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[00:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Huh - 06Researcher Bypasses iPhone 5c Security With NAND Mirroring - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:35] <exec> 08└─The epoxy trick was used by a previous employer to prevent reverse-engineering as part of an ITAR export requirement, it seems that it's more a matter of doing the bare minimum necessary to get the government off your ass rather than keeping the guts of your technology out of the wrong hands. I'm no...
[00:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Among ornithologists, it is acceptable... - 06Birds Choose Spring Neighbors Based on Winter 'Friendships' - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:42] <exec> 08└─...to begin a conversation with "great tits."
[00:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Among ornithologists, it is acceptable... - 06Birds Choose Spring Neighbors Based on Winter 'Friendships' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:45] <exec> 08└─Not just that, but: mated pairs of great tits
[00:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Among ornithologists, it is acceptable... - 06Birds Choose Spring Neighbors Based on Winter 'Friendships' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:47] <exec> 08└─They lack imagination for sure, if they expect them to "settle down to breed". There's a whole internet to find diversity in that matter.
[00:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Send a tweet - 06Birds Choose Spring Neighbors Based on Winter 'Friendships' - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:49] <exec> 08└─Don't tell me, the birds use Twitter to socialize.
[00:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bird-Brains like familiar things! - 06Birds Choose Spring Neighbors Based on Winter 'Friendships' - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:51] <exec> 08└─That explains why people love to repeat memes. Same fucking concept. Shit-for-brains humans like familiar things! Now shark my lasers.
[00:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Terminology - 06Birds Choose Spring Neighbors Based on Winter 'Friendships' - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:53] <exec> 08└─> flockmates Or as we say in the ornithological world, flockbuddies.
[00:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:It's Seagate ... - 06Seagate Sued by its Own Employees After Company Falls for Phishing Scam - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:04] <exec> 08└─Too late. Their heads contacted the platters and all is lost.
[00:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Bingo - 06Seagate Sued by its Own Employees After Company Falls for Phishing Scam - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:12] <exec> 08└─I used to work mid-shift at a large company and one night we got an email from the CEO about some RA-RA feel good crap. The staff sat around and picked apart the spelling and bad grammar getting a good laugh while we were at it. As the morning approached I questioned how something that poorly writte...
[00:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I bet he doesn't mind at all - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:08] <exec> 08└─> This doesn't make him our friend; but one can respect an enemy or at least an opponent. Lol. Have you ever used the internet before? Of course we can't. Nuance does not exist here.
[00:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Transparency Begets Change - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─What is the "scandal" here? Is a man not allowed to have personal opinions and private conversations
[00:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Transparency Begets Change - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:24] <exec> 08└─> I dunno, wikileaks in particular has drifted into crazy, reality-divorced partisan hackery. They went full conspiracy theory on clinton's health with this recent tweet. [mashable.com] I am bummed about their fall from grace. They used to stand for revealing conspiracy, but now they look like a var...
[00:17:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Leaked Emails Reveal Israel's Nuclear Arsenal - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:44] <exec> 08└─the United States does support rogue nuclear states full of religious zealots.
[00:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I agree with Colin Powell - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:53] <exec> 08└─Because lefty elitists say we should all be equal but when push comes to shove, they will not live in a 3rd-world country? People who assume questions are statements drive me nuts.
[00:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I agree with Colin Powell - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:55] <exec> 08└─Mexico is pretty nice. Not all of it, but there aren't many genuinely nice places in Canada either. I've heard that a work visa is a lot harder to get in Mexico than it is in Canada. But that's just going by the complaints of white nativists who want to build a wall.
[00:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:I agree with Colin Powell - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:06] <exec> 08└─"Were there some decisions and actions in various states that the party took that disadvantaged Bernie and in some cases were completely unfair? Sure. Did the Hillary campaign use its leverage with contacts in the media to get a huge advantage there? Sure. http://www.nationalreview.com
[00:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even about HRC? - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:24] <exec> 08└─> A swing state will not be decided by a single vote Because there is only one person in a swing state considering this choice.
[00:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No -1 Flamebait - 06Scientists Create Amyloids in Primordial Life Experiment - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:52] <exec> 08└─That's interesting. It was at -1 but now it's back at 0. Personally I just don't care to use a mod point on it. I'm wondering if it's our sad, sad flat-Earther (aka numbnuts). I guess the problem is it's difficult to be 100% certain that he's just trolling. Personally, I'm waiting for the alt-right...
[00:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:proponents of climate change use this reasoning - 06What Exactly is the Scientific Method and Why Do So Many People Get It Wrong? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:34] <exec> 08└─See, faith. You lack real, definitive proof and yet you believe anyway. Don't argue science if you're not going to be scientific about it.
[00:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Capitalism is Queen!!!!! - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:25] <exec> 08└─You should do your part by investing your retirement account in rent-fixed markets. What? The return is shit? You'd actually like to retire? Then do it for the greater good.
[00:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignore Schneier - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:02] <exec> 08└─As far as attacks are concerned, you're absolutely correct. As for Schneier's motivations, I can't speak to that knowledgeably (perhaps you have some inside information unavailable to the rest of us?), but while your conclusion ("Schneier is shilling for the "elites" and/or the surveillance and mani...
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[01:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Powell has lost credibility forever. - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:27] <exec> 08└─If you speak before the United Nations on something as serious as justifying a pre-emptive war, you better be right. Period. If you say these words in front of the world with the purpose of using these words to justify your actions, they are your words for eternity. You are Secretary of State. No bl...
[01:19:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Seriously - 06What Exactly is the Scientific Method and Why Do So Many People Get It Wrong? - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:06] <exec> 08└─If you don't know what the scientific method is, then you're no scientist. End of story. No discussion. Am I doing it right?
[01:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02In conclusion: inconlusive. - 06Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:15] <exec> 08└─Is Running Good AND Bad for Your Health? Is Running Neither Good NOR Bad for Your Health?
[01:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Excellent - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:30] <exec> 08└─I would enjoy burying you with insults, but that won't accomplish anything. So let me just say that I sincerely wish there was a way for you and I to live on separate planets.
[01:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Wait nine months. - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:47] <exec> 08└─Let's see the vacancy rate after nine months of rain. http://theoatmeal.com [theoatmeal.com]
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[02:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lithium ion batteries + california heat - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:36] <exec> 08└─hope they don't use the same batteries as Samsung did in the galaxy note 7 :p
[02:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh - 06Researcher Bypasses iPhone 5c Security With NAND Mirroring - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:44] <exec> 08└─it seems that it's more a matter of doing the bare minimum necessary to get the government off your ass rather than keeping the guts of your technology out of the wrong hands.
[02:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who are Galois and Guardtime? - 06Galois and Guardtime Federal Awarded $1.8M DARPA Contract to Verify Blockchain-Based Integrity - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─And for a moment there I'd thought that the heirs and assigns of the 19th century French mathematician Évariste Galois were awarded a contract.
[02:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who are Galois and Guardtime? - 06Galois and Guardtime Federal Awarded $1.8M DARPA Contract to Verify Blockchain-Based Integrity - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:22] <exec> 08└─I figured Galois was another electric vehicle company.
