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[00:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02pubic roads are public - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:08] <exec> 08└─Since when do you have expectation of privacy when driving, riding in a taxi, riding in a bus, walking on a sidewalk. Celebrities who want not to be noticed are welcome to stay indoors with their giant piles of money and expensive vibrators.
[00:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pubic roads are public - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:36:09] <exec> 08└─I was right with you up until "expensive vibrators". If my dollar store vibrator isn't good enough for them then they aren't good enough for me.
[00:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pubic roads are public - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:36:11] <exec> 08└─So the word "pubic" in the subject didn't immediately tip you to the trolling, and you needed to read until the last word. Iiiinteresting.
[00:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shocking! - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:14] <exec> 08└─Oh my, this is a rather shocking development. No one even speculated that this type of thing would ever be possible.
[00:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Internal Search at Non-HIPPA - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:16] <exec> 08└─Having unrestricted access to customer data is quite common in IT and even in non-medical environments for most customer-facing employees. Only at the biggest companies, who have likely had prior abuses of this info, are there restrictions. Even then it is only logging, so unless there is some haras...
[00:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:perpetual basic income - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:36:27] <exec> 08└─And leftists wonder why liberals are liberals instead of leftists.
[00:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:perpetual basic income - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:36:28] <exec> 08└─See the violence inherent in the system!
[00:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Do we need virtual particles? - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:36:35] <exec> 08└─The headline is misleading, virtual particles are already well-established in quantum theory, and there is already considerable evidence for their existence, such as the Casimir effect. This is just one more piece of such evidence. Also, according to current theory, gravity doesn't directly effect l...
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Not even close to the first: - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─The 1940s called and wanted to remind you of the Lamb Shift which is a change in energy levels in the hydrogen atom due to interactions with virtual positron electron pairs. It was first experimentally observed in 1947. Willis Lamb got the Nobel prize in 1955 for it.
[00:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Get Smart - 06New Nanogenerator May Lead to Human-Powered Smartphones - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:52] <exec> 08└─Higher powered devices will be built into shoes...like Max's phone, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Cone of silence is an option.
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:15] <exec> 08└─The Quislings are all of those Senators and Congressmen who have sat on their fat asses for the last fifty years, and FAILED to pass immigration laws. While they have done nothing, the foreigners (Mexico specifically) has staged a de facto invasion. "Cheap labor, Senor?? We got it - just let our wom...
[00:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:16] <exec> 08└─Nobody's coming after any of those groups. Why? Because they're legal. To the Common Leftist, either you must have open borders and freely admit anyone and everyone who comes to your nation, or else you're Hitler. There is no in-between.
[00:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Met one of the founders - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─"Also, I have two parents" So, you couldn't get in the Marine Corps either?
[00:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:They are not 'immigrants'.. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:33] <exec> 08└─"1.2 million of whom had been born in the United States" YOu pinpoint yet another failure of the Senate and Congress. The specific law cited to grant citizenship to anyone born on our soil was never meant to make citizens of illegal aliens. It was meant to prevent the sons and daughters of former sl...
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re: Be careful what you wish for. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─Illegal doesn't have a color.
[00:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:When you vote for Hitler - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:43] <exec> 08└─Concentrated lagers? Sign me up!
[00:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When you vote for Hitler - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, someone speaks Dutch! Yes, concentration camps were invented and first used by the British during to Boer war to try to isolate the guerilla forces from the civilians. The US did the same thing in Vietnam with the "Hamlets for Peace" program. Now we have Walmarts.
[00:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:When you vote for Hitler - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:48] <exec> 08└─I think the US government pioneered the concentration camps. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem is what, exactly? - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:51] <exec> 08└─The myth that drives both Progressive and cucked Republican is that illegals can't be stopped and trying will simply enrage the Hispanic vote.
[00:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is what, exactly? - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:53] <exec> 08└─The plight of lawbreakers is an SJW cause. If you happen to be brown, speak Mexican, and break the law, SJW's are ready to defend you. Any action that threatens a Mexican speaking brown law breaker has to be wrong. Remember, in the SJW lexicon, "illegal" is a race.
[00:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:31] <exec> 08└─I agree completely that all news organizations have biases. I disagree that news organizations' biases can be usefully placed on a simple left-right spectrum, though. There are all sorts of biases shared by both MSNBC and Fox News that leave both of them spewing total nonsense. And especially when y...
[00:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Society expects you to work - 06 If You Get Rich, You Won’t Quit Working for Long - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know, the sixteenth amendment allowing for a pretty huge change in tax law - prior to that the federal government could only raise funds by apportionment amongst the states.
[00:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:For real, this time? - 06Painless Microneedle Patch Could Replace Needles - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:38] <exec> 08└─I do believe that you are right. People who have gone through boot camp will never forget the "A shot". I can't remember what it was for, but we dropped our pants, and got stuck in the buttock. Shot was recieved early in the morning, then we did extensive calisthenics all day long, late into the eve...
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[01:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't India [forbes.com] doing the same thing, with the same results? Copy-pasting economic policies like this doesn't seem like a great idea. Next thing you know, Trump will want to copy Zimbamwe [wikipedia.org] just for kicks.
[01:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─Isn't India doing the same thing, with the same results?
[01:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02100 bolivar equals about $10 US - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─Where does 2 cents on the black market come from?
[01:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:100 bolivar equals about $10 US - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:36:17] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there's an official exchange rate, where if you give them US$10, they hand you back 100 bolivars. Good luck converting bolivars into hard currency at this rate. That would compete with a free market (in this case, an illegal black market) rate, where if you give them US$10, they hand you bac...
[01:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02hope he's not using his own product - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:19] <exec> 08└─The president said the aim was to tackle transnational gangs which hoard the Venezuelan notes abroad, a move he has in the past described as part of the "economic war" being waged against his government.
[01:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hope he's not using his own product - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:36:21] <exec> 08└─Your point sounds intriguing, but please explain how the hoarding can indirectly give them hard currency that doesn't mess with the rate of inflation.
[01:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pubic roads are public - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:36:32] <exec> 08└─When I'm in a big meeting, I always set my vibrator to ringtone mode.
[01:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Internal Search at Non-HIPPA - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:36:37] <exec> 08└─Most people are decent, but not having adequate protective measures / restrictions makes it easy to be compromised by a criminal. Having patient / personal data connected to the web is just a bad idea. It should require physical human interaction or somesuch barrier for data to be available over the...
[01:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:perpetual basic income - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:36:49] <exec> 08└─I guess I don't know enough rabid leftists, do they really get offended and shocked when you don't agree with everything in the typical leftist media stance?
[01:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem is what, exactly? - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:05] <exec> 08└─So really, why would a grown man-person who lives in the basement of his mother's home need 32 "Tickle-me-Elmo"s? You are very right to be afraid, jmorris. But back to the vibrating toys . . .
[01:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 1973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:38] <exec> 08└─Same here. I don't consider this a news site. There is a big difference between an article accompanied by advertising followed by astroturfed comments, and some of the science articles around here with perhaps 10 comments, but well written and information dense comments. I've noticed the only time t...
[01:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Society expects you to work - 06 If You Get Rich, You Won’t Quit Working for Long - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:06] <exec> 08└─The Sixteenth Amendment only allows in addition taxes on income. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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[02:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Why do people put themselves through this - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:00] <exec> 08└─Buy a last-generation Dell XPS 13 on the Outlet, no touchscreen BS, but the i5 with 8GB of RAM. All the kinks are worked out in terms of compatibility, with Dell-supported patches directly mainlined into the kernel. If you develop on Linux, there's not much else to consider except perhaps something...
[02:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:09] <exec> 08└─Next thing you know, Trump will want to copy Zimbamwe just for kicks.
[02:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:12] <exec> 08└─It was actually proposed by a member of the Obama [washingtonpost.com] administration (here's a fake news [zerohedge.com] source for those so inclined). Copy-pasting economic policies like this doesn't seem like a great idea.
[02:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:100 bolivar equals about $10 US - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:16] <exec> 08└─I slipped a decimal. That should be 5000 bolivars per USD on the black market, not 50,000. However, with an annual inflation rate of 720%, it will only take a little over a year until 50,000 is correct. See the Wikipedia article for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org
[02:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:100 bolivar equals about $10 US - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:18] <exec> 08└─100 bolivar equals about $10 US
[02:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:hope he's not using his own product - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─Here's the plot: Evil transnational gangs, intent on destabilizing the Venezuelan economy, purchase loads of bolivars (trading goods or hard currency for them), and then hoard the cash overseas in 500-bolivar notes. The hoard of bolivars subsequently inflates away to nothing. This means that the evi...
[02:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:24] <exec> 08└─Stupidity must hurt as most can learn no other way. Once this long agony ends and the Socialists are finally installed on lampposts where they belong, it will probably be a generation or two before anyone in Venezuela falls for the typical lies again. But let us not laugh too loudly at their misfort...
[02:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:pubic roads are public - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:35] <exec> 08└─"For the last time Mrs. Johnson! Stop humming the Flight of the Valkyries!"
