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[00:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I saw that movie - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:18] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&v=LclFf6HrDkI&fulldescription=1&app=desktop [youtube.com]
[00:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02It's not delusional, I tell you! - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:19] <exec> 08└─I woke up this morning knowing that all of the posters on Soylentnews had been replaced with AIs that generated posts exactly identical to the ones from the real people. (Of course, that means that I'm really an AI as well. But I wonder why I still seem to need that huge morning cup of coffee to get...
[00:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:33] <exec> 08└─Insurance rates are already going up due to Global warming: As climate change claims heat up, insurance industry says we need to adapt: Don Pittis [www.cbc.ca]
[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─Insurance is not a fundamental necessity to human survival. And they should be going up in areas destined to become uninhabitable. It's one dandy way to get people to live somewhere it's not insane to live.
[00:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─Gobal warming adds more energy to the system, making more places insane to live in. Fort McMurry mentioned in the article is about 58 degrees north. Do you expect us all to move north of the Arctic (or south of the Antarctic) circle?
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Migration - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, this ties in with Economic migrants already. People are leaving the middle-east in droves. It is difficult to pin down exactly how much of the political unrest is exacerbated by climate change.
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:41] <exec> 08└─What I expect is that a species as adaptable as human beings will find a way to live on a planet that has supported life quite well at much higher levels of greenhouse gasses than are currently present or even predicted.
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Listen to the President sometime. He specifically used the words settled science.
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─Aleppo should be uninhabitable, but droves of people are still dying there. If warming increases natural disasters, millions of people will die because they will have no ability to migrate away from the coastal and desert areas where they currently live. Poor people might as well be early humans who...
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─The issue of climate change is not whether it will make the world uninhabitable; most likely it won't. The coastlines where hundreds of millions of people now live, however, may be underwater, for starters. Armies of invasive species with sizes ranging from microorganisms to those much larger than...
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 3978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:53] <exec> 08└─What if it's not us? What if it's not easily fixable? What if it's like trying to un-cook an egg? What if any action we take is actually zero-effect and we spend lots of time and money trying to fix something that we can do nothing about? Then all we've done is spent decades making people's lives mo...
[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:55] <exec> 08└─I have a coworker who believes that the whole climate change thing is a conspiracy to male him pay more for his energy and vehicles. He believes that much of the data is falsified.
[00:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─> I believe there is a consensus that climate change is occurring. But I'll go so far as to say that it might or might not be human-caused. There is as much consensus that it is human-caused as there is that it exists. That phrase will mean different things to to different people depending on how st...
[00:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:03] <exec> 08└─Oh, you think there's another way to get people who vehemently disagree with your basic premises to go along with what you think is best? How's that been working out for you lately?
[00:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Something else other than the climate? - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:11] <exec> 08└─Come on people, its a broad topic! What else besides climate change is a necessary conversation? Where do we have serious animosity between "liberals" and "conservatives" and how can we move forward?
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Something else other than the climate? - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─The obvious reason that SB and GB are ganging up, is because the neolib/con coalition is in trouble. Just more proof that the Clinton wing of the DNC and Bush wing of the GOP, are far more alike than different. My take? Fuck'em both.
[00:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Something else other than the climate? - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─Pick an issue. Personally, I don't see that there's any reason to compromise on much of anything. Progressives are quite happy to take their victories towards insanity by inches, which means every compromise is a win for them and a loss for conservatives, libertarians, and even sane liberals.
[00:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:27] <exec> 08└─Linux Mint has a few variants (Cinnamon, MATE, LMDE). Can't be arsed to check but perhaps not all of them have network-manager.
[00:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh ... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:38] <exec> 08└─Originally whatever. Linux is right now what Linux right now is. Here and now. Like the mindfullness quatch. Exactly like that. Here, now.
[00:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:What we have here is a failure to communicate - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:46] <exec> 08└─Doubt it I use OSX on PC hardware and I got to tell you I gave more than a few distros a try month or so ago and they still have the BS problems that led me to dump it nearly a decade ago after decade of use of Linux at that time. Same old same old every thing is fragmented to hell got to chase the...
[00:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:51] <exec> 08└─> I thought it was Phoenix666 writing the article as well. You must be new here. This happens all the time.
[00:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Ask Leonart - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:59] <exec> 08└─Ask Leonart, I'm sure he'll make it awesome. /sarc As an aside, I was temporarily incapable of remembering his name. For me, this search brought up his name in position number 3: https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
[00:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score:2) 02Fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:02] <exec> 08└─Condemning linux based on Fedora is like trying windows ME and reporting that the entire OS is unusable. (Though personally I'd take ME over 10 any day) I think the broader point stands though, in general linux (and every other major OS) has experienced an overall degradation in software quality. Lo...
[00:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Dude, it all sucks... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:04] <exec> 08└─Honestly, after about 20 years of if this I feel I can safely say it all sucks...everything, the whole industry. I abandoned Windows 14 years ago and a few months ago I tried to move to Mac but now I'm back on Linux (and still unhappy). I'm sick of watching communities fracture as asshole devs insis...
[00:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Linux isn't perfect. Neither is any software. - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 1762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:06] <exec> 08└─I love using linux, on servers and on desktops. I am quite happy with my primary workstation running debian unstable. But I am fully cognizant of the fact that it's an operating system for tinkerers by tinkerers. Some cars can be great fun but require a driver with some mechanical mojo to fix issues...
[00:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:17] <exec> 08└─The same can be said of any decision from the Supreme Court, however id be very concerned to live in a country that ignores its judiciary.
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:37] <exec> 08└─It's like listening to people in Palestine whine that everything sucks when they're constitutionally incapable of ceding even an inch towards attempting to work with the other side.
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[01:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They forked the universe obviously. - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:21] <exec> 08└─You just haven't realized you're in the middle of being compressed and written onto the equivalent of a futuristic tape backup. What did you think black holes were? They're the write heads for a super massive data storage device :)
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─And of the species that we are dependent on? Are they as adaptable?
[01:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter. We'll adapt.
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You say that... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─But as an example, look at various parts of the world that have gone through desertification in the past thousand or so years. Lake Chad for instance, some parts of Africa and the Middle East. Various parts of the Central America, etc. While the temperature variation may seem minor now, that may not...
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:You say that... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─that may not be true if it ruins the ecology of areas we currently rely on for agriculture, housing, or industry
[01:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:56] <exec> 08└─You're the only one so far that mentioned the runaway effect. That (the runaway effect) is the tipping point where it will be past the point of no return, human intervention will no longer have an effect on reversing global warming. The big question is... Have we reached that point yet? and... How f...
[01:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─Venus is hot because the atmosphere is 60 km thick and the pressure at the surface is 90 x that of Earth. I have never been able to get an explanation, where the is all that gas supposed to come from?
[01:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:07] <exec> 08└─I don't see stasis as the end goal. The environment is the primary concern because once the water table is polluted, once the topsoil is gone, and if the oceans have a massive dying off as predicted then our vaunted human society will crumble and we'll have to build back up from rubble. I would pers...
[01:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:09] <exec> 08└─Being decent to other people means entirely different and conflicting things to progressives vs. everyone else on the planet.
[01:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something else other than the climate? - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:20] <exec> 08└─Have fun in the echo chamber you work so hard to build. Your own reality distortion field makes any of the many, many comments you make hilariously obtuse, and that's before you get into your gross generalizations and simple-minded "us vs them" view. Pray tell, what homogeneous area do you come from...