[02:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what the point is of assertions that can be readily falsified with a little effort. Maybe you should just do that little effort and then cross these assertions off your list of beliefs?
[02:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Swing State Votes Count More - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:27] <exec> 08└─In a swing state a vote for clinton or trump has a lot more value than a vote in a safe state because swing. But when it comes to 3rd party candidates without a chance of winning any state, all votes are equal regardless of state.
[02:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the point of a VM? - 06Site Server Maintenance [Updated] - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:16] <exec> 08└─Ok serious question, Shouldn't the image be booted up on different iron?
[02:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Similar situation here... - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:37] <exec> 08└─I live on 10 acres of forested land. Kids still come out here to do burnouts though sirens are very rare. Only have dial-up and if I had to work in Vancouver, it had better be during regular hours as the train the parent mentions makes 4 trips in during the morning and 4 trips back evenings, so 1/2...
[02:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Excellent - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:51] <exec> 08└─So let me just say that I sincerely wish there was a way for you and I to live on separate planets.
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[03:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I was wondering what happened - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:37] <exec> 08└─with no stories on SN about Elon Musk or Tesla. Gee, 24 hours must've gone by or something!
[03:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Huh - 06Researcher Bypasses iPhone 5c Security With NAND Mirroring - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:47] <exec> 08└─I have been watching the MAME and emu scene people pick apart hardware for years. It really is just a mater of time. If you have a microcontroller with a bit of ram to run a cpu in one package they are not happy until they have extracted the program and have fully simulated the whole cpu even the in...
[03:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Transparency Begets Change - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:19] <exec> 08└─With Wikileaks, Cablegate, Snowden, the DNC hack, this hack, and many others we're seeing the spin and illusion stripped away. People have always suspected the fix was in because everyone can see the end results as plain as day, but the timorous have pooh-poohed those who want to see something done,...
[03:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:are landlords colluding? - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:00] <exec> 08└─The commonwealth status has nothing to do with it. The government has been courting the Chinese for years, even threw a World fair and then an Olympics to attract them. The idea was that if a bunch of wealthy Asians came over, they'd invest here and create jobs. We had the Hong Kong wave in the '90'...
[03:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:are landlords colluding? - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:01] <exec> 08└─Landlords don't have to collude to drive up rents, there's a 0.1% vacancy rate. High rises are being built as fast as possible, they tear down the 3 story rental apartment building and replace it with condos that cost a million dollars which are paid in cash and sit vacant as often as not.`Public tr...
[03:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:''a more effective version of capitalism'' - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:07] <exec> 08└─Sadly they chopped of the heads of a lot more then just the rent seekers. At that it got to the point where the slightest accusation meant losing your head.
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[04:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:39] <exec> 08└─the best way to eliminate tax avoidance is to eliminate tax. that way you get a fair playing field with no cheats socialist whiners commence whining in 3... 2... 1...
[04:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I was wondering what happened - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:48] <exec> 08└─Where's your submission?
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[05:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bullshit Alert - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:30] <exec> 08└─Peter Thiel is SUCH an 'anti free speech crusader' that he believes companies shouldn't be able to profit by broadcasting sex tapes of people without their permission! What a monster!
[05:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:38] <exec> 08└─BWAHAHAAHAHAHA! So, what, the corporations run everything? Every single thing is monetized, including the air you breathe? How does government operate at all? This isn't 300 years ago when the actual costs of government might be born by the rich members of the society serving at their leisure, being...
[05:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score:1) 02Re:I was wondering what happened - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:49] <exec> 08└─Where's your account?
[05:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02recycled probably - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:50] <exec> 08└─Batteries get too crummy to use in a car, but that doesn't make them totally dead. For non-mobile usage, less-nice batteries make sense.
[05:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Fundamental issue here ... - 06Seagate Sued by its Own Employees After Company Falls for Phishing Scam - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:29] <exec> 08└─What do you expect from Dogbert? Though it is more of a PHB move.
[05:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:Seriously - 06What Exactly is the Scientific Method and Why Do So Many People Get It Wrong? - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:45] <exec> 08└─True: In space, no one can hear you bleat. The hypothesis that there are giant space goats may need to be tested another way; for example, looking for evidence of giant space goat scat. All organisms leave behind physical evidence (scat of one kind or another) and much can be learned by studying suc...
[05:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:2) 02Where, not whether. - 06Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health? - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:04] <exec> 08└─Of course it is possible for too much running to be bad for you. Look at the upper extreme. If you run so much that you never sleep, you'll likely die from sleep deprivation. The question should be where the upper limit is, rather than whether it exists. It may not be a simple answer, with trade-off...
[05:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok - 06Fossil Evidence Reveals that Cancer in Humans Goes Back 1.7 Million Years - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:23] <exec> 08└─Nothing you said contradicts the supposition that cancers may be getting more common due to damage to germline DNA (DNA damage passed down across generations)
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[06:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2, Insightful) 02So it goes - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:34] <exec> 08└─It's the political cycle. Even if Trump (or Hillary) were to save a child from a burning building, it would be spun as cyborg-sex-slavery-Manchurian-candidate in the making. With hyperbole, you can't make considered criticisms. It's all about outrage, which may make for good scandal, but it makes fo...
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[06:17:36] <exec> 08└─Making America Great Again through Full Employment to Build A Wall. Trump! Trump! Trump!
[06:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:So it goes - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:38] <exec> 08└─http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-i-would-force-mexico-build-border-wall [msnbc.com] Kinda hard to have full employment unless you are talking about Mexico. As I was saying most supporters on either side can't name a single policy either candidate supports.
[06:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Reputable institutions - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:40] <exec> 08└─"Gawker is a reliable and valuable source of legitimate information." -Huffington Post That such utter nonsense would get past the HuffPo editor is unfortunately no surpise to me.
[06:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:50] <exec> 08└─I totally agree. I, too, look forward to the mad max future you describe for Australia. It would mean Australians were being treated similar to the refugees they have black bagged off to the Nauru gulag to be tortured and abused. (yes, that is happening right now and they don't give a fuck) http://w...
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[06:18:00] <exec> 08└─You don't need one to submit a story.
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[06:18:11] <exec> 08└─I've been a part of anti-tamper designs for restricted military hardware.
[06:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02goes well with other fine animals - 06Birds Choose Spring Neighbors Based on Winter 'Friendships' - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:22] <exec> 08└─ass (the donkey) hairless pussy (a breed of cat w/o hair, in female form) bitch (a dog, in female form) Imagine you had these fine animals. You were moving to an apartment, so you had to sell them. The ad: old bitch for sale; comes with hairless pussy, great tits, and a big ass.
[06:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Demand the Truth! - 06Site Server Maintenance [Updated] - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:45] <exec> 08└─We're not a legal entity in the EU thus we're not bound by EU law to display the cookie notices.
[06:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:let's be friends, tranny - 06What Exactly is the Scientific Method and Why Do So Many People Get It Wrong? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:33] <exec> 08└─Assuming it is a mental illness, what exactly do you thing the most effective treatment is? Hint: it is not trying to convince them that they are delusional.