[02:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Internal Search at Non-HIPPA - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:40] <exec> 08└─> Only at the biggest companies, who have likely had prior abuses of this info, are there restrictions You mean, companies like uber? [theverge.com]
[02:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Virtual - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:01] <exec> 08└─They are real particles, they just get routed to God's Spam Filter really quick. You briefly see them flash on screen in Outlook. Spam is the real Dark Matter and spammers the real Dark Energy.
[02:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:39] <exec> 08└─> The Quislings are all of those Senators and Congressmen who have sat on their fat asses for the last fifty years, and FAILED to pass immigration laws. Lol. For an old fart you don't know shit about the laws during your childhood. It was the 1965 Hart-Celler Act that created the whole concept of "i...
[02:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:41] <exec> 08└─Lol. For an old fart you don't know shit about the laws during your childhood.
[02:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:44] <exec> 08└─First we welcomed the visitors from the sea, and I did not speak out - Because they did not stay long. Then we welcomed their priests, and I did not speak out - Because they were few. Then we welcomed their settlers, and I did not speak out - Because they had trinkets to trade. Then they overwhelmed...
[02:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:The problem is what, exactly? - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:13] <exec> 08└─Everything you say is the popular wisdom, carefully maintained by the mass media. Too bad it is all false. Either simply factually incorrect or based on a bad premise. The problem I have with the plan is deportation will cost billions and create a human rights crisis.
[02:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:40] <exec> 08└─Tango, it's OK for you to say you don't know what a safe space is around here. Nobody's going to beat the shit out of you or even firebomb your locker for admitting it.
[02:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─Very true. I've shunned "News" for years and don't miss it at all. Usually if the co-workers get really worked up, I get to hear all about it anyway. Always more stupid, and the more political it gets, the more stupid it gets. When I do want to check the nation's and world's damage on my handy Bat S...
[02:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planet of the apes - 06Why Can't Monkeys Talk Like Us? Their Vocal Tract Might Not Be the Problem. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:51] <exec> 08└─Is it racist to say all primates look alike?
[02:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:2) 02Re:Rich - 06 If You Get Rich, You Won’t Quit Working for Long - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:40] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there is some kind of economic equivalent to open-source either already in existence, or waiting to be invented?
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[03:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02If people are SERIOUS about this - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:18] <exec> 08└─Clone the GOOD (pre Yosemite) Mac UI, since Apple, Inc. no longer gives a fuck about you. And while you're at it, fix it so you can run more than one fucking instance of a GUI program at a time.
[03:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If people are SERIOUS about this - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:19] <exec> 08└─Just use Windows 7 like the rest of the dinosaur morons who can't deal with any kind of change.
[03:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If people are SERIOUS about this - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:21] <exec> 08└─Yosemite was a vast improvement in the UI. Just today I had to touch some ancient (10.7) Macs, they now look and feel as bad as WinXP - tacky glitter without function.
[03:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02My experience - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:23] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu 16.04 runs flawlessly on my 8-year-old early 2008 MacBook. Everything works... except for the battery life indicator. It used to work in 14.04 but it got broken somewhere along the way. It is also flawless on my 2008 iMac.... except if you put it to sleep. It'll wake up, but the video is com...
[03:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:34] <exec> 08└─If that happens, it won't be the first time Mr. Trump has taken on the mob. http://www.vice.com [vice.com] https://www.washingtonpost.com
[03:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But but - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uMADKWlXt8 [youtube.com] This just moves Venezuela closer to an alternative economy, and gives credence to ending central banks. I'd like to think most people would be alarmed by such currency manipulations, but apparently no. https://www.conservativereview.com
[03:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hope he's not using his own product - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:45] <exec> 08└─In that case removing the notes from circulation will only improve Venezuela's position since the gangs can't recoup any of the value. I guess I was expecting something more along the lines of why they shouldn't remove the notes. I won't read the forbes bit on india with their terrible website...
[03:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hope he's not using his own product - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, I believe that was the point khallow was trying to make. In his line "That's just giving them hard currency indirectly", I believe that the word "them" was referring to the Venezuelan government.
[03:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:hope he's not using his own product - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:49] <exec> 08└─So if you follow the money, that means: Transnational Gangs == Bolivian Government
[03:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:53] <exec> 08└─Hey khallow, I see you're logged into your inflammatory account
[03:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:55] <exec> 08└─Nope. Even the white utopia Sweden was previously a shithole of failed socialist policies, only to be redeemed by libertarian-esque reforms, which useful idiots then praise as proof socialism does work. The mind boggles. People with a sense of history that goes back further than last week point that...
[03:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:57] <exec> 08└─Once this long agony ends and the Socialists are finally installed on lampposts where they belong, it will probably be a generation or two before anyone in Venezuela falls for the typical lies again.
[03:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Internal Search at Non-HIPPA - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 2627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:13] <exec> 08└─Some small guys have the restrictions working just fine. Restrictions are being built in to some platforms. There are some 15-25k per month SAAS offerings designed for medium sized businesses that contain such countermeasures. Technically, it's not terribly difficult to track record level changes wi...
[03:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Get Smart - 06New Nanogenerator May Lead to Human-Powered Smartphones - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:50] <exec> 08└─The Securitate are said to have bugged shoes: Secretly obtaining an American diplomat’s shoes, the Romanians outfitted them with a hidden microphone and transmitter, thus enabling them to monitor the conversations of the unsuspecting target.
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Please stop. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:09] <exec> 08└─Senator Doug Ericksen (may he die on fire) [wastateleg.org] New coverage [seattletimes.com] More coverage [zerohedge.com]. This also contains information about Obama's attack on our rights to protest as well. You protest near one of the Elite's, and it's 10 years in a for-profit prison.
[03:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 3183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:18] <exec> 08└─They didn't fail to do anything. All of the animosity towards illegal immigrants and the taking of jobs is engineered. It has ALWAYS been the game of the Elites to play the pools of workers against themselves. Create classes where none existed before, create class warfare by deliberately importing i...
[03:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is what, exactly? - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:50] <exec> 08└─Questions that will guide you to the Truth:
[03:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:35] <exec> 08└─When over eighty percent of a profession self-identify as progressives, I'm inclined to take their word for it. Just saying...
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[04:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do people put themselves through this - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:36:06] <exec> 08└─> Why do people put themselves through this? Probably because they already own the hardware since it was working with the now deprecated versions of OSX.
[04:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My experience - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:36:12] <exec> 08└─Linux seems to me to have good support for everything on Macs nowadays. Wireless can still be a bit tricky if there's no ethernet port and a broadcom card (unless you're using a distro that has those drivers out of the box, ubuntu mint, and elementary all did last I checked), but otherwise everythin...
[04:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My experience - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:36:14] <exec> 08└─Forgot to add that I would really like to run a BSD on it, but none of the BSDs have an equivalent to the linux broadcom-sta driver which makes that a no-go (because the macbook air has BCM4360 which isn't supported by bwi or bwn).
[04:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:36:28] <exec> 08└─I forgot about that nasty proposal to get rid of large bills. Too bad it would be illegal to make your own currency in the US. But something like this might help end the US's status as the reserve currency of the world.
[04:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:36:42] <exec> 08└─Swedes weren't rummaging in dumpsters for food in large quantities. You have to let things go totally to shit for the lesson to be learned. Look how many times we here in the US have allowed Progs to bring us to the brink of ruin, then we elect a Republican who stabilizes things a bit and we instant...
[04:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, really? Well, then. WTF was Operation Wetback all about? They rounded up the illegals, and sent them back to Mexico. But, the concept of illegal aliens didn't happen until 1965? I think maybe you are an anachronism.
[04:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:05] <exec> 08└─A child born on US soil to a Mexican father and a Mexican mother is NOT a US citizen. As for real US citizens being deported - citation needed. And, yes, I understand all about the elites. But, it isn't just the elite. John and Jane Doe are culpable, for not demanding that congress do it's job. One...
[04:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:07] <exec> 08└─Precisely. Allowing people to live in the US without the appropriate documentation, but not being citizens either leads to all sorts of problems. The exploitation you refer to is a very real problem and one that can only be fixed by enforcing the laws in place. Allowing people to inhabit a reality o...
[04:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not a quisling, I'm somebody who has lived abroad and realizes just how precarious it is to live in a foreign country without documentation. I had my documentation, but just losing it could result in all sorts of problems potentially including being arrested and deported. Not to mention what une...
[04:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not quite - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:21] <exec> 08└─> How bout "deplorables" that just means white, right? Not quite. It means whites with the initials V.L.M. Do you know anyone like that?
[04:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02you don't see color - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:32] <exec> 08└─> Illegal doesn't have a color. And as we all know, you don't see color either.
[04:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:They are not 'immigrants'.. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:34] <exec> 08└─Japanese-Americans were held under the Alien Enemies Act, which is supposed to apply "whenever there shall be a declared war." http://avalon.law.yale.edu [yale.edu] The Congress has long been (properly) hesitant to declare war.