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[01:23:22] <exec> 08└─I will stipulate that it is impossible to debate the topic because it is getting to the level of religion. I don't think global warming is happening, so I'm biased and a hateful person. I look at the research and come to the conclusion that it is, but I doubt that it is man caused so now im still a...
[01:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Content - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 2185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─Here is what you should do. https://en.wikipedia.org's_Wager [wikipedia.org] That is it. Even *IF* you think it is bunk treat it as if it is. Pollution bad. Simple. We should strive to create things that lower our impact on the world. I say this as a dyed in the wool capitalist pig. Poll...
[01:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Content - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:27] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound hateful to me, but I don't know who you're hanging around. I've never seen the walk/bike never eat meat crowd around here on SN, but then again its not a topic I pay much attention to. Modifying your life where possible is already a huge step in the right direction, and I can only...
[01:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Content - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:29] <exec> 08└─You haven't been paying attention then. Serious progressives do not allow for the possibility of anything but guilt. Witness such in the phrase "white privilege". call people out if they're unfairly characterizing you.
[01:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Downward spirals - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:31] <exec> 08└─Glen Beck and Sam B are both on the crazy train to obscurity. Which it should be. They’re neither entertaining nor informative. Their specialties are zoom eyes and over pronouncing the word va-gi-na. Only thing they’re trying to bridge is the gap back to a successful career.
[01:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where our society has come from... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:33] <exec> 08└─We also need to look into some of the historical backgrounds of social views in the US. In some ways, Britain was annoyed, but happy for the US - they had somewhere for the Quakers, Puritans, Calvanists, convicts, etc to go to now - they could export some of their social problem children. So here we...
[01:23:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:43] <exec> 08└─I'd give mint a shot, it's got generally good software supporters and I haven't had much trouble with it. Except for Bluetooth which is still an unworkable mess if you want to use a headset for telephony.
[01:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:46] <exec> 08└─It is the same reason people recommended Macs back in the day, and Chromebooks and iPads today, they are seen as easy to use. For many people, that is the first and only concern they have. Hence why many basic steps companies could take to secure IoT devices aren't taken but the GUIs sure are shiny.
[01:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:48] <exec> 08└─Chromebooks run Linux.
[01:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:53] <exec> 08└─It's pretty much trivial to disable it. It's like two commands and it won't run anymore.
[01:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Try something else - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:58] <exec> 08└─Hear, here! Antix rocks!
[01:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh ... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 4240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:07] <exec> 08└─Linux is fine on the desktop. As we move towards web interfaces and even virtualistion, the OS barely matters any more. The "problem" of Linux desktops is tradition and people perpetuating myths (like the people who still defrag every week because they think they are doing something useful). I ran a...
[01:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:23] <exec> 08└─Nitpicking. The quote block was clearly marked. Besides regs here know that Phoenix666 posts in such volume that he wouldn't have time to hand-compose each summary, unless this was his full time job (as it may be for editors on the green site).
[01:24:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Dude, it all sucks... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 1542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:29] <exec> 08└─Honestly, after about 20 years of if this I feel I can safely say it all sucks...everything, the whole industry. I abandoned Windows 14 years ago and a few months ago I tried to move to Mac but now I'm back on Linux (and still unhappy). I'm sick of watching communities fracture as asshole devs insis...
[01:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Having said that... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:32] <exec> 08└─Enlightenment 17 on top of a decent GPU (Anything HD2600+ or 8400GT+ should work!) is smooth as butter for me. I don't 100 percent like the built in file manager, but as a 'windows-ish' interface to get people on Linux, and gaining the benefits of compositing, a build in frame rate viewer and stable...
[01:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, they meant... - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:07] <exec> 08└─Lennart Poettering is the 3 billion year old bringer of the technological Apocalypse. They were trying to warn us before he got here, but they were a few years too late :)
[01:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump U - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the two sides are equally valid but also equally at fault, right? Similar to this case from past history: The effect of Monsieur Galileo's book Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems [wikipedia.org], if it has any at all, will be to increase political polarization. People who already...
[01:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:40] <exec> 08└─Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
[01:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:09] <exec> 08└─Can you even write without using the strawman? Joe: "There's no such thing as global warming."
[01:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:52] <exec> 08└─The reason to doubt is that Jews are almost non-existent; they are dust. --------- The above comment was marked "flamebait" [soylentnews.org], so I have to include this text to trick the system into thinking it's a new comment with new content.
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[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─Agreed there will soon be ways for Robocallers to pay their way around this blocking. It will probably start with a law suit by some political party (campaign calls already get an exemption from Do Not Call list regulations). There is likely to be a service charge sooner or later. Then there is this...
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[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─It's AT&T are you sure that's not just the network dropping the call because it's AT&T and their network regularly drops calls? That's a problem I had with AT&T and it's not something that's happened a single time with other carriers.
[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score:1) 02So what's the problem again? - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─Lots of guys would jump at the chance of a bit of sex from someone not their wife. Kind of Ashley-Madison, but without the guilt.
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[02:22:54] <exec> 08└─I don't doubt that humanity will adapt. However, the likely result is that before that millions if not billions will starve, because the temperature change is too rapid for the ecosystem to adapt and thus for us to maintain our crop levels. If we're really luck we'll manage to engineer around it, bu...
[02:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:You say that... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:57] <exec> 08└─Not really, we can't afford to give up much land to climate change while still having enough food to feed the planet. Especially if the current wars don't get any better. If you look at the areas that are and aren't being used for agriculture, I'm curious what areas in the latter category you're exp...
[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:You say that... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─The areas that are too cold now. Soon, very soon, northern Canada's gonna be a farming powerhouse.
[02:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:11] <exec> 08└─Californians are pressured socially and financially to conserve water, while water usages rates climb 10% a year. Whole neighborhoods are gutting their lawns and landscaping with rocks and cacti instead. Meanwhile, growth is accelerating here unchecked, with mega-monstrosity housing developments pop...
[02:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:20] <exec> 08└─Well given how conservatives have treated people I would say it goes both ways. I guess you missed the idea of this entire article.
[02:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:22] <exec> 08└─And I'd say that you have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not going to go off into a pointless, tangent, your-team/my-team argument though. Especially since my team consists of neither group.
[02:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unproductive premise - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:30] <exec> 08└─number one means we humans are ruining the ecosphere, yes earth's climate changes but this one is on us and blindly enabling greed is a lame excuse to do nothing for number two just look at the numbers and studies, you can choose which ones are important to you if your own species' survival is not r...
[02:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unproductive premise - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:32] <exec> 08└─Still too vague. What does it mean to "ruin the ecosphere"? For me, this needs to be precise. I consider science to be a pillar of human civilization, so don't want to support any efforts that may lead to replacing it with astrology-like pseudoscience.
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Something else other than the climate? - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:38] <exec> 08└─Your own response puts the lie to the echo chamber argument. Truthfully, I don't think you even know what the phrase means. Here, maybe this [wikipedia.org] will help. Ignoring the insult and moving along... Generalizations are an imprecise but useful tool. I am genuinely amazed that you never use t...
[02:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something else other than the climate? - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:41] <exec> 08└─I think the parent meant that if different groups can find some common ground in areas where it is worse to take no action, then maybe people could figure out steps to make things better. In this case compromise would be beneficial for all sides (unless a side is incompetent at negotiating and the o...
[02:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Something else other than the climate? - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:43] <exec> 08└─I agree, but I can't currently think of a topic that wouldn't result in me having to explain that feelings are not rational arguments. Thus, pick a topic.