[06:23:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Ok - 06Fossil Evidence Reveals that Cancer in Humans Goes Back 1.7 Million Years - 4014 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:36] <exec> 08└─OK, I get tired of this. I'm not a qualified scientist, just a very keen amateur and mathematician. But I happen to live with a geneticist, a Dr, who works in London hospitals and tells you whether your sample is cancerous or not, whether your child has Down's or not, etc. If you live in London and...
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[07:17:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BODNfsgJDCk [youtube.com]
[07:17:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Bullshit Alert - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:40] <exec> 08└─Peter Thiel is SUCH an 'anti free speech crusader' that he believes companies shouldn't be able to profit by broadcasting sex tapes of people without their permission! What a monster!
[07:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:45] <exec> 08└─I'm proudly xenophobic. I don't want to change my language or have my future great-grandchildren living in ISIS-style 7th century squalor. That said, a literal wall is silly, for two reasons. First, lots of people just overstay a visa. The solution here is tracking. A nice side effect is that identi...
[07:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:So it goes - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:47] <exec> 08└─Most supporters on either side can't name a single policy the candidates support.
[07:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit Alert - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:49] <exec> 08└─...or call someone a homo without his permission.
[07:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:00] <exec> 08└─Taking a tangent away from the story but, after reading that news story and ignoring the bullshit, I come away with the impression the detention centres were extremely successful. Peaking at 25k illegal entrants in a year near the beginning (primary by paid smugglers) down to near zero. It's no long...
[07:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02WTF units - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:13] <exec> 08└─Please don't mix units. Watts (or megawatts) are a measure of power (An instantaneous measure). Watt-hours are a measure of energy storage (could also be expressed in joules). They are not equivalent, so the brackets in the article are meaningless.
[07:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF units - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:14] <exec> 08└─I assumed it was the peak current rating and the capacity rating.
[07:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Why Lithium? - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:17] <exec> 08└─I understand the value of lightweight batteries in a vehicle or in a laptop. However this is a stationary installation. Why do they use Li-Ion batteries there? They have only a limited number of cycles. They do better if you barely charge-discharge them, like in battery-saving charging modes of EVs,...
[07:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wrong amyloids - 06Scientists Create Amyloids in Primordial Life Experiment - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:39] <exec> 08└─These are not the amyloids you're looking for.
[07:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Running is bad, m'kay. - 06Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:35] <exec> 08└─Based on my own experience, where I only run if I'm on fire, or being chased by a wild animal, running is bad for your health.
[07:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Similar situation here... - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:25] <exec> 08└─Did I forget to mention that once I walk home from the station, barefoot in the snow, the missus slices me in two with a bread knife?
[07:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Similar situation here... - 06Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:27] <exec> 08└─I get 4-5 hours of R&R once I get home, providing I hid the bread knife before I left in the morning. Not to mention Australia is still civilised enough that noone tried to mug or steal from you, at least if there are potential witnesses, that you can catch up on lost sleep during those long trips.
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[08:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Offworld Construction - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:34] <exec> 08└─This could be useful offworld.
[08:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Offworld Construction - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:36] <exec> 08└─Sunlight, through a lens, and, viola! Laser? Where are the frigging sharks? The coherence of this light stream is very much in question.
[08:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:48] <exec> 08└─Tracking via what method? Embed a chip in the person? brand them? Chain them to a border-force agent? Remember, it's not just poor spics who will get this treatment, as it also would apply to "desirable" visits such as those from Europe and Asia. As well, American citizens won't want to be tracked l...
[08:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit Alert - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:52] <exec> 08└─homo
[08:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proportionality - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:54] <exec> 08└─Peter Thiel is SUCH an 'anti free speech crusader' that he believes companies shouldn't be able to profit by broadcasting sex tapes of people without their permission! What a monster!
[08:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score:0, Troll) 02What kind of idiot cites the Huffington Post? - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:57] <exec> 08└─What kind of idiot cites the Huffington Post? It's a liberal propaganda outlet, not a news website. Please don't cite them.
[08:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SJWs Rule! - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:59] <exec> 08└─Wow, the first gay Republican appointed to the Supreme court, other than Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and a few others! I always knew that Trump would make America GGGGRRReatTTT in a "Tony the Tiger" way, if not, or maybe yes, a Tony Soprano way. But Theil on jurisprudence? Is he competent at law at all?...
[08:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Lithium? - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:25] <exec> 08└─Cronyism. They invested heavily into these battery packs without having any buyers. Now their buddies in the public sector are bailing them out.
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[09:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NUKE the RAIN FORESTS - 06Mystery of Colourful Giant Plants of the Subantarctic Solved - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:30] <exec> 08└─Colorful PLANTS are CAUSING global WARMING.
[09:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reputable institutions - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:57] <exec> 08└─"Gawker is a reliable and valuable source of legitimate information." -Huffington Post That such utter nonsense would get past the HuffPo editor is unfortunately no surpise to me.
[09:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What kind of idiot cites the Huffington Post? - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:00] <exec> 08└─Apparently some readers of HufPo took ire with your assessment. With the amount of moderate to obliterate that happens here, they are just inviting shit posting galore. Let the games begin!
[09:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02you morons. - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:03] <exec> 08└─free speech means you can say anything you like. it does NOT mean you won't face consequences for it tho. (except from the govt. which this case does not involve) gawker was a bunch of shitbags who thought that. they were wrong. several million times. thought they could talk smarmy to a judge lik...
[09:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:13] <exec> 08└─They took away the guns in Australia so it's not even worth bothering to talk about any of this.
[09:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03baldrick [352] (Score:1) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:15] <exec> 08└─correct ... that is why drumpf does not exhort Australians to shoot hillary
[09:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:19] <exec> 08└─Then I will take away the fact that you are a sociopathic cunt. If you are ok with systematic rape, sexual abuse (including children) then I very, very glad that I am not like you. Also, you make me sick.
[09:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Lithium? - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:36] <exec> 08└─That sounds right. How are they deploying in record time? Tesla must have excess batteries in the warehouse.
[09:19:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Fundamental issue here ... - 06Seagate Sued by its Own Employees After Company Falls for Phishing Scam - 758 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:13] <exec> 08└─> email to Seagate HR that appeared to originate from company CEO (...) > copies of employees' 2015 W-2 tax forms and other personally identifiable information, which were duly handed over I would fire on the spot whoever thought it could have been a legitimate request. If a CEO wants to know the sa...
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[10:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Let's get this straight - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:36] <exec> 08└─So instead of PayPal or the credit card company getting a cut, it will be PayPal and the credit card company.
[10:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02*what* money?? - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:37] <exec> 08└─Teh brown peeples be taken r jerbs! Ain't no money to feed teh money habit.
[10:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jesus_666 [3044] (Score:2) 02Re:wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:06] <exec> 08└─And even if this automated kill zone wouldn't be rejected on ethical grounds (it would) or on PR grounds (it would as people would immediately compare it to the Berlin Wall with the USA in the role of the GDR) it would still be a drain on the American economy – every time a rabbit, a tumbleweed o...
