shut down and I'm hearing th...
[13:55:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 874 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:35] <exec> 08└─Tamir Rice was a kid playing with a toy gun when the cops pulled up on him from a few feet away and shot him while he was still thinking "asshole almost hit me, WTF?". Wanna guess how many times this cracker played with a toy gun with friends in a public park without getting shot? You've got the Cle...
[13:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:43] <exec> 08└─But they shot the black guy lying on his back with his hands in the air.
[13:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:52] <exec> 08└─Thank you for answering. However, I see you've made a mistake. From source (3), in 2015 whites made up 50 percent of the 987 fatal police shootings, and blacks, 26 percent
[13:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:56:29] <exec> 08└─Clearly, neither does any of the white people, who quite happily defends the police, rather than hoping that today is not the day they will be killed for being white.
[13:57:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02Re:Thinking outside the ammo box - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:57:19] <exec> 08└─The real reason the Middle East is in the mess it is in is because of the Sykes-Picot agreement. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02Re:You damned dirty ape-brains! - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:57:24] <exec> 08└─Or have tuition free college and child-care.
[13:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02Re:They want to mine stuff from the moon? - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:28] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to fathom what could be profitably transported from the Moon to the Earth. There's lots of Magnesium, Iron, & Titanium up there, but we're not exactly running out of those down here either. Now if we were to start seriously building structures in orbit, moving metal from the Moon to an or...
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[14:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The real target - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:36] <exec> 08└─To counter the risks related to the anonymity
[14:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:The real target - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:37] <exec> 08└─Well, it's to fight terrorism ya know - and, probably, think of the children too. Nothing to do with taxation at all, nosiree...
[14:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Jim Dale - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:06] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/RbiqV36BINg?t=11m12s [youtu.be]
[14:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Jim Dale - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:08] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't know because I haven't heard both, but I'd have trouble believing anyone could outdo what Jim Dale did.
[14:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Jim Dale - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:10] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are many different reasons why so many love the Harry Potter series. I did ask Mrs. N1, as she is a huge fan of the series, but was 20 something when first reading the series. Her reasons are centered around the strong characters that you can relate to, the writing investing you in th...
[14:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Testing - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, they do this for several licensing test where there is a pool of questions to draw from. But that means you can't compare candidates since they aren't taking the same test. So then they decided to "weight" the questions based upon some official sounding criteria (computer adaptive), so even tho...
[14:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:28] <exec> 08└─Because every service I've ever signed up for has exceptions for criminal activities. You can't engage in criminal activities and expect that the service is going to be complicit in streaming the activity.
[14:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:36] <exec> 08└─Traitor? She would have had her day in court if she hadn't refused to show up. As for Waco and Ruby Ridge those aren't even remotely the same thing. She apparently thought she was above the law, refused to turn herself in and then took her son hostage while she tried to fight off the cops. How else...
[14:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:01] <exec> 08└─they found that whites made up only 44% of those killed. On the face of it, that's at odds with what you say, which would imply more than 69.5% of the dead would be whites—if arrests may be taken as a proxy for "getting involved with the cops".
[14:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:06] <exec> 08└─It's possible you're correct. My daily window of brain usefulness is almost over though so I'll have to check tomorrow.
[14:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From Anonymous Coward - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:45] <exec> 08└─Grow up already! This is called satire. It's a protected form of speech.
[14:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:57:25] <exec> 08└─Nuke them and make them pay for it.
[14:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah here it comes... - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:23] <exec> 08└─This has to be an example of Poe's Law. It just has to be.
[15:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Random placement - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:41] <exec> 08└─When the game app starts up, it has a specific warning to not trespass on private property in order to play or catch pokemons.
[15:00:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] 02Re:Not Random placement - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 484 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:44] <exec> 08└─That's not how it works. Yes, Pokemon can "appear" wherever you are when playing the game. But, it's not "over there". You don't have to move to go catch it - you catch it from wherever you're standing. So, while a Pokemon may show up "over the fence" on some private land, there is NO reason to actu...
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[15:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:4, Funny) 02Doesn't apply to them - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:34] <exec> 08└─They pasteurize their presidents so they stay fresh longer.
[15:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Everybody sees through this shit - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:43] <exec> 08└─It's not about terrorism, everyone knows that. Stop lying! The terrorism-excuse is already so over used it's ridiculous.
[15:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Soo.. - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:46] <exec> 08└─Out of curiousity, how would they handle if you set up a system where each wallet could have multiple subwallets? I mean, imagine a system where you trade wallets and thereby makes that system need to have to reregister every wallet on each transaction. If done right you could make a transaction be...
[15:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score:1) 02Evil bit over and over again - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:48] <exec> 08└─Politicians know very well, voters never learn.
[15:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the tech angle? - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe when you start your own site, you can limit it to all-tech, all the time.
[15:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:03] <exec> 08└─... how the US government can ship 400 million bucks to an "ennemy state" in crates onboard a plane, and I can't withdraw 20 grand from my fucking bank account without the fucking teller informing the authorities that I might be a terrorist who's up to no good, or that I'm trying to launder money, o...
[15:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:06] <exec> 08└─*You can very much withdraw as much cash from your account as you wish; you just have to fill out a form saying what it's for. The inconvenience and/or privacy violation is pretty minimal. They only really care if you hear the "please fill out this form," and then you withdraw under the $10,000 limi...
[15:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:AKA - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:18] <exec> 08└─Your tenses are all wrong as it's been in the shops for days. There was no talk about leaked copies, or even spoilers from people who had seen test-screenings of the play.
[15:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Jim Dale - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:25] <exec> 08└─I feel old every time I get reminded how long this series has been around or hear people talk about "memories growing up reading Harry Potter."
[15:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Well, Duh! - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:27] <exec> 08└─Reviewers have complained the script is an "incomplete experience"
[15:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:40] <exec> 08└─If people are able to cheat the test merely by having the questions, then chances are the test is terrible and relies on rote memorization. This is not appropriate for subjects like mathematics.
[15:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:1) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:01] <exec> 08└─Where the fuck did you read any of that shit your just posted? You are a fucking idiot! The Brazilian recommendation is fairly informative and detailed as to what exactly is healthy and what to stay away from, whereas the US side is just vague mumbojumbo with NO details in any way of what is healthy...