[02:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:56] <exec> 08└─Even though I grant that, what does that have to do with my point? I was answering why people recommend Mint, which is its ease of use compared to setting up most distros, including its forefathers, Ubuntu and Debian.
[02:24:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:01] <exec> 08└─My girlfriend is Chinese by way of Malaysia and we're doing fine :) Sorry to mess up your data set. Of course we're both women so for all I know that isn't in your sample set so...
[02:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Complex Outlier Case Has Issues. Blames OS. - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─well i aint read the whole article either, but... >this is a guy with very specific, very complex, and probably unique needs. before we even get to his "unique needs" he was having problems with the _installer_ >average user without specific needs like gaming dude you can not get more average than g...
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[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Soylent doesn't permit photos - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─But I will tell you that just today I received a PO from my new client - I had previously been out of work for six years. I start Tuesday.
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Well, Duh - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─I've been saying this forever, because I learned all those lessons back in the MySpace days and Tom was even a lot more likeable than Zuckerburg. It reminds me of Thrasher magazine's poseur shot of the month, where skaters would take photos of themselves doing rad-looking tricks (that they wouldn't...
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Well, Duh - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─or bragging about how so-totally-deep-and-existentialist they are just because they read Metamorphosis or The Stranger.
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, Duh - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─Merry Christmas jackass. Hope that yule log doesn't get stuck up your ass like last year.
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Coming soon - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─This is just AT&T at the network level performing what Asterisk enthusiasts have been doing for some time now. Just like you can fire off a DNS request to check against RBLs, you can check an incoming phone number against quasi-RBLs for phone numbers. It doesn't block calls unless you want to. The s...
[03:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Coming soon - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure this is even an issue in America anymore, I've had one robocall (from a political party, regarding the election) in the past 10 years. Do you all get more robocalls? Is robocalling a big problem for corporate customers?
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Coming soon - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─That's about how many political robocalls I've gotten to my cell phone. I get a fair number of scammers calling, but in terms of people who are technically allowed to, they're extremely rare.
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:So what's the problem again? - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 1563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─Hey baby, you taken? All joking aside (I wasn't actually joking) women tend to be a lot more heavily into fantasizing than men -- like in that movie Unfaithful. A stereotypical man will look at a nude photo or porn video while a typical woman will read romance novels and insist on 45 minutes of fore...
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[03:23:26] <exec> 08└─Nope. Canada may warm enough, but they don't get enough light. Plus the growing season will be rather short. That's before we consider the other aspects like rainfall. The probably will be able to grow some new things that they couldn't, but they're not going to be a powerhouse anytime soon. And pro...
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[03:23:36] <exec> 08└─It would come from the decomposition of calcium carbonate (and some other minerals), which is quite plentiful on Earth. It's not going to happen any time soon, though.
[03:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:52] <exec> 08└─People are just plain tired of "same old, same old". Could've fooled me. 97% of it just got reelected the last time around... which is about average over the last, what, 100 years or so? At this rate, we're looking at another 100
[03:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something else other than the climate? - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:06] <exec> 08└─Any disagreements over anything other than technical topics (and not even those many times) will cause people to act irrationally. With this community, I'd go for something more on the pro/anti-authoritarian spectrum, instead of left/right, since there seems to be more common ground on that axis. Wh...
[03:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:26] <exec> 08└─> like dating Oriental women, that is, those who recommend it have never tried it themselves. Your problems with "oriental women" are probably caused by whatever makes you think calling someone "oriental" is acceptable.
[03:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Try Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:33] <exec> 08└─My Mint install managed to kill itself inside of a few days -- I tried to adjust a video setting through the provided GUI, and this somehow nuked GRUB. Repairable but between that and numerous small holes in functionality, it got itself knocked off my possible-keepers list. The people surrounding Mi...
[03:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Try Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:35] <exec> 08└─tangomargerine, you are the problem! But this has been evident for some time an everyone already knows it. But this: The latest version of Mint runs on systemd now and so far my install hasn't killed itself in the last couple months (knock on wood).
[03:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh ... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:42] <exec> 08└─We're training them to expect applications to be web-accessible
[03:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sorry to hear that. - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:47] <exec> 08└─That'd be fine and all, but in the article... Red Hat provided me with a 15″ Mac Book Pro. Since this was one of their choices of machine for developers, I assumed it was well supported by Fedora.
[03:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Of course it doesn't measure up - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:50] <exec> 08└─If you're not going to put in the effort to make your system work the way you want it to work, don't use linux, there's no point.
[03:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:02] <exec> 08└─That would be most accurate. I cite verbatim because it's fast, and because it adds little value to re-summarize what most articles have already summarized. Also, it's more error-prone to do that as well, especially when the story covers something you're not expert on. Since nearly all research is h...
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[04:22:14] <exec> 08└─First post is Crowfard, crowing about how you should envy his success. Go back under your bridge!
[04:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:-1000 MDC is a Troll - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:16] <exec> 08└─The good news is, now that he has an employer, he won't have to sleep under a bridge. He can sleep in his office like all of Google and Apple do. That's how you know you've made it to the big leagues.
[04:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In the big leagues. - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:18] <exec> 08└─The suicide nets are also hammocks.
[04:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soylent doesn't permit photos - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:20] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a little late for seasonal temp work?(grin)
[04:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Well, Duh - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:25] <exec> 08└─I was struck, many years ago, attending a Catholic Mass, and hearing the Opus Dei priest intone "and Peace on Earth, to those who agree with us." Actually had to go look up the original Greek, which runs, "καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη, ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκία." That's ...
[04:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Or just maybe - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─Miserable people do a lot of lurking on facebook.
[04:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Or just maybe - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─Or a lot of lurking everywhere, for that matter. I think the demarcation is when one becomes more concerned with what others are doing, rather than what they themselves are doing.
[04:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:18] <exec> 08└─How can putting 100,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide a DAY into the atmosphere not cause damage to the environment? That's 50 times as much as we all poop, and we found out long ago if we just go in a pile behind the house, it's not too long before bad things happen.
[04:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 2198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:25] <exec> 08└─In so far as possible, we ought to make our choices knowingly, not blindly. Change is risky. Saying the hell with the status quo climate so we can burn fossil fuels a few more years is absolutely nuts when 1) we have alternatives and those alternatives are eminently practical, and 2) we don't know h...
[04:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:32] <exec> 08└─So the runaway greenhouse effect requires ~0.05% of the Earth's crust to vaporize*? * assuming mass of atmosphere is ~5e18 kg and mass of the crust is ~2.5e22 kg.
[04:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, should be ~2%.
[04:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:38] <exec> 08└─I have a coworker who believes that
[04:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:53] <exec> 08└─Stop sending aid to countries which would not survive without it, especially those which don't practice family planning.
[04:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:17] <exec> 08└─Not in particular.
[04:26:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:18] <exec> 08└─That's a straw man.
[04:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02EROI is about energy, not money - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 3164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:11] <exec> 08└─EROEI is about energy, as the two E point, not money (at least, not directly... sooner or later some are unable to understand things if not translated to money terms). It means that 1 unit of energy used for something will give you X energy back, X:1. Unless the thing you get is used for other thing...
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[05:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02come on, where's the text? - 06Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:21] <exec> 08└─Can we please start posting links to full texts of scientific results, if nothing else? If such link is unavailable, it's fake science, or some kind of con, anyway. If some journal prints an article, an the license prohibits reproduction elsewhere, then the authors have chosen to restrict access to...