[10:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:08] <exec> 08└─I hear Americans love paying taxes for things that don't presently directly affect them.
[10:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Proportionality - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:14] <exec> 08└─What's "a company"?
[10:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Lithium? - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:51] <exec> 08└─Ease of installation and availability. It is likely even an "ordinary" electrician is allowed to instal these battery packs. They do no all have to sit in one (big) room. Grid-tie *may* require specialist support from the power company, but that's it. Pumped storage requires massive infrastructure:...
[10:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:19:54] <exec> 08└─Why do you think this is an obvious troll? This guy has posted before.
[10:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:19:56] <exec> 08└─Set up a telescope, and see if you can find any curvature. Set up a gyroscope, and see if you can detect any spinning. I'm not sure what the point is of assertions that can be readily falsified with a little effort. Maybe you should just do that little effort (telescope, gyroscope) and then cross th...
[10:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:19:58] <exec> 08└─Set up a telescope, and see if you can find any curvature. Set up a gyroscope, and see if you can detect any spinning.
[10:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:he uses AOL - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:55] <exec> 08└─He should have used a personal private server
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[11:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Brown Kids stealing our mobile data! - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:29] <exec> 08└─The word's on the street and it's on the news Ajit [medium.com] teaches your boyfriend how to steal for you
[11:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:31] <exec> 08└─Ebay / paypal does not require my DOB. Fuck em. Use something else. Stripe is good.
[11:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Offworld Construction - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:47] <exec> 08└─The NASA studied the feasibility of high-powered, solar-pumped lasers; its 1989 report concluded that they were possible. http://ntrs.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[11:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Materials for self-reproduction - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:49] <exec> 08└─So you have glass, you can make lenses. You have silicon, you can make computer chips. Solar panels, silicon. Seems like a viable way to replace deserts with robot overlords.
[11:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:05] <exec> 08└─What an amazing strawman! Do you build straw structures as well? Maybe it's the fact that the military industrial complex is the most powerful group of businesses in the country and there's nothing anyone can do about it because the moment it even looks like the gravy train is going to be disrupted...
[11:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Lithium? - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 2035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:49] <exec> 08└─Um, yeah, wow. Pumped hydro is actually a great way to store energy. But it's quite expensive, and can be devastating to the local environment. You have to not only build a dam but a power generation plant with massive, expensive turbines. It can easily take a decade to get all the engineering and p...
[11:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:19:55] <exec> 08└─Why do you think this is an obvious troll? This guy has posted before.
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[12:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Definition of Employment - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:36] <exec> 08└─Question: "In the past month, did any money whatsoever enter your hands by any way that was not entirely an accident?" Respondant thinks: "Hmm, well, I put my hand out of my cardboard box last week begging for money and some kid threw me a dime." Census Data: "In that case you have employment."
[12:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Musky is doing great - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:37] <exec> 08└─$12.5 billion and Musky is worth it! Your folks are going to make Musky even richer when they buy a self driving car which you will use to drive you between your parents' basement and the liquor store because there are no jobs for your unemployed ass.
[12:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vote Green for Basic Income - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:39] <exec> 08└─Damn, nigga, shit's fucking bad right now, but Jill got a solution!
[12:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vote Green for Basic Income - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:41] <exec> 08└─shit's fucking bad right now
[12:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's get this straight - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:50] <exec> 08└─But... you're using both Paypal and the credit card company's services. There's a vast amount of infrastructure there. You're paying to use it. Surely that's... just fair, right? And you already were able to do this anyway - I've religiously selected my card first on every Paypal transaction I've ev...
[12:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's get this straight - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:52] <exec> 08└─Paypal is Big Brother. Let Big Brother know you buy boring stuff like, but for anything interesting, use cash.
[12:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cory Doctorow called - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:13] <exec> 08└─says you can have the plot to Makers as he have it away for free years ago
[12:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:30] <exec> 08└─How long before that automated gun is pointed inward?
[12:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:52] <exec> 08└─You need to have a closer look at the fauna and flora around here. Guns are not required. Bloody yanky pansies.
[12:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:54] <exec> 08└─So, we defend ourselves with gumleaves and wallabies?
[12:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:59] <exec> 08└─the best way to eliminate tax avoidance is to eliminate tax. that way you get a fair playing field with no cheats socialist whiners commence whining in 3... 2... 1...
[12:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Devil's advocate - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not enough of an economic expert to evaluate this, but I have heard interesting arguments for a simple solution: eliminate corporate tax entirely. - First and foremost: you will never eliminate these stupid financial shell games. Companies legitimately trade with each other, and this is the basi...
[12:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:03] <exec> 08└─Excess profits that corporations earn are (again, generally speaking) paid out to their shareholders. If they don't pay out dividends, then the value of their stock rises, and that stock is owned by their shareholders.
[12:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:32] <exec> 08└─Yup. Just like gravity. What it was couldn't be determined, so they made it the law. Those scientists are just completely out of control.
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[13:17:42] <exec> 08└─The World Socialist Web Site reports
[13:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I have a simple question. - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:56] <exec> 08└─Has PayPal been regulated like any other financial institution for my protection? Because last time I checked they were NOT and any issues I might have with them draining my bank account in error were entirely at the discretion of PayPal. No recourse to any federal oversight, no way to refute their...
[13:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Bad Paypal. No bank account for you. - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:57] <exec> 08└─I've never given Paypal access to anything other than my Visa card, and I never will. If they ever do anything dodgy to it, I will simply dispute the charge, and they can go argue with my bank. (Not that they would, the banks don't care if Paypal fuck you over (draining debit accounts), but legally,...
[13:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Offworld Construction - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:15] <exec> 08└─Sunlight, through a lens, and, viola! Laser?
[13:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Mine the Sky - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:19] <exec> 08└─I've thought it would be even better to mine carbon from the air and manipulate that to produce carbon nanotubes, graphene, and diamond for anything you want.
[13:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reputable institutions - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:44] <exec> 08└─The Huffington Post used to run young earth creationist articles back in the day. Utter nonsense gets a pass there.
[13:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:07] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately its not that clear. Internet service is a public utility in Australia, which is used extensively by google for products and services (duh). Google (well, Alphabet, but whatever) is an American company. If Australia eliminated corporate tax, it would pretty much assure that they would p...
[13:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:yet more climate change apologism - 06What Exactly is the Scientific Method and Why Do So Many People Get It Wrong? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:04] <exec> 08└─I concur, human related climate change is a convenient fig leaf. "We destroy society with war, economic war, treatments instead of cures, pollution, but hey we are preoccupied about global warming, which means 1. we are good guys, 2. the problem is you and not us, now shut up get taxed and don't rep...
[13:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Talk about science - 06What Exactly is the Scientific Method and Why Do So Many People Get It Wrong? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:16] <exec> 08└─Missing data point, scientist do not operate in a vacuum. Proof, related scandals (sugar industry the flavour of the week). Conclusion, understanding the scientific method is orthogonal to trusting scientific results and theories. All of this is completely unrelated to climate change.