[04:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:19] <exec> 08└─hahaha. there's no left left anymore. what the fuck are you on about? just throwing conservative talking-points at us, again, buzzard? conservatives have gotton much worse over the last few decades. and they all blindly chant the party line, calling anyone they disagree with 'libural' (sic) or even...
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[05:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Redundancy is bad, mmkay. - 06Having an Extra Chromosome Has a Surprising Effect on Cancer - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:06] <exec> 08└─That's why when you're made redundant, that's your cue to get cancer and die a slow painful death without health insurance.
[05:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02What are you talking about? - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:21] <exec> 08└─Seriously! I have no idea what this article is about. I have only run Linux since 1995, so maybe I am out of date on these recent controversies? Why would someone want to run Linux on Mac hardware? Isn't that like putting your reproductive organs into a Waring Blender? Why would anyone do that? On t...
[05:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:36:32] <exec> 08└─This is mostly just for propaganda purposes. The incompetent and corrupt government is using this to try and cover up their own incompetence. Such as recently when they seized millions of dollars in toys to give to the children because the company was speculating on their future value. There's no re...
[05:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:But but - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:36:37] <exec> 08└─That second link had an example of some spectacularly bad economic research. Last, but certainly not least, two socialist university professors wrote the following in a 2014 article titled “Austerity/Immiseration Capitalism: What Can We Learn From Venezuelan Socialism?” Once President Chávez...
[05:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:100 bolivar equals about $10 US - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:36:45] <exec> 08└─They don't need to be good, they just need to be better. China has a similar situation where there are limits on exchanging cash as part of its effort to maintain a favorable exchange rate. If you know where to go there are unofficial exchanges that pay better rates. My guess id's that they're mostl...
[05:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:hope he's not using his own product - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:36:52] <exec> 08└─In that case removing the notes from circulation will only improve Venezuela's position since the gangs can't recoup any of the value.
[05:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:36:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I meant to post that under my Francis account. Admins plz fix, thx.
[05:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:02] <exec> 08└─The Socialists there have control of the courts, which found that the recall effort against President Maduro cannot proceed [aljazeera.com] due to fraudulent collection of signatures. So if they are removing elections as a path to change, the next steps could be bloody.
[05:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:04] <exec> 08└─Not calling for their deaths, just being realistic. There are exceptions, Gorbechev survived the fall of the Soviet Union; many of the tyrants in the slave states didn't fare so well. Ortega lost his power and actually got himself elected again. But the usual rule for Fascists and Socialists is to r...
[05:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The value of moderation? - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:36] <exec> 08└─Hmmm well this will almost certainly do no good, but i'll give it a shot. I'm beginning to think you're actually sincere in your beliefs, beliefs which I consider to be mostly horrendous, but thats by the by. I think sometimes, with questions like "The moderate position is?" you'd actually like to h...
[05:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All hobbies are "work" - 06 If You Get Rich, You Won’t Quit Working for Long - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:37] <exec> 08└─What about this one. [telegraph.co.uk] I haven't quite figured out why those guys are paid so much. Now, the guest stars who fly in and have their names in the marquee, they're different because they're pulling in crowds and jacking up the ticket prices.
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[06:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fascinating! - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:01] <exec> 08└─Nice writeup! Both this and your previous NSF article were quite interesting to read.
[06:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lennart Poettering disses - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:02] <exec> 08└─Coming 3.. 2.. 1..
[06:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lennart Poettering disses - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:36:04] <exec> 08└─Linus is an asshole and we'll all be happier after Linus dies and takes Linux down with him, but it would be even better if Linus would take the Reiser way out and murder his own project.
[06:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lennart Poettering disses - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:36:06] <exec> 08└─And then Linux gets an instant rename to systemd-kernel! Long live Lennart the greatest!
[06:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Lessons to take away - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:08] <exec> 08└─First we should note that there is a downside to willy-nilly stuffing in support for obsolete formats that have implementations that likely have not had a lot of attention paid to them. Second we really need to start designing everything with a hostile actor in mind. Even if we accept that gstreamer...
[06:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Yeah well, Down syndrome has other drawbacks - 06Having an Extra Chromosome Has a Surprising Effect on Cancer - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:17] <exec> 08└─Cancer is the least worry of those who happen to have three chromosomes. Just sayin'...
[06:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:subject: this is not freaking email - 06Samsung Software Update Will Brick Few Note 7s Left in the Wild - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:12] <exec> 08└─PLEASE, disregard the AC response and come back and burn our capital now, only this time get it right and do it when congress is IN SESSION.
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[07:37:26] <exec> 08└─Some small guys have the restrictions working just fine. Restrictions are being built in to some platforms. There are some 15-25k per month SAAS offerings designed for medium sized businesses that contain such countermeasures. Technically, it's not terribly difficult to track record level changes wi...
[07:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:33] <exec> 08└─A child born on US soil to a Mexican father and a Mexican mother is NOT a US citizen.
[07:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:34] <exec> 08└─Do you need a timeout, aristarchus?
[07:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:36] <exec> 08└─No, it's over. I feel better now. But if each an every Soylentil could every day remind Runaway1956 what an ass he is, I would much appreciate it.
[07:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:38] <exec> 08└─As a child that was born on US soil, to parents neither of whom were citizens at the time, I take offence at this comment. You may not be aware, since you are from a former rebel slave-holding state, that this was a major point of contention prior to the civil war. If a child was born to slaves, in...
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[08:38:36] <exec> 08└─I don't give one flying fuck how much offense you may take - it means nothing that you are offended. Is that clear enough for you? You are not an American. I am an American. Save your history lessons - they are wasted on me because I already know all of that. I am the one who cited the REASON for th...
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[08:39:32] <exec> 08└─When I was growing up, in a place where TV's "news" were actually a continuous set of information
[08:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Need clarification ... - 06LIGO Data Probes Where General Relativity Might Break Down - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:56] <exec> 08└─Found a decent video about it: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[09:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02typical - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:03] <exec> 08└─"and through typical neighborhoods" Uhhhhhh - you're talking about Austin, Texas? Typical? Huh?
[09:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Editors didn't get the memo? - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:05] <exec> 08└─Headline should say "Alphabet's self-driving car project." ;-)
[09:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Sounds just like ME! - 06The Fundamentals of Computer Science, Explained Through Sand - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:12] <exec> 08└─That means that the Random Access Memory machine could well keep working forever, without solving its problem.
[09:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Obligatory xkcd - 06The Fundamentals of Computer Science, Explained Through Sand - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:15] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/505/ [xkcd.com] Note that grains of sand are just miniature rocks. So sand computing is nothing but a miniaturised version of rock computing.
[09:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lessons to take away - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:36:27] <exec> 08└─It *was* designed with malicious actors in mind. The author missed two clamps on a couple of opcodes.
[09:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lessons to take away - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:36:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, but remember that worse is better. An end user is not that likely to be a victim of an exploit, and even if they are compromised, it is often too hard to identify which component led to the eventual malware infection. And once You are being blackmailed for decryption keys for Your stuff, it is...
[09:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02The Sony SPC700, not the Ricoh 5A22. - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:30] <exec> 08└─From TFA: [UPDATE 13 Dec 2016 -- a couple of competent readers inform me that I've named the wrong processor! The actual emulated processor where the fault lies is the Sony SPC700, not the Ricoh 5A22. Whoops. The SPC700 is exclusively an audio co-processor. The 5A22, which is not emulated by Game Mu...
[09:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:My experience - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:36:52] <exec> 08└─but the video is completely thrashed If you don't know the difference between trashed and thrashed, you had better stay well clear of S&M! And perhaps spend more time with a dictionary.
[09:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Grammar - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:55] <exec> 08└─It's not "on the Mac", but "on Macs". I don't care what Apple's marketing department uses, please use proper English.
[09:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02Not even close to the first: - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:07] <exec> 08└─The 1940s called and wanted to remind you of the Lamb Shift which is a change in energy levels in the hydrogen atom due to interactions with virtual positron electron pairs. It was first experimentally observed in 1947. Willis Lamb got the Nobel prize in 1955 for it.
[09:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Not likely - 06New Nanogenerator May Lead to Human-Powered Smartphones - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:19] <exec> 08└─My first impression is to get some massive part of the machine ( like the battery ) mechanically isolated in such a manner as to harness the energy of the device being moved... you know, the Force=Mass*Acceleration thing, recovering the energy - just like you said : Force*Distance. Using similar par...
[09:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:01] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Some time ago, a couple years or more, someone suggested that "undocumented" aliens be given some status as second class citizens. To me, it seems that is the status they have today - second class citizens. They are permitted to work and live here, and the law turns a blind eye, but there is...
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[10:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rickatech [4150] (Score:1) 02... to finally shut it down. - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:07] <exec> 08└─Why does this seem like precurser to shutting down the project. Apple recently spun down their car project. Google has better more lucrative ways to use AI than tie it to a highly regulated automotive industry applications.
[10:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Waymo is lamo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:08] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they have figured out a better name? Even Way.ly or waymo.io sound better than this!
[10:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fascinating! - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:36:24] <exec> 08└─And trolls.