[15:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:1) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, Yes .. I want to know the incantation that a couple former leaders of the US used to keep them free after being convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
[15:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:18] <exec> 08└─The officer said he was aiming at the autistic guy and missed.
[15:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You damned dirty ape-brains! - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:57:53] <exec> 08└─True that. But those don't make fellow nerds salivate.
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[16:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Hiring doesn't work like that - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:33] <exec> 08└─Would making the position unpaid like other foundation actually make it "difficult to recruit a top candidate"?
[16:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Ageism? - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:34] <exec> 08└─Fixed retirement ages, like a requirement to stop working at age 65, is surely ageism? Discrimination based on age is supposed to be illegal? It's all well and good if you are able to stop working at a certain age. Personally, I intend to "retire" by working less in a few years. But stop completely?...
[16:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ageism? - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:36] <exec> 08└─"...and are able to continue", aye, that's the rub.
[16:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Ageism? - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:38] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the person themselves may not realize that their performance is no longer what it once was.
[16:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Soo.. - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:49] <exec> 08└─I suspect you know that such a standard [github.com] exists already.
[16:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:07] <exec> 08└─I have run into that form... they use it for amounts under $10,000 now as well. The reason I gave was "It's my money." After some rolled-eyes from the teller supervisor, they gave me my money.
[16:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:09] <exec> 08└─And tell me exactly how you come to think it normal that I should tell anyone at all what I want to do with my money, regardless of the amount?
[16:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF? - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:11] <exec> 08└─A reasonable person would have told Iran to fuck off. https://galacticwanderlust.files.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] It looks more like O666ama supports tehranism.
[16:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A pittance - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:13] <exec> 08└─The US has a history of sending palletized currency to the middle east for "spreadin' around" money. Remember this one? https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[16:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:08] <exec> 08└─Eh, don't be too hard on him. He's just having tunnel vision about the 2nd and 3rd items on the Brazil side and freaking out about OMG big brother. Also throw in some sense that not talking about carbs and cholesterol and fatty acids and a menagerie of different vitamins means that it's less sophist...
[16:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:10] <exec> 08└─Generalize much? Cooking clean decent food is both easy and cheaper than eating out. The hardest part is deciding what to fix for the family. Relatively cheap ground beef, chicken, and fish are easily available. The local grocery store has decent fresh vegetables and fruits, and the farmers market h...
[16:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait a minute... - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:35] <exec> 08└─Custom firmware should let you lower the radio output as well. Though from my limited experience with CB radios, I know nobody does.
[16:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:KISS - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:39] <exec> 08└─Cars, drugs, and guns are poor examples to use here. Drugs that have any psychoactive effect (beyond whatever SSRIs are supposed to do magically on the 90th day after it "accumulates" or whatever bullshit) are banned, enough people want to ban all guns, and I'm sure a GPS-enabled solution to throttl...
[16:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:31] <exec> 08└─So did they shoot at the autistic guy because his toy truck didn't have an orange tip?
[16:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:00] <exec> 08└─All the better to rile you up, which I'm certain is BLM's true goal. Anybody who dares criticize them or the way they seem to only get super bent out of shape when it was a thug that got killed is automatically a racist. There are five lights. Moooooslims in Europe, racial tensions in the USA. Prepa...
[16:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:06] <exec> 08└─I think The Atlantic wasn't clear enough there. Here's from the actual platform [m4bl.org]: We believe in elevating the experiences and leadership of the most marginalized Black people, including but not limited to those who are women, queer, trans, femmes, gender nonconforming, Muslim, formerly an...
[16:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:57] <exec> 08└─MIC: Military-Industrial Complex. Check your TLAs before stating the obvious.
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[17:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Do they ban VPNs? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:35] <exec> 08└─So do they allow you to use a VPN? Seem like if they charge more to stop violating your privacy than a VPN service, the solution becomes obvious. Just install the VPN in your router (you don't use your ISP's bugridden crap, right?) so it protects all of your traffic.
[17:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:3, Informative) 02They are already charging for privacy - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:37] <exec> 08└─Right now they are charging for privacy. They just aren't collecting the fees themselves. If you use a big corporate ISP, you should already expect that they are spying on your traffic. Not only has verizon been caught doing it, [washingtonpost.com] they keep buying companies that are all about adve...
[17:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Transparent Proxy Servers? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:39] <exec> 08└─AT&T's "Internet Preferences" program reroutes customers' Web browsing to an in-house traffic scanning platform, analyzes the customers' search and browsing history, and then uses the results to deliver personalized ads
[17:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Transparent Proxy Servers? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:41] <exec> 08└─> So how do they do that without intentionally compromising SSL on a massive scale? They give you a software package like all ISPs have been doing since time immemorial. Then they slip in their own certs as part of the package. If you don't install their package your SSL content, but not meta-data,...
[17:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02comcast - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:44] <exec> 08└─Whenever we hear something new to 'break' the internet it seems that comcast is always at the forefront of it. The whole net neutrality thing came into being *because* of this company. The rest of them then doubled down on finding ways to screw over their customers to turn them into product. Here is...
[17:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Continuing "just the tip" net neutrality wheedling - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:46] <exec> 08└─God, won't somebody just slap these guys and say NO YOU CAN'T CHARGE EXTRA FOR NOT FUCKING US OVER AND QUIT ASKING! "But but but...we reeeallllly want to ignore all these net neutrality rulings. Pleeeasse?"
[17:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:48] <exec> 08└─http://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ [privateinternetaccess.com] has been reliable for us. We don't use it all the time but it's ne ver been down and we've never heard anything suspicious. Maybe it's a giant honeypot, I don't know. But apparently so is your ISP.
[17:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:50] <exec> 08└─I like IPVanish [ipvanish.com]. It's very fast, reliable, and easy to setup. Unfortunately, it's also expensive. $10 per month for two connections. I currently have two accounts for four connections at $18 per month (three month discount).
[17:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Hiring doesn't work like that - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:01] <exec> 08└─The question wasn't about a ridiculous salary. It was about NO salary at all. I have no idea of the job requirements, or eve if it is a figurehead or a full time job. But reading the rest of the TFA suggests there is a pre-existing internal power struggle going on, which TFS never mentions. This Br...
