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[00:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:1) 02No Thanks - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:07] <exec> 08└─Bunch of gold for a hack. Yea. Someone will figure it out.
[00:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Dirty Bomb? - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:17] <exec> 08└─No. There is no fission or fusion involved. Diamonds do burn at very high temperatures, but aren't very explosive. So, no luck there.
[00:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirty Bomb? - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:19] <exec> 08└─As mention in at least one of TGDMFAs, the core of each diamond is radioactive.
[00:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:33] <exec> 08└─Right next to, "shudder", New York.
[00:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:35] <exec> 08└─Were you thinking of Scotland? [scotsman.com]
[00:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:37] <exec> 08└─I have a image of thousands of Scots lining up facing Trump's golf course like the scene from "Braveheart".
[00:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Never - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:40] <exec> 08└─I think the objectionable part, based on what I have read, was that they were visible from shore and thus considered an eyesore to look at. So whether or not this "child of a president-elect" dislikes them will come down to whether or not they are visible. If a deal was worked out where electric cos...
[00:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Every breath of wind - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:45] <exec> 08└─Hydrogen is primordial.
[00:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Every breath of wind - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:47] <exec> 08└─That guy returning from the hillside with that bag of coal could never imagine the damage coal would do.
[00:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:The missing link - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:52] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when you shove bricks up there..
[00:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02it floats! - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:54] <exec> 08└─Floating wind farm isn't ambitious enough - nuclear! http://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] This does seem to suggest the problems of transmission from floating platform to on shore distribution have been solved.
[00:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Glass is not a solid... - 06Theoretical Model Could Shatter a Mystery of Glass - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:09] <exec> 08└─Not true [cmog.org]. If it were true, then ancient glass artefacts should have deformed into shapeless masses. The eyes of Tutankhamun’s mask are made of coloured glass, and if it were true that glass were not entirely solid, the eyes should have deformed substantially in the three thousand years...
[00:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03n1 [993] 02Re:Charlie Wilson's War - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 1212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:21] <exec> 08└─While most Trump supporters had their attention turned to Clinton’s brash hawkishness, they failed to notice that some of the craziest of the neoconservative Bush-era war hawks in Washington had split off from the pro-Clinton neocon consensus and favored Trump. Some examples of this include Michae...
[00:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Doing the Syntax Dance! - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:31] <exec> 08└─Equally revealing: YOu missed the entire disapproval of invading Iraq. I stated that IF Iraq MUST BE punished, then the proper measure would have been a punitive expedition. But, that isn't approval. In 2001/2002, were you even aware enough of what Iraq was all about to form an opinion? I was - and...
[00:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Charlie Wilson's War - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:37] <exec> 08└─But then Russia can't point fingers. This is Putin saying "you should've let us have Afghanistan then, and you should let us have Syria now or you know what will happen". /puts on tinfoil hat
[00:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assange is a boring tool of Putin - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:57] <exec> 08└─Energy drinks, especially large quantities consumed in a short span of time, aren't for everyone. Put the can down and step away from the keyboard. they're the ones who have been protecting your butt from imprisonment
[00:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlike Android, iOS is not self-hosting - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:22] <exec> 08└─It depends on what your priorities for your device are. Your priorities are, if I'm correct, to have the power to install whatever you want from wherever you want on your device. Others priorities are to be protected from Malware (software installation from multiple sources is fundamentally incompat...
[00:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlike Android, iOS is not self-hosting - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:24] <exec> 08└─There's an easy solution to malware from alternate software sources. Don't do it if you don't want to risk it. Isn't choice wonderful? I see replies like this and other talking about "tinkering", and hacking and other things with Android, and iOS being easier to use. Bullshit. Both of these platform...
[00:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlike Android, iOS is not self-hosting - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:26] <exec> 08└─I should add that I'm not even overly fond of Android, it's just a relative thing. One option is mainly open source and allows choice, and the other is ... not.
[00:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Excuse my ignorance but... - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:39] <exec> 08└─But Ford the company and Ford the brand have the same name,
[00:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They don't know what to do - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 3670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:52] <exec> 08└─Apple has no idea, as a corporation, what to do. Go for the high end? I mean, sure, as a strategy it sounds great, but the high end will be a niche survival play in a shrinking market. If we consider that most of what they're doing now is high-ish end in the Mac world (all arguments about value asid...
[00:49:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Huh? - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:31] <exec> 08└─First of all, it was Nuremberg that set the initial precedent that 'just following orders' wasn't a valid defence.
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[01:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:No Thanks - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:03] <exec> 08└─It seems that they are using a private blockchain, not the bitcoin blockchain. I'm guessing that on their blockchain, blocks are secured by having trusted parties sign blocks at regular intervals. (I couldn't find information on the method they use to secure their blockchain.) On a private blockchai...
[01:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Blockchain makes News Again - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:05] <exec> 08└─And if you don't love bit now, you will never love coin again I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain
[01:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02evolution? - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:07] <exec> 08└─Way back, in almost pre-history, people got stuff to flaunt their wealth with. Fat kids, baubles, jewelry, etc. As time went by, we kept the fat kids and the baubles, the jewelry got flashier. Real gold and silver jewelry - and then COINS! People could trade bits of gold for whatever they wanted. To...
[01:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02google the topic before hitting submit - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:18] <exec> 08└─Come on man. If you are going to expound on how someone is wrong, the least you could do is google the topic before hitting submit. A "dirty bomb" is one type of a radiological dispersal device (RDD) that combines conventional explosives, such as dynamite, with radioactive material. The terms dirty...
[01:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Dirty Bomb? - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:19] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. At 7 billion people on this planet, with many of them having their faces ground into the dirt by Elite boot heels, all it takes is motivation, resources, and information to create massive catastrophes. When viewed at in percentages, it's too risky to have tech like that known or out in...
[01:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dear "editor" - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:23] <exec> 08└─You might wanna explain who Professor Tom Scott is, or what the "Bristol team" is.
[01:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Re:Every breath of wind - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:44] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the same as handwaving the problem away? Trying to come up with numbers to show how small the problem is seems sort of likke frojack's dude with a bag of coal harvested from an outcroping. It could never get that big, because the soot from his stove compared to the whole atmosphere is jus...
[01:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:it floats! - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:50] <exec> 08└─Undersea power cables have been a thing since the 50s.
[01:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it floats! - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:52] <exec> 08└─Fukushima on a Raft.
[01:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Created as it and immutable ... - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:44] <exec> 08└─That is damn interesting, and thank you for posting.
[01:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:CIA didn't create ISIS - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:01] <exec> 08└─CIA directly trained them in Jordan to overthrow Assad in 2011~2013. http://www.wnd.com [wnd.com] https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] http://www.reuters.com
[01:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:CIA didn't create ISIS - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:02] <exec> 08└─In 2011 to 2013 the President was Barack Obama and Secretary of State was Hillary Clinton.
[01:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bring back 17-inch screen - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 2232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:43] <exec> 08└─Scaling a 2880x1800 Retina display to 1920x1080 instead of the default 1440x900 may afford comparable resolution to what was achievable on the 2010/2011 17" MBP, but the the extra inch-and-a-bit of diagonal physical screen space would be appreciated. 1680x1050 is comfortable on a 15" display; 1920x1...
[01:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh? - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:33] <exec> 08└─Which makes it suspect.
[01:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Politics - 06A Satellite Image Could Change the Way We Build Cities - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:25] <exec> 08└─In most cities decisions are made by politicians, not based on science. This is especially true after decades of neo-Liberal control, with the almighty dollar trumping any and every other concern. The only way that research like this will have significant effect on urban planning is if major real es...
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[03:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Contingas, qu'est-ce que c'est? - 06Disordered Nanonetwork Produces Vibrant Colors for Vehicles, Biomimetic Tissues and Camouflage - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:12] <exec> 08└─Je pense que c'est cotingas.
[03:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Not source paper - 06Directed Evolution Creates Enzyme That Can Produce Carbon-Silicon Bonds - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:19] <exec> 08└─The paper seems to be behind a paywall at the Science site. I only found the supplements for the source paper at the caltech link. There I saw lots of excel charts with no error bars. After only three rounds, they had created an enzyme that can selectively make silicon-carbon bonds 15 times more eff...
[03:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Re:No Thanks - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:30] <exec> 08└─I agree. If I'm going to buy gold or silver, I'll take the physical stuff where I have sole possession. Less risk to me. If things get so bad that I need to use the stuff for currency, good luck finding a working network to recover your bit gold.
[03:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Re:Blockchain makes News Again - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:33] <exec> 08└─If you see my reflection in a bit coin covered hill, well the network will bring it down.... ;-)
[03:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:evolution? - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:36] <exec> 08└─Still better than some signed bit of paper backed up by the "good faith and credit" of the worlds most dangerous and aggressive country. Seriously, accepting a dollar bill is like getting an IOU from the school yard bully. It's backed up by the fact you know he's going to kick some kid's ass to get...
[03:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:google the topic before hitting submit - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:48] <exec> 08└─And there is no fission or fusion involved, QED.
[03:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear "editor" - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:53] <exec> 08└─"Boffins"?
[03:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear "editor" - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:55] <exec> 08└─"You might wanna explain who Professor Tom Scott is" Professor of Materials. "or what the "Bristol team" is." A research team from Bristol. ... it's a summary, not a Wikipedia article.
[03:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear "editor" - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:57] <exec> 08└─A noted leader and senior administrator, Dr. Scott comes to the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) from the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta, where he held positions of Vice Dean and Professor of Accounting. [uwaterloo.ca] Bristol Team number one indoor soccer team in Roos...
[03:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:it floats! - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:25] <exec> 08└─More concerned with tidal effects on huge cables.
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Instant stability? Unlikely - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─Fast moving speculate-ium particles closely resemble bullshit-ium particles and share similar utility.
[03:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:blame Ca(rter|nada) - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:41] <exec> 08└─None of the current actions stand in isolation of the previous actions. Carter is just as responsible in that chain. Bottom line was he was in charge while the CIA did all of its fun stuff in Iran and Iraq. Regan stirred it up more in Afghanistan and Syria (iran contra ring a bell?). All to thwart t...
[03:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New ad campaign - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:28] <exec> 08└─Hi. I'm a PC. And I'm the other PC [youtube.com]
[03:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:eliminate Homeland Security immediately - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:00] <exec> 08└─I get groped every time I go to an airport, roughly 8 times a year. It's never rape or sexual assault. If it is then every Doctor should be in jail for far longer. Every TSA agent has been more annoyed at extra work to do rather than gleeful of a pair of balls to touch. The crazy obsession with sex...
