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[00:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:45] <exec> 08└─> Of course these fuckers have these studies and they are damning for them. And of course they don't release them because it hurts their bottom line. CTRL-C What's the percentage of SN stories which can reuse this quote with less than three words changed? Such a happy bunch of people we are...
[00:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Secret - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:47] <exec> 08└─If you publish an unpublished document, isn’t it now published?
[00:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secret - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:49] <exec> 08└─Wonkey_monkey, you forgot to log out of your sockpuppet account before posting your inane nitpick for this story. You are getting careless.
[00:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secret - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:51] <exec> 08└─I am sockless Sally!
[00:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sucked Since 2003 - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:02] <exec> 08└─Akamai has been a shit company since at least 2003 when they cancelled a contract [nytimes.com] with the arabic news service Al Jazeera because one of their execs was on the 9-11 flight out of Boston. Their name is unearned.
[00:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sucked Since 2003 - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:04] <exec> 08└─The company's co-founder and chief technology officer, Daniel Lewin, 31, was on American Airlines Flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001, when the plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Go P2P - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:09] <exec> 08└─This is proof we need a way to overlay the web on a P2P system. They go distributed to take centralized servers, we go distributed to put it back up. Also, imagine how big of a botnet these guys must be running. If only they would stick it into the Tor network. Let them sniff the exit nodes, that's...
[00:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DHT BEP 44 - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:18] <exec> 08└─> put a signed site snapshot on gnunet, freenet, ipfs, magnet link, together with a public key to verify it. There is an extension to the DHT (distributed hash table) system that bittorrent uses to enable exactly that sort of verifiable dynamic update. Its BEP 44 [bittorrent.org] and IIRC it works b...
[00:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Is this a victory? - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:20] <exec> 08└─This is being reported in the news, now more people than ever will know who Brian Krebs is. Once the DDoS is over and his site is back online he will get more visitors then ever. What a stupid clickbaity title.
[00:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Results are Always Intentional - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:22] <exec> 08└─> This is being reported in the news, now more people than ever will know who Brian Krebs is. Many of the esteemed minds on this site believe that the results are always intentional. Therefore it is clear that it is the intent of the people doing the DDoS to promote Brian Krebs. Is Krebs DDoSing him...
[00:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benchmarks - 06TV Manufacturers Get their Own Dieselgate Over Power Consumption Tests - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:24] <exec> 08└─My monitor goes to blackscreen-power-saving mode fairly quickly, as soon as it is told to do so by the computer. But it comes alive very quickly if I touch a key.
[00:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benchmarks - 06TV Manufacturers Get their Own Dieselgate Over Power Consumption Tests - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:29] <exec> 08└─One might also include language in the standard to the effect of: "Total energy usage when playing random, previously undisclosed clips, shall not increase more than 20% from the standard clips."
[00:20:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:The important question is . . . - 06500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:18] <exec> 08└─Now, praytell indicate to me how you live in the modern world wihtout giving up your personal information to numerous parties via the internet. Or give it up to companies who then store said information in a way that is accessible via the internet. Or I'd be curious to know if there is additional sp...
[00:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Paywalls - 06Shaping Sound Waves in 3D: Tech and Medical Applications - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:56] <exec> 08└─Suck.
[00:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Awesome title! - 06'Raiders of Found Ark' Decipher Ancient Biblical Scroll, Without Unrolling It - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:10] <exec> 08└─I wish I could take credit for the story title, but it wasn't me... click the "Original Submission" link at the end of the story to see. And, yes, I agree it is a great title! Kudos to the submitter!
[00:21:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02olbigatory..... - 06'Raiders of Found Ark' Decipher Ancient Biblical Scroll, Without Unrolling It - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:12] <exec> 08└─Good evening. Here is the news on Friday, the 27th of Geldof. Archaeologists near Mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is presently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my dar...
[00:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:believed? - 06TAILS Linux 2.6 is Out - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:06] <exec> 08└─> Because distributing spyware is legal [...] In what country is it legal to do so without informed consent? Attempting or gaining access to someone's computer without their consent or knowledge is criminally illegal according to computer crime laws, such as the United States Computer Fraud and Abu...
[00:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:And a better solution is what, exactly? - 06TAILS Linux 2.6 is Out - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't think you were replying to my post. I mainly wanted to inform you that exactly the same concern had been raised and discussed before.
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[01:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Road To Tycho - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:43] <exec> 08└─All tech companies merge with Microsoft by 2047. We're right on track for the Tycho Uprising in 2062.
[01:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Ponder this - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:44] <exec> 08└─When was the last time you saw a buyout do anything to an Internet-based company except send it to the shitheap even quicker than the poor management that made it vulnerable to being bought out in the first place?
[01:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02basic income basic income basic income basic incom - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:46] <exec> 08└─Basic income will eliminate the need for mergers and businesses and money. Basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basic income basi...
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:basic income basic income basic income basic in - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─You exceeded the 140 character limit. Basic income.
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ponder this - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─There are buyouts where the buyer is actually interested in using the technology that the bought company has. Google bought out Android Inc. in 2005, and Google went on to make Android the mobile operating system with the greatest global market share. Such acquisitions are of course the exception ra...
[01:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02I want nothing to do with Google - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:53] <exec> 08└─but it's getting harder and harder as this company is well on its way to owning the entire internet...
[01:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─I am happy yet I have a bitterness against societiy institutions... Denouncing the shit factory were in does not make one a sad puppy....
[01:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02secret researchers get all the pussy - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:08] <exec> 08└─Secret research jobs must be fun to refrain from talking about at parties. You can't discuss your work, but you're paid well, which gets all the ladies moist, because all they care about is the money.
[01:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:go dark - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:27] <exec> 08└─> pubic library somehow I am not surprised it contains porn. Freudian or intentional?
[01:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Azuma halp! - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:34] <exec> 08└─The end of the world is coming. You remember Pharoah 99, correct?
[01:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Where is the update to remove Telemetry? - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:59] <exec> 08└─That's the biggest problem with the telemetry data, I don't think anybody really knows how much is being collected. They certainly don't make it easy for people to understand what's being collected or what they're doing with it. So, I'd be somewhat skeptical of anybody claiming to remove all of it.
[01:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is it safe to install "fixes" now? - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:01] <exec> 08└─Is it safe to install "fixes" in windows 7 now or will I still get a bunch of telemetry crap installed? Will I get tricked into installing windows 10? I hate running windows 7 unpatched but I don't want to install any bad stuff.
[01:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What is GWX anyway? - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:03] <exec> 08└─I've been running Win8.1 this whole time with automatic important updates, and I never once saw any offer to update to Win10. Is it because I unchecked the box for recommended updates? Golly, that was hard.
[01:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Edible - 06In the Wild, Goldfish Turn From Pet to Pest - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:15] <exec> 08└─I've eaten carp in Asia. It tastes fine. Why not eat them here? If it's a nuisance fish, then don't limit a fisherman's catch. It's a good way to control the carp population, given enough hungry people. On the North Shore of Long Island I see Russians, Chinese, Latinos, and other immigrants pull sea...
[01:20:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:The important question is . . . - 06500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:30] <exec> 08└─When one trolls on foxnews forums, is it still a troll? or are you posting rational and reasonable opinions there?
[01:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Still looking for that 'Better Solution' - 06TAILS Linux 2.6 is Out - 1758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:33] <exec> 08└─Man, they are not a spawn of the devil. I told them to their face, as you can read on baum.org, I respect their effort and believe there is a dire need for an OS with exactly the features they advertize. At the same time, I cannot simply walk by when their claims are in such disagreement with their...
[01:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:If you act like a d*** - 06Cops Ahead: Keep Calm and Remain Silent - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:30] <exec> 08└─So, you think they're completely acceptable then? Bottom line here is that they are typically avoidable and they do still have to establish that they have the right for further searches. They don't just stop a line of cars and go through them with a fine tooth comb for violations. So yes, they are q...
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[02:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shit Given - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:42] <exec> 08└─By small number.
[02:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:44] <exec> 08└─
[02:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02living wage living wage living wage living wage - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:56] <exec> 08└─Off-topic, but I'm responding anyways. Basic income is only required when there are no jobs. The only reason why there are no jobs in America is because c-suits destined for Hell, have outsourced it all. Automation is set to start taking away some service jobs, but the industry and reasearch jobs ca...