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[14:17:39] <exec> 08└─" Is the video game industry in need of reviving? "
[14:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Question: - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 2042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:41] <exec> 08└─40320×17280 resolution (21:9) with high field of view.640 TB RAM limit.Attachment to the VR headset that injects dopamine, DMT, kratom, and other substances directly into your bloodstream.Brain-computer interface to allow you to move in the game world without actually using your muscles (muscles wi...
[14:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Need reviving ? - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:43] <exec> 08└─Only from the retards like those in Hollywood who can't see beyond remakes and reboots. The gaming world has gotten stale and clogged with generation after generation of the same FPS shooter in new skins and Madden generation whatever, which is essentially the same game in a new skin every season. T...
[14:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Matrix, All the Way Up - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─TFA that describes college kids voluntarily checking in to a scaled-down version of The Matrix got me thinking. What if our Alien overlords, the ones who have us committed to The Matrix that appears to be what we call "our world", are themselves someone's science experiment? And what if, in turn, th...
[14:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a joke? - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:57] <exec> 08└─The socialists are just telling us what we already know. There is no job security and no raise to meet increases in productivity. You are lucky to work at all, but huge segments of the economy are being targeted for automation.
[14:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a joke? - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:58] <exec> 08└─It's a strange confluence of events, eh? On the one hand you have vitriol directed at old guard industries and how propping up their failing business models is dangerously close to crony capitalism, and on the other existential crisis over the coming automation. But we'll call this next propping soc...
[14:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Materials for self-reproduction - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:33] <exec> 08└─If you play dwarf fortress, you can make an empire of green glass if you pick a suitable region! Of course, that requires magma, too, but I think enough concentrated sunlight can do just fine. (Too bad I can't make a giant magnifryer in game. That would be awesome. Instead, I end up with self-destru...
[14:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of idiot cites the Huffington Post? - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:04] <exec> 08└─It's more accurate to say that it's a corporate propaganda outlet. It's the same as Fox. The only difference is that the language is designed to appeal to liberals whereas Fox's appeals to conservatives. The end goals are the same, however, to further entrench corporate power and the status quo. We...
[14:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thiel's and Trump's spokesmen issue denials - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:07] <exec> 08└─Notice, not the principals themselves. Deniability. The spokesmen don't always get it right. "He's done a great job for me though."
[14:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I was wondering what happened - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:39] <exec> 08└─Tesla articles are a spacer between articles about graphene/carbon nanotubes.
[14:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh - 06Researcher Bypasses iPhone 5c Security With NAND Mirroring - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:57] <exec> 08└─I agree completely. Let's take for example the Atari Jaguar. Some very dedicated individuals cracked the encryption scheme on it by writing their own decryption routine and networking 8 or so of them together via network links supported by the Jaguar but never really utilized by Atari (look up the C...
[14:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet he doesn't mind at all - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:38] <exec> 08└─This place has a tough crowd! Remind me not to go into politics. The real value of that hack, I think, is that it has driven home to many politicians that yes, even they, are hackable snoopable exploitable and easily embarassed. By an entity other than their political opponents. How powerless it mus...
[14:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Transparency Begets Change - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:50] <exec> 08└─Unless the current involution is part of the progress. Remember that a "revolution" implies the return to the initial state, so those who called the shift in power "revolution" might be playing an inside joke on you. This is a theory but not mere speculation: big changes in the last decades (russia...
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[15:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02filters and beer... - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:33] <exec> 08└─many modern microbrews (i should put the micro in quotes, but hey...), are filtered or sometimes centifuged, to remove yeast (and all bacteria). Interesting though, that if you have fruity/tasty, not bitter beer the centrifugation removes the flavour molecules - a neat thing I learnt visiting one of...
[15:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Overheard restaurant joke - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:34] <exec> 08└─Boston has a tourist attraction called Durgin Park, which is a centuries-old restaurant with a reputation for rude waitresses (I suspect they were the inspiration for the character Carla on the "Cheers" TV series). out-of-town guest: "What is this you gave me, Charles River water?" waitress (walking...
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[15:17:45] <exec> 08└─" Job Simulator: a nostalgic trip into the late 20th century that shows you what employment was like. "
[15:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Question: - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─If the stars had aligned right, I could have gotten #403172. Oh well. This journal [soylentnews.org] I posted a couple days ago probably has shades of that, and I believe that others have worked on similar (joke) concepts to the Job Simulator. I get the feeling that these VR games are going to feel...
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[15:17:49] <exec> 08└─" That's where the strong AI could help (in designing huge worlds, and living in them). "
[15:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The Matrix, All the Way Up - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:53] <exec> 08└─http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Ascension [wikia.com]
[15:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"how deep does this gully-hole go?" - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 3871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:55] <exec> 08└─The whole VR situation is dodgy at the moment. I blame it on money sharks testing the waters to see how to best fleece the pockets of customers/gamers. reading on forums about VR headset, support and capabilities shows that a lot of potential customers or existing customers don't know shit about VR....
[15:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"how deep does this gully-hole go?" - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:57] <exec> 08└─My take is that early adopters of the Vive/Oculus/Sony/etc. headsets are suckers, since that hardware will greatly improve in the coming years (panels, other components, and the graphics cards either included internally or externally with your desktop PC). Cardboard, on the other hand, is a great co...
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02it's screen real estate. - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:59] <exec> 08└─There's an army of i3wm, vi & emacs users waiting for a light head-set they can use their eyes to move a mouse pointer with: 1. Look at char. 2. Press and hold modifier. 3. Look at another char. 4. Release to copy. All, without lifting your hand off the tenkeyless... And you can browse specs with it...
[15:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a joke? - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─What comes next?
[15:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Idiots - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:15] <exec> 08└─The only section of the population which saw an outright decline in median household income were people living in rural areas, already lower paid on average than people living in cities or suburbs. Their median household income fell 2 percent, to $44,657 annually, more than $15,000 a year behind peo...
[15:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quarterly earnings for publicly traded corporation - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 1799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:17] <exec> 08└─CEOs and their boards are obsessed with keeping quarterly earnings on a nice upward trend for the Street. They'll merge, divest, close plants, send jobs offshore, cut benefits for their employees, drop product lines, or do whatever it takes based on three weeks study with the assistance of MBA consu...
[15:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02evil villian plot in "Batman Returns" - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:03] <exec> 08└─This was the heart of the evil villain's plot in the 1992 film "Batman Returns". The villain was building giant capacitor "power stations" all around Gotham that would suck up the power so he could sell it back to the city or something.
[15:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:11] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you don't recall posting this [soylentnews.org]. Even when people post anonymously, they often leave a pattern which can be used to match their work to previous posts. This guy leaves a very obvious one.
[15:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Transparency Begets Change - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:06] <exec> 08└─Unless the current involution is part of the progress. Remember that a "revolution" implies the return to the initial state, so those who called the shift in power "revolution" might be playing an inside joke on you.
[15:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Transparency Begets Change - 06Colin Powell's Personal Email Hacked, Leaked - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:08] <exec> 08└─Also, treating the Arab Spring as if it were only a boost to radical Islam is an injustice. A people developing the habit of overthrowing tyranny is a necessary precondition for democracy. ISIS wasn't the only benefactor. I believe human freedom will be as well though it may take some time.