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[04:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02overgrown ego - 06Disordered Nanonetwork Produces Vibrant Colors for Vehicles, Biomimetic Tissues and Camouflage - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:07] <exec> 08└─i thought pecock was code word for can SEE "integration" and "differancienz"? the color and feedi g the ovegrown piveon was just to inpress? the plebsnow get off me lawn t-heheheh.
[04:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Superior to anodizing? - 06Disordered Nanonetwork Produces Vibrant Colors for Vehicles, Biomimetic Tissues and Camouflage - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/patents/US4251330 [google.com] http://www.pfonline.com [pfonline.com] http://www.anodizing.org [anodizing.org]
[04:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02All Color - 06Disordered Nanonetwork Produces Vibrant Colors for Vehicles, Biomimetic Tissues and Camouflage - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:11] <exec> 08└─All color is a result of structure. There is no such thing as a red atom, it is how the atoms are structured that captures or reflects light of certain wavelengths. Pigment is not a fundamental concept, all pigment is is a structure that captures some wavelengths and reflects others.
[04:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02at what cost? - 06Directed Evolution Creates Enzyme That Can Produce Carbon-Silicon Bonds - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:20] <exec> 08└─title sayzzz all.
[04:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:evolution? - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:34] <exec> 08└─Just some signed bits that reside on a computer network. Is this evolution, or what?
[04:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A gold chain! - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:35] <exec> 08└─This concept will be a big hit at the Banca d'Italia.
[04:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:God = Server Admin [Re:Ah crap] - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:58] <exec> 08└─At any rate, for my own contribution to the discussion I would propose that, for the most part, Admin does not tell us what he wants, and further that the reason for this is simply that we lack the capacity to understand what he wants.
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:1) 02Re:Gravity and Light... - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─So, what if everything outside the universe (literally everywhere before the big bang) is something "less" than a vacuum? Is it possible that light could travel faster through a medium even more "nothing" than a total vacuum? A medium we have never experienced, and do not understand, could easily ex...
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Charlie Wilson's War - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─If it was a Hollywood movie, where is the secret?
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[04:23:52] <exec> 08└─The majority also don't care about IOS. They care about price and support from friends/relatives. The former is why the majority are on Android and not IOS; and the latter is why they're not on Windows phones. They really don't care about the fragmentation problem. There isn't one to them. It hardly...
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[05:20:11] <exec> 08└─The most anonymous way to pay for things is still cash. We need to reject attempts to make society cashless and pay in cash as much as possible to reduce tracking. It's sad that the IRS is allowed to assume guilt and gather this many records at once, but it also demonstrates the practical weaknesses...
[05:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Conceptual Constants - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:13] <exec> 08└─I Think of the concept of 'Man With Penis' to be "Earthworm Jim" ! What is it say you ?
[05:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:google the topic before hitting submit - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:00] <exec> 08└─Do you even know what radioactivity is?
[05:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Dirty Bomb? - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:02] <exec> 08└─Unlike Alpha emitters, beta emitters are basically harmless unless you ingest them / breath them. But that property itself does not preclude them being used in a dirty bomb. If you have a strong enough explosion that you expect to able to shatter the C-14 diamonds then perhaps you could build a dirt...
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[05:21:10] <exec> 08└─The Bristol team just refers to a group of physicists and chemists at the University of Bristol. Tom Scott is: http://www.bristol.ac.uk [bristol.ac.uk] My research is based around ageing, corrosion and characterisation of radioactive materials in engineered and environme...
[05:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:1) 02Re:Every breath of wind - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:32] <exec> 08└─First you'd have to calculate the changes caused by replacing the forests and meadows with asphalt parking lots, then multiply that by the number of giant buildings, mostly covered by gigantic air conditioners. Then you can calculate the windmill factor.
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[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. -- Li Po [poetryfoundation.org]
[05:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Gravity and Light... - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:53] <exec> 08└─So... If a black hole has so much gravity that light can't escape
[05:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Charlie Wilson's War - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was about to say mostly the same thing here. How is this news?
[05:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Excuse my ignorance but... - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:33] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, the car analogy just makes things more confusing. Macintosh was a Scottish clan name, and then an apple variety, before computing was even a glint in Charles Babbage's eye. But then there is the Mackinaw, which while sounding similar, is either a coat or a type of boat used on the Great L...
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[05:25:22] <exec> 08└─I get groped every time I go to an airport
[05:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nature vs. nurture - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:47] <exec> 08└─>The Jews like to complain like like like >meddle medddddddllllllleeeeeeeee >where they simply don't belong beeeelooooooonnnnggggggggg >where they theytheytheythey >can't subvert forever ssssssssssubvert s.u.b.v.e.r.t sub ve rt >without rather harsh retribution RATHER! heh rather rrrrrat her rat her...
[05:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02His name is Mudd - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:07] <exec> 08└─(Actually, that line had been used before this episode.) he patched up Lincoln's assassin after he got shot To be clear, it was Lincoln who got shot--at least at that point. Some say that Booth fractured his leg when he jumped from the president's box onto the stage. More likely, it was due to an in...
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[06:20:12] <exec> 08└─I've actually been to places that have refused cash. Not to mention if you are doing a large purchase, cash is strictly a no go due to asset forfeiture laws. Give it another 70 years and cash will be a distant memory. Hell, some worker are paid exclusively on debit cards now. Beyond privacy, bitcoin...
[06:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Evolution is always "Directed" - 06Directed Evolution Creates Enzyme That Can Produce Carbon-Silicon Bonds - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:32] <exec> 08└─That's what is meant by the "Selection" in "Evolution by Variation and Selection". Last I checked, human brains are perfectly capable of participating in the selection process, just like anything else...
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[06:21:04] <exec> 08└─> Unlike Alpha emitters, beta emitters are basically harmless unless you ingest them / breath them. Ahem, I think you got that the wrong way around...
[06:21:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02Re:Glass is not a solid... - 06Theoretical Model Could Shatter a Mystery of Glass - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:50] <exec> 08└─NOPE. Debunked long ago. https://io9.gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com]
[06:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:2) 02Re:God = Server Admin [Re:Ah crap] - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:18] <exec> 08└─I think at this point it is pretty clear what the server admin really wants: round rocky things circling around round shiny things... I mean, that is what I don't get about the judeo-christian viewpoint, and most other god-fearing religions. You have to ignore some obvious stuff if you think your be...
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[06:25:06] <exec> 08└─Cause he didn't help them?
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[07:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is because there is so much focus on rote memorizing facts and procedures and very little on actually understanding the hows and whys. Most tests do not test for understanding, since that is more difficult to test for and automatically grade. 'A' students are usually simply students who a...
[07:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Life is a Video Game - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:14] <exec> 08└─Higher training levels are harder, then you graduate and meet the boss, who beats the hope out of you.
[07:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Challenged Now Seen as Failure - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:16] <exec> 08└─I was an "advanced" student. I also flunked out of my AP courses. But what I learned in those classes set me off to have a very successful college career, even if my grades were seemingly lacking. My SAT scores, while good enough, weren't spectacular either. In college, I managed a 3.5 grade average...
[07:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02I did the reverse. - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:18] <exec> 08└─My "O" level results were very mediocre. My "A" level results were the best in my school for that year, even as the level of effort that I put in declined. The subjects changed from rote learning to real understanding. I understood well, and I was able to handle the work very easily, even helping my...
[07:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cash is still best - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:28] <exec> 08└─Not to mention if you are doing a large purchase, cash is strictly a no go due to asset forfeiture laws
[07:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Cash is best - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:30] <exec> 08└─This is not about Cash vs. Bitcoin. If you mined your Bitcoin, or sold stuff for Bitcoin, that company won't have any records of you. Only if you used Coinbase to convert other currency into Bitcoin, there's a record. But that's not much difference to there being a record if you draw cash from an AT...
[07:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Why are tax authorities excempt from Constitution? - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:34] <exec> 08└─I thought there was this thing in the USA that required a warrant, in order to search your "papers" (papers which are, today, electronic). So here's a question for you Americans - challenge your assumptions of the way things are, and think about how they should be: --> Why does the IRS have *any* fi...
[07:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why are tax authorities excempt from Constituti - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:36] <exec> 08└─An easier approach would be to change the methods of taxation (land tax, consumption tax, etc.) and allow people to maintain their privacy and still give the government their pound of flesh.
[07:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why are tax authorities excempt from Constituti - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:38] <exec> 08└─Because without the ability to violate people's privacy at will, tax collection would be harder. As we all know, our rights vanish to make everything more convenient for the government; that's how the constitution works. I suggest we do away with warrants entirely, as they make law enforcement's job...
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[07:22:49] <exec> 08└─As far as I know there is one reason why some creationist believe in a declining speed of light: It is the work of Barry Setterfield from 1987. Setterfield was an atheist himself when he begun studying the speed of light. He looked at all the measured results of the speed of light during the last 30...
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[08:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:12] <exec> 08└─I don't see this as endorsement per se, but Trump is unpredictable so they're probably sucking up to ensure he doesn't suddenly do anything rash.
[08:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:21] <exec> 08└─When I went to grade school (some 30 years ago), grade 1-6 I was a C or D student (grading from a-d and f), even held back for a couple months one year. But in junior high (grade 7-9), I was getting 70-75% grades and in high school (10-12), I was getting 85%+ and taking the advanced versions of math...
[08:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Why are tax authorities excempt from Constituti - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:39] <exec> 08└─Nope, what you are talking about is for the gov't to search your personal property, such as your home, or a briefcase you are carrying. The IRS is going after something called business records, which could be turned over to the gov't without a warrant if the company wants to. If Coinbase was actuall...
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[08:21:55] <exec> 08└─What will we find in the future as every windy place has its winds absorbed and turned into electricity?
[08:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:God = Server Admin [Re:Ah crap] - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:42] <exec> 08└─That sounds like some form of theological egoism or something. Not quite Ayn Rand's philosophy, but close.
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[09:20:14] <exec> 08└─Join the Thieves Guild today.
[09:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:20:22] <exec> 08└─So I'm taking that to mean your own employer hasn't said anything about the election? Do you have any idea which way your boss feels about the election, or is your office that free of politics?
[09:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:20:25] <exec> 08└─So I'm taking that to mean your own employer hasn't said anything about the election? Do you have any idea which way your boss feels about the election, or is your office that free of politics?
[09:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hardware slowdown - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:00] <exec> 08└─This is because innovation has died in software in general.
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[10:20:19] <exec> 08└─I don't live in the US (i.e. my employer thinks Trump is a dick).
[10:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:20] <exec> 08└─Considering the NeoCons scurrying in the doors of the White House, I hope your country does not have oil or you're going to get a whole new appreciation of the American version of "freedom".
[10:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:22] <exec> 08└─My employer is the federal government. They are less than pleased.