[02:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:living wage living wage living wage living wage - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:57] <exec> 08└─So brilliant you are, you burn my eyes! There's no motivation to pay a living wage to workers or a basic income to the jobless because both groups have no bargaining power whatsoever. If a worker drone gets uppity or grows old, you fire the fucker, worker becomes the jobless, and jobless starves to...
[02:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Ponder this - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:00] <exec> 08└─Instagram is still alive, and Skype hasn't sunk yet, but you're correct that msot acquisitions end up either as failures or temporary add-ons in other products. Sometimes that's also the goal. But since "journalists" are totally enamored with absurd and abusive twitter man-on-the-street quoting, Goo...
[02:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ponder this - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:03] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is, that Twitter is doing just fine for a company. There are no real alternatives for what Twitter is, people and businesses have embraced it for PR purposes, but it no longer has "growth". That's the actual problem in the avaricious shortsighted c-suite world; A company without stro...
[02:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Ponder this - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, no, they're currently being sued for refactoring how they counted users and not disclosing it so they wouldn't have to show a loss to shareholders.
[02:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Ponder this - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:07] <exec> 08└─Hey, Salesforce wants to by them out, and they can't even do record-locking. [legitimate source - had to use Salesforce.com on the job ] The blind leading the blind.
[02:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want nothing to do with Google - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─I don't see Google on this list of Tier 1 Networks [wikipedia.org]. Hint: the World Wide Web is not the Internet.
[02:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want nothing to do with Google - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:12] <exec> 08└─Because AT&T is so much better.
[02:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want nothing to do with Google - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:14] <exec> 08└─Back in the day you could get free stuff from AT&T with a little trick involving the number 2600. There are other tricks you can do to AT&T today since everything went digital. Haven't you filled your bag of tricks yet? I snicker in your general direction.
[02:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I want nothing to do with Google - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:16] <exec> 08└─Twitter is crap from the get-go, and Salesforce is a good idea mitigated by crap programmers who still haven't figured out 19th century computer science. It's a match made in India. No, Twitter and Salesforce don't "own" anything. They're merely portals for those who think that Dilbert isn't funny t...
[02:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:I want nothing to do with Google - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:19] <exec> 08└─Wonder if Dice has a few billion lying around... I mean, it couldn't happen to a nicer company.
[02:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I want nothing to do with Google - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─They're still having knife and Cock fights in Barrio logan. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
[02:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02The M.O. - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:23] <exec> 08└─This is the reason why I've been posting thus far: Corporate-paid Salesforce encourages their members to make profiles.
[02:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:34] <exec> 08└─If you look at institutions and all you ever see are shit factories then (a) you are bitter as fuck and (b) you are on the path to making things worse. Denounciations without any efforts to implement accountability isn't post-nihilist, its just plain old nihilist. Easy to do, and totally useless.
[02:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:36] <exec> 08└─Just because its not surprising does not make it news. I really appreciate this news story, it makes complaints about these things legitimate instead of having to convince people its something to worry about. Now we can say "see, they knew it was bad and said nothing, evil fucks." Before: "they're e...
[02:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:39] <exec> 08└─Shit, "Just because its not surprising does not mean it isn't news..."
[02:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:secret researchers get all the pussy - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:45] <exec> 08└─The bitterness runs strong in this one, he will make a good manager for the Middletown Arby's. See that he adjusts well to the eunuch treatment, and fit him with a collar for the first 6 months.
[02:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Seems like a bad decision - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 794 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:54] <exec> 08└─No kidding. When you tout your mitigation services like that, actually mitigate an impressively large attack, and then promptly kick the customer off the Internet? That's a corporation you stay away from and don't pay, of which he may not have been, but other corporations ARE. You need somebody that...
[02:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seems like a bad decision - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:59] <exec> 08└─What this tells me is that their infrastructure was near the redline. The think it is better to drop him now and face the bad PR than have someone dial it up and successfully knock him off even with their help. I think that would have ended up hurting them more. Plus, the fact that this was supposed...
[02:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:What is GWX anyway? - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:43] <exec> 08└─Not enough drive space, or not a legit copy of windows, or win 8 and not latest 8.1, or actually windows RT 8.1, or any other number or random things.
[02:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible. - 06In the Wild, Goldfish Turn From Pet to Pest - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:55] <exec> 08└─I used to love foraging for wild fruits and berries as a kid in New England. Wild plums, elderberries, apples, grapes, cherries, blue berries, crab apples, raspberries, blackberries, rhubarb, sassafras, ... We even tapped or maple trees for syrup. Alas, my wife and kids don't feel the same way.
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unintended consequences - 06Salmon Trucking Success Could Open Miles of Historical Spawning Habitat - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─Amazing! AC here, I'm the one that joked about a fish pipeline, but the video you linked is very close to what I was imagining. Even mentions that the "fish cannon" is a replacement for trucking around the dam. Thanks.
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[03:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:41] <exec> 08└─I remember back in the day, one of the supposed advantages of 3D rendering was resolution independence. Sure textures get blurry when you get close, but that is what interpolation is for.
[03:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:42] <exec> 08└─I remember when 3D meant 3D rendering instead of 3D printing or stereoscopic 3D.
[03:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:19] <exec> 08└─And yet flowers blooms in manure and bitterness gives characters to drinks. So is the tao of the nihilist: you can't believe in anything yet you have to believe in nihilism
[03:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02it damn well better harm bees - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:27] <exec> 08└─Look, it's an insecticide. Bees are insects. If the product works as intended and advertised, it kills bees. Did anybody think otherwise? There is no problem here, unless you have a problem with the concept of an insecticide. We could of course eliminate insecticides, thereby causing mass starvation...
[03:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sucked Since 2003 - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:40] <exec> 08└─CloudFlare would have stopped the 911 attacks.
[03:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Go lightweight... - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:45] <exec> 08└─Rusty, is that you?
[03:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:ugh - 06500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:37] <exec> 08└─I love my catch-all e-mail address on my own domain. companyname@domain.ca That way, you can find out when a site get hacked before it even hits the news (looking at you, dropbox).
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[04:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Mao is spinning in his grave - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:49] <exec> 08└─"A pure consumer node has to pay a tax" Communist in name only.
[04:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02doesn't seem to get rid of NIMBYism - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:50] <exec> 08└─The unanimous consent of neighbors mechanism seems likely to cause failure due to NIMBYism, particularly due to the large number of potential neighbors in the real world. It wouldn't take a lot of nodes in a highly connected network to globally block a nuisance service (like a landfill which tends t...
[04:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Shit Given - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:00] <exec> 08└─The number I want is zero. 0 instances of DRM anywhere 0 binaries or blobs in their devices 0 issues with installing other operating systems 0 advertising networks 0 issues with making backup copies of anything with it 0 instances of telemetry and finally, 0 Sony executives escaping justice for infe...
[04:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:05] <exec> 08└─Textures got blurry mainly because they had limited amount of space for textures. The other issue was the limited number of vertices making it impossible to create proper curves. I haven't noticed that much with recent games, I think by sometime in the noughties it wasn't much of an issue. But, then...
[04:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:07] <exec> 08└─So, you're joking, but you know what? There is a limit. And while it's above 360p, we've passed it. If you sit a normal distance from your television (i.e., at least 6 feet), and your screen is smaller than 50 inches or so, you cannot perceive anything more than 720p on that monitor. It's entirely w...
[04:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pissing Contest? Really? - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:09] <exec> 08└─I know you soylent fuckers don't hold yourselves to the highest of standards, but c'mon? Have we really delved so deep into the shit-abyss that this is the kind of fetid drivel you use for a headline?
[04:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Pissing Contest? Really? - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:11] <exec> 08└─Slow down there, buddy. A pissing contest, or pissing match, is a game in which participants compete to see who can urinate the highest, the farthest, or the most accurately. Although the practice is often associated with adolescent boys, women have been known to play the game, and there are litera...
[04:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pissing Contest? Really? - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:13] <exec> 08└─Sure there friend, a pissing match might not be a negative thing, but surely it is a vulgar one eh? Is this really tha sorta thing you folks want the kids to see?