[05:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:come on, where's the text? - 06Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:22] <exec> 08└─http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/index.php [lib.rus.ec]
[05:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:come on, where's the text? - 06Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:25] <exec> 08└─Спасибо, только что искать? Дайте линку!
[05:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:come on, where's the text? - 06Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:27] <exec> 08└─http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/index.php?s=10.1038%2Fngeo2860&journalid=&v=&i=&p= [lib.rus.ec] Do you need someone to hold your hand for you, shitty American? Search, click Libgen, and download. By analogy with basaltic magmatism on Earth, we inferred that glassy rocks on Mercury may contain a range o...
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[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─“Buried how long?” “Almost eighteen years.” “You had abandoned all hope of being dug out?” “Long ago.” The words were still in his hearing as just spoken—distinctly in his hearing as ever spoken words had been in his life—when the weary passenger started to the consciousness of d...
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[05:22:44] <exec> 08└─Back in my pre-ban Slashdot days
[05:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What you should be doing... - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─Watching happy TV shows, full of programming about happy people living wonderful lives where everything always works out fine. Then get in your expensive car and go stuff a cheeseburger down your throat before heading to the stores to buy needless shit for all the other happy people in your life, al...
[05:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Coming soon - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:01] <exec> 08└─Could be where you live or party affiliation. As an Iowan, I got at least 1 robocall a week on average and at least 1 a day during the waning days of the election. I'm still getting ones to congratulate me for voting for the future or to help stop Republicans.
[05:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02Re:I saw that movie - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:09] <exec> 08└─Personally, I thought of this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] and this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what's the problem again? - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:15] <exec> 08└─The autistic spectrum are also into romantic fantasizing [sonichu.com].
[05:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:17] <exec> 08└─I suppose it's better than mistaking an imposter for his wife ...
[05:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbv [6022] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:46] <exec> 08└─Well, what are you doing about it? Do you have an electric car? Do you live in an apartment, hopefully carbon neutral? Or are you just arguing for more taxation of other people?
[05:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:04] <exec> 08└─There is as much consensus that it is human-caused as there is that it exists.
[05:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03alincler [6447] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:06] <exec> 08└─Whether it's human caused or not hasn't been up for debate for quite some time. It's something we know. We're 150 years after Tyndall proved the greenhouse effect. 60 years after Keeling showed the link between CO2 levels and fossil fuel use. 40 years after Exxon's own internal research confirmed th...
[05:24:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02Sorry to hear that. - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:56] <exec> 08└─I'm on Fedora right now, and it's generally very stable for me. If I'm blunt honest, I think a large part of it is that you're on a Mac. Jumpy cursors is not something I've had before unless the system was running out of RAM and swapping like mad. Try it on a PC, even a new PC, should perform FAR be...
[05:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course it doesn't measure up - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:02] <exec> 08└─Did you read the summary? I know that there are distros that are usable out of the box, but if you want to use them on strange hardware, you shouldn't expect them to work perfectly from the gate. If you want an Apple computer to run linux well, you're either gonna have to use one of the few distros...
[05:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Feed the Queue - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:11] <exec> 08└─Let them know it's Christmas time [youtube.com]
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[06:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:come on, where's the text? - 06Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:26] <exec> 08└─Ты не мудри, ты пальцем покажи!
[06:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:come on, where's the text? - 06Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─Presumably SN can still post articles about Trump though.
[06:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:come on, where's the text? - 06Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:30] <exec> 08└─It's one of phoenix' submissions from phys.org - i.e., a PR blurb. It's holiday weekend, and SN is just going through the motion - there is no content.
[06:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02I think this was in the Wreck-it Ralph outtakes - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:51] <exec> 08└─There's an animatic (?) for a piece of the movie which had an interesting take on social media: (from the Wikipedia page) An earlier draft of the screenplay had Ralph and Vanellope spending time going around the game world to collect the pieces for her kart for Sugar Rush, and at times included Fel...
[06:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Robocalls to cellphones are explicitly illegal. - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:04] <exec> 08└─> That's about how many political robocalls I've gotten to my cell phone. Robocalls to cellphones are explicitly illegal. They must be dialed by a human. No exceptions, not even for politicians. > I get a fair number of scammers calling, Yep, they don't care about legality, so they will robocall the...
[06:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rebranded Hiya - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:06] <exec> 08└─Word on the net is that the call protect app is just a rebranded version of hiya. [hiya.com]
[06:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:So what's the problem again? - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:21] <exec> 08└─> 45 minutes of foreplay before she's "ready." I really hope you're either gay or single and celibate. Face it, womens' bodies work differently from yours, and if you're not willing to put in the effort you don't deserve to be with one. Also? What you probably refer to as "foreplay" IS sex for us. I...
[06:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03alincler [6447] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:52] <exec> 08└─From a 2011 study (Kevin Anderson, Alice Bows): "[...] a 4 degrees C future is incompatible with an organized global community, is likely to be beyond adaptation, is devastating to the majority of ecosystems, and has a high probability of not being stable (tipping points)." It is widespread view tha...
[06:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:26] <exec> 08└─not just our fraud of a Prime Minister!?!
[06:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Own your opinion, Coward - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:36] <exec> 08└─Found a zionist jew. It is always the jews who call for people to come out in the open if they want to attack the jews. Calling them names to get them to come out with their real identities. This is so the vermin can destroy each one of them. Look at the newspapers from a century ago, from 1910, 192...
[06:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative suggestion - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:05] <exec> 08└─Try making a well-referenced comment about jews. The only moderation you will get will be -1, Troll. Try making insightful comments about jews starting wars and getting everyone else to die, while they are busy gathering corpses of dead nations. It won't be moderated +5, Insightful. So there you are...
[06:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02good news! for some ... - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 1911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:47] <exec> 08└─its more like: 1 unit of energy invested will unlock x(>1) amount of energy. if 1 unit of energy would create x(>1) units of energy, it would require a overunity device. obviously the energy is below our feet (oil, gas, coal) already but needs some "digging" or investment of energy to become availab...
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[07:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soylent doesn't permit photos - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:55] <exec> 08└─Congratulations! Told you it would get better. Now I just need to get something similar. A job... 8 months so far.
[07:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score:2) 02Re:Or just maybe - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:04] <exec> 08└─This. Facebook et al. are a form of bragging where people showcase "The best version of themselves." No one I know has a life as good as many people's facebook lives. People who lurk may be lurking because: 1) As this article suggests, it's just a thing people do, but doing it makes them depressed....
[07:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:01] <exec> 08└─Gobal warming adds more energy to the system, making more places insane to live in. Fort McMurry mentioned in the article is about 58 degrees north. Do you expect us all to move north of the Arctic (or south of the Antarctic) circle?
[07:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:02] <exec> 08└─Insurance rates are already going up due to Global warming
[07:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You say that... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:09] <exec> 08└─While the temperature variation may seem minor now, that may not be true if it ruins the ecology of areas we rely on for agriculture, housing, or industry in ways that might otherwise be preventable.
[07:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:14] <exec> 08└─+5C Is not 5C hotter summers. It's more like +10C over land (varies by location)
[07:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:34] <exec> 08└─Regardless of whether it is or not, aren't we obliged by our duty to future generations to try and correct the situation?
[07:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:09] <exec> 08└─XFCE does not have that dependency. Sorry, I guess I meant Cinnamon has the dependency.
[07:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What we have here is a failure to communicate - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:39] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is that he's trying to install it on a Mac, which is becoming more and more like a glorified iPad with an attached keyboard instead of a real computer. I will grant that's the computer that Redhat issued to him, but that's more of a gripe against Redhat than it is for Linux. If I...