[10:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Lessons to take away - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:36:31] <exec> 08└─But the philosophy of recent desktop linux says ONE Desktop ONE Configuration ONE User experience therefore ONE Zero day for all. You are advocating a return to the long list of configuration menus, or to booting gentoo. I agree.
[10:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:32] <exec> 08└─failed socialist policies, only to be redeemed by libertarian-esque reforms
[10:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't use Uber - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:52] <exec> 08└─Unless I can use Uber anonymously (pay cash, etc.) and without having to use their proprietary software, then it is worthless.
[10:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Celebrities use Uber ? - 06Former Uber Employee Claims Widespread Privacy Problems - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:54] <exec> 08└─No comment.
[10:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Not likely - 06New Nanogenerator May Lead to Human-Powered Smartphones - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:27] <exec> 08└─My first impression is to get some massive part of the machine ...isolated in such a manner as to harness the energy of the device being moved.
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[11:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02The kernel also contains.... - 06Linux 4.9 Released - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:07] <exec> 08└─Commit 4bcc595ccd80decb4245096e3d1258989c50ed41, which perhaps has the longest commit message I've ever seen. Those familiar with the kernel development will recognise those changes for the recent sweary and insulty shitstorm on the LKML. It's nice to see that Linus has the decorum to not copy those...
[11:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:The kernel also contains.... - 06Linux 4.9 Released - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:08] <exec> 08└─... unless appropriate.
[11:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Waymo is lamo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:20] <exec> 08└─I can think of some names that are WayMo better.
[11:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do people put themselves through this - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:37:01] <exec> 08└─I put my money where my mouth was and bought a System76 laptop. Extremely nice machine with zero problems, and doesn't throw money to Microsoft or Apple. A little pricier than a Dell, but less than Apple.
[11:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do people put themselves through this - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:37:02] <exec> 08└─I missed the 16:10 display option.
[11:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:They are not 'immigrants'.. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:42] <exec> 08└─End of discussion.
[11:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:32] <exec> 08└─You think it's just conservatives calling you libtards? Huh. Well, I guess anything looks conservative when you're that far off the scale.
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[12:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:02] <exec> 08└─See what happens when you let a recession linger for a decade? This is what happens! Scams become commonplace, grifting becomes standard business practice, and everyone suffers the consequences. Where's our 21st century New Deal? Where's our 21st century WPA? Where's government investment in product...
[12:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:03] <exec> 08└─Ransomware got into your network because you forgot to turn on Wi-Fi Protected Access?
[12:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:05] <exec> 08└─And you were helpless because you have no off-site tape backups. Come back 1970's all is forgiven - except the wide trousers!
[12:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Unintended Consequences of the DMCA - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:07] <exec> 08└─So, we thought having the masses illiterate to computer science and what the machines do was a good idea. The same thing would happen in the paper world if our Congress could be duped into passing law that made reading and understanding a legal contract to be illegal.
[12:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unintended Consequences of the DMCA - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't we just have a story about a blog where some guy reverse engineered an emulator to fix a security flaw? You're so incredibly fucking ignorant you truly believe DMCA === BAD. Well after years of living among moronic shit like you, I've reached the only possible conclusion: there's no hope for...
[12:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The kernel also contains.... - 06Linux 4.9 Released - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:19] <exec> 08└─Long commit messages are in violation of xkcd 1296. Commit messages which are tl;dr will be rejected with prejudice.
[12:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:31] <exec> 08└─How about Where's Waldo? Complete with a distinctive paint scheme. They have to spin off a separate company so it can have virtually no assets when they lose the inevitable lawsuits. mastering multi-lane four-way stops, and anticipating what unpredictable humans will do on the road
[12:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:32] <exec> 08└─"I'm going to go first, because I know the SDC will yield." Just change SDC to "timid old woman", and we already have that situation. It doesn't even take a multi-lane 4-way stop to confuse many people. One lane, from each of three, four, or five directions is sufficient to tie people into knots. I...
[12:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:35] <exec> 08└─I get the idea the SDC's will discover each other and negotiate who is doing what before we have time to realize the car is approaching the stop sign. If we were all SDC, we would not even need the sign or the stop. They would already have it figured out who goes at what speed so they all neatly mis...
[12:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:What are you talking about? - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:25] <exec> 08└─I have only run Linux since 1995, so maybe I am out of date on these recent controversies? Why would someone want to run Linux on Mac hardware?
[12:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Keep drinking that koolaide - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:48] <exec> 08└─You know that when they limit how much cash you can transfer out of Yuan and into $US, that keeps the value of the Yuan higher... Don't let simple facts get in the way of your China bashing though.
[12:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Not likely - 06New Nanogenerator May Lead to Human-Powered Smartphones - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:56] <exec> 08└─Yep, I was thinking along the lines of what powered the self-winding watch when I posted that. I like the idea, only now I want to draw off the energy as electrical instead of mechanical, so some sort of energy conversion technology will be called for. Electromagnetic is the first that came to mind...
[12:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally! A purpose for the jobless scum! - 06New Nanogenerator May Lead to Human-Powered Smartphones - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:01] <exec> 08└─Now, phone charging is as easy as a velcro wristband and a copy of your favorite porn magazine...
[12:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:They are not 'immigrants'.. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:03] <exec> 08└─Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, Any person who has a foreign embassy to represent him in court, is not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof". Mexico interferes in our judicial system routinely, protecting the "rights" of it's c...
[12:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:They are not 'immigrants'.. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:04] <exec> 08└─If it's so cut and dried, why is it even up for discussion? Apparently there are some courts that think differently to you. "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
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[13:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:13] <exec> 08└─That's where you're wrong, pal, I don't need backups because I memorized my code and if it gets erased I can just toggle switches on the panel to input it again.
[13:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:15] <exec> 08└─Generally ransomeware gets onto a network because one tard clicks an executable email attachment, encrypting user files on that machines and any network connected storage.
[13:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unintended Consequences of the DMCA - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:19] <exec> 08└─You're so incredibly fucking ignorant you truly believe DMCA === BAD.
[13:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:52] <exec> 08└─What he is doing is clear, and the reason is obvious when viewed as a math problem. I am surprised he blamed external sources hoarding the bolivar note. If it was the USA, he'd have said pedo-islamafascism that make children abuse kittens and puppies while snorting cocain on the rolled bills as they...
[13:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:12] <exec> 08└─Basically what you're saying is that libertarian socialism works
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally! A purpose for the jobless scum! - 06New Nanogenerator May Lead to Human-Powered Smartphones - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:12] <exec> 08└─You mean the phone can be charged in only two minu--- uh, I mean, they still sell porn magazines?
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[14:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:19] <exec> 08└─That and the useless fucking operating system used allowed it by default action. It has only been happening for more than decade but change that behaviour nah you must be joking the user will not like the inconvenience of not being infected at every turn. How else are they going to get rich or see s...
[14:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waymo is lamo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the name of a fat farm.
[14:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:49] <exec> 08└─> Did they anticipate this: If I see a self-driving car at a four-way stop, I'm going to go first, because I know the SDC will yield. Soon, all SDCs will be queued up at four way stops, waiting for the end of rush hour. And there is nothing wrong with that. If you are in a self driving car, you are...
[14:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Lennart Poettering disses - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:09] <exec> 08└─Well first thing I thought of when I seen gstreamer in the summary was Pottering strikes again and just why does this clown get to keep a job let alone code anywhere in the OS.
[14:37:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Lessons to take away - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 565 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:10] <exec> 08└─First we should note that there is a downside to willy-nilly stuffing in support for obsolete formats that have implementations that likely have not had a lot of attention paid to them. Second we really need to start designing everything with a hostile actor in mind. Even if we accept that gstreamer...
[14:37:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KritonK [465] 02The Sony SPC700, not the Ricoh 5A22. - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:15] <exec> 08└─From TFA: [UPDATE 13 Dec 2016 -- a couple of competent readers inform me that I've named the wrong processor! The actual emulated processor where the fault lies is the Sony SPC700, not the Ricoh 5A22. Whoops. The SPC700 is exclusively an audio co-processor. The 5A22, which is not emulated by Game Mu...
[14:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Yeah well, Down syndrome has other drawbacks - 06Having an Extra Chromosome Has a Surprising Effect on Cancer - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─Downs Syndrome is specific to having a third copy of all or part of chromosome 21, there are 22 other chromosome pairs present as well... In addition, cancer cells are (generally?) mutants themselves, genetically distinct from the surrounding normal tissue, with some of those mutations being respons...
[14:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But but - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:01] <exec> 08└─He might have been able to do that for a short amount of time. But turns out making everyone equal in the short term destroys your economy in the long term because if you get participation trophy for minimal effort why bother working hard? We can all be winners....
[14:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:26] <exec> 08└─If the collection of signatures was fraudulent, then the court's decision was correct, the petition is not valid, and that particular recall petition should not go through.
[14:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:29] <exec> 08└─Poor jmorris. His opinions run a little further outside than can be comfortably contained in a liberal world view, and is always marked troll for simply coloring outside the lines.