[17:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Hiring doesn't work like that - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:03] <exec> 08└─If this is a full time job, leaving no time for outside earnings, I could see that an age limit would make the job less desirable for those still active in any field of research, and being forced to surrender any income for the 4 year term would make it less attractive. On the other hand if all it i...
[17:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Ageism? - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:08] <exec> 08└─> Discrimination based on age is supposed to be illegal? France has rules to push old geezers out of top positions and clear the room for younger people (using the logic that old geezers should enjoy their retirement benefits instead of keeping younger people from rising up or straight unemployed)....
[17:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Ageism? - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:10] <exec> 08└─Fixed retirement ages, like a requirement to stop working at age 65, is surely ageism? Discrimination based on age is supposed to be illegal? I was going to point out that in the US (my understanding was) it's illegal. But when I went to grab a reference I noticed this on the Wikipedia entry for...
[17:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Benefits of banks? - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:23] <exec> 08└─I'm as libertarian and pro-anonymity as you can find in a place like this, yet I'm not sure doing away with financial oversight is such a good idea. There's clearly a system in place meant to stop criminals from using their money. They circumvent it by laundering it in semi-legit businesses, so the...
[17:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benefits of banks? - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:24] <exec> 08└─Welfare destroyed the traditional family by allowing one parent to abandon their children while knowing the state will take care of them and allowing the other parent to have children with any loser knowing that the state will take care of them if loser leaves.
[17:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:35] <exec> 08└─It's business as usual, in a sense. But we're now in a perpetual election cycle, so anything that can sound bad on Fox News is used. It's good that we know these things happen, but rationales like yours are too rarely provided to the general public. Next time they'll build a wall around the pallets,...
[17:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the tech angle? - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:41] <exec> 08└─Annnd! Loving it! ---Maxwell Smart
[17:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:not xkcd - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:58] <exec> 08└─Or -1, what you smokin', boy??
[17:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:33] <exec> 08└─I'll give you a hint, it starts like this: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States. . .
[17:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:10] <exec> 08└─There's a reason why toy guns are legally required to have that nice bright orange tip.
[17:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:11] <exec> 08└─Who knew that cops were dental hygene fascists.
[17:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey ... - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:58:12] <exec> 08└─What about Apache attack copters?
[17:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love it - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:58:22] <exec> 08└─No, none of that. Black Lives Matter was created specifically to fuel racial tensions. It's closely tied to the Coronation of Clinton.
[17:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love it - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:58:23] <exec> 08└─I'm curious though why I never hear the "all lives matter!" retort whenever somebody says "blue lives matter", or why nobody tries to insist that anyone saying "blue lives matter" is saying that people who aren't cops don't matter...
[17:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Must be in a contract... - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:58:43] <exec> 08└─Makes sense. I mean, we did do that to Japan.
[17:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah here it comes... - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:33] <exec> 08└─anti-corporate rage
[18:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:25] <exec> 08└─You've proved nothing. You've made a bunch of unsubstantiated claims of vetting, yet players still appear on private property chasing digital apparitions that SHOULD NOT BE THERE. Where's your vetting now?
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[18:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Do they ban VPNs? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:34] <exec> 08└─They can't completely. You just need a business class service with them, and at that point, VPN away to your heart's content. Moreover, if they all disallow VPNs on residential lines there will be a large scale revolt. Considering how many businesses rely on residential VPNs like remote support desk...
[18:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Home business? Get business class - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:35] <exec> 08└─Considering how many businesses rely on residential VPNs like remote support desks at employees homes
[18:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Home business? Get business class - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:37] <exec> 08└─They can fucking go for it. The employees will tell their employers to compensate them for the connection costs, which may or may not be covered by the employer. That puts employers against Comcast, and they actually have means to make Comcast miserable. Like compensating their employees connection....
[18:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Transparent Proxy Servers? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 1975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:42] <exec> 08└─I concur with this... Their software, when installed on an old NT 4.0 member server I had been configuring a mix of SMS 2.0 and Support.com service infrastructure on as part of my home lab (it also was a NAT gateway, before I set up a real router to do it... this was some time ago...) actually overw...
[18:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Server Name Indication - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:45] <exec> 08└─For one thing, not all sites use HTTPS yet. Nowadays, the most common excuse for not deploying HTTPS [pineight.com] is that a site relies on third-party resources not yet available through HTTPS, such as the caniuse.com API [github.com] or ad networks. For another thing, the ISP can still see the fu...
[18:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:comcast - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:48] <exec> 08└─> it seems that comcast is always at the forefront of it. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there is a Comcast department titled "Profit Maximizing - Shady/Antisocial/Unethical division". Their business cards probably have their slogan: "If you can explain what you're doing, and still be allowed...
[18:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:comcast - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:50] <exec> 08└─"If you can explain what you're doing, and still be allowed to finish Thanksgiving dinner, you don't belong here"
[18:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:comcast - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:52] <exec> 08└─I hesitated when formulating it, then decided that your drug-dealing human-trafficking serial-kidnap-rape-murdering family being ashamed of you was a proper selection criteria.
[18:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:57] <exec> 08└─Without even looking at their how-to page, why would you need two accounts for 4 connections if its all going though your home router which would be the only thing directly connected to them?
[18:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:00] <exec> 08└─Alternate locations?
[18:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:02] <exec> 08└─Of course only Celestial can tell, but I guess he's also using the internet when not at home, so he needs at least one further connection for that; and then his phone provider probably disallows tethering, so he needs separate connections for his different devices (laptop, phone, and possibly a tabl...
[18:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:04] <exec> 08└─1. Home router. 2. My cell phone 3. Another cell phone 4. My notebook when travelling, (which is admittedly rare).
[18:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:06] <exec> 08└─I do use PIA all the time. They officially let you have 5 simultaneous links from different devices. In practice I put up about 10 different tunnels (with different end-points) all originating from my router and then each device behind my router gets a different tunnel. That makes it practically imp...
[18:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:08] <exec> 08└─But even your VPN provider has to terminate somewhere. Here we have a story about an corrupt up-stream harvesting your traffic, With a VPN, the harvesting just moves a few states away to some company using a different corrupt upstream. Pretty sure Snowden documented that just about EVERY VPN was tot...