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[10:20:58] <exec> 08└─Unlike a peacock's ordered array of nanostructures, contingas get their vibrant hues
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[11:20:21] <exec> 08└─Whoever browses Tor with JavaScript enabled is just asking to be exploited.
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[11:20:29] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this should be from the department of inaccurately named departments. The entire point of the newer insert skimmers is that looking will not help you. Tough call for the paranoid these days. Use cash so you can't be tracked and they can clean out your account remotely unless you always get y...
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[11:20:42] <exec> 08└─IBM has a long history of enhancing Government efficiency with automation. After reviewing the wikipedia page on fascism, best I can tell it is over-used as in insult. However, it generally refers to authoritarian nationalist governments, where patriotism is more important than individual rights. Th...
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[11:20:55] <exec> 08└─Lot of changes between O and A levels. Choosing subjects you want to study, instead of being forced to do subjects you don't, and the others in the class are also there by choice. It is also the point where being good at schoolwork starts to become vaguely "cool" rather than something you get beaten...
[11:21:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Cash is best - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 775 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:05] <exec> 08└─This is not about Cash vs. Bitcoin. If you mined your Bitcoin, or sold stuff for Bitcoin, that company won't have any records of you. Only if you used Coinbase to convert other currency into Bitcoin, there's a record. But that's not much difference to there being a record if you draw cash from an AT...
[11:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why are tax authorities excempt from Constituti - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:12] <exec> 08└─The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the...
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[11:21:23] <exec> 08└─For capturing and reflecting perhaps. But the wavelengths of _emitted_ light is not necessarily linked to structure. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] p.s. I'm skipping the qualia of color t...
[11:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Re:Glass is not a solid... - 06Theoretical Model Could Shatter a Mystery of Glass - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:54] <exec> 08└─OTOH, the question is what is meant by "much" or "mush". I expect that given time (centuries in the case of church windows) there should be some effect, let us say on the order of nanometers. For if the effect would be truly zero, glass would have to be a crystal (well, sort of).
[11:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score:2) 02Re:Gravity and Light... - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:58] <exec> 08└─> I'm no brainiac Obviously! :-) Just kidding, but might I suggest you read a few wikipedia pages about the speed of light in a medium? This is highschool stuff.
[11:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:Assange is a boring tool of Putin - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:45] <exec> 08└─Invading Iraq for no reason...
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[12:20:14] <exec> 08└─NoScript has javascript globally enabled, all the media plugins are on, etc. It's a huge security clusterfuck. The only reason I use it is for the torbutton current connection hop list. It is rather illuminating when all your hops are showing up through just US, UK, France, etc, with no other countr...
[12:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Use ATMs in a bank branch - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:24] <exec> 08└─This is why I always use an ATM at a real bank branch wherever possible, they are less likely to be tampered with than a random ATM in a convenience store or local fast food shop. Cameras/staff/securty are there as a deterrent to tampering if the ATM is physically inside the branch, or at the very l...
[12:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodwin - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:39] <exec> 08└─I think it's absurdly trivial to show they are wrong. Hitler had radical and unpopular ideas and was part of a party that had numerous incidents of political-related violence. His party never won a majority in a popular election until he outlawed competing parties. The way he came to power was throu...
[12:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Translation - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:40] <exec> 08└─"Please don't derail our off-shoring/H1B gravy train!"
[12:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02kahn academy or similar.... - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:55] <exec> 08└─I think we can all agree, whenever we went through school, the "khan academy" type map coverage is a huge improvement. I spent my entire time at school from the age of 10 as become more and more bored as the curriculum slowed to the pace of the average student. Fortunately, I had many other activiti...
[12:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Plan for a very selective apocalypse - 06Blockchain to be Used for Trading Gold - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:42] <exec> 08└─I agree. If I'm going to buy gold or silver, I'll take the physical stuff where I have sole possession. Less risk to me. If things get so bad that I need to use the stuff for currency, good luck finding a working network to recover your bit gold.
[12:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirty Bomb? - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:06] <exec> 08└─Theoretically C14 could be used for dirty bombs but it would only leave some radioactive soot and radioactive CO2 it would not be very effective (CO2 would quickly dilute with little lasting effects). Also vaporizing diamonds would require a lot of energy. Another problem C14 has half life of 5k yea...
[12:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Antitrust much? - 06Microsoft Update Servers Left All Azure RHEL Instances Hackable - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:08] <exec> 08└─Make RedHat less secure by introducing their own 'malicious packages' and saying "Hey, businesses, RH is less secure than windows!"
[12:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:eliminate Homeland Security immediately - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:27] <exec> 08└─If it is then every Doctor should be in jail for far longer.
[12:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh? - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:37] <exec> 08└─For many decades, there were repeated German court rulings that if you were just a soldier at Auschwitz "doing your duty," you couldn't be tried for murder, let alone a case like this one where the guy wasn't even directly involved in the process of taking people to the gas chambers or whatever.
[12:27:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bd [2773] 02Re:Disquiet - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 2305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry for the long post. Records showed that Gröning actually was transferred to the front after two years, something that was fairly high-risk in the later stages of the war, especially as an SS trooper. It is often said that no one in the SS was ever punished for refusing to kill prisoners, but r...
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[13:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Have you looked at TBBs defaults? - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:20] <exec> 08└─The argument goes that, if you disable javascript, then your browser appears far more unique than everyone else's browser. This means that it is easier to link a specific user (while not necessarily yet knowing who he or she is) to a series of sites or activity because their browser is unique. Subse...
[13:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Have you looked at TBBs defaults? - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:21] <exec> 08└─Isn't it possible to lie about such things? Say you are all those things but in reality JavaScript is disabled and no media plugins actually work.
[13:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Have you looked at TBBs defaults? - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:24] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it is very detectable if your script that should generate certain server requests doesn't generate those server requests.
[13:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SVG - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:26] <exec> 08└─Today I learned SVG can contain javascript. And I facepalmed, hard.
[13:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OS limitation - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:28] <exec> 08└─[Editor's Note: The reporting only mentions Windows PCs, but it might not be limited to this OS.]
[13:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:39] <exec> 08└─TIL Americans still use cards with magnetic tapes. Why not chips? They're not invulnerable, but a lot harder to crack. It's been many years since I last saw a bank card without a chip, and some card readers around here don't even have the swipe option.
[13:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:41] <exec> 08└─They're slowly phasing in chips - many larger retailers now have chip readers, but gas stations (for example) still have swipe only. I have no idea why it took this long, or why they did chip-and-signature instead of chip-and-PIN like the rest of the world.
[13:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:54] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it has nothing to do with this: http://nypost.com [nypost.com]
[13:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Cumulative effects - 06Multi-Megawatt Floating System Soon to Be Set Up Near Le Croisic, France - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─I didn't mean to handwave the problem away. Maybe you're right, and Bin Laden did the New Yorkers a favour by blowing up the Twin Towers that blocked so much of New York's wind :-/ I just wanted to see if I could, with high-school physics knowledge (except I've forgotten all about 76 cm Mercury is h...
[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Gravity and Light... - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:17] <exec> 08└─I'm no brainiac, but I've always thought the E=mc2 was flawed.
[13:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:CIA didn't create ISIS - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:11] <exec> 08└─Hitler was nominated for the 1939 Nobel peace prize
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardware slowdown - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:50] <exec> 08└─A modern tablet can use a bluetooth keyboard (or an attached keyboard), and can run Microsoft Office (both Android and iOS). iOS devices come with iMovie for video editing, GarageBand for music creation and editing, there are a load of programming environments for Android, and so. What creation do y...
[13:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh? - 06The End of the "Just Following Orders" Defense? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:58] <exec> 08└─You think the Nazis were above shooting book-keepers?
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[14:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:21] <exec> 08└─I'm no fan of Trump. But it's silly to think he's going to come after the Internet Archive...
[14:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Have you looked at TBBs defaults? - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:40] <exec> 08└─There are several different ways in which TOR is currently being probed. Browser fingerprinting is but one of them. You can always disguise the user agent string (i.e. the string that browser offers to each site in order to identify the capabilities and limitations of each browser e.g. "Mozilla/5.0...
[14:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Have you looked at TBBs defaults? - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:41] <exec> 08└─Only when it's a minority stance. The solution to that problem is not to discourage people from doing it, but to encourage more people to do it.
[14:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:OS limitation - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:45] <exec> 08└─That is true however, there is still some debate as to whether that is the only vector that it can use. There is not yet enough analysis being made public for those using other OS to be feeling smug.
[14:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Be Anonymous - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:47] <exec> 08└─> leaks the user's MAC address, hostname and potentially their public IP address. I name all of my systems "hostname" and then use aliases to differentiate them in the name server. I also use "username" as my actual username. I recognize that this practice makes me unique. But for all practical purp...
[14:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:59] <exec> 08└─Convenience? It can take 10-15 seconds longer to use a card with a chip, or longer if it is pulled out too soon. It also seems like the employee at the register has to press a button before the chip will get read, another few seconds lost. A lot of people are still swiping automatically, since that'...
[14:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:10] <exec> 08└─> An easy way for an employer to sow discord in the workplace is to publicly take a side. Which happens all the time. Corporations regularly lobby their own employees to support candidates. Its kind of gross actually.
[14:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:15] <exec> 08└─As a retired gov employee, I understand. Our bosses did not like uncertainty and neither did the employees.
[14:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:18] <exec> 08└─Trump is unpredictable
[14:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodwin - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:22] <exec> 08└─> The hyperbole beyond that is thanks to his own public statements FTFY
[14:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Goodwin - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:24] <exec> 08└─Your inability to spell "Godwin" shows inferior genes, off to the konzentrationslager!
[14:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:27] <exec> 08└─Please don't derail our billions in government contracts. That appears to be the mechanism by which he browbeat Carrier into keeping 1000 jobs in Indianapolis. Carrier is owned by United Technologies [wikipedia.org] which has defense contractor subsidiaries like UTC Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney.
[14:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:29] <exec> 08└─The F-35 would be even worse as a glider.
[14:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 4118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:39] <exec> 08└─You can look at school as learning/education or more like memorization and recitation of meaningless political views. In the east they focus on the memorization/indoctrination thing at a young age. In the west we focus the memorization/indoctrination thing in higher ed. So its not entirely a surpris...
[14:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:41] <exec> 08└─Insightful except for one thing: much like western college SJWs unthinkingly recite anti-white propaganda
[14:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score:2) 02Making an assertion without reading the article - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:49] <exec> 08└─Okay, I haven't read the article, but here we go anyway. One thing I noticed in school as someone ahead of the normal track: The tests are not ahead of the normal track. Say that I took Algebra in 5th grade and Geometry in 6th grade, while typical students took Algebra in 7th grade and Geometry in 8...