[04:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Reminds me of the post a month ago - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:40] <exec> 08└─The headline was "60% of the people don't know what twitter is". My reply? I know what twitter is, I don't know why twitter is. I still don't know why twitter is. Bunch of brain dead assholes trying to look important to another bunch of brain dead assholes is my best guess.
[04:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Sigh. One more gone. - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:42] <exec> 08└─Twitter is actually one of the things on the Internet that works well - if you have half the sense needed to use it effectively. It's managed to avoid becoming the massive craphole that is Facebook, and has resisted the urge to try and add a thousand and one "features" that add nothing to the actual...
[04:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, I forgot about add, bees like Flowers... And for all the nicotinoïde gloom and doom, I have observed a growing varieties of wild bees pollinating the various fruits and flowers I grow around my house
[04:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:56] <exec> 08└─> And yet flowers blooms in manure and bitterness gives characters to drinks. If you were a real nihilist you'd know that flowers and drinks are inherently pointless. You are just a poser who pretends at a false nihilism because it lets you be lazy and feel righteous.
[04:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dime [1163] (Score:2) 02Re:it damn well better harm bees - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:06] <exec> 08└─You don't think killing bees is going to cause mass starvation? What is it that you think holds our biosphere together?
[04:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Go P2P - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:24] <exec> 08└─I doubt he's popular enough to have enough "seeders" to survive 600Gbps. Peers aren't anonymous in most _high_ bandwidth P2P systems. His seeders will drop his site faster than some can say Akamai. Go count how many seeds there are for even popular torrents. Most people wouldn't want to seed random...
[04:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Nice array of language choices. - 06Codingame Gamifies Coding Education - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:21] <exec> 08└─No real opinion on the concept, but they get points for a few things: 1. No requirement to sign up for anything to see the basic overview/tutorial of the concept. More sites should do this, because requiring a sign-up process can discourage people. Why sign up if you aren't sure you're interested in...
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[05:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pissing Contest? Really? - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:56] <exec> 08└─> Is this really tha sorta thing you folks want the kids to see? Yes. If you don't want kids to see it, then get your own kids.
[05:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Pissing Contest? Really? - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:57] <exec> 08└─I would at most say it is juvenile. Of course it can be vulgar because it's related to urination, but that is generally reserved for something offensive. The idea of some boys playing out in the woods and deciding who can pee the farthest doesn't offend me. I accept that as part of childhood, and na...
[05:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ponder this - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:15] <exec> 08└─I hadn't heard that :) Thanks for telling me.
[05:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. One more gone. - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:28] <exec> 08└─I agree, and many people here who don't like it seem to be carrying around a caricature of Twitter in their minds instead of the possibility is actually represents. The main problem with Twitter is that it's a business, a private website, a corporation, and a closed system. The web needs something *...
[05:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02don't really need bees actually - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:52] <exec> 08└─Most crops do fine without bees. For example, corn is wind pollinated and tomatoes are self-pollinating via flower shape. We use cuttings to propagate potatoes, sweet potatoes, bananas, and plantains. None of these need bees. That said, we currently use the poison and we still have bees. Sure, some...
[05:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Corporate Death Penalty - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:53] <exec> 08└─When will we start striking against these immoral, godless empires of cash?
[05:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Seems like a bad decision - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:01] <exec> 08└─Sure, Akamai was providing him with service "for free". Of course, they did get to say "look, we host Brian Kreb!", which is worth a lot. The attacks got expensive enough that they reconsidered. Fair enough, but it seems like a poor decision. Dropping such a prominent site, because you don't want to...
[05:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Go P2P - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:19:13] <exec> 08└─> Go count how many seeds there are for even popular torrents. Most people wouldn't want to seed random sites and stuff. The laws can make it even more dangerous. Except its not "random sites and stuff." Those popular torrents are limited by the laws, but legit sites like his aren't. A DDoS might e...
[05:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:who hasn't been targeted by hackers? - 06500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:33] <exec> 08└─from a Google press release: In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.
[05:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:You have backups, right? - 06Windows 10 Software Condemned by Which? - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:31] <exec> 08└─This is MS we're talking about. I remember installing Win95 (the first edition, no Explorer) on a system with OS/2. The install went well, didn't even complain when instead of entering the product code, I just hit enter. At the end of the install, Windows announced that a previous operating system w...
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[06:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Graphene supercapacitors are already productized.. - 06Direct Observation of Graphene Decoupling On Cu(111) - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:47] <exec> 08└─Precise control of graphene and carbon nanotube formation has been an ongoing challenge for their widespread adoption into production products.
[06:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:doesn't seem to get rid of NIMBYism - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:56] <exec> 08└─On top of NIMBYism is cronyism. Who owns the land? Who owns the building? Who owns the business? Who owns the companies that supply the business? Oh and the city/county/state can mandate things that must happen. They just happen to favor particular people. Many times where something ends up being mo...
[06:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:doesn't seem to get rid of NIMBYism - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:58] <exec> 08└─Step 1 : Declare political opponents are trolls obstructing the process. Step 2 : ??? Step 3 : Profit!
[06:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Consensus" - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:01] <exec> 08└─n/t
[06:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Consensus" - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:03] <exec> 08└─My consensus says your consensus will bend over and receive an ass raping.
[06:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pissing Contest? Really? - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:21] <exec> 08└─Please. The phrase has become so widely used since at least the 1940s it's practically become an idiom for a pointless, childish, ego-driven competition, which is exactly what this squabble between Microsoft and Sony seems to be.
[06:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice array of language choices. - 06Codingame Gamifies Coding Education - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:31] <exec> 08└─I looked at a couple of the puzzles and noticed one problem with the "hey cool, lots of languages here" approach the site takes. Each puzzle starts with a skeleton file to get you started; sets up namespaces, some variables, gives you an idea of where to go from there. The problem with that is it se...
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[07:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:05] <exec> 08└─Hmm. CADCAM software uses parametric surfaces and solids rather than triangle meshes, which allows for as much precision as you'd care to calculate. Will games eventually go down that path too?
[07:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:08] <exec> 08└─I think you might be underestimating the figures a little. I sit about 7 feet away from a 55 inch TV which is a mid-range Sony 4k set. Watching content at various resolution for me is more like: * 480p - it's an awful blurry mess that my TVs smart scaling works it's hardest to make watchable * 576p...
[07:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2) 02Re:don't really need bees actually - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:19:09] <exec> 08└─So wild plants pollination holds no value to you. Point taken.
[07:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Go P2P - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:19:30] <exec> 08└─Even better then. Count how many seeders for popular _legit_ torrents. That'll show you how few people would be willing to seed his site (and how even fewer would end up seeing his site), which I'd say is a lot less famous than say Ubuntu. Lots of people pay for their download quota. How many will s...
[07:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, but where is the list of safe updates? - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 2523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:01] <exec> 08└─Sure. They're here: https://www.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] https://noscript.net [noscript.net] https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] Seriously, for Windows install the critical security updates (which all the security researchers get exc...
[07:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the 15 commandments - 06'Raiders of Found Ark' Decipher Ancient Biblical Scroll, Without Unrolling It - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:44] <exec> 08└─So now we can figure out what the 5 lost commandments are if the pieces of that tablet that Moses dropped are ever found! In the meantime, we can only guess. Could they be...? 11. Always look on the bright side of life. 12. The scientists got it right, Evolution is how I did it. 13. This page intent...
[07:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02This Is Interesting... - 06'Raiders of Found Ark' Decipher Ancient Biblical Scroll, Without Unrolling It - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─According to TFS: The results were striking. Not only did they obtain a clear and legible text, but it was also found to be the earliest extant fragment of the Hebrew Bible with an identical text to the medieval Masoretic Text used as the standard Hebrew edition today. The Masoretic text serves as t...
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[08:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:doesn't seem to get rid of NIMBYism - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:01] <exec> 08└─Well, that's point of view for you.
[08:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't seem to get rid of NIMBYism - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:03] <exec> 08└─And of course NIMBYism will be surplanted by Libertarianism, where there is no community consensus, and everything is decided either by firepower of a battle of wits, to the pain. (Not to the death, to the pain: We will be sure to use small words so you will be sure to understand!) To the pain means...