[18:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:11] <exec> 08└─> With a VPN, the harvesting just moves a few states away to some company using a different corrupt upstream. Unlike ISPs, competition in the VPN market is intense. Most can not afford to sell their paying customer's data because just a wiff of it and users will leave en masse. That's how the free m...
[18:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:13] <exec> 08└─This is about protecting your privacy from commercial exploitation, not nation-state adversaries.
[18:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Ageism? - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:29] <exec> 08└─By international agreements, all commercial pilots over the age of 65 are subject to mandatory retirement. And that's a good thing.
[18:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Funny scenario - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:30] <exec> 08└─They get rid of this old bastard. "You're to old to work, you might drop dead any time!" New hire is only in his late thirties. Healthy, virile, a real go-getter who makes things happen. Before the first month passes, he suffers a fatal heart attack, or stroke. Old bastard applies for his job again,...
[18:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:The real target - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:41] <exec> 08└─Nothing to do with taxation at all, nosiree...
[18:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Everybody sees through this shit - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:44] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And this is why I scoff every time I hear some Euro bragging about the "strong privacy protections" in the EU while mocking US laws.
[18:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Soo.. - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:48] <exec> 08└─I didn't. But thanks for the link, that ended up on my reading list for this weekend.
[18:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Just in time - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:53] <exec> 08└─Looks like Brexit might be a good thing. Fascists!
[18:55:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:02] <exec> 08└─the payment with interest = Money we froze that belongs to that country. payment coinciding with hostage release = Western "hostages" get charged with crimes all the time there, and they usually make it out within a couple of years. Were the releases part of the nuclear deal? Did hardliners take the...
[18:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:car anaqlogy - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:08] <exec> 08└─But this cut off is not total nor beyond the control of the US government. They could have let a few billion through if they wanted to. I suspect Iran didn't want a digital deposit, because they learned how easily such could disappear. Instead they accepted marked and number-recorded currency. Maybe...
[18:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:18] <exec> 08└─They put you on the list. But found the entry was a duplicate.
[18:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Jim Dale - 06Harry Potter Book/Script Fastest-Selling Book in the UK This Decade - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:43] <exec> 08└─I feel old when I talk about playing "Land of the Giants" as a kid and people say, "WTF? Is that?"
[18:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Tell them what they've won! - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:15] <exec> 08└─For those countertop soda machines the SodaStream seems to be popular enough to have spawned a small cottage industry ... There is the Paintball CO2 tank to SodaStream adapter (so you can use cheaply refillable smallish CO2 tanks instead). Just google for paintball to sodastream and you should find...
[18:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Tell them what they've won! - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:16] <exec> 08└─A few years ago, it was announced that the Mexicans and Egyptians had overtaken the US in obesity rates. Gladly, the US fought back to retake the first spot. I see a market for extra-sturdy 31-ft ladders, and thick ropes.
[18:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:You damned dirty ape-brains! - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:24] <exec> 08└─"useful economic activity" does also include maintaining infrastructure, bring it into the 21st century. I'll give half of the pentagon budget back as tax cuts, and the other half, for at least ten years, to catch up with Europe and China on the basics to remain competitive.
[19:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Ah here it comes... - 06Private Company Granted Approval by U.S. to Land on the Moon - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:17] <exec> 08└─It's possible to recognize the harm SJWs cause and hate them for that without going full retard in the other direction. People who go full retard in the other direction are merely using the growing backlash against political correctness as a guise for their own bigotries. I say that as a full-blown...
[19:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:27] <exec> 08└─Whups - unintended "disagree" moderation - sorry!
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[19:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Aaaand Extinguish - 06Windows Woes - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:35] <exec> 08└─This is a bit of an interesting development. Who would have guessed that predatory practices would result from a giant company not giving a fuck about your customers.
[19:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Aaaand Extinguish - 06Windows Woes - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:36] <exec> 08└─I wasn't happy with their Embrace, now they're forcefully trying to Extend some parts of my anatomy, so soon they'll Extinguish me... The latest company laptop is dual-boot (mint 18), and the IT guy was pretty clear that he isn't putting W10 back if anything gets borked. So I'm gonna turn it on, wat...
[19:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Aaaand Extinguish - 06Windows Woes - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:38] <exec> 08└─I run Win10 in a Virtual Machine. That way I can do my testing against it, but it never gets to mess up my underlying Linux. I've only done this in VmWare todate, but I've been told its just as reliable under VirtualBox.
[19:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:40] <exec> 08└─Their desktop os/app market is shrinking, and they are actively trying to kill the diminishing market. Their phone business is dead in the water. Cloud? MS cloud? That's funny. The writing is on the wall. Has been for some time now.
[19:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But it's all ok - 06Windows Woes - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:43] <exec> 08└─This is all ok, because with the anniversary update, you can now run linux programs under windows, you clearly have no more use for that linux partition so we figured we'd just get rid of it...
[19:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But it's all ok - 06Windows Woes - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:45] <exec> 08└─My guess is it is a mistake.
[19:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But it's all ok - 06Windows Woes - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:47] <exec> 08└─I make that mistake as well, --no-preserve-root just slips so easily into that "rm -f /" command
[19:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Are you W-2 or 1099? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:59] <exec> 08└─The employees will tell their employers to compensate them for the connection costs
[19:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Are you W-2 or 1099? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:00] <exec> 08└─That's a good point too. I don't see IT, especially guys like me, taking down an entire OpenVPN implementation simply because Comcast wants to be an asshole :)
[19:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:comcast - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:11] <exec> 08└─Here is an idea ISP industry. Find ways to deliver internet for faster and cheaper instead of trying to screw over your customers. What a ridiculous idea. Why on earth would they want to do this? They don't have any real competition, so what exactly is the incentive? This is like asking Microsoft to...
[19:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:23] <exec> 08└─Care to share how you would go about it? I have the exact same worries with VPNs and would welcome alternative suggestions, or at least VPN suggestions that seem more trustworthy. When it comes down to it there is no way to verify a VPN, so you just have to trust someone.