[14:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Glass is not a solid... - 06Theoretical Model Could Shatter a Mystery of Glass - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:51] <exec> 08└─let us say on the order of nanometers
[14:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:God = Server Admin [Re:Ah crap] - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
[14:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah crap - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─You make a good point, but as I said the literal truth isn't what's important. They may not have had the terminology to express what are now our most advanced ideas, but I think you'd agree they also wouldn't even be interested in trying. A problem like P=NP makes no sense to most people alive today...
[14:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Created as it and immutable ... - 06Testable Theory That the Speed of Light is NOT Constant - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:41] <exec> 08└─Speaking of black holes if the speed of light were not constant in spatial coordinates then wouldn't rotating black holes radiate a shitton of energy as the event horizon wiggles every rotation? So if you can't measure an amazing level of radiation from them, I guess there must be no variance based...
[14:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't miss it at all - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:38] <exec> 08└─Silicone Valley? Is that some locale filled with porn startups and plastic surgeons?
[14:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Economic entry barrier to creating - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:32] <exec> 08└─What you are doing now might not be what you want to do in a year. This situation where people are encouraged to buy computing devices unsuitable for creating works also increases the entry barrier for people who want to start creating for the first time. Not everyone has a spare $1000 to drop on a...
[14:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Vicious circle... - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:50] <exec> 08└─The new machines have an unholy amount of theoretical i/o bandwidth with 4xTB3/USB-C ports - but the CPU, GPU and RAM (Max 16GB) are too constrained by space, thermal and battery life concerns to appeal to anybody likely to use half of that connectivity
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[15:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is effectively saying the Archive has lost my financial support since it is now apparently run by idiots.
[15:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:23] <exec> 08└─Backing up a huge archive is a good move even if there was no political motivation attached, and I'll be continuing to donate to Internet Archive.
[15:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:25] <exec> 08└─The general fact that he's made multiple public comments suggesting using the powers of his office(including ones that don't exist like federal libel laws) to target free speech and free press? I get not wanting to overreact, but taking someone at their word and being ready for them to do exactly wh...
[15:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:27] <exec> 08└─Luckily we didn't elect a dictator. Especially given Obama's record on a free press; maybe the left will finally realize the virtue of limited government.
[15:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:29] <exec> 08└─The "left" tried to elect Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton was picked instead, for various reasons. The "left" control nothing. There will be no limited government, not during the Don's reign, and not after a Democrat takes office.
[15:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:31] <exec> 08└─"See? Your desire to maintain basic human rights for all citizens should totally bring you in line with our policy of unregulated corporate economics!" Jesus, Christ, pseudolibertarians, your bullshit oversimplifications remains bullshit oversimplifications in spite of a good half of you contributin...
[15:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:33] <exec> 08└─You assert that it is silly, but give no reason why it would be silly? On the contrary, it would seem that this person has said plenty of things that would lend credibility to the idea that: * he doesn't understand the limits of presidential power * he doesn't understand, and / or doesn't care about...
[15:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Canada? - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:36] <exec> 08└─http://motherboard.vice.com/read/canadian-government-funded-notorious-censorship-company-for-a-decade-netsweeper-bahrain-citizen-lab [vice.com] Look, I get that people are hyperventilating over Trump, but maybe a sense of perspective is in order? I know of no country that doesn't engage in some type...
[15:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Canada? - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:38] <exec> 08└─I fully support the Internet Archive's attempt to be more fault tolerant,
[15:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:SVG - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:58] <exec> 08└─Well if people really want to follow through with killing Flash while still leaving a credible replacement, it kind of has to. CSS3 animations are cool but will only get you so far, and the potential for interactivity is very limited. I'm not saying we absolutely *need* interactive vector graphics,...
[15:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Be Anonymous - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps use one of the 'well known' 'magic numbers' for the MAC address My first thought was 0xDEADBEEF and in fact, the Magic Number article ( https://en.wikipedia.org(programming) [wikipedia.org] ) states that The default MAC address on Texas Instruments SOCs is DE:AD:BE:EF:00:...
[15:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:16] <exec> 08└─I was issued a chip card by my credit union a few weeks back. My regular card doesn't expire until next year, and I've been putting off activating the new one. The few times I've done chip transactions, it was more like a 1-2 minute wait (yes, 120 whole seconds). I've started seeing stores that had...
[15:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:35] <exec> 08└─Nobody is going to change anything that helps making companies make more money. Nobody is going to stop more people getting poor and rich people getting richer. Believing Trump is going to do anything for the working people is delusional.
[15:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:44] <exec> 08└─Not by much.
[15:22:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Why are tax authorities excempt from Constituti - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 446 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:16] <exec> 08└─Nope, what you are talking about is for the gov't to search your personal property, such as your home, or a briefcase you are carrying. The IRS is going after something called business records, which could be turned over to the gov't without a warrant if the company wants to. If Coinbase was actuall...
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02In defense of the IRS - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─If I were the sort of person to try to dodge paying taxes (which I'm not), I might do as much as I could in Bitcoin and not report any of it to the IRS. Indeed, I would not be surprised to find some libertarian-minded folks doing precisely that, because they incorrectly either believe that non-dolla...
[15:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:prototype - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─implantable medical devices
[15:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardware slowdown - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:51] <exec> 08└─Once you attach a keyboard, mouse, and use a stand for your tablet you've effectively created a laptop.
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[16:20:31] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:32] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly curious. On a National level, has a petition ever had any noticeable effect?
[16:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, definitely. Hundreds of thousands of people who might have otherwise caused a ruckus were already appeased by having the option to just sign a petition instead. It saved billions of tax-dollars (-pounds, -euros) otherwise to spend on police forces for riot control etc. Even the internet-nerds c...
[16:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:35] <exec> 08└─Harnessing slacktivism for the police state! I wonder who came up with that genius idea.
[16:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:37] <exec> 08└─yes, the organizers suddenly find they are being audited, they get fired after thrir boss is visited by men in black, and their dog is poisoned... just another day in Empire...
[16:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:39] <exec> 08└─I say! Are there documented incidents of that sort? I think that would be counter-productive, it's far easier to let the parliament to discuss the issue and re-affirm the previous conclusion.
[16:20:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:51] <exec> 08└─The general fact that he's made multiple public comments suggesting using the powers of his office(including ones that don't exist like federal libel laws) to target free speech and free press? I get not wanting to overreact, but taking someone at their word and being ready for them to do exactly wh...
[16:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02People's Front of Judea - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:55] <exec> 08└─Oh boy here we go... I appreciate in trying to draw strict definitions, especially when distinguishing from specifics at an individual level, but when speaking to generalities, I have to imagine you, much like me, didn't have a candidate that perfectly reflected your views, and had to make the best...
[16:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People's Front of Judea - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:57] <exec> 08└─I think you mean El Supremo.
[16:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:People's Front of Judea - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:59] <exec> 08└─Limited government was never on the menu. I voted for the lizard person because I didn't want to put up with being on double secret probation for 4 years while women whine and cry about Roe v. Wade, rape, sexual harassment, glass ceilings, asshole 13 year olds playing Cock of Duty being representati...
[16:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People's Front of Judea - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─True, Johnson wasn't the strongest candidate. However, to state that ideologically some parties aren't in support of limited government is completely facile on its face. And the expansion of government from both of the major parties has come home to roost in the most improbable way possible.
[16:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, a good portion of libertarians support the idea of dissolving the very notion corporatehood since it it is essentially the state conferring a right to a group that the individual doesn't have. Have to admit that's a bit more principled than bearing the evils of Apple so long as you can tax...
[16:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:06] <exec> 08└─I've got my own objections to the ideals of libertarianism, that are a lot more nuanced than this debate will probably allow for. Suffice it to say, the eye rolling thing is definetly directed at the pseudolibertarians who can't imagine a difference between fundamental human rights that allow us all...
[16:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:08] <exec> 08└─Your backtracking has been noted, but the issue remains: given the possibility that a person like Trump can and has been elected, is it better that he have the full force of government as the left imagines it, or limited government? Or moving to Canada. Whatever. It's not like consistency has been t...
[16:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:10] <exec> 08└─Considering that some of the most dangerous other policies he's going to be taking on are the dismantling of the useful parts of the government and the reducing the tax burden in exactly the way you'd call "shrinking" I find it a starkly irrelevant question. Do I wish our military were less gigantic...
[16:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:13] <exec> 08└─Which is the political affiliation talking about banning, "Fake news" again?
[16:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:15] <exec> 08└─None, they're certainly saying that unchecked sharing of fake news is destroying our democracy, and it is. If people can't tell that an abc.com.co story about a protestor being paid is literally fake, and there's no indication on the primary news feed that many people use that that's happening, it'...
[16:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─Luckily we didn't elect a dictator. Especially given Obama's record on a free press; maybe the left will finally realize the virtue of limited government.
[16:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:19] <exec> 08└─so did clinton, in fact she was behind a bill to jail people and then fine them 100k$, what the fuck is your point?
[16:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:21] <exec> 08└─Interesting that Hillary sponsored basically the exact same thing Trump tweeted while in the Senate. One year and/or $100,000 fine for flag burning at protests. Despite you and the rest of Correct The Record's best efforts at her out of the Wikipedia entry for this bill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
[16:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:23] <exec> 08└─The jury is still out on that. Trump tweeted that he's in favor of revoking citizenship and jailing people who burn the flag.
[16:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─I'm an amendment-to-be, yes an amendment-to-be, And I'm hoping that they'll ratify me. There's a lot of flag-burners, Who have got too much freedom, I want to make it legal For policemen to beat'em. 'Cause there's limits to our liberties, At least I hope and pray that there are, 'Cause those liberal...
[16:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:28] <exec> 08└─1. you're assuming he was serious. -- he's walked back on almost every comment he's ever made 2. you're assuming he's even capable of following through -- good luck fighting the First Amendment 3. you're assuming he knows what the Internet Archive is or gives two shits about it. -- that "libel law"...
[16:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:30] <exec> 08└─1a. I have seen no reports of him walking back anything he's said about clamping down on free speech. 1b. It shouldn't matter if he did walk it back as far as precautionary measures by organizations like the internet archive are concerned. 2. Never count on institutions to save you from a determined...
[16:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:32] <exec> 08└─1. I don't expect him to individually walk back every statement he's ever made. But he has a clear and well documented history of saying one thing and then changing his mind. There's no reason to believe that his libel law thing is any different. 2. Free Speech/1st amendment is a bigger deal to most...
[16:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:34] <exec> 08└─Why bother with the courts when you have the NSA/CIA/FBI to do your bidding?
[16:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:36] <exec> 08└─Then by that measure any private citizen or nation-state is a potential danger. Why single out Trump? IA should've done this years ago when the Snowden revelations came out that showed the breadth of technical capability that the NSA has.