[08:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:doesn't seem to get rid of NIMBYism - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:05] <exec> 08└─There's not enough bitterness in this thread. Why don't you fire up your ethanol-fueled account?
[08:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:living wage living wage living wage living wage - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:41] <exec> 08└─By implementing a living wage, you essentially destroy the only redeeming parts of capitalism: markets and price signals. You have distorted the market by introducing a floor below which no labor will take place, and you have destroyed price signals by not allowing products (in this case labor) to b...
[08:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02theater goes on - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:25] <exec> 08└─I guess we're going to get a bunch of this kind of story for the next few years. Notice how the actual conclusions of the study were peripheral to the story? It was instead about Greenpeace's propaganda on the matter. The obvious unstated implication is that the makers of these insecticides knew tha...
[08:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Routing mitigation? - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:59] <exec> 08└─If Krebs is going to turn the site off, can you announce a route that stops the attack? I.e. announce the gateway to his server is 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0 or a private IP address (or the attackers C&C server if know and you're feeling frisky) to stop the attacking systems traffic from being routed. Is th...
[08:20:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02About that offer... - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:10] <exec> 08└─That offer was so hard to refuse that I kind of expected to find a horse's head in my bed one of these days.
[08:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Halfway there - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:22] <exec> 08└─I have heard that Spybot Anti-Beacon does quite well in stopping all telemetry programs. Does anybody here have any experience with this ? Spybot Anti-Beacon is a standalone tool which was designed to block and stop the various tracking (telemetry) issues present in Windows 10. It has since been mod...
[08:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Metric - 06In the Wild, Goldfish Turn From Pet to Pest - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:56] <exec> 08└─What happened to metric system support in news?
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[09:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NIMBY not ever! - 06AT&T "Nears First Field Trials" for Millimetre-wave Network - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:38] <exec> 08└─Power lines carrying millimetre-wave signals, that's gotta cause cancer. Stop giving children cancer!
[09:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03the_olo [1764] (Score:1) 02Re:Graphene supercapacitors are already productize - 06Direct Observation of Graphene Decoupling On Cu(111) - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:47] <exec> 08└─... production products.
[09:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Need to separate the BS from the info in TFA - 06TV Manufacturers Get their Own Dieselgate Over Power Consumption Tests - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:21] <exec> 08└─The tone of this is more nefarious than what the evidence provided suggests. Volkswagen was caught deliberately deceiving the system, and to boot they were proudly promoting how clean their diesel technology was. What is presented here falls far short of that. They need to describe what this "test l...
[09:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02The way ahead? - 06TAILS Linux 2.6 is Out - 3296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:03] <exec> 08└─While I think that your aims are laudable, I believe that they are misdirected. The problems with producing open source software drivers are many. Firstly, you mention the fact that reverse engineering is illegal in your own country. Fortunately, this appears to be limited to a very small number of...
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[10:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Great article! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe most people won't pay attention, but this sort of wriggling on the hook will weaken the case against Snowden. It's like free advertising for that movie.
[10:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02What we call this - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:21] <exec> 08└─What we call this around these parts: Tyranny of the Masses. This is precisely why we do not have a direct democracy and why the senate has two members per state regardless of population. The founders saw this particular bit of oppression coming waaaay ahead of time.
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[11:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vote for Jill - 06Questions For The Candidates - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:39] <exec> 08└─How soon should I expect my Basic Income?
[11:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Great article! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:47] <exec> 08└─I wasn't going to comment on this story because I know Snowden is a hero, and many regular Soylentils know where I stand on the issue of NSA police state surveillance. But silence can be mistaken for apathy, too, and bolster arguments that nobody cares about his fate or the deep crimes he uncovered....
[11:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Of course Snowden is Perfect - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:49] <exec> 08└─Just look at how smoking hot the man is. A good looking guy like Snowden can't possibly have any skeletons in his closet.
[11:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course Snowden is Perfect - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:52] <exec> 08└─Lynndie England was good-looking too, but they threw the book at her. Meanwhile ugly Bush and Cheney go scot-free.
[11:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course Snowden is Perfect - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:54] <exec> 08└─Well yes obviously that's the entire point of .... Ah hell. Where's that story about Chelsea Manning? Now she's no Snowden.
[11:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What we call this - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:25] <exec> 08└─It's too bad the founders didn't foresee the problem of the imperial president who ignores congress and rules by executive order. It's too bad there were historical precedents they should have known about like those wacky roman emperors who ignored the senate. It's too bad the united kingdom eventua...
[11:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What we call this - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:26] <exec> 08└─while also making the prime minister answerable to parliament.
[11:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What we call this - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:28] <exec> 08└─In practice, the Prime Minister is a Member of Parliament. In practice, the Cabinet is composed of Members of Parliament. In practice, the Executive is a subset of the Legislature.
[11:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:19:35] <exec> 08└─Post is Latin for "after", dearie. A post-nihilist is no longer nihilist.
[11:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes... and - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:19:38] <exec> 08└─10. Associate opponent charges with old news.
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[12:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Sadly missing - 06Questions For The Candidates - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:46] <exec> 08└─"Will you, as president, direct your Attorney General to vigorously prosecute the rich and powerful who commit serious crimes, such as ordering torture of prisoners or banking fraud on unimaginably huge scales?" That's one of the bigger problems facing the country today, and as best as I can tell ne...
[12:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sadly missing - 06Questions For The Candidates - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:48] <exec> 08└─The answer to that is simple... NO! The reason is also simple... because "the rich and powerful who commit serious crimes, such as ordering torture of prisoners or banking fraud" are also the very same bureaucrats working for government that are responsible to the president's administration. You may...
[12:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02alternative - 06Questions For The Candidates - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:50] <exec> 08└─What specific steps would you take (if any) to combat pollution?
[12:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02None - 06Questions For The Candidates - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:52] <exec> 08└─The problem with either of the major candidates is the answer you get going in will most likely bear no relation to the answer once in office. Neither is strongly principled, so in many respects they will mirror the disappointment of Obama (or Bush for that matter): even the best of intentions going...
[12:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course Snowden is Perfect - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:04] <exec> 08└─I dunno guise, but in my expert opinion, it's best to go with the cock. Don't get me wrong, she's a pretty fine blonde herself! At least a 7/10. But yeah, kinda hard to rock the goatee after transitioning. Damn shame (not that it doesn't take courage!). I wish more guise would value the facial hair.
[12:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The nail in the coffin... - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:05] <exec> 08└─...will be when the "Thinking of the Children and Protecting the Freedom and Liberty of America Act" comes into force, which contains a clause that sentences Snowden to death.
[12:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02reading between the lines - 06AT&T "Nears First Field Trials" for Millimetre-wave Network - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:14] <exec> 08└─We designed Project AirGig literally from the ground up to be both practical and transformational.
[12:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What we call this - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:41] <exec> 08└─The Gang of Thieves in DC has no interest in prosecuting one of its members. That might lead to other members being prosecuted as well. Better to go along and keep the gravy train rolling for all. Else, they might have to work for a living and actually earn their bread, instead of having an unlimite...
[12:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What we call this - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:43] <exec> 08└─I'd note that if Bush & Cheney and Obama weren't impeached for their crimes, then no president ever will be.
[12:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:56] <exec> 08└─No love for POV-ray [povray.org]?
[12:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Reminds me of the post a month ago - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:36] <exec> 08└─Journalists, is the answer you're looking for. A pack of semi-literate twitch monkeys who like the 140 character limit because writing full articles is hard, man. Also, it's, like, instant. You're there at the sweet party, hobnobbing with the 1%, and you get some chick's digits and BAM! you tweet it...
[12:19:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02Re:Sigh. One more gone. - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 1367 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:38] <exec> 08└─I agree, and many people here who don't like it seem to be carrying around a caricature of Twitter in their minds instead of the possibility is actually represents. The main problem with Twitter is that it's a business, a private website, a corporation, and a closed system. The web needs something *...
[12:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:The important question is . . . - 06500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:46] <exec> 08└─Leave. jmorris. Alone.
[12:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Title Case Strikes Again! - 06Windows 10 Software Condemned by Which? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:15] <exec> 08└─It might be better off without the word "software" as well, as it sounds like it could be something that runs on Windows 10 is the problem, rather than Windows 10 itself.