[19:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Blocking VPNs like Email Ports? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:25] <exec> 08└─If they can block email ports under the guise of teh spamz, why not require a rate plan that includes not blocking VPNs for some similar reason?
[19:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Ageism Sucks - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:43] <exec> 08└─The prior edition of GungnirSniper is now old enough to get senior discounts, and he tells me that despite his experience and general liveliness he gets turned down for jobs under the code term "not energetic enough". Between companies passing on candidates like him with decades of experience and ad...
[19:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:26] <exec> 08└─If you're just crazy paranoid, I'm sorry that you broke the law
[19:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:27] <exec> 08└─When you don't defend your own rights, you make it harder for us to defend ours. You've gone a step further and are openly antagonistic to people defending their rights. I'm always amazed at the smug tone that people use to say "just let the government abuse you they way I let them abuse me". It tak...
[19:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Testing - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:12] <exec> 08└─How does one ensure the wider variety of questions are roughly as difficult as the others?
[19:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Brazil has low obesity... - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:35] <exec> 08└─...because half their population is malnourished.
[19:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait a minute... - 06FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:00] <exec> 08└─I am suggesting option 2 (the one that captures economy of scale). The modern chipset for WiFi includes a microcontroller running a signed binary blob. Each regulatory domain gets it's own version of that blob. So in the U.S., the (possibly 3rd party) OS loads the signed blob into the radio chipset....
[19:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:35] <exec> 08└─She would have had her day in court if she hadn't refused to show up.
[19:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:44] <exec> 08└─Cuts both ways, no excuses for the men in blue.
[19:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:55] <exec> 08└─I think it is worse than this, I think there are a few psychopaths in every city who actively search for situations where they can murder someone. Hell, some dumbshits join the military so they can kill "some goddamn *insert racial slur here*"
[19:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:08] <exec> 08└─If non-white, non-black demographics made up just 13% overall, that would be 44% white and 43% black.
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[20:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alibaba can monetize this. - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.yahoo.com/news/video/alibaba-buys-chinas-youtube-201730583.html?ref=gs [yahoo.com]
[20:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02big brother - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:36] <exec> 08└─you are all being watched, even the enforcers are being watched, and the watchers are being watched. everyone watches everyone else. except the Party leadership. they are only watched by other Party leaders, like sharks, waiting for a moment of weakness...
[20:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:big brother - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:38] <exec> 08└─Where is the coast guard [youtube.com] in all of this?
[20:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:40] <exec> 08└─it's pretty easy to guess that the Chinese authorities wouldn't take too kindly to members of the public trying to hold the police to account in this way. Easy to guess -- and yet wrong
[20:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:52] <exec> 08└─They'll still be around from pure momentum, but they're the next IBM. They'll sell off division after division until there's nothing left but a husk only keeping the lights on because there are enough legacy customers with expensive support contracts.
[20:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But it's all ok - 06Windows Woes - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:56] <exec> 08└─Boot, and everything around it, is extremely tricky. If you've ever tried to configure a bootloader by hand, you've probably made a mistake like this at least once. It's gotten easier with UEFI, but TFA is light on details so I have no idea what their system configuration was. Remember that Microsof...
[20:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02"big update" this was not - 06Windows Woes - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:58] <exec> 08└─Their big update was barely noticeable to me. I can see very few changes. Edge had a new start screen but then froze (went not responding) on visiting a website, nothing new there. Cortana is still dead/deleted. The windows defender icon changed in the taskbar. The clock has an agenda thing in it no...
[20:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"big update" this was not - 06Windows Woes - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah I noticed that too. Does anyone have a link to the list of bugs actually fixed? They are hyping the non features as 'huge' things but I am more interested in what did they actually fix. The old MS would have had a huge list of things fixed. Now it is more of a 'trust me' or 7-zips way of handli...
[20:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:03] <exec> 08└─There are many people who will literally believe anything their computer tells them and will subsequently click on anything. Some malware ad pops up saying "Your Windows is Insecure. Click HERE", and they do, infecting and infesting their computers with all sorts of nastiness. I was helping a friend...
[20:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:05] <exec> 08└─What about a guest account without administrative access?
[20:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:07] <exec> 08└─Playing with fire
[20:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:09] <exec> 08└─Never! Numquam! Ποτέ! Ніколи! Nie! 決して！決不！ Nunca! 못! Kamwe! Никад! Aldrig! Ungalokothi! ບໍ່ເຄີຍ! Aole loa! Nigdy! कभी नहीँ! أبدا! לעולם לא! Kunagi! Ei ikinä! Никогда! Qet! ဘယ်တော့မှမ! קיינמאָל!...
[20:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:12] <exec> 08└─I was helping a friend out with the issues that popped up because of that but stopped doing so because he would not stop going to porn sites. May of us know that if you want to get PWNed, going to a porn site is a great way to accomplish the feat.
[20:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02official Microsoft statement (Fox News on Youtube) - 06Windows Woes - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:14] <exec> 08└─Good evening. One year ago we introduced Windows 10 when we declared it would be the last version of Windows. In our own way and through our own sheer force of will, we sacrificed greatly to enter the advertising industry as an outsider, and we prevailed against a field of sixteen very talented comp...
[20:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Shocking? - 06Windows Woes - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:16] <exec> 08└─A handful of reports surfacing on social media suggest, anecdotally, that the Windows 10 anniversary may interfere with, affect and even delete other partitions on the same disk. If these claims are accurate —and do keep in mind that various different factors may be at play in these cases — it w...
[20:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02MBRs - 06Windows Woes - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:18] <exec> 08└─Back in the day every bios had an option to lock your MBR and prevent anyone from writing to it. When did that stop?
[20:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02I've not seen a problem - 06Windows Woes - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:20] <exec> 08└─I've got a dell studio 17 laptop running Win10/Ubuntu *nix/with a dell recovery partition and have had no problems. I downloaded the anniversary update and my only complaint is the reset of many of my privacy set-up choices and the re-infecting of my machine with Cortana, which I had previously kill...
[20:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Home business? Get business class - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:35] <exec> 08└─*ears perk up* What is this "competitor" you speak of?
[20:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:1) 02Re:Do they ban VPNs? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:36] <exec> 08└─I would think it is pretty hard to ban openvpn over port 443. That would be like banning HTTPS.