[07:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah Cthulhu forbid we do stuff that grants us energy independence, cleaner air and water, and less pollution. What if we make the world a better place for no reason?! Hurrrrrr.
[07:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sick and tired of all those Ferrari driving academics.
[07:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Own your opinion, Coward - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:05] <exec> 08└─And everyone else can be relieved you're gone.
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[08:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Einstein is Always Right - 06LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General-Relativity Breakdown - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:28] <exec> 08└─In the 21st century, social media will disrupt every aspect of our way of life, but there will be no disrupting science. Einstein is always right, and questioning him is blasphemous.
[08:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Einstein is Always Right - 06LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General-Relativity Breakdown - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:29] <exec> 08└─No, Einstein was wrong about a great many things. Ahem, “God does not play dice with the universe.” Einstein was wrong, very wrong about quantum mechanics, which he disliked, but Quantum Mechanics has withstood the test of experiment and observation just as well as General Relativity. There are...
[08:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02No content in summary - 06Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury - 1614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:44] <exec> 08└─Since the title is "Geologists Identify the Mineralogy of Mercury", it'd be nice to have a summary of the mineralogy in the summary. Here's the abstract, which is much more informative than TFS. NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has revealed geochemical diversity across Mercury’s volcanic crust. Near-...
[08:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You say that... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:07] <exec> 08└─If you look at the areas that are and aren't being used for agriculture, I'm curious what areas in the latter category you're expecting us to be able to miraculously start farming and why you assume that it's going to be close enough to a 1:1 swap that we can make it work.
[08:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:14] <exec> 08└─I expect we'll be doing just as well five degrees from now as we are today.
[08:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:21] <exec> 08└─It will be difficult to measure the exact effects of warming on natural disasters, and impossible to extract reparations for warming. So we can sweep these millions of dead under the rug.
[08:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─Many of the residents of the developed world are fairly sedentary and spend much our time in climate-controlled environments.
[08:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:52] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong. There's nothing wrong with simply posting a quick quote and essentially nothing else. In fact, I like that style, and I appreciate your work. But I've stumbled over this before, I honestly got confused, again, this time. Naturally, my criticism is off-topic, but I do hope you'll...
[08:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not asking Phoenix666 or anybody else to hand-compose the summary. I'm asking him and/or other submitters and the editors to use a less confusing template in the case that the summary consists of a quote, only (which is where the ambiguity arises). I made several suggestions in my post, but perh...
[08:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:I blame the internet - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:07] <exec> 08└─Solids flow. Most of geology, like the formation of mountains or tectonic shift, is caused by flowing solid rock. Same for glaciers, which is solid flowing ice. A slightly different example, Silly Putty is solid, you can bounce it off the ground, but leave it on a table for a day and it'll flow into...
[08:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:EROI is about energy, not money - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:24] <exec> 08└─Thinking nuclear plants can idle without wasting energy and start and stop at will
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[09:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Interesting) 02What the proton experiment rules out - 06Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay - 2691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:17] <exec> 08└─What this experiment apparently is ruling out, at least at the current energy levels, is certain sorts of interactions between the three non-gravitational forces. Such interactions would demonstrate that the three forces are tied together in a non-trivial way lending strength to a unification of the...
[09:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Science!! - 06LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General-Relativity Breakdown - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:26] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be the first time increased accuracy in a measurement or the Universe or as in this case just detection of something unexpected, has led to things getting re-thought. Maybe our math for Gravity is correct but we have black holes all wrong, or maybe the other way round. Or maybe both need...
[09:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:10] <exec> 08└─My partner is half English, half Hong-Kong Chinese. Her (Chinese) mother prefers 'oriental' to 'asian' because no one who isn't obsessive compulsive remembers that it's defining a region of the world based on its position in Europe, and it's a lot more specific than asian. Describing someone as asia...
[09:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheaper WITHOUT Subsidies - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:06] <exec> 08└─Some morons modded that as "troll"??? WTF? That dude(ette) actually posted real stuff. Where is solar at night? Where is wind during calm days?? The problem is our energy usage is based on DEMAND requirements, not on SUPPLY availability. And that's how it will continue no matter how many "smart mete...
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[10:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02do it to someone else - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:22] <exec> 08└─set it up on a throwaway device, stash it in the bag of someone you dont like
[10:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:2) 02unfuckingbelievable - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:23] <exec> 08└─On a scale of one to fuckall nothing just how dangerous is that thing versus a fucking airplane? If a single battery pack is that dangerous then why aren't they all required to be transported in a safe container?
[10:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:unfuckingbelievable - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─They are, over a certain size.
[10:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fun times. - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:27] <exec> 08└─Name your phone this. And just go sit in the airport parking lot near the runways.
[10:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Fear is powerful - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:30] <exec> 08└─Face, say hello to Palm. Palm, say hello to Face. I am expecting that at some time people will get flogged again. Justice of the mob; what could possibly go wrong. There are no people left with humour, apparently. Maybe we should just wait until all those anxiety-infested near-humans die out of hear...
[10:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Help them along. - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:32] <exec> 08└─We want them all mopped up within OUR lifetimes afterall, and ideally while we are still young enough to enjoy the trouble free world that would beget.
[10:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:What the proton experiment rules out - 06Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:41] <exec> 08└─I don't claim to understand the models either, but I think it is kind of obvious how they got those numbers: Given a known quantity of protonsAssuming protons have a half-lifeHow many decay events should we observe in a give time period? Given the huge number of protons they are observing, they shou...
[10:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:3, Funny) 02Where would we go from there? - 06Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:43] <exec> 08└─Third Impact. Just leave it up to the kid in the robot, I'm sure we'll be fine.
[10:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Einstein is Always Right - 06LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General-Relativity Breakdown - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:54] <exec> 08└─Well, there is no such thing as god, so he was kinda right on it not paying dice.
[10:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:03] <exec> 08└─"I swear honey! I thought it was you!" That's sure to work!
[10:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh ... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:58] <exec> 08└─Between Canvas, WebGL, WebCL and WebAssembly, web applications are gradually becoming a mechanism for delivering sandboxed thick client applications.
[10:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:55] <exec> 08└─"You are the one moving the goalposts, abandoning the sinking "it's all fabricated to secure funding" meme to clutch desperately at the even more ridiculous "it's not science, it's a religion" one. I don't think you realize that the crux of your argument balances entirely on the idea that people as...
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[12:22:30] <exec> 08└─Hold on let me run a speed test. 750kbps. That's fast enough for me, and I've been streaming CBC TV shows tonight. What are these whiners whining about. Bunch of whiners.
[12:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And free Maple Syrup and Hockey a pet Moose! - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:32] <exec> 08└─Grandpa got out of bed, eh?
[12:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:do it to someone else - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:41] <exec> 08└─Remember kids, you will be on the terror watch list for life, if you let your mother pack your bag.
[12:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear is powerful - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:48] <exec> 08└─Well, part of the fear is that if the crew did just laugh it off and there was a minor fire, their employers, the courts and the media would show even less of a sense of humour. "Inquest culture" is a huge part of the problem. Anybody who does make the wrong call will be faced with a room full of la...
[12:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear is powerful - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:50] <exec> 08└─...Introducing the new Samsung Hot Palm 10!
[12:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:59] <exec> 08└─What do you mean, "words have meanings" [thefreedictionary.com]? Sarcasm aside, has any of the professionally offended class argued that she shouldn't prefer this word?