[14:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:31] <exec> 08└─No, Venezuela's problem is and has always been that it is a petrostate. You can look at other countries in the Middle East or Africa and say that their problems are caused by adherence to an extreme version of Islam or tribal loyalties and corruption but those are just surface phenomena unrelated to...
[14:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:perpetual basic income - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:04] <exec> 08└─Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
[14:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:They are not 'immigrants'.. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:33] <exec> 08└─Just because you told me to - End of discussion.
[14:40:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:54] <exec> 08└─I make a distinction between disagreeing with someone and starting a fight. You can disagree without calling someone names and insulting their character.
[14:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:11] <exec> 08└─I'd say that lays it bare, quite succinctly. The author in TFA did make a good point: Read a good book on a subject and you'll have a vastly better grasp of it than years of watching the news will ever give you. It makes sense on many levels, not least of which is the time investment. Think of all t...
[14:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:15] <exec> 08└─We just need a Hell's Kitchen rule to disallow the politics, and get back to enjoying the science and technology together. Which is getting harder and harder to distinguish from the politics as well. I keep trying to stay away from the acrimony, but then an Elite power toady has to say something tha...
[14:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:17] <exec> 08└─That was always my attitude from the early days of Slashdot. I figured that if something non-technical that was really newsworthy found its way onto Slashdot, then it would be important and that the discussion around it would help me get to the heart of the issue much faster. So it was a screen that...
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[15:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02People in the embassy - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─Probably sold them to smugglers at 5x, who then sold them back home for another 5x.
[15:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Escort services - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:23] <exec> 08└─There used to be a free weekly tabloid in my city that devoted an entire section for ads for escort services. They folded, but I don't think it was because of those ads.
[15:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:39] <exec> 08└─Where's our 21st century New Deal? Where's our 21st century WPA? Where's government investment in productive society?
[15:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:05] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is, in the future we'll all be stars on the Bang Bus Channel.
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:3, Funny) 02Gonna be more like - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─"Whamo!" (segue into ambulance/fire truck audio)
[15:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0220 min Review - 06Having an Extra Chromosome Has a Surprising Effect on Cancer - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─ctrl-F "blind" : FAIL dynamite plots : FAIL [1] Report exact sample sizes : FAIL [2] Improper citations : FAIL [3]
[15:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Grammar - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:04] <exec> 08└─Why do you think Macs are so expensive? They just build one and use their quantum cloning machine to duplicate it. The cloning machine was shatteringly expensive. They're still paying it off in installments.
[15:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:2) 02Quirks - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:06] <exec> 08└─they possess various custom chips and undocumented quirks that the community needs to painstakingly reverse-engineer
[15:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:2) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:25] <exec> 08└─It's not illegal to make your own currency. It's illegal to counterfeit US currency, but things like Bitcoin and some "wooden nickle" type tokens that some smaller towns have used over the years are legal. Here's an old (1933) example: http://www.nationalsilverdollarroundtable.org
[15:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:26] <exec> 08└─The U.S. has bills in larger denominations, from $500 to $100,000. They were last printed in 1945 and it was announced in 1969 that they would be phased out. http://mentalfloss.com [mentalfloss.com]
[15:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:perpetual basic income - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:26] <exec> 08└─No, they're definitely more inclined to the resigned acceptance(at least until their glorious revolution) that no one takes their ideas seriously. What sucks for them is that I dosorta take their ideas seriously until the anti-intellectualism hits and I have to say "Do you want Stalins? Because that...
[15:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:37] <exec> 08└─A Mexican child, born to two Mexican citizens, is, by birth, a Mexican and not a citizen of the United States.
[15:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:39] <exec> 08└─No, the law is not "very clear". A law that was passed to deal with the children of former slaves has been misappropriated for an entirely different group of people. There was no discussion of immigrants, migrant workers, cheap labor, or any of today's catch phrases when the amendment was passed. Th...
[15:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:41] <exec> 08└─Uh oh. Looks like someone needs a safe space.
[15:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:41] <exec> 08└─How do I know whether I know what it is? :) The first 2 google results Safe space is a term for an area or forum where either a marginalised group are not supposed to face standard mainstream stereotypes and marginalisation, or in which a shared political or social viewpoint is required to particip...
[15:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:55] <exec> 08└─I do as well. Also, if the discussion veers into politics at least no one here does the usual stupid things like conflate socialism with fascism. Our fascists are true fascists, and our socialists are true socialists. The ideological consistency and intellectual rigor are refreshing.
[15:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:The value of moderation? - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:02] <exec> 08└─Well said.
[15:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:The value of moderation? - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:04] <exec> 08└─I agree we're on the verge of Civil War 2.0. But the sides in that coming war are not the sides you think they are. Your grasp of political reality are frozen in Cold War amber, unable and unwilling to adjust to what the world is today. "Left vs. Right," "Liberal vs. Conservative," "Communist vs. Fa...
[15:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:06] <exec> 08└─That was my practice as well for a long time. I would read sources like Huffington Post and Drudge side-by-side. This election ended the reading of Huffington Post and its confederates, for me. The heights of self-delusion and propaganda they were going to to cram Hillary down everyone's throats, in...
[15:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─The trouble with that thinking is that "progressive" (or "conservative", or "libertarian", or any other political label) has no bearing on the question of whether the information in question is either accurate or useful. And yes, that goes just as much for your own political affiliation as anybody e...
[15:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 2465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:13] <exec> 08└─"When over eighty percent of a profession self-identify as progressives, I'm inclined to take their word for it. Just saying..." Well, having difficulty confirming that statement without going to far right sights like MRC or The Federalist. But I did find a decent study that shows the breakdown of s...
[15:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:17] <exec> 08└─That has happened on that side of the discursive divide, but it has happened on the other side, too. "Rethuglican," "Morans (a DailyKos joke about Tea Partiers' signs)," etc. Sound familiar? Many have sunk to that level, everywhere, because it's easier to react than to think. It's sheer mental lazin...
[15:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:23] <exec> 08└─I would recommend Al Jazeera as an additional source for someone looking to step outside the Narrative and see things from a different angle.
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[16:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sanctions. - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:12] <exec> 08└─What stops a country like China, India, Russia, etc. from selling or re-selling to Iran?
[16:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanctions. - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:13] <exec> 08└─Or manufacturing their own and selling them to Iran? Nothing. Nothing at all. The US hardly has a monopoly on PC manufacturing.
[16:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02News? - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:15] <exec> 08└─OK, anyone doing business with Iran is a Bad Thing. And Dell is a technology company, so stuff they do is, I guess, on target. But really, guys? This? From the look of the pricing here, Dell sold 8-10 desktop computers and a service contract to two entities based in friendly countries, except those...
[16:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:39] <exec> 08└─This is just plain stupid. The ransomware, by and large, isn't even coming from the US, it's coming from offshore, especially Russia. This ransomware epidemic is just something else you can blame on the Windows monoculture and the pathetic security in the Windows OS itself. If you can click on an em...
[16:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:The kernel also contains.... - 06Linux 4.9 Released - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─I have to say, I'm thoroughly impressed by the depth of the commit message: Explaining the entire history of the behavior, and exactly why the change is going in there. One more reason I generally support Linus' decision-making.
[16:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Waymo is lamo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:04] <exec> 08└─I would have picked: KnowGo! (think about the pronounciation of that)
[16:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Lessons to take away - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─Well more like the clamps were required to make it properly wrap around 8bit values stored in 32bit ints. And it looks like the problems largely came from the implementation of the custom opcodes for that specific processor instead of the generic 6502 emulation it was based on. The longterm solution...
[16:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 02Re:My experience - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:06] <exec> 08└─Everything works... except for the battery life indicator.
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:23] <exec> 08└─It is interesting how lazy propaganda can be. I recall various fascist and communist governments of the 20th Century did a fair amount of that too (classic example is Nazi Germany's staged attack on a German radio station in order to justify invasion of Poland). I guess this is for the true-believer...
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Keep drinking that koolaide - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─No, you can't. There are limits on that, there are also limits on how much cash you can take across the border as well as how much you can transfer. I lived there for over a year, you don't think it occurred to me to inquire about how to repatriate my money when I was done? Just out of curiosity, ho...
[16:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:02] <exec> 08└─Socialism is never the answer to any possible question.
[16:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Crunching the numbers - 06New Nanogenerator May Lead to Human-Powered Smartphones - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:06] <exec> 08└─Oblig XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[16:40:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:34] <exec> 08└─The Quislings are all of those Senators and Congressmen who have sat on their fat asses for the last fifty years, and FAILED to pass immigration laws. While they have done nothing, the foreigners (Mexico specifically) has staged a de facto invasion. "Cheap labor, Senor?? We got it - just let our wom...
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[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02censorship and suppression - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─So many companies forbid discussion of pay, make it a termination offense to talk about it. And everyone knew what everyone else made anyway. Such a futile, useless, and demeaning policy. It's basically saying that workers are children. Don't have the maturity to accept that others might be receivin...
[17:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:News? - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─two entities based in friendly countries, except those entities were Iranian embassies.