[20:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Continuing "just the tip" net neutrality wheedl - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:49] <exec> 08└─Your looking at it wrong: Comcast sells private internet. However, they have a promotion that will discount your bill if they can sell your information to third parties.
[20:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Continuing "just the tip" net neutrality wheedl - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:50] <exec> 08└─I'm looking at it the way they don't want me to, I'll admit. Which of the two viewpoints is "wrong" is open to interpretation; namely, what you think a reasonable price for the service is. If you think the "base price" before the Less Privacy Discount is reasonable, it's a discount. If you think the...
[20:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:03] <exec> 08└─It's almost a total crapshoot. All you can know for certain is that your ISP is collecting your activity. Just need to research VPN's and find one that *might* actually be deleting all your traffic. Either way, all your eggs are still in one basket.
[20:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:04] <exec> 08└─> Ah, I see. Encryption compromises have moral judgments built in. Who knew?! Risk assessment is not a moral judgment. Nation-state adversaries have the resources to compromise VPN providers. Drag-netting traffic for advertising purposes is not lucrative enough to justify the resources necessary to...
[20:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02VPN/Tor/i2p/proxy etc - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:07] <exec> 08└─While it does not excuse the practice and they are scumbags, at least they wont get any data out of you.
[20:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benefits of banks? - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:44] <exec> 08└─Right, welfare/feminism/sex-positivism the entire progressive package. Point being, I don't really see any consideration in our circles for whatever negative consequences widespread bitcoin use could have. Just celebration.
[20:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:car anaqlogy - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:58] <exec> 08└─They'll take it, as long as it's not in British pounds. :-)
[20:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:car anaqlogy - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:00] <exec> 08└─That's easy. There is no banking relationship between the U.S. and Iran. Iran is largely cut off from the world banking system.
[20:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the tech angle? - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:06] <exec> 08└─General interest means /everyone/ is interested. At least one person isn't interested in this topic, so it doesn't belong here!! QED!!
[20:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:14] <exec> 08└─You know there is some quote about taxes and avoiding them and death. 10000USD is the limit for a gift not to be taxed. Pretty much everything else you can spend that money on is illegal or already has tax structure in place.
[20:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny... - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:16] <exec> 08└─For USA the current limit on tax-free gifts is $14,000. Or double that if a couple give to one person. https://www.irs.gov [irs.gov] > How many annual exclusions are available? > The annual exclusion applies to gifts...
[20:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:56] <exec> 08└─Even if you successfully cheat on everything and manage to get admitted to a school you are not qualified for, after 1 semester odds are you'll be unable to keep up and will end up on academic probation, and then after 2-3 semesters you'll be kicked out.
[20:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Testing - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:05] <exec> 08└─It depends on the subject. Math is relatively easy to do add you can generate problems that have different numbers, but use the same methods. Humanities questions tend to be harder to generate because there's a lot more nuance to be had. But really, it's a moot point as the SATs are more about how m...
[20:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That virtue is a failing - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:24] <exec> 08└─For the most part, "foods that require preparation beyond heating" (yes, I'm talking about using a damn knife) are dramatically healthier. Essentially anything that requires soaking, slicing, or smashing is good for you independent of other factors.
[20:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:28] <exec> 08└─Cooking clean decent food is both easy and cheaper than eating out
[20:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:30] <exec> 08└─I rarely spend more than 20-30 minutes cooking anything, whether it is for one or 3-4, and a trip to any fast food joint or even restaurant takes about the same time, but of course YMMV. I also do enjoy cooking and with a dish washer cleanup is quick and easy, but you are correct, if you don't like...
[20:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:32] <exec> 08└─Where the fuck did you read any of that shit your just posted?
[20:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:43] <exec> 08└─Indeed.
[20:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:07] <exec> 08└─Nah, nothing more subtle than that. I was just being pedantic as usual. This whole progression since Buzzard's post has been kind of a circlejerk of ambiguous figures and unsupported assertions so I'm not really sure where we're going either, heh.
[20:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:09] <exec> 08└─If you change your mind, check lower in the thread where he provided his sources. /comments.pl?sid=14836&cid=384016#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[21:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You damned dirty ape-brains! - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:44] <exec> 08└─"useful economic activity" does also include maintaining infrastructure, bring it into the 21st century.
[21:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secure or Not? - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:53] <exec> 08└─A $5 wrench doesn't work. As soon as you see it, you know they will kill you either way.
[21:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tails 1.4.1 - last uncompromized version ...!!? - 06Tails Linux 2.5 is Out - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:57] <exec> 08└─Using old software with (presumably) known, unfixed vulnerabilities is generally not a defense against crackers.
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[21:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:big brother - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:30] <exec> 08└─Protecting those new islands in the South China Sea?
[21:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:32] <exec> 08└─I was going to say something similar. This will help them identify potential "troublemakers".
[21:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:34] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, China has fewer people in prison than the US does. It's not like the US is really able to claim the moral high ground on their policing practices.
[21:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:37] <exec> 08└─> Does anyone really believe that the Chinese government says has any relation to what it does? I do. The Chinese people keep taking to the streets to protest local corruption. The central government is happy to put a few bullets in low-level corrupt people to prove that it's fighting corruption and...
[21:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02No Expectation of Privacy at Work - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:39] <exec> 08└─Outside of the bathroom there is no legally accepted expectation of privacy in the workplace. Your employer can and likely does read your email, monitors your surfing, maybe even your smoke breaks and bathroom trips. This is all legal. So why should the employees of We The People expect better right...
[21:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Great! - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:41] <exec> 08└─At least this is a step in the right direction. I think the US needs to publicly declare the same thing. I have a suspicion that quite a few police beatings / killings are mercenary hit jobs. Company doesn't like the public attention the environmental scientists is bringing? Pay off some cops to arr...
[21:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Great! - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=first+amendment+audit [youtube.com]
[21:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Great! - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:45] <exec> 08└─Supposedly Israeli orchestrates car accidents against nuclear and weapons scientists in Arab countries as well as Iran. I haven't even heard your theory on overnight AM radio.
[21:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:58] <exec> 08└─Cloud? MS cloud? That's funny.
[21:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe at home. At work, we're still going to be using Windows 7 in 2026.