[16:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 2929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:38] <exec> 08└─To help the foreigners figure this out, the left traditionally rallies around these vague concepts of a "free press" kind of like how the righties rally around the flag and oppose burning it. All very meaningless but highly symbolic. We have no free press in the USA in that the legacy media is unifi...
[16:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:40] <exec> 08└─And here comes the conspiracy crowd to tell us how the "luggenpresse" should really be destroyed to make way for his alternate-reality sources that tell him his conspiracy theories are right no matter how much they have to completely distort sources. "A member of a political party talked to media ab...
[16:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:43] <exec> 08└─A lot of the press still does good work
[16:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:45] <exec> 08└─You really are lock-step with the new order. Ikanreed is right, you've been shifted into an alternate reality by all the conspiracy stuff you read. I still am unsure whether Clinton would be better or worse, but you VLM are so tilted into the lies and promises of Trump that he just might be able to...
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─And before your attitude led to the election of fascist, this would probably have been where I'd have been like "Enjoy your delusions" and bailed out of the conversation. But now, now I've got to fight. Fight to fix what's been broken so badly. There's got to be a weakness in this shell of anti-real...
[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:49] <exec> 08└─A fourth bit of fun for foreigners trying to figure this crazy stuff out is social media and social signalling has taken over the lefties and to some extent discussion in general in American politics. Trump could be censored and ignored, but they won't because they get viewers. So he can control the...
[16:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:51] <exec> 08└─Wait, the left is trying to legalize pedophilia? Does this mean that MikeeUSA is a lizard person too?!? I found this interesting in particular. Feminists like to destroy men who are elementary school teachers with insinuations about pedophilia. However, research shows that we actually do need more m...
[16:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:54] <exec> 08└─He may want or dislike many things, but as every president learns, President != dictator. As for the rest of it, see my other comment here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[16:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:56] <exec> 08└─It appears that many people still haven't realized how he got elected, while it actually was a very simple strategy. First of all, he acted as a confident man with power (silverback) and sweeping statements that got a lot of people enthusiasm going. This is how he got large groups of people to suppo...
[16:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:58] <exec> 08└─Well his campaign-persona was very polarizing. It's a strong image to shake loose. But yeah, it's really obvious what he's doing once you put that aside.
[16:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Canada? - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:03] <exec> 08└─your inability to maintain an effective protest has been noted after Obama was elected
[16:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02well - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:05] <exec> 08└─The problem is that you still rely on the goodwill of a government. What if Canada elects a right wing hardliner too? Especially if Trump manages to come up with short term benefits for its citizens (Hitler could do it, Mussolini too). I say, go ipfs, gnunet, torrent, whatever. Help shaping a new in...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:2) 02you are doing it wrong - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─or more importantly "they are doing it wrong". chip and Pin in the UK is for the most part instant. I agree that some places cashiers have to hit a button to authorize the transaction but that is rare and only takes a few extra seconds if they are paying attention.
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─And which also doesn't happen all the time. Far more corporations don't do that precisely because it causes trouble.
[16:23:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it has nothing to do with this: http://nypost.com [nypost.com]
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─1. What makes you think that Trump is going to change anything? He is appointing Washington and Wall Street insiders to his cabinet. 2. Trump was wrong about Ford's plans. Trump is going to drain the swamp? He is doing the opposite. You voted for him, and you are still in denial about the type of pe...
[16:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:25] <exec> 08└─The Asian and Russians primary and middle school programs focus on fewer subjects while putting heavy emphasis on the quantity of exercises and rote memorization to build a strong foundation from a relatively early age. They slowly build up the workloads towards at least 2hrs homework of problem sol...
[16:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Why are tax authorities excempt from Constituti - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:49] <exec> 08└─The government wants to know everything about your life, business and finances. For purposes other than taxation. Giving the IRS the power it already has plus newly wanted additional powers is really for purposes other than taxation. But the IRS and the taxation provide the plausible sounding cover...
[16:24:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Dirty Bomb? - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 532 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. At 7 billion people on this planet, with many of them having their faces ground into the dirt by Elite boot heels, all it takes is motivation, resources, and information to create massive catastrophes. When viewed at in percentages, it's too risky to have tech like that known or out in...
[16:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Charlie Wilson's War - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:58] <exec> 08└─"Neocons brought us to the very brink of fascism after 9/11." Good thing Obama never re-instated the Patriot Act! While some of these “crazies” had learned to behave themselves in recent years, at least rhetorically, the outliers, the “even-craziers,” didn’t. Good thing all of those survei...
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[17:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Nice! - 06Jigsaw-Like Puzzle That Maps to a Klein Bottle and Can be Constructed in Multiple Ways - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:49] <exec> 08└─That is cool as hell. I am glad that it is here.
[17:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Hi! - 06Hello and Welcome - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:57] <exec> 08└─Good luck. I'm probably going to ruin all your stories by being an angry jerk on them. Or bad puns. I could ruin them with puns.
[17:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Hi! - 06Hello and Welcome - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:59] <exec> 08└─Bad puns are the best puns. Fact.
[17:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hi! - 06Hello and Welcome - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:01] <exec> 08└─There is a long way to go before anyone here gets to the bottom of bad puns...keep digging. For inspiration, I'll suggest the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories by Spider Robinson? Thanks to the new volunteers and of course thanks to ALL the SN volunteers.
[17:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02Thank you indeed - 06Hello and Welcome - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:04] <exec> 08└─Thank you indeed :-)
[17:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why in FUCKS name did you people - 06Hello and Welcome - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:06] <exec> 08└─Oh sorry, it's a crew of new editors, not new mods. Carry on.
[17:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02It's appreciated... - 06Hello and Welcome - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:08] <exec> 08└─...so, Thank you!
[17:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Welcome - 06Hello and Welcome - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new editor overlords! And sincere thanks for your work here. I hope my paranoia, sarcasm, attempts at humor, and friendly discussion don't ruin your stories.
[17:21:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Re:Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 404 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, definitely. Hundreds of thousands of people who might have otherwise caused a ruckus were already appeased by having the option to just sign a petition instead. It saved billions of tax-dollars (-pounds, -euros) otherwise to spend on police forces for riot control etc. Even the internet-nerds c...
[17:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02Worked to repeal Brexit, right? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:25] <exec> 08└─Oh... wait a minute... it didn't. Speaking of which, this IS the same government plowing ahead with that plan, too. We are all screwed - Americans and Brits.
[17:21:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1020 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:46] <exec> 08└─"See? Your desire to maintain basic human rights for all citizens should totally bring you in line with our policy of unregulated corporate economics!" Jesus, Christ, pseudolibertarians, your bullshit oversimplifications remains bullshit oversimplifications in spite of a good half of you contributin...
[17:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:51] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Yes, the Libertarian Party has long been associated with wars abroad and full arming the police with personal nuclear devices to combat crime.</sarcasm>
[17:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:53] <exec> 08└─Alright, fine. We'll have this stupid debate. Even though the point wasn't libertarianism, but the people who think that there's a magic oversimplified answer to the problem of tyranny. A nice solid majority of people using your magic words of "small government" do. Period. The end. The thing I said...
[17:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:02] <exec> 08└─Um, wrong wrong wrong on so many levels. Just because you want it to be so doesn't mean you are correct, close or even on the right planet.
[17:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─We didn't elect a dictator? Really? I'm sure that will come as a surprise to Trump. As will that he will find there are limits to his power.
[17:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─Agreed that the Internet Archive should have started working toward an off-site backup years ago. Given the response to Trump by many people, this could be a very good time to raise funds for the backup site. With the long reach of the three letter agencies, I wonder if Canada is the best choice...b...
[17:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've been through several decades of the leftist being on "my" side. Until they stab you in back. The more perceptive have realized that dealing with the left is a deal with the devil. No one wants that kind of help.
[17:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:21] <exec> 08└─Man, that sounds like you're projecting something personal onto this. Also, by leftists do you mean actual leftists, or the moderate progressives? Because there's almost none of the former in the US with any political sway.
[17:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe some hint that I'm on your side that our press sucks?
[17:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:25] <exec> 08└─"You said I was wrong about something! That's it! I'm siding with a fascist who stands in staunch opposition to the thing I claim to value most." You are everything wrong with politics.
[17:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─While there were many red flags in the earlier sentences, "wholly owned subsidiary" let me know I can safely ignore all of your political opinions from now on. Thanks for the hyperbole.
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─The general fact that he's made multiple public comments suggesting using the powers of his office(including ones that don't exist like federal libel laws) to target free speech and free press?
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─To your points in the other post you link to. > you're assuming he was serious. > he's walked back on almost every comment he's ever made That only means you can't believe anything he says. He's unpredictable. You don't know what he might do. Something to be afraid of. > you're assuming he's...
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:OS limitation - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─Yup. Obviously Firefox is allowing outside content to trigger execution to jump somewhere it shouldn't. On Windows they are using that first exploit to get into the win32 APIs, since that is the way to get to the goodies on a Windows PC. But if that first Firefox bug is also exploitable on Linux the...
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS limitation - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─There is not yet enough analysis being made public for those using other OS to be feeling smug.
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Tails OS would probably help avoid this one - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─Besides being Linux, not Windows, the Tails live image has nice default security settings, such as enabling no-script in the Tor browser and spoofing the MAC address. That said, I'm not sure MAC spoofing would work against this vulnerability. It seems to strike deep in the OS, accessing the Virtual...
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:24] <exec> 08└─Talk to your bank/C.U. and let them know. There might be a fixable reason for the delay. I exclusively use the chip when I can for both debit and credit card use, and I've never noticed a longer wait time.
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Good grief - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─That letter is just an introduction to the new administration and a brief outline of products and services IBM thinks the incoming Administration might want to look at. A corporation in the business of selling products and services looking to maintain and develop the relationship with one of its big...
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good grief - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─I doubt Trump read past the beginning of the third paragraph, which started with "I am writing to offer ideas that I believe will help achieve the aspiration you articulated and that can advance a national agenda in a time of profound change." He briefly skimmed the rest and tossed it aside. As othe...
[17:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Good grief - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a lot of the letter can be read that way, but I find it hard to avoid reading the following paragraph as anything other than a plea to escape punishment, coming from a company that's known to have outsourced a shit ton of jobs: "Mr. President-elect, IBM’s roots are in the United States. We a...
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Good grief - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─Do you even read the headlines? It isn't a state secret that Trump ran on a platform of being against outsourcing, offshoring, etc. Trump is not making a secret that he wants to help create jobs here, not elsewhere. So it makes perfect sense that any sales pitch, and that is what this letter is, wou...
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02[slightly OT] IBM's new culture - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:03] <exec> 08└─It's all about taking care of the shareholders: http://www.forbes.com [forbes.com]
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Norming problem? - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─From the Science Mag article: In the nine countries that agreed to participate in that third test, called the TIMSS Advanced, students taking the most challenging math and science courses in their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle t...