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[16:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:filters and beer... - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:43] <exec> 08└─You're looking at the wrong end of the process, you seem to have forgotten the *BOILING* stage. That's what killed the bugs in the water, and which made beer the healthiest thing to drink historically. After that, who cares? It can be as crudy as fuck, and still good. Yes, I am the same FatPhil as t...
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:filters and beer... - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─of course the boiling kills a lot of things (without pressure it's not 100% effective). However, adding the yeast adds another source of contamination.... And if you've seen some breweries, not exactly labs....
[16:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:filters and beer... - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─The big producers also use reverse osmosis and other processes to treat the water, as you need to get the mineral content right to get *really* good beers of each type. Generally you target the mineral content of the original region the beer was made in. It's a very controlled process at the big bre...
[16:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Fuck Boston - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─If Boston were so awesome, California wouldn't have so many massholes migrating here. And yet, they still do. Fuck off, you worthless Jew-bastards.
[16:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:Need reviving ? - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:03] <exec> 08└─It isn't the studios (film or game) that are to blame for the sequels, it is the customers. If the people spending their money actually avoided sequels and sent money on other titles, then more of those types of things would get made and promoted. Even then, over 500 films are released each year. Th...
[16:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Need reviving ? - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─I can't see movies that aren't showing. Here in Yuma there a exactly 2 theatres. One shows all the new releases as they come out, with an IMAX big screen and several other smaller screens but they still only show the 'big' money movies, the other is 2 weeks behind the first one and $3.00 cheaper. To...
[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"how deep does this gully-hole go?" - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:11] <exec> 08└─actually ... cardboard is for suckers too. if you can "look at stereograms" on a monitor or can see the pictures in the very nice and fancy book "Magic Eye" then you can use ALL cardboard prog ... err apps WITHOUT a cardboard "device". if you look at cardboard APPS without a cardboard attached you w...
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vote Green for Basic Income - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCIo4MCO-_U [youtube.com]
[16:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Quarterly earnings for publicly traded corporat - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:30] <exec> 08└─So, you think Hillary is going to increase taxes on herself? You DO realize that she was born into wealth, and that she has been pretty damned rich all her life. That bullshit about being flat broke when she and Bill left the White House? Tell me that you didn't fall for that one. Hillary is part of...
[16:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Earnings per Person - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:32] <exec> 08└─The only section of the population which saw an outright decline in median household income were people living in rural areas,
[16:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only during the elections - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:34] <exec> 08└─How do I know that once the elections are over the economy won't crash again no matter who wins? Is this minor temporary economic recovery just a ploy to sway votes for until elections are over?
[16:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:So it goes - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 1624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not a Trump supporter, but I think he gets misrepresented on this. Trump likes to talk about having Mexico pay for the wall. The CNN interviewer that quote is in response did say "build," and Trump didn't correct him, but I don't think Trump purposefully phrases it in those terms. The interviewe...
[16:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:29] <exec> 08└─The solution here is tracking. A nice side effect is that identity theft becomes nearly impossible. Identity theft is what allows illegals to live their lives. It also allows regular criminal fugitives to evade the law. Put a stop to this, and it would require Unibomber-level self-sufficiency to hid...
[16:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Proportionality - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:37] <exec> 08└─You can rebuild a company. You can't rebuild a secret. There really is no such thing as compensation for an invasion of privacy. It can't be undone. That's not to say that the loss of a company is small, you can never get back the time you spent making a it. But the privacy loss from trespassing and...
[16:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proportionality - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:39] <exec> 08└─Oh please. That's a cop-out. I have a secret - its how many coins are in my pocket. If you tell anyone then you deserve to lose your entire livelihood and start over from scratch. If the cost of revealing a "secret" is immeasurable then why should the punishment be the end of the company rather noth...
[16:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you morons. - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:49] <exec> 08└─> thought they could talk smarmy to a judge like some random internet user. they were wrong there too. Actually the judges all agreed with gawker. They won in federal court. It was only in front of a jury in a florida state trial that they lost.
[16:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit, sherlock - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:03] <exec> 08└─Drop bear army.
[16:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06'Google Tax' Already Being Avoided, Says Australian Tax Office - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:12] <exec> 08└─- Corporate taxes increase the cost of doing business. Generally speaking, businesses (must!) pass these costs on to consumers.
[16:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF units - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:29] <exec> 08└─That's probably a safe assumption but should be stated explicitly (I know I'm being pedantic)
[16:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:45] <exec> 08└─Why would a telescope detect curvature?
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[17:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Case was already dropped in the UK - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:35] <exec> 08└─This is more about him having made the powers that be look bad. The case was dropped in the UK already [bbc.com], but for some reason the Westminster Magistrates' Court is having at him again.
[17:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:filters and beer... - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─that was where I was going with my comment, only keeping it general for those that are not biochemists. In fact the centrifugation was a surprise until I saw it - really large versions of my tiny lab one!
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Fuck Boston - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:50] <exec> 08└─C'mon, Eth, many of those massholes are worthless Irish [youtube.com] bastards. Whatever their internal composition, it is too late for the California west of the Sierra Nevadas. Pull back east of the Sierra Nevadas if you want to get back to real California.
[17:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Need reviving ? - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─I get where you guys are coming from, but I like sequels because you don't usually have to spend time relearning the controls. Also, a well-constructed universe is rich and extensible, and becomes a framework for more story-telling. Think the GTA series or Mass Effect. There is a lot of room for sto...
[17:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:"how deep does this gully-hole go?" - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:13] <exec> 08└─You lost me at the part about people with one eye not being allowed to drive. I have only one eye and I have driven over 30 years without an accident. Yes, I have no depth perception. I guess my brain has adapted. I don't find it difficult at all but I do have to be careful in parking lots and durin...
[17:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:mono driving tangent - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:15] <exec> 08└─I also drive/bike without my glasses most of the time. When needed, such as during left turns across traffic, I move my head a few inches. (I think I have explained this before on this site). One movement gets you distance, 2 get you velocity, and 3+ get you acceleration. They delay involved may mak...
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[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─PPS: I do tend to pull out my glasses when driving a car in the rain. The stereo vision lets me look "though" the rain-drops on the windshield. If I fail to do that, My eyes get tired very quickly from trying to focus alternately between the rain drops and what I actually want to see. (Much like a c...
[17:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's screen real estate. - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:20] <exec> 08└─actually, i can ...uhm ..errr ... see :) a use for 3D or depth for programming (-text). for example, a procedure or a function could be "in the back" of the listed programming code. a "loop" could really be a loop, the text going-into the monitor at the start of the loop and finishing coming back "o...
[17:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quarterly earnings for publicly traded corporat - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:39] <exec> 08└─> So, you think Hillary is going to increase taxes on herself? Yes. They already pay a significantly higher effective tax rate [cnbc.com] than most rich people - 43.2%
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Quarterly earnings for publicly traded corporat - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:40] <exec> 08└─HRC will raise taxes on the 1 percent. I think that's important not because the Federal government needs more money, or even as a way of reducing economic inequality.