[17:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why buy from Dell? - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:29] <exec> 08└─Go with a white box and don't pay 25% profit margins for Dell.
[17:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Unintended Consequences of the DMCA - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:52] <exec> 08└─In this story [soylentnews.org] the emulator was actually open source. The Canadian version of the DMCA [justice.gc.ca] got delayed by about 12 years, and has exemptions [justice.gc.ca] for: Law enforcement and national security, Interoperability of computer programs, Encryption research, Security (...
[17:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Obama! - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:56] <exec> 08└─Wait -- you wrote all of that and you didn't specifically blame Obamacare for any of it! What kind of a moron are you, using genuine issues as a basis for your concerns?
[17:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:25] <exec> 08└─Considering we will not have jobs. Yeah selling ourselves for crack may not be far off.
[17:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:50] <exec> 08└─So the US doesn't actually have those larger currency bills.
[17:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:perpetual basic income - 06Scientists Identifiy the First Evidence of ‘Virtual Particles’ Hopping in and Out of Existence - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:52] <exec> 08└─Because the US doesn't have any leftists. Left of fascism isn't left, its just not as extremely far right.
[17:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:50] <exec> 08└─I'm related to immigrants that came here legally and illegally
[17:40:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 3183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:57] <exec> 08└─They didn't fail to do anything. All of the animosity towards illegal immigrants and the taking of jobs is engineered. It has ALWAYS been the game of the Elites to play the pools of workers against themselves. Create classes where none existed before, create class warfare by deliberately importing i...
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[17:41:07] <exec> 08└─From the Fourteenth Amendment (collect the whole set): All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
[17:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02The government has excluded some people already - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 2243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:09] <exec> 08└─http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/617 [nativeamericannetroots.net] The 14th Amendment and American Indians Posted on August 4, 2010 by Ojibwa ( – promoted by navajo) There has been a lot of talk recently by politicians, reporters, pundits, legal scholars, and others about the Fourteenth Amen...
[17:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:12] <exec> 08└─If you're going to go run your mouth, be sure you know what you're saying. From the US Constitution All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
[17:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02jus soli is not the basis of the 14th amendment - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 4000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:15] <exec> 08└─To summarize - it was ALL ABOUT the freed slaves, and their children. http://sageamericanhistory.net [sageamericanhistory.net] The Battle Lines Are Drawn. The fact that President Johnson was a Democrat, placed on the National Union party ticket in 1864 by Presi...
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[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─Competition is good and we need more of it.
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Looks Good - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─Assuming Linux will get support for the Zen notebook chips (and I don't see why not), looks like I'll make the switch to AMD for my next notebook computer late next year. May not be as powerful as the Kaby Lake i7 processor, but the Philadelphian in me has to root for the underdog. :P
[18:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Looks Good - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─> but the Philadelphian in me has to root for the underdog. Nobody roots for the overdog. Even when they do, they convince themselves through one form or another of bizzaro logic that their favorite is actually the underdog.
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Jobs - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─... and they say the spirit of Steve Jobs is gone.
[18:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:4, Touché) 02Great news!! - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─This is great! It's good to see abusive corporations like this put in their place, and forced to fairly compensate the workers they've mistreated all these years. There's 9 years of abuse here, with horribly egregious offenses including failure to provide full pay upon termination, not to mention fo...
[18:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Great news!! - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─I just realized that if those 21k employees convince... let's say 2 people on average to stop buying Apple products, it will have a bigger dent on Apple than that 2 mil. There's also the tiny amount of bad press to factor in. All in all, Apple may have just lost a cool $10 million!
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Great news!! - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe society would be better off if "laborers" weren't such entitled, whining bitches grabbing for as much loot as they can get their grubby, dirty, unwashed hands on.
[18:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great news!! - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:30] <exec> 08└─Unquestionably society would be better if "companies" weren't such entitled, whining bitches grabbing for as much loot as they can get their grubby, dirty, unwashed hands on.
[18:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Great... - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:32] <exec> 08└─$2M - $1.5M in legal fees / 21,000 plaintiffs = $23.80 per person, if you provide adequate proof of employment during the applicable time period.
[18:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Rule of thumb for California - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─If you live in California and an employer is late in delivering the final paycheck, you can thoroughly hang that employer out to dry with the Department of Industrial Relations. File a complaint with them, and from the moment of termination until the case is finally resolved, up to 30 days (includin...
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanctions. - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─The US can't prevent you from selling to Iran directly. But the US can deny you access to their markets (especially financial markets) because you are doing business with people they consider unpleasant. Get a $6k contract with Iran, get locked out of US market ... Most companies just make a simple...
[18:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02BackSoy - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:58] <exec> 08└─Who wants to start our own online classifieds section? We can cater to the most obscure niches imaginable! I recommend we launch in the San Diego area. Alternatively, let's get together and whore out vulnerable women. Men too, cuz why not?
[18:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:BackSoy - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, let's get together and whore out vulnerable women. Men too, cuz why not?
[18:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02The right decision - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:01] <exec> 08└─Whether one likes the de facto service backpage.com provides or not, what it was doing is not pimping. Furthermore, the court's decision to dismiss the charges affirms the rare wisdom of Congress in its decision to give those providing services such as backpage.com immunity from prosecution if their...
[18:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The right decision - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:04] <exec> 08└─> A bad day for those fighting the spread of prostitution to the Internet Maybe, one day, the people wishing to prostitute themselves won't be hunted. Proper regulation, registration, and enforcement would provide the offer to address a demand which is obviously not going away. It's a lot easier to...
[18:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The right decision - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:06] <exec> 08└─- living, not leaving - (hump day brain fart)
[18:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No. A good day for sex-worker safety. - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─> A bad day for those fighting the spread of prostitution to the Internet, however. No, a bad day for people driving prostitution back to the streets. Backpage (and craigslist before that god damn hypocrite spitzer [nypost.com] bullied them into shutting down their sex ads section) were the most eff...
[18:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The right decision - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:10] <exec> 08└─If Backpage dies, I can only imagine something crazier will take its place. Perhaps a Freenet-esque decentralized text network with a mobile app frontend. Or a Backpage clone hosted in Crimea or Sealand 2.0 or someplace. In either case, the terminology prohibiting prostitution can be thrown out. Bac...
[18:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unintended Consequences of the DMCA - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─You'll be getting a DMCA notice to remove your post because of your blatant copyright violation. You quoted a portion of the GP's post without explicit written permission. And before you object keep in mind that no use of GP's worthless post can be considered "fair use".
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:57] <exec> 08└─held up for several minutes by just one idiot.
[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:My experience - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─I do know the difference between the words, sir, and I used the word I intended to use.
[18:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Grammar - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:03] <exec> 08└─Counterexample: 2017: the year of Linux on the desktop? Both forms are correct -- one speaks of Linux on a number of computers, one speaks of Linux on a single platform.
[18:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 1668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:55] <exec> 08└─I think spouting extreme ideological beliefs coupled with disturbing language that promotes the murder and death of others deserves to be modded troll. No other country other than the US has had the unique situation of forming in the modern era, founded on the principles of freedom especially, and o...
[18:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:46] <exec> 08└─Runaway, you should stay out of debates like this if you are not intelligent enough to understand what law is. Introduced in House (04/19/2007)
[18:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The government has excluded some people already - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:48] <exec> 08└─American Indians were specifically mentioned as an exemption (in addition to families of ambassadors) in the Senate debate: the two exceptions to citizenship by birth for everyone born in the United States mentioned in the Act, namely, that they had to be "not subject to any foreign power" and not...
[18:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:51] <exec> 08└─You are not an American.
[18:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:53] <exec> 08└─Ok, lets see. You turn on CNN and discover war has broke out between America and your home country. Which army do you enlist into? See the problem yet? We see this with a majority of newly minted "citizens" who retain split loyalty. The fact we have lived in peace (mostly) for a couple of generation...
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:55] <exec> 08└─Ok, lets see. You turn on CNN and discover war has broke out between America and your home country.
[18:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:57] <exec> 08└─Dual citizenship is a bad idea.
[18:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the debate is over "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" and an illegal is, by definition, NOT subject to the jurisdiction of U.S. Laws, otherwise they would be deported already. But feel free to tell the actual Constitutional scholars like Senator Cruz who think it is worth at least trying...
[18:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:05] <exec> 08└─Make the illegals legal and able to organize, protest, and call up the government agencies responsible for taking care of employee/employer disputes.
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:43] <exec> 08└─"I prefer coffee over tea" is an opinion. "Transgendered and coloreds are subhuman scum" is a delusion, and should be treated as such.
[18:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:53] <exec> 08└─Same here. I don't consider this a news site.
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─were not severely tilted to the left.
[18:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─Fox News went on the air in 1996, long before any so-called "leftist" programs were thought up, and really, you're trying to compare tv infotainment to newspapers?
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[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02I can hear the advertisements already - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─"Get Your Mojo RYZEN!"
[19:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I can hear the advertisements already - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:33] <exec> 08└─Can AMD even afford to run advertisements?Do you listen to AM radio?