[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cash is still best - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─Nobody leaves the system. They'll get around to sending the thugs after you eventually. Your show of disobedience may make you feel better, but it does little more than paint a target on you showing them you need a little extra "encouragement" to stay in line.
[17:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Charlie Wilson's War - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:56] <exec> 08└─I don't know what point you're trying to make... The author of the piece I linked has been extremely critical of Clinton and Obama's foreign policy, he spent a lot of time over the last couple of years and longer shedding light on the hypocrisy and dangers of their policies. He's also expressed regr...
[17:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hardware slowdown - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:17] <exec> 08└─"What creation do you think that most people do on a laptop or desktop that they can't do on a tablet?" In the absolute sense, not much. In the sense of practicality, plenty. Creation requires entry and management of information. Rapid, accurate entry, and ideally with a good view of the data at han...
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[18:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Hi! - 06Hello and Welcome - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:33] <exec> 08└─Well, given that bad puns are the only puns...
[18:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:2) 02Glad to be here - 06Hello and Welcome - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you, janrinok and the editor team, for having us. I don't get a whole lot of time to make comments, so editing is a way I can contribute to the SoylentNews' well being in the time I do get. All praise should be sent in cash, all criticism in day-old fish.
[18:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Stepping up - 06Hello and Welcome - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:41] <exec> 08└─Thanks for stepping up to fill the need.
[18:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nah - 06Hello and Welcome - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:43] <exec> 08└─I for one already welcomed these bastards. What, you wanna a medal?!
[18:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Hello - 06Hello and Welcome - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:45] <exec> 08└─Has been really great to see some people step up and help out with the editorial tasks on this site. From all the existing editors, and me personally we really appreciate it! Now though, we need more submissions from the community. If you want to see more things here, diversity in topics, better sou...
[18:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:55] <exec> 08└─How very civilised. Here in the States we prefer the economic stimulus of a good riot. Think of all the work and income generated by windows and cars needing replacement, police needed, riot gear needed, firemen, trucks, hoses and water, stun guns, tear gas, radio systems, computers, software, and I...
[18:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atreidin [3582] (Score:1) 02Must "consider" debating? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:00] <exec> 08└─So they don't even need to debate it, only "consider" doing so? What a joke.
[18:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Must "consider" debating? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:02] <exec> 08└─They (our democratically elected representatives) already debated it, it went through the House of Lord's and has been given Royal Ascent. The thing is, us proles were too busy watching X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing to notice or to make our opinions known to them. I dare say our much admired an...
[18:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeaaah!!! - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─Make them consider debating! I think I know how this will go, "All in favor of continuing the debate?" *a few hands go up* "All those opposed" *nearly everyone raises hand* They try really hard to make us think the general public is incapable of thinking for themselves and hiding behind secrecy to k...
[18:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:33] <exec> 08└─Even though the point wasn't libertarianism
[18:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:34] <exec> 08└─You know how I said "arguable either way?" That wasn't a "I refuse to acknowledge anti-war libertarians exist." That was a "You're being highly selective to create a worldview where you're always right." You seem intent on misunderstanding me. So... I'll let you go. You defeated what imaginary me sa...
[18:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:43] <exec> 08└─Twice in two days. I looks like "identity politics" is the phrase of the week dished out by the alt-right talking-point generator.
[18:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Webweasel [567] 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─I'm an amendment-to-be, yes an amendment-to-be, And I'm hoping that they'll ratify me. There's a lot of flag-burners, Who have got too much freedom, I want to make it legal For policemen to beat'em. 'Cause there's limits to our liberties, At least I hope and pray that there are, 'Cause those liberal...
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─I don't want to debate Trump's positions or whatever in detail, but I'd just note something here: Free Speech/1st amendment is a bigger deal to most people/organizations than torturing of terrorism prisoners in foreign black sites. Many that would look away for the latter would be up in arms for th...
[18:22:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1620 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─And here comes the conspiracy crowd to tell us how the "luggenpresse" should really be destroyed to make way for his alternate-reality sources that tell him his conspiracy theories are right no matter how much they have to completely distort sources. "A member of a political party talked to media ab...
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. Primary sources are for journalists, historians, and other direct researchers.. If you reject secondary sources that report what people have said and done, you're too far gone to reason with. Sorry that's my line for unacceptable standards of evidence in casual debate. I can accept that you...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Largest Canyon in the Solar System - 06ESA's ExoMars Orbiter Tests Instrument Suite - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─I've heard of the Valles Marineris canyon system [nasa.gov]. Until the ESA has a chance to download and share enough images to make a nice composit, here's a fun CGI. [youtube.com] made "...by the Solar System Visualization team (SSV) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California."
[18:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:59] <exec> 08└─Was issued chip cards over the summer and have used them at a few stores. This is in NE USA, many merchants have not changed to new equipment yet for whatever reason (could be cost). Every time I've used the chip the response time has been longer than a swipe. A couple of times I took the card out t...
[18:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─Backlash against greedy elites is what put Trump in the White House. Establishment Democrats have to understand that a platform to "save the world" can't have the addendum "for the elites only". And establishment Republicans? Where to begin? They're so desperate to have power at all costs, that they...
[18:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─How is electing a greedy elitist backlash against greedy elites? You put a fox in charge of the hen house, don't be surprised when its ravaged and destroyed.
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Goodwin - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:28] <exec> 08└─Your summary is not substitute for reading the actual history Adolf Hitler's rise to power [wikipedia.org] Benito Mussolini's March on Rome [wikipedia.org] Chinese Cultural Revolution [wikipedia.org]
[18:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good grief - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:39] <exec> 08└─Its also not a state secret that he's backed out of pretty much every single campaign promise already, and he's still not even close to taking office, so your thinking he's going to stick to any of them is at best denialism, at work delusion.
[18:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Other side as well - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─Look at the current dust-up around Penzey's Spices. Their leadership is coming out loud and proud for the other side. Frankly, I think the IBM approach is classier. "Hi, we recognise there's a new sheriff in town, we're basically a constructive force, let's work together, here are some ideas." Not e...
[18:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:54] <exec> 08└─Note I say the following as someone who has actually taught high school math and physics for a few years back in the early 2000s. The western system is superior in that it takes a hell of a long time and effort to actually learn math
[18:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:55] <exec> 08└─Mostly we seem to be looking at the same thing from different angles. The bit about more time and effort to learn is more an emphasis on the costs of learning, that being the time and effort. In my attempt at contracting with the Asian approach of pattern match something you've memorized and perform...
[18:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Advanced math... - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─I've had a lot of math. I happen to think ~%40 of algebra is good for most people to have exposure to, but the remaining 60% is utterly worthless. Math becomes decreasingly useful as it becomes more and more advanced beyond that until it's really so abstract unless you're going into something scient...
[18:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Assange is a boring tool of Putin - 06'CIA created ISIS', says Julian Assange as Wikileaks Releases 500k US Cables - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:15] <exec> 08└─So instead, we invaded Iraq, and now ISIS is selling oil for whatever they can get. Progress!
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[19:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02War on Terror... or... - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:41] <exec> 08└─War *OF* Terror? Funny how quickly one can morph into the other. I now spend more time worried about my own government and its associated international cronies than I do about actual terrorists, who are less likely to kill me than some drunk driver t-boning me on my way to/from work.
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice! - 06Jigsaw-Like Puzzle That Maps to a Klein Bottle and Can be Constructed in Multiple Ways - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:51] <exec> 08└─but I don't think that bending the diestock has been automated yet?
[19:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Advertorial! - 06Jigsaw-Like Puzzle That Maps to a Klein Bottle and Can be Constructed in Multiple Ways - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:54] <exec> 08└─My only complaint: Stop making up pointless new words! Slashvertisement, Soylvertisement - Stop it!! The word advertorial [merriam-webster.com] has been in use since 19-fucking-46 already! Kids these days!
[19:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advertorial! - 06Jigsaw-Like Puzzle That Maps to a Klein Bottle and Can be Constructed in Multiple Ways - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:56] <exec> 08└─this old word you speak of reminds me a lot of "adversarial". I find it fitting.
[19:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:13] <exec> 08└─Europeans used to be the world champions of massive street protests (with the Chinese coming from behind fast), but their governments now have the magic word that not only excuses those bad laws and also forbids public gatherings of concerned citizens: Terrorists! [insert scream here] Dear communist...
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:People's Front of Judea - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─1: Which one is the lizard person? 2: You are more worried about women complaining than actual anti-LGBT policies that will directly affect you?
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 2848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. More backpedaling. Debating an issue isn't exactly condoning, and is pretty far removed from "arguable either way" considering only ONE of the articles you cite actually made the case for war with Iraq specifically (and was in fact part of a debate that also argued against going to war). Her...
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:55] <exec> 08└─No, you won. You utterly got me on all those things I specifically set out not to say, and intentionally chose words to indicate I was not saying. Yep. You're not a fuckwad trying to "win" a dispute that didn't really exist except in your mind. I'm totally "backpeddling" by pointing out what I actua...
[19:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:59] <exec> 08└─"He's not a Nazi, what about emails?" And to add insult to injury he's floating David Petraeus for Secretary of State (you know, Clinton's old gig). This is a guy who was actually convicted for purposefully leaking classified information! The hypocrisy is truly amazing!
[19:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:04] <exec> 08└─Despite you and the rest of Correct The Record's best efforts Holy crap, that $6 mil went a loooooooong way! I wish someone that frugal was in charge of the budget.
[19:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:06] <exec> 08└─Interesting that Hillary sponsored basically the exact same thing Trump tweeted while in the Senate. One year and/or $100,000 fine for flag burning at protests. Also, I should mention that this is factually incorrect. From your link: The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service summarized the...
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:11] <exec> 08└─In Canada, burning the flag is the proper disposal method. Though you are supposed to do it discretely.
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─(1) Burning a flag is actually appropriate disposal for one. I know you're not really addressing that here, but it's important to note that merely burning a flag shouldn't constitute an "act of rebellion and possibly treason." You'd need to determine intent. (2) I'm not going to post some "flaming"...
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:27] <exec> 08└─without destroying the country.
[19:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:33] <exec> 08└─I kinda like this conversation because it demonstrates how the cultural escape velocity has been reached such that communication is quite challenging. The minority of the country that lost seem very confused about Trump. Sure... um, I'll oppose Trump if you dump on Assange some more. What does that...
[19:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:37] <exec> 08└─There you go I was channeling a little Trump there, trying to control the social media story cycle and get engagement by going off on a mostly true yet somewhat ridiculous tangent that would be super exciting out of context while bringing attention to my main longer format point. Meanwhile my compet...