[17:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quarterly earnings for publicly traded corporat - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:43] <exec> 08└─What makes your theories any more believable than her "lies?" As far as I can tell your post is just angry feels.
[17:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Only during the elections - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:47] <exec> 08└─> Is this minor temporary economic recovery just a ploy Its a trend that has been running for years. Romney promised an unemployment rate of 6% by the end of his first term. We've been below 6% for 2 years [nationalmemo.com] and below 5% since last December.
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Only during the elections - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─That must explain the rise of Trump, right, that the economy is actually doing so great? Obama and Hillary and the Establishment are using statistics to paint a false picture of success, but they are failing because the 99% can see the reality of their own lives, with their own eyes. In other words,...
[17:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lithium ion batteries + california heat - 06Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:31] <exec> 08└─> hope they don't use the same batteries as Samsung did in the galaxy note 7 :p Actually they would be a pretty good idea. The problem with samsung's batteries is that the charging circuit isn't calibrated correctly for their chemistry. If there are a ton of refurbished samsung batteries putting the...
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[18:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Quarterly earnings for publicly traded corporat - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:38] <exec> 08└─This is a Clinton we're talking about where honesty and lies commingle in strangely honest ways. HRC could very well increase "income" tax on the extremely wealthy and live up to her promise while cutting taxes for the 1%. Remember how Steve Jobs paid himself $1/yr wages? She could raise taxes to 90...
[18:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a simple question. - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:56] <exec> 08└─Well, they can arbitrarily freeze people's accounts, like they did with Wikileaks and countless others. I think that answers your question.
[18:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Mine the Sky - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, but far more difficult.
[18:19:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02Re:wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:36] <exec> 08└─I hear Americans love paying taxes for things that don't presently directly affect them.
[18:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh - 06Researcher Bypasses iPhone 5c Security With NAND Mirroring - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:55] <exec> 08└─The OWLR contains a modern Intel processor, which means it requires running unauditable binary software blobs supplied by Intel to even boot, and it contains a dedicated coprocessor with full control over the system, running unauditable code that can only be supplied by Intel.
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[19:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Case was already dropped in the UK - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:38] <exec> 08└─Why were the UK charges dropped? The BBC article doesn't say. Maybe the US and UK prosecutors agreed to charge him stateside. Not sure what to make of this. On the one hand, I think hacking is ok. On the other hand, those who get caught breaking the law should expect to face consequences.
[19:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Re:"how deep does this gully-hole go?" - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:17] <exec> 08└─Hi there. VR is my day job. I thought you had some comments and valid question worth addressing. I blame it on money sharks testing the waters to see how to best fleece the pockets of customers/gamers.
[19:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02As someone who's exposed to VR daily... - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:20] <exec> 08└─This is kind of a "duh" article given the state of the VR industry, but you may not know what some of the relevant features of that state are: There's a bunch of different types of VR platforms with different restrictions and input methods that require special-case programming. Sitting and viewing m...
[19:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Only during the elections - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:49] <exec> 08└─No, the rise of Trump is for two reasons: 1) There are a lot of gullible idiots around. That's always been true, but rarely if ever has such a skilled and accomplished conman run for the highest public office in the U.S. 2) The extreme right wing, fascists, and other extremists, encouraged by Trump,...
[19:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''an unemployment rate of 6%'' - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 2324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:50] <exec> 08└─First, if you define "unemployed" the way that was traditionally defined ("I want to earn an income but I can't find a job"), then the unemployment numbers are actually around 23 percent--and have been over 22 percent for years and years. [shadowstats.com] (That's roughly the same numbers as at the...
[19:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02And, Damn lies! - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:52] <exec> 08└─The statistical data is not fabricated,
[19:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:1) 02Interesting pix of the plants on wikipedia - 06Mystery of Colourful Giant Plants of the Subantarctic Solved - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─They look similar to some cactus https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Offworld Construction - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you got a problem with that? Darn vilonists, think they can fuse silicon dioxide all by their selves.
[19:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So it goes - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:54] <exec> 08└─The "disastrous possible" is the massive amount of harm that is inflicted by a hopelessly corrupt, authoritarian duopoly remaining in power for hundreds of years, not the short-term harm that results from several 'greater evil' candidates, you short-sighted twit.
[19:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So it goes - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:55] <exec> 08└─So unless you can demonstrate that voting for the 'lesser evil' is more likely to result in an end to the duopoly than, say, voting third party and utilizing the perception of the spoiler effect as a weapon, this seems rather foolish.
[19:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit Alert - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:03] <exec> 08└─Well, government censorship is always wrong, so yes.
[19:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you morons. - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:15] <exec> 08└─it does NOT mean you won't face consequences for it tho. (except from the govt. which this case does not involve)
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[20:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02I see - 06New ISO Standard Explains how to Kind-of Ignore Standards - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:36] <exec> 08└─They still haven't recovered from the standardization of Microsoft's OOXML. This is your brain on Microsoft.
[20:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Irrelevant - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:46] <exec> 08└─has previously said he feared he would die in a US prison if he was extradited.
[20:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a joke? - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:46] <exec> 08└─Good old Dave Mustaine had it right, "There's unknown tools for World War Three, Einstein said we'll use rocks on the other side." Trump + Putin = ?
[20:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Couldn't be bothered to RTFS - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:48] <exec> 08└─...nor did he read TFA, clearly. The World Socialist Web Site believes an improvement in household incomes is "disturbing". Not their word. "Disturbingly" was my word. You're rapidly losing credibility, Your Holiness. The World Socialist Web Site reports Uh-huh. Would you have preferred Fox? [google...
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[20:18:54] <exec> 08└─> So, you think Hillary is going to increase taxes on herself? Bill raised them from Reagan's top rate of 28% to 39%. Why would Hillary be any different?
[20:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Capital Gains - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 1757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:59] <exec> 08└─Your entire theory is premised on the idea that all Clinton has is face value. She's the most wonkish candidate for president that the country has ever had. The exact details for her tax increase are on her website. Here's a summary of her plan for capital gains taxes and unsurprisingly it is exact...
[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Only during the elections - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:06] <exec> 08└─> That must explain the rise of Trump, right, that the economy is actually doing so great? The single strongest predictor of a person's support for Trump is racial anxiety. [fusion.net] Not economic, racial. The average income of Trump voters [fivethirtyeight.com] during the primary was $10K/yr more...
[20:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''an unemployment rate of 6%'' - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:09] <exec> 08└─Why do you think that shadowstats guy isn't lying with statistics? He's clearly including marginal numbers in his calculation, like students and retirees. The baby boom generation is the largest part of the workforce and they've been rapidly retiring over at least the last decade. They really should...
[20:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Only during the elections - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:11] <exec> 08└─I trust I'm just not seeing your sarcasm tags. There *is* no recovery. There's also no depression. What there is is a massive imbalance over who gets money for what. And the unemployment numbers have been rigged for over 30 years. When I first started paying attention to them they were already rigge...
[20:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And, Damn lies! - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:15] <exec> 08└─Depends how much onanism was involved.