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship and suppression - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─fyi, against the law (meaning the korporatocracy can ignore it with impunity, while nobodies like you/me bear the full brunt) to 'forbid' employees from comparing salaries... practically speaking, no way they can prevent it, just punish you (illegally) after the fact...
[19:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Great news!! - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─Companies are bitches, mi amigo!
[19:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Rule of thumb for California - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:54] <exec> 08└─I thought Minnesota's was punitive which requires if you are fired that you receive you final paycheck in full within 24 hours of termination, if not you get an additional pay period's worth. Never was on the receiving end of that but had to deal with making sure everything was in order when I worke...
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Rule of thumb for California - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:56] <exec> 08└─Smart employers fortunately comply with the law. Otherwise, the ramifications can get quite expensive.
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a win!!! - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─Even without legal fees: $2m / 21000 = $95.24 each - What a victory! Stick it to the man!
[19:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a win!!! - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─Probably paid in iTunes gift cards on top of that!
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02actually, labor laws are horrific... - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 1503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:03] <exec> 08└─had an issue with an employer some years ago; office manager was a nasty piece of work who ran off a number of employees (incl deciding factor for me), with her incessant pettifoggery and WRONG interpretation of fed labor law... since she saw that you reported full time employees as working 8-5, she...
[19:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:News? - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─If, as a result of their actions, the US Govt decided that Dell had contravened US sanctions they could punish Dell for doing so. If that punishment cost Dell rather more than the cost of a few desktop machines then I can imagine that many shareholders would be very unhappy with Dell for taking such...
[19:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:News? - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:19] <exec> 08└─This is around $6,000 worth of hardware and support, depending on the exchange rate. This isn't exactly IBM and the holocaust" [wikipedia.org] level of technology profiteering by helping oppressive countries do terrible things. This isn't like setting up Iran's nuclear program [npr.org] level of hel...
[19:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:BackSoy - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─I herd it through the bovine..
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:BackSoy - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─You're gonna waddle once you've tried some cattle!
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The right decision - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, the court's decision to dismiss the charges affirms the rare wisdom of Congress in its decision to give those providing services such as backpage.com immunity from prosecution if their users do illegal things.
[19:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The kernel also contains.... - 06Linux 4.9 Released - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:09] <exec> 08└─Any comment in source code, in any form or language, will be used as a part of the ritual invocation of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Cthulhu, and a prequel to Jupiter Ascending. You all control the end of the world. Do your part.
[19:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:... to finally shut it down. - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:22] <exec> 08└─Or they could be positioning it to be sold. Keep the software with Alphabet, sell the hardware as Waymo. Liability all goes to Waymo, and Alphabet can license the software to competitors.
[19:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Waymo is lamo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:27] <exec> 08└─It's almost like naming a car Nova and then trying to sell it in Spanish speaking countries.
[19:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waymo is lamo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:29] <exec> 08└─They must have been watching that one episode of Adventure Time.
[19:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:34] <exec> 08└─There's always a point where the timid human reacts to the angry people behind, and inches into the intersection, hoping someone will stop being dicks and actually yield. You don't get that from an automatic car.
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Lessons to take away - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:04] <exec> 08└─At least, it is designed to execute machine code. What drives me nuts is how many hackable flaws still show up in software designed to open text documents, or pictures... How easily they jump from reading data to surrendering execution has always blown my mind.
[19:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:08] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I forget that links are seldom followed. The reason I used the word "has" is that, according to the page I linked, a few are still "in circulation"—they didn't magically vanish when printing stopped or upon the announcement of their phasing out—and their value as currency is still hono...
[19:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:31] <exec> 08└─Once this long agony ends and the Socialists are finally installed on lampposts where they belong, it will probably be a generation or two before anyone in Venezuela falls for the typical lies again.
[19:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:40] <exec> 08└─“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then...
[19:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02highest value bill - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:42] <exec> 08└─how is the 100 bolivar the highest value bill if there are "bills ranging from 500 - 20,000 bolivars?"
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[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Meanwhile, elsewhere ... - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:15] <exec> 08└─The same Visa and Mastercard cards have been used in Europe to pay at the pump with chip-and-pin for at least two decades... Who's profiting from keeping the Americans behind?
[20:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02If they have to change their equipment ... - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:17] <exec> 08└─The question now is, will the three year extension be enough?
[20:36:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02I wish them luck. - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─Competition is good and we need more of it.
[20:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Looks Good - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:29] <exec> 08└─Nah. I always wanted the Empire to defeat the rebellion. To bring order to the Universe is such a beautiful idea.
[20:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Looks Good - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:31] <exec> 08└─> root for the underdog. VIA?
[20:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Maybe I'll finally upgrade - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:35] <exec> 08└─My main box for work is phenom II 6-core 3GH machine - had it for, man, long-ass time now. If this processor and board turns out as advertised, I will buy some machines.
[20:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship and suppression - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:46] <exec> 08└─Discussing pay has been upheld by SCOTUS as a first amendment right. As such you cannot sign it away in a contract that will be upheld by the courts. Furthermore, discussing pay is considered a necessary part of organizing labor (unionizing) and punishing employees for discussing pay is a labor viol...
[20:36:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Great news!! - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 847 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:49] <exec> 08└─This is great! It's good to see abusive corporations like this put in their place, and forced to fairly compensate the workers they've mistreated all these years. There's 9 years of abuse here, with horribly egregious offenses including failure to provide full pay upon termination, not to mention fo...
[20:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02GNUStep - 06Linux On the Mac — State of the Union - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:37] <exec> 08└─Many years ago, when I started to learn shell scripting and suddenly became very productive, I decided to try out GNUStep (seeing as how I wrote my own automated build in bash), what with it being a FOSS reimplementation of the NeXTStep/OpenSTEP/Cocoa API. I ran out of time :-( Although the style of...
[20:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:03] <exec> 08└─Man, there is reaching, and there is reaching. Comparing bills that were primarily used for interbank transfers to what Venezuela (or Summers) was proposing is disingenuous in the extreme. Nothing in removing the $500+ denominations was response to currency manipulation, and from your own damn artic...
[20:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:04] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I forget that links are seldom followed.
[20:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, now that I think about it, there was a similar circumstance in the history of the US: Executive Order 6102, which made holding gold illegal, signed by FDR.
[20:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad to required - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:35] <exec> 08└─I think spouting extreme ideological beliefs coupled with disturbing language that promotes the murder and death of others deserves to be modded troll.
[20:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:27] <exec> 08└─because its fucking embarrassing to be associated with this toxic place.
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[21:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile, elsewhere ... - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:17] <exec> 08└─The people who don't have to spend money on new machines / infrastructure! And identity/card thieves...
[21:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile, elsewhere ... - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:19] <exec> 08└─All the people buying gas. You do know that all this techno-gadgetry is just a form of insurance, right? And buying insurance gives a benefit (to some), but almost always pays off for the insurance company. In other words, costs more. And mom&pop gas-r-us has to spend for the gadgets, and they, out...
[21:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile, elsewhere ... - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:21] <exec> 08└─Its the other way around, until '10 or so, the brits burden of proof was on the cardholder for stolen cards, at least legally even if CS waived the costs if you asked, so people were freaking the hell out and demanding the more advanced cards. It wasn't until 2010 that brits and USA both more or les...
[21:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile, elsewhere ... - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─the brits burden of proof was on the cardholder for stolen cards
[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02What's EMV? - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:26] <exec> 08└─[ this comment intentionally left blank, except for this bit explain that it was intentionally left blank, and the signature bit down there ]
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's EMV? - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─What's EMV?
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's EMV? - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─You know how when you go to the grocery store and the new credit card swiper has tape over the chiphole (technical term?) and a note saying chip doesn't work just swipe it? As of this October about 75% of the countries retaillers are like that, and if there's any fraud the store eats the losses inst...
[21:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What's EMV? - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:33] <exec> 08└─Since I wrote my last comment about this, I've found that the chip worked in maybe 5 seconds in one instance (Walmart maybe?) and considerably longer in other stores. I think ALDI uses the scotch tape over the chiphole, as you might expect. They also only recently started accepting credit cards in t...
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─So the pumps in New Jersey, where you're not *allowed* to pump yourself (and some other backwater states) will work how when this time period expired? A wire-connected pin pad shoved in front of you ass while you're sitting in the car? Some device that can easily be used to skim your data because wh...
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[21:36:37] <exec> 08└─I have never seen a chip-n-PIN in the wild in the USA although I assume it would be just as convenient as using a checking account debit card with a PIN number today. I have, and have used, chip-n-sig in the wild at actual retailers (well, a retailer) and I would guess we'll be signing gas station p...
[21:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─You must live in a backwater... 90% of shops in my neck 'o the woods has the chip reader and of that 90%, about 80% (so 80% of 90 to be clear) have it working. I have no idea where all you idiots live that you (can) keep complaining about that chip not working.
[21:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:41] <exec> 08└─Its getting better around here. It is about 50/50. The mom and pops are starting to catch up. They have had the hardware since early last year. Most have a note which way to go. It is the clearing houses that have been dragging the issue out. The only big retailer around me that has not caught up is...