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─It took so long because "Not Invented Here". Also, they tied in the better security with changing the party responsible for the fraud, which caused endless arguments and foot-dragging. They got further delayed by doing it differently than the rest of the world, causing the unnecessary transaction-pr...
[19:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:41] <exec> 08└─khallow, hey it's me the guy who you met at the slashdot meet up--we hung out in vancouver i think later? can u drop me a line at scybert at gmail dot com ? be nice to catch up.
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:50] <exec> 08└─He is appointing Washington and Wall Street insiders to his cabinet.
[19:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:53] <exec> 08└─"keep your friends close, and your enemies closer"
[19:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cowering in fear - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:57] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if he turned out to be a Wheeler-style dingo, but given his cabinet appointments, it doesn't look headed that way. While he seems to care first and foremost about his business/family/self, I am holding on to some hope that he wants his name in the right pages of the history books, a...
[19:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:25] <exec> 08└─much like western college SJWs unthinkingly recite anti-white propaganda
[19:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, I don't think we disagree on many points -- but I wanted to add some further nuance. My main quibble at the beginning was with the idea that "western" systems do better than East Asia in teaching a "deeper"understanding. I don't think that's true for most students. Instead, I think what's happe...
[19:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Economic entry barrier to creating - 06The Macintosh Endgame - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:35] <exec> 08└─It depends on what you're creating. This five year old laptop I paid $250 for new is fine for writing.
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[20:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:War on Terror... or... - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:16] <exec> 08└─^ That, a lot lot LOT of that
[20:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:17] <exec> 08└─It's nice to see the Obama administration aggrandizing as much government power as possible before handing it all over to Donald Trump.
[20:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice! - 06Jigsaw-Like Puzzle That Maps to a Klein Bottle and Can be Constructed in Multiple Ways - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:29] <exec> 08└─I'd say the price is worth it, taking into account how much I payed for a set of big Rubik's cubes (v-cubes, site won't load for some reason). the only problem is that out of the people I know, I'm the one who would enjoy a puzzle with such an indefinite solution. well, there may be a couple of othe...
[20:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Why in FUCKS name did you people - 06Hello and Welcome - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:49] <exec> 08└─If they were omniscient beings, they could tell us which one of them it will be.
[20:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It's appreciated... - 06Hello and Welcome - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:52] <exec> 08└─Yes it is! Thanks for helping to make SN great!
[20:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Hello - 06Hello and Welcome - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:59] <exec> 08└─The above (submitting articles) is going to be my resolution for next year. And I don't normally do the whole resolution thing. I hope to find interesting things for y'all to edit in your new positions!
[20:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Has a petition ever worked? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:14] <exec> 08└─only being slightly hyperbolic... The They have a whole panoply of tried and true methods to keep malcontents in line, i bet thry rarely have to go beyond one or two levels deep to ensure the outcome The They want... it doesn't take getting a picture in your mailbox of your kid at the school playgro...
[20:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:33] <exec> 08└─If they had done it right after the election, they could have picked up even more donations. It's easy pickings, if you can spin the right tale of woe or vindication.
[20:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:People's Front of Judea - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─12 Million Americans Believe Lizard People Run Our Country [theatlantic.com]
[20:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:People's Front of Judea - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─Well fuck, let's get on this train! Riley Martin 2020!
[20:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─It is in the US as well. Trump and the people in this thread would know that if they'd been in the military, or even the scouts. Here, there's a ceremony involved. Like Trump, I had a high draft number (365, the very highest) and served. Guess what, you don't have to be drafted, you can VOLUNTEER! W...
[20:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─Burning the flag is not free speech, it is an act of rebellion and possibly treason. If that's true, then flying the battle flag of the confederacy is even worse, since that was the flag that says "I am at war with America and her ideals." I consider the Confederate flag akin to the ISIS flag. "Firs...
[20:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─Your desire to punish liberals overrides your common sense
[20:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─The minority of the country that lost seem very confused about Trump. So far, Trump's 2.3 million votes behind Clinton. He's only President Elect because of the electoral college. The same thing happened in 2000, and had the popular vote mattered, why might not have been attacked the next year, and...
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─"I don't know man. There's got to be a way to get through to you," says the atheist trying to convince the fundie that God doesn't exist, or vice versa. It's hopeless. It's like trying to convince a schizophrenic that he wasn't a fighter pilot in the Vietnam war, despite the fact that the war ended...
[20:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─the headlong acceleration into normalizing pedo that the left seems to be aiming for Is there some corollary to Goodwin's law where we can just stop the thread when someone accuses someone else of being a pedophile because they disagree about politics?
[20:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─it's probably both but "too many credit cards in their wallets to care about their individual PINs" is definitely true. people here think credit makes you a big shot.
[20:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dinossaurs - 06ATM Insert Skimmers: A Closer Look - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:31] <exec> 08└─yeah right. these dumb fuckers use dial up and ancient piece of shit pos systems.
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:09] <exec> 08└─Well, if the many-billions F-35 needs to be towed, it will be consistent with the Zumwalt needing a tug.
[20:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Good grief - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:15] <exec> 08└─Oh I fully agree. But my guess is that they have a bit more to lose than just failing to sell contracts to the US government. Trump's administration could easily tilt policy against the outsourcing strategy they've been pursuing in recent years, which really has screwed over their stateside workforc...
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─Well, FWIW, I was pretty bad at arithmetic, and disliked it though not intensely. OTOH, I taught myself Algebra and was pretty good (not REALLY good, but pretty good) at math once we got out of arithmetic. E.g., I was the only person in class who could factor quadratic equations in my head and just...
[20:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Challenged Now Seen as Failure - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:38] <exec> 08└─Yearly or biennial standardized testing has reasonable arguments in favor of it. Any thing more frequent is much worse than a mixture of good and bad, it's almost all bad.
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advanced math... - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:46] <exec> 08└─I studied electrical engineering in college. Upon graduation, I began my career as a software engineer. What's the highest math I use on the job? Basic arithmetic, percentages and ratios, and, on a really hard day, an understanding of powers, exponents, and logarithms of base 2. But the last such ha...
[20:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advanced math... - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:49] <exec> 08└─I'll be pedantic and correct my own post by replacing "powers" with "simple polynomials" and "exponents" with "exponentials". Almost always exponentials of base 2, of course!
[20:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advanced math... - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:51] <exec> 08└─You NEVER use calculus? As an EE, I'm *amazed* that you never for example use a PID loop in your code. Maybe you design GUIs, or write browser-side javascript, or write other kinds of software which follows very simple procedures and never has to model parts of the physical world?
[20:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02regression to the mean - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:53] <exec> 08└─This is just regression to the mean. Study writers somehow missed this!? Developing intelligence has multiple factors and this is to be expected...
[20:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution is always "Directed" - 06Directed Evolution Creates Enzyme That Can Produce Carbon-Silicon Bonds - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:34] <exec> 08└─Semantically correct but essentially meaningless. The best kind of correct!! Yeah, it's the selection that's directed.
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[21:20:25] <exec> 08└─Convert the waste matter into energy and feed the energy back into the EPS grid to power the replicators.
[21:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gamma irradiation - 06Treating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria at the Wastewater Plant - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:27] <exec> 08└─Why don't they use the gamma irradiation we should be using on our food to irradiate wastewater? Possibly at far higher doses than used for food.
[21:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:War on Terror... or... - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:37] <exec> 08└─It's only reasonable to need a means of combating perpetual threats of terror when the powers-that-be have defined things like an excited puppy greeting a group of gun-toting strangersstanding up for your constitutional rightsbeing disrespectful of "mah authoritay"using a camerausing your mobile to...
[21:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:40] <exec> 08└─ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊
[21:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:42] <exec> 08└─O has not truly been in power for 6 years. the R's block 100% of what he tried to get done. fault is entirely on the R-tards...
[21:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score:1) 02a little more INGSOC every day - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:44] <exec> 08└─war is peace
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[21:20:59] <exec> 08└─I put it on my Christmas list anyway. I'm sure after I have the puzzle for a while the novelty will wear off and it will end up on the shelf next to the Klein bottle. http://www.kleinbottle.com [kleinbottle.com]
[21:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:Hi! - 06Hello and Welcome - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─Do we need 'Punny' and 'Punishment' moderator choices for good and bad puns in comments?
[21:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Hello - 06Hello and Welcome - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:28] <exec> 08└─For anyone who hasn't seen them and is wondering how to submit an article, the submission guidelines are here [soylentnews.org]. I'd further recommend folks who are submitting their first stories to do so on a Friday or weekend. The submission queue tends to be shorter then and editors have more opp...
[21:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Welcome! - 06Hello and Welcome - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks for stepping up, Snow, Charon, FatPhil, Fnord666, and GreatOutdoors! Thanks also to janrinok and everyone else for keeping the editing room running.
[21:22:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:00] <exec> 08└─Backing up a huge archive is a good move even if there was no political motivation attached, and I'll be continuing to donate to Internet Archive.
[21:22:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─The "left" tried to elect Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton was picked instead, for various reasons. The "left" control nothing. There will be no limited government, not during the Don's reign, and not after a Democrat takes office.
[21:22:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 737 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─None, they're certainly saying that unchecked sharing of fake news is destroying our democracy, and it is. If people can't tell that an abc.com.co story about a protestor being paid is literally fake, and there's no indication on the primary news feed that many people use that that's happening, it'...
[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:26] <exec> 08└─None, they're certainly saying that unchecked sharing of fake news is destroying our democracy, and it is. If people can't tell that an abc.com.co story about a protestor being paid is literally fake, and there's no indication on the primary news feed that many people use that that's happening, it's...
[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─Well, no. That's what he was accused of. His plea deal was the charge they tried to give to Clinton. If I'm remembering how that played out correctly. Don't bang your biographer and give her classified documents, people. He's far and away the least evil of Trump's proposed cabinet, though.
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─He was convicted of mishandling classified information. [washingtonpost.com] It's still a conviction even if you plead down to a lesser charge. "As part of the agreement, Petraeus admitted that he improperly removed and retained highly sensitive information in eight personal notebooks that...
[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─I concede that I was being excessively pedantic and the way you phrased it was fine.
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:36] <exec> 08└─Well, Obama established the precedent that the Secretary of State can purposefully leak classified information without any repercussion, so why wouldn't Petraeus be eligible for the job?
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:38] <exec> 08└─I don't even know what you are alluding to. Perhaps a citation?
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─... aren't those things already illegal, whether you use a flag or a bed sheet? (1) destroying or damaging something with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace; (2) intentionally threatening or intimidating any person, or group of persons, by...
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─The SCOTUS was wrong. Not the first time. Burning the flag is not free speech, it is an act of rebellion and possibly treason. One change in your thinking and it makes perfect sense. ... Most of the alt-right have accepted the notion of white-identity politics as the only answer to the self evident...