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[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─Corner Gas looks fine to me in 360p, jackass!
[13:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score:2) 02SSID naming contest - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─Let's see who can come up with a name that'll get a flight stopped the fastest. Ricin_Aerosol_Bomb Someone_set_us_up_the_bomb These_Arent_the_Nukes_Youre_Looking_For
[13:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02The academics form of watching paint dry.... - 06Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:59] <exec> 08└─> For 20 years, physicists in Japan have monitored a 13-story-tall tank of pure water cloistered deep inside an abandoned zinc mine, hoping to see protons in the water spontaneously fall apart. I never thought I could imagine something more tedious to do than sit and watch paint dry, but physicists...
[13:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what's the problem again? - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:18] <exec> 08└─Oh so seconded! Foreplay is as much a part of sex as the "sticking it in" bit. Especially as men biologically cannot sustain full bore intercourse for more than about 10 minutes without orgasming and going limp. Personally I really enjoy the foreplay. Who doesn't want to spend hours having intimate...
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine why you would think dating oriental women is not to be recommended. I dated many asian women (and many other kinds of women, too) and wound up marrying one. We have two beautiful, intelligent kids now. And i dated them and her not because they were asian but because they were cute a...
[13:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:52] <exec> 08└─unless there is a significant chance that brexit will not happen
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[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02National Agency For Food and Drug Denies Story - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:22] <exec> 08└─A different part of the Nigerian government is saying this report is not true. It may be that this is just a strain of rice that the locals are unfamiliar with. http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[14:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Make Niggeria Great Again - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─Eat only the reich what falls from Uranus.
[14:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And free Maple Syrup and Hockey a pet Moose! - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─Hold on let me run a speed test. 750kbps. That's fast enough for me, and I've been streaming CBC TV shows tonight. What are these whiners whining about. Bunch of whiners.
[14:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:SSID naming contest - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:51] <exec> 08└─The sad part is they could probably spin it into a crime and get a conviction, even though it's essentially free speech and not a serious threat.
[14:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:SSID naming contest - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─* Smallpox-R-Us * Zika_Virus_Sample_Box_Locator * INFECTION_ALERT_BEACON * Biohazard_Safebox_Breach_Alert * Samsung Galaxy Note 8
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[15:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re: National Agency For Food and Drug Denies Story - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:28] <exec> 08└─Or it could be propaganda in support of the rice importation ban mentioned -- spread belief that smugglers are bringing in toxic plastic rice, decrease the market for smuggled rice.
[15:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: National Agency For Food and Drug Denies Story - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─Most cheap plastic wouldn't be sticky after boiling. Soft maybe but not sticky. I suspect starch if it's really fake rice.
[15:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bethany.Saint [5900] (Score:1) 02Re:Make Niggeria Great Again - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─This is sad if it's the best you can do. Even for a troll this is kinda pathetic.
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score:1) 02Incumbent vs Indy isp - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:44] <exec> 08└─I'm a Canadian. Sorry eh. I live in a medium sized city, fairly close to Trumpland. The problem that's I think this legislation is trying to solve is fair access for all. It doesn't matter if you are in the far north, or even the populated south, it's the incumbents that have been screwing the count...
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SSID naming contest - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─I'd say there's a good chance a court would rule this not being free speech if it were done intentionally as it does fall under the territory of yelling fire in a crowded theater. Whether they'll bother is another matter.
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable response - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─I must be misunderstanding the tone of the comments on this thread. Does nobody get how serious this is? This is the electronic equivalent of shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater, only worse. Fire on a plane is A Big Deal. There's limited air, people are crammed together, there's nowhere to go to es...
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable respo - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─The note 7 is a phone not a bomb. Duty free vodka and a lighter can do about as much damage. So once the prankster owned up there no need to over react. Tell him not to do it again or he gets banned.
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable respo - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─Duty free Vodka and a lighter require some concious effort on someone's part to do damage. A note 7 can (and has been known to) do it all on its own.
[15:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable respo - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:12] <exec> 08└─So when someone makes a credible claim (via SSID)
[15:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not delusional, I tell you! - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:35] <exec> 08└─> all of the posters on Soylentnews had been replaced with AIs that generated posts exactly identical to the ones from the real people AHEM
[15:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:01] <exec> 08└─I don't agree. Looking at the past, or at current mafia/corporations, people who obey satan (be it real or abstract) are in a backstabbing, ultracompetitive, environment which periodically gets destroyed from the inside, because even people working for evil tend to mollify when given too much power...
[15:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:28] <exec> 08└─We have two beautiful, intelligent kids now. And i dated them
[15:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I blame the internet - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:18] <exec> 08└─When the mantle rises, it liquefies from the sudden decrease in pressure, resulting in liquid magma, which forms volcanoes and emerges as lava.
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[16:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Hilary lost - 06A Walk Through a Laser-Scanned Forest - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:22] <exec> 08└─You nerds still don't get it, Hilary lost. Gonna be rollin' coal for 4 years! America = GREAT AGAIN.
[16:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quant paradise! - 06A Walk Through a Laser-Scanned Forest - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:24] <exec> 08└─If you assign a financial value to it, you can manipulate the price to make trillions! Fuck the environment!
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make Niggeria Great Again - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry for the cheap trolling, you see I'm too busy dressing up as Santa and raping your daughters.
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The best plastic - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─Sure it's plastic but it's the best plastic. Goes awesome with a Trump steak.
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02jasmine rice - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─Almost looks like jasmine rice, which admittedly has a very different, almost fragrant aroma compared to long and short grain rice. I like it, but it's expensive here. No idea really. I like the other AC's idea that this is propaganda given that inflation is a problem. Maybe both are true?
[16:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02My question is - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─How much does it cost to make plastic rice? Isn't it cheaper to grow real rice? Unless there's a warehouse full of substandard plastic that is going to be trashed anyway, I can't imagine anyone going to the effort and expense to make fake rice. The only way I can see this being "profitable" is the f...
[16:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh that's hard - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─Let's see you do it with a few hundred million extra illegals in your country, most of which don't speak either of your national languages.
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unlimited Oppression for All - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:55] <exec> 08└─This sort of thing is why I have so much affection for Canada.
[16:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbv [6022] (Score:1) 02This is coporate welfare - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─For Bell/Rogers/Telus (our triopoly). In case anyone doubts. The government will build the lines, even to places where it makes little economic sense. Then they'll turn them over to the triopoly. It would be a good idea if they built the lines and then formed municipal corporations to lease the line...
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:SSID naming contest - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:17] <exec> 08└─Even the judge who made that ruling later dissented on the application of that idea. (adding a link so I'm not just making an assertion) http://popehat.com [popehat.com]
[16:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02gooo airlines! - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─oh please please pleeeease(!) require all mobile phones to have their batteries removed during flight. this way we might get back a perfectly good device that doesn't become obsolete just because the battery died (for good) ...
[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"always a different way" - 06Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─no proton decay? maybe the universe as a whole time-travels back when a proton decays so to avoid the situation that lead to the proton decay? thus to observer a proton decay watch for stuff repeating?
[16:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What we have here is a failure to communicate - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:06] <exec> 08└─I just bought a Thinkpad x260 (Christmas sale, and all) and put Devuan on it. Only thing that didn't work right from the start was the wireless, which required a driver blob download, and I expected that going in since, you know, I actually did the research before buying. Linux isn't the best choice...