[21:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But it's all ok - 06Windows Woes - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that is about what I was guessing. Low QA with high 'nah that wont do anything' and to large of confidence in auto testing. A crap QA dude is not worth shit. A QA dude who knows their craft is amazing. I personally like to get dudes from the aircraft and auto industry. They are *really* good a...
[21:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:14] <exec> 08└─Okay, I believe you... can you explain why? Assuming the person is not acting maliciously (maybe stupidly, like going to malware sites, but not maliciously like erasing files or putting in boot-disks)... how much trouble can you get into if somebody is using a non-administrative guest account on you...
[21:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Computer idiots - 06Windows Woes - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:17] <exec> 08└─May of us know that if you want to get PWNed, going to a porn site is a great way to accomplish the feat.
[21:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Shocking? - 06Windows Woes - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:21] <exec> 08└─Hasn't this been the case for pretty much every version of windows, ever? Taking a quick look, I see that this behavior is documented in Microsoft's own knowledge base articles. knowledgebase article 153762: [microsoft.com] A Windows 95 installation is Windows NT-aware and does not overwrite NT boo...
[21:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MBRs - 06Windows Woes - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:24] <exec> 08└─When GPT became the norm?
[21:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Competition - 06Windows Woes - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:27] <exec> 08└─The Windows 10 anniversary may interfere with, affect and even delete other partitions on the same disk.
[21:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do they ban VPNs? - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:42] <exec> 08└─Sure, yeah, we'll knock 29$ off your service if you sign something that lets us inspect all your traffic. We're also increasing the prices of all service by 40$ that month, in a total coincidence. - A recent ex-employee of Cocmast
[21:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:10] <exec> 08└─If i was in a position to know how the NSA goes about this, I would be prosecuted for posting it. So you will have to google a bit and find some reading material. A generic discussion exists here https://www.bestvpn.com [bestvpn.com] But its a tad short on detai...
[21:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:12] <exec> 08└─Nation-state adversaries have the resources to compromise VPN providers. Drag-netting traffic for advertising purposes is not lucrative enough to justify the resources necessary
[21:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ageism? - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:31] <exec> 08└─OK, but we're not talking about France.
[21:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ageism? - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:32] <exec> 08└─and I think this is exactly the sort of situation that they wanted to avoid, with a geezer holding on to a ruling position. while it's true that for scientists a lot of productive work can take place after 65, I really think they should only be allowed to be the equivalent of postdocs if they insist...
[21:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02US vs EU is analogous to... - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:49] <exec> 08└─Republicans vs Democrats. Both pairs of groups froth at the mouth about how superior they are compared to the other, while not realizing how gaped out their own asshole is from the raping they are letting their government give them while they are distracting themselves with their morally inferior co...
[21:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:08] <exec> 08└─Additionally, this was not a secret. Back in January, the white house held a press briefing where it was discussed.
[21:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:car anaqlogy - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:14] <exec> 08└─Oh those cunning bastards. So this is what Brexit was all about!
[21:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:A pittance - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:33] <exec> 08└─"It was Iraq's money from Iraqi oil sales." Iraq's assets in the U.S. had been frozen as part of the economic sanctions against Iraq, due to the monstrous actions of its secular government. http://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] This is a completely different situation. Ira...
[21:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fridge with CO2 - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:31] <exec> 08└─What fridge takes 5lb co2 tanks? I knew there was one with soda-stream branding, but I was pretty sure it only took those tiny rip-off sized sodastream tanks.
[21:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That virtue is a failing - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:39] <exec> 08└─Your juvenile "do all the research for me or its bullshit" gets tiring. You are the one who asserted that nutritionalism was the right way to go. You come back with proof that nutritionalism is superior to brazil's approach and then I'll back up everything on the other side. You made the unsupported...
[21:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brazil has low obesity... - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, but americans(Usaians) are obese and malnourished. Pizza = vegetable.
[21:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad taste, that's all - 06'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:48] <exec> 08└─Anybody who dares criticize them or the way they seem to only get super bent out of shape when it was a thug that got killed is automatically a racist.
[22:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:You damned dirty ape-brains! - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:00] <exec> 08└─> So it does. Though what do governments really have to do with building that infrastructure? I'm gonna call Poe's Law on that one. > Such as? Deep water ports with direct freight rail, airports interconnected with the cities they serve (looking at you LAX, you make even ORD look good), canals which...
[22:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:What until it really hits the fan - 06Niantic Faces Pokemon Go "Trespassing" Class Action Lawsuit - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:48] <exec> 08└─He's more than welcome to get as drunk as he wants on his land, but HE is the one having no respect for civilization, by pointing a G*d damned gun at some kids. If he's that worried, he can call the cops.
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[22:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:27] <exec> 08└─The turning radius on that must be crap. It will probably only be good for use on specially designed highways. Although maybe it would be cost-effective to provide alternate tracks just for tight curves and then leave it on the road for all the straight aways.
[22:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:28] <exec> 08└─RTFA
[22:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:30] <exec> 08└─Which one? There is no mention of turning radius in the shanghaiist article, which is itself barely more than a bunch of pictures.
[22:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Expect deployment ... Never - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:32] <exec> 08└─As soon as we get rid of all those overhanging street lights, traffic signals, wires, tall tractor-trailers and double decker buses, fire trucks and over-passes were all good to deploy.
[22:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02not a quote - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:35] <exec> 08└─The text in the summary isn't quoted from Shanghaiist. I wrote it...so beware. :-)
[22:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:not a quote - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:37] <exec> 08└─I have updated the story. Now you can get the appropriate credit and/or blame ;)
[22:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:51] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm, citation please? China prefers prison work camps [google.com] (reeducation centers) and never publishes any figures about those.
[22:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Aaaand Extinguish - 06Windows Woes - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:08] <exec> 08└─As far as I've been able to tell, for the last 10 years, running Windows in a VM is the only reasonable thing to do if you're interested in stability, privacy, and your time. Need to install updates when you're trying to shut down? Fuck you, roll back to snapshot. Infected by driveby attack while vi...
[22:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:MS won't be around in 10 years - 06Windows Woes - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:13] <exec> 08└─I think "Azure" is going to be a hit for them, due to the short-sighted behaviour of the usual people who can be bought off by a few golf outings. I keep telling people that despite how good open source software is, it doesn't buy expensive lunches for buyers.