[21:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:56] <exec> 08└─The western system is superior in that it takes a hell of a long time and effort to actually learn math, and pragmatically in society it seems to work better to produce kids who only understand, deeply understand, perhaps just the concept of addition, rather than squirting out drones that can be rep...
[21:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, I abandonded EE - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:10] <exec> 08└─You guessed right, my friend, I abandoned electrical engineering. I write general purpose information systems software--nothing embedded, no control systems. The hairiest it gets in my field is making sure transactions are consistent, data is modeled with no redundancy, caches are up to date, all th...
[21:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear "editor" - 06Diamond Batteries From Carbon-14 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:34] <exec> 08└─It's British for "scientists" and they probably got it from reading The Register; that rag never uses the word "scientist".
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[22:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02more fat pipe - 06Trudeau Cabinet Approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 Pipelines, Rejects Northern Gateway - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:13] <exec> 08└─128-bit pipeline-v6
[22:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Gamma irradiation - 06Treating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria at the Wastewater Plant - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:22] <exec> 08└─Why don't they use the gamma irradiation we should be using on our food to irradiate wastewater? Possibly at far higher doses than used for food.
[22:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:35] <exec> 08└─I'm a Voluntarist, an Anarchist, a peace advocate, and a Christian.
[22:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:37] <exec> 08└─This story seems to be about something the administration is doing. And I was reading yesterday how Obama supposedly couldn't close Gitmo since Republicans denied funding to close it, and that sounded like a real copout to me since it shouldn't take funding to just ... stop funding it.
[22:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:39] <exec> 08└─Trump will negotiate with Raul to outsource torture and privatize Gitmo, in exchange for a new Havana casino. Who else offers such a convenient location and extensive experience in arbitrary detentions?
[22:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:41] <exec> 08└─Are you serious, or is that a parody? I ask that because Obama actively defended unconstitutional mass surveillance and other horrendous policies; it wasn't as if he tried desperately to completely end our awful policies and Republicans stopped him.
[22:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:43] <exec> 08└─Kefka's tower comes to mind.
[22:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Hi! - 06Hello and Welcome - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:13] <exec> 08└─No need. A bad pun is its own punishment, a good pun is its own reword.
[22:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Hi! - 06Hello and Welcome - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:15] <exec> 08└─My God, what have we pun?
[22:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Comma - 06Hello and Welcome - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:31] <exec> 08└─> They have been active for over a week but you You missed a comma, you insensitive clod. Also, "welcome" to the new editors. We are watching your punctuation.
[22:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:Must "consider" debating? - 06100k+ Petition: MPs Must Consider Debating Snoopers' Charter Again - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:50] <exec> 08└─So they don't even need to debate it, only "consider" doing so?
[22:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 2954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:07] <exec> 08└─AGAIN, you feel the need to speak out of your fucking ass. The child emperor just made his ridiculous assertion (as a soon to be President, not average Joe Fuckwad) that he should be able to strip citizenship (which is absolutely impossible) over a Constitutionally protected act of protest burning a...
[22:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─This is still basically right after the election. If they had announced it on Nov. 9th, it would have drowned out by other news.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─How do you get real investigate journalism, by your own admission being expensive, to be profitable, or at least breaking even from the investments? That's the hard part. As worthwhile as investigate journalism *is* in our post-truth world, it currently has no value with the public, and they aren't...
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─You're a fucking moron, and I'll burn a flag this week just to celebrate the fact that I can. It's NOT FUCKING TREASON, but a political statement, and we get to protest. Protesting is a sacrosanct right in our country, or just how the fuck did we create it in the first place? Did we change our statu...
[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─Protesting is a sacrosanct right in our country, or just how the fuck did we create it in the first place? Did we change our status from within the English monarchy? Did we operate within the rules and procedures, gain votes, and had the fucking King of England *grant* us our freedom? Or did we fuck...
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:58] <exec> 08└─Go fuck yourself again. We get to burn the flag as an act of Free Speech, protected by the U.S Constitution. The moment you think you can take that away because you don't like the speech, YOU BECAME THE ENEMY, not us. So go fucking die in a fire.
[22:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:10] <exec> 08└─Apt examples, Athanasius. Depressing in their veracity, but apt. It's why America is a process and not a destination, and nobody gets to call the game when the score moves in his direction. In the wake of the election poor dears on DailyKos and HuffingtonPost were raising their fists, proclaiming...
[22:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't Think So - 06Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is Being Used to Attack Tor Users - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:33] <exec> 08└─> Today I learned SVG can contain javascript. But does it? Because from reading the info on the other ends of the link it seem more like the inverse - that javascript can modify SVG, much like it can modify the DOM.
[22:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─but that second part is rarely implemented well
[22:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rote memorization - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:05] <exec> 08└─Rote memorization almost always hurts you in the long run, not helps you. It can make the subjects seem boring and pointless, thereby crushing interest a child might have in said subjects. It can also teach someone that there is nothing more to the subject than memorizing facts. I also don't buy int...
[22:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Challenged Now Seen as Failure - 06Testing Shows "Advanced" Students Not Always Advanced - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:10] <exec> 08└─No, high quality yearly or biennial standardized testing has reasonable arguments in favor of it; the rest memorization tests we have now do not.
[22:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cash is still best - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:32] <exec> 08└─Nobody leaves the system
[22:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cutting out the middlemen - 06IRS Casts Unusually Wide Net for Bitcoin User Data - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:42] <exec> 08└─because they incorrectly either believe that non-dollar transactions aren't taxable
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[23:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:3, Informative) 02This is a big deal in Canada - 06Trudeau Cabinet Approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 Pipelines, Rejects Northern Gateway - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:18] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of differing opinions around these approvals. Where I am from, Alberta, we rely on oil revenues and this year our Provincial deficit is something like $50 billion - not good. Alberta, being a landlocked province, has difficulties attractin buyers of our crude because it can be diffic...
[23:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a big deal in Canada - 06Trudeau Cabinet Approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 Pipelines, Rejects Northern Gateway - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:19] <exec> 08└─They are understandably concerned about what might happen if there were a major oil spill in Vancouver Harbor.
[23:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a big deal in Canada - 06Trudeau Cabinet Approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 Pipelines, Rejects Northern Gateway - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:21] <exec> 08└─That's about 12000 dollars deficit per person living in Alberta. That is such a staggering amount that I don't think they should try to fix that with a pipeline while hoping that the price of crude will keep rising. The Tar Sands are some of the dirtiest, most expensive hydrocarbon sources on the pl...
[23:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A sad day - 06Trudeau Cabinet Approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 Pipelines, Rejects Northern Gateway - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:23] <exec> 08└─Not good to trade away the future generation's environment for more corporate profits. I wonder if the oil companies attended one of Trudeau's "pay for play" dinner meetings.
[23:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A sad day - 06Trudeau Cabinet Approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 Pipelines, Rejects Northern Gateway - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:25] <exec> 08└─No one will notice because Alberta is severely underpopulated. There are more cows than people.
[23:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:A sad day - 06Trudeau Cabinet Approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 Pipelines, Rejects Northern Gateway - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:28] <exec> 08└─I don't know about under populated... I feel like there are too many people here! There very might well be more cows than people though.
[23:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gamma irradiation - 06Treating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria at the Wastewater Plant - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:39] <exec> 08└─> ... a wastewater plant run by morons This may be fairly common. Here (eastern great lakes, prosperous suburb) there was a waste-to-fertilizer plant built about 20 years ago. The town was never able to get it working well enough to make a saleable product (or even a product they could give away and...
[23:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It just gets worse come Jan 20 - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:56] <exec> 08└─Gitmo was the bread while he continued with the regular circus. Republicans blocked it because a) they seem to mostly agree with torturing people they don't like and b) they wanted to make Obama as unpopular as possible. I might have those switched, I don't know what is higher on the R's priority li...
[23:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great, a more efficient way to do things - 06Elite U.S. Special Operators Build Center for Perpetual War on Terror - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:59] <exec> 08└─But is that the problem. Or is it our ability/wisdom/desire to choose between smart and dumb things to do? Hindsight says we do a lot of dumb things. Especially in producing grumpy folks who are ready recruits for the groups we are trying to make go away. But also in producing skilled folks with the...
[23:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sold out :( - 06Jigsaw-Like Puzzle That Maps to a Klein Bottle and Can be Constructed in Multiple Ways - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:16] <exec> 08└─Cool find, ought to be something at http://www.kleinbottle.com [kleinbottle.com] that looks familiar to the resident ancient Greek.
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─Get a grip, chicken little. I'll note in as support for my argument that Jill Stein has managed to raise about twice as much over a two week period for a recount effort than she raised for her entire presidential campaign.
[23:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─Get a grip? You're mentioning Jill Stein's fundraising efforts for a recount in a response about the Internet Archive and censorship. Segue-way much? What the fuck are you smoking, or did you respond to the right post? Jill Stein has nothing to fucking do with the stark reality of a freedom of speec...
[23:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─I explained myself. So unless you have something to contribute, then fuck off.
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─You didn't explain shit, you stupid fuck. I made the assertion that it isn't an overreaction simply based upon the statements of Trump, and the views of the people he is giving power towards. YOU came back with Jill Stein and the recount effort. So how about you contribute, beyond killing yourself f...
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─I didn't think about that. Good point.
[23:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:57] <exec> 08└─None, they're certainly saying that unchecked sharing of fake news is destroying our democracy, and it is.
[23:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:05] <exec> 08└─Will Politico work for you? Obama knew about Hillary's illegal email server and did nothing [politico.com]. He clearly knew it was a no-no because he used a pseudonym, not his real name, as he would have if he thought it was OK for her to do that. Or here's one from the New York Times saying the sam...
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─(1) destroying or damaging a U.S. flag with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace;
[23:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Flag burning side thread - 06Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:25] <exec> 08└─Burning the flag is not free speech, it is an act of rebellion and possibly treason.
[23:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Corporate side-taking hurting employees? - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:30] <exec> 08└─Generally I ignore ACs, but I understand in this case. Also, I have a relevant personal example to report: In 1988 I was working for AMD, whose honcho was a big supporter of Poppy Bush. In the period leading up to the election, everyone knew that the company was having problems and there were lots o...
[23:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Governement power versus economic power? - 06Corporations Make Nice With the Donald - 2396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:34] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe this is close to the nub of the matter. We have video of the Donald promising to run the government more like a business, and every large and "successful" American business is only measured by one number: The PROFITS. From that perspective, IBM's letter to Trump sounds downright patrioti...
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[23:25:34] <exec> 08└─The links to the web site gives a shit tonne of material on the test, how it is given, how it is scored, and how the results are interpreted.
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