[16:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheaper WITHOUT Subsidies - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:42] <exec> 08└─Each one of those cars is a battery ready to run your microwave when you need it. Furthermore the GP claimed that gas plants were 'expensive' when in fact they are just a bit more expensive than solar. So build a few of those for smoothing out the peaks and valleys from solar and wind you are good t...
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[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02In-tact - 06A Walk Through a Laser-Scanned Forest - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─in-tact forests.
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re: National Agency For Food and Drug Denies Story - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─You aren't cynical enough. Better still to import it yourself, get it into distribution and let a few people die, after all they were dealing with smugglers and were scum anyway. Then make sure it gets plenty of local media coverage. Not the worst thing a government has done. After all the U.S. gove...
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: National Agency For Food and Drug Denies Story - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:49] <exec> 08└─An unverified video of the rice being cooked has been shared on social media. In it the cook says the rice catches fire and sticks on the pan.
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03C R Johnson [5368] (Score:1) 02Re:My question is - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─It just may be depending on the rice variety simulated and the plastic used. Bulk rice on Alibaba is anywhere from $0.25 to $1.00 per Kg, while ABS plastic pellets run from $0.50 per Kg. Seems like a lot of trouble to go through however. If you are going to smuggle plastic which costs about the same...
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My question is - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah doesn't make sense to me. Seems more expensive to make fake rice. Look at the per ton prices: http://www.thairiceexporters.or.th [thairiceexporters.or.th] There's a cost in making plastic look like rice and most cheap plastic when boiled in water stay hard or if they become soft...
[17:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Fair Use Applies - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:14] <exec> 08└─Does Fair Use apply?
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SSID naming contest - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─Those are too obvious jokes. Try these: Islamic_State_Allahu_Akbar Al_Qaeda Or this since it actually got a reaction: http://www.thelocal.fr [thelocal.fr]
[17:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable respo - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah but this wasn't actually a real note 7. Just an SSID.
[17:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Erm... how do you say? - 06LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General-Relativity Breakdown - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:05] <exec> 08└─I forget... https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] An echo, perhaps? qed
[17:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, all those poor starving bankers and oil magnates...whatEVER will they do without those fat subsidies they depend on? I thought you hated welfare queens... We'll do what we always do in that vaunted free market of yours: we'll adapt.
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[18:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so, how do we stop apps from lying to us - 06Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─I already am upset about the browser hijacking already happening via all the cross-domain scripting and embedded content pulled from places I never heard of. This sounds like a tool to be used by marketing more than freedom. And oppressive nation states, to better hide what their malware is connecti...
[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:so, how do we stop apps from lying to us - 06Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─You are the recipient, so you should have all the information needed to decrypt the connection. That assumes you, rather than the manufacturer administers your computer though. If you ware running the home edition of Windows 10, Microsoft is the admin.If you are running an IoT device, the manufactur...
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Risky gamble - 06Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─Sounds like companies like Google, by permitting these sort of abuses of their domainname are gambling they are "too big to ban" and can thus impose their policy preferences on nation states. Either way it is bad. If Google really CAN dictate to nation states they are dangerous. Forget the details o...
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Risky gamble - 06Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─Considering that China has already banned Google, I'm not sure that Google ought to be tolerating this kind of abuse of their systems.
[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In-tact - 06A Walk Through a Laser-Scanned Forest - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─I remember seeing the "in-tact" mistake a day or two ago. I meant to correct it but forgot to. Now the predictable has happened. Is there a link to the animation anywhere?
[18:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make Niggeria Great Again - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:42] <exec> 08└─You're behind the times. These days you dress up as Mrs. Claus and rape them in the women's room.
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Typical government idiocy - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─Encouraging local food production is good. Banning imports while people are hungry is bad. If you want local production, first create the preconditions. Rule of Law, stable property rights, sound money, etc. Once people can own a plot of land and feel secure that it won't be seized, they won't be dr...
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typical government idiocy - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─nice fearmongering and shaming there, libertarian by any chance?
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh that's hard - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─Exactly which country has "a few hundred million extra illegals" in it? I'll wait while you google the answer. Math is hard. So is common sense.
[18:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlimited Oppression for All - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─unlimited interwebz = unlimited misgender trolling
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlimited Oppression for All - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─Is there something else people use these interwebs for? That's all I use them for.
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fear is powerful - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─It's all the millennials they hire in TSA and as pilots. Damned millennials are fuck ups.
[18:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable respo - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:38] <exec> 08└─And how were the cabin crew to know that until the owner explained what they'd done?
[18:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable respo - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:41] <exec> 08└─when someone makes a credible claim (via SSID)
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:-1000 MDC is a Troll - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─If you've been following his blog on this site, you would know he already does not sleep under a bridge. Michael, congratulations.
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score:1) 02Re:Well, Duh - 06Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable, Says Study - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─You know if you do it right you get tons of karma :-)
[18:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:41] <exec> 08└─Extreme weather is not that big a deal for wealthy societies!
[18:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:You say that... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─Several centuries ago the population was a 6th of what it is now. If we hadn't managed to figure things out, the population would have already peaked at some lower number. There's no reason to believe that we can continue to innovate our way around this problem when we don't even know what land is g...
[18:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You say that... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe instead of pushing our attention obsessively to mild problems like climate change, we try to fix the big problems? I see several posts in this thread which are focused on fixing climate change without regard for all the other problems out there. Sure, yes, we can fix numerous problems at one t...
[18:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:04] <exec> 08└─And the president is an authority on science, right?
[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh ... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:00] <exec> 08└─(Score:3, Depressing)
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[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Silence (formerly SMSSecure) - Signal but over Txt - 06Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─Signal's depature from text into data was in my opinion a mistake. Silence(easier to find by it's old name SMSSecure) is a fork of the project, back when it utilized text message and had no centralized architecture. Text messages are more reliable in situations were infrastructure is damaged, and ca...
[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02technical question... - 06Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─Is this what Google does (on my Nexus 6P) when it offers to secure the wifi connection? It would seem obvious that since the initial transfer is https->google.com, after that the secure session can be passed of to any other app. For signal this is great, as it also stops phone companies from prevent...
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Fuck em - 06A Walk Through a Laser-Scanned Forest - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─Financial value? Why the fuck do we need to describe financial value to everything? So those pieces of shit in the Owning Class can figure out not to gang rape the whole fucking forest? If we don't ascribe it enough value, those fucking pieces of shit can't see it, can't stop fucking with it, can't...
[19:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Incumbent vs Indy isp - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:17] <exec> 08└─There's a few Canucks here, me also. I was always going over my cap and paying extra for it (made my wife mad, lol). Then Bell made an offer of "for $5.00 more per month, I could get unlimited!" So I went for it and haven't looked back at the money I'm 'saving', lol. Yes, they throttle me, but overn...
[19:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable respo - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 2384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─Do phones make up a name based on their model or something? The last few digits look like a BSSID/Mac address, why did no one even check that for accuracy? Do people really not understand how to idenfity what they might be about to connect to? No one checked the mac address of the BSSID to determine...
[19:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Coming soon - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure this is even an issue in America anymore, I've had one robocall (from a political party, regarding the election) in the past 10 years.
[19:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what's the problem again? - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:34] <exec> 08└─45 minutes? You're doing it wrong. The trick is to be sensual yet aggressive as possible. She wants to be fucked as bad as you do but she needs a connection. She needs to know you WANT HER and not just her pussy. Feel her, caress her, hold her, complement her. Whatever is positive. That will get her...
[19:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Try Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─Try Ubuntu 16.04 Mate edition. I just installed it on 2 laptops. Very sweet, no Gnome/Unity crap at all.