[21:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks Good - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:53] <exec> 08└─VIA?
[21:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe I'll finally upgrade - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:57] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=16890&cid=438891#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] You gotta double that thread count, woo!
[21:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great... - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─Sooo, not even worth the person's time most likely. I hope that just redistributes more to individuals.
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Apple to Pay $2 Million as a Result of Store Worker Class Action Suit - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─That's not how class action settlements work. The amount to be disbursed is held in escrow and "all reasonable efforts" are made to disburse funds to the class members. I don't think they ever adjust the per-member award amount based on lack of claimants.
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News? - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─And it's not Iran that is the country causing most of the problems in the Middle East for that you will have to look at the USA and its allies like UK and Saudi Arabia. https://www.washingtonpost.com
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News? - 06Dell Trips Over US Sanctions by Selling PCs to Iranian Embassies - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:42] <exec> 08└─Did they get the special NSA discount?
[21:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig - 06"Pimping" Charges Against Backpage Executives Dismissed - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:02] <exec> 08└─Psychiatrist: "What line of work are you in?" Tony Soprano: "Waste Management Consulting."
[21:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─My abacus has RFC 1149 support, you insensitive clod!
[21:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lessons to take away - 06Compromise Desktop Linux Using SNES Processor Opcodes - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:27] <exec> 08└─1) That's because they use programming languages like C or C++ where simple and common mistakes often don't merely make the program crash but can let "an attack run arbitrary code of the attacker's choice". With safer languages you have to make a bigger screw up, e.g. there's stuff like SQL injectio...
[21:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:23] <exec> 08└─"Speculating on future value" sounds so smart and business like! Who can fault a business for trying to make profit, I mean that's their job right? /s Let's put it another way, corporate ag business sees a food shortage coming so it stores as much long shelf life product as it can. Meanwhile food av...
[21:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:01] <exec> 08└─Just so you know, my trigger words are: popcorn, anal, party, and ball-gag. Feel free to use them freely, in whatever context you can come up with. Don't be too hard on Aristarchus, it sounds like he earned his citizenship too the entire time he has lived here. Yes, you are apparently not ignorant o...
[21:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:08] <exec> 08└─NOT subject to the jurisdiction of U.S. Laws, otherwise they would be deported already.
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[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02swamp thing - 06Florida-Georgia Water War Kills Weather Forecasting Bill - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─Ahhhh the proper earmarks were not properly done. So the once 'good bill' is now the devils work.
[22:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:swamp thing - 06Florida-Georgia Water War Kills Weather Forecasting Bill - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:08] <exec> 08└─Wasn't really about earmarks, it was about FL training to game the system before the supreme court hears the case. Honestly this should never have been in the NOAA bill. NOAA has nothing to do with how much water is in lake lanier.
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Lame Ducks fighting over water? - 06Florida-Georgia Water War Kills Weather Forecasting Bill - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─Isn't NOAA behind all that "proof" of climate change? Aren't they up for "realignment" next year? I guess this means there's one less funding increase that will have to be rolled back in the first 100 days.
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Lame Ducks fighting over water? - 06Florida-Georgia Water War Kills Weather Forecasting Bill - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─They also provide weather service, monitor resource conservation and drought surveying, amongst other services. It looks like their primary involvement on climate change is hosting the senior staff for the IPCC, a UN organization. Interestingly, they were proposed by a Republican.
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02IQ - 06Florida-Georgia Water War Kills Weather Forecasting Bill - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─it ordered an evaluation of how well the public understands and responds to its cryptic system of "watch" and "warning" weather alerts
[22:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile, elsewhere ... - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:26] <exec> 08└─Like fuck are they going to be liable, they'll just stop using the cards
[22:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:What's EMV? - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─If the chiphole works, then back to BAU
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's EMV? - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─Business As Usual. Blame the brits I think it was a Churchill-ism from about a century ago. Back when memes were transmitted on telegraph lines there was one making the rounds about the "business of WTF is WTF" (And WTF is an acronym for, oh forget about it) and from memory Churchill, who probably w...
[22:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:41] <exec> 08└─So the pumps in New Jersey, where you're not *allowed* to pump yourself (and some other backwater states)
[22:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:43] <exec> 08└─Hey, do you know how I've paid in European restaurants for the last quarter century? After waiting for hours to get her attention, you tell the waitress you don't need the check because you know how to add (tax and tips included, round numbers). She brings you the card terminal, which looks like a p...
[22:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can hear the advertisements already - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:58] <exec> 08└─So you're saying this chip will help AMD break on through to the other side?
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Infrastructure Bill [Re:Thanks, Obama!] - 06Security In 2017: Ransomware Will Remain King - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:22] <exec> 08└─it's coming from offshore
[22:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please stop. - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen does not have the power to overwrite the US Constitution. I sympathize with the people living in Washington (at least those that are anti-Ericksen), but a single bill introduced by some bastard state senator is not a substantial step in the ongoing erosion of o...
[22:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re: those with the least social capital - 06Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:13] <exec> 08└─Once perfected they get turned on the people who thought they were safe because they were stronger.
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[23:36:14] <exec> 08└─> Honestly this should never have been in the NOAA bill. I'm for a constitutional amendment stating that only things related to the title and fitting in a limited summary can be in a bill. Make more bills with less hidden things, and everything more consistent so that you don't find the source of a...
[23:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:swamp thing - 06Florida-Georgia Water War Kills Weather Forecasting Bill - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:16] <exec> 08└─hydrology and water quality
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Lame Ducks fighting over water? - 06Florida-Georgia Water War Kills Weather Forecasting Bill - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─Not all Republicans are against science, or climate change, or AGW: https://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] Not all Democrats are aligned, either: http://www.realclearscience.com
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Lame Ducks fighting over water? - 06Florida-Georgia Water War Kills Weather Forecasting Bill - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─No, certainly not everyone who aligns themselves with a party whose leader [nationalgeographic.com] and official 2016 platform [courier-journal.com] are denialist are themselves denialist, but you don't need to talk in universal truths to raise important points in a democracy. It's head-in-sand leve...
[23:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:What's EMV? - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:42] <exec> 08└─If it takes more than a few seconds they are probably using dial-up. Or, if it is around Christmas, the server is just overloaded. The old magstripe system is vulnerable to the replay attack soo badly, that they call it "identity theft" when you copy the transaction.
[23:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:49] <exec> 08└─The wally world on long island has them. So do all of the home depots in the metro NY area. Same for many small mom and pop shops with the little hand held readers. I've also seen it in big chain pharmacies like rite-aid and I'm sure others.
[23:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:52] <exec> 08└─Wait, I just realized you are referring to two factor chip *and* PIN. The chip readers are all over but none require a PIN when using a credit card. In fact, I dont have a pin for my credit card. However, if using a debit card, you do in fact use the chip and pin.
[23:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:56] <exec> 08└─Technically, those terminals are never supposed to leave the sight of the waitress. I have been told by the owner of one of my former ISPs that the payment processors were very reluctant to send terminals to small businesses, presumably due to the possibility of tampering.
[23:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:58] <exec> 08└─Yes , in Europe this is the standard - card never leaves your sight. Here in the USA, I was in Miami and the gas station skimmed my card. Did some googling and it had been reported on the local news over 6 months previous. In essence , CC companies are the middle men that just pass the costs on to u...
[23:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:NJ - 06Visa, MasterCard Agree to Give Gas Pumps a Break on EMV Shift - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:00] <exec> 08└─So the pumps in New Jersey, where you're not *allowed* to pump yourself (and some other backwater states) will work how when this time period expired?
[23:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks Good - 06New Details of AMD's Desktop Zen/"Ryzen" Chips Released - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:11] <exec> 08└─Nobody roots for the overdog.
[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Waldo - 06Google's Self-Driving Car Project Becomes "Waymo" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:19] <exec> 08└─If you're lucky. You're more likely to be a star on Botherguts.
[23:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:52] <exec> 08└─> Nothing in removing the $500+ denominations was response to currency manipulation [...] I didn't say or imply it was. I merely mentioned that the largest denominations had been discontinued.
[23:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:India - 06Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote 'to Strike Against Mafia' - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:57] <exec> 08└─> It's nothing to do with the link. I assumed that you wouldn't have made the comment you had, if you had read that page. > Second, the point of the Indian and Venezuelan approaches were to cause unexpected disruption. You're probably right about that. I hadn't grasped that that could be the intenti...
[23:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:01] <exec> 08└─Because you seem to not have the time to do the research yourself, I'll summarize it for you: the first definition is mostly bullshit, promoted by those who want oppression to continue as usual and not be seen as antisocial conduct. The first part of the second one is close to the mark. It's impossi...
[23:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but, news-site... - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:02] <exec> 08└─Not belonging to any oppressed minorities, I have to imagine what that's like. Fair enough. Because you seem to not have the time to do the research yourself
[23:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignorance is bliss, if not a breath of fresh ai - 06Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, so we don't actually have a left here abouts then. Check.
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