[12:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Impossible - 06NASA Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud On Titan -- Again - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:29] <exec> 08└─That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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[13:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:49] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is if there is anyone worth voting for so we don't have to choose between evil green alien Kang and evil green alien Kodos here. Of course, I am aware there are technically a couple of names, but when the conspiring media gives almost absolutely zero mention of these people, how...
[13:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:50] <exec> 08└─Look up Stein [ontheissues.org]/Johnson [ontheissues.org]/Istvan [ontheissues.org] using a simple Google search. If you can't figure out who to vote for after looking at each ontheissues page for 60 seconds, you should just write in Mickey Mouse or leave that space blank. Go research your state's ba...
[13:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:2) 02National Debt - 06Questions For The Candidates - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:52] <exec> 08└─HRC had a net worth of -$8M in 2001, and is now worth $31M. Trump has used bankruptcy courts to restructure debts and is worth $4.5B. The US GDP is currently at $16.8T, with its debt at $17.8T. What would you do to address it?
[13:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Debt - 06Questions For The Candidates - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:54] <exec> 08└─Are you asking the two candidates to chip in from their personal wealth to help pay down the national debt? I like it.
[13:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course Snowden is Perfect - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:07] <exec> 08└─In other words you'd sooner do Bradley Manning than Chelsea? Don't tell her that, she already tried to kill herself and she's getting 2 weeks in solitary for it.
[13:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The nail in the coffin... - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:10] <exec> 08└─In absentia? Or by a Seal Team Six extracurricular field trip?
[13:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The nail in the coffin... - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:12] <exec> 08└─A torrent of ICBMs raining down on Moscow, because he embarrassed us really bad.
[13:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Hey, about that Gellman! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:14] <exec> 08└─How cool is it that the best debunking of this report-shaped pile of horseshit comes from someone who thinks Snowden screwed the pooch and probably should be stuck in a hole until the end of time? Note to members of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - you do no good for anyon...
[13:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score:2) 02from the folks that brought you room 641A... - 06AT&T "Nears First Field Trials" for Millimetre-wave Network - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:24] <exec> 08└─From the company that brought you room 641A [wikipedia.org], you can now drive down any roadway and know whether the guy in the next car is exercising his concealed carry rights or just happy to see you with AT&T Street Scan (tm) Millimeter Wave Screening Service [wikipedia.org]! But wait, there...
[13:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I remember when Atari Pong came out. - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:17] <exec> 08└─It fascinated me for minutes. Can't wait to see it in glorious 3.84K resolution.
[13:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:it damn well better harm bees - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:17] <exec> 08└─Plants grow just fine without insecticide. Appropriate rotation, breeding programs, and exploitation of edge effects (which by necessity means moving away from vast monocultures, which are one of the main reasons for many of the problems facing industrial farming) make it very easy to be productive...
[13:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:theater goes on - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:20] <exec> 08└─> The obvious unstated implication is that the makers of these insecticides knew that there was something wrong with their chemicals even though their research doesn't show that. from the Guardian article: The newly revealed studies show Syngenta’s thiamethoxam and Bayer’s clothianidin seriousl...
[13:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a victory? - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:54] <exec> 08└─This is being reported in the news, now more people than ever will know who Brian Krebs is
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[14:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:2) 02Re:National Debt - 06Questions For The Candidates - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:53] <exec> 08└─Heh. It is the most upsetting thing to me int he current political landscape. Both major candidates have decided that "debt is bad" int heir personal lives. The Fiscal Times indicates: "The gross national debt as a share of the overall economy is expected to remain relatively flat over the coming 10...
[14:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey, about that Gellman! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:12] <exec> 08└─Weakness is strength. Please report for your hour of Hate. We will properly re-educate you after a brief visit at the Ministry of Love.
[14:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:08] <exec> 08└─I strongly suspect that the reason for this is that TV manufacturers have no incentive to put good scaling chips in their monitors. They want you to believe that the best is the highest resolution, so deliberately cheap out (or sabotage in software) how lower resolution signals are upscaled and disp...
[14:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dime [1163] 02Re:it damn well better harm bees - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:11] <exec> 08└─You don't think killing bees is going to cause mass starvation? What is it that you think holds our biosphere together?
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[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─Marching causes midshipmen to spontaneously sing "I don' t know but I've been told."
[15:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Best headline - 06Melatonin Controls the Singing of Midshipman Fish - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:48] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure this story will have the best headline to appear in my RSS feed this weekend.
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sadly missing - 06Questions For The Candidates - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:59] <exec> 08└─That's a softball question and you can imagine the answers you'll get. That's like asking a job candidate "what if you're trying to close a multimillion dollar sale, and a representative on the customer side asks you to do something illegal?" What counts is performance.
[15:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alternative - 06Questions For The Candidates - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:01] <exec> 08└─> "anthropogenic climate change", which is just an abstracted long-term copout to justify spending more taxpayer dollars begging the question, you are doing it
[15:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:None - 06Questions For The Candidates - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─well this is the main problem with out current system - you can say anything and there is no legally binding mechanism to hold you to your promise. Of course, this might also explain why there is such vitriol - neither side can make any rosier promise than "we'll improve everything" that doesn't sou...
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Debt - 06Questions For The Candidates - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:11] <exec> 08└─Then we should've elected Mitt.
[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Immigration - 06Questions For The Candidates - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─1. Do you think we should ramp up our efforts to stop undocumented immigrants from entering our country? And what should we do with those that are already here? 2. Do you favor continuation of guest worker immigration programs such as H1B and H2B? Should there be additional restrictions?
[15:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Great article! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 1879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:24] <exec> 08└─My basic take on Obama: His biggest problem is that he largely accepted constraints from people who had no real right to put those constraints on him (including, but not limited to, the spooks from the TLAs). For example, I'm reasonably certain that candidate Obama really did intend to free everybod...
[15:18:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] 02Hey, about that Gellman! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:34] <exec> 08└─How cool is it that the best debunking of this report-shaped pile of horseshit comes from someone who thinks Snowden screwed the pooch and probably should be stuck in a hole until the end of time? Note to members of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - you do no good for anyon...
[15:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02How about WaPo? - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─(snowden-related but somewhat off-topic, admitted. Came across this and felt like ranting about it - this story provides a sufficient excuse). The Washington Post recently ran an editorial [washingtonpost.com] calling for prosecution of Snowden. They hold this view because they claim he published se...
[15:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Awesome! - 06AT&T "Nears First Field Trials" for Millimetre-wave Network - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:48] <exec> 08└─Soon you'll be able to run through your data cap in minutes! [att.com]
[15:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:35] <exec> 08└─I have a mid range Sony Bravia set which comes with a pretty impressive scaler. It's not one of the cheap brand things you get from Best Buy. I'll look into running that test, since I have my PC hooked up via a nice long HDMI cable, it should be easy enough to do. For me, what I'm mostly noticing 72...
[15:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Doing fine? Don't think so... - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:02] <exec> 08└─I don't have the impression that Twitter is "doing fine". They have a lot of users, but they haven't figured out how to make money. Despite attempts to diguise their finances, it seems pretty clear that they are losing money hand-over-fist. Add to that the overuse of the ban-hammer. You don't have t...
[15:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score:1) 02Re:Along with Disagree, Touché - 06TV Manufacturers Get their Own Dieselgate Over Power Consumption Tests - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─I second that, whole-heartedly.
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Need to separate the BS from the info in TFA - 06TV Manufacturers Get their Own Dieselgate Over Power Consumption Tests - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─It depends upon what the test loop actually is. If it is running a pattern that is easy to render than what would typically be run, then it simply might be the test. If all the manufacturers seem to run with less power when running the test loop, then they could all be cheating, or it might be the t...
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[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02google is the 'short attention span' company - 06Google to Launch its Own Wi-Fi Router (Again!) - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─of the century. they ALWAYS lose interest in things they work on, especially hardware. why anyone would fall for yet another google harware scheme is beyond me. some people just like to inflict punishment on themselves, I guess. even 'real' hardware vendors are not doing a great job, these days. wha...
[16:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Free Sh*t Army is representing today! - 06Questions For The Candidates - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:20] <exec> 08└─Wow, the FSA is up early today. Shouldn't you guys be sleeping in on a Saturday?