[19:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh ... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:20] <exec> 08└─No. The problem with Linux on the desktop is devices and programs that were designed for a different OS and don't see any reason to be more flexible. I kept a MSWind95 machine around for over a decade because it had some applications that wouldn't run on anything else. This is why dominant platforms...
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[20:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Allow me - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:27] <exec> 08└─Let me pimp your butt... oh! Without a day, without a day, ah ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:so, how do we stop apps from lying to us - 06Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─If you are running the home edition of Windows 10, The NSA is the admin.
[20:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Maybe Start at Home - 06A Walk Through a Laser-Scanned Forest - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:54] <exec> 08└─Why is the UCL worrying about tropical rain forests. Why not worry about the 1000 year deforestation of the British isles? Zoom into just about anywhere in Britain and you will find a totally denuded landscape. It has been one of the most intensively farmed areas on the face of the earth. Much of th...
[20:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:unfuckingbelievable - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─People are very bad at estimating risk. If this were a long flight over the ocean, the care *might* be reasonable. (Still probably not.) As it is, it's a poor allocation of resources based on fear levels caused by reporting an uncommon event at a world wide level. If they reported people choking on...
[20:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Fun times. - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─Better yet, name someone else's phone. If they're serious, they WILL track down that phone.
[20:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear is powerful - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─You underline the premise of the parent post; there is no humour left. When you are fucked if you do and fucked if you don't, then it is time to doubt the system because it no longer allows for flexibility. There is a difference between inciting X and venting a bad joke. I an not saying that yelling...
[20:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Coming soon - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:24] <exec> 08└─I never get a dropped call on AT&T. Never. If it connects the connection is solid and remains so for my longest calls. The problem I am describing is a call that never arrives, or never rings, but goes straight to voice mail, which in my case is google voice, and which immediately rings through to...
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[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:4, Insightful) 02checks and balances - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─The powerful need constant reminders that they can't just run roughshod over basic rights. They need educating too. I suspect a class on appropriate behavior would be wasted on the sort of person whose ego has gotten so large they think they're above the law. The sort of education they need is humbl...
[21:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nomination - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─I'd like to nominate the summary as "Most Incoherent Summary Ever". Thank you
[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Could be worse - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─Just wonder what would happen if Google were not evil(tm).
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Could be worse - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─Google may not be evil, but HR, legal, and most "coporate" behaviours are interchangeable, getting "better" at their jobs the more moneybthe company has. Google has billions, so these behaviours have lots of support (more lawyers to write the contracts, more money to go to couprt to fight employees)...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe Start at Home - 06A Walk Through a Laser-Scanned Forest - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:56] <exec> 08└─Sadly, despite the earlier comments, it really is all about the money - it's quite hard to make money from woodland, but considerably easier to do so from pasture - so nature be damned! I don't expect that situation to reverse either; sheep and windfarms co-exist fairly well already since they are b...
[21:23:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02My question is - 06Smugglers Busted Trying to Bring Plastic Rice into Nigeria - 643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:15] <exec> 08└─How much does it cost to make plastic rice? Isn't it cheaper to grow real rice? Unless there's a warehouse full of substandard plastic that is going to be trashed anyway, I can't imagine anyone going to the effort and expense to make fake rice. The only way I can see this being "profitable" is the f...
[21:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair Use Applies - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:40] <exec> 08└─No. In Canada we have a concept of fair dealing, which is similar.
[21:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Dupe in submission queue - 06Canada Sets Universal Broadband Goal of 50Mbps and Unlimited Data for All - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:41] <exec> 08└─I swear I searched for the key-word "internet" before submittting. CRTC declares broadband internet access a basic service [soylentnews.org]
[21:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SSID naming contest - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:09] <exec> 08└─ISIS_Bomb_Squad
[21:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score:1) 02Re:What the proton experiment rules out - 06Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay - 3685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:28] <exec> 08└─I don't understand it either. I get what they're looking for, but I have no idea how these theories predict this sort of decay and on what time scale. In the standard model, protons are as stable as a baryon can be and likely won't decay unless the big rip at the end of the universe tears them apart...
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[22:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Um... - 06China’s Road-Straddling Bus Has Been Blocking Traffic for Months - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:20] <exec> 08└─Well, it did seem like an "over the top" sort of solution.
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Always seemed like a terrible idea - 06China’s Road-Straddling Bus Has Been Blocking Traffic for Months - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:21] <exec> 08└─I can't really imagine what it'd be like to drive under one of these, or have one drive over you, but I think it might be something like walking along a 2 foot wide plank of wood 100 feet in the air. It should be fairly safe and easy to do - after all, you can do it with the plank on the ground with...
[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Always seemed like a terrible idea - 06China’s Road-Straddling Bus Has Been Blocking Traffic for Months - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─Pair it with self-driving cars! They know no fear!
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Marriage - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─My wife and I are one and don't have secrets from each other, so if you tell me something, she will hear about it. If you don't like it, better not hire me / continue to employ me. And also you can go screw yourself. Merry Christmas. :)
[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Marriage - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─Google has decreed that you both die, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg.
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Marriage - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your insider trading convictions.
[22:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Cranky comments to a perfectly reasonable respo - 06"Galaxy Note 7" Wi-Fi SSID Delays U.S. Flight - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:25] <exec> 08└─So when someone makes a credible claim (via SSID) that they have a device known to burst into flames randomly,
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Caller ID + will power - 06AT&T Unveils Network-level Robocall Blocking, Call Spam Warnings - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:48] <exec> 08└─Call from an 800 number? Ignore it. Call from an area code where I don't know anyone? Ignore it. Call from an unknown or blocked number? Ignore it. Anyone with legitimate business will leave a voice mail. Everyone else is trying to sell me something I'll never buy.
[22:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrmcferren [5500] (Score:1) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 3935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:31] <exec> 08└─It is rather important that we reduce our use of fossil fuels, but we MUST ensure that while doing so that we don't cause energy to become so expensive that only the elites can afford to light or heat their homes or take public transport (let alone drive their own cars). At the same time, we can't s...
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[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:Always seemed like a terrible idea - 06China’s Road-Straddling Bus Has Been Blocking Traffic for Months - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─But put in a different context, and you'll likely be frozen with fear.
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:checks and balances - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:31] <exec> 08└─Amen to that. Google should be broken up into a dozen or more smaller companies.
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Could be worse - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─Kinda like how you need a gun for self-protection. It's a seductive idea that breeds in paranoia. Imagine all those $people coming to take your money, what are you going to do? Duh guns. Duh mandatory arbitration. Duh confidentiality agreement. To fend off the bastards coming to kill you. Makes perf...
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Could be worse - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─On top of that the original policies were probably 'normal' and actually probably fairly reasonable. However, get an asshat with a chip on their shoulder wanting to 'DO SOMETHING' or building an empire you have a recipe for douchbagary of the scale where Andy Kaufman would stop and go 'damn dude'.
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marriage - 06Even Your Watercooler is Confidential Nowadays - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─Uh, at least in the UK you are expected to inform your partner about close periods etc. and tell them to take special care trading stock of your company. Avoiding any suspicious trading is much more effective at avoiding insider trading accusations than not talking, since you can't really prove the...
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:technical question... - 06Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google to Bypass Censorship - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─The claim is that Google routes your traffic through a secure VPN, so no, it's probably not using this hack.
[23:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not delusional, I tell you! - 06The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:06] <exec> 08└─Ah, but are you now an artificial artificial intelligence instead of a real artificial intelligence? Maybe it's virtual turtles all the way down.
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