[20:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02get between you and your purchases - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:30] <exec> 08└─I've said this for years - the last frontier is to get between you and your purchases - many, many companies are trying this - they want to build a profile of every cent you spend - no one has all the pieces - some have your web history - some have your purchase history - some have bits here, pieces...
[20:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Offworld Construction - 06Solar Sinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D Printing on Site - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:52] <exec> 08└─"Ey wallah" as we say in the Valley.
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[20:21:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's a totally valid concern. I think their "three dimensional active shield" [youtube.com] is interesting, and might be very difficult to work around if the signals were timed correctly, which is why I was interested in the other (?) AC's take on how long it would take to gain physical acce...
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[21:17:32] <exec> 08└─The AS IS clause needs to go. People making software and services need to be held accountable for damages and effects of these kinds of breaches. If you're going to be a dumbass running a site, you should get to feel the full brunt of the hammer that will come down upon you.
[21:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Case was already dropped in the UK - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:49] <exec> 08└─Presumably they decided that the crime took place in the US and that charging him in the UK would be redundant. Which makes sense, he should be charged in the UK or the US, but not both. There probably was some sort of deal hammered out and presumably in the future if anybody in the US is caught cra...
[21:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Case was already dropped in the UK - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:50] <exec> 08└─"Presumably they decided that the crime took place in the US and that charging him in the UK would be redundant." I admit I didn't read all the links but is there any evidence this gent ever set foot in the US?
[21:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Case was already dropped in the UK - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:52] <exec> 08└─Why would that matter? Jurisdiction in cases like this is tricky because the crime can reasonably said to be committed either where the computers that were broken into were located or where the attacker was located. And probably you could make an argument for a third country if there was an intermed...
[21:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Irrelevant - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:55] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd be more concerned about being raped or assaulted than killed. As somebody that would be serving time for breaking into the government servers looking for evidence of a UFO cover up, it's unlikely that he'd have any particular enemies entering into prison. Certainly not like being sen...
[21:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Some Ass Burger - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:57] <exec> 08└─Well... So as near as I can tell, some dude who lives in a country with an historically cozy extradition relationship with the USA decided to poke at some stuff that USA cares about. Dumb. And to do so in a way that made it so he could be caught. Dumb. I thought that people with Ass Burgers [wik...
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:filters and beer... - 06Strange Brews: Making Beer with Boston River Water - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─Boiling kills any germs that might be present in the water, but it doesn't remove pollution. Things like mercury, lead, petroleum products and various pharmaceutical products amongst other things. A good filter can remove most of that stuff or in extreme cases there's distillation, but that's not go...
[21:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Matrix, All the Way Up - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:31] <exec> 08└─Wrong movie, you want The Thirteenth Floor [wikipedia.org]. A little confusion on this score is understandable, as there were like 3 or 4 major SF films playing with reality-is-a-simulation stuff in about a year there. What this "coincidence" says about the next higher level is anyone's guess.
[21:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Couldn't be bothered to RTFS - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:00] <exec> 08└─Would you have preferred Fox? (FAIR == Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) Breitbart? Really?
[21:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''inherited wealth[to]support their descendants'' - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:20] <exec> 08└─We've arrived at the topic of Sam Walton's (miserly) heirs, who see to it that their new hires are given directions on how to sign up for gov't aid because their wages are so miserable. Now, what if, instead, Sam had left his children enough money to get by comfortably for about 5 years--after which...
[21:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only during the elections - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─> As a start to fixing things one could limit copyrights and patents to 5 years You know, that might be a popular idea on this site. But nobody with even the tiniest grasp of the economic problems in our country would think that would be the place to start fixing things. You say shit like that and a...
[21:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wall - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:25] <exec> 08└─It's been pointing inward for quite some time already...
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catchy "width-of-human-hair" - 06European Space Agency's Gaia Spacecraft Maps Over a Billion Stars in the Milky Way - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─The hypothesis is that the Earth is a convex sphere of 6397 km radius. This is an easily debunked hypothesis, as with the help of a telescope objects can be trivially spotted "behind" this hypothesized curvature. Therefore, the Earth does not have a shape consistent with that of a convex sphere that...
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[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Whoops - 066.6 Million Plaintext Passwords Exposed as Site Gets Hacked to the Bone - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─Plaintext passwords
[22:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Whoops - 066.6 Million Plaintext Passwords Exposed as Site Gets Hacked to the Bone - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, everybody knows you should store passwords in ROT13. Qhu.
[22:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02This is a story why? - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:00] <exec> 08└─Guy breaks into U.S. property, is getting shipped here to stand trial by those he committed the crimes against. Isn't that what normally happens in the civilized world? This is different why? Because Internet? If he committed any other crime against the U.S. or one of our citizens there would be no...
[22:19:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Quarterly earnings for publicly traded corporat - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:06] <exec> 08└─So, you think Hillary is going to increase taxes on herself? You DO realize that she was born into wealth, and that she has been pretty damned rich all her life. That bullshit about being flat broke when she and Bill left the White House? Tell me that you didn't fall for that one. Hillary is part of...
[22:19:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Quarterly earnings for publicly traded corporat - 06Census Bureau Releases Disturbingly Rosy Household Income Report - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:09] <exec> 08└─HRC will raise taxes on the 1 percent. I think that's important not because the Federal government needs more money, or even as a way of reducing economic inequality.
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[23:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Rules Based Scam - 06New ISO Standard Explains how to Kind-of Ignore Standards - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:41] <exec> 08└─It's been my observation,that ISO adherence falls by the way side shortly after the ISO certification papers are signed, and well before the first layer of dust has settled on the manuals. Somewhere in that interval, the corner hummers who pushed the whole project skedaddled to other organizations r...
[23:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a story why? - 06Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S. - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:57] <exec> 08└─Hacking is different because it is a new kind of crime where the morals and motivations are less clear than conventional crime. I believe hacking targets have the responsibility to defend their computers, and society (law enforcement) needn't get involved in most cases.
[23:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:it's screen real estate. - 06VR's 2D Surprise, and Virtual Reality at the Tokyo Game Show - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:42] <exec> 08└─It's an old programming idea that never really took off because of functional impurities and the design of general purpose computer architectures. In the DSP world, there are a lot of successful flow chart based compilers\IDEs that produce really good code. But when you don't have pipelining and str...
[23:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a simple question. - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Paypal enables fraud on anybody's accounts. It happened to me and one of my accounts was drained - I lost over $4k before I noticed. Paypal did not care. It relies on making it easy to hook up an account to purchases, not any concrete proof about who owns the account. Arseholes.
[23:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:I have a simple question. - 06Paypal Wants to Become Your Daily Money Habit - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:40] <exec> 08└─My mom said she needed a PayPal account for making many of her purchases online. I "forced" her to get a Walmart "GreenDot" refillable credit card & use that as the financial source that PayPal would drain funds from in order to make said purchases. It didn't matter how many times I patiently tried...
[23:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02I can't believe this - 06Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:51] <exec> 08└─I for one am shocked and appauled that the editors let another pro-Trump article thru the gates. Why has nobody commented on this yet? How can we let this atrocity stand. This is not a political website, it is a tech website! Oh wait, its an anti-Trump article? Guess we better hush up and see how mu...
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