[16:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Sadly missing - 06Questions For The Candidates - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:24] <exec> 08└─I can imagine the answers I'd get, but I also have to imagine they'll piss off some donors in the backrooms when they give those answers, and will at the very least be on the record as supporting that move. Of course that's entirely a different matter from actually following through, but right now t...
[16:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:alternative - 06Questions For The Candidates - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:28] <exec> 08└─I thought Nox and SOx were already reduced in order to combat acid rain. CO2 is much more persistent in the atmosphere.
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Debt - 06Questions For The Candidates - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─> Both major candidates have decided that "debt is bad" int heir personal lives. If what's good for individuals must be good for the country, then the reverse should also be true, right? Therefore people should also have the right to print money, to judge others guilty of crimes and incarcerate them...
[16:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Why Bother? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:41] <exec> 08└─Trump will tell you whatever he thinks you want to hear. There is not much point in asking that guy anything. Clinton's positions on pretty much everything are on her website. Watching a debate is like watching NASCAR. The only questions worth asking as the ones that might induce the candidates to c...
[16:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─If only there were more than 2 candidates running...
[16:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:3, Informative) 02Not questions - 06Questions For The Candidates - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:46] <exec> 08└─How will you minimize the domestic threat of home-grown terrorists?
[16:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Can the NYT Google? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:48] <exec> 08└─If the submitter/editor had anyone bright enough to use Google (and even the history of articles here I think....) they could have had answers on the AGW issue and 19 other semi-science type questions from all four candidates. See ScienceDebate.org [sciencedebate.org]. :) Most of the rest are answer...
[16:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course Snowden is Perfect - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:03] <exec> 08└─Baby, I'd show them all a good time! That's the benefit of swinging both ways! Suicide? Wouldn't even come up. Just need to get them some $5 milk shakes.
[16:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:05] <exec> 08└─They already have. It is called tessellation.
[16:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─I suspect that 4k gives you higher dynamic range, not extra resolution. It is essentially the equivalent to dithering, Though 1080p on a 42" TV is definitely blurry at 1-2 feet (the viewing distance my brother uses due to vision problems).
[16:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems like a bad decision - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:38] <exec> 08└─That's a corporation you stay away from and don't pay, of which he may not have been, but other corporations ARE. You need somebody that would stick with you to the end, not just drop you once the going gets a little tough. Akamai did itself no favors with this terrible, terrible, PR move.
[16:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Another Ars article - 06DDoS Against Brian Krebs Scores a Victory: KrebsOnSecurity is Offline - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:40] <exec> 08└─It's hard to imagine a stronger form of censorship than these DDoS attacks because if nobody wants to take you on for free then that's pretty effective censorship," Krebs told Ars on Friday. "I've had a couple of big companies offer and then think better of offering to help me. That's been frustrati...
[16:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:2) 02Glass of water - 06Shaping Sound Waves in 3D: Tech and Medical Applications - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:58] <exec> 08└─The only step missing here is a way to rapidly and dynamically create the [plastic] relief plate necessary. Perhaps this could be done with a material which rapidly, and at a high resolution, reacts to heating? Add an additional glass of water with some micro-particles dust strewn in, and presto: a...
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[17:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Medicine IgNobel should go to Theranos - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:41] <exec> 08└─And CEO Elizabeth Holmes, for their grit and determination in uncovering several dozen ways in which reliable testing of pinprick blood samples won't work.
[17:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Me - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:43] <exec> 08└─I would have chosen myself because I'm corrupt.
[17:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Me - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:45] <exec> 08└─That seems amazingly reasonable for the Ig Nobel prizes.
[17:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MIss Sweetie Poo Says... - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─"Please stop. I'm bored!" [youtube.com]
[17:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:3, Informative) 02How does Google know where I am? - 06Google to Launch its Own Wi-Fi Router (Again!) - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:56] <exec> 08└─After reading the title of this story, I couldn't help thinking about this discussion: How does Google know where I am? [stackexchange.com] .......................................and further discussion here [ycombinator.com]. It may be useful reading for those of you who have an interest in privacy...
[17:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02We are Here for You - 06Questions For The Candidates - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:13] <exec> 08└─We are here to haul off all the bullshit you so generously provide for free.
[17:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:Sadly missing - 06Questions For The Candidates - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:16] <exec> 08└─s/foot/head/
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:27] <exec> 08└─I agree with your basic voting strategy. I'm probably voting for a dead revolutionary this year. I was thinking about swallowing the Johnson, but there's something really pathetic about a libertarian who supports the TPP. I really just wanted to add that ontheissues doesn't sum up Zoltan Istvan very...
[17:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:28] <exec> 08└─Look up Stein/Johnson/Istvan using a simple Google search. If you can't figure out who to vote for after looking at each ontheissues page for 60 seconds, you should just write in Mickey Mouse or leave that space blank. Go research your state's ballot initiatives and your state/local races. If none o...
[17:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:National Debt - 06Questions For The Candidates - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:35] <exec> 08└─Trump has used bankruptcy courts to restructure debts and is worth $4.5B
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:41] <exec> 08└─There are more than two candidates running in the race. But there are only two candidates who can finish the race.
[17:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the NYT Google? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:45] <exec> 08└─That last one is simply an insult no serious person should even respect the questioner for asking. There actually are stupid questions and that is one and stupid people who ask them.
[17:18:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Great article! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:54] <exec> 08└─I wasn't going to comment on this story because I know Snowden is a hero, and many regular Soylentils know where I stand on the issue of NSA police state surveillance. But silence can be mistaken for apathy, too, and bolster arguments that nobody cares about his fate or the deep crimes he uncovered....
[17:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:03] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what texture mipmapping solved? A range of textures depending on the proximity of the viewer to the texture? This stuff isn't limited by anything other than the processing power, and you can render any resolution you like. But without the back-end video memory to hold all the textures (in...
[17:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 2997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:10] <exec> 08└─I was absolutely IN AWE of the resolution of my 1024x768 monitor when I put a WinTV card in it and watched bog-standard, pre-HD analog video (which would have been PAL in my area) on it. It was crisp, sharp, amazingly clear, even when "scaled". My eyesight hasn't improved in the 20 years since then,...
[17:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:12] <exec> 08└─4k is for programmers. [tsotech.com] I use a 4k, 39" TV as a computer monitor at 2-3 ft distance. With the higher resolution, new usage patterns become possible.
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[18:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02What - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:47] <exec> 08└─Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt
[18:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Clinton/Trump - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:59] <exec> 08└─I think we can all support this year's US Presidential candidates, for making it impossible for the masses to any longer ignore that the system is the corrupt absurd farce it has long been.
[18:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Clinton/Trump - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:00] <exec> 08└─You can't have it both ways. First, all the whining was about the corrupt establishment keeping outsiders at bay and only letting "the sheeple" choose from the candidates they allow. Now, here comes this outsider Trump who has given a big middle finger to the Republicans, and he won their nomination...
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Clinton/Trump - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─The corrupt establishment is still keeping outsiders Johnson and Stein at bay, by locking them out of the debates. They've polled at times above 10% even while the system is pretending they don't exist. Imagine how much better they'd be doing if they were getting equal time and attention from the, w...
[18:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, Thanks. - 06Google to Launch its Own Wi-Fi Router (Again!) - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:12] <exec> 08└─At first, I fell for the "come join us, invitation only!" gmail campaign. Cheapest trick in the book: made me feel special,and I thought I was getting disentangled from Microsoft-like monopolies. If only I knew the things to be shoved down the throat. Then, I fell for Chrome. Thankfully I sandboxed...
[18:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02So, like humans? - 06Melatonin Controls the Singing of Midshipman Fish - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─Mating in midshipman fishes depends on auditory communication. Male midshipman fish produce several different vocalizations while females only make grunts in non-breeding situations.
[18:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:alternative - 06Questions For The Candidates - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:42] <exec> 08└─Indeed, compared to the filthy air that had not only those oxides but lead when I was a kid, the air is sparkling clean these days. What about the mass extinction [wikipedia.org] that we seem to be on the brink of causing? [earthsky.org]
[18:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:48] <exec> 08└─I agree with your basic voting strategy. I'm probably voting for a dead revolutionary this year
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:51] <exec> 08└─Mod parent informative.