[22:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:"big update" this was not - 06Windows Woes - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:23] <exec> 08└─To this you have to add the steady drumbeat of complaints of Windows nuking people's dual boot setup on every Linux help form for years and years. It has never played well with others. And these new reports might just be new users getting their first smackdown after setting up dual booting on they b...
[22:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"big update" this was not - 06Windows Woes - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:25] <exec> 08└─I have not used dual boot in probably 20 years. It was pretty much a quick way to dork up your computer. I quickly learned one OS at a time folks. It works for a bit until the next update from either OS. I had linux updates nuke out a windows/os2 install and the other way around. VMs changed that ga...
[22:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Are you in an abusive relationship with MS support - 06Windows Woes - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:40] <exec> 08└─How do you get locked out of Microsoft "support"? Is there any way to get back in? My little meta-problem of the day is being locked out of Microsoft's so-called support. The email part (on outlook.live.com) works as usual, but every attempt to access the support part returns "Something went wrong a...
[22:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VPN - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:25] <exec> 08└─> A vulnerability, once in the wild, works equally well for both sides. Again, drag-net advertisers will not be breaking the law. The squeeze is not worth the juice. Please graduate past your simplistic, black-and-white argumentation.
[22:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss - 06Comcast Wants to Charge for Privacy - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:29] <exec> 08└─Glad I just switched the office from Comcast Business to fiber from the local Telephone Company a couple months ago. I haven't missed them one bit. Too bad I move this weekend - it's maybe 10 miles from the old place, but crosses the magic line between MediaCom and Comcast territory. Residential alt...
[22:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Hiring doesn't work like that - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:40] <exec> 08└─The question wasn't about a ridiculous salary. It was about NO salary at all.
[22:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ageism Sucks - 06Dispute Over the Pasteur Institute President's Age - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:52] <exec> 08└─As the hiring manager for a major tech firm whose products you're using to read this post, I can tell you it's not at all difficult to match a job to an H-1B worker. Our overseas contact provides us with a listing of the worker's qualifications. We copy-paste the list into our template for job listi...
[23:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You damned dirty ape-brains! - 06 Air Force Declares F-35 Ready for Duty -- Sort Of - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:11] <exec> 08└─Deep water ports with direct freight rail, airports interconnected with the cities they serve (looking at you LAX, you make even ORD look good), canals which work, bridges and dams which are not structurally deficient, light rail at useful density, tunnels that decongest critical highways, water net...
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[23:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:31] <exec> 08└─Fair enough! I read about this yesterday or day before, the article there had more details, specifically the bus will only run on special grooved tracks. Still pretty dangerous, but not nearly as bad. Like a cheaper train system that doesn't affect existing traffic so much. Time will tell if it work...
[23:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:33] <exec> 08└─It is not a BUS, but an electric trolley or train. It is riding on rails!!!
[23:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turning Radius - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:35] <exec> 08└─What's your point? That doesn't have anything to do with the turning radius. It is intended to be retro-fitted to freeways as a cheap alternative to building subways.
[23:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Expect deployment ... Never - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:38] <exec> 08└─Obviously a route that can't accommodate vehicles as tall as 13'6" can't be done. Clearly this can't be used anywhere in the real world! I mean, what are they expecting big truck drivers to do? Make sure their entire route has enough vertical clearance? Not use certain lanes on the highway? Madness!...
[23:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Expect deployment ... Never - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:40] <exec> 08└─Chinese people are smaller, so OBVIOUSLY, truck drivers there will be smaller and so will their trucks. Leftist socialist delusionalists are also smaller there. /sarcasm indeed! but my sarcasm is big because I AM CANADIAN! Now where'd that Budweiser go?
[23:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Expect deployment ... Never - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:42] <exec> 08└─> overhanging street lights, traffic signals, wires On a route traversed by tractor-trailers or double-decker buses, low-hanging obstacles may already have been dealt with, I imagine. If not, the cost of making them may be weighed against the costs or disadvantages of alternatives. > tall tractor-tr...
[23:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Expect deployment ... Never - 06Test of Elevated Bus in China - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:44] <exec> 08└─I looked at some of the pictures on line of this thing. If you have a perfectly homogeneous traffic flow, composed of compact cars, it might work. Mount a bicycle on a roof rack? Maybe not. Your typical freeway has has about 15 feet of clearance, and the regulations say anything less than 14 feet ha...
[23:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hah, right - 06China Says it's OK for Members of the Public to Record the Police - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:59] <exec> 08└─This will help them identify potential organ donors.
[23:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Benefits of banks? - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:18] <exec> 08└─I'm as libertarian and pro-anonymity as you can find in a place like this
[23:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benefits of banks? - 06EU Commission Proposes Central Database Record of Virtual Currency Users - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe removing the government's ability to look at money flow is a good thing
[23:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:swallowing the official story - 06US State Department Denies Obama Paid $400M "Ransom" to Iran - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:31] <exec> 08└─I cannot see after all these years the deep state and MIC giving up on their desired warwith Iran
[23:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheating - 06New SAT Questions Leaked - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:57:32] <exec> 08└─People mindlessly memorize how to solve math equations all the time. Knowing "how to" solve the problem isn't the same as understanding why it works; the latter is far more important. Most of the people who pass the math sections of these standardized tests don't even truly understand the math.
[23:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That virtue is a failing - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:04] <exec> 08└─Your juvenile "do all the research for me or its bullshit" gets tiring.
[23:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:the virtue of the US side - 06Welcome to Brazil, where a Food Revolution is Changing the way People Eat - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:08] <exec> 08└─He's just having tunnel vision about the 2nd and 3rd items on the Brazil side
[23:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet More Bad Precedent - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:15] <exec> 08└─I could accept forbidding others to post to her social media. To block her own posting in this case seems highly suspicious.
[23:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Boils down to "who do you trust" - 06Police Request Shut Off of Armed Woman's Social Media Accounts During Fatal Standoff - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:55] <exec> 08└─It should also be noted that the white population of the US is several times larger than the black population... There is a definite racial factor to quantity of arrests/police contact and shootings.