[18:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─I'd like the other three to be asked "What would you do about Aleppo?" I think Johnson's answer disqualifies him. He answered "What's Aleppo?"
[18:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:56] <exec> 08└─Asking questions shouldn't disqualify you.
[18:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─Not knowing about that city does.
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Not questions - 06Questions For The Candidates - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:10] <exec> 08└─Presumes. You apparently presume that the government should not have anything to do with medicine, so I presume you know little history and even less of other countries' experiences. Why do you presume the "free market" should have anything to do with medicine when there's no way healthcare can poss...
[18:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the NYT Google? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 1953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:14] <exec> 08└─More like rejecting the premise. Anyone who is still asking questions at this late stage probably hasn't been paying attention. We have decades of history on Mrs. Clinton and the monster who she has slunk in the wake of to get this close to the power she craves. She has not only taken positions (whi...
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the NYT Google? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─More like completely missing the point.
[18:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great article! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:26] <exec> 08└─If Snowden comes back, a pardon ain't gonna save him. He'll end up floating in the lake just like William Colby.
[18:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How about WaPo? - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:40] <exec> 08└─Just to make it clear: the editorial is by The Editorial Board of the Washington Post, allegedly representing "The Post's View". Yeah, that is nice and fucked up.
[18:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:How about WaPo? - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:41] <exec> 08└─When media outlets change hands, as the WaPo did in the second half of 2013, editorial stances can change. Jeff Bezos may have them cheering for the establishment on some things so he can hammer them on issues that would hurt Amazon. It was alleged that GE bought RCA in the 1980s in part to gain con...
[18:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 2106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─The 4k Sony Bravia I am watching on does have high dynamic range and I can't recommend that enough. Anyone should be able to pick out the better saturation of colours and the wider range from black to white - particularly in dark scenes. I've watched a few series now with 1080p 10bit h265 encodes an...
[18:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Re:360p is enough for anyone - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 1768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sitting a little over 6 feet from a 55 inch TV, so my viewing experience isn't the same as yours sitting god knows how far from a 32 inch screen. The screen is quite probably larger in my field of view than you are used to. I'm working on writing a game now, so I have a few opinions on 4k gaming...
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[19:17:49] <exec> 08└─It was this bit of the sorry tale that got me: Studies have found that solitary confinement leads to increased risks of self-harm.
[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:50] <exec> 08└─This is the USA. Exposing the crimes of others is a crime, as is trying to kill your self. So the question is: is this sentence punishment for attempting to kill herself? I sure hope its not intended as correctional since there is evidence its counter productive in that area. Maybe its supposed to b...
[19:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02some people maybe, others not so much - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─Prisoners sometimes want to be alone, and have even killed cellmates in order to get this. Given the above, plus things like butt rape and teeth knocked out and eyes gouged out, I'd be terrified to share a cell. I would never be able to sleep. Lack of sleep causes all sorts of mental problems, inclu...
[19:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02That'll learn her - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:54] <exec> 08└─Her life sucks enough she wants to end it. So the logical response is to make her life suck ever harder. Logic, how does it work again?
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Pure idiocy - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:56] <exec> 08└─There is a strange logic to the US prison system. Prison can drive people to become suicidal. So, what do they do? They punish prisoners who try to off themselves by putting them into a situation that often drives people to suicide. I don't know about you, but if I had to spend two weeks alone in a...
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pure idiocy - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─It's only cruel and unusual punishment if /they/ do it to /us/. Never when /we/ do it to /them/... because /we/'re the good guys, of course
[19:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Clinton/Trump - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:13] <exec> 08└─Your nomination would get my vote. Twenty years ago, I would have laughed at a "Saturday Night Live" episode that accurately portrayed this election(w/o their usual irony, sarcasm, and satirical comedy ploys) as being over the top ludicrousness.ROFLMAO Now, there's no laughing, only incredulous WTF?...
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, like humans? - 06Melatonin Controls the Singing of Midshipman Fish - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─You really.can tell it's springtime in Los Angeles based upon the bass density...
[19:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:58] <exec> 08└─Fidel Castro?
[19:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:05] <exec> 08└─That's a terrible policy. About the same as saying people aren't allowed to learn from their mistakes because if they make a mistake they're fired. I prefer people who ask questions when they don't know something.
[19:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Not questions - 06Questions For The Candidates - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:18] <exec> 08└─Medicine is not a scarce resource. Nothing prevents it from being free market besides public policy.
[19:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02yet more questions: - 06Questions For The Candidates - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:24] <exec> 08└─"The Nation" also has a list of questions: https://www.thenation.com [thenation.com] Another interesting read (same site): https://www.thenation.com
[19:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02oblig. - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:50] <exec> 08└─How can you tell if a politician is lying? His/her lips are moving.
[19:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What we call this - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:31] <exec> 08└─My God! You mean Oklahoma has two Senators? Is the other one as crazy as the "snowball proves Global Warming is wrong because, Jesus" one?
[19:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dime [1163] (Score:2) 02Re:don't really need bees actually - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:06] <exec> 08└─You're insane. We can not support our population without pesticide, despite organic fantasies. People would starve. Billions would die.
[19:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Benchmarks - 06TV Manufacturers Get their Own Dieselgate Over Power Consumption Tests - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─What is with SOs? Mine is perfectly willing to throw money away on a Netflix subscription, and rent from RedBox and buy from Amazon. And she still whines that I won't also pay for cable TV for her. She thinks the police are going to drag me off to prison someday for piracy. Her concern for the envir...
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[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:some people maybe, others not so much - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:56] <exec> 08└─Solitary confinement doesn't mean that you get your own cell. High level prisoners like Chelsea Manning are probably already in individual cells. Solitary confinement means that they cut you off from all human contact in order to punish you. You can't even talk to a person in the next cell. They tak...
[20:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Troll) 02You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─This is madness on so many levels. 1. Why isn't HE dead already? We used to shoot traitors. When America is great again we will. 2. Who thought it was a good idea to go along with the delusions of the mentally ill? Next guy says he is Napoleon are we supposed to let him rule France? Where do we draw...
[20:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─You're complaining that Manning will receive sex change surgery? Think about it this way: When was the last time the US got to cut a traitor's dick off? Also, a neutered Manning will be a docile Manning. If only the US could do this more often...
[20:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:05] <exec> 08└─> You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. > > This is madness on so many levels. > 1. Why isn't HE dead already? We used to shoot traitors. When America is great again we will. Thank you for saying that. I've been wondering why TRump isn't dead already too.
[20:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 2256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:07] <exec> 08└─Often I see your comments and roll my eyes. Today I will answer, even if for nothing but to try to train my rhetorical skills in defeating your kind of fascist reasoning. It seems it is getting useful these days. Ironic. Response to 1: What does the USA being great, have to do with executions? Execu...
[20:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good rebuttal--as far as you went - 06Questions For The Candidates - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:59] <exec> 08└─...and extra credit for your correct use of begging the question. [wikipedia.org] Now, you could have taken the argument a bit further and mentioned the overlapping data sets [wikipedia.org] which all support the same conclusion. You might have also mentioned that the people whose profession is anal...
[20:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your previous acknowledgment of Jill Stein - 06Questions For The Candidates - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:09] <exec> 08└─a libertarian who supports the TPP Earlier this month, you and I were involved in a related discussion. [soylentnews.org] ...to which I responded with a link to an infographic about Dr. Stein. [blogspot.com] If your goal is simply *less* gov't, maybe she isn't your cup of tea. If what you want is **...
[20:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:17] <exec> 08└─No it doesn't. Wanting to have the American military involved in Syria, and especially doing so without a declaration of war from congress, disqualifies a person from being president. Not knowing about a city in Syria when your policy is "we shouldn't be getting involved in foreign wars" is not real...
[20:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump's wealth - 06Questions For The Candidates - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:25] <exec> 08└─Once he releases his tax returns, we can know for sure what he's worth. Don't hold your breath waiting for that. A significant portion of Trump's "wealth" comes from licensing his name. He had 4 casinos with his name on them and all of those declared bankruptcy. IOW, he couldn't make money owning ca...
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03harmless [1048] (Score:1) 02Doing fine? - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:39] <exec> 08└─Well, your definition of "doing fine" seems to significantly differ from mine: http://www.marketwatch.com [marketwatch.com] They lost over half a million dollar each year for three years now. They never made money; only burned through it. The problem with Twitter is,...
[20:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do product key transfers still work? - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─Or just use remove WAT and never be bothered by it. Altho notepad still whines it's not genuine.
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benchmarks - 06TV Manufacturers Get their Own Dieselgate Over Power Consumption Tests - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─> What is with SOs? Have you tried asking her, and then listening, rather than informing her that she's being dumb? Maybe, just maybe there is something you are missing. Nah. Women are stupid.
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[21:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Lithium-ion batteries? - 06Amazon Has Been Fined £65,000 for Trying to Fly Dangerous Goods in Europe - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:47] <exec> 08└─By this law, almost everyone on a passenger plane is guilty. Why the selective enforcement?
[21:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Lithium-ion batteries? - 06Amazon Has Been Fined £65,000 for Trying to Fly Dangerous Goods in Europe - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe because the passengers are also fire alarms and suppression systems? There is at least a chance that people can deal with it, and I think batteries have caught on fire before in the air. I would also say that they know if the battery is in good condition or not. When you have shipping though,...
[21:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:That'll learn her - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:02] <exec> 08└─the US govt is basically going full-retard. trying for a divide-by-zero level of crazy. really sad that our leadership doubles down on their 'blame the messenger' level of stupid.
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''every reliable study'' - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─very expensive cosmetic surgery that every reliable study shows is more likely to do more harm than good If it's such a mainstream position, it seems that you cold have linked to support for your opinion. ...or is it that the studies that don't correlate with your extreme opinions simply aren't "rel...
[21:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''every reliable study'' - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:11] <exec> 08└─> ...or is it that the studies that don't correlate with your extreme opinions simply aren't "reliable"? He means "reliably bullshit."
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:13] <exec> 08└─1. Why isn't HE dead already? We used to shoot traitors. When America is great again we will.
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─Mentally ill CTR puppets and hand wringers that try, poorly, to associate Trump to red flag negatives like you're doing does not have that strong of an effect. I hope your CTR paycheck bounces.
[21:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Pardon - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:18] <exec> 08└─Manning and Snowden should receive pardons. They've done more for the American public than the entirety of the Congress in the last 8 years.
[21:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Your previous acknowledgment of Jill Stein - 06Questions For The Candidates - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─If your goal is simply *less* gov't, maybe she isn't your cup of tea. If what you want is **better** gov't, I think she is a viable choice.
[21:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Debt - 06Questions For The Candidates - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:36] <exec> 08└─That is like asking someone who owns a home and a car with a bit of cash in the bank and a small amount of debt what they are worth. My personal value value fluctuates by nearly +/-3000 dollars PER day. I have enough assets for it do something like that. Non liquid assets. Liquid assets tend to be m...
[21:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump Net Worth Only about $200M - 06Questions For The Candidates - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:38] <exec> 08└─Trump spent over a million dollars to lose a libel lawsuit against a business reporter who claimed Trump was only worth ~$200M. [washingtonpost.com] The thing about Trump is that he might have assets valued in the billions. But that guy's got debt. Maybe more than half billion in debt. [politico.com...
[21:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What we call this - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:57] <exec> 08└─didn't foresee the problem of the imperial president who ignores congress They did. Then congress and the senate abdicated their roll to the president slowly over the years. In fact with the previous version of our constitution they gave a lot of power to the president of the senate (now what we cal...
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[22:17:50] <exec> 08└─Lithium ion batteries are explicately allowed in the passenger compartment as long as they're not held in bulk (there's a limit per person, though that isn't often enforced). The cargo deck is different since it may not be accessible easily from the passenger deck, and even if it is, by time a fire...
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 0264k? - 06Amazon Has Been Fined £65,000 for Trying to Fly Dangerous Goods in Europe - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─could they not have made it 65535, just for grins? or even 65536 for even more grins? I would have. no doubt about it.
[22:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:What - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:03] <exec> 08└─> This is the USA Thanks for pointing that out, because I could have easily believed it was 19th Century London. No snark to parent poster intended, I am literally saying that this reads like some Victorian institution. I wonder, can one pay a dollar to come and laugh at the loonies?
[22:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Hillary will make that priority #1, I'm sure.
[22:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:20] <exec> 08└─When America is great again we will.
[22:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Re:Pardon - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:23] <exec> 08└─What blows my mind is Hillary's negligent email handling could have exposed just as many secrets and yet she isn't getting punished at all.
[22:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''will grant Chelsea Manning's request'' - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:25] <exec> 08└─TFS doesn't mention (though the linked article does) that that followed Manning's 5-day hunger strike. Additionally, neither TFS nor that linked article mentions that the military made a related decision with broader implications for other military personnel seeking the same treatment. Pentagon to...
[22:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03korla_plankton [1597] (Score:1) 02of course - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─The beatings will continue until morale improves!
[22:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Limit of mipmapping - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:28] <exec> 08└─Mipmapping isn't enough when the camera comes so close to a surface that even the largest texture in a set gets stretched. For example, every console since the Nintendo 64 has supported mipmapping in some form, but Goldeneye 007 for N64 still gets blurry as fcuk when facing a wall because the larges...
[22:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Doing fine? Don't think so... - 06Twitter Reportedly in Talks With Google, Salesforce for Potential Sale - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:06] <exec> 08└─In case anyone missed it, Instapundit was banned for the tweet "run them over" in response to rioters blocking the highway. He was blunt, and entirely right: if your vehicle is surrounded by rioters, you do not stop, or the rioters will break your windows and drag you out of the vehicle.
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[23:17:49] <exec> 08└─UPS Airlines Flight 6 [wikipedia.org]
[23:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Geez - 06Amazon Has Been Fined £65,000 for Trying to Fly Dangerous Goods in Europe - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─They really got pounded.
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure of a fucking thing with Hillary as the President. There is a chance that she may have turned Progressive in the last 18 months with all the policy writing. There is a better chance than that it was because she is a fucking politician. We also have the chance though, that she may actuall...
[23:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─On the upside she's not going to be the President. She's terribly unpopular with her own party, independents hate her and the GOP has probably never had a candidate running against somewhat they hated so much. Last I heard she might win by 2 electoral votes and there's still like a month left until...
[23:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Attention Whore - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:27] <exec> 08└─First manning wanted to be the cool underground 1337 hacker secret leaking guy. When he was found, it was all about revealing the corrupt things the military is doing (yet everything that was leaked was kosher.) Then the leak was about tranny rights in the military. Now it’s about depression and m...
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[23:18:40] <exec> 08└─The corrupt establishment is still keeping outsiders Johnson and Stein at bay, by locking them out of the debates. They've polled at times above 10% even while the system is pretending they don't exist. Imagine how much better they'd be doing if they were getting equal time and attention from the, w...
[23:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good rebuttal--as far as you went - 06Questions For The Candidates - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:19] <exec> 08└─people whose profession is analyzing climate have reviewed the analysis and have not come up with another explanation which is better than the currently-accepted explanation
[23:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Stein for Mayor'' - 06Questions For The Candidates - 1997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:32] <exec> 08└─In my book, getting/keeping the economy healthy is a big part of the Chief Executive gig, regardless of governmental level. Unemployment is dominant in that. The only time USA has pulled out of one of its numerous depressions[1] in under a decade was when FDR put folks on the public payroll. Jill ha...
[23:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:53] <exec> 08└─The plans on her website do not match up with her voting record. So it is really hard to trust anything she says.
[23:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02In the committee's ironic defense... - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:29] <exec> 08└─They were promised the report will be classified and they could get away with it.
[23:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Graphene supercapacitors are already productize - 06Direct Observation of Graphene Decoupling On Cu(111) - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:49] <exec> 08└─It's... A clever rhyming scheme... Yes... Not a mistake at all... Yeah...
[23:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:doesn't seem to get rid of NIMBYism - 06Choosing Public Service Locations via Local Concensus - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:04] <exec> 08└─It doesn't even need to be unanimous, just requiring consent causes all sorts of trouble, both with NIMBYs as well as people who demand desirable services be placed in their neighborhoods. The local school board has meetings with the public when they decide what schools to close and where to